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President Obama is trying to encourage his supporters to help the Democrats this fall. He emphasizes the great quantity of mystery money pouring into conservative attack ads. In honesty, the video didn’t particularly motivate me to help out the Democrats. But Patriotic Conservative’s comments on the video did. He writes:

So this is very humorous. Obama says that we will be spending untold millions to buy this election.

It’s true. There’s a lot of anonymous money to run attack ads coming from … somewhere. And it’s coming in million dollar chunks. Generally, that would be considered a concerning thing. Why is it humorous again?

Hey, Mr. President, do you have long term memory loss because your election was BOUGHT, you spent millions on millions of dollars more than McCain …

Really, PC? Is that what happened? Do you remember where that money came from? If you don’t, you can check where the donations over $200 came from. Of course there are about 2.5 million people (myself included) who donated less than $200 to Obama. A rational person might think that this broad donor base equates to the sort of broad support that wins elections. After all, we’re not too concerned about money’s influence in elections if money is a reasonable proxy for actual support. It only becomes a problem when huge amounts money is injected to the campaign to give a gigantic microphone to previously unpopular candidates.

Or is there some other reason you were upset?

… that you only got because of the color of your skin.

Oh.

Okay. I guess that’s what you were going at. It’s probably not necessary for me to say anything about that, is it? I’ll just pull that quote out and let it sit there. (Actually, I’ll throw a blink tag on it in case somebody accidentally missed “Patriotic Conservative’s” angle.1)

And now your [sic] saying that the Republicans are going to increase the deficit?

He’s right, isn’t he? They’ve railed against the deficit then proposed both tax cuts and spending increases. There’s two ways to increase the deficit—and the Republicans are proposing both of them.

Don’t you dare go pointing your fingers at ANYONE who increases the deficit. You have spent untold amounts on useless bills. Just put your head down in shame.

Hey, kiddies! Can anybody identify what all the blinking text has in common? I’m not saying anything … I’m just making some of the stuff Patriotic Conservative says blink.

Of course, if Patriotic Conservative cared a bit more about numbers and a bit less about maintaining some deluded social hierarchy, he could identify exactly how much was spent on bills he didn’t like. And maybe he could explain why preventing foreclosures, preserving employment, keeping the states from going bankrupt, helping the unemployed, insuring the most vulnerable, and so on was “useless”.

God Bless America.

God save us all.

  1. It’s come to my attention that many of your browsers do not support a blink tag. This says good things about your browser. Similarly, if you’re reading this as a reblog, Tumblr has probably stripped out the Blink tag. This says good things about Tumblr. I’m sorry, guys. I know I should let that tag die quietly. But…on the inside I’m eight-years-old. Oh. Um…also, I put a marquee tag on this footnote. So let’s make that seven-years-old on the inside. ↩

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