Once upon a time — apparently yesterday — the First Family bus tour stopped at a pumpkin farm. The First Lady bought some pumpkins for the White House, including a whopping 70-pound “full moon” white pumpkin. The President said, “[Where] are you going to put it? In the back of the bus?”
Headline at U.S. News: Obama Sends White Pumpkins to the ‘Back of the Bus’
Seriously. And the dog whistlers are out in force. If you have the stomach for it it, see comments here and here.
It’s possible the U.S. News headline writer was just trying to be cute, but the rabid racists of the right don’t get jokes. And it really wasn’t funny.
Another shining moment for rightie media.
See David Sirota’s account of his wife’s run for school board. Unreal.
And if it was a regular orange pumpkin, the right would have screamed that it was a dig at all ‘Orange-Americans’ – like John Boehner!
And where else are you going to put a pumkin you just purchased while driving around in a bus, white, or orange, or whatever other colors they come in, besides ‘the back of the bus?’
The f*cking drivers seat?
‘Shotgun?’
Sweet Gourd in Heaven, what’s next?
This should rank right up there with “arugula-gate”.
Face it. The rabid right wing doesn’t need an excuse to go ballistic. Just wow.
The Sirota article just bears out what many education-watchers know: the 1% is after the education budgets now, since they already have defense and security sewed up. They get the infrastructure dollars, the utility money and the results of our efforts to save and provide for our old age. They get the money that should help develop green energy. Why not give them the rest? Just mail your credit cards to them, preferably wrapped in your bank book and with your beneficiary-assignment forms as padding. If you also include your greenbacks, you may keep any change that cannot be converted to bills, so as to keep down losses due to the use of the communistic socialist postal system.
The Sirota article is stunning. In 2010 I was shocked when I heard radio ads for state Assembly races, something I had never heard before. But with the Citizen’s United decision, we are heading down the slippery slope. The landscape of politics has changed dramatically in just a few years. Where before, we had a semblance of a democracy, we now have a full fledged oligarchy. France, my friends, France. Vive la Revolution.
I’m a resident of Denver and I live in the district in which Emily Sirota is running against Anne Rowe. Although my youngest is now in college, all of my kids went through Denver schools and I’ve been paying a lot of attention to this race, particularly since Denver Schools is in a fight for its life to preserve the reforms the superintendent has initiated and which are currently supported by the board by a slim 5-4 majority.
So I will just say that Sirota’s first lie comes when he says that Anne Rowe is an invesment banker. She’s not even close. I’ve known Anne for years – our kids went to school together. She’s an absolutely tireless and dedicated volunteer in the community and schools and has been heavily involved in the Denver education system while also raising three daughters and running a small publishing company. So where small business owner/mom/community volunteer became “investment banker” I have no idea.
Sirota also fails to mention that Emily received over $20,000 in campaign funding from the Denver Classroom Teachers Association. The DCTA has been strongly opposed to the school reforms for several years. Hard not to wonder how Emily would vote on these when she’s been bought and paid for by the union.
The flyer Sirota refers to was slightly unfair to compare Anne’s direct experience with the schools to Emily’s since her children are much older, however it is very accurate in listing Anne’s considerable accomplishments in the area of education and community service in Denver compared to Emily’s (none).
This comment is overly long and I’m not going to bother to fact check the rest of Sirota’s lies but the Republican party is not trying to steal the Denver School Board and vouchers are not. an. issue. in this race. Not on the table. At all. It’s about re-designing failing schools to have programs that work for at-risk kids and enable them to succeed. Whether the DCTA likes those changes or not.