He really has issues with women, doesn’t he?

The vultures are fighting an increasingly desperate rearguard action, as a new ABC News poll shows that most African Americans now back marriage equality, thanks to Obama and the NAACP.

Speaking of the effects of the bully pulpit:

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/05/black_pride_maj.php

The bizarre obsession by mainstream media and political elites with the deficit during an employment crisis isn’t based on public outcry, nor is it drive by the market, given that our government borrowing costs are near historic lows. It is a manufactured issue created by billionaires spending literally hundreds of millions to artificially raise its prominence and furthered by those who want to use it as an excuse for their real goal of slashing our social safety net.

This needs to be repeated over and over again until the middlebrows who think watching “Meet the Press” makes them informed citizens finally understand it.

Actually, if you look at his past tweets, George Tierney, Jr., of Greenville, South Carolina is quite capable of being that stupid.

And this is why the Citizens United decision was such a disaster. All restraints on the rich are now gone.

This is going to have good effects in future marriage equality fights. Every little thing adds up, and progress is happening.

Case in point:

A little over a decade ago, in March of 2000, the anti-marriage-equality Knight Initiative passed in California with an overwhelmingly large twenty-two-point margin. When it was overturned by the state Supreme Court in May of 2008, the anti-equality forces (backed and bankrolled as it turned out by the Catholic and Mormon churches) spent tens of millions of dollars carpetbombing the state with scare ads and literature in order to push a reworked version of the Knight Initiative, this time called Proposition 8, and this time it barely squeaked by, 52% to 48%.

The margin of victory turned out to be largely among the elderly, though Asian, African-American and Hispanic voters were thought to be more favorably inclined towards Prop 8 than the general population. Obama’s and the NAACP’s actions should help change this.

If the dirty-energy-funded climate-change-denialist groups won’t change their tunes even after people like Bjorn Lomborg defect from them, why would the folks whose main motivation is ideology (as opposed to money) change their tune when confronted by Spitzer’s defection?

The state and local races are where the action is. Unfortunately, most progressives in my experience don’t know the names of their state and local reps. That has to change.

Exactly.

The black community is firmly behind President Obama. Period. Nothing anyone says — especially anyone who is seen as a typical white lefty blissfully unaware of his or her own privilege — will make a dent in that.

When Joe Biden went ahead with his “gaffe”, he forced Obama’s hand — and a pity he didn’t do it earlier so Obama could have given a boost to the anti-Amendment-One efforts in North Carolina (it still likely would have won, but the pro-hate forces wouldn’t have been the only ones to be hyper-mobilized and enthusiastic) — and that forced the NAACP’s hand.

While Obama’s move came too late to affect North Carolina, it looks like it may have tipped the scales in Minnesota — and in a good way.

Back in February, the anti-equality amendment being pushed in Minnesota would have been perilously close to passing, had the vote been held then:

http://thecolu.mn/7631/poll-minnesotas-anti-gay-marriage-amendment-struggling

Now, Obama’s backing of marriage equality seems to have tipped
things a bit more in equality’s favor:

http://thecolu.mn/8166/surveyusa-poll-points-to-first-time-majority-of-minnesotans-support-marriage-equality

Ooooh, is that yours? That’s brilliant.

That. Is. Priceless. George Tierney of Greenville, South Carolina should count himself lucky that nobody here — as far as I know — does a widely-read online comic strip.

By the way, here is my contribution to the cause of telling the story of George Tierney of Greenville, South Carolina.

Matthew Boyle of Tucker Carlson’s Stormfront For Sissies

This had me guffawing.

Try it again — it worked for me. (Granted, Salon’s latest website redesign sucks eggs, so that could be the problem.)

Are you referring to @geotie2323 on Twitter, aka George Tierney of Greenville, South Carolina?

@geotie2323 on Twitter, aka George Tierney of Greenville, South Carolina, is a hypocritical dingbat who must be one of the folks Assrocket had in mind when he talked about how the Cons are allegedly beating the Libs at Twittering.

*blinks*

*blinks again*

What what WHAT?!