Speaker at MC touches many bases

@Irish - Yes, sometimes it takes a "hammer" to make these regressive wingnuts pay attention to reality!

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Correction - Make that FIFTY years! I forgot the jobs I worked at when (unlike some around these parts who depended mostly on daddy & mommy for tuition) I WORKED my way through college/university starting in 1963 ...

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Speaking of "laughing", there is a very funny 2004 film called "A Day Without a Mexican" that describes what might happen in Califorinia if Mexicans were no longer around to tend gardens, park cars, serve food, and perform other menial tasks Anglos don't like to do for themselves ... Fast forward to 2013 and look at the very real possibility of "A Day Without a Government Worker" - thanks to the crazy rightwing Republicans in Congress who are allowing the "sequester" to kick in next week! While anarchists like Josh and Stiff might enjoy the results, most Americans probably won't! ... BTW - After 40 years working at local, state, federal, and private-sector jobs, I've EARNED the right to sit on my butt! @Joshboy - What's YOUR excuse! Yer ma told me to tell you to clean your room!

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So do "lunatics"! I wouldn't want to follow the sad example of Josh in "mislabeling" others!

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@Josh - Lanatics laugh a lot! @Stiff - You're not fooling anyone. "Code words" like "mixed-race ancestry" and "radical pastor" that you use to please local ethnophobes "out" you every time! As far as "ideology" is concerned, your particular brand of paranoid & bombastic McCarthyism became went out of style around 1965 - although throwbacks like Michele Bachman, Allen West, Ted Cruze, and Louie Gohmert pop-up fromm time to time! ... I take it neither of you righties attended Mr. Robinson's speech?

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Ur very welcome josh, apparently it doesnt require alot to amuse u!

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@irisheyes Thank you for your comment I haven't laughed that hard in weeks !!

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Eugene robinson is a good man who i listen to frequently on msnbc. Barack obama is the finest president we have ever had! He assumed the presidency after a complete idiot and a crminal did. Their best to destroy the nation, after they were elected by rightwingnuts from the conservative republican party. When obama first was elected, he did his best to comprimise with the republicans, but no was their byword. Now he has learned that the hammer is the only way of dealing withthem. SO BE IT!

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@O'Neill I'm sure I'm right about your IQ and as for working for the government its easy to tell that you sit on your butt all day doing nothing.

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I think that some of the earlier commenters here are confusing the terms "columnist" and "communist". Before he became an Associate-Editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington POST, Robinson's proficiency in Spanish gained him the position of head of the Latin-American-Affairs Bureau at the POST ... Puedes hablar espanol?

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@Josh - Since when is accusing someone of working for the state or federal government an "insult"? You'll have to do better than that! Actually, I've worked for federal, state and local government entities, as well as in the private-sector - unlike some here who probably still live in their mom's basement and play old "Nirvana" or "Molly Hatchet" tapes night and day ... I'm getting to enjoy this little repartee! Ha!

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My IQ is a bit higher than that and I graduated from a real university, not some rightwing "christian" diploma-mill! Yer wrong again Joshy! ... I just heard on MSNBC that wingnut Congressman Ted Cruze (R-TX) said today that the Harvard Law School is full of "communists"! Is Cruze a "Boys from Brazil" type clone of Joe McCarthy or what? Lol!

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I think that most of the objections expressed here to Eugene Robinson's appearance have less to do with "race" and more to do with the fact that he uses words of more than two-syllables ... As for "ideology", how did all that "47% of Americans are takers" stuff work out for you wingnuts in the last election? As more and more Americans discover that tea party nutjobs like Rand Paul, Louie Gomert, Michele Bachmann, Bill Johnson, and Ted Cruze are NOT really Republicans, but "shut-down-all-government" anarchists, the tea-party movement will go the way of the dinosaurs and dodos!

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@oneill I think that your probably have an IQ around 119-120 .Just enough to get in a good community college of your choice.After that you landed a job with the state or federal government.(you asked for the abuse )

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I just noticed that the Stiff's first early-morning rant was full of racial references, but, in his second one, he says it's "not about race". Yes it is! This kind of "bi-polar reasoning" on the part of some Republican rightwing ranters is why Barack Hussein Obama was re-elected as POTUS in 2012 - but Stiff & his little pals still haven't noticed that yet, have they?

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Part of the reason that Republicans like Karl Rove are trying to distance themselves from the tea party is that motley organization's penchant for attracting un-reconstructed Confederates and far-right nutjobs like Todd Akin, Sharon Angle, and Christine "I am not a witch" McDonald ... I wonder what Bill Johnson and Andy "Pander" will do to clean up their acts in 2014 and distance themselves from the local wingnut crowd? It's too late for Andy to change his spots!

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I wonder what nasty names "doomsday prepper" Josh will call me now? Something he learned on the grade-school playground I'm sure!

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... and Joe McCarthy!

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Malarkey! The America that Eugene Robinson mentioned at the beginning of his speech - a nation where a black family could not stop at a restaurant or motel on a family car trip from South Carolina to Michigan - is the America that folks like Stiff & Josh live in! Sorry to burst your bubble guys, but those days are "Gone With the Wind" ... Speaking of "wind", I figured that Stiffy would be the first dog out of the kennel on this topic, but I thought I'd let him rave a bit before commenting. Mr. Robinson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who is both articulate and funny. I particularly enjoyed a remark he made (in response to a question from yours truly) about Chris Matthews' habit of talking over others on "Hardball". I though about mentioning the alleged "lack-of-diversity" in Marietta, but I saw no evidence of it last night. Only on sites like this one can one find the last pathetic gasps of leftovers from the days of Lester Maddox &am

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I see Obama as "the man who would be king." As "workingstiff" wrote, check out his background and what he REALLY believes. He has charisma and the ability to sedate people into a false calm. Our country is in deep trouble and regardless of what you may think right now, you will see it unfold. And it isn't going to be good for any of us longterm.

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@bwc511 You do know that congress is elected at a local level and not at the National level right ? So this being said why did America vote all the Republicans back into office for the control of the congress? Republicans are trying to get away from the Tea Party not from being conservative.I love it here in Washington County people are honest and say whats on their mind and don't try and be politically correct.

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Wrong Josh Brown, wrong. Most of the people in Washington County are what they beleive to be conservative. And, many in the Republican party are looking for ways to disassociate themselves with the brand of conservatism we find here.

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@Munster Most of America is conservative obama only won by 2.3% not a landslide not a mandate.Also Democrats are not the majority they have the Senate but that too will go to Republicans in 2014.

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I just love it when a persons beliefs dont align with theirs then that person is a .... you can pick the name from the many you see here ! This whole matter isnt about democats or the folks who are wrong ,its about our elected officals obstructing the will of the people ! Last I saw the democrats were the majority and these people who refuse to work with the majority should be excised and replaced with someone who wants whats best for the people !

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I'm not so arrogant to say that Robinson has the "wrong" ideology. Nor will I engage in hyperbole and call President Obama a socialist.

I will say Eugene Robinson long ago ceased to be a journalist and became a cheerleader for Obama. The Redskins are in Washington and they employ cheerleaders. The Washington Post should not.

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