I’m writing down the names of all the creeps that let us down this year to pass on to the next generation since they’ll just change the history books for them.


by Tom Thumb

So in a thoughtful and measured interview on Sunday’s edition of Meet the Press, Gen. Colin Powell (Ret.) endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for president.

But even before the interview aired, the wingnuts were crying treason.

Charlotte Observer columnist Mike DeVine, posting as (heh) “gamecock,” leads off with the charmingly titled “Colin Powell betrays America when not following orders”:

[This column assumes that Colin Powell will endorse Barack Obama this morning on Meet the Press. That he hasn't already endorsed John McCain justifies his denunciation in any event.]

In the comments thread, BatMasterson agrees, and could perhaps suggest a good moisturizer for the general as well:

Powell is just like bill richardson
he is a fair weathered friend

An interesting phenomenon is that still-bitter supporters of Hillary Clinton are none too pleased, either, as witness gerard “Barracuda” Nedich in the comments at right-wing screed factory blog No Quarter:

Shame on you Colin Powell

a. hillary
b. mccain

america first!

snosandy is personally disappointed in Powell, who is apparently a close personal friend of the family:

He’s not the Colin Powell I thought I knew.

No Way, No How NoBama and his tinfoil hat know the score, man:

Time for the 3rd party candidates to back McCain for the good of the country. I’m writing down the names of all the creeps that let us down this year to pass on to the next generation since they’ll just change the history books for them.

It’s always refreshing when a white commenter such as Sue recognizes racial oppression when she sees it:

Colin Powell is a racist. There I said it. The only reason he’s endorsing Obama is because he’s black.

Much more, if that’s your thing. I’m going for some Pepto.



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by Ted Grant

The Pill Kills asks you to celebrate “Protest the Pill Day”.

June 7 marks the 43rd anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision Griswold v. Connecticut. This was the first of many decisions that led to the culture of death we live in today.

On that day in 1965, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the Griswold v. Connecticut case, it set a legal precedent for claiming that the Constitution grants women the right to privacy in matters of sexual practice. This meant that Connecticut and the rest of the United States could not stop a married woman from obtaining birth control pills. However, as Judge Andrew Napolitano has pointed out, the constitutional right to privacy has nothing to do with birth control.

The plaintiff was Estelle Griswold, then executive director of the Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut. She and Dr. C. Lee Buxton opened a birth control clinic. They were arrested and fined for selling birth control pills, which was illegal in Connecticut. The case was pushed all the way to the Supreme Court. In other words, Planned Parenthood was breaking the law; yet it turned this case into a legal precedent for selling contraception. Because of the Griswold case and others that followed, unmarried women and teenagers were later permitted to obtain birth control pills.



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