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September 4th at 4:11PM

But Who Will Teach the Republican Delegates How to Dance?

POSTED BY: Eric March

Looking out on the RNC delegate assembly, I couldn't help but feel like something was missing.

Hm. Portly beflagged gentleman and elephant hat lady -- check.

Politically incorrect symbols of past national disgraces worn defiantly -- check

Oh, that's right.

Only 36 of the 2,380 delegates seated on the convention floor are black, the lowest number since the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies began tracking diversity at political conventions 40 years ago. Each night, the overwhelmingly white audience watches a series of white politicians step to the lectern -- a visual reminder that no black Republican has served as a governor, U.S. senator or U.S. House member in the past six years.

No black people at the RNC? I guess, to be fair, it's hard to fit being proud of America into your schedule when you're running around all day doing secret Muslim stuff.

"It's hard to look around and not get frustrated," said Michael S. Steele, a black Republican and former lieutenant governor of Maryland. "You almost have to think, 'Wait. How did it come to this?'"

Far be it from me to be flip about the black Republican experience, Governor. But if I had to guess, I'd say it probably had something to do with your white friends' journey from here:

To here:

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gopftw, was it Leviticus or Hebrews that told you to say that?

by EvilLiberal September 5th at 2:48AM
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August 14th at 11:20AM

Denver Determined Not to Let Piss and Shit Spoil Its Convention

POSTED BY: Dylan Ris

The City of Denver is taking all measures to silence the legions of doubters who predict the upcoming Democratic National Convention will be ransacked by piss and shit.

The City Council has passed an ordinance that...

...Prohibits the possession of noxious substances. Two of the most frequently used examples of a noxious substance are a bucket of urine and a "feces bomb."

The Council's feces bombing suspicions focus on an organization called Recreate 68, which takes its name from the riot-strewn 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. The group was front and center during the 1999 WTO riots in Seattle, and now they have Denver in their sights.

But Denver has a double-agent! It seems that City Councilman Doug Linkhart has been corresponding with an unnamed source, who, Linkhart claims...

"...told me that he knew of a house where protestors were accumulating urine."

Now accumulating urine happens to be a time-honored tradition in politics. Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN) was a proponent of a bag rigged in his pants, while Strom Thurmond (R-SC) preferred a plain old bucket.

But if either of them want to rise from the grave and try that stunt in Denver... well, they'll spend that night shitting themselves in the county jail!

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