08.25.2008 9:53 pm
Bad rap? Mo. GOP chides McCaskill over Kanye
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Just before Claire McCaskill took the stage in Denver, the Missouri GOP sent out a note seeking to bring her down to earth, chiding her for earlier remarks about seeing rapper Kanye West at one of the convention’s A-list parties.
“She’s more worried about taking her kids to see Kanye West than addressing issues that impact Americans’ lives,” said Missouri GOP spokeswoman Tina Hervey.
“Claire and Kanye have a great deal in common,” Hervey’s note said. “Kanye claimed that George Bush doesn’t care about black people and Claire thinks George Bush let people die on rooftops in New Orleans because they were poor and because they were black. Disappointing, ridiculous and hurtful rhetoric that divides rather than brings people together.”
It is so hard to have good feelings about the GOP. It ceratinly appeared what Kenye West said was true at that time when he made that statement. Still appears that way.
Correction: should have been certainly, not ceratinly.
Tiny Hervey?
“Responses” like this make me feel a lot better about Democratic fortunes in November. The GOP has always been a very small, petty party but the smaller and pettier they get, the more likely the think they are to lose.
Words don’t do it justice … you gotta’ watch it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIUzLpO1kxI
www youtube . com/watch?v=lcgPsEubkjo
Gee, that’s funny. When Katrina happened, George W. Bush was more concerned about staying on vacation and chopping wood rather than helping real Americans who were losing their lives in New Orleans. His staff had to put together a video and make the President of the United States sit down and watch it before he could finally be convinced that there really was a problem that merited his attention.
Does the GOP really want to go there?
What Kanye West said was rooted in anger and outrage, and that sense of disgust and rage was felt by most Americans as we watched our government fail to act. Many leaders dropped the ball after Katrina, but none more than George W. Bush. People around the world were aghast to see the United States government failing to act to save our own people.
Does the GOP really want to go there?
Claire and Kanye do have a lot in common: with the American people. They shared the absolute horror that Americans of all parties and all races and all backgrounds felt as we watched the tragedy after Katrina unfold. And now the Republicans want to use George W. Bush’s failure after Katrina to try to score cheap political points. Really?
Heck of job, Hervey.
Tina, girlfriend…instead of sounding like a vacuous 20-yr.-old, you should have just let this one pass on by without a peep. Girl, you need to learn when to just walk away from some opportunities, ’cause there’s NO rehab for Dubya where New Orleans is concerned.