Daily Archives: 4 August 2012

Has There Ever Been a Nastier Party Than This?

GOP idea of a “birthday present.”

Evidently, not only do the Republicans refuse to accept the facts of the President’s birth, they refuse to acknowledge his right to a birthday. Ha ha.

RNC sends DNC ‘you didn’t bake this’ Obama birthday cake
By Alicia M. Cohn - 08/03/12 03:43 PM ET
The Hill

The Republican National Committee (RNC) sent the Democratic National Committee (DNC) a birthday cake on Friday, but the DNC sent it back.

The cake read “you didn’t bake this” over a picture of President Obama. Text written in icing reads, “Happy birthday, Mr. President.” The cake marks the occasion of the president’s birthday, which is Saturday, with a play on the “you didn’t build that” controversy….

Yahoo News reported the cake as vanilla with vanilla frosting.

“Happy 50.99726th Mr. President,” RNC spokesman Tim Miller wrote in an email. The decimal number tweaks the Democrats on an official blog post from White House Economic adviser Alan Krueger, who pointed out the July jobs report, released Friday, indicated the “unemployment rate ticked up to 8.3 percent in July (or, more precisely, the rate rose from 8.217 percent in June to 8.254 percent in July).

“23 million people struggling for work isn’t a rounding error,” RNC Chairman Reince Priebus ‏snapped back….

Frankly, there’s not a lot that any civilized person can say in any sort of civil manner about this juvenile (some might say ‘infantile’) viciousness. Continue reading

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