Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing
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It was less than 2 hours after Barack was declared President that the first “Join The Obama Resistance” shirts were available on Cafe Press. Since then, websites have been launched, conspiracies have been formulated. Hell, even Alan Keyes has filed a lawsuit to verify Obama’s birth certificate!
This will not die down and it will not go away.
I remember the week after Bill Clinton was first elected, he and Al Gore appeared on the cover of a news magazine. I was in a bookstore when two rednecks drifted by and said, “Can you fucking believe THEY got elected? He ain’t nothing but a draft dodger.” That meme is still alive and well.
All the ugliness that John McCain, Sarah Palin and the rest of the right wing hate machine generated over the length of the campaign will continue until Obama is out of office. For us, our job is to always beat it back. The myth busting we did during the campaign will need to be continued… always.
We can’t stop.
Ever.
