Normally here I don’t say much about politics. This is really about marketing, strategy, etc. for technology. But in this case I can’t help myself. As has been widely reported and discussed on blogs far and wide, Michelle Obama served food at a D.C. homeless shelter yesterday. There’s a picture in the LA Times story on her visit of an unidentified man taking Michelle’s picture on a cellphone, for which the LA Times’ Andrew Malcolm questions (in a very condescending and mean-spirited way) why a homeless man has a cellphone.
Before you can say “Please pass the jelly!” the scallywags of conservative media, including Michelle Malkin and Kathy Shaidle, siezed on this as just another reason why liberals suck and the homeless suck worse.
For the record, I voted for the GOP presidential candidate from 1984 through 2000 and two republican governors of Massachusetts (Bill “Big Red” Weld and Mitt “look at my hair” Romney). I’m a fiscal conservative but socially I identify much more with the democratic party. I would say that Weld did too, which is why I consider myself a “Weld Republican” (or more traditionally a Rockefeller Republican).
The more and more I hear people like Malkin, Shaidle, and the “incendiary entertainer” Rush Limbaugh (so called by Michael Steele, Republican National Committee chair), the farther I want to distance myself from having anything to do with the Republican Party. And judging from the elections in the last few years, I am not alone. If the GOP wants me back, they know where to find me — but they better look more like Lincoln and a lot less like Limbaugh.
