Howard Dean To Head South To Gawk At The Poors

Thursday, DNCC Dean will board one of St. Barack's many elitist buses and take a tour of the south, hoping to ramp up voter registration:

Dean said in a telephone interview that he'll focus on winning over people who are struggling economically.

"We think that they have been disillusioned," said Dean, a former Vermont governor and presidential candidate in 2004. "Many of them voted for George Bush. We think they want something new and we're going to provide it for them."

Democrats dominated the South through the first half of the 20th century. But as President Lyndon B. Johnson famously predicted when he signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the party gradually lost support in the region. Georgia native Jimmy Carter is the only Democratic presidential candidate to win broad support in the South since then.

"I think the big reason is we haven't tried," Dean said. "If you don't show up, you can't win. And that's not going to happen this time. We are going to show up everywhere."

Saturday Night Randomry

I ran across my dusty copy of this Kronos Quartet CD a day or so ago, prompting me to use the Youtubes to see if anyone had posted a visual.

Tada.

Some background:

In 1999 Philip Glass composed a new score for the 1931 classic Dracula. The evidence of his considerable genius being the decisions to (a) use only a string quartet (b) engage the services of Kronos Quartet to bring the music to life even as so many lose (not all permanently, however) theirs. The result brings a whole new meaning to “Death and the Maiden” and provides considerable pleasure to movie lover and concertgoer alike.

Glass opts for colours rather than themes in this post-modern melodramatic rendering, chock-a-block full of Alberti basses. Arpeggios signal the entry of the living dead; the horse drawn carriage gallops across the screen with an undercurrent of syncopation that harkens back to Mozart’s first G Minor Symphony (No. 25, K. 183); the sinister viola helps the weary traveler, Renfield (played with a very fine madness by Dwight Frye), up the Transylvanian steps even as his host declaims “The children of the night [wolves howling], what music they make!” All of which contributes to director Ted Browning’s marvellous tone of restrained horror and stylish after life.

ReLOVEution Coming to Horry County

Matt Jarfi is running for the Horry County Council District 6. He's also a member of the Constitution Party, which is like the Libertarian Party but with more Paultards and furries.

When he's not hating Mexicans, Jarfi campaigns and raises money by preying on the feeble racist mind of Ron Paul.

To help support Matt Jarfi defeat the elitist limo-riding Bob Grabowski, click here. Jarfi is selling Dr. Congressman L. Ron Paultard's autographed Constitution on ebay.

Chris Matthews Fascinated By Hobo America

Chris Matthews should have stopped while he was ahead. But that will never happen because he is always talking.

Here's a gem from Media Matters:

Summary: On Hardball, Chris Matthews said of Sen. Barack Obama: "I think, being an African-American, it's all the more important to get in there and show who you are, introduce yourself as a person, not as an identity group, but as a human being, and connect with people. I think that's still going to be his challenge." Matthews then stated: "Playing pool, not a bad start, but it's not what most people play. People with money play pool these days." Matthews added: "The guys who have pool rooms in their house in the basement. You know what those tables cost?"

More Attack Ad Fun

Barack Obama is a liberal black wizard that will use Hezbollah hoodoo to bleach Old Glory:

As Barack Obama visits Michigan today, the Kent County GOP is releasing this "ad" (a video, until I see details of the ad buy) that paints him as a white-flag-waiving elitist.