Republican Pete Hokestra is running against Democrat Debbie Stabenow in Minnesota for senate. Despite both voting for the original $700 Bush bailout and trillions of dollars of deficit spending, the Hokestra campaign released this unbelievable advertisement:
While Hokestra has the right to spend absurd amounts of money on racist ads that run during the Super Bowl, he’s hardly the only Republican to be doing this.
A few days ago, I received an email from Rick Santorum’s presidential campaign:
However, in the fact-based world, China does not control the majority of US debt. However, these Republicans are using racism and xenophobia to fear-monger their way into the 2012 campaign. Look, the United States does owe China more money than it should, but demeaning innocent Chinese citizens hardly seems fair.
Chinese citizens do want our jobs, because they want the same things that Americans do: food, shelter, and a way to support their families. Unfortunately, the authoritarian government that they live under does not uphold its own labor standards, which economically forces them into low-wage, unhealthy jobs that American corporations have exported.
President Obama has made a genius proposal to bring back jobs from China, by providing tax breaks to companies who do so. Rather than bullshitting around, cracking racist jokes, and score political points Obama is actually advocating for something to fix the damn problem. Good for him.
UPDATE: In the Pete Hokestra ad, the young woman says to Americans, “Your economy get very weak, ours get very good.” Aside from the obvious racism, that is not how it works and there is no evidence to back up that claim.
