Stagecraft: McDonnell has a black woman and an asian man standing behind him

[scheming daemons]

Not an accident.

[Grand Taurean]

1. Conservatives are masters of overt tokenism.

[begin_within]

2. Wonder how much they were paid to be there.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

3. Animatronics.

They're going back to Disney in the morning.

[kentuck]

4. and a military man!

who do they think they are fooling??

[blondeatlast]

5. Nah, those are just two Republicans picked at random, silly.

They just grabbed 'em out of gthe office at the very last minute.

[Quantess]

6. They're so obvious!

Shameless.

[timeforpeace]

7. May be hard to believe, but it's allowed.

[scheming daemons]

10. Your slip is showing

Don't know how much longer you can fool the mods, but you're not fooling me.

[hatrack]

8. I was going to say "Stagecrap" . . .

But that's just me . . . . kind of like the repeating Hypno-Banners Bush always used:

"Jobs and Growth Jobs and Growth Jobs and Growth"

Can't you just feel the Jobs and Growth?

[CBHagman]

9. Major stagecraft this year.

They're doing cheers and applause for him, too.

[malaise]

11. It was really really bad TV

and therefore it was freaking hilarious.

[KingFlorez]

12. If there is one thing I can't stand, it's fakery like this

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

13. To me, it seemed like an attempt to counteract

the racist all white teabagger crowd, and really, really obvious one at that.

[Bozita]

14. Just wondering if the VA GOP pays union scale ... and do they pay more for *happy* blacks?

Sure were happy there tonight!

[woo me with science]

15. There was also a clearly pre-arranged cut to a black person

right after his line that education should not be dependent on zip code.