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Monday, June 16, 2008 10:36 PM
Original article: Tin-eared at MSNBC

@sam

Let me translate:

Chris Matthews is a diarrhea of the mouth suffering buffoon, but Olbermann isn't (well, sometimes). His producer apparently is, however, and the entitled morons who are screaming for blood because their candidate is an incompetent hack want someone to kiss their asses. If that's what it will take, then so be it. But I personally and not happy about it.

Let the healing begin.

Monday, June 16, 2008 11:11 PM
Original article: Tin-eared at MSNBC

@nyshooter

Why do we have to kiss your ass? You lost. Losers don't get their asses kissed.

That's all this is. This isn't about real sexism. That's not why Clinton lost. She lost because she failed. Her campaign imploded. She surrounded her self with selfish, insulated hacks, and she got out played by a more nimble opponent.

Sexism exists. Make MSNBC pucker up and put one on your candidate's lilly white entitled tush won't fix rape, genital mutilation, foot binding, pay inequity and honor killings.

Its just an excersize in humiliation and bitterness. Its pointless.

Kiss your own ass.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008 09:49 AM
Original article: McCain's new ad goes green

Environment

Is dropping a Daisy Cluster on Tehran considered littering?

Tuesday, June 17, 2008 10:02 AM

Well, if you have some spare time..

And happen to live in California, you could always make a citizen's arrest:

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/citizenarrest

(Click name)

Tuesday, June 17, 2008 10:54 AM

Consolation prizes

There is a vocal minority of Clinton supporters insisting on her being placed as the VP, ignorant of the fact that a significant number of Obama followers, for good reason, do not want that to happen.

I am fairly sure, given the manner in which her "Kitchen Sink" fiasco was run, that she is not on the short list -- at least, not on the private short list, the one that counts. Perhaps Obama will surprise me and forgive her sins and place her on the ticket. That would be the fatal mistake that costs him the general election, because it would rally Republicans, many with doubts about McCain, behind their candidate (barring a "third way", if the Republican's simply nominate someone else at their convention -- a September surprise).

We need fresh air in this campaign (what's Terri Gross up to these days? I kid), not the same tired Clinton news cycle. Coming in second in a primary is not an automatic VP nod, especially one fought this contentiously. George Herbert Walker Bush (#41, for those counting), following the advise of his campaign manager, dropped out of his contention for the 1980 Republican nomination early enough that Ronald Reagan, despite his suspicions about Bush, was able to put him on the ticket without loosing any political credibility or currency.

That is not the case in 2008, where considerable currency would evaporate should Obama been seen as paying fealty to a candidate who accused him of not being ready, being inexperienced, was coy about rumors about his background, was coy about his victories in terms of race as opposed to policy or style, routinely cried wolf and shifted blame from the media onto Obama, played games with DNC rules and attempted to shift blame for her missteps in that arena again on Obama, employed scare tactics, incited and sought votes couched in racially divisive terms in Appalachia and did everything short of reading Obama the riot act.

In short, why would any politician in their right mind want to reward Clinton for her bad behavior?

Even shorter, while I understand that there is a vocal minority of Clinton supporters who yearn for this, it is my hope that, barring Salon.com stoking the fires of this delusional fantasy, they will come to realize that, first, Hillary Clinton is better served not pursuing the VP slot and second, the Democratic Party has a better chance this year without her on the ticket.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008 12:07 PM

Lay your defects on the radio

Hell naw! We'll call it Chocolate City, baby!

Tuesday, June 17, 2008 12:11 PM

@h_lance

I'm sorry, you're wrong. "Cracker box" is hilarious.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008 07:42 PM

@PercyB

Why is there such a media undercurrent for Senator Obama to pick Senator Clinton as his running mate? Is it due to the lack of real, in-depth, hard policy statements currently coming from the Obama campaign?

Are you trolling or are you daft? When have you knowsn the media to care about policy issues?

Wednesday, June 18, 2008 03:41 PM
Original article: A McCain-Lieberman ticket?

Center?

So, centrist America wants to fight endless wars in the Middle-East for Israel?

Wednesday, June 18, 2008 08:57 PM

ban the christers

that's because the unfun bums in government don't want anyone to have any fun that doesn't make pfizer a profit, doesn't want to let gays marry and definitely doesn't want anyone with wacky ideas like "war is over" and "the president is a criminal" get any airtime on TV.

Wednesday, June 18, 2008 09:02 PM

@poco

You are going to be invited to any parties with that attitude.

Wednesday, June 18, 2008 09:10 PM

Jewfro

No wonder so many people in America ridicule liberals for being overly sensitive. You have to draw a line somewhere, and you need to have thicker skin. That, and the author is in the tribe.

Thursday, June 19, 2008 08:46 PM

I shouldn't but I did..

Just paid $2100 in rent, but I chipped in $105 to ActBlue anyway:

4097 contributers, $238,819 dollars raised
Friday, June 20, 2008 10:58 AM

Updated my blog

Glenn,

Wrote a short blurb today citing your post yesterday, with links to the ActBlue "Blue America PAC" donor portal.

Spammed it out to my friends and family.

If you Digg or Stumble, I'd love a thumb-up. Post here:

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/christopherneill/gG5hzt

Or click my name.

Have a great weekend,

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