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Friday, July 25, 2008 12:46 PM

@nananance

With America stalled in a recession, inflation on the rise, war in Iraq, gas prices going up every week, and the collapse of the real estate market, I could really care less about Israel. For the past two years Israel has been goading the United States into getting involved as a partner in starting another stupid war with Iran. If this is the ivitation of a friend, well what a friend we have in Israel! We need another war like we need a fucking hole in the head! And the smears on Obama? I'd like to put this pleasantly, but I can't abide a liar, so the only remark I will make with regard to the tabloid tales you're telling on Obama, is that you clearly pulled them out of your way too uptight ass. And that's the truth Ruth.

Friday, July 25, 2008 07:40 PM
Original article: A tale of two campaigns

I think we all oughta wait till things get closer to the wire

Before we start urging either candidate

To just give up and retire.

It's way too early to be puttin' stock in any polls

Or the mentally inbalanced tirades

Of internet trolls.

Friday, July 25, 2008 09:52 PM
Original article: A tale of two campaigns

@Timelagged

It is amazing. It's amazing to imagine that ordinary Americans can put aside their old prejudices of the past, and the "hope" really comes to MY mind when I think, maybe folks are finally capable of understanding shit at last. To think that a "funny name" and the color of a guy's skin, are not the end all and be in a candidate's chances to win, though still there are others who remain confused, uncomfortably challenged, annoyed, and chagrined, makes me none the less look to the future, but also makes me look back at where we've all been. I really hope Obama makes the mark, because this country has been stalled for eight years, in a place that's hateful and dark.

Friday, July 25, 2008 11:28 PM

@General Zod

Why don't you and Superman get some hope or just go piss up a rope?

Friday, July 25, 2008 11:59 PM
Original article: A tale of two campaigns

@DrJay1966

We're only as a nation 40 years beyond seperate and unequal, so I think there always exists the Ugly American possibility for a George Bush by way of John McCain, up shit creek sequal.

When I heard Bush had been voted in for a second presidential term, I just shook my head to myself and said "there are too many stupid motherfuckers in America who will just NEVER EVER learn."

Saturday, July 26, 2008 12:22 AM
Original article: A tale of two campaigns

@hyplaen

You have to look in La-La Land if you want news and views on the Greens, cos they don't even really remotely register on most political radar screens.

Goin' Green might seem kinda trendy and hip, but they don't even rate as a burp or a blip.

Saturday, July 26, 2008 03:16 AM
Original article: A tale of two campaigns

Come on MaBelle

You don't have to drink from that scary 'ol Koolaid well

Look at it this way

You got it made in the shade

Gulp down a deep draught of that good 'ol Naderaid

And if that Naderaid ain't the thing for you

Then try John McCain's malt liquor

As your favorite Bush hangover brew.

Ma, you've got some real poison for Obama

And you just nurse it everyday

Like a bitter little soap opera drama.

I just hope when you head to the polls in November

That you have in mind for America's future

A much better one than the one you remember

Saturday, July 26, 2008 06:19 AM
Original article: A tale of two campaigns

@Miss O'Donnell

Are you some sort of Irish Mother Superior?

You're always doggin' on Americans

Like they're a breed that's almost uniquely inferior.

Franlky I didn't dig the smug sanctimony

Contained in the coldness of your remark

Are you so shallow, glib, and callous

That all you've got to impart

Is the questionable gift of your so self satified snark?

Saturday, July 26, 2008 07:08 AM
Original article: A tale of two campaigns

@Miss O'Donnell

You sure sound like you have a whole mess of angry bees buzzin' around in your way too tight fitting bonnet, and I'm sadder than ever you'll know, that you didn't like my poor little sonnet. I am so inconsolable that the depths of my depression have become increasingly uncontrolable.

Cheerio!

Saturday, July 26, 2008 07:35 AM
Original article: A tale of two campaigns

Why not hand the whole "holy land" hot tamale over to the Brits?

After all, they're the ones that enabled both sides

into the positions in which they're still stuck today

With a perrenial case of the jolly 'ol post colonial shits.

Saturday, July 26, 2008 07:56 AM
Original article: A tale of two campaigns

@the Eagle

That was an insightful analogy about Americans possibly being too timid to leave the abusive spouse, I mean hell, Americans seem sometimes so sheepish, they'd actually be content with a louse. Anyway, be prepared to get fleeced if we get President John McCain, and brace yourselves hard for a new world of war torn pain.

Saturday, July 26, 2008 08:10 AM
Original article: A tale of two campaigns

@thegroovologist

I'm gettin' that vibe too, cos things at this point are very far from bein' through.

Saturday, July 26, 2008 09:40 AM
Original article: A tale of two campaigns

Thank you for that stirring sermon sister mother superior O'Donnell

Maybe you and Miss. Marple can dig up some real familial filth on Mr. Obama, and give things that much needed touch of lurid drama.

Cheers!

Saturday, July 26, 2008 01:10 PM
Original article: A tale of two campaigns

@Crunchy Frog

I wouldn't even waste my time with 'ol mother o'donennell the dronin' on dullard, she's more in tune to the tabloids and the whispers she overheard.

Saturday, July 26, 2008 01:29 PM
Original article: A tale of two campaigns

That's what I like about you O'donnell

Some don't understand you, some don't get the genius of your plan, you're never too timid to be just about as trivial as you can.

Now a guy's gotta admire that.

Saturday, July 26, 2008 01:41 PM
Original article: A tale of two campaigns

@O'Donnell

I thought you were goin' off to bed, isn't all your ranting rubbish starting to hurt your poor head?

Ya know, when ya make a promise it's something you really should keep, so nighty night maureen have some fun countin' sheep.

Saturday, July 26, 2008 02:02 PM
Original article: A tale of two campaigns

Well hold on maureen

Don't soil yourself!

What other juicey tabloid goodies

Can you pull off of your local supermarket shelf?

I really liked your little tidbits

From the pages of the Sun

They were ever so stimulating

And ever so much fun.

Saturday, July 26, 2008 02:15 PM
Original article: A tale of two campaigns

@rspan

I agree, a lot of white people are eyeing Obama as too cool and suave and handsome to boot, probably thinking he's some kind of slick Billy Dee Williams in a too sharply tailored suit. Whether you're an Obama supporter or an Obama detractor, I call this syndrome of white envy, the Billy Dee Factor.

Saturday, July 26, 2008 02:35 PM
Original article: A tale of two campaigns

@Eric

I liked the clear honesty of your anecdote, and I think there are still at least some people who are goin' on sixty, but are much closer in their mental age and maturity to sixteen. Nice to see some straight shootin' around here rising above the regular routine of the 'ol Salonista scene.

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