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Saturday, May 26, 2007 03:45 PM
Original article: When Democrats collapse

Have a Triscuit and some Brie

Then blog about it to your 11 friends who will blog about too. Dems act like this because they don't want the job of governance. They don't want to get their hands dirty. They just want to critique it. Other than Bill Clinton I honestly can not think of a single national Democratic candidate who didn't come across as a weak minded craven political operator who was too dumb to lie well. They are terrified that any firm stance or opinion will emerge out of the muck of 'Inclusion' and possibly anger 33 neo Aztec lesbian wheelchair bound pagans rolling their way across America to highlight Catfish Rights or some such stupid shit. The DNC is run by morons who earnestly believe that if you say nothing about anything then you can win elections.

It's like going to the Gyro shop and asking "Is that beef on the spit?"

"Ohy yeah yeah bif bif you want bif?"

And the next person comes in and asks "Is that lamb?"

"Of course itz lamb you wunt lamb?"

And so on. Everyone's happy and the Gyro guy sells out. Never mind that you all got shafted because it was PORK.

That's the problem with the Dems. You can't say racist assholes like Cynthia McKinney are anathema because you'll let her turn it into a racist issue against you. You can't ignore the fringe element freakazoids campaigning for Ecotopia and giving social security numbers to dogs because Bob Barker will call you out. You can't do or say anything because you're terrified that the crazies, marginals, UFOlogists, racial nationalists and everyone else with their own unique ax to grind won't follow you.

Why? Because you don't actually offer anything to anyone apart from a soapbox for their own agenda items. There's no center there. There's no common core. There's nothing to attract anyone to listen to you other than what they believe will further their own goals.

Yeah yeah yeah Iraq. Got it. Can't even get that one right. Either we're in or we're out. Either we can afford the Trillion dollar price tag or we can't. There's not an awful lot of grey area between those two poles, is there? But still the Democrats will hem and haw and claim they are really the patriots except in a way we the unwashed never thought of before. OF COURSE most people want us out. US. Our people. First. After that there isn't a 10% survey group who's gonna weep and moan about Iraq. But the Dems don't get it. They really don't understand that the way to respect people is to exhibit some fucking leadership. To say categorically 'we go!'. But of course they won't. There might be a town in West Virginia that would object.

So there it is, Salonistas. Democrats collapse because there's no core in the first place. No center, no pinnacle of beliefs to look up to. No, I hesitate to use the word, values. Just a lot of micro agenda post-it notes stuck on the rotting corpse of Iraq. As if we needed some CSI to tell us that one's dead. And even when we do, apparently, the Dems are telling us it's still too soon to know.

Saturday, May 26, 2007 04:52 PM
Original article: When Democrats collapse

You just proved my point

BTW and for the record. I'm a registered democrat who's actually worked on and for a few campaigns. My car is a Camry my other car is a scooter. I am opposed to the war.

Thanks again for being a babbling asshole and driving home my key points for me. Nice handle, for a retard.

Sunday, May 27, 2007 07:14 PM
Original article: Sarkozy and his model wife

A Salon hatchet job on someone to the right of Castro

Who didn't see that coming, I mean other than the fine people of Venezuela who now are not allowed their TV if it's critical to Lord Hugo.

Sunday, May 27, 2007 07:16 PM
Original article: Sarkozy and his model wife

and oh

She's a first First Lady of France who is 0% French. And proud of it. Her ancestry is Spanish anousim.

Sunday, May 27, 2007 07:17 PM
Original article: Memorial Day

Disgusting that a borderline hatemonger

Holds up the Warsaw uprising.

Sunday, May 27, 2007 07:57 PM
Original article: The student loan rip-off

We have too many people going to college anyway

If you want to compete with the millions of soon to be amnestied illegalitos then you don't need more than a 5th grade education.

Monday, May 28, 2007 08:13 AM
Original article: This Modern World

Hugo Chavez laughs at your scorn

Of the cult of personality.

Monday, May 28, 2007 01:17 PM
Original article: Sarkozy and his model wife

I want to hear Salon

Keen and moan over the social, marital and sexual peccidillos of their sacred cows in the DNC.

Monday, May 28, 2007 01:22 PM
Original article: The student loan rip-off

Oh dear me

Babies' candy is all drooly, old women's kidneys aren't worth shit and homeless people don't have shoes in the first place.

Actually this all kind of small fries. The wider bigger problem is that Fannie Mae has been taking kickbacks from banks AND FROM UNIVERSITIES for years to steer borrowers to particular banks for slightly inflated rates. Half point here, quarter point there. It adds up. And student borrowers are left holding the bag, as it were. Gee isn't it ironic that the cost of a college degree has outstripped the rate of inflation by 100% each and every year for the last 30 years....?

Monday, May 28, 2007 01:27 PM

He's not a fool, he's an operator

Chris Matthews was a hack, an ex Carter speechwriter until he awakened one day to the fact that he could stand up on his desk, unzip his fly and scream "Clinton Clinton Clinton Clinton Clinton Clinton Clinton Clinton Clinton Clinton Clinton Clinton Clinton Clinton Clinton Clinton Clinton Clinton Clinton Clinton Clinton Clinton Clinton Clinton Clinton Clinton Clinton Clinton Clinton Clinton Clinton Clinton Clinton Clinton Clinton Clinton Clinton Clinton Clinton" Three HUNDRED million times and that in and of itself would be a new career. He was a nothing until then and all of a sudden he had a 7 figure deal. He's an operator, a whore. He'll say what you want to hear based on what you'll pay to hear. No more no less. The only difference between Chris Matthews and a call out girl is he gives you a pearl necklace not the other way around.

Monday, May 28, 2007 01:29 PM

Wow get a life basementarians

Bloggers blogging about what bloggers say about other bloggers. Make sure you get outside once in a while.

Monday, May 28, 2007 04:35 PM
Original article: Sarkozy and his model wife

The new French Foreign Minister

Appointed by Sarko, is the founder of Doctors Without Borders....Dear me, he's a little to the right of, who?, Juan Peron?

Monday, May 28, 2007 04:49 PM

Scientician

C'mon it's funny that this is even a paying job. Brie nibbling and commenting on the cocktail chitchat of other people chitchating about chitchating. Everyone thinks they're Barzun, Lapham, Berlin, etc.

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