You beat me to it. There seems to be an inexaustible stream of excuses for Obama supporters to use.

I dislike the "politically untenable" one in particular. When he was running for office, he kept talking about the fact that what it takes to bring about real change is "leadership" and called himself a fierce advocate for a variety of progressive--hell, not even progressive, just legal policies. So where the fuck is his "leadership" now?

Hi, Titonwan! Yes, I have been a'buzzing...

That's because they are sitting on a park bench, eyeing little girls with bad intent, and they don't get online much.

Next thing you know they'll be joining up with those Moozlims and we'll have to fight them there before they come to fight us here.

Of course, once we invade Lithuania, they will greet us a liberators with flowers and candy. Our mission will be accomplished in a matter of weeks.

And if any other Europeans decide to look into our private business, we will take care of them, too.

We have plenty of money for such wars. Because wars never have to be deficit-neutral in the U.S.--only policies that might have a slight benefit for our non-wealthy citizens do.

U-S-A! U-S-A!

Perhaps Obama is heading for a similar sort of crisis. Will he keep on being a right-leaning Democrat and go to the grave a 1-term president? Or will he have the political sense to jump the rail and sell his Wall Street cronies out in exchange for keeping his job?

I think he isn't too worried about being re-elected, for a few reasons. First, a lot of his supporters seem to have gone to sleep after electing him; that is, they are not following his appalling actions on constitutional matters and seem to be OK with the wars being a perpetual state of affairs. Second, after showing the democratic wing of his party nothing but contempt for most of his first term, he will undoubtedly throw them a few bones before re-election, at which point most will be saying he is the lesser of two evils and yadda yadda yadda. And third, Sarah Palin's presence in the race will pull the right-wing candidates even further into wingnut/religious fundamentalist territory, so even though she won't get the nomination, whoever does will probably be seen as nutso and dangerous by dems and many independents, so they will go for the guy who seems moderate in comparison--Obama.

Maybe it's way to early to speculate, but nevertheless--betcha!

I got the email from Jane Hamsher yesterday and was so glad to see firedoglake joining in this fight. What a great grassroots leader she is.

to this self-absorbed promoter of self-absorption.

What a cowardly clump.

That is kinda like "Moral Majority" isn't it? Neither the first nor the second term is accurate. Straight out of 1984.

A poke at George from the old Stephanopoulos/Gibson series below.

to see the advertisement below for HBO's upcoming hagiography of Obama, called, with no apparent sense of irony, "By the People."

Shouldn't that be called "By the People Who Are Not Paying Attention" or something like that?

Gah! And there are all these Hollywood people on there raving about the wonder of it all! Of all the people in the world, shouldn't they know better than anyone the power of illusion, and about the adoration of images that feed our emotional needs? Or perhaps that is what they are celebrating, who knows.

I love Larry's onscreen persona. This show is a great send-up of the total assholishness that is such a huge part of our narcissistic culture.

One of my favorite scenes was when Larry was on the sidewalk after having tripped Shaq at a basketball game, and Jeff comes running across the street yelling, "What the fuck? What the fuck?" while all the passersby are sneering and yelling and shaking their fists at Larry. The populace rises up finally! But it is because they lost a basketball game. Oh, man.

And in the same episode, Larry gets uninvited to make a page in someone's birthday book. Upon being told that the woman who planned it changed her mind, Larry asks: "How did all the other acquaintances take it?" Gah! I laugh just thinking about that line. Great show.

your name is a dead giveaway for the fact that you have a tiny penis. You should learn about codes and symbolism and compensation before picking a screen name. Just trying to help you keep a shred of dignity here.

Thanks, bystander!

of Obama becomes most dangerous. In trusting an elected leader to do things in the people's interest after we elect him, and then essentially going to sleep once that is done, we allow this corporatist warmonger to wipe away our most important protections.

And btw, it is so bizarre that, like the stopped clock that is right on rare occasions, the wingnuts who are screaming about freedoms and the founding fathers, etc., are protesting in the right direction.

Also btw, I wanted to let my animal-loving friends here know that I had my animal adoption and information fair, CritterFest, yesterday, and the shelters and rescues adopted out lots of animals!!!

because this is THE question we all should be asking.

If anyone in the universe were able to keep their eyes open during this show, they would be able to report what a craptastic suckfest it is.

Of course, that is just conjecture, because no one will ever manage that feat.

Maybe, but I think Hacker has more integrity. Seriously. At least he saved the good British sausage, with all of its mechanically salvaged bits, from being called Euro Sausage.