... states the following:

"He hasn't done anything to deserve the Nobel Prize" = "Who does this nig**r think he is?"

Yeah, I said it.

And they're getting madder and madder and sloppier and sloppier to the point that one of them is going to slip up and say it for real.

I'm rarely at a loss for snark, but this kind of insanity just speaks for itself.

Link:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8693919

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/14137.html

RENO, Nev.— Barack Obama on Tuesday stepped up his advocacy for the Bush Administration’s endangered $700 billion bailout plan by making a round of calls to rank-and-file Democrats in the House and casting congressional inaction in dire, real-world terms. He also massaged his pitch, no longer using the word “bailout” to describe the bill.

In a speech laden with warnings about the impact on average voters, Obama made his strongest push yet for the financial package rejected Monday by the House, saying the upheaval was “no longer just a Wall Street crisis – it’s an American crisis, and it’s the American economy that needs this rescue plan.”

“While there is plenty of blame to go around and many in Washington and on Wall Street who deserve it, all of us now have a responsibility to solve this crisis, because it affects the financial well-being of every single American,” Obama said at a rally here. “There will be time to punish those who set this fire, but now is the moment for us to come together and put the fire out.”

You gotta love the anti-Santayana's "there will be a time to punish" construction. The classic New Yorker cartoon is the best guess for what time that will be: "How about never -- is never good for you?"

Glenn,

Just keep keeping it real.

I'd be lying (my least favorite pastime) if I didn't say that I've grown awfully disappointed with the liberal blogosphere (see sig link for interview with Eric Boehlert).

But this is one place where I can go and reliably hear important stories interpreted honestly and intelligently.

We won't see eye-to-eye on everything, but I really admire your keeping your sights on truth and honest progressive values.

Scientician,

If you read David Sirota regularly, have you not noticed that he can be a little, um, mercurial? Which I noted here, when I noticed the inconveniently accurate quote I referenced in my earlier comment...

http://www.correntewire.com/david_sirota_meet_david_sirota

In response to two or three posts at Correntewire about his screeds against people who, unlike him, are somehow not allowed to be Obama skeptics -- Clinton supporters should, he thoughtfully advised, "slither back to their ratholes" -- he called me and a blogmate "vaguely frightening hate stalkers."

Would that I could match up to Mr. Sirota's standard for fair and measured prose....

@bamage, thanks for noticing that an accurate quote is an accurate quote. As can be seen from my link above, I'm well aware that Sirota has not been consistently glazy-eyed about Obama. He's, in fact, written some timely criticism of the "Dear Leader" mentality, and that's been noted on my blog as well. Somehow, though, I lost the Open Left habit along the way. I totally suck as a hate stalker, I guess.

Re: "How anyone could write or even read that last sentence without succumbing to painful, prolonged cackling is genuinely mystifying."

For proof of that, look at most any quote cited here: http://obamamessiah.blogspot.com/

"A Lightworker -- An Attuned Being with Powerful Luminosity and High-Vibration Integrity who will actually help usher in a New Way of Being" -- Mark Morford

"Does it not feel as if some special hand is guiding Obama on his journey, I mean, as he has said, the utter improbability of it all?" -- Daily Kos

"Barack Obama is our collective representation of our purest hopes, our highest visions and our deepest knowings... He's our product out of the all-knowing quantum field of intelligence." -- Eve Konstantine

"We're here to evolve to a higher plane... he is an evolved leader... [he] has an ear for eloquence and a Tongue dipped in the Unvarnished Truth." -- Oprah Winfrey

"I think that Obama, his election to the Senate, was divinely ordered.... I know that that was God’s plan." -- Bill Rush

"He is not the Word made flesh, but the triumph of word over flesh..." -- Ezra Klein

But my all-time favorite remains this one from Huffington Post:

"... We finally have a candidate in Barack Obama who uses the word 'We' while others use 'I.' He empowers us with words and the authentic emotion behind them and people are rushing into the tent to drink that magic water.

Candor, inclusiveness, poetry, and inspiration. We don't only deserve those things, we long for them. We want to be led and we want to be lifted and anyone who doesn't understand that simply doesn't understand us." -- Michael Sietzman

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-seitzman/speeches-do-matter_b_86745.html

I think that's my favorite. It's so hard to choose!

"Indeed, his sheer personal awesomeness - and his ability to convey that awesomeness through the media - is so imposing it can make the rest of us mere mortals feel 'not worthy,' to use Wayne and Garth's terms." -- David Sirota

http://openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=11019

So, Glenn, don't ever doubt our capacity to withstand the painful cackling that tragically funny "thinking" elicits (or should). The fact that we live in a transcendently transcendent era helps, too, no doubt.

Can't you see the fault is not with the Obama administration, but with yourself?

Think of how much rosier the situation would look if you'd just walk away from your bad decision to be an honest commentator!