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Monday, June 16, 2008 08:02 AM

Ron Moore

Ron Moore's implied a couple times that the series isn't going to have a happy ending. Given the direction of the series I would bet bleak. I just hope they decide to bring it back for the final 10 this year in September or October.

Wednesday, May 7, 2008 09:28 AM

@ bahasa

As Chuck Todd pointed out last night even if you factor in the flawed voting in Michigan and Florida after last night Obama still leads in the popular vote (which is meaningless, lets not forget) by 100 to 150K and leads in delegates (which do matter) by 100 to 120. Nothing in West Virginia or Kentucky or Puerto Rico is going to change that.

Break out the forks and toothpicks because Hillary Clinton is done, folks. Good riddance to bad, war-monger, race mongering, vagina mongering rubbish. If she wants to stick around to West Virginia and pick up the White Supremacist vote, fine by me as long as she stops with the mud-slinging. But the Primary is Over. Obama is the nominee.

Time to focus on getting Obama elected and calling the Equine Ambulance for John McCain.

Thursday, April 17, 2008 08:23 AM

They Should've Walked Off

Both Candidates should've walked off after the first twenty minutes. Or completely ignored the moderator and started asking questions of each other. Unfortunately, sleaze is the only thing on candidate has going for her.

Regardless I hope blogs pick up the Hannity-Stephy connection and push it out into the media. It is a serious breach of journalistic ethics and Stephanopoulus should be fire for taking his talking points from a right wing bigot like Hannity.

Thursday, April 17, 2008 07:28 AM

@Daddy

According to multiple blogs on DailyKos and Olbermann's post-debate show the question was set-up by Sean Hannity (yeah, the right wing douche-nozzle). Whether Georgie informed Clinton pre-debate or not, no one knows, but the Hannity-Stephy link was all over Kos and a couple other blogs hours before the debate so HRC staff would've known, or at least been able to assume, regardless.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008 06:08 PM
Original article: The "distractions" debate

Worst. Debate. Ever.

No substance, distraction, and questions fed straight from the mouth of Sean "I am Bigot" Hannity into the waiting mouth of George Stephonopolus (David Ayers). Everyone, liberal or conservative, Republic and Democrat, should be thoroughly outraged by the way ABC ran this debate. A shining example of why no one trusts the mainstream media.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 03:00 PM

Wow...

Nice Rack for a Hun. I approve.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 08:34 AM
Original article: The rubes and the elites

Obama Was Right

I grew up in the Midwest. Not entirely working class, but in small and medium sized cities, like Evansville, Indiana. And people in those small and medium sized towns are bitter, and narrow-minded, and often cling to religion because Jesus will settle all your scores and give you what you always deserved "someday". Sit in a church on a Sunday and listen to stories about the "End Times" and you don't have to read too far between the verses to basically see the book of Revelations as a Working Class Revenge Fantasy where at the end of the World the trucker and his chubby wife who have kept the faith get to sit on thrones of gold as all the people that pissed them off (Homosexuals, Hollywood Types, Rock Stars, the Banker down the street) burn in a lake of fire.

There is nothing "Elitist" about pointing that out. It is the naked, bald truth that no one wants to talk about (that maybe 60% of our country is hopelessly backwards and has a world view more suited to 1908 than 2008).

Personally I resent the notion that Obama or any Democratic candidate has to reach out to those people on their terms. The Democrats simply cannot out pander the Republican Party when it comes to "god, gays, and guns". Even if a candidate could does anyone want to vote for her? What good is a Democratic President who governs like a moderate Republican?

A Democrat Candidate can win by making the case that -- regardless of social class or education or demographic -- the economy is falling apart, the Iraq War is going nowhere, and the United States simply cannot persist as a First World country much longer if it continues down the road laid out by the Bush Administration. Those are the issues the Democrats can win on, because they transcend the bitterness of the working class.

Monday, April 14, 2008 11:52 AM

@ TJColatrella

The Pope is kind of hard to love given the whole Nazi thing, his rigid adherence to doctrine, and the fact he looks like Nosferatu in drag.

Monday, April 14, 2008 11:45 AM

Hey, Clinton Girls: Shut Up Already

So Obama Supporters are supposed to shut up and go to the back of the bus because we might be making some women "uncomfortable"?

In the meantime, Hillary Clinton and her supporters are allowed to spew bile, sling mud, lie to varying degrees, distort reality, run essentially as a Moderate Republican, and destroy the Democratic Party without consequence. In the words of that Great America poet, Lil Jon, WHAT!?

Hey, newsflash! As much as Obama Supporters might be turning off some over-privileged White Women. Hillary Clinton and her supporters are doing an equally good job of turning off Black Voters, Young Voters, and the Progressive core of the Democratic Party.

But I guess that's okay.

Thursday, April 10, 2008 08:47 AM

@ maturity

Yeah, those young people with their Rock N' Roll and their Hippity Hop, and their MySpace pages, and their Progressive Idealism. Damn them! Young people! What good are they!?

Except -- you know -- paying for your debts, and your wars, and your social security, and your heath care, and eventually your nursing care. How dare they express an opinion and have a voice? Don't they know they should shut up and let you reach into their wallets and take.

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