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Saturday, Jul 4, 2009
AncientAssyrian
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The neighborhood I was just driving through is a lovely, not necessarily liberal neighborhood in suburban Washington DC, where lawn signs are not a common view, even during heated election seasons.
Our primary is long past, so that's not even an issue.
And yet I was surprised, shocked even, and slowly delighted, by many Obama '08 signs there were. House after house:
OBAMA '08
OBAMA '08
OBAMA '08
Something is happening in America, and not even crazy reverends, Clintonian megalomania, Chris Matthews, Joan Walsh, the neocons, or even old John McCan't will or can stop it!
It's easy to get bogged down in the he said/she said, surrogate war, pundit battles, and media frenzy of the election, but in the end, it does come down to people.
It comes down to my 3 1/2 year old who goes around exuberantly saying "ROCK OBAMA!" everytime he sees him on TV. (That's how he says his name!)
And the people who feel so strongly, in the middle of March, months before a nomination, much less an election, that they want to express their hope by putting up a lawn sign.
It's about leadership, and it's about a hope where America is going -- and it's about leaving behind a fear of where America has been...
I'd match my 3 1/2 year old's intellect and judgment against yours anyday, anytime. Frankly, given his political awareness, there's quite a bit you could learn from him.
And, even better, unlike you, he actually plays well with others, and doesn't abuse Mommy and Daddy's internet access!
...and then they'll have their warm milk and cookies, and someone will make sure they each have a fresh, clean adult diaper, and lay them down and tuck them in for their afternoon naps.
Seriously, are there Republicans who care who geriatric social x-ray Nancy Reagan endorses?
is to keep a steady stream of Hillary shilling coming at us every day here at Salon.
I'm not surprised that, in a week that has been dominated by the ridiculous lies told by Hillary Clinton to try to trump up the seeming importance of her foreign policy undertakings, that you, in your limited time available to blog, have chosen to blog this.
Yes, Joan, we know that you are looking for every reason, and every opportunity to make excuses for Hillary, to justify her continued presence in the campaign, to argue that she has the goods to back up her boasts. And we know you are at the same time looking for passive-aggressive opportunities to undermine, chip away at or straight out malign Barack Obama.
Frankly, it is sad to see Salon's Balkanization -- With Glenn Greenwald out there in the wilderness trying to speak the truth, and Alex Koppelman wiffle-waffling between trying to speak truthfully and trying to follow your direction, and Schizophrenic Shapiro, and the whole coterie of conflicted and confused Salon reporters offering their bipolar political coverage -- and you at the helm, with your subtle but definite anti-Obama bias which is always couched in those passive-aggressive wink-wink pseudo-compliments, and your quite overt admiration for Hillary at every ugly turn of her campaign.
What's next on the editorial calendar for you and your staff, Joan? Articles about how Hillary's kneecapping of Barack Obama is just getting him in shape to face the Republicans in a general election? Articles on how if Hillary manages to win the nomination*, she'll have vetted and prepared Obama for a future run for President? Planning a few more in-depth, academic explorations of how the Clintons and their surrogates' couched racist tactics are actually good for America because it opens up the discourse about race? Maybe you can find someone to argue that accusing Obama of being unpatriotic is a good way to remind us all of our our lost patriotism -- that might be a good one to schedule for Flag Day.
How many ways, Joan, can you take a twisted, rabidly ambitious and truly ugly campaign and its Machiavellian tactics, and try to sell them to us as some sort of liberal/feminist/BabyBoomer fairy tale dream come true?
*thus assuring us of a John McCain presidency
Make the sign REALLY big and have it face the obnoxious neighbor's house.
(Of course, this would only be done with the neighbor's agreement!)
What these numbers make clear is that if the election were today, Obama would beat McCain with no doubt/question, but Hillary, not so much.
No amount of wishful thinking by Joan Walsh, Mark Penn, or Notoriously Biased WES will make it anything other than that a complete debacle if Hillary Clinton tries to steal the nomination away from Barack.
Warning, warning!!!! Obama is going to pick a guy who isn't even a Democrat as his running mate!!! What do you think of THAT, Salon readers? Doesn't that make you think twice about voting for him? Doesn't that make you look at Her Royal Highness and realize that she's the one you should vote for, Salon readers? Don't you see???
Tomorrow, from War Room...
Obama May Pick Oprah as Running Mate
(based on photo of Obama and Oprah)
Day after that, from War room...
Obama May Pick St. Thomas Governor John deJongh as Running Mate
(based on vacation photo of Barack in St. Thomas)
And then...
Obama May Pick Wife Michelle as Running Mate
(based on a wedding picture)
And still, we wait for significant coverage at Salon of the "Hillary's Fake Combat Duty in Bosnia" debacle.
As for Bloomberg, come on. The only thing Bloomberg really brings is $...dinero...moolah, and Obama doesn't need that.
He needs a totally safe, been in Washington forever, mainstream/boring Christian (Presbyterian or Episcopal, perhaps?) since the Reformation, ideally a veteran, older than him, white male figurehead type who will get the slobbering idiots off Obama's back.
The Wasilla soap opera just gets weirder as Palin complains critics are "picking apart a good point guard"
The media outlet's use of Bush euphemisms sparks a much-needed debate on journalistic standards.
And so are his Fox News pals, who lambasted Sen. Al Franken's "stolen election"
An inflexible right wing is allowing the Golden State to drown in debt. But it's not alone
Thanks for sharing, Governor. Now please take a cue from Norm Coleman, and go away
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