Let’s take a big step back and hold off on canonizing the noxious, Palin-worshipping Hasselback. First of all, what the hell was she supposed to do, announce that she was going to carry on her opposition to Obama in the streets? That she has no intention to stop spreading her filthy racist smears or her attempts to undermine Obama over the next four years, as she prepares the masses for the coming of the army of Big Pig Palin in 2012?

Let’s see how supportive she is when Obama calls for detailed Congressional hearings into Bush and Cheney’s pervasive criminal conspiracies over the past 8 years. When we learn the scope of Bush’s Nixonian wiretapping of ordinary American citizens, a conspiracy so egregiously criminal that it made even a fanatic like John Ashcroft threaten to quit. When we learn about the detailed conversations when the senior members of this administration approved the torture and kidnapping of American civilians. When Obama finally closes the fascist gulag at Guantanimo, not because of any ostensible change in national priorities or some other slimy euphemism, but because the Global Republican Perpetual War On Negroes, Muslims, and Other Undesirables is exposed as the murderous fraud it’s always been.

When Hasselback evidences her support for these and other Democratic initiatives to hold the Bush regime accountable for its crimes, then she’ll have earned some credit for today’s cheap display of bipartisanship.

Though I certainly understand the concern, I frankly don’t think it’s much of a problem. Gore was a goddamn fool for going along with that shit in 2000; he should have called for 5,000 volunteers to get down to Florida to crack the skulls of the Hitler Youth from the Federalist Society, and made it clear to Scalia that he had a lot more at stake than merely exposing himself as a sleazy Republican hack. I’m pretty sure Howard Dean has no intention of ever allowing the Republicans to steal another vote, even if the election has to be litigated until Obama’s second term.

Re: obnoxious scumbags like road runner: does the Republican Party have nothing else to do with its money than pay mindless trolls to beat-off in their mother’s basement and write incoherent letters to pro-Obama internet sites? This half-wit has spent the past two weeks sending five letters a day to Salon, every one of which – as Webcelt notes – includes some moronic reference to the “liberal illuminati.” Here’s a proposal that should leave all of us more satisfied: beat-off more and write less.

The first three American republics display a remarkably similar pattern. Their 72-year life span is divided into two 36-year periods (again, give or take a year -- this is not astrology).

Well. sure; I mean, though it plainly lacks the intellectual rigor and sound empirical foundation of astrology, perhaps if you keep humping this fairly tale – supported by about as much evidence as Cinderella or The Three Little Pigs, after all – it’ll gain some traction among the racist, queer-hating creationists – oh, pardon me, “social conservatives” – you believe should be playing a more substantial role in the Democratic Party.

Now we know that criticizing Palin for exhibiting a level of literacy essentially comparable to that of a grunting baboon (oh, wait, for failing to speak "the King's English") is wholly inappropriate, since Paglia senses deep in her bosom - I mean, she just knows it - that "[t]here is a powerful clarity of consciousness in her eyes."

Jesus Christ, this woman is the most decrepit, desiccated windbag I've ever encountered in my life.

That is just fantastic. I'd like to bring a big tin of them and give them out to the rabid, abusive freaks that spend their lives trying to intimidate women seeking counseling at family planning clinics.

He's taken both Clintons inside his tent because he . . . thinks they're worth it, and saying a big, polite "up yours" to the Clinton haters who've made a career out of spreading this garbage.

Oh, why so modest, Joan? Let’s acknowledge that Obama’s loving embrace of the Clintons isn’t just a gentle “up-yours” to the Clinton-haters, but a big, hearty “fuck you” to the millions of progressive voters who were induced to cough up their money and time and sweat to get Obama elected, induced by the promise of “change” from a stinking cesspool of fanatic Republican warmongers and craven Democratic opportunists, collectively responsible for killing 4,000 American troops, crippling 40,000 more, and murdering a half-a-million or so Iraqi expendables. You know, those of us who simply don’t give a flying fuck about Hillary Clinton, but who believe that the very survival of American democracy is dependent on the imposition of accountability – accountability, goddamn it – for the monsters who took a nice big shit on the U.S. Constitution with the use of torture and kidnapping and domestic spying and secret police, and who plainly recognize that the Obama-Clinton lovefest (along with the rest of his slate) means that Obama’s Democratic Party is to remain a gigantic patronage mill, one that has no intention whatever of concerning itself with such pie-in-the-sky, left-wing bullshit as the rule of law.

So please enjoy that “You Go Girl!!” moment for all it’s worth, but try to keep in mind who else is being told to get fucked in addition to those nasty, mean-old Clinton-haters out there whose comeuppance is a matter of such supreme importance.