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Friday, June 27, 2008 02:34 PM
Original article: Leave Bill Clinton alone!

Bill Clinton

should go home and check out his little black book. The less I see of him the happier I am. His overrated presidency and exaggerated sense of his own importance are not assets.

Hillary should campaign for Barack on her own. Leave Bill at home, and keep him quiet. He is not able to discipline himself, and he is likely to say anything. GOD ONLY knows what.

Saturday, June 28, 2008 05:23 AM

This is EXACTLY what is going on with Hillary

I have noticed this for months. The Hillary supporters "love her". They positively ooze repressed lesbian or proto-lesbian statements. Now, it may be admiration gone amok, but it seems more deranged than that.

I admire Obama, but I do NOT love him. I would never go up to him and say "I just love you, Barack." Yet, Hillary wacks have admitted doing that, going right up to Hillary and telling her they love her. EEEWWWWWW!!!! Yuck!!!! TOO MUCH INFORMATION!!!!

This is the Cult of Personality, folks. This is how dictators get into power. People lose their own identity, and become entranced by the persona of the Great One.

We need to retain our perspective. Politicians are in the politics business. Part of that business involves getting people to like the politician. Otherwise, why would they vote for such walking pieces of shit as Tom Coburn, R-Turdville?

Saturday, June 28, 2008 05:30 AM

Admiration vs man crush

OK, I admire George Clooney. He's an actor with a social conscience, and he seems to have good ideas.

The other day, he dumped his girlfriend. She had been around for 8 months, and he decided to dump her. She was not real happy about it. He seems, like most people, to have his little asshole side. And, like most actors, he is utterly self-involved and treats women like shit.

That doesn't change my admiration for his political beliefs. I do NOT have a man-crush on him, because of his little asshole side.

You can admire a person for one part of his personality, while being contemptuous of his/her other personality traits.

That's the difference between Obama supporters and Hillary worshipers. I am very annoyed with Obama's FISA straddle, but will vote for him anyway and will contribute. For the Hillary worshipers, they don't seem to really be very clear about her positions. In fact, her chosen positions are not important to the Hillary worshiper. If you go from Hillary worship to McCain worship, you are obviously not a rational person.

Sunday, June 29, 2008 07:59 AM

Good stuff

Keep pushing on this, Glenn. The public is hungry for True Democrats, not Fake Republicans. If I wanted to vote Republican, I would vote for a Republican, not for a conservative Democrat.

The FISA bill is especially nauseating, since it is unconstitutional. That's all we need to say: I voted against the bill because it is unconstitutional.

Sunday, June 29, 2008 08:14 AM
Original article: All together now

It's time to decide

Are Hillary voters democrats?

If they are, they support the nominee of the Party, Barack Obama.

If they are not, they should go off and Cheney themselves, but stop bleating about their "Democratic bonafidas".

Examination of the contribution records of prominent PUMAs reveals many many many contributions to republicans and none to democrats.

PUMAa sre lying whores.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008 10:11 AM
Original article: España 2008

A great game

The game was great. Spain could easily have won 3-1, as there were at least 2 other sequences where the ball was right inside the box, with very close plays and multiple opportunities.

Germany threatened maybe 3 times for the whole game. They were simply playing at a lower level.

The best team won.

Wednesday, July 2, 2008 09:04 AM

Obama's "troubles"

Hillary said only she could get Hispanics. Obama leads 59%-29% in Hispanics, pretty much the normal lead for a Democrat, and much better than Kerry.

Hillary said only she could get Jews. Same story.

Hillary said only she could get women. Obama is doing well, but by election, he will be doing very well.

Wednesday, July 2, 2008 09:05 AM

AIPAC: A nest of traitors

How many recent espionage scandals involved AIPAC? All of them that I can think of.

AIPAC is filled with traitors. The US Prosecutor should use RICO laws to disband this traitorous organization.

Wednesday, July 2, 2008 09:22 AM

The actual real problem

"Once it becomes trivialized, watch for the rise of real anti-semites."

Hey, how about this: Not since the Warsaw ghetto has the ruling authority in a situation erected a wall to enclose a people and terrorize them.

In the Warsaw ghetto, it was the Nazis. In Israel, it's the jews.

What is the deal here? This wall is terrible.

Why are the Jews in Israel stealing Palestinian property?

When a country becomes an organized gang of thugs stealing the land and property of certain residents, you get a lot of people opposed to that behavior.

I am not anti-Jew.

I am VERY anti-Israeli at this point.

The Israelis learned lessons from the Nazis. They learned ALL the wrong lessons, however.

Thursday, July 3, 2008 09:41 AM
Original article: The economics of abortion

Abortion is a sacred tool

provided to us by god to help us control our fertility.

God loves us, but he also loves maggots, sperm whales, lice and tigers. Our over-population is unbalancing the scales.

Thus, god helped us invent abortion to help us control our fertility. So, we need to use abortion. If you don't want the kid, by all means, make god happy and have an abortion.

Abortion doctors are the most favorite people to god.

Friday, July 4, 2008 03:15 PM

Helms' voters

"However, I do take disagree with your characterization of those who voted for Helms, over and over again, as "ignorant." I don't think they were ignorant at all. I think those voters knew exactly what Helms stood for, in every detail, and I think they voted for him all those years precisely for that reason. They knew him well."

I lived in NC from 1975-1983, when he was at the heights of his power. NC is filled with vicious Southern racists, people who are ugly in their souls. Helms represented racists with racist statements. He was re-elected several times because he was a racist, and because small-town NC residents are mostly assholes.

Occasionally I have considered returning to NC to take jobs. I can never convince myself of doing that. There are a lot of ugly disgusting people in NC, and NC is much better than AL, MS, GA, and parts of FL. LA, TX, OK, AR and parts of TN also are filled with ugly people with ugly hearts.

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