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I'm tired of the supercilious, superior, I-know-it-all attitude of many of the writers here. What was important to me? I heard, first, about Hillary getting booed. Well, I watched the relevant parts at TPM, and there was a boo. There was also raucous applause, just like Michael Scherer said. Why is it that only those who boo are talked about? I mean, I can see why Politico or Drudge would talk that way, but lefties?
Look, as far as I'm concerned, the race is still open. I'm not very fond of the artificial bickering done first by Hillary and then returned by Obama -- my hypothetical policy is longer than yours, according to a secret scale I keep in my basement -- but I will take any of the nominees. Okay, Gravel doesn't stand a chance in hell, and I think he's in it just to goose things up a bit, and neither does Kucinich.
But the YearlyKos started with a stupid attack by O'Reilly, as a collection of "ultra-leftists." It is anything but, and nobody should know better than the ultra-leftists.
I lived through the '60s. I'm a Mario Savio guy. But one thing I've really had enough of are the hyper-activist, know-it-all, purer-than-thou asses who seem to infest the left just like greedy lobbyists and religious wackos infest the right.
