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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Except for the 30 percent of dead-enders and super wealthy, the remaining 70 percent of Americans are bitter as hell at the worst Administration in history. The Bush thugs are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands, they have destroyed our nation's finances and reputation and environment, and they have turned our government into a barely functioning joke. Remember FEMA? Most of the executive branch agencies are run as incompetently and poorly.
Obama dared to tell the truth that some people are bitter and obsess one religion or guns or bigotry. I wish that Obama would tell another truth: that the mainstream media nitwits obsess on trivia and John McCain's dick.
If Hillary Clinton tries (and no doubt she will) to score points this evening, she will just end up making herself look rediculous. The longer this goes on the clearer Barack Obama's central point becomes, more people agree with him. We're left with Obama furthering the discussion and Clinton looking desperate. What certainly could have been a disaster might turn and become an asset.
In the general election? A confused, economically clueless John McCain dragging around his brittle, drug-addled money-bags trophy wife (not to mention his nine homes) certainly will have a hard time making the "elitist" slur stick.
Obama's unfortunately artless comment, in the end, might be his open door to John Edwards' territory.
"Shawn Erfman lives in a trailer park, listens to Rush Limbaugh and voted for George W. Bush -- twice."
Now, if I were a Democratic activist, or a candidate for elected office, and I dared ask the question, "what is wrong with this picture?" I would be accused of being out of touch, right? Yet it is this propensity for people like this to listen to blowhards like Limbaugh that Democrats and the AFL-CIO are up against. These people have been fed a steady diet of bullshit for more than a generation, and it's hard to convince someone to give up something that they've believe to be true since they were in short pants.
Salon has had ONE mention of the torture scandal and at least FIVE about the word bitter.
I've noticed that Salon has fewer and fewer feature articles, relying mostly on blogs and columnists. It is tiresome when most of these feature are devoted to primary controverseys driven by feelings and sensationalism.
If you must obsess over the primary conflict, how about more focus on policies, voting records, staff afilliation. Or how about a closer look at media manipulation (at least as long as Glenn Greenwald is on leave)?
Or at the very least, how about just putting an article or blog about something else at the top of the page?
Also - It doesn't matter if the writing is decent and restrained, or if it favors the candidate you support, it's still just another set of anecdotes and opinions about voter feelings.
And as usual, the headline is aiming to keep the flamewar going, far more than the article.
This article just goes to show that Barack Obama was only speaking the truth in this latest controversy. How dare Hillary call him elitist? He's a half-black, half-white person who was raised by a single mother in sometimes dire conditions. Clinton was born a Republican in posh Park Ridge, IL, and never worked for anyone who wasn't highly connected in the political world. Really, it's a travesty.
Obama is the only one in this election who really seems to care about people and who wants to effect some real transformation of this country's policies.
Barack Obama hurt himself in Pennsylvania; saying that Americans turn to guns and religion when they are unhappy is nonsense.
Americans love G-d; it has been that way since we deserted Europe for religious freedom in America; it is no accident that our money has the motto In God We Trust.
In the words of Charlton Heston; "When liberty was on the line, and God bless you, you (NRA) who made the difference, he said. Heston added:
"You are of the same lineage as the farmers who stood at Concord Bridge" at the start of the American Revolution.
Given a musket from that war, he held it above his head and said, "I have only five words for you: From my cold, dead hands."
but there is a core problem that obama's supporters are missing: the problem here is his speaking about one group (the so-called low-educated and downscale -- who are generally considered hillary supporters) to another group (the so-called educated and upscale) -- behind their backs. no one likes it and never has. and people of genuine good will toward obama, but who support hillary, resent it with cause. the negative reaction to his remarks is a very fundamental, human one. i don't agree with obama lumping everyone together as gun loving xenophobics. i'm not one, and i live here.
if the image of him projected by the campaign is of one who is conciliatory and a unifier, do you think such behavior makes for unity -- or success? it shows, like it or not, distain. this is not an example of bringing people together.
Does anyone posting here really think that their vitriol and factual distortions are going to have a positive impact for their candidate? Does anyone think they are being persuasive (hint: by my reckoning, 90+% of posts in this thread are not)?
It looks like Clinton will do OK in PA, so this race is going to continue.
But does that mean that we need to keep pouring oil on the flames?
No. Let's get real. I support Obama, and don't have a lot of positive feelings about Clinton right now. But while threatening to vote for McCain in November feels good, the reality is that voting for him instead of either Democratic candidate only makes sense if you think that maintaining the status quo with respect to Iraq, the economy, human rights, and liberty is a great idea (Another hint: It's not).
That might explain why out of all the Western and advanced nations, we have the highest crime rate, the highest gun fatalities, the highest prison population, the most executions, and why we are the world's biggest exporter of weapons and wars.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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