Letters to the Editor
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Chapter 34: In Which Proud Texas Girl Starts Making Good on Some Threats.
Lastly, but not leastly, you have pissed us off. MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF US.
TEN MILLION WOMEN WILL SET THEMSELVES ON FIRE IF HILLARY IS NOT GIVEN THE NOMINATION THAT IS RIGHTLY HERS!!!! OUR FUNERAL PYRES WILL BE LIT BY MILLIONS OF HARD-WORKING WHITE MEN, WHO WILL THEN CUT OFF THEIR LEFT HANDS (TO SIGNIFY THE HATEFUL LEFTISTS WHO HAVE VOTED FOR A COMMUNIST MUSLIM DARKIE) IN PROTEST AND FLING THEM (WITH THEIR BLESSED *RIGHT* HANDS!!!!) INTO THE FIRE!!!!! THEN THEIR RIGHT HANDS WILL PULL THE LEVER FOR JOHN MCCAIN! IF THEY DO NOT BLEED TO DEATH ON THE WAY TO THE POLLS! AND THEY MIGHT!! DO NOT TEST US! THEN WHERE WILL YOU BE? YOU LAZY EDUCATED WHITE FOLKS WILL HAVE TO CHANGE YOUR OWN OIL!!!!!!!!!!!!
IF THAT DOESN'T SHOW YOU, WE WILL HOLD OUR BREATHS TILL WE TURN BLUE! ALSO, THOSE ARE MY BARBIE DOLLS YOU CANNOT TOUCH THEM BECAUSE HILLARY CLINTON SAYS YOU SMELL.
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scody
Hilarious. that was sooooooo funny. I can leave this thread now.
And Tex, have a nice time with Phylis! You were made for each other.
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A question for the physicists out there about momentum.
I thought to measure momentum you needed two points on a line...or maybe 10 or twelve.
Everytime Clinton had a single good night, she "got momentum" and her supporters get all fired up that maybe she has a chance after all. And then she loses delegates for awhile. And then a few weeks later, she gets "momentum" again. Obama gets delegates almost every day for the last 2 months and that forward motion (momentum) doesn't count for some reason.
I'm cool with giving florida the delegates according to the split (although it might not go that way now...some polls suggest if the elections were held today, Obama would win New Jersey and come close or take california). Michigan is different and probably screwed. 50/50 would be most fair though the compromise rejected by Clinton's folks was most generous. In any case it's worth narrowing the lead to take away one of the arguments.
As for "she hasn't lost yet". Perhaps if I see Spock with a beard I'll know I slipped into an alternate universe where command changes occur suddenly and at the point of a knife. Until then I'm kind of math based and it looks like she "will lose" (if you like that better than "lost")
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when's the last time Indiana voted for the Democrat for president?
I believe that would be for LBJ in 1964. Prior to that, I think it's sometime in the 1930's. Not exactly a swing state.
538.com has some speculative projections based on turnout that could make IN more competitive:
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/05/black-youth-and-latino-turnout-and.html
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Sorry Kate
I didn't respond to your "heartfelt" question because I thought you were trotting out the same old victimization complaints as a rhetorical question.
The Clintons ARE the DNC. They made the rules that you yell about now. They own the party machine which is why she was a hundred and something superdelegates up before the first vote was cast. And they are "playing to win" ("fighting dirty"). You don't see it because we don't want to see ugly in people we admire but it's there. As recently as 2 months ago I stated Bill Clinton was the best ex-president we ever had. I cannot say that anymore.
But those pesky voters...and party activists...and change-mongers. Boy did they screw things up.
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@ShawnWM
I've been asked to not feed the trolls. Nevertheless, I'd like to give you the courtesy of a response to your question regarding my "transparent facade", because, being a Republican (so far, anyway), I do bear a certain burden of proof. So I will answer your question. I doubt we will remain engaged beyond this point, but that remains to be seen. At any rate, here goes:
I am, as I surmise you know, a lifelong Republican. What you may not know is that the last Republican Presidential candidate I voted for was Richard "The Dick" Nixon. Blame it on my youth. In 1992 and 1996 I was a foot soldier for Bill Clinton. During the rest of the two terms I was doing all I could to help him get his one hand untied by the disgraceful, disgusting Ken Starr, et al. Locally I voted mostly for Democrats because for all but five years of my life I've lived in or near Washington, DC, and good luck finding a worthwhile Republican here for any purpose. So while I may be a Republican, my party knows who I am and where I stand. It's rarely one of them who call upon me to speak on behalf of a piece of legislation or otherwise take up a cause. I also refuse probably half the Democrats who ask me to do this, but at least they sometimes have good ideas. And, as I said before, there aren't a hell of a lot of Republicans hereabouts anyway, let alone any useful ones (there of course have been some exceptions that prove the rule, mostly on the local level).
OK then, so much for biography. Having supported mostly Democrats and having voted for only Democrats for President since 1980 onward, there's no reason to believe I'd support a Democrat I thought would lose to John McCain or any other idiot my so-called party could have fielded this time around. I have supported Barack Obama because I truly believe he is the preferable candidate. If, for some reason, he does not wind up with the nomination (and if you actually read my posts you'd know I don't believe in counting chickens that haven't been hatched), I will most certainly vote for Hillary Clinton in the general. I am a Republican, but I am also a human being and would not consider having any part in inflicting another four to eight years of insanity on my countrymen and women. You may feel that's a contradiction in terms, but that's only because you are someone who is only comfortable putting people into pigeonholes for your convenience and the luxury of not having to think a whole lot.
So much for my apostasy. Finally, nobody (with the possible exception of Joan Walsh) tells me when to leave off posting here. That "nobody" includes you, son.
That's far more explaining than I owe you and all you're going to get. As for me "run[ing] along now", I'm afraid you're gonna have to live with the disappointment,if not the horror, of my occasional diatribe. Besides, without a real live registered Republican here to hate, what would you do with yourself? Never mind said Republican chooses to think -- and speak -- for himself.
Over and out.