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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Keep your claws sharp and your cat instincts clean. And remember always, that it is better to maul out the eyes of the future, than to face the facts of your failures.
A little fortune cookie philosophy for you crazy cats.
Stay cool.
The Bush's are Skull and Bones.
Kerry is Skull and Bones.
Obama's economic advisor is Skull and Bones.
More pirate games with the public.
Oh yeah, pay no attention to the Pirates, it's those Clinton ladies that are the real threat!!!
AAARGH!
I see you are still erupting fluff.
Just back from vacation, thought I would add a few rambling comments.
What all Americans must agree is that the party that wins in November MUST NOT be Republican. People should be encouraged to vote for the party that has the chance of winning and that means, like it or not, the Democrats.
I emphasize "encourage" because, calling people crazy is not going to get them to support the Democratic Party. It's a repeat of what went on during the primary that got everyone so angry in the first place.
I get the feeling that Obama supporters are really worried that he might lose. There's a desperation (in the few letters I see here) in their words. Calling people crazy is not an argument. I am also worried that he might lose. I think NYDem08 has a point in the last sentence:
"But what the party can't seem to understand is their desperate attempt to control the election is the very thing that will make them lose it."
I am not happy with the Democratic Party leadership either (although I like Obama himself) but this needs to be made clear after the election, by changing one's registration or starting a new party, working from the grass roots.
You don't think I'm taking this idiot seriously do you? Dem I Dunno What I'm Gonna Do 08 can turn purple in the face until he she or it is satified that it might need to breath the same oxygen that the rest of us are breathing.
Poor Obamites. Here's where logic can help you.
If PUMA were a Republican front, PUMA would be rolling in money. Capice?
If he chooses her prior to the roll call vote and she accepts, doesn't it quiet much of the intra-party opposition, and doesn't it give Obama a great VP candidate (and I say this as someone who is not a big Hillary fan. She is a master of all things policy, has no problems maintaining a campaign offensive, is smart and well prepared and if nominated, can ratchet back a lot of the anger and hurt in her core constituencies. I've been opposed to this, but could talk myself into it for these reasons. My initial first choice, Biden, doesn't seem as much of a campaign asset, though I think he'd be great, too. But with a real race going on, I can see Obama offering Hillary the slot because of her deep support in the old-school Democratic constituencies.
To the contrary, Clinton's vote was seen as black and white by most progressives. Did they ever bother to read her floor speech? No. If you feel like it, read it. It may provide some context.
Did Hillary Clinton ever bother to read the National Intelligence Estimate? No. If she had felt like it, it may have provided some CONTEXT.
You're the sort of luxury liberal who makes me ashamed to be a Democratic woman. Your hurt feelings and perceived rejection is supposed to override my teenaged daughters' right to choose (among other, equally important rights)???? And you speak of "purging the Party"? Who the hell do you think you are?
NYDem, quit pretending that either the party or the Democratic voters want a brokered convention -- in the modern era, it's a sure path to defeat. Everyone but you knows it. Only disgruntled Clinton voters want it, and even then I'm guessing that it's a slim minority of people who voted for her.
Simply put, you're being ridiculous. Join the real world, where the only option was to pick a winner months ago. Obama won fair and square, based on the rules.
We must eliminate all disloyal 'democrats' and purge the party of them before moving on to crushing the GOP. One party to rule them all!
The discussion spoke of challenges facing the John McCain candidacy.
Actually there are none. John McCain can count on a fawningly favorable press. Had Barak Obama made the string of verbal blunders that Senator McCain has, his candidacy would be over.
However Senator McCain can even forget how many homes are in his household and still receive the automatic media Free Pass.
In return for all those McCain family barbecuse, the Press Corps is going to deliver a President McCain to America. And ther is nothing anyone can do to stop it.
With the Democratic convention barely hours away, articles such as this one continue to make the case that Obama hasn't put this one squarely in the win column yet. The fact remains that he may NEVER put it away, either.
Whether Hillaryites (of whom I am one), PUMA's, Independents, or whoever else might still be unsold on Obama, the fact is that Obama continues to struggle selling himself and his candidacy to many people/groups. Calls for Obama to be un-Kerrylike, un-Clintonlike, et al, sound empty, bereft of reason and desperate.
I remain unsold on Obama; I still have a nagging doubt about his experience and his effectiveness should he win. However, since I actively supported John Kerry and liked what he stood for, I find admonitions for Obama to be un-Kerrylike to ring hollow.
Would that Obama engender as much hope with voters as Kerry did.
"But I think a lot of the burden actually falls on Hillary to make peace to some extent with Obama and make sure this is as seamless and as frictionless a convention as possible." I admire Hillary a lot, but she can't tell me who to vote for. The whole attitude here, that the PUMAa are not really Democrats, is the reality of schism: the message from the hunkered down pols is "go away," which I shall be pleased to do. Calling me a Republican may give some sort of psychological comfort, but it can't make a Democrat who has voted for every Democrat since Humphrey a Republican. I think Obama is actually the most absurd nominee ever--a fading fad in a culture of 24-hour sensations. The fad is very stale, and we are stuck with an opportunistic kid with no accomplishments in public life whatsoever and a tendency to pervaricate. Ain't votin' for that. The superdelegates defaulted.
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
Salon headlines in your mailbox
