to remember. "Stupid" people do not like to be reminded every freaking day by the left wing progressives, the elite, the uber-educated how dumb they are. They don't like to be told that their values are stupid and they don't like to be looked down upon. They think they are as educated as you and it didn't take a $30,000 student loan to get there. Talk about miseducation. The crazy left wing DESTROYED the ability of the democratic party to elect ANYONE. When will the fuckups learn this?

"Reports have it Rove was instrumental in paving the way for "Nobama to win the Ill. Senate seat and run for Prez and that repugs were registering Dem and organizing efforts to vote against Hill in the primaries as far back as a 1.5 years ahead."

Not reports, not rumors, not conspiracies--FACTS

Conspiracies are for sheep happiest grazing on grassy knolls.

Here's the link. ALL of it is factual:

http://www.lynettelong.com/my_weblog/2008/07/bamboozling-the.html

It proves Obama easily got where he is merely by buying superdelegates. He simply promised contributions from his huge war chest--a lot of it GOP money, it turns out-- to their own election campaigns in return for their approving him. And surprisingly this is not illegal. But it does make a total sham of the Democratic electoral process, doesn't it?

It all, such a coincidence, happened and we all let it happen.

I was dubious when I first read it. But then I researched it and every bit checks out. I thought at the time Donna Brazile suddenly having Rove as her New Best Friend didn't quite add up. And I now think that having Obama unscrupulously forced on us is every bit as dismal an alternative as having McCain for the next 4 years.

As a matter of fact this is precisely why we will have McCain for the next four years.

Think about this for a while. The only possible way a GOP candiate could win after 8 years of Bush would be to provide a totally unelectable Democratic opponent.

After eliminating any viably capable contenders.

Karl Rove topped off getting Bush in twice by using Donna Brazile to let him choose both candidates. Amazing, heinous and absolutely true. If being nefarious was an Olympic event, Rove could turn it into a decathlon and win every medal

Worse, Rove is Cheney's lieutenant. No one on earth better knows how to manipulate demographics and division. Axelrod against Rove is like a chipmunk against a Rottweiler.

You've all been gamed by Karl Rove. Again.

-gala1

I'm with Charles Barkley, when America is in the voting box and there's no one looking over their shoulder will America be honestly ready to trust a "black man" to run the country? And, as he affirmed, this issue should have been opened up and discussed ad nauseum at the DNC, put right on the table until the vote in November. It's got to be otherwise the the status quo will be the status quo.

"Stupid" people do not like to be reminded every freaking day by the left wing progressives, the elite, the uber-educated how dumb they are. They don't like to be told that their values are stupid and they don't like to be looked down upon. They think they are as educated as you and it didn't take a $30,000 student loan to get there. Talk about miseducation. The crazy left wing DESTROYED the ability of the democratic party to elect ANYONE. When will the fuckups learn this?

Whoa!!What is it about this post that has driven the trolls onto these letters pages in such huge numbers reigniting the cultural wars with a vengeance. I don't know who or what is responsible for this painful divisiveness, but all of you need to back up and take a deep breath.

I do believe that the phrase "don't like to be looked down upon" is pervasive among those on the right. I have a cousin who says that all the time. Extraordinarily defensive all of you are. Is it possible that in some deeply internalized way you realize how very insular and reactionary your whole movement and party has become? I don't believe that the left has been miseducated. With all due respect, look to that evangelical religion so many of you give allegiance to and those private schools that so many of you attend to identify the roots of miseducation which are so prevalent and so inform the politics of the right.

I grew up in a small Southern town and have lived in a small Southern city for over 30 years. My widowed Mother raised 4 kids by working in a factory with no benefits, so when she retired she had/has nothing other than Social Security and what those 4 children contribute. I was the only one who made it through 4 years of college, thanks to a teacher's scholarship. I don't demean anyone who went to college on a scholarship and I know for a fact that as many on the right receive scholarships and loans as those on the left. Elite is a term that is more correctly applied to McCain than it is to Obama. In this case, most of us know that "elite" as used in this campaign season is another word for "uppity".

I don't demean all those friends and relatives who have embraced the views of the right. I do, however, think their views are wrong for the country and never more so because they have been in the ascendancy for the past 3 decades and this ship needs to tack left for a while, for the sake of ALL of us, not just America but the whole international community.

I've written and posted a total of three (now 4) comments on this blog in the last year. I'm a troll because you don't like what I have to say. Admit it you princess, you.

Wow. What scociologically flimsy drivel this is. Congratulations, Dian Fossey. Salon has a really bad habit of publishing anecdote as journalism. You know this wouldn't pass muster in a real magazine. It's your right to keep doing it, but it will always keep you third rate. It's just this "pull out all stops" writing that has marginilized the blogosphere. But I guess blue collar journos need to scrape by somehow.