WHO is AKASmith? Her MO says: "An ageing, bitter, unpleasant woman living in Escondido, California, who spends her days parsing the sentences of total strangers and her nights writing endless self righteous pontifications on Salon to pass her time. Sometimes, late at night, in the dark, she laughs inappropriately. Her cats look at her in wonder."

http://salonparody.blogspot.com/

Go to the comments section for each of the blogs to find AKASmith comments.

She was so poor, she made the homeless in America, who lived in cardboard boxes, the posterpeople of high living.

I really think people just don't trust B.H. Obama. Not with that name. Sorry but it just wont fly . Not with the war on terror going on and he will not accept that we are at war. A war with Islam. A jihad if you will. He is an orator, if he has a teleprompter, a charismatic man, I don't trust him. I don't believe him. I don't want him any where near the whitehouse.

AKASmith is a no quitter when it comes to being bitter.

Of course you trust Bush. Bravo

Republican McCain. Republican war. Republican Bush. Republican deficit. Republican McCain. Republican gas prices. Republican McCain. Republican corruption. Republican McCain. Republican lobbyists. Republican seven-years-and-Osama-still-on-the-loose. Republican McCain. Republican Bush. Republican mortgage melt-down. Republican health care. Republican our-military-is-wasted. Republican Saddam-is-gone-and- we're- no-better-off. Republican corporate-pigs-shipping-jobs-overseas.

It should not be hard to turn the R-word into an epithet this year among 'average' Americans, and once we hammered that, the color of Obama's skin and the size of his vocabulary will seem friendly enough.

...because the only other reason I can imagine why a white working class person could possibly vote for John McCain is that they are hopelessly stupid.

... I've reached the point where I honestly don't care. I moved to a big city to get away from people like that, and have been very successful. The big cities keep getting better, with real estate holding its value, while the small towns of America that are home to the most intolerant and uneducated people wither away. The working class people who will be most screwed by a McCain presidency deserve everything that happens to them if they vote him in.

do you know what "literally" means because I believe the word you are looking for is "figuratively." Because if Obama had literally thrown Hillary Clinton under a bus we might have heard about it from sources other than yourself. So it will be impossible for me to explain to you that your list is long and dumb, and that it was McCain who just voted AGAINST the last veteran's benefit bill, and that under Bill Clinton we had a balanced budget, and that under George W we have billions of dollars unaccounted debt that has gone to good buddies of his who have gotten super rich while regular working stiffs like you have been paying 4.00 a gallon for gas? Do YOU even know what you are talking about? The policies of the last 8 years have not made us safer! Do you fly? Do you see the steps the airlines are taking to make us safer? It's ridiculous. Come on, wake up. It's not just incompetence that's effing up, it's people getting paid A LOT OF MONEY not to do their jobs in this current republican administration. It's just so frustrating.

And to the lady in Georgia, about your daughter, I am so sorry, and to the other lady, the teacher, who wrote so eloquently about why people are so afraid of the black man in a suit, so succinctly put and so sad.

Because there are far too many people like this one:

I really think people just don't trust B.H. Obama. Not with that name. Sorry but it just wont fly . Not with the war on terror going on and he will not accept that we are at war. A war with Islam. A jihad if you will. He is an orator, if he has a teleprompter, a charismatic man, I don't trust him. I don't believe him. I don't want him any where near the whitehouse.

-- 1864487

This is why I have fear about the outcome. As a footnote, we've had a couple of published letters in our local newspaper using that same reference

"if he has a teleprompter".

Umm, wonder what rightwing radio talk show host is responsible for that bit of irrelevancy?

To...Tim...I believe

Your post is an example of "stupid." To call anyone who doubts Senator Obama as "hopelessly stupid," guess ya think that will make them rethink? No....it won't.

As someone who would like to see Senator Obama win this race, can the mean spirited who won't even ALLOW doubts to be spoken without immediate attack SHUT UP. You are going to lose this election for Obama.

Instead, try listening to their reasons and then addressing their doubts. If you can not manage that level of civility, then shut up and let Senator Obama take care of this with his own words and deeds. He can, you know. He is, as many of you have mentioned, smarter than most.

SHUT UP with the hate and let this man have a chance to win the presidency.

Hopelessly stupid or hopelessly Smith, which is much worse....

So, it is ok when the racists and sexists vote for Barack and Hillary. Why, because the agree with your point of view? Lets hope that this argument does not become the ticket mantra, because if it does, we will lose again.

@ DonnaQuixote

I did not vote for Bush either time, so I owe no apology to anyone for what he has done to this country. My point is that articles like this will lose us another election. No one is going to change their vote when they are being called racist and sexist. It is just a bad argument, that cuts both ways.

TRipLBee said it. Not I. My post was fantastically nuanced and judicious. I wrote, "idiotic."

is possible. Barack Obama needs to stress jobs, growth, jobs, jobs, energy independence, jobs jobs jobs. Ignore all the noise the McCain campaign makes about anything else. Attack when absolutely necessary but circle back to the economy, stupid. Most white rural voters care about their 401Ks, their children's future and the future of America more than they do about his skin color or how big a city he lives in.

And terrorism? Only Fox viewers are still being led around by their noses with fear. 90% of them won't vote for a Democrat anyway.