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  • Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord Obama in vain, Joan

    He probably doesn't care, but his acolytes are a pretty insane bunch of foaming crazies. I will call this article the official demarc past which Salon readers stopped pretending to latch on to sanity and reason or even demonstrate a grasp of facts. It is now just a snarling pile of partisans high on their own blood lust. But the sad thing, the really sad thing is that the day Obama wins his followers will become the craven pussies they always were. We'll read endless boring explanations why inaction, failure and inertia are good and strategic and not their fault.

    This by the way is how you wind up with dictators, not by dictators directly but through weaklings who can't stand up to them, who appease and dawdle and stab each other for a place on the dais.