Letters to the Editor
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The Dead Season is Upon Us
But the silence will not be televised. Instead they'll drive you nuts (if you let them) with every conceivable combination of possible outcomes, based on every...well, Shapiro really has said it all here. Time to wander out to the garden, down to the beach, into the woods, somewhere peaceful and quiet, for a while. Spare yourselves.
Of course, when the thing gets back into high gear, it will still be the usual talking heads trying to apply the same "wisdoms" they've used for the past 40 years, and they will likely be wrong, unless they start watching the weather and discover the best way to predict is to watch and report -- quickly. Everything is changed.
Take advantage of the break.
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Au contraire, mes amis.
We will have a most enjoyable time watching the McBush campaign implode. If you have been watching the news tonight McCain and Bush are both taking heat for their childish take on the meaning of appeasement. Barack calling them out and challenging them only made it sweeter. Finally someone who can articulate and rebuff the talking point mentality.
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Dearest Walter; Just Ignore them, really?
Now wasn't that you among other rabid Clinton hating Salonista's that were once pulling polls out of your posteriors and similar places to spew, ridiculously, how much more "electable" Nobama was than Hillary.
Yeah, I think it was. So much for your credibility.
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Simple
Its simple. In a fair election McCain couldn't win if his opponent was Mickey mouse and it was revealed the day before the election that the rodent was having an affair with Michael Jackson and doing drugs. It won't be a fair election. Republicans will use every dirty trick they can think of but they will still get buried in a landslide. McCain on his best day can't win.
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Ooh, 'Nobama'
That's a clever one, Shawn! How long did it take you to come up with that? Have a piece of candy.
Shawn's best argument about Obama's 'unelectability' is that Shawn himself will go vote for McCain just to be right.
I wonder whether he'll implode once Obama's election becomes inevitable or whether we'll still see him here in 09 ranting about how Clinton still has a chance.
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re: Take advantage of the break.
And miss these delightful posts?
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Though they hunger for substance
.. they shall receive nothing but mindless drivel. So, the Gozilla vs Megalon of all horseraces is over, and the "news" networks still can't deliver substantive content. So much for the Invisible Hand working it's marketplace magic.
Would it be too much to ask for a just a little substance? Is that too difficult a task? Is Obama the only person that's realized that after years of brain-numbing dissemination from the The Decider and his enabling minions that people, maybe, just maybe, can handle being treated as adults?
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If you are going to respond
Answer the question instead of lame ad-hominem attacks. But if you are going to use ad-hominem attacks, at least try to be creative. See below, as valid points are embedded with ad-hominems.
Let me help those drunk with kool-aid with the context of the question. Why does Shapiro want to ignore the polls when they show Obama no favor and embrace them when they support his dear one?
BTW, the appeaser label is going to stick. He could have dismissed Bushes suggestion by simply stating talking is not appeasement and then explain the history in about two sentences. By taking this as a personal attack instead of pointing out Bushes ignorance, he comes off as hysterical, shallow, self-centered and weak. The candidate of change is now the candidate of perpetual outrage. (Thanks Liberty or Death)
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Or, a wild thought
We could ask the candidates about current issues. For instance, Myanmar, the myspace suicide, public transportation infrastructure....
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@rumble
It's true, the gung-ho part may have started already, what with the way the Bush-McCain "appeasement" fiasco is already sailing out of control way beyond their wildest imaginings. Perhaps the Dead Season will be very short lived. Uh, is that redundant? Anyway, between the incredibly stupid and unprofessional Bush remarks and the equally inept McCain "Yeah, what he said", one thing has led to another very quickly. It seems the White House sent someone over to face Christ Matthews yesterday to try and clarify the issue, but the moron didn't know what "appeasement" meant and couldn't answer when asked what it was Neville Chamberlain had done to get his bad rep. The result was getting screamed at a lot for not knowing anything.
Later, it seems, the unsavory relationship with Dubya's grandfather and the Nazis has only compounded this faux pas, and Obama hasn't even gone there yet (nor is he likely to).
So I might have been mistaken. This could just be a brief spark of interesting brimstone, or it could signal the beginning of the actual Presidential campaign.
Duly noted. Let's at least watch and see where this latest dumbheit leads. It can only be entertaining.
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Sajwan, Kool Aid?
Sajwan, nobody is drinking Kool-aid. It's ignorant and utterly crass to suggest that the majority of Democrats who support Obama are minions. Now I'll play Chris Matthews for a moment and ask you if you even know the origin of that banal phrase? You sir, are an imbecile.
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Ignore the Polls
Yes, by all means, we should ignore the polls--and the obsessive mentality of unimportant trivia that accompanies them. However, we ignore this election at our peril!!! This is not an election about which to be cool or cute! We have an incredibly serious decision to make about our country--which has been going crazily down the toilet for eight years! And that has nothing to do with the polls. It has to do with voters educating themselves about our most important issues: the War in Iraq, Universal Healthcare, Global Warming, Influence of Lobbyists---shall I go on??
Please, people, get with it! This election is about our country and our future! Pay attention!!!
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This time You've Got It Right.
This time you hit the nail on the head, Mr. Shapiro.
The MSM and the Republican noise machine, along with some biased idiots who consider themselves "respectable" political pollsters, are very busy trying, in vain, to mislead whom they think are a bunch of gullible yokels who do not realize that the Dem candidate has not quite yet been chosen. So there's no point pretending to take a poll that means anything. But this time, by now, even the gullible ones are so sick and tired - - and literaly sick without med insurance, or have lost their homes to a loan shark, or have finally caught on the Karl Rove is not a genius but a criminal, or that Bush is a swaggering moron, or the Iraq war is an astronomically expensve disaster that is coming out of their pockets, or, well, there's no time to enumerate all the late term epiphanies on such a looong list - - that they simply look at such polls and shake their heads. The polsters and the pundits who are dolling out the Cool Aid are just engaging in verbal masterbation.