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Has there been too much bipartisanship or too little? The reward Joe Lieberman will receive today is justified by the claimed need for more bipartisanship harmony. Is it even possible to have more than we have now?
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  • bamage

    Ain't that some Change you can Hope to Believe?

    As the coiner of SLOTEO, you didn't really believe all that change hype, did you?

  • Not this bastard

    ....lol,lol,lol,

    -- GBT

    Oh, gebus cripe. It's the f'ing asshole returned who laughs at his own "jokes" all gawd damned day long. He thinks his self appointed 'niggerness' (not my word, his) gives him license to be king of all assholes.

  • bamage

    Ginormous Bombastic Twit?

    This is why I love you. Give my best to Mrs. bamage.

  • Ray of hope

    The only silver lining to keeping this odious little Quisling on is that now, he doesn't dare step so much as a millimeter out of line. The Caucus can still strip him of his chairmanship at the slightest sign of an excuse, so once it becomes clear exactly how many Democrats there will be in the next Senate, the weasel is expendable unless he's the 60th one. Reid can start every head count knowing he's got two votes, no matter what - his and Lieberman's.

  • I'm confused!

    How is it that every commenter I don't agree with right away knows how small my dick is, and how impotent I am? Damn, that's embarrassing. I'm gonna put on a third pair of boxer shorts, maybe they won't see my shameful cultural underdevelopment!

  • @ e_prof: Me? Not BELIEVE?

    In OS!?

    You do realize he's OS now. So much easier than P-eLOTEO.

  • GBT

    If you are black, and identify yourself that way, you'll certainly have a lot of trouble getting people here to take you seriously. The one thing that posters here seem to hate more than anything else is someone conscious of the political dynamics of their own race.

    However. There's a few problems with your post. White people accounted for the majority of people that voted for Obama. They might even be liberals. If the celebrations in my city were any indications, white liberals were equally ecstatic about the victory as liberals and others of any other race.

  • OS?

    Translation please.

    Remember, I missed about a week or so of posts.

  • Why, "Our Savior"...

    ...of course.

  • GBT

    Yeah, right. It ain't about "niggers" it's about you.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai6ZNJv0UEk

  • Good Advice!

    Get over yourself stop trying to be versatile in here...just stick to being the forum troll police and leave the humor and satire to those with those skills....lol,lol,lol

    GBT

    I tried, GBT, but I'll never get my jokes heard while the audience is laughing so hard at your jokes, and the fool you made of me. Just listen to them: Lol, lol, lol and lol! It's deafening. G, my man, you got the skills, mad skills, and I shouldn't try to compete, what with my size and virility problem.

  • What else?

    What's "GBT" stand for, anyway?

    GThrasher, world-famous black activist.

    Hi, Trasher — glad to see you changed your handle since the last time you got tossed off. You can change your name, but you can't change your style. Something about leopards and spots or Ethiopians and skin. Jeremiah 13:23 applies.

  • GBT

    I'm not sure where the topic of white liberals feeling anything about YOU came into it, but go with god.

    You seem to have posted here previously under another name, and you also seem to have a cavalcade of people who want to go round with you. Funnily enough the same people who only yesterday were complaining about feuds.

    Although I will agree with you, Salon embarrasses itself on a regular basis when it seeks to wed cultural race issues and politics. But wanting no part of this, I'll mosy in the direction of my email account...

  • And please all, keep the racist banter coming...

    wtf...

  • I'm Not Familiar with This Person,

    but I think GBT stands for Genetically Bodified Tood.

    It's the only thing that makes sense.

  • Now I am confused!

    Is omooex and oomex the same poster?

  • folks

    Let's all be vewwy quiet.

    It might think we've all died, and it'll decide to leave.

    ssshhhhhh...

  • Goodness...

    ...I shall have to speed up my work on an anti-vitriol potion. Of course, first I shall have to wash those volumetric pipettes...

  • Trumped, again!

    Stop obessing over my talents to create emotion and passion....yes I have presence and talents that make folks react like the ones who are now posting about me..

    GBT

    I can't top that! No way.

  • America, You Had Your Chance For Real Change

    Had you not swallowed the empty slogans of the candidates who were shamelessly promoted by the mainstream media and had actually studied the issues, you would have supported Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich, or one of the smaller party candidates like Bob Barr, Ralph Nader, or Cynthia McKinney. Had you done so, you would not be experiencing the disappointment of seeing Washington establishment types becoming ever more firmly entrenched in office. I did not support Obama because he could never find time in any of his fine speeches to condemn the abuses of Constitutional processes or human rights committed by the Bush Administration, but instead voted for the continuance of warrantless wiretapping and supported the billionaire bailouts. I could never believe he was for real change to protect the Republic and serve the citizens rather than the corporate oligarchy. Now he has worked behind the scenes to engineer the appointment of uber-war hawk Lieberman to an important chairmanship. Maybe next time you will wise up and realize that the heavily emotional promotion of a candidate by the mainstream press is a warning of the Faustian bargain he or she has made with those presently in control.

  • @omooex

    I guess GBT didn't get that you were being sincere. I guess in his mind that you tried to be nice means you are obviously a weak, sissy, liberal white guy who secretly resents people of color.

    The fact that none of those things are correct (except the liberal part) won't dissuade GBT.

    Derbig, thanks for the LOL about the third set of boxers.

  • PDA

    Damn, you're good! I've been scratching my head trying to recall who had the signature lol, lol, lol ....

    Well done, Sir!

  • Droopy Dawg or Chinless Wonder

    You get what you pay for, I guess.

    Starting with . . .

    Changes? Not likely. Not this far down that particular road, in a handbasket, so to say.

    "Changes", David Bowie, 1971.

    http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=pl3vxEudif8

    Wiki says: "Rolling Stone's contemporary review of Hunky Dory considered that "Changes" could be "construed as a young man's attempt to reckon how he'll react when it's his time to be on the maligned side of the generation schism"."

    Which brings us to . . .

    Fool me once, shame on you, shame me twice, shame on me. Whatever. Fool us all the time. Ahhh. Welcome to Uh-Murica.

    "Won't Get Fooled Again". The Who, 1971

    http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=b3mi-bKtDGA

    Wiki says: "Pete Townshend wrote this song as part of his Lifehouse Project. He wanted to release a double-album and film about a world where the people are oppressed, but saved by a rock concert. Part of Townshend's wish was to show the power of music and how it reflects the people. "Won't Get Fooled Again" is about a revolution. In the first verse, there is an uprising. In the middle, the rebels overthrow those in power, but in the end, the new regime becomes just like the old one ("Meet the new boss, same as the old boss")."

    Leopards, spots. Old dogs, new tricks. New things, under the sun?? Yeah, right . . .

    Wiki again says: "In testimony before the grand jury, (Shoeless Joe) Jackson admitted under oath that he agreed to participate in the fix. He also admitted to complaining to other conspirators that he had not received his full $20,000 share. Legend has it that as Jackson was leaving the courthouse during the trial, a young boy begged of him, "Say it ain't so, Joe," and that Joe did not respond. In his 1949 interview in Sport Magazine, Jackson debunked this story as a myth." And Clueless Sarah Palin tried this on Barack's running mate in a debate. But it probably applies more to Chinless Joe Lieberman

    "Say It Ain't So, Joe". Murray Head, 1975 (oops)

    http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=eZTt9B70fc8

    http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080616/alterman

    Eric saw the writing on the wall: "Lieberman's blinkered critique of the Democrats--offered in a speech at a dinner for Commentary magazine and published in op-ed form in the Wall Street Journal--is a stale, forty-year-old whine that could have been written by any member of the extended Kristol/Podhoretz mishpocheh with nary a comma moved. More emotive than historical, it oversimplifies and mischaracterizes the past fifty years of US foreign policy to a degree that might have impressed Soviet ideologist Mikhail Suslov. Lieberman, for instance, seems not to know that Franklin Roosevelt allied himself with the Soviet Union, or that John F. Kennedy never committed to full-scale war in Vietnam. Meanwhile, he complains, Obama has "embraced our worst enemies." "

    What the country needs is a decent five-cent cigar (inserted into Rush Limbaugh's cysted you-know-what) and an intelligent populace who'll wake up, rub the sleep out of their eyes and see that things ain't going to change until they really do change . . .

    rant done. For today.

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