Hail to thee Klytus,

Who, I must admit-us,

Writes more verse than should be permit-us

And who doth emit-us,

Bout Aka's hiss-fit-us,

Humor and wit to make the side split-us.

hate the First Amendment?

You? Smith? Hateful? Neeeever!

I will do everyone a favor and summarize quite literally four thousand plus posts of hers in one sentence. I am certain there will be thousands more.

"Obama rubs me the wrong way for some reason which I can't and will not ever be able to rationally articulate; because of this I will never vote for him, no matter what."

he is very depressed - housing is down down down and he probably hasnt sold a house for

month and when aka told you all about her job castrating calves you really should have felt sorry and understood that sometimes you need a place to get rid of all these emotional baggage and what better place than a blog of a sympathetic soul who know how it feels

to struggle with your own demons - good lord wasnt that beautifully phrased and as i once met Bill (in Baden Baden) i could tell you he is such a funny guy - he would approve of this message. And agein - keep up the good work bitches!

Whenever you get caught in a boiling pot

You resort to one of your little livid civics lectures

Like a little ten year old know it all snot.

Ah! You've noticed me! I may swoon.

Coy, but you know perfectly well what I'm talking about. Don't mark me wrong, I don't call you out for some intense personal dislike, but as I've stated you're an interesting study. Maybe on topics unrelated to HRC you're more composed? Although I'll admit you probably don't have time to read every letter directed at you. Your modus operandi is usually to sweep in, make an inflammatory generalization, and revel in the chaos that follows. Honestly I'm just holding out to see if you ever decide that defeating the Reich Wing may be an eensy bit more important than pressure-cooking over the alleged sexism that cost Hillary the election.

Dear Ms.Walsh,

You just ruined one of my favorite anecdotes. Having just read your remarks about racism and anti-semitism, I read "Whites don't have these stories".

I haven't read the letters yet, but I expect ("hope", more accurately) that I'm not the only reader who immediately thought "Mmmmmm....so there are blacks, and there are jews...and then there are whites?"....

I guess that's so. since I just read it.

Anecdote (which I used to find funny, until this morning, when I've discovered that apparently there's nothing at all unusual about it):

About 10 years ago I sat a dinner table in Keswick, Virginia (horsey country twelve or so miles outside of comparatively plebian Charlottesville. At the table were 15 or so folks (all of them friends or, at least acquaintances) of a very specific and quite recognizable tribe----in short?...well-educated, mostly well-off, relentlessly well-intentioned (for all that's worth in the short-run), Upper-South Episcopalians with enviably good bone-structure and, as a general rule, at least one beloved senator, governor, or bishop in their family.

I should emphasize that these are people who would be angrily horrified to be considered/called "racist" or "anti-semitic", etc. They would DIE before saying anything unpleasant about the current governor (who happened to be black,and of whom one could have said any number of uncomplimentary things without even mentioning his race).

In any case (and, I know, this is getting too long, but I'm literally waiting for paint to dry)....

As I assume we all do from time to time, someone mentioned Queen Esther. Someone else said "Oh...which one was she?"

Everyone else immediately jumped in with various, invariably incorrect identifications..."You KNOW!...she was the Queen of Israel who stuck a nail in that fellow's head while he was sleeping", etc....(one of the many things many Episcopalians share with many Roman Catholics is a disinclination to admit that they're actually enterprisingly ignorant about their own church's basic history, doctrines, and texts)....

Anyway, just as the room was brimming with all sorts of misinformation, another woman loudly proclaimed "You're ALL wrong! Esther was married to Xerxes...in BABYLON, silly! But she was JEWISH, trying to pass for White...."

Immediately, A good friend and I stared at each other across the table...both of us thinking "WHAT the hell was that remark?!?!?"

No one else seemed to notice that anything at all odd had just been said.

I've always found that story grimly amusing.

Now, I find that, in fact, nothing at all odd had been said.

Sincerely,

David Terry

www.davidterryart.com

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I have never noticed Smith's ability to rationally articulate anything.

AKA, You're a FOXNews analyst? Whoever said I hated the 1st amendment? I'm just pointing out the fact that your opinion on this election is effectively disqualified in light of the fact that you refuse to participate via a 3rd party vote. Do you think I honestly believe you'll change in any way, form, or fashion?

Actually, no. I have no idea what you are talking about. Something you said intially about me not answering you but I don't know about what.

Ms. Walsh, I think perhaps the real indictable offense of Bill Clinton resides squarely in his "third way" triangulation politics -- he out-Republicanned the Republicans in the 90s, and that's truly why they hated him for it. I voted for him his first term, and felt utterly betrayed by him in his second -- his welfare "reform" policies, his telecommunications policies, his failure to support and/or endorse (and efforts to undermine) the International War Crimes Court, and so on. A host of betrayals of core Democratic values dressed up as victories because, of course, the Republicans were happy to support those policies that abandoned the poor and concentrated media ownership in fewer hands and thumbed America's nose at international law and respectability. So Bill Clinton governed "well" by that barometer because he was able to get bad things done -- GW Bush's imperial presidency was certainly made possible by many of Clinton's policy successes in the 90s.

Clinton spearheaded the Democrat In Name Only (DINO) movement that led to the Democratic Leadership Council's (DLC) rise within the Party. Those DLC blue dogs and DINOs are continuing to scuttle the Democratic Party from within, from the right flank, taking up the "liberal Republican" spot abandoned by the GOP in its march ever further to the right.

Bill Clinton remains their patron saint. He can speak at the convention; I don't have a problem with that -- but he and his DINO brigades should represent the past of the Democratic Party, not its future. Who wants a party full of Joe Liebermans as shining examples of DINO-mite political loyalty and vision? No way.

Give Clinton his curtain call, fine. But if Obama and the Democratic Party are going to move forward, they sure as hell better move forward as a party, and that means standing apart from the GOP's rotten politics, and offering an actual choice for the future.