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This Is Odd

by John Cole|  July 29, 200510:21 am| 13 Comments

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You don’t see this every day- you commenters are getting featured in Slate for coments made here:

In a response to a post that supports the decision on moderate blog Balloon Juice, commenter SomeCallMeTim snarks: “We were always going to declare victory and go home, regardless of the facts on the ground. The only question was whether we’d leave Iraq in the midst of a civil war or under the thumb of a Saddam-lite. I admit that I hadn’t considered that we make it a client state of Iran.”

Pretty funny, actually.

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13Comments

  1. 1.

    Steve

    July 29, 2005 at 10:23 am

    In a just world, it would have been DougJ. But that’s a quoteworthy comment.

  2. 2.

    BinkyBoy

    July 29, 2005 at 10:26 am

    That was an awesome quote from SomeCallMeTim, though.

  3. 3.

    Sojourner

    July 29, 2005 at 10:28 am

    Good job, SomeCallMeTim!

  4. 4.

    d

    July 29, 2005 at 10:33 am

    I have to say (modestly) that the comments on this site are consistently diverse & excellent. No offense John, but I hope your traffic stays at around this level

  5. 5.

    SomeCallMeTim

    July 29, 2005 at 10:57 am

    Wierd. Very wierd. Apparently I owe someone some sex.

  6. 6.

    Dodd

    July 29, 2005 at 11:29 am

    I’m intensely curious to hear how you feel about being called a “moderate”…?

  7. 7.

    neil

    July 29, 2005 at 12:00 pm

    A good comment indeed. But probably not one that will increase John’s blogosphere reputation… hell, I see that Slate is only calling it a “moderate” blog now. All that fire and brimstone against Kerry, for nothing.. it seems like such a waste now..

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    jg

    July 29, 2005 at 1:28 pm

    I always felt we were being watched. I wonder if any of us with our less than loving posts about Bush will find it harder to get loans or anything like that.

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    Sojourner

    July 29, 2005 at 1:39 pm

    I always felt we were being watched. I wonder if any of us with our less than loving posts about Bush will find it harder to get loans or anything like that.

    Nah. You’ll just open your front door some morning and find the secret service and a SWAT team in your front yard.

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    Rick

    July 29, 2005 at 5:05 pm

    The comment cudda been a contenda, but blew it with the limited and, well, plain un-nuanced “only question” bit.

    Some of us have much higher expectations, are those are being gratified.

    Cordially…

  11. 11.

    Stormy70

    July 29, 2005 at 8:04 pm

    Good job – SCMT

    They are coming to take all you guys away sometime this weekend. Darth Rove told me so.

  12. 12.

    Sojourner

    July 29, 2005 at 9:39 pm

    They are coming to take all you guys away sometime this weekend. Darth Rove told me so.

    Only on Planet Stormy.

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  1. Balloon Juice says:
    October 15, 2007 at 9:14 am

    […] Declare victory and GTFO. I support this plan completely. Hell, Tim predicted this strategy (I can’t find the link, but I remember him posting it. I do have this link to a commenter of ours making the prediction in 2005). […]

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