Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

Come on, man.

Second rate reporter says what?

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

This blog will pay for itself.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

Bark louder, little dog.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Let there be snark.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

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  1. 1.

    firebrand

    My bet is that the Clintons attack Obama for wearing dark suits. Because dark suits are code for dark skin, which is an explicit appeal to black nationalism. Obviously, right?

  3. 3.

    Jen

    Okay, TalkLeft is offering up some weak stuff. I posted this there, but I expect it to disappear any minute now. We shall see if cutting and pasting Rasmussen poll results will be considered “trolling”.

    Their premise is that the DNC is going to cost Democrats Florida in the general election.

    So I write this, after checking out this Rasmussen poll. I don’t, for the record, believe that you can predict a November election based on polls nine months ahead of time, if it’s going to be your argument that they predict anything, you might want to look at more than one poll in one state.

    In this Rasmussen poll of Florida, McCain beats Obama by more than he beats Hillary. So the difference between Obama and Hillary in Florida is Red v. Red.

    Funny, they also polled some other states Feb. 17-18:

    Rasmussen in
    Minnesota: McCain 47, Clinton 42; McCain 38, Obama 53. Hillary (Red) v. Obama (Blue)

    Wisconsin: McCain 49, Clinton 42; McCain 42, Obama 52. Red v. Blue

    Pennsylvania: McCain 44, Clinton 42; McCain 39, Obama 49. Red v. Blue

    Oregon: McCain 45, Clinton 42; McCain 40, Obama 49. Red v. Blue

    Combined electoral votes of MN, WI, PA, and OR: 48 of the 270 needed to win.

  4. 4.

    Daniel Munz

    I heard a rumor that during the 1990’s, when all the good things happened, Barack Obama was not even president!

    If true, this is devastating to his campaign.

  6. 6.

    zzyzx

    In a way, these attacks are good for Obama. It gives him a chance to respond to complete silliness and gives us a chance to see how he does so. In the same way that the way Clinton is running her campaign is costing her voters now, the way that Obama deals with this could win him some.

  8. 8.

    Zifnab

    Their premise is that the DNC is going to cost Democrats Florida in the general election.

    Wait, Florida is one of those Red States that never votes for a Democrat anyway. But it is also a state with a high latino and elderly population, groups that are notoriously disenfranchised in the general election. Does this mean Florida’s delegates are second class citizens and should be deported or are these the delegates that are the only ones that count? I’m confused.

  13. 13.

    demkat620

    What will be interesting to watch is this is only the beginning of the juvenile behavior. Wait til the GOP gets in on the act. Wait til people hear this guy is a liberal.

    OMG! He’s a liberal!

  14. 14.

    The Other Steve

    Lou Dobbs told me Michelle Obama said something very troubling. I checked, and it’s all over the National Review Online! K-Lo is about ready to blow a gasket.

    For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country.

    This is going to be a HUGE controversy! absolutely huge!

    This signals the downfall of Obamarama!

  16. 16.

    4tehlulz

    >>Lou Dobbs

    If Lou Dobbs really mattered, every Hispanic would be in concentration happy camps on the Mexican border.

  17. 17.

    demimondian

    I prefer to think of years when February has 28 days as the one where one month has a perfect number of days. ALl the rest of the time, February is merely prime.

  18. 18.

    demimondian

    If Lou Dobbs really mattered, every Hispanic would be in -concentration- meditation camps on the Mexican border.

    Fixed that for you.

    At the very least, we could be confident that they wouldn’t be confined in labor camps. Can’t allow any more anchor babies, you know. (Now, TalkLeft? *That* was a sexist joke. You can ban me now.)

  19. 19.

    The Other Steve

    OH MY GOD! It’s all over the intertubes. It’s not just Lou Dobbs!

    Breitbart.tv has the full quote!

    “What we have learned over this year is that hope is making a comeback. It is making a comeback. And let me tell you something — for the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction and just not feeling so alone in my frustration and disappointment. I’ve seen people who are hungry to be unified around some basic common issues, and it’s made me proud.”

    Our Lady Of Perpetual Outrage is all over it!

    In other news… Taylor Marsh is complaining that Obama also stole the idea of halting Nuclear proliferation from Edwards.

    WE IS ALL DOOMED!

  20. 20.

    jake

    For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country.

    Apparently you didn’t get the memo: There is a $2/word fine for aiding and abetting KBlows in her brutal assault on the English language. Pay up.

    In other news, Musharraf is getting spanked. If Bush encouraged the Pakistani people to vote for freedom n’ democracy Osama Bin Laden will be the next PM.

  21. 21.

    The Other Steve

    If Bush encouraged the Pakistani people to vote for freedom n’ democracy Osama Bin Laden will be the next PM.

    Bush didn’t encourage Freedom. Just Democracy.

    So I think you mean Caliph Osama Bin Laden.

  22. 22.

    The Grand Panjandrum

    Take your time to figure out what the Clinton camp attack will be tomorrow.

    Wisconsin and Hawaii don’t count.

    For all you Hawaii and Wisconsin voters out there please remember to thank Clinton for the Iraq war tomorrow.

  24. 24.

    The Grand Panjandrum

    I heard he once told his U of C students that he, not Al Gore, invented the Internet.

    That really is a shameful lie. I was with Al Gore when he (and I, I might add) invented the internets. But leave it to old ManBearPig to forget his buddy.

  25. 25.

    tBone

    Okay, TalkLeft is offering up some weak stuff. I posted this there, but I expect it to disappear any minute now. We shall see if cutting and pasting Rasmussen poll results will be considered “trolling”.

    I love this comment in that thread:

    My Florida friends and family feel that their votes have been discounted and they are no longer part of the election process as I believe any of you who have voted in other states would feel.

    And yet somehow, I’m guessing this person sees no problem with the Clinton campaign marginalizing the importance of Dem voters in red states.

  27. 27.

    zzyzx

    I take back my earlier comment. I now fear that this stupidity will be enough to throw tomorrow’s contests even though it’ll be forgotten about in a week.

    “Scandals” like this are why people start to hate politics. Going to war for a stupid reason? Fine! Not giving detailed footnotes to your speech? THROW THE BUM OUT!

  28. 28.

    srv

    This blog has gotten to be about as interesting as Sully’s. All Clinton Derangement Syndrome, all the time.

    Where will you all take your hate when she’s out of the race?

  29. 29.

    srv

    In other news, Musharraf is getting spanked. If Bush encouraged the Pakistani people to vote for freedom n’ democracy Osama Bin Laden will be the next PM.

    A PPP/PML-Q alliance will result in an even weaker government.

    I’m sure Obama’s bombs will help that.

  30. 30.

    UnkyT

    Obama wears an ear piece during his speaches, and if that doesn’t work then Obama is Grand Dragon of the Chicago area KKK, how else could he possibly get so many white votes.

  31. 31.

    UnkyT

    This blog has gotten to be about as interesting as Sully’s. All Clinton Derangement Syndrome, all the time.

    Where will you all take your hate when she’s out of the race?

    I think most of the hate is actually directed towards the jackasses around her (cough Mark Penn).

  32. 32.

    Jorge

    Where will you all take your hate when she’s out of the race?

    Hillary Clinton needs Roger Clemens to testify before congress every day. For about 48 hours last week her campaign screw ups were page 2 material.

    But think about how much fun Clinton supporters can have if she pulls out a win in Wisonsin?

  33. 33.

    Chris Huston

    There was another TalkLeft article where they were contemplating Obama getting routed a la McGovern and they whipped out McGovern’s primary state wins and compared them to Obama’s as “evidence.”

    Nevermind McGovern won California and NY. McGovern was also completly undermined by his VP who first anonymously slandered him then withdrew from the race when people found out he’d suffered from depression.

    I think the anti-Obama attacks fall into two camps so far.

    1. Obama is secretly a Muslim/Communist/Socialist/Racist/Mysognist/etc and has managed to fool everyone else.

    2. Obama is all talk and no substance, or as I like to think of it, trying to convince you that Obama is actually Wayne Brady.

  34. 34.

    The Grand Panjandrum

    I think most of the hate is actually directed towards the jackasses around her (cough Mark Penn).

    (cough cough Howard Wolfson)

    But it is also the case that the Obama campaign has made no major gaffes. And they are running a campaign that has fully integrated social networking and online fundraising. Go to the Obama campaign website. It really is a sight to behold.

  36. 36.

    demimondian

    think most of the hate is actually directed towards the jackasses around her (cough Mark Penn).

    (cough cough Howard Wolfson)

    [coff choke Terry McAuliffe. snif]

  40. 40.

    tBone

    You know, we need better pro-Clinton trolls here. Anybody want to volunteer?

    Yeah, somebody needs to step up. The primary season isn’t very long and that spoofing window is closing fast.

  41. 41.

    empty

    A PPP/PML-Q alliance will result in an even weaker government.

    I’m sure Obama’s bombs will help that.

    Interesting things are happening. Remember that the PPP was the party that the US has been supporting. At least in the National Assembly elections it seems that the PPP is winning in the NWFP which is one of the provinces which borders Afghanistan and is home to the Pashtuns. Which means they will be representing the Pashtuns. Given that these guys voted for the PPP over the MMA they are not pro-Taliban. On the other hand they are definitely not pro-US. So will the PPP represent its electorate, even when the wishes of its electorate are in conflict with the wishes of its “foreign friend?” I am sure Samantha Powers has the answer.

  42. 42.

    TenguPhule

    2. Obama is all talk and no substance, or as I like to think of it, trying to convince you that Obama is actually Wayne Brady

    That would make Hillary, what, Ronald Reagan?

  43. 43.

    tBone

    Nah, that’s used campaign materials, not his top secret Manchurian candidate plans

    You know, it’s really sad that your gynophobia is so acute that you can’t even put a period on the end of your sentences. I guess an irrational fear of menses is just a symptom of full-blown CDS. You disgust me, you sexist pig.

  44. 44.

    Jay C

    Where will you all take your hate when she’s out of the race?

    Where it belongs, srv: dumped on the heads of the venal, corrupt, warmongering Republican criminals who have disgraced this country for the last seven years.

  45. 45.

    demimondian

    it’s really sad that your gynophobia is so acute that you can’t even put a period on the end of your sentences

    Weak – 1 mark out of 4 for trying.

    You’ve got a long way to go to catch HyperIon’s “demiGod-in-you-own-mind, you’re an asshole. Again.”.

  47. 47.

    Andrew J. Lazarus

    XP may not be as cool as I claimed. Took me four hours to clean viruses off the neighbor laptop.

  48. 48.

    The Grand Panjandrum

    You’ve got a long way to go to catch HyperIon’s “demiGod-in-you-own-mind, you’re an asshole. Again.”.

    I don’t entirely remember that thread but didn’t inspire a couple of those gems?

  49. 49.

    demimondian

    My middle son had a wonderful learning moment today — he and I were talking about the definition of “operating system”, and he said “well, then the little boxes to change a window’s display are part of the OS”.

    “Not necessarily. Let’s look at this other box, the one we use as a family mail computer. It’s got the same decorations, right? But by changing the window manager on this one” — demi switches to twm — “I can get rid of those. Now, all the windows are still there, it’s just the chrome that’s changed. Seems to me that windowing system isn’t actually a part of the OS over here, so why is Windows different?”

    Ubuntu: twisting little minds since 2000.

  50. 50.

    The Grand Panjandrum

    Here’s video of rock star Erick Erickson giving a rousing speech at CPAC.

    Thanks for the link!

    Sounds like Erick doesn’t quite get the intertubes thingy. The left wing blogosphere is a top down organization that takes its talking points from HRC? Jesus Babbling Christ! Why didn’t Erick take five seconds to remember that Dan Bartlett outed the Bush sycophants out in the Right Wing Blogosphere?

    I highly recommend the video. So much to mock, so little time.

  51. 51.

    Brachiator

    I prefer to think of years when February has 28 days as the one where one month has a perfect number of days. ALl the rest of the time, February is merely prime.

    Periodically, February has 29 days, then it’s down to 28 again. The Gregorian Calendar is anti-Hillary sexist codespeak.

    Barack Obama doesn’t care about white people.

    Obama is half-white. He doesn’t care about every other white person.

    This blog has gotten to be about as interesting as Sully’s. All Clinton Derangement Syndrome, all the time.

    Where will you all take your hate when she’s out of the race?

    Mostly there is derision at the ineptitude of the Hillary Clinton campaign, and distaste for her campaign managers, advisers and spokespeople.

    And since, as another poster noted, it is ultimately the Republicans who must be defeated, ya gotta wonder why the Day One Experience Donkey Team is spending more time exhibiting fear of Obama instead of making a stronger case for Senator Clinton.

  52. 52.

    Xanthippas

    Two rants:

    1) All these liberal bloggers yukking it up about Clinton “discovering” the delegate selection process in Texas. I don’t care what one anonymous staffer in one story says, there’s no way in hell the Clinton campaign just realized how the process works. What they realized is that Obama’s groundswell of support may eclipse the support they’ve already built up in Texas, and that thanks to the delegate selection process their support among Hispanics won’t count for enough. So now they’re trying to game expectations, while-somewhat insidiously I think-trying to convince people that Texas Hispanics are getting ripped off by the delegate selection process.

    2) What the heck is the deal with this Obama “plagiarism” nonsense? How the heck is this a story? The TWO Talk Left posts about it are both closed for comments, having gotten over 200 comments for each post. How is there that much to say about it?? The only thing that proves to me is that commentators on liberal blogs can be just a stupid as commentators on conservative blogs.

  53. 53.

    demimondian

    The only thing that proves to me is that commentators on liberal blogs can be just a stupid as commentators on conservative blogs.

    You needed this to point that out?

    Seriously, folks — Barack Obama is a wonderful candidate. Hillary Clinton is no slouch. We’re incredibly lucky. But, to judge by their supporters, I’ve got to say that my long-standing belief that every participant in the American political process is a self-serving moron has been reinforced this year.

  55. 55.

    ladonne

    So now they’re trying to game expectations, while-somewhat insidiously I think-trying to convince people that Texas Hispanics are getting ripped off by the delegate selection process.

    Sad to say this, but historically here in Texas, the white population has always tried to pit the black and latino populations against each other. You see it most strikingly in the immigration debate. Also, since the primaries are open, there will probably be a lot of Republicans voting in the Democratic primary. I can only hope that they are too stupid to figure out the system here. They’ll vote in the primary, go home and congratulate themselves, and then the Dems will go back for the caucuses.

  56. 56.

    The Other Steve

    You know, we need better pro-Clinton trolls here. Anybody want to volunteer?

    Ok, I will step up to the plate. I feel it’s my duty, and I am honored that my country has asked me to serve in this manner.

  57. 57.

    The Other Steve

    Pointing out bullshit attacks from the Clinton camp is hatred?

    Saying “I hope that bitch loses” is hardly what one would call pointing out a bullshit attack.

    I know some say that Hillary Clinton doesn’t have much of a chance, but they very same people also condemned the Iraq troop surge as never going to be able to work and look. Iraq is a stable, free democracy and everything is happy now. Society has become so complacent that we’re now worried about stupid petty shit like losing our homes.

    Which is why Hillary Clinton has come out and released a plan to help you stay in your home.

  58. 58.

    Mr Furious

    My Florida friends and family feel that their votes have been discounted and they are no longer part of the election process as I believe any of you who have voted in other states would feel.

    At least you got to choose from all the candidates in your fake primary. I had to vote “uncommitted” here in Michigan.

    STFU.

  61. 61.

    demimondian

    Funny, that’s how I feel about Vista.

    Yeah, and we all know that you anything-but-Microsoft users put your feelings first, responding emotionally when you should be thinking, launching into periodic bouts of hysteria. If only you were rational, you would follow the thrust of your mind, instead of being the helpless recipient of marketing messages.

    (There. Is that enough code-word sexism to get me in trouble?)

  62. 62.

    Conservatively Liberal

    Ok, more from the Hillaryis44.org site (I just noticed it was .org, not .com. Damn you .!):

    Ok Drudge is hitting it to Bambi’s campaign today. He is leading with huge, black letters a quote by Michelle Obama, ‘For the first time in my life, I’m really proud of my country’
    http://www.drudgereport.com
    REad the comments, wow, they are bad
    Repubs will run with this tomorrow and tonight on talk shows
    REad Poderhertz’s comments
    She Said What?
    John Podhoretz – 02.18.2008 – 17:27
    http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/jpodhoretz/2541

    Michelle Obama today said that “for the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.”

    Really proud of her country for the first time? Michelle Obama is 44 years old. She has been an adult since 1982. Can it really be there has not been a moment during that time when she felt proud of her country? Forget matters like the victory in the Cold War…

    Podhertz?! Drudge?! This stuff is pure gold!

  63. 63.

    demimondian

    You know, if I didn’t know better, I’d swear that the Hillaryis44 site was run by our old friends from Scrutator, or perhaps by the lunatics from B4B/B4H. Has anybody seen PsychO recently?

  65. 65.

    Conservatively Liberal

    I know, it just seems so …weird over there.The other day, one person asked what ‘GLBT’ meant, another explained what it was. A few people identified themselves as gay, bi or whatever, and someone asks that if one person was a lesbian there, could they ‘watch’ sometime. It was just creepy to read this on a presidential political blog. They toss gay stuff, racism and all kinds of napalm around, and it just looks like a train wreck there. Kind of like watching brain damaged kids juggling nitroglycerin.

    But some of them have posted pics of themselves at Hillary events, and others recognize them. One was on TV during coverage of a Hillary event, and they said that a friend there saw them. If it is a spoof site, they are damn good.

    If it is for real, O. M. G.

  66. 66.

    demimondian

    Hillary Clinton. The Clinton that didn’t stain Lewinsky’s blue dress!

    That’s got real potential.

    You should experiment with that line. Can you use it on Vince Foster, too?

  67. 67.

    Perry Como

    You should experiment with that line. Can you use it on Vince Foster, too?

    Bill Clinton. The Clinton that didn’t have a lesbian affair with Vince Foster!

  70. 70.

    Conservatively Liberal

    Yeah, but the cops did not say if he had a wide stance or not.

    Inquiring minds want to know!

    Puts a whole new meaning to: “What a drag, he got busted!”

  71. 71.

    Pb

    The Briscoe Kid,

    Here’s video of rock star Erick Erickson giving a rousing speech at CPAC.

    Just wait until he writes a book — he could be the next Jonah Goldberg!

  72. 72.

    JGabriel

    They used to say that the worst scandals that could happen to a politician were to be caught with a dead girl or a live boy.

    It took the Bush administration to add: to be a male federally appointed judge caught drunk wearing a little black dress, fishnet stockings, and high heels:

    Story here.

    .

  73. 73.

    KG

    So, anyone want to bet the attack/dismissal of Obama wins tomorrow/today (depending on where you are) will be that Wisconsin and Hawaii are solidly blue so they don’t count, because they’d never vote for a Republican? Or Hawaii will be dismissed because Obama is something of a favorite son?

  74. 74.

    srv

    Yeah, and we all know that you anything-but-Microsoft users put your feelings first, responding emotionally when you should be thinking, launching into periodic bouts of hysteria. If only you were rational, you would follow the thrust of your mind, instead of being the helpless recipient of marketing messages.

    If Obama had just been doing Vista commercials, you libs would be stuck working on your computers rather than clogging up the intertubes.

  75. 75.

    Llelldorin

    I prefer to think of years when February has 28 days as the one where one month has a perfect number of days. ALl the rest of the time, February is merely prime.

    Damn you! I was reading this site to take a break from grading discrete math papers!

  78. 78.

    Royston Vasey

    Here is some old news: Barack, 21st December 2007

    “But you know in the end, don’t vote your fears. I’m stealing this line from my buddy (Massachusetts Gov.) Deval Patrick who stole a whole bunch of lines from me when he ran for the governorship, but it’s the right one, don’t vote your fears, vote your aspirations. Vote what you believe.”

    ABC News

  79. 79.

    Conservatively Liberal

    Royston, it is hard to call it plagiarism when he gives credit, eh? ;)

    Great catch!

    More insanity from Hillaryis44:

    On Fox over the weekend Martha McCallum was talking about how McCain has started hitting Obama. To my surprise, she cautioned against that. She said, “People don’t like it when someone talks bad about Obama. A lot of people!” So f’ing what? If the guy isn’t tough enough to stand up to the truth in a campaign, how can he stand up to the problems this country faces both locally and abroad?

    Picked up by FOX news now.

    Heres the Fox story on the plagerism:
    youdecide08.foxnews.com/2008/02/18/clinton-obama-camp-exchange-war-of-just-words/

    Sounds to me Michelle has spent her entire adult life being unpatriotic!! She wasn’t proud when we ousted the Iraqis from Kuwait, saved the Kosovo refugees from sure extermination at the hands of the Serbs, saw the cold war lead to the defeat of the Soviet Union and free Eastern Europe from Communists oppression and let’s not forget Geraldine Ferarro the first woman on a major party presidential ticket. The list goes on and on….. Seems to me the only things she considers being important enough to be proud of concern only her husband and herself. Talk about an ego and if I hear Chris matthews say she reminds me so much of Jackie Kennedy once more I will scream. Jackie was always a class act and never pretended to be anything other than what she was.

    I was reading the Drudge blogs…my oh my. THIS one won’t go away from the right AT ALL. Lot’s of “I would have voted for you” “I am now going to work against you”

    and probably the most prophetic…..
    “Just wait until the Obama supporters start to riot. Don’t be suprised.” (sic)

    divabunny, the rightwing press is running away with that Michelle Obama remark. You will hear it tomorrow on every rightwing talk show. You will hear it tonight on Hannity and on Reilly. That was a real stupid remark for her to make and is one that can easily be communicated to people and is also very easy to understand. The Republicans will paint them as Harvard-educated, America-hating lefties. This is Kerry all over again. Obama and Michelle are gifts that keep on giving.

    And they go on and on with so much of what I would consider right wing crap that I am having a hard time believing that this is a real Hillary site. They have her picture all over, asking for donations ($100 gets you a pink t-shirt and a button!), so I guess it should be real.

    It really is surreal though.

  80. 80.

    Rarely Posts

    I’ve liked Obama all along. He seems like an honest and caring person. However, the constant attacks from his supporters leave me confused. I woke up this morning realizing Obama isn’t change, he’s just more of the same old same old. I’ll still vote for him if he wins the nomination because he is still a better choice than McCain. But I won’t vote for him with a smile on my face.

  81. 81.

    Googootz

    Which is why Hillary Clinton has come out and released a plan to help you stay in your home.

    Comparison of HRC’s plan vs. BHO’s plan her:

    http://www.reason.com/news/show/125030.html

    Obviously, from the article’s title, “Hillary Mortgages the Future: The promises she can’t keep”, the author’s focus is on the shortcomings in HRC’s plan.

  82. 82.

    Punchy

    Automatic weapons to…..get this….protect Amtrak’ers.

    unf’inbelievable.

    Amtrak will start randomly screening passengers’ carry-on bags this week in a new security push that includes officers with automatic weapons and bomb-sniffing dogs patrolling platforms and trains.

    (from Atrios)

  83. 83.

    TR

    Listening to Howard Wolfson try to shovel this “plagiarism” story on MSNBC.

    Jesus Christ, if every voter were required to spend just one minute listening to the shitheads Hillary Clinton has surrounded herself with, she’d never get a single vote.

  85. 85.

    ThymeZone

    This link was posted earlier but deserves a re-look.

    Obama is telling the truth about his speechifying relationship with Patrick. From December:

    “But you know in the end, don’t vote your fears. I’m stealing this line from my buddy (Massachusetts Gov.) Deval Patrick who stole a whole bunch of lines from me when he ran for the governorship, but it’s the right one, don’t vote your fears, vote your aspirations. Vote what you believe.”

    I’m about an inch away from deciding to vote for John McCain before I would vote for Clinton in November.

    I am going to try to hit my $2300 contribution limit to the Obama campaign before March 4.

    I am really, really sick of this shit.

  87. 87.

    The Other Steve

    I think this gaff that Michelle Obama said yesterday about not being proud of our country is really going to hurt Barack today.

    This msy be the end of his campaign. We’ve all been waiting around for him to screw up, and this is it. This is worse than Gary Hart getting caught on the monkey business.

    I hope after Obama loses it all, you cult worshippers can come to support Hillary this october.

  88. 88.

    Bob In Pacifica

    Demi, everyone knows that Foster was dead by the time that Lewinsky’s dress was stained.

    More importantly, Vista is awful. I’m an old guy who just wants to turn on the computer and do things, not search for “dll” files. I look longingly at everyone around me who switched to Macs. I just put 1200 bucks worth of music software and peripherals on my Vista computer and they all just disappeared. They’re there somewhere in the computer but that can’t be found to run.

    Grrrrh.

  89. 89.

    ThymeZone

    Thanks Steve, that inspires me to keep digging for the funds to donate to Obama today.

    I need to scrape up about $1500 to get to my limit before march 4. Or anyone who wants to join in can visit my url and open up your own wallets.

    At this particular moment I feel like our wallets are the best weapon against shitty politics.

  90. 90.

    The Other Steve

    I need to scrape up about $1500 to get to my limit before march 4. Or anyone who wants to join in can visit my url and open up your own wallets.

    Maybe you could sell your stash?

  91. 91.

    Punchy

    I think this gaff that Michelle Obama said yesterday about not being proud of our country is really going to hurt Barack today.

    Wait…there’s TWO Obamas running for Preznit? Who’s this Michelle chick? Any relation to Barack Huessein?

  93. 93.

    Jay C

    Kinda OT, but since it’s an open thread, I thought I’d share this marvelous offering of neo-Confederate revisionism (from RedState, naturally).

    (h/t Lawyers, Guns & Money

    I especially liked “haystack”‘s aside about how the Confederacy really wasn’t all that bad once one gets “beyond the darkness of slavery“. And of course, barring that minor point, it was a veritable Utopia of civic and social virtue. Except, (I kid you not) for the Democrats.

  94. 94.

    TR

    That Red State thing is beyond pathetic. I made it halfway through the first paragraph:

    Imagine, for just a moment, Barack Obama wearing the red cloak of the Klan’s “Imperial Wizard” by night only to appear BY DAY to swear to represent the little people and insist on a change long overdue to all the citizens he presumes to represent. Head exploding yet?

    From your awful writing and preposterous hypothesis? Yes.

  95. 95.

    Tom in Texas

    “But you know in the end, don’t vote your fears. I’m stealing this line from my buddy (Massachusetts Gov.) Deval Patrick who stole a whole bunch of lines from me when he ran for the governorship, but it’s the right one, don’t vote your fears, vote your aspirations. Vote what you believe.”

    Sadly, this is merely evidence of a pattern of plagiarism (the new kind, where the victim suggests the perpetrator do so).

    Oops, Taps forgot to mention Obama attributed the quote. How much of a hack must one be to truncate quotes from their own website? And what kind of campaign would use Tapper and Byron York to make their argument?

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