Keep it clean, tempers are flaring. The goal is November.
BTW- I forgot to acknowledge our anniversary (someone else had theirs today and it jogged my memory). Again. I forget every damned year. Balloon Juice finished year number six last month.
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Zifnab
Your mom is flaring.
Mary
#breaks out the Mr.Bubbles#
chopper
your dad is flaming. as in homosexual.
chopper
that’s right, i went there.
Krista
You find? I haven’t done a lot of commenting on the whole primary process a) because I’m ignorant and b) ’cause I don’t have as much of a vested interest in the results. But I’ve been reading/lurking, and things really don’t seem to be any rowdier than they usually are. The only interesting part is that we’re fighting amongst ourselves instead of fighting with the odd rightie that stumbles over here.
I figure, it’s good for us to be sharpening our wits and our arguments. We’ll need ’em once the big game starts. I do hope that people don’t follow through with those petty bullshit threats to vote for McCain if Clinton gets in, or to vote for McCain if Obama gets in. Do you guys honestly think that the rest of the world can survive another Republican presidency right now?
dnA
Primary Max Dorkage:
Obama = Horde
McCain/Hillary = Alliance
You know I’m right.
ThymeZone
Your nostrils are flaring. Keep them clean.
That’s the takeaway here, right?
Dennis - SGMM
Being ignorant of the topic doesn’t keep me from commenting. I’ve come by my ignorance honestly and if I can’t publicly display it then this isn’t the America I know and love.
Jay Andrew Allen
This is a blog comments section. I assumed ignorance was a prerequisite.
Svensker
No.
Dennis - SGMM
You liberals! Zombie Reagan would have the terrorist situation cleaned up by Christmas.
jcricket
It’s practically a shibboleth. Or even a commandment.
I myself can’t wait for primary season to be over, but unless Obama scores a knock-out blow on March 4th (I’d say a 50/50 chance), we’re in it for the long haul.
Can’t we all just get along?!?
cbear
Too right, John.
I can’t fucking believe some of the outlandish shit that being thrown around on other so-called “progressive” sites.
Obama is a terrorist-loving Manchurian candidate.
HRC hates blacks AND Bill is in bed with the commies.
I mean, JFC, I understand having a favorite candidate but a lot of this shit is simple-minded and incredibly destructive. I’d like to take a baseball bat to the dumb fucks who say that they won’t support or vote for X if Y doesn’t win.
My answer is simple…SUPREME COURT JUSTICES!
Zifnab
Why does everything have to get racial with you?
KCinDC
Hell, jcricket, I’m worried about Obama tonight. The media is salivating to have yet a fourth unexpected turnaround in this Democratic race, so they’ll seize on the slightest excuse to say that Clinton’s done surprisingly well in Wisconsin and changed the game, regardless of how silly the claim is in terms of delegate totals.
Jake
Please feel free to take advantage of the “Ill-informed banter” clause. I sure do.
See? You do have a vested interest in the results. Hordes of Islahomoabortionist refugees will come streaming across the border if McCane keels over and President pHuckabee declares Biblical Law. I doubt Canada’s latte producers are up to the challenge and we get cranky when we don’t get our lattes.
Nikki
Happy Anniversary, Balloon Juice Denizens!
Caidence (fmr. Chris)
Flaring like a yeast infection? Or a pre-menstrual cramp?
/Oh shit, TZ is getting to me. I need to go visit a sensitivity training class before I start making slurs regarding tampons.
Caidence (fmr. Chris)
Quoted For (Succinct) Truth.
Krista
You won’t get cranky. A free 5-oz bag of weed comes with your immigration package. Welcome, neighbours!
Caidence (fmr. Chris)
No, the shibboleth is “MUP”. If you think “MUP” is short for “MUPPET”, then your heritage is revealed; you are stoned at the village gates for being an Anti-Pony Heretic.
All that is Great P-ny; Save us from the False Idols of Hillary and the Graven Images of M’Cain
dnA
Dude, when you grow up half black, half white, and Jewish, everything is racial.
But in this case, I was actually just referring to Hillary/McCain as lame, since Alliance is lame. Also despite having left warcrack behind a year or two ago, I still enjoy the dorkalisciousness of a random WoW refernce.
Krista
Sex-ed time. Cramping tends to occur during that time of the month, not prior.
Just thought you should know. And yes, we would like a cup of tea and a hot water bottle, thank you very much.
chopper
i can see the headline: “Zombie Reagan Eats Bin Laden’s Brains – Asks For Seconds, Mustard”
dnA
Also there are multiple races in each faction. Tell me McCain doesn’t remind you of a WoW Dwarf, what with the belligerent shortness and the limited use of his limbs.
Tara the anti-social social worker
YOU FORGOT YOUR BLOGOVERSARY?
For heaven’s sake, run out and get your blog some roses and chocolates, and an aplogetic card. Actually, just send the roses to the blog – send the chocolate to me.
Tom Hilton
Happy Blogiversary! That makes you, what, 120 in blog years?
Caidence (fmr. Chris)
I had to go for the PMS angle, else the sexism would’ve been too vague to be comical. But understood nonetheless.
Sure! Just don’t try to rip off my nuts like BTD in the name of preventing sexism, and you’ll have my assistance straight-away ^_^
jnfr
Alliance is sexy. Horde has better quests.
I’m with Atrios. Why can’t this shit be over with, so I can stop listening to people snap at each other, and get on with winning the election?
tomjones
Does that make Obama a night elf?
firebrand
Of course tempers are flaring. Hillary is pulling any sort of dirty trick she can to stop Obama. How that wouldn’t piss off any sane person, I don’t know.
dnA
I’m thinking Obama’s kind of a troll, myself. Lanky body, big ears, voodoo magic that entrances his followers.
Z
I’m still stuck on ‘periodically’ being thought of as sexist. I am just stunned. I am a woman. I have experienced real, honest-to-God, makes you want to go postal misogyny. ‘Periodically’ isn’t even in the same broad geographic region.
Caidence (fmr. Chris)
I’m refereeing that one.
It’s not Hillary on everything, it’s Hillary’s supporters that are acting mentally damaged.
Hillary’s campaign is listless, taking a couple weak potshots. But this sexism tripe is all BTD and TalkLeft and Taylor Marsh.
Hillary only loses a couple points for not keeping on message and getting her supporters focused on the important stuff; she doesn’t lose points for her supporters being flagrant jerks.
Z
Oh, and Happy Anniversary!!! I hope you continue to have them periodically !
srv
Ah, good times man. Good times.
You had something like 400 posts in 2 months. Crazy.
Caidence (fmr. Chris)
Please stick your head into this conversation for more of Teh Stupid
Apparently there are still people of average-or-better IQ that are holding their breath until Hillary has a different reality crafted for her, because she’s the first serious woman candidate for Prez. Instead supporting her fight to defeat the obstacles in her way. /facepalm/
t jasper parnell
This is troubling.
The “graphic” was picture of Osama bin Laden during a discussion of Obama
Vote Obama to fuck the Noise Machine.
4tehlulz
The use of the word “tricks” is obviously a reference to prostitution. Can’t Hillary engage in the give and take of politics without being called a whore by the likes of sexists like you?
/TalkLeft
Krista
Exactly. I don’t even know what word to use to describe something that falls so far beyond the land of the ridiculous.
Caidence (fmr. Chris)
Oh goddamnit can’t we go one week without that bullshit association??
I’d love to believe that Clintonites are going to loudly proclaim that was out of line, following the Shuster screw up. I’m not going to wait around for it though.
empty
Did Obama loudly condemn Shuster? I didn’t know that.
TheFountainHead
Mmmmm, tonight reminds me of the scene from Apocalypse Now when no one knows who is in command and the water itself is on fire….mmmmmm…I LOVIN’ IT!
Caidence (fmr. Chris)
Has Obama loudly condemned MSNBC for the graphic yet? If not, then you can’t be impugn him (nor me) for hypocrisy.
If Hillary is going to hold MSNBC (or, presumably all media outlets) to a higher standard of delivery, as per her reaction for sloppy use of the word “pimp”, than she needs to speak up on this issue, too.
Hence my previous statement.
D-Chance.
You married? If not, you should be… you’re the perfect husband.
empty
He didn’t need to, MSNBC apologized first. It seems Hillary’s Loudness worked for Obama. No need for any thanks.
The Grand Panjandrum
Hell yeah! I hear Beirut is a great vacation spot these days.
Clinton is giving a speech 30 minutes before the polls close tonight. HHHHhhh….. A little unusual. She says:
Baffling. Doesn’t she get it? Who fucking cares if she works hard? We want a President who works smart! All these screw ups in the primary (e.g. failing to sign up enough delegates in PA) are very disconcerting. If she wins the nomination I have little faith it would get any better. The people around her are morons. Why the hell would I choose Clinton over Obama when they continue to make tactical and strategic errors at almost every turn?
Caidence (fmr. Chris)
Yes, because MSNBC was afraid of Hillary saying something, not because their graphics intern just punted them even further into irrelevance.
empty
Wha?????
J. Michael Neal
John, take this as a complement. I spent a lot of times trying to find right wing blogs that I could stand to read. Before your conversion, you were one of the very few that made the cut. You made me angry, but you were worth coming back to.
I like to think that I could feel the change coming.
zzyzx
MSNBC just called it for Obama!
TR
Pfft. Mark Penn told me Wisconsin doesn’t count because he’s lactose-intolerant.
Daniel Munz
What is poetic justice?
Poetic justice is finding out that Obama won WI at the exact same second I discover that HillaryIs44.com is, uh, Ready to Serve Pages From Day One.
Andrew
I’m guess that means I’m voting “This Account Has Exceeded Its CPU Quota” in November.
4tehlulz
i lol’d
PeterJ
From TalkLeft:
It’s the Giuliani strategy!
My prediction: 0 for 2.
4tehlulz
Then she’s a loser and should GTFO
ThymeZone
Wow, this is great. Obama takes the podium and shuts up Hillary.
This is a great country.
J. Michael Neal
Jesus Christ, Hillary. Do you really need to keep shilling for the banks, while pretending to help people? Most of the people whose house you are trying to “save” are going to end up in foreclosure anyway. The way to help them is to ease them into that situation, and have programs to help them once it happens.
All a foreclosure freeze accomplishes is making these people make some more mortgage payments, throwing money down the rat hole, before they lose their house. Exactly how does that ehlp them?
firebrand
Wisconsin doesn’t count, since Wisconsin is secretly 95% black.
Andrew
Lollerskates! Obama brings the heat!
4tehlulz
Your implication in your statement that Obama brings the heat is that Hillary is cold. Sexist.
Andrew
It was a veiled jungle fever reference. I’m a whitey and hot for obama!
zzyzx
If I could make the major points of Obama’s speech, I wouldn’t change very many of them. It doesn’t mean that he’ll come through, but it’s exciting to have someone speak out about what I believe.
Andrew
Also, I’ve decided that I don’t even care if Obama is a Manchurian candidate. If he’s secretly going to lead us into the glorious Islamo-commie-nazi future, at least he’ll give great speeches.
PeterJ
Clinton tried to pre-empt Obama’s speech…
Obama’s winning streak is intact.
And so is also Clinton’s streak of not congratulating Obama for winning…
Jon H
The commenters at Taylor Marsh’s site are collapsing in fits of vapors and pearl-clutching.
ThymeZone
As Obama speaks … for a long time, without putting me to sleep, which is pretty impressive … the numbers at screen bottom were showing an 18-point Obama lead.
Only a third of the votes counted, but …. this is starting to look like an ass whipping.
I think one more round of negative Clinton campaign bullshit should just about finish her off.
PeterJ
Is there any pro Obama blog that could be compared to Taylor Marsh and TalkLeft?
One that bans users and deletes comments that the owner(s) don’t like?
Jon H
At TalkLeft Jeralyn deleted a comment that merely asserted that Obama only needs to win one more to win the nomination.
The excuse was that ‘opinions’ are allowed but not if they’re stated as if they were facts.
Psycheout
Sexist.
The Disgruntled Chemist
The comments from this post at Taylor Marsh’s site are pretty entertaining.
That’s just great.
J. Michael Neal
I think Wisconsin was the worst possible state for Clinton to find herself running in at this particular moment. It has all the demographics that make it look like a state she should do well in, but it’s the Upper Midwest. Politically, Wisconsin has a fair amount in common with those prairie states where Obama has been destroying all comers.
What that means is that you couldn’t have picked a state better suited for Obama to do well among Clinton’s base. That’s going to be the story for the next two weeks.
Jess
I believe she did actually, on Super Tuesday.
The Disgruntled Chemist
From Marsh’s comments:
I laugh at their lack of introspection because my only other option is to cry.
ImJohnGalt
srv, from the post you linked to:
“fruity” ax-grinders?
bwahahahahahahaha…ha..ha.
Ha.
Man, reading that post really shines a spotlight on John’s transformation, dunnit?
Jon H
“Man, reading that post really shines a spotlight on John’s transformation, dunnit?”
A grubby bulb has burst forth as a beautiful flower.
maxbaer (not the original)
Happy belated Anniversary John et al. Sorry i missed the first 5 and a half years or so.