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Wilfred
Richard Cohen takes a dump on Clinton:
To know her is to _____ her:
Neal
Not sure if someone beat me to this – someone usually does – but Dodd is going to endorse the big O today. Good for him.
jnfr
Spammers spoof my domains regularly. The worst time I ended up with over 10,000 bounce messages. I pre-filter my mail and they all get auto-deleted, but just downloading the headers took nearly an hour.
4tehlulz
Oh shit.
FDIC Bracing for Bank Failures
Obviously, the FDIC must be disbanded so that depositors suffer the consequences of their actions.
Billy K
I think this sums it up pretty well:
TheFountainHead
As someone who has always respected both Chris Dodd AND John Edwards, I say about damn time, Dodd, and what the hell are you thinking, Edwards?
Halteclere
I received a spam e-mail from myself once. That was kind of surreal (and no, I wasn’t telling myself that I could get a degree based on my life experiences).
The Other Steve
John Edwards is trying to figure out what will best serve him when he runs for President again in 2012. Obviously a Democrat winning in 2008 would not be good for him.
John Cole
Actually, I think Edwards and Gore are waiting until after it is clear Obama will win but before Hillary steps out to endorse Obama, that way Hillary will get the clear meessage.
4tehlulz
So basically, they’re going to wait until the convention?
RSA
Did you end up being impressed by your own sexual prowess?
4tehlulz
Plz tell me you ran antivirus/antispyware after that.
Zifnab
I think this’ll basically be in the bag by March 5th. If Clinton sticks it out through a double-loss in Texas and Ohio (along with the inevitable loses of Vermont and Rhode Island – which don’t count), she’ll be pulling a Huckabee.
TheFountainHead
While I completely agree that this is likely what they are doing, it just makes them look incredibly spineless to me, at least, and I find it hard to imagine I’m alone in this view, particularly considering the manner in which Hillary’s campaign seems to want to draw this out.
Carnacki
John,
I emailed you a while back about a WV-02 candidate, Anne Barth. Shoot me an email if you’d like to know more.
dnA
Has everyone seen Stephanie Tubbs-Jones saying “Obama shouldn’t be ashamed to wear the clothing of his nation”?
My response is here.
4tehlulz
I don’t believe this is going to happen. According to polling, Clinton has RI in the bag (+15), and Obama has VT (+20). I suspect Obama will win the majority of delegates in TX, and HRC will win OH by around 6 points. It doesn’t get much more muddled than that.
That leaves a bloodbath in PA for 6 weeks.
John S.
I predict:
– Obama by 10-12 in Texas
– Clinton by 3-5 in Ohio
– Obama by 25-30 in Vermont
– Clinton by 8-10 in Rhode Island
If it goes down like that, I don’t expect her to withdraw because it will give her something to spin (and I’m sure p.lukasiak will be all over it). If she does end up losing in Ohio and only carries Rhode Island, then I think she is done.
Halteclere
Nah. It’s a Yahoo account, and my spam filter had been catching very similarly named (first few letters would be the same) Yahoo e-mail addresses for awhile. I figure the spammer either had hacked a list of Yahoo e-mails, or was just going through a list of all possible letter combinations to see what “stuck”.
Interestingly enough my wife had the same thing happen (receive an e-mail from herself) with her account. And she had been receiving spam from addresses similarly named as her e-mail address for a while also.
John Cole
I don’t know why we keep letting the Clinton camp shift the goalposts. Clinton needs to win Texas AND Ohio by double digits or it is over. That is the math. That was the agreed upon spin when Clinton was polling 20 points ahead of Obama a few weeks ago. The word FIREWALL ring a bell?
Some of you now seem willing to buy the spin that as long as she doesn’t lose both, she can continue on with a chance. Wrong. She needs to WIN both by large margins.
Christ- have you all learned nothing from the 8 year game of move the goalposts the Bushies have put us through?
Halteclere
To follow up, in both our cases (my wife and mine), neither e-mail had been sent from our accounts – i.e. the messages didn’t originate on our machines.
John S.
Wow, just when I thought Clinton and her surrogates couldn’t descend any further into GOP territory…
John S.
I don’t buy the spin, John, but I call it like I see it. If Hillary loses Texas but wins Ohio she will stay in the race – mark my words. I don’t think she will have much of a chance to secure the nomiantion if that happens, but that won’t be enough to deter her from forging ahead.
4tehlulz
Unfortunately, yes. They move the goalposts to make it sound good to themselves — not to anyone else. If they can convince themselves that they fucked over by the system or the states don’t count, they’ll do it regardless of what anyone else thinks or does.
That said, I suspect after March 5, there may be pressure on Gore and Edwards to weigh in and drop the endorsement bombs to finish this. Sometimes that kind of kick in the head will make you see reality.
Of course, the way this year has gone, G & E will endorse different people, changing nothing except the acrimony level….
Billy K
I am so disappointed in Hillary folks that every day seem more like Bush folk with a “D” after their name instead of an “R.”
What’s worse is it makes Sullivan look sane.
srv
It’s been so long, I’ve forgotten which sport we were playing.
Billy K
Obamaball!!
Stupid joke aside, every day I get the feeling another Clinton Presidency will just be 8 more years of the same crap of the last 8 years. I just cannot deal with that. I (and apparently many others) want to put a stake in the heart of this crap, and I think Obama is the only way to do it.
TheFountainHead
QFT. For weeks I’d been saying to myself, “Yeesh, Sully, you’re starting to sound a little shrill.” But since he’s come back from vacation and after the recent Clinton stunts, he seems to have been calling it all along. Which is scary.
Neal
It seems that Clinton is suffering from the same illness that GWB has had for quite some time now – that being completely-fucking-oblivious-to-reality-itis. Huckabee has a mild case but I think it will clear up relatively soon. Clinton’s seems to be rather serious.
No matter what happens in TX and OH, she’ll find a way to spin it. This will keep going. By the time she is done the only states in the union that will “matter” are New Hampshire, California, and New York…and Florida and Michigan. It’s HER party and she’ll cry if she wants to. Nothing anyone can do to stop it.
I do wish Edwards and Gore would get on with endorsing but I agree with the comment above that Edwards is waiting to see what gives him the best chance in the future and Gore…well, I don’t know what Manbearpig is up to.
Jake
John, I’ve given up trying to interest my IT department in the fact that we’ve been cloned so badly we get 20 slices o’ self spam a day and our customers are getting bombarded.
At least things are settling down in Iraq.
Jen
Well, even Bill has said she needs to win both TX and OH to remain viable. The weird thing is that her husband seems much more rational about this than her campaign…
Zifnab
If she wins them, she can continue on with the illusion that she can take the convention with her band of Taylor Marsh cloned storm troopers.
If she loses one or both, she’s going to be playing the “I’m not a math girl, I’m a miracles girl” card running up to the nomination. At a certain point, people will just not give her any more money to continue campaigning with. Her real firewall is determined by her bank balance.
John S.
Since when do you care what the Big Dog thinks??
h/t myiq2xu
Jen
I thought CW was he was staying officially neutral in case a Wise Elder Party Leader was needed to help mediate (or arbitrate?) something really nasty someday within the par-tay…
Jen
All *real* women care what the Big Dog thinks….
Does this dress make me look fat….enough? :)
TheFountainHead
Hahaha, Hillaryis44 is on FIRE this morning. Dumpster diving for poop gold, I found this:
LMAO
Neal
Oh, that one hurts. Nice.
4tehlulz
ANGRY BLACK MAN DETECTED! OH NOES!
Neal
Anyone else think it’s funny that underneath Obama’s scandalous “muslim robes” he’s wearing a spiffy red polo and some khaki pants? And a nice watch?
At least he’s a terrorist with style.
TheFountainHead
OH NOES!! According to a well informed commenter over at Hillaryis44.com, Obama = Teh Nazis!!
Great Googaly Moogly these people are living on another planet!
What’s really scary is that they vote!!
4tehlulz
Have they bought into the “Obama is the Antichrist” meme I’ve seen floating around occasionally? That would make their insanity complete.
Neal
Holy Fucking Shit! OMFG!
These people sound crazier than the damn Social Cons right now! At least with the Socons we can blame literal interpretation of the bible and the fact that some people are a bit easily led. These HRC people are just out of their minds.
So, BHO = Muslim terrorist AND Adolf Hitler.
Wow.
Halteclere
Translation: I read Liberal Fascism and, like, everything it said is, like, totally true!
4tehlulz
Yes! Except without all that political violence and stuff.
You know, I think that Hillaryis44 is actually a right-wing spoof site; if that is the case, then all I can say is: “Well played, sir. Well played.”
Davebo
Looks like Bob Perry has a new cause.
Houston gets nuked
Mishun Akomplished
myiq2xu
WHO is moving the goalposts?
“She needs to win Texas and Ohio” is now “she needs to win Texas and Ohio by double digits.”
Exit polls show that Democrats are voting for Hillary by a substantial margin.
Independents and cross-over Republicans are voting for Obama.
If this race comes down to the superdelegates (and it will,) shouldn’t they vote for the candidate who most Democrats support?
Jake
I wish I could be 100% certain H44 has been spoofified.
Billy K
Sounds like the kind of crap an insensitive man would say.
DeSelby
Let me guess the subject of the spoofed spam emails: Fake high-end watches.
I had the same problem and traced the IP back to South Korea.
Those fake-watch spammers are relentless and I hope someone prosecutes them someday.
myiq2xu
It seems like everyday someone pastes some comments allegedly from Hillaryis44 over here claiming its “comedy gold.” This whole theme was never funny and is really old now. I’ve seen some pretty deranged Obamaniac comments on a few sites too.
Who cares? Even I don’t visit that site. For all we know the people posting that stuff here posted them over there under different aliases.
myiq2xu
Antichrist? That’s a little much.
I saw a site called “Obama is your new bicycle.”
John S.
Only if they want to win an election in the Democratic States of America.
That’s the whole point of Obama’s pitch – to do what Bush only paid lip service to – and actually be a president to a majority of Americans. Besides, it is difficult for someone to get elected with ONLY the support of their party. That is why in nearly every hypothetical matchup, Obama beats McCain in states where Hillary would lose.
That’s what it all boils down to – winning the presidency. I think Hillary may yet come on board with that idea.
ThymeZone
Yes, as validated by none other than Bill Clinton himself, over the weekend.
It’s over in terms of her being able to get a majority of pledged delegates before the convention. Whether she thinks it is over, remains to be seen. The whole political world knows that a decision on her part is going to have to be made, and if she decides wrong (to push her campaign to the convention and employ rules games and backroom maneuvering) then the party is fucked and the whole election cycle is up in the air.
Until we know how THAT turns out, we are all just a little verklempt out here.
ThymeZone
No, Jerry Falwell had already ascertained (God spoke to him, if I remember correctly) that the AC is a jew.
Al Franken said that he asked Falwell whether it could be Marvin Hamlisch, but I don’t think he got a definitive answer.
myiq2xu
Wasn’t Barack’s mother Jewish?
RSA
A long time ago I would have said, “How a candidate campaigns doesn’t necessarily reflect how he’ll act in office,” but I think that’s wrong now. There’s the continuous campaign, which I understand goes back to Nixon, and it has good points (it casts the President as a persuader rather than a decider) and bad points (it’s about politics rather than policy). I think it’s reached its nadir with the Bush crowd, where most of the deceptions, dirty tricks, and outright criminality that seem to work during a campaign are applied even after the election. Clinton’s not doing herself any favors by showing how far she’s willing to go to get elected.
Billy K
Wow. Your internet-fu is weak. That meme is dead already. Pronounced yesterday by Slate. You really need to keep up.
myiq2xu
Did he say “by double digits?”
ThymeZone
Al Franken.
In case you all thought I was making it up.
ThymeZone
Are you really that fucking impossibly stupid?
No, he didn’t say that. But anyone can do the fucking math.
myiq2xu
I don’t visit whacko sites (other than this one)
myiq2xu
I have to take off my shoes to count to 20
Billy K
Wait – are you calling Slate whacko, or Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle? Cause Slate is so far in the tank for Hillary, I can’t stand reading it lately (except for Mickey Kaus, who I quit reading about a year ago). I mean, Slate is all about Triangulation and Capitulation (to right-wing memes). It doesn’t get any more Blue Dog than them.
myiq2xu
Really? I’ve been looking for a site to replace Daily
kosObama on my favorites list.Billy K
Gvie it a try. Bruce Reed really can’t say enough good things about your gal.
myiq2xu
She’s not “my” gal.
I’m just letting her use me until I get a job in the new administration.
ThymeZone
But, you only have one leg. Is your foot deformed?
myiq2xu
Q: What is Ed Morrisey’s #1 pick-up line?
A: “Hey baby! Wanna little Captain in you?”
myiq2xu
I have two legs and one ft.
The Other Steve
In other news the Hong Kong primary still does not count and their delegates will not be seated at the convention.
myiq2xu
Can Hillary still keep the donations?
zzyzx
A few of them have. The sad thing is that I can kind of see the point ;)
Punchy
there’s another f$%$#ucking debate tonite? WHY??
Caidence (fmr. Chris)
Speaking of Sully, I’m co-opting one of his posts, then ducking out because I don’t feel like dealing with the spoofs-who-are-remarkably-like-trolls.
That’s something I didn’t notice. Obama is mind-fucking all of these dipshits that can’t tell up from down, and he’s doing it well enough, that they come out and say they’re poisonous cretins without realizing it.
Maybe he is a little early for the Presidency, but damn if he ain’t one big dose of sunlight on U.S. politics. Stick an amplifier in him; crank him up to 11.
ThymeZone
Well, if she has a yen for them, sure.
myiq2xu
I’ll see you a Sully and raise you a Spengler:
ThymeZone
Oooooh nnnooooh, don’t say that. Hillary will mock him and his “bright light coming down from on high to solve all our problems.”
And then, you know, he will pick up another 5 points on the next primary election day.
Okay, go ahead and say it.
chopper
actually, it was ‘she needs to win by double digits’ a while ago.
ThymeZone
From the Spengler link.
That is some mighty fine screed material. I don’t know if I have seen better, really.
myiq2xu
Hillary on NAFTA:
Oh, yeah, and this:
myiq2xu
I stand in awe. I knew it would get ugly, but I didn’t expect it to sound so sophisticated.
myiq2xu
Sorry, the link fucked-up.
John S.
David Gergen on Hillary on NAFTA:
Hillary on NAFTA:
Interesting comparitive analysis here.
Ed Drone
I’ve been thinking about John McCain and his problems, and, though I could talk on and on about it, decided to do a “shorter” me:
The ‘Straight Talk Express’ doesn’t stop at your station, but delivers you straight to the lobby.
Ed
The Other Steve
We’re going to have one a week until Clinton finally wins!
Punchy
God DAMN that’s some high-class spoof. I realize this has been mentioned before, but you really couldn’t put The Onion and these right-wingers next to each other and be able to tell the diff….Unpossible.
Jon H
So Monica Goodling is marrying Red State’s Krempasky?
J. Michael Neal
I dunno. I Joint Chiefs of Staff might want to beef up their personal security if Obama is elected.
Pb
Wow, you’re still peddling that garbage. I’ll call your Spengler.
And if that’s not enough for you, of course there’s more of it out there, like “Is Hillary’s Aide Huma Abedin An Agent Of Saudi Intelligence?” Enjoy.
Krista
Obama in a press conference post-Dodd-endorsement:
Can I just state now, for the record, that if anybody says that his use of the word “flows” is an indicator of sexism, I will lose my freaking mind?
Pb
Krista,
OMG, he said she was trying out for quarterback! How dare he! And then… “things have gotten a little hotter”?! WTF! I’m voting for McCain!
</HillaryIs44>
myiq2xu
From Salon:
The Other Andrew
So, wait. I thought that Hillary was for NAFTA before she was against it, but myiq is telling us that she was against it in private, for it in public, and is now against it in public. That should make for some clear, concise soundbytes…
myiq2xu
Hillary is a lesbian? That is soooo 1996!
I hear that Bill is a trisexual.
He’ll try anything
myiq2xu
Don’t get hysterical.
Billy K
“staffs?”
“hotter?”
It’s pretty clear what he’s getting at.
myiq2xu
Is he saying Hillary has a penis?
Krista
Seeing what the traditional treatment was for hysteria, I think I can live with that diagnosis.
myiq2xu
Just be careful – you don’t want to chip your teeth
Krista
My teeth? Jesus, where did you get your anatomy lessons — Bill Frist’s School of Medicine?
4tehlulz
Vagina dentata reference myiq?
tBone
Stay classy, myiq.
John S.
Doesn’t San Diego mean ‘whale’s vagina’?
myiq2xu
Sorry, I thought you were a blond.
Krista
And what if I was? You’re either making a vagina dentata joke, or you’re saying that blondes are too dumb to know how to use a vibrator correctly. I’m guessing it’s the latter.
If so, good joke. Shall I forward it along to Hillary for you?
myiq2xu
Who do you think told it to me?
myiq2xu
I thought “vagina dentata” was latin for nature’s dental floss.
Krista
Well played, sir!
myiq2xu
I guess Obama does attract votes from outside the Democratic Party after all.
Krista
The Hillary bit, not the dental floss bit. The former was clever, the latter was just….ew.
ThymeZone
Good god, who are the brainless fuckheads that get paid to write shit like this?
Two candidates share policy views, therefore, there is no difference between them?
So … all of us who share policy views, we’re just all alike? As if we were — whtat? — the same person?
WHAT THE FUCK?
How could two people be more different from each other than Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama? And this fucking idiot wants to suggest that because we can find policy alignments, there’s no difference between them?
If this were all about voting records, then why bother having a campaign? Simply lay out the policy and voting materials, let the voters pore over them … and choose. We don’t even have to know who we are choosing. Just Candidate A and Candidate B. We’ll review the records and pick one, and they can tell us later who A and B really are.
The Other Steve
Hillary’s position on things depends on the polling. She has consistently been against things in private which are now publically unpopular, and consistently for things in private which are now popular that weren’t before.
4tehlulz
Looks like Hillary has her excuse not to withdraw if she loses Texas.
Doesn’t count etc.
myiq2xu
Unlike Obama who has consistently taken principled stands on controversial issues like . . .uh, what?
myiq2xu
You’re starting to get the hang of this.
The Other Steve
Whether or not it’s over if Hillary loses Texas or Ohio.
myiq2xu
So you’re pro-gingivitis?
I believe in flossing daily
The Other Steve
No, we’ve pretty much had Hillary’s MO nailed from Day One.
The Other Steve
I’ve been flossing since DAY ONE!
myiq2xu
Which day was “Day One?”
10/26/47?
myiq2xu
Y’all are following Dick Morris’ instructions?
Do your duty!
4tehlulz
I don’t suppose it’s occurred to anyone that Rush and evil Dick want Hillary to stay in and cause more turmoil in the party, would it?
myiq2xu
Card-carrying liberal?:
But she’s a feminist, so it doesn’t count.
myiq2xu
Who cares what Limbaugh and Cheney want?
4tehlulz
You apparently. You brought it up.
chopper
the US benefits from exported goods? oh noes! obama’s a monster!
HeartlandLiberal
Piffle. I was targeted by a spammer a few years ago, and collected over 30,000 bounced undeliverable emails purportedly from my main work address in a matter of a few days. I had to write a rule to catch them as they hit my inbox and route them to temporary holding file. My Outlook window kept open all day on my desktop just sort of jiggled up and down all the time as the messages flowed in and with in fractions of a second were routed out into the junk box. Finally the email admins on the border servers did me a favor a dropped a rule in place that dev nulled the flow before it hit my account.
I had suffered a similar attack even more years early, just when spam was starting to reach a fever pitch, but it was only 5 or 6 thousand bounces.
Did I mention I have hated spammers for years?
myiq2xu
“Evil dick” sounds like something you would catch in a Bangkok whorehouse.
myiq2xu
I never liked Spam either
borehole
I don’t mind myiq2xu’s single-minded advocacy of Hillary, but his lame puns will DESTROY THE PARTY.
myiq2xu
It’s part of the “win at all costs” “scorched earth” strategy.
myiq2xu
Is he tired of turning over a new page already?
4tehlulz
I think that the odds are pretty good that Dick Morris would be caught in a Bangkok whorehouse.
Face
Thanks! I didn’t understand the “chip teeth” thing. I do now. Perhaps that’s a bad thing.
Paul L.
More positive stereotypes for West Virginia.
Punchy
could this be termed gingivagitis?
myiq2xu
About time someone told the truth:
To which I would add: the majority of the lefty blogosphere.
chopper
keep going with the ‘perpetual victim’ shtick. it still looks great on you.
myiq2xu
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free!
(and no, Obama didn’t say it first)
myiq2xu
Ruh roh! Fire up the Mystery Machine:
Can anyone say “feet of clay?”
myiq2xu
What was that phrase used yesterday about the Obama photo kerfluffle?
“Non-denial denial?”
chopper
man, this loss is really hitting you hard, isn’t it.
Xenos
Or is that more of a modified limited hangout? I was was but a wee lad during the Nixon era, so this gets beyond me at times.
myiq2xu
Are you referring to my hair?
John S.
What a thread.
I hate to say it, but myiq2xu’s posts are starting to resemble those of Paul L. in both content and tone.
Relax, man. It will all be over soon.
myiq2xu
That’s what I’ve been thinking.
Mary
Bill Richardson just appeared on CNN with Wolf Blitzer and all but endorsed Obama. I expect him to make it official before March 4.
Oh, and Stephen Fry has a few words of advice for Senator Clinton.
chopper
when he was young, fry spent a few months in jail.
the name of the place? pucklechurch prison.
seriously, that’s what it’s called.
bago
Stephen Fry has a blog.