Charming:
No good can come from the unholy union of Michelle Malkin and Larry Johnson.
Start stocking up on canned goods, bottled water, and batteries (for the radio, Larry Craig supporters). I am so ready for this election to be over.
The End Times
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demkat620
Add duct tape and plastic sheeting to the list.
Grand Moff Texan
Hard not to feel superior to people who can’t tell a blastocyst from a human being, who think the earth is 6,000 years old, who think that tax cuts will grow the economy, who thought that there were WMD in Iraq, who think that history will vindicate the trust-fund baby who squandered the hegemony of the greatest power in the world.
Shut up, Crackerstan. The only thing you’ve been to your country is the hole that your betters stick it in when they want to fuck us all.
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Bubblegum Tate
Is this going to be the official “Al Gore said he invented the Internet!” of the 2008 campaign?
Fledermaus
Charming. Really they go about calling dem/Obama voters elitist and follow that up by calling them snobs?
You know if the country wants to choose yet another president by vapid discourse about snobs and elites and who’s the better bowler rather than discussing the numerous problems currently confronting us, fine. HRC won’t win that kind of general election either. I’ve made my peace with the fact that the GOP will pull out all the shiney shineys that they have the last 8 years. If the voters want to fall for that crap yet again, so be it. Fucking voters will just have to learn the hard way that stupid hurts.
cleek
If “elitist” just means “not the dumbest motherfucker in the room”, I’ll be an elitist!
from this GYWO strip.
yes, i have the t-shirt.
Jen
Because “suck it up” is such a helpful, compassionate thing to say to working folks.
Bubblegum Tate
I understand the sentiment, but the problem is that the rest of us are going to get caught up in the collateral damage.
Still, it’s depressing how utterly fucking stupid our nation’s political discourse is. We will talk about absolutely anything except the stuff that, you know, matters.
smiley
They really, really want to bring him down. Listening to talk radio today was worrying. They’re not going to let this go. The Wright flap, the bowling didn’t work so they’re latching on to this. They will not stop (of course). The fact that Hillery is teaming up with the vast right wing conspiracy on this is all the more disturbing.
PaulB
This is one of the more irritating things about Clinton’s attacks on Obama: she will be subjected to precisely these same attacks and she is just as vulnerable. Experienced? McCain can out-experience her. Elitist? McCain can out-regular-guy her. Security at 3:00 a.m.? McCain can out-security her. By buying into these tired memes and by not trying to change or re-frame the debate, she’s playing right into Republican hands.
And that’s why Obama’s beating her, I think, because even though he may still lose to the usual litany of Republican attacks, he is at the very least trying to change this debate in a way that Clinton either can not, or will not, or both.
cleek
yes, GOP, let’s talk about elitism.
rawshark
Ding ding! McCain is the choice of our betters. It’s that simple. He’s not really their choice but they’re stuck with him since he’s the remainder of the special interest group hashkey algorythm, errr I mean primary season.
Zifnab
Yeah, so… um… how’d that Edwards campaign turn out again?
Disclaimer: I’m a big Edwards supporter, but he got pretty decently schooled in the primary.
ThymeZone
One of the signatures of the Obama campaign, one of the hallmarks of its appeal, is that we don’t have to settle for snark and stupidity as the common denominator for discourse.
If you saw Barack last night, you saw that in action.
A sarcastic slogan or image is not discourse. Discourse is discourse. Barack knows how to do discourse. There’s no reason to give this kind of bullshit any quarter at all. The voters are smarter than this, and given the choice between the feckless McCain, and Barack, I am still looking forward to a good old fashioned ass-whipping being put on our Republican friends this fall.
Dork
OK, we get it. Hillary’s a bitch. Obama’s toast. McCane wins this by default. This is getting trite. Fast.
Grand Moff Texan
Because “suck it up” is such a helpful, compassionate thing to say to working folks.
How is that any different from “pull yourself up by your bootstraps”?
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PaulB
You know, it never ceases to amaze me that people and a party who who are the very epitome of elitism have the audacity to claim their opponents are elitist. And it amazes me even more than an all-too-compliant media goes right along with it. Gore, Kerry, and Obama, elitist? WTF???
rawshark
This has a certain ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ feel to it. Probably not such a big deal if a white guy said average americans are bitter.
Jen
Because it has “suck” in it, which gives Malkin’s readers a special kind of thrill.
rob!
as a professional illustrator, i’m saddened some fellow artist would waste his/her time on (re)designing that poster.
cbear
Larry Johnson is a “reformed” Rethug.
The latent gooper force is still strong in that one.
wingnuts to iraq
well what’s the problem? How do we know it wasn’t Obama’s white half making the comment?
Perry Como
http://barackobamaisyournewbicycle.com/
Delia
The sad thing is, for a while Larry ran a very informative military affairs website. Now it’s all New York Post level tabloid hit jobs on Obama. It’s like they all came and took back his brain.
ThymeZone
You folks all sound like your dog got run over.
Is this the same crowd that spent the last year bitching and moaning and posting that Dems should show some spine?
Okay, kids. It’s spine time. Stiffen up. Let’s stop talking like we can’t beat the meanies. First of all, let Obama speak for himself on this topic. Second, let the teams play the game. Let Hillary do her Joe Liberaman imitation. We have the strongest candidate, in Obama, that we’ve seen at this level. Let him do what he does. It’s not time to concede — yet again — to schoolyard politics.
You all might want to watch the morning’s appearances by these candidates in full. Notice that John McCain couldn’t buy an applause line, even as he tried to milk the Demsnob lines for all they were worth.
If the voters were really as stupid as some here would suggest, Pat Buchanan or Pat Robertson would be president already.
PaulB
Josh Marshall, over at Talking Points Memo, had this to say:
With the Wright business and now with this, the more nuanced version of the Clinton line has been that what ‘we’ think is not really the point. It’s what Republicans will do with it in the fall. And that’s a real concern that I definitely have. I won’t deny it. I’ve never thought Obama was a perfect candidate. But as we get deeper into the primary calendar, increasingly so, this ‘what the Republicans will do’ line has become more of a simulacrum, or a license, if you will, to do what Republicans actually do do. That is to say, to grab for political advantage by peddling stereotypes about Democrats and liberals that are really no less offensive than the ones we’re talking about about Americans from small town and rural America.
And seeing Hillary go on about how Obama has contempt for folks in small town America, how he’s elitist, well … no, it’s not because I think she’s either. I never have. But after seeing her hit unfairly with just the same stuff for years, it just encapsulates the last three-plus months of her campaign which I can only describe as a furious descent into nonsense and self-parody. Part of it makes me want to cry. But at this point all I can really do is laugh.
Dennis - SGMM
Not like John McCain, son and grandson of four star admirals. The quarters that admirals and their dependents live in, the food they eat and the social circles they travel in are about as elite as it gets. I’m not begrudging them a bit of it either, most of them are damned good at their jobs and they have huge responsibilities. Just saying that someone who grew up under those circumstances knows as little of the life of the average American as it is possible to know and still live in this country.
For those who don’t know me, I was born on a Navy base, grew up in the Navy and served myself.
lilysmom
Over the past fourteen years I have become unbelievably embittered over our political process and the thugs that we keep electing.
Republicans will say anything and do anything to maintain power. They aren’t competent at anything else.
And now Hillary is just as bad as they are.
I wouldn’t mind seeing her turn this vitriol on McCain, but on a fellow Democrat?
The electorate is so easily fooled. It is just stunning.
I’m not sure that there is enough Stoli to get me through November.
Pixie
I support Obama 100%, but still the graphic made me chuckle lol. It’s incorrect, but the stab at humor is less pathetic than usual.
A Different JC
Instead of ‘snob’ I think the word Malkin wants is ‘uppity,’ no?
Anyway, this is fine and predictable from the GOP and their paid-for pundits. The republicans have been scared to death that the Bitter Majority will finally figure out that they’ve been voting for the party of Tax Cuts for the Rich, and that the Democrats are actually the party of the blue-collar, labor, working class.
For this reason, the GOP has tried to shout down any Democrat who brings up what the GOP calls ‘class warfare.’ Because if the Demcrats finally manage to convince the blue-collars to trust them again (like they did back before McGovern) then the modern GOP will be decimated.
Kerry was painted as a rich elitist because, hey, he was from Massachusetts. Same with Dukakis. And the same would have happened to “Westchester New York” Hillary.
Obama is so scary to the GOP because he has stirred up the class-warfare, Bitter Majority, beast. And if Obama manages to ride the Bitter slogan, to use this incident to both claim the mantle of the working class champion while showing that McCain (and Hillary) don’t understand that bitterness is a fact of most Americans’ lives in 2008, then Obama will have accomplished what so many Democrats have been hoping for: to define the party as the default majority party.
Obama can do it. This incident may finally be the tipping point.
Fledermaus
I’m actually in agreement with you, TZ. The main reason we have this sillyness is that our pundit/courtier class is very comfortable with their 6 figure consulting gigs, the vainity of appearing on the teevee, dinner partys with the rich and powerful, etc etc. So for them this is just a wonderful way to live in high school forever, free of any meaningful duties or responsibilities.
I do believe that most voters are not that dumb and that they are ready for an adult conversation about government. Obama, from everything I’ve seen in his responses to these non-scandals, seem to think the same thing. As Josh noted in PaulB’s post:
crw
That’s right. Barack Obama, son of a Luo tribesman is the elitist snob here. Not John Sidney McCain III, son of an Admiral and member of the Keating five.
Grand Moff Texan
Look on the bright side:
We’re now having a national conversation about how the GOP gets the people they rape to vote for them.
Heh.
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Nim, ham hock of liberty
Who was it that made that remark about “Some people call you elites, I call you my base,” at a $$$$$-per plate fundraiser?
That was Obama, right?
jake
Ha, ha. Nice riff on “It’s a black thing…”
Assholes.
If that doesn’t work they’re going to start escalating. First we’ll have “Absolut Uppity Negro,” followed by “Just Say NO-bama,” and finally “ZOMG, DON’T LET THAT N****R IN THE WHITE HOUSE!”
And it will be great, because the only people who give a damn about what Michelle Malkin has to say are a bunch of horny, zit-splattered Cheeto eating bloboids who are hoping for another chance to look at her cheerleader panties. John Cole will give Hillary a big wet kiss before any of those slobs vote Democrat so here’s hoping they spend some of their cash on that crap. Come November they’ll be shedding hot tears of anger into their Snobama coffee mugs and wiping the snot of sadness on their XXXL Snobama t-shirts.
shera
Republican Congressman Geoff Davis:
“I’m going to tell you something: That boy’s finger does not need to be on the button. He could not make a decision in that simulation that related to a nuclear threat to this country.”
The diary at Daily Kos has the story and contact information for Davis’s office.
TheFountainHead
I’m about two more days of this away from rocks, clubs, pitch-forks, and a violent episode.
Maybe I was right from the beginning…the country has to implode first.
jrg
Obama is clearly an elitist. Self-made men and distinguished scholars always are.
What we really need is a moron we can drink beer with.
myiq2xu
Is Hillary’s
insurgencycampaign in its last throes? Maybe another Friedman unit will do it.By Barack’s karma?
I feel your pain.
Dennis - SGMM
For years after FDR the Democrats were identified as the party of the working man. They slowly forgot that in the intervening years. By the Nineties we had Bill Clinton signing off on NAFTA. This decade we saw Dems voting for the so-called Bankruptcy Reform Act. Now Congress is considering a bailout bill that does more financially for home builders than it does for distressed home owners. If Democrats are to once again become the party who represents the working class then they need to summon up the courage to legislate for them. Less bad than the Republicans is not good enough.
cbear
Fuck that primitive shit—-I’m about two days away from buying a Hummer (hybrid, of course) and proceeding to run down anyone I suspect of being a gooper in the pedestrian crosswalks.
Ed Drone
My position is that McPain gets exactly eight occasions where he can call Obama “elitist.” That is one time for each of McSame’s eight houses.
Then he has to shut up about “elitism.” That’s it. Once per house and then shut your pie-hole. No extras for a bank account or stock portfolio, no give-backs for his lobbyist connections. Nope, it’s one per house and then STFU.
… And I make it about two have already been used up.
Ed
smiley
Good point. Maybe Obama can work that into the 40th response he’ll have to make to this nonsense.
myiq2xu
Dude, you’re supposed to pull over when you get a hummer. Then you won’t run over pedestrians.
ThymeZone
Better trolls, for crissakes.
Go the fuck away.
DougJ
You know what? I could also tell that Larry Johnson was kind of a nut. That became clear when he made the “LJ” sign after he banked in that 30 point three against the Pacers. But I digress. A lot of these Clinton supporters — LJ being a good example — always seemed slightly unsavory to me but I was willing to let it slide since they were so critical on Bush. Shame on me for thinking that hating Bush was a surefire sign of good character.
AkaDad
They’re freaking out because Obama spoke the words that shouldn’t be spoken. The Republicans have manipulating working folks into voting on wedge issues, instead of what’s in their best economic interest.
He just exposed the class warfare strategy that the haves and have mores have been waging on workers for the last 30 years.
4tehlulz
*sigh* No one respects old-school mobs anymore…
dslak
Ron Paul’s campaign is still chugging along. I guess that means he has a shot at winning the Republican nomination.
Unless, of course, one wanted to argue that having a campaign for a party’s nomination and having an actual path to the nomination were two different things, but fine distinctions like that are best ignored for the moment if you’re still holding out hope for Hillary.
cbear
You volunteering your services again, myiq?
DougJ
I think he needs to write a Tim Russert style memoir about “big Luo” and how he got his haircut in a hut for some small number of whatever the Kenyan currency is. I’m not really kidding.
A Different JC
1. I wasn’t talking about Hillary, I was talking about the Democrats vs. the GOP. And if Obama gets the nomination, and wins in November, then he may succeed in propelling the realignment which began in the 06 midterms.
2. While some people may assume that supporting Obama means hating on Hillary, I want to re-emphasize that the Republicans are the real ‘enemy’ in this election. Hillary could restore herself in our esteem by actually behaving like a Democrat again.
3. If anybody is echoing Dick Cheney’s ‘last throes’ comment, it would be the Hillary supporters. Just go over to Larry Johnson’s website and see all the commenters talking about how Obama is finished, finished I tell you.
4. myiq2xu? Wait, aren’t you that concern-troll I’ve been warned about? Why am I even responding? I guess it’s because, as a hopeless liberal, I want people like you to come back to your senses.
John S.
Don’t forget the money shot. He’s a big fan of bukkake.
A Different JC
Right on, guys. We need to keep repeating this stuff and maybe the facts will finally get through the haze of nonsense.
myiq2xu
Bend over, I’ll drive.
PaulB
Yup. Next idiotic question?
Grand Moff Texan
Is Hillary’s insurgency campaign in its last throes?
More like hormone replacement therapy.
See? Explains a lot, doesn’t it?
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PaulB
Robert Reich’s take on this:
…
Does Russert really believe he’s doing the nation a service for this parade of spin doctors talking about potential spins and the spin-offs from the words Obama used to state what everyone knows is true? Or is Russert merely in the business of selling TV airtime for a network that doesn’t give a hoot about its supposed commitment to the public interest but wants to up its ratings by pandering to the nation’s ongoing desire for gladiator entertainment instead of real talk about real problems.
We’re heading into the worst economic crisis in a half century or more. Many of the Americans who have been getting nowhere for decades are in even deeper trouble. Large numbers of people in Pennsylvania and across the nation are losing their homes and losing their jobs, and the situation is likely to grow worse. Consumers are at the end of their ropes, fuel and food costs are skyrocketing, they can’t go deeper into debt, they can’t pay their bills. They aren’t buying, which means every business from the auto industry to housing to even giant GE is hurting. Which means they’ll begin laying off more people, and as they do, we will experience an even more dangerous downward spiral.
Bitter? You ain’t seen nothing yet. And as much as people like Russert, Carville, Matalin, Schrum, and Murphy want to divert our attention from what’s really happening; as much as HRC and McCain seek to make political hay out of choices of words that can be spun cynically by the mindless spinners of the old politics; as much as demagogues on the right and left continue to try to channel the cumulative frustrations of Americans into a politics of resentment – all these attempts will, I hope, prove futile. Eighty percent of Americans know the nation is on the wrong track. The old politics, and the old media that feeds it, are irrelevant now.
Dork
I was wondering when we’re gunna have a few posts to let us know how Cole feels about the Clinton presidential nominee campaign. Seems like we haven’t had one in at least….15 minutes.
myiq2xu
Oops:
Barry claims he never met Auchi.
Zifnab
You haven’t been on a college campus recently. They may not know how to get anything done, but they’re regular pros at forming into large globuals of humanity and plowing over things. God bless UT.
Nah, I don’t need to see the streets running red with blood (although I wouldn’t complain if I did). I’ll be more than happy to watch the vast majority of liberals, most of independents, and a sizeable chunk of conservatives calmly shuffle up to the voting booths and pull the lever for Obama. A solid 60-40 victory against McCain with coat tails to match will be enough to lay down a healthy dose of STFU. I think the Unity Pony can take us there. But we all knew from the start it was going to be a rough ride.
Cassidy
The Dem politicians need to remember it first. The dems are just as guilty on making wedge issues the main event of any kind of debate. Thats what made Obama’s words so true; the middle class has been getting screwed by the left and right for so long, that they really don’t know who to trust at this point.
cbear
I don’t have a problem with consenting adults being fans of bukkake, or practicing the sport….especially if the bukkakee is a gooper.
Zifnab
And Hillary says she did nothing wrong in the White Water land deal. She also claims she didn’t kill Vince Foster.
Seriously, you wouldn’t put up with this shit if Obama’s last name was Clinton. Why are you putting up with it now? Bowling scores and orange juice orders just not getting the traction you were looking for? Maybe we’ll get to hear about startling new revelations in the Reverend Wright Anti-American Controversy of the Century next.
Perry Como
I think this is the image you are looking for.
AkaDad
You may be an elitist if you’re in the top tax bracket and support borrowing money to give yourself a tax cut.
You may be an elitist if you feel the need to inspect someone’s counter tops.
You may be an elitist if your political party’s base consists of the haves and have mores.
You may be an elitist if you believe soldiers who oppose the war are phony.
You may be an elitist if you believe earned income should be taxed more than unearned income.
cbear
Fat chance, bro…you can barely type.
Svensker
The right (and Hillary) get bent out of shape because Obama’s a SNOB (not that I think he is)?
Can we get the coffee mugs with Johnny Mac’s (and Shrub’s) photo with WAR CRIMINAL and/or TORTURER underneath?
Because being a snob is SO much worse than smashing little boy’s testicles.
dslak
Since
Clinton’s most ardent supportersObama concern trolls continually want to talk about who is “more electable” come November, do they seriously want to suggest that Keating Five McCain is going to make hay about Obama being present at a party held by important fundraisers?Would they also seriously suggest that Hillary is somehow less susceptible to suggestions of shady dealings? I sure hope so, ’cause I like a good laugh.
AkaDad
I have a question for Hillary supporters.
How does it feel to be in bed with Michelle Malkin and Bill Kristol?
dslak
“
Obama concern trollsClinton’s most ardent supporters” would have been funnier, wouldn’t it? Yeah, it would. I demand satisfaction!ntr Fausto Carmona
She just dissed Al Gore in public. The SATSQ 8-Ball says “Yes.”
Mark Simmons
Oh this is just too much…..*sniff*….I think I need to find a fainting couch. What can’t everyone see what we see John? And Andrew Sullivan? He’s never been wrong on anything. This woman must be stopped….*sniff sniff* who will protect the children from this woman. *sniff*
What a sad day in America :(
ntr Fausto Carmona
Amazing how we didn’t have such a flurry of posts when Hillary was busy questioning General Petraeus and not flinging #### at Obama. Odd how that works.
ResumeMan
Seriously people, get a grip. Doesn’t anyone remember the huge collapse in Obama’s standing, the death throes of his candidacy, after the Rev. Wright thing broke?
No? I don’t either. But I do remember all the Chicken Littles running around thinking this was the end, and Obama stepped up, cool as could be, and turned the controversy on its head. (No, I don’t believe we’ve heard the last of Rev Wright, but I’m damn sure it’s not fatal)
I bet it’s the same thing here. Hillary’s hysterics aren’t going over well in the “real world,” Obama is hitting back hard and clean, and this controversy isn’t gonna kill him either.
Let’s just take a deep breath.
dslak
Actually, Al Gore’s elitism (combined with the media’s love of the Texas fratboy) probably did hurt him. It would seem rather unwise to make hay out of it when trying to court the votes of superdelegates, however.
ntr Fausto Carmona
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Dork and Mark Simmons: Your Chris Crocker Clintonites. LEAVE HILLARY ALONE!!!
ntr Fausto Carmona
Can I still jab at them? They’re so cute when they get whiny.
Or when you’ll eventually need Gore’s support in one form or another.
GeoRockstar
maybe my memory is skewed because I was living in the bay area at the time, but wasn’t Nader siphoning votes from Gore? and, while progressives can be forgiving, pandering to the right of McCain might be a way to piss off the same people who couldn’t hold their noses the last time?
dslak
Yes, but Nader and his cohort can be forgiven for 2000, because they at least had a point and could point to many of the failures of the Clinton administration when it came to issues important to them.
I’m more reluctant to absolve them for trying in 2004 or now, but there can always be a Night of the Long Knives after the election.
Echo without Bunnies or Men
Wow, just when I thought they couldn’t sink any lower than primordial monkey shit. But this is too fucking funny. Calling Obama an elitist? From HRC who made $100 million ducks in the last 7 years? From McCain who is worth about the same who owns 8 houses? Naw, those are just two good pickin regular joes like you and me.
This shit might have worked years ago, but finally I think the people of Amurica have seen through this kind of crap and recognize it for what is it…crap peddling from flailing morons who know they will lose.
dadanarchist
I wonder if Shepard Fairey (who designed the original poster) is going to sue?
It would be a strange thing for an ex-tagger to do, but…
nightjar
If your gonna criminalize attending parties with shady characters why don’t we just build a mote around D.C. and fill it with alligators or republicans and call it justice.
jake
Fixed.
Dork
Wow, I rip Cole and in the process somehow get tagged as a Hillary supporter. God damn are people uptight around here. Y’all need a collective Xanax.
dslak
Sounds like a good setting for Escape from Washington, D.C..
AkaDad
Dork
I can’t speak for the others here, but the reason why I’m upset is that we got burned the last time by not fighting back against the swift-boaters, and I’m determined not to let it happen again.
nightjar
The Hill would make a fine Snake Pliskin.
myiq2xu
Who said it?:
Good thing I got my gun and my bible.
John Cole
That Rezko bomb is stunning. He was actually in the same mansion? game over.
Hey- who is Marc Rich?
Notorious P.A.T.
. . . you think you’re too good to pay your bills.
Haha! “bukkakee”, I love it.
Davebo
It’s almost sad reading the comments at Johnsons blog or Taylor Marsh.
It’s like Deja Vu all over again!
Leaving out the PA reference, that’s the exact same thing they said about Rezko and Rev. Wright.
And then, when it sinks in that the shit ain’t sticking it’s back to collective whining about the media and how they refuse to look into these scandals.
Cause, you know, we didn’t hear squat from the media about Rezko, Wright, or bitterness….
John Cole
Dork- Go ahead and attack me all you want, I am a big boy. I can fight back if I think there is any point to it.
Notorious P.A.T.
Well shoot! I remember everyone I’ve ever met, and if you asked me if I had ever met a certain person I would have absolutely no trouble rendering an accurate answer. Of course, I’m not a Harvard grad with relatives on 3 continents who has lived in half the major cities in America and represents in Congress one of the most densely populated areas in our nation.
Tim (The Other One)
Looks like I picked the wrong day to stop wearin'(dropped that “g” for the Hill fans) my flag lapel pin !
I ‘aint no ways tired…..
dslak
Why is it that sites like Political Machine, which claims to “Sort the Spin 24/7,” are purveyors of spin themselves? Obama’s wife – a woman who doesn’t have previous experience as a public persona – said some stuff in praise of her husband with religious overtones? That’s all you’ve got?
Oh, but the Republicans will use it against him (but they would give Hillary a free pass, or she’s impervious to attacks, or [insert laughable pro-Hillary spin here])!
AkaDad
Obama is the first President in my lifetime to come along and offer an actual Government of, for, and by the people, as opposed to a Government of the lobbyists, for the rich, and by the CEO’s.
I don’t want to miss this opportunity.
TR
Worse than that. Do you know he lived in Chicago … and so did Al Capone?!?!
Good to see you, MyIQis2. Made another $50 donation in your honor to Barack just now. You’re quite the inspiration!
Dennis - SGMM
Isn’t there something just the least bit surreal about two candidates who have supped at the public trough for years accusing a third candidate of being elitist?
Randall
Did Mark Penn get fired because he couldn’t get along
with Karl Rove?
AkaDad
I meant candidate not President above. I’m rambling like…an elitist.
rawshark
Only for the reality based. For those who recieve their reality through the filter there’s nothing unusual about it. The media is accusing the unfavored candidate of being out of touch with the regular people. This is happening because as usual the unfavored candidate is favord by the people who matter least.
myiq2xu
How much money do you have left?
AkaDad
Snob is the new uppity.
A Different JC
Wow, thanks Perry, I had no idea that poster was out there.
Amen, Cassidy. And that was Obama’s point, too. He’s the anti-establishment candidate in an election year when 81% of the country think we’re on the wrong track.
To deny the bitterness of 4/5th of the country in an election is suicide! I just hope the remaining Democratic superdelegates understand that.
Zifnab
I saw that movie and it sucked.
daryljhusseinfontaine
I’ve come to realize the humor in blogs like that. Try reading through the first few pages of comments, and imagine a boiler-room operation of cut-and-paster anti-Obama drones, tasked to posting the exact same smears (“Trinity! Rezko! Wright! Elitist!”) to every single blog that criticizes Obama. I mean, I suppose in this economy you take work where you can find it, but man, aren’t there telemarketing jobs open anywhere so those folks can at least have a modicum of self-respect?
D
J. Michael Neal
I don’t keep close tabs on the Chicago party circuit (though my evenings are free; just drop me an invite), so maybe these are different parties. However, I knew months ago that Obama and Auchi had been to the same party at the same time. As near as I can tell, all that proves is that they aren’t the same person.
myiq2xu
Apparently Obama is miffed because Hillary was knocking back a couple with the boys the other night.
I guess he has he has “Bitter Beer Face.”
w vincentz
I wondered why Hillary dissed Gore and Kerry as “elitists”.
Here’s a point of view:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23538559-2703,00.html
The Commander Guy
An Interesting Alliance has formed between Clintonites, the Talk Radio Right and the Conservative Elite. These parties and their wingnut footsoldiers form an Axis.
All speak the same talking points and share a similar goal. These days it can be virtually impossible to distinguish a Red State Wingnut from a Clintonite by their respective use of rhetoric when reading the comment boards on the internets (such as here). Since these groups have combined forces, maybe there is a new group of people who qualify to be labeled as wingnuts. Perhaps they are all wingnuts now.
Right now, we have a new name for this alliance of Clintonites, Talk Radio Wingnut Warriors and Conserva-gensia.
The Big Three are now named:
THE AXIS of the INCOHERENT.
TR
Usually I only give $400 during the primary. I was still well under that, but the last few weeks here you helped me reach that goal and give another, what, $300 over that limit.
So I’m up to $700, which leaves me another $1600 to go in the primary season. I’ll be sure to donate a little in your honor every time you piss me off in these coming weeks. It’s been a hell of a good year for me workwise, so I can afford it.
Maybe others will join in, and we can make you an honorary donor bundler for the Obama campaign. Whatever his version of a Bush Pioneer is.
cleek
oh, and Fuck Joe Lieberman, too.
TR
Also, I usually give the full donation to the Democratic nominee for the general election.
I’ll still be doing that if it’s Obama, but I’ve gotten so pissed off by Hillarybots like you though that if it’s Hillary, then for the first time in six presidential elections, I won’t be donating a dime.
Again, keep up the good work!
Justin Slotman
All right–where did the UPPITY counter-poster come from? Because it’s hilarious. (Assuming it’s a counter-poster and not Malkin’s first idea.)
Josh E.
This was an amusing comment over at the story about that how horrible Michelle Obama came across to some frat boy wingnut lawyer.
Mona
Well, at least now I know it is not just Republicans who can be vile. This was one of the comments at Johnson’s blog:
PeterJ
Joe Lieberman doesn’t have a future in the democratic party, he knows it and everybody else too. He’ll be kicked out in 2009. Since it doesn’t look like there will be 59 democratic Senators in 2009 and it won’t be 49 either, he’s useless.
If McCain would win he’ll be gone before inauguration day.
And he’ll be gone from the Senate in 2013.
Phoebe
Look on the positive side. That poster is kind of hot. More than kind of. Dang.
Mona
Look on the positive side. That poster is kind of hot. More than kind of. Dang
Phoebe, amen sister! [giggle]
Billy Bob Neck
When are y’all gonna realize that the good, Christian people of the United States of America ain’t gonna vote for either of these murderers?? Y’all put up either snobs, homos, lesbians or greeks and keep thinking you’re gonna win the election! You got a screw loose!
Dork
Not attacking; just thought you should know what a all-Hillary, all-the-time blog you’ve become. Dont think that’s such a great thing.
Rick Taylor
This is John’s blog; he gets to talk about whatever he likes here. If you make a blog, you can talk about whatever you like.
Dork
Boy, I love this argument.
And you’re free not to shower for a month and reek like shit. Your body, your BO. But I’d guess you’d want someone to tell if you were offensive.
calj12
All of you people sound frustrated and bitter. Can Obama help you locate the source?