Yah, Radha!
I was so pissed at Kos's supercilious pronouncement withdrawing his imminent donation to Obama. There's only one question facing anybody this year: Who do you want to be president: McCain or Obama? Because it's gonna be one of them.

All equivocation is bullshit.

Posted at July 17, 2008 10:52 AM in response to Obama Raises $52 Million In June

There are a few problems with this post, most of which I agree with. First of all, the association of Alcoholics Anonymous with hypercritical leftists is baffling, weird, and, finally, simply incorrect (despite the manipulated statistics of a hare-brained professor).

Second, and more to the point, the inhumanity among these professional malcontents is NOT unintended, any more than the carnage in Iraq was unintended by Bush and Cheney. You can see their supercilious, sanctimonious nihilism in every statement, the desire to bring down the candidate of the moderate party because he lacks perfection and is not one of them. The Naderites REVELED in their defeat of Gore and the destruction rained down by Bush. Like Bush and Cheney, they LOVE war, destruction, and the suffering of the masses who, after all, must be punished because they are too blind to promote THEM into power and pay homage to THEIR theories, schemes, and dogmas.

These people, the Naderites and their 2008 equivalent, are sick, sadistic sociopaths, not clueless idealists.

Posted at July 11, 2008 10:23 PM in response to The Unintended Inhumanity In the Progressive Indepent Movements

You're a perfect example of what McFadden is talking about!
"I am willing to give Obama some more leeway, but not much." That's big of you!

"Where he's right matters less to me than where he's wrong - he is wrong, so wrong on many issues that are of critical importance to me, most of them clustered in his troubling indifference to the Bill of Rights and the Constitution, but also around his statements on choice and health care. That McCain is worse is small comfort."

This is so stupid, arrogant, and ignorant as to beggar belief. This guy is a brillaint Constitutional lawyer who's worked his entire life to help average citizens assert and maintain their rights. If you're looking for tiny discrepancies between Obama's positions and yours to expand into vast chasms, I suppose you can find them. But the idea that McCain is just a little worse than the Democratic nominee is absurd. I bet you though Bush was just a little worse than Gore didn't you? Sure you did! So did your moron heroes, like Chomsky and Nader. Congratulations! I hope you think of this election when your daughter's having an abortion in a Tijuana hotel room. I'm sure she'll be pleased that you traded her right to choose for...what, exactly? You fill in the blank.

Posted at July 11, 2008 10:11 PM in response to The Unintended Inhumanity In the Progressive Indepent Movements

That's a preposterous example. Any crime the president pardons is going to be "unconstitutional" in the sense that almost all felonies violate a victim's rights. The courts have had their go at FISA. And this whole post is utterly misleading, since the real and hypothetical bills Obama talked about last year are not the same as the compromise bill in the senate now. There IS NO blanket immunity for the telecom companies. Not that it matters, since those lawsuits would be thrown out by the first judge who looked at them.

Posted at July 3, 2008 5:18 PM in response to A Time-line Of Obama's Statements On FISA

You are quite correct that Clark did not attack McCain's service, (in fact, he praised it lavishly earlier in his talk with Schieffer) and that it was Schieffer who used the words "ride in a fighter and get shot down" , which Clark then included in his response and which made Clark's sound bite sound slightly derisive.

That said, ya gotta look at results. Clark is, in Obama's charitable phrase, inartful. He talks too much. To complain about the media being slanted toward the Republicans, unfair to Democrats, irresponsible, inane, and just flat stupid is like complaining about the weather. OF COURSE the MSM are for the Republicans. They are owned by Republicans. And people in Clark's position have to be a little more artful than Wes usually is. They can't count on the media treating them fairly.

Posted at July 2, 2008 12:51 AM in response to No Apologies From Obama For Wes Clark's Comments

Why, you are just plain nuts.

Posted at June 28, 2008 5:52 PM in response to Keith Olbermann, Glenn Greenwald Feud Over FISA/Obama

THERE IS NO GREATER THREAT TO OUR "CORE VALUES" AND CIVIL LIBERTIES THAN TO HAVE A REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT. Period.

I suggest you FISA bill chest-thumpers process that for a while. Then if you still REALLY think there's no difference between Obama and McCain, everyone will know you are mentally ill. Just like the clowns in 2000 who said there would be no difference between a Gore presidency and a Bush presidency.

Posted at June 28, 2008 5:51 PM in response to Keith Olbermann, Glenn Greenwald Feud Over FISA/Obama

Do we really need this right wing gibberish? The post presents no information, no analysis, not even a fresh opinion, just a little stale bile: Obama is selling us out! It's clearly part of a systematic effort by right wingers to distract and demoralize progressive bloggers.

Bush has done at least half a dozen things far worse than the illegal wiretapping: Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, institutionalization of torture, outing Plame, invading Iraq, rendition, ignoring the warnings about al Qaeda and 9/11, failing to capture bin Laden, and so on. All of these things have atually concretely hurt people, in total, hundreds of thousands of them. This sky-is-falling alarmism over the FISA bill is ridiculous. Bush has been doing this for 7 years!

The sky is falling! The govt. is filling the box cars to take us to their secret concentration camps!

Posted at June 28, 2008 5:46 PM in response to Keith Olbermann, Glenn Greenwald Feud Over FISA/Obama

Yeah, we wouldn't have EPA and OSHA without Nixon, either. To hell with you and Ralph and his 35 year-old lobbying efforts. He's a liar, a cheat, and a thief. "Dems lost in 2000. Get over it."? I guess you don't know anybody whose kid was killed or maimed in Iraq. Tell them to "get over it."

Posted at June 26, 2008 8:42 AM in response to Nader To Obama: You Want To Talk White?

Jesus, if anybody has a cult following it's Nader, the Charles Manson of politics. I've never heard worse bullshit from a supposedly progressive candidate's mouth than from Nader, in 2000 and 2004. He's a humorless, self-important nihilist, who thinks if anybody but Ralph is the leader, it doesn't matter who it is.

well, it's obvious it DOES matter. And as for you, moron, of course Nader "has the right" to run for president, just as he has the right to voice his stupid racist opinions to reporters. Having the right to do something doesn't make it right to do it. Can you process that?

Posted at June 26, 2008 8:37 AM in response to Nader To Obama: You Want To Talk White?