I think I should change the line "You can deprive a dradle of its spin" to "It's the nature of a crashing plane to spin."

Posted at March 22, 2008 1:14 PM in response to Don't Let's Be Beastly To The Clintons (a song)

Lalo didn't like it? I am shocked. Shocked!

Posted at March 22, 2008 10:43 AM in response to Don't Let's Be Beastly To The Clintons (a song)

You're lying.

Posted at March 21, 2008 11:13 PM in response to So Hillary Clinton was never under sniper fire.

They're miserably stale, is all. Tired complaints from a tired, embittered campaign. It's not like you're fighting the good fight here, or bringing groundbreaking, staggeringly revelatory insight to bear on Obama's candidacy. Most of you are just one sour cauldron of tears--part Rezko, part Wright, part disenfranchisement myth, and all rubbish. I suppose it's your right to comment, and perhaps it has some cathartic quality I don't understand, but that doesn't address the fact that it's dumb--both in terms of the actual points and the folly of thinking that making them symbolizes some kind of brave internet Alamo. No, that doesn't mean having to talking in accordance with Obama talking points, but your own could certainly stand to be smarter. Be sure that it goes the same for some of these so-called Obamaniacs, too. There's no nobility in bush-league arguments, so please don't take pride because you're being told to shut up. It's not the spirit of voicing one's views that's at issue, Louisville. It's the validity of one's points.

Posted at March 21, 2008 3:43 PM in response to Obama Campaign Attacks Hillary's Character -- Blasts Her As "Untrustworthy"

"we aren't going to stand for back-room politics"? I said "I." My opinion. The only thing Hillary has to justify her getting the nomination is the specter that is Obama's "unelectability"--i.e., Wright. Frankly, I haven't heard a real reason behind that aside from "oh, the Republicans will eat him alive!" Hillary will deal with just as much mud, with the added disadvantage of having the Clinton brand name being strongly disliked along partisan lines.

She can keep running, of course, but it's pure vainglory. And, entertaining the operatic demise of her hubris would be to watch, I'd rather we just fast-forward to the inevitable.

Posted at March 21, 2008 2:38 PM in response to Obama Campaign Attacks Hillary's Character -- Blasts Her As "Untrustworthy"

You say "tomato," I say "bullshit." It doesn't matter, however, because ultimately you're going to stick by your girl. So why even take the time to write these stupid comments?

Give up on this disenfranchisement argument already. Hillary does not care about voters, she cares about votes. In a reverse scenario, she'd never give this to Obama, and you'd never ask her to. In fact, I'd be willing to bet, that given your undying support of Hillary no matter what she does, you'd just cite "the rules" as often as any Obama supporter is doing now. You'd also be justified in doing so. But please, drop the self-righteous hypocrisy here. Your hissy-fit is so transparent.

Supporting Hillary is one thing. You have your reasons, they're personal and as sacred as anyone else's. But stop trying to argue against Obama. You're upset about Clinton, I get it. But throwing empty points against Obama like a teenage girl throws stuffed animals against her bedroom wall during a temper tantrum is stupid. You're acting like a snot-nosed brat.

Posted at March 21, 2008 2:19 PM in response to Obama Campaign Attacks Hillary's Character -- Blasts Her As "Untrustworthy"

Politics of suck it up, you pouty hypocrite. Hillary's not arguing for voters, she's arguing for votes.

Posted at March 21, 2008 2:01 PM in response to Obama Campaign Attacks Hillary's Character -- Blasts Her As "Untrustworthy"

This guy is the biggest winner ever.

Posted at March 21, 2008 1:59 PM in response to Mark Penn: Richardson Endorsement Of Obama "Not Significant" Anymore

I just can't get over how these people think Hillary would EVER consider seating the delegates if she was in Obama's position. Moreover, can you imagine some of the people here in that scenario? Oh, there would be so much smarminess about the rules. Knowing these two hypothetical (but likely) outcomes, I can't say I have any sympathy for these sore losers.

Posted at March 21, 2008 11:50 AM in response to Obama Campaign Attacks Hillary's Character -- Blasts Her As "Untrustworthy"

It's time someone ropes Hillary off the stage. The specious reasoning that has become her whole campaign platform doesn't make her candidacy any more viable. At this point, she's nothing more than a Mike Huckabee with fangs, waging a useless war of attrition that hinders on an unlikely self-inflicted wound (no, Wright didn't do him in, and telling that to the internet doesn't make it any more likely to happen). If Obama needs to roll up his sleeves and take her to town, then so be it. If you want to keep it up with the unelectablility arguments, then fine. I can't stop you, no matter how throwaway I think they are. But the people have spoken, the delegates have spoken, and the superdelegates seem in the process of speaking, so it'd seem that both the majority and the influential few want Obama to represent the party. Lament the ignorance of the American electorate all you want, but if Obama loses, all they're obliged to do is reflect on their decision. America (one would hope) is still fundamentally a democracy--we're not at the point where we can (openly) embrace a bloated, corrupt plutocracy. To the elected, not the salesman, goes the nomination. I'm willing to chew on a potential mistake, but I won't accept some slezy, backdoor political deal done in "America's" interests. Suffering defeat under someone I believe in would be a far greater fate than to be fucked in my ass by best intentions.

The only ones who hold Obama up to this cartoonish and impossible standard of moral conduct are the wannabe cynics who criticize him. I've never been so naive as to equate a "new kind of politics" with non-politics. Obama can finish her off if for all I care. Someone needs to put that campaign of hers out of its misery. Besides, if we've learned anything from the Roman Coliseum, it's that since civilization began, people have always enjoyed a good deathblow.

Posted at March 21, 2008 11:34 AM in response to Obama Campaign Attacks Hillary's Character -- Blasts Her As "Untrustworthy"