All of a sudden they care about the obscure stories re pentagon, face recognition scanning…oh,…primary? What primary? [Oh God, please make her go away, please!!!!]

It must really hurt to see your favorite heart throb on American Idol have a bad performance. Maybe he’ll be voted off.

I love this job!

Stuck for choice. I can be a wife-beater or a klansman. This is the level of debate as exercised by the online democratic community.

I hold onto a vague hope that perhaps it’s just an internet thing. Maybe all that screen radiation causes some kind of weird Fred Phelps syndrome. Maybe all the other Democrat voters that haven’t discovered blogging are perfectly sane and lucid.

Or maybe the veneer of progress and tolerance among Democrats has been shown in this primary to be razor thin.

Screaming foul play about one’s opponent’s use of race-baiting, only to brand half the party as women-hating chauvinists in the same screed?

“But… but < sob! > they started it, sir!!!”

It’s like watching chimpanzees hurling feces at each other in the zoo.

Get the “appalachian” vote. Lots of charts and flowerly language to explain what Obama’s not getting. And fine, call it what you will, call it the moonshine vote, the scot-irish vote, the white, rural, uneducated vote…hell, call it the redneck vote, but, you know what Obama’s not getting? He’s not “getting” that he can’t win the election w/out the “appalachian” vote and until he figures this out he won’t win. Keep in mind this is just one part of the nation he’s not reaching.

WKJM also details how these folks living in appalachia are…wait for it… racist. Yes, once again, another connection to racism, were we surprised, no. And they’re old, too…forgot that one. Yikes.

“As I alluded to earlier, this was the origin of West Virginia, which was originally the westernmost part of Virginia. The anti-slavery, anti-slaveholding upcountry seceded from Virginia to remain in the Union after Virginia seceded from the Union. Each of these regions was fiercely anti-Slavery. And most ended up raising regiments that fought in the Union Army. But they were as anti-slave as they were anti-slavery, both of which they viewed as the lynchpins of the aristocratic and inegalitarian society they loathed. It was a society that was both more violent and more self-reliant.

This is history. But it shapes the region. It’s overwhelmingly white, economically underdeveloped (another legacy of the pre-civil war pattern) and arguably because of that underdevelopment has very low education rates and disproportionately old populations. “

I love this job!

Glad we’re agreed on the race-baiting. Unfortunately, the misogyny is this campaign is real, and at times it seems to come from everywhere but the Hillary campaign. Shakespeare’s Sister has been keeping a list: It’s now up to 89.

In addition, if the comment threads at Kos, TPM, et cetera, are anything like they were, they’re filled with the most noxious forms of Hillary Hatred imaginable — made up stuff created by the Republicans in the 90s to impeach the Clintons with, and now repeated endlessly by the proponents of “a new kind of politics.”

So, shoot the messenger if you will.

[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

Clinton Wins West Virginia Primary by Wide Margin

HE GOT CREAMED… She also won the support of most voters under age 30, a group that has typically voted heavily for Mr. Obama throughout this election. She also edged out Mr. Obama among college graduates and higher-income voters, also groups Mr. Obama has relied on… Read More

h/t Taylor Marsh

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So much for Hillary’s voters being ignorant racist, old farts.

Now it’s entire regions that don’t count.

[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

from Incitatus, of chimps hurling feces at each other is killing me. We need a real picture of that one.

Heard Joe Klein the other night on CNN, in a drive-by viewing only, describing how tired Obama is to explain the verbal screw ups. Whatever — like the older woman isn’t tired, yet runs circles around him. Plus he was looking rather cocky in the pool shooting ’photo op.’ Arrogant doesn’t go over well when you’re heading out the door to your second job.

I think she is going to win.

See here.

[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

First Hillary is nearly 20 years older than him and 2nd, IIRC Obama’s been a pretty heavy smoker for quite a long time, that’s gotta affect your health at some point.

I would call him a “drama queen”, but because he’s gay, that might be considered an slur, but the shoe fits.
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Go away you horrible human being
by John Aravosis (DC) · 5/13/2008 09:25:00 PM ET ·

IT’S NOT CLOSE. YOU FREAKING LOST THE NOMINATION, WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?

Good God. What is wrong with her? The Clintons and their campaign staff don’t give a damn that they are now hurting our electoral chances in the fall against McCain and against the Republicans in Congress.
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She can’t win, the math says she lost the nomination, but she doesn’t give a damn. She’s going to stay in the race like some spoiled hateful egotistical brat.
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Why is the media even covering her? The only stories that should be written about Hillary Clinton is how much damage she’s causing our party.
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How she has forced EMILY’s List and AFSCME and the AFT to waste their money because of her. How she has caused a civil war in the Netroots. Five months ago we all felt that we had 3 great candidates. Now, far too many of us loathe Hillary Clinton, and she has done her racist best to ensure that her supporters can’t stand Barack Obama either.
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The Clintons don’t give a damn about our party. Their party, their church, is themselves. To hell with everyone else. I actually liked Hillary up until a few months ago.
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She makes me yell at the TV like she’s George Bush, and no one other than George Bush makes me yell at the TV - until now. I actually can’t stand her or her husband any more. I defended her. I defended her husband. And now I’m actually wondering if the Republicans weren’t right about them. That’s how bad she has damaged her reputation. People who actually liked you, who actually helped you, who actually defended you, LOATHE you now. Call me a Clinton-hater all you like, but people like me were the ones who had your back. And we never will again.

[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

You might as well go ahead and put the knife in yourself and get it over with.

“the misogyny is this campaign is real”

I don’t doubt that. Misogyny has plagued American politics for centuries. I clicked through the list, and there is some compelling (and some not-so-compelling/logically incoherent) evidence that sexism is certainly a factor in all this. The main offender, however, appears to be the media, not Obama’s campaign. The media has a lot to answer for in this respect. It’s sad that sexism is still a sufficiently accepted form of expression that perpetrators don’t feel embarrassed to express such feelings. At least racists have been forced into silence regarding their ignorance. Although, I’m under no delusions that there are many individuals (white and, of course black) whose voting habits both in this primary and the GE will be influenced by the ethnicity of the candidate. Quietly racist or no. Are the white democrats of WV racist? Some are. Just as there are white democrat racists in every state of the union with white democrats.

The thing is, democrats should be trying to marginalise this sort of nonsense. If there is anything to be gained from this primary it is the fact that it has shown very clearly that their is a lot of work yet to be done to make equality a reality rather than merely a goal within the one party that claims to give a damn about the issue.

But instead, we have people actively encouraging it, using the words of the their opponents to justify their own crass generalisations. It’s a disturbing trend, but one that is most certainly not isolated among the adherents of a particular camp. I’ve found no reason to suspect that Hillary’s supporters are any more or less prone to deploying smear and innuendo than Obama’s crowd.

It’s a sad fact that if we judged either of these candidates by the poisonous vitriol emanating from their vocal minority supporters, they would both be damned to hell. As I said, my only hope is that the voval lot in both camps are not necessarily representative of the whole. Because if they are, a McCain win is surely the only appropriately karmic result.

Shakespeare’s Sister has been keeping a list: It’s now up to 89.

Actually, it hit 91 yesterday.

and some keyboard cleaning product for me!

Holy crap! The kool-aid has gone really rancid. He just hates, hates, hates Hillary for continuing to let the people vote!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvUNFmB7J…

Well, we’re doing our part to do precisely that. Apparently, that’s “vitriol.” Sigh.

[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

This guy probably thinks he’s being funny and insightful with this

-Code Orange is the one I see most frequently.
And I don’t think the Republicans are that stupid even—over turning Roe would set them back a few decades.

I honestly think that Aravosis is the worst of all the “major” bloggers, by just about every possible metric. He’s not thoughtful and has nothing to add, and something is always the worst affront ever, interspersed with paeans to conspicuous consumption. He’s just a dick. Or, to wit, a horrible human being.

of Andy Sullivan and not because he’s gay.

Not a bad comparison, but he might be more like William Donahue, supposedly speaking for a constituency that’s being mistreated, but, ultimately, not much of a representative at all, rather a publicity-hungry buffoon.

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Good night and good riddance!

I know how to link but not imbed.

he did wonderful work in the past— on Gannon/Guckert, against Dobson’s hateful campaigns against many corporations, etc…

TalkingPointsMemo too—they were great when they had the right targets in mind.

But his campaign and his supporters keep fanning the flames and pouring fuel on the fire.

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“We must separate loyal party members from counter-revolutionaries. The first shall inherit our glorious future. The second must be purged from us and history” -Mao Zedong

Although they clearly expected Hillary to win, the media and the OFB thought with their 24/7 wankfest after NC that the turnout would be lower and the margin of victory much smaller.

That’s why they kept insisting a 41 pt victory was no big deal (if they acknowledged it at all) and kept talking about “the math.”

They expected something like a 60-40 split and a turnout of about 200k, which would have netted Hillary about 40k popular votes. Instead it was a huge turnout and 41 pt margin of victory, netting Hillary just under 150k popular votes.

How do you “ho-hum” such a devastating loss for a presumptive nominee?

They also didn’t expect the Edwards votes, probably because it wasn’t in their polling. Someone in a comment thread pointed out that Obama finished closer to Edwards than he did to Hillary, and someone else responded “He finished closer to me than he did to Hillary” which is true, Obama was closer to zero.

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“We must separate loyal party members from counter-revolutionaries. The first shall inherit our glorious future. The second must be purged from us and history” -Mao Zedong

Open input format, as below post, and you see permitted tags.

For an image, use IMG with URL to art in src attribute (Flickr makes this stuff automagically.

For a YouTube, use the OBJECT tag, which YouTube makes automagically. Tutn on Full HTML, put a break tag after your object in a post. Use P tags to make paragraphs.

Others can give more detailed help now. Try it!

[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

Via Jerome Armstrong, if Obama hits his pledged delegate projections for Oregon and Kentucky, he’ll still be short on May 20th to declare victory even under the 2025 number unless he picks up more than 80 SDs. See http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/5/14/1553…

Wow, that should be really embarrassing for him.

Flicker wanted too much information.

Once you set up the photobucket account, the system uploads your images and names them automatically with whatever you named them in your computer file. It’s simple, fast and intuitive.

Once uploaded, an HTML tag is created and appears below the image. One left-click and it is copied. Paste into the comment box and Bob’s your uncle.

No need for Full HTML codes with images, but for YouTube you have to tag everything and click open the “O Full HTML” option found under “Input Format” below the Comment box.

There is a resizing feature at Photobucket but I have found it much faster to resize myself, then upload. Maximum width at Corrente is 500 mpxls, but 450 looks better IMHO. Some photos/figures are cleaner at even smaller sizes, Preview is your friend.

msnbc just said on air…

booo

According to Time, he’s making an appearance with Obama in Michigan.

This was completely predictable, IMO. The longer Edwards waited, the more likely he would endorse based on who he thought would win. He’s jumping on the Obama bandwagon while he can still get some credit for Obama for it.

CNN has nothing

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“We must separate loyal party members from counter-revolutionaries. The first shall inherit our glorious future. The second must be purged from us and history” -Mao Zedong

Fuck him.

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“We must separate loyal party members from counter-revolutionaries. The first shall inherit our glorious future. The second must be purged from us and history” -Mao Zedong

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/obama_edwards

I honestly believed in Edwards. I feel like an absolute fool now. The OFB are officially at code yellow (overconfidence) with a side platter of code red (attack/gloat).

I cannot believe he did this. What the hell are these people thinking? No amount of endorsements or campaigning on Obama’s behalf will fix his tremendous GE problems. And Edwards himself said that if you truly want to change Washington “You can’t nice them to death.”

Something stinks

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“We must separate loyal party members from counter-revolutionaries. The first shall inherit our glorious future. The second must be purged from us and history” -Mao Zedong

i can’t think of anything else. it totally sucks, and it’s wrong—on healthcare alone, let alone poverty!

and i keep remembering the “Obama blew it” story — http://nymag.com/news/politics/powergrid…

“…According to a Democratic strategist unaligned with any campaign but with knowledge of the situation gleaned from all three camps, the answer is simple: Obama blew it. Speaking to Edwards on the day he exited the race, Obama came across as glib and aloof. His response to Edwards’s imprecations that he make poverty a central part of his agenda was shallow, perfunctory, pat. Clinton, by contrast, engaged Edwards in a lengthy policy discussion. Her affect was solicitous and respectful. When Clinton met Edwards face-to-face in North Carolina ten days later, her approach continued to impress; she even made headway with Elizabeth. Whereas in his Edwards sit-down, Obama dug himself in deeper, getting into a fight with Elizabeth about health care, insisting that his plan is universal (a position she considers a crock), high-handedly criticizing Clinton’s plan (and by extension Edwards’s) for its insurance mandate. …”

is it that Obama needs every single “populist” politician speaking up for him, so they’re all gonna step up to try to save what they know is a fatally weak candidate going into the fall?

Edwards did definitely say he wouldn’t ever run again, but that’s prob not true either.

The problem with photobucket is, if you even post one picture, (say on a blog), I can figure out your whole photoalbum and see a lot more than you wanted me too. Of course, it’s listed as public, but still they make it too easy to cyber stalk.