The Undecideds Have a Mental Illness

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Saturday September 27, 2008 · 3:54 PM PDT

2008/09/27 · 15:54

And that's ok, but do we really want them in a voting booth? Only if they get special ballots adding "both" and "none of the above" to the list of candidates.

Do they have jobs? How do they decide what to wear in the morning? Are they waiting to get dressed until one of their pairs of pants addresses an issue they really care about? Waiting for a shirt sleeve to deliver that knock out punch?

I know one thing--the bastards get a whole hell of a lot of attention for not deciding. Being politically ambivalent gives them a power they've never had in any other area of their lives.

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Undecideds

79 votes Vote Now!

Undecideds

have a serious problem in need of psychiatric intervention

28 votes

shouldn't be allowed to vote

11 votes

certainly shouldn't be allowed to own guns

12 votes

shouldn't be allowed to exist

6 votes

should decide now or forever remain undecided

22 votes

HERO OR HEEL? RAMONA REFLECTS ON ELECTION 08

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Sunday June 08, 2008 · 1:36 PM PDT

2008/06/08 · 13:36

JOHN MCCAIN: HERO OR HEEL?

Have any of you seen today's Daily Mail? Sundays, I like to start the morning by the pool with a Ramos fiz and the news from abroad. I'm out late making the round of cocktail parties the night before,and I've got to drink with these people if I want the scoop. Have to!

Anyway, I was still in my peignoir, waiting for the xanax and the Ramos to kick in when I saw this:

Reminds me of Dotty Parker's quip: "I like my men handsome, ruthless, and stupid."

Well, I don't know if John McCain was as stupid in 1973 as he is in 2008, but he was better looking then--before the ravages of Melanoma. I do love a man in uniform. Any uniform. A 12 dollar an hour EMT can look like a Greek god in a uniform. In any case, here’s John M., just off the plane from a POW camp,looking forward to his first good martini in five years and....

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John M. Hero or heel or??

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John M. Hero or heel or??

Hero

1 vote

Heel

19 votes

Typical MAN! Infuriating!

1 vote

Dreadfully stupid, uniform or no

14 votes

Misogyny the Musical: Pill on a Hot Pants Hill

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Wednesday May 28, 2008 · 5:47 AM PDT

2008/05/28 · 05:47

PILL ON A HOT PANTS HILL

A Musical in-progress

For CHris Loff.

Bick, a latte-sipping, ex-basketball player, sips his days away and resists the attempts of his wife, Pillory, to engage him in debates. Blooper, who is suffering from minor skin cancer on his nose, tries to reconcile his whole family, the Politix, before he must go in for laser surgery. But he can’t figure out who’s who, so Big Doggy has to step in.

Joan Crawford Pillory ‘Pill the Pants’ Politix

Barack Obama Bick Politix

Burl Ives Willy ‘Big Doggy’ Politix

Lionel Barrymore Mac ‘Blooper’ Politix

Candy Crowley ‘Big Mama’ Politix

Mature Lana Turner Sin Dee Politix(Blooper’s wife)

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Who would you cast in the role of 'Pill'?

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Who would you cast in the role of 'Pill'?

Chris Matthews

1 vote

Faye Dunaway

2 votes

Glenn Close

7 votes

Madonna

1 vote

Zazu Pitts

2 votes

HOW COULD SHE GO THERE!? Hillary, Political Psychopath*

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Sunday May 25, 2008 · 3:40 PM PDT

2008/05/25 · 15:40

WHEN YOU SAY THE WORD "sociopath"most people think of serial killers. But although many serial killers are sociopaths, there are far more sociopaths leading ordinary lives. Chances are you know a sociopath. I say "ordinary lives," but what they do is far from ordinary. Sociopaths are people without a conscience. They don't have the normal empathy the rest of us take for granted. They don't feel affection. They don't care about others. But most of them are good observers, and they have learned how to mimic those feelings remarkably well.

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When HRC referenced a national tragedy recently she was

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When HRC referenced a national tragedy recently she was

making a historical reference to prolonged campaigns

14 votes

along with many other of her political behaviors, being the patho-politician she is

139 votes

did misspeak but had not had enough sleep

1 vote

she was begging us to stick a fork in her, she's DONE

42 votes

showing the great leadership qualities that make her so electable

4 votes

showing McCain that she can be tough too

1 vote

showing SD that she's only human

3 votes

having a breakdown because of all the sexism she has experienced all her life

4 votes

McCain: Military Hero/Political Coward

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Thursday May 22, 2008 · 3:26 PM PDT

2008/05/22 · 15:26

I am so sick of hearing about McCain's heroism, especially when it is referred to as an excuse, a blank check to pay for every politically greedy and cowardly stance he takes, every lie he deals in, every sign of gross incompetence and unfitness for office.

Today on the Chris Matthews' show, the McCain supporter called out Obama for daring to "impugn McCain's commitment to veterans." The illogical premise is that, by default, anyone who served nobly in a war is unquestionably committed to others who serve. Also, a war hero's service renders his political judgment as sterling as his medals. If such a hero wants to bomb,bomb Iran or use the purse strings to force vets to endless tours in his pals' endless and useless war, no one, certainly not his political rival, should challenge his wisdom or his compassion for the young men and women he and his pals are so ill using.

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Should McCain have immunity from opponent's criticism because of his pst heroics?

40 votes Vote Now!

Should McCain have immunity from opponent's criticism because of his pst heroics?

No!

33 votes

Yes--especially when it comes to questioning him on his devotion to Vets

1 vote

He should stop singing about war and start paying the piper

3 votes

He's got every right to be too ashamed to vote against the Vets

3 votes

Something is Happening Here, but HRC Doesn't Know What It Is

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Friday May 09, 2008 · 7:24 PM PDT

2008/05/09 · 19:24

From "Ballad of a Thin Man" by BoB Dylan

You walk into the room
With your pencil in your hand
You see somebody naked
And you say, "Who is that man?"
You try so hard
But you don't understand
Just what you'll say
When you get home

Because something is happening here
But you don't know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones

At the heart of the language of division is a world-view: Us vs. Them. Thus, the language only represents the vision; it is this vision, of “how the world is and works, ” and of our role in it, that determines how we think, and so, how we act.

In this way, Hillary Clinton naturally divides when she speaks, for she divides in her thoughts. She thinks, she perceives, she speaks, and she acts out of a sense of an inherent “otherness”, a sense that there is a line of demarcation between and within countries, peoples, parties, races, regions. Seeing and thinking division she cannot help but to act “divisively.”

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What is the best role for Senator Clinton to play in the new game

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What is the best role for Senator Clinton to play in the new game

Leader

6 votes

Helper

42 votes

None

75 votes

Wait and see what's needed to be done

37 votes

1 vote

Speaker of the House

4 votes

Silence

110 votes

7 Reasons Why I Heartily Disapprove of "The #*&zx!-ing xzx0#!"

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Thursday May 01, 2008 · 9:58 AM PDT

2008/05/01 · 09:58

Seven Reasons Why I Heartily Disapprove of-- while not actually hating or meaning to promote hate speech or sexism or in any way whatsoever offend others or ignite misogyny in them or any DIVISION whatsoever between ducks or banana slugs of whatever gender--Hillary Clinton:

She’s boring

No charisma. Made over as a pink pantsuit in a lady-governor's hairdo. Go more
Susan Sarandon law prof, small women's college in the South. Long scarf, granny
glasses, one too many Canadian Royals bailing out Gideon at 3 a.m. .

No inspiring message

Day One. Commander in Chief Threshold. Experience. Fighter. ME ME ME.
And she got the Fighter Theme from Gergen. She can’t even think up her own
generic slogans! Is she running for Madame Chair at Costco?

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THE ZX@%!-er I Hate is

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THE ZX@%!-er I Hate is

The system, dude

5 votes

Morning Joe

10 votes

Banana Slugs

3 votes

Duck Shooting

0 votes

Smear Campaigns

22 votes

This ZX@%!-ing Poll

5 votes

No one Man, it's all Good.

6 votes

Phone Banking

2 votes

What If They Held the Civil War Again--in Indiana?

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Wednesday April 30, 2008 · 9:52 AM PDT

2008/04/30 · 09:52

Just voted in the “Are you Still Beating Your Wife” poll on CNN.com

Looks like we are outspysching them for the moment, but only at trivial pursuit. In the long term, Eisenhower’s familiar friend “The Military-Industrial Complex,” with MSM as its surrogate, is dead-set on stopping Obama. Sure way to do it is to open up the racial divide as wide and ugly as possible.

The poll question: Has the Reverend Wright Controversy Damaged Obama’s Chances of Winning the Presidential Nomination?

DUH. We sure hope so.

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Will Racism Stop Obama's Run?

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Will Racism Stop Obama's Run?

Yes

0 votes

18 votes

Maybe So

13 votes

Americans aren't that stupid

4 votes

Americans ARE that stupid

14 votes

It's The Reverend Wright, dummy

3 votes

Not if we can stop MSM before they stop Obama

9 votes

Fire Joan Walsh. She's the worst kind of Pat Buchanan

2 votes

MSNBC Plays the Wright Card--WHY?

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Monday April 28, 2008 · 1:42 PM PDT

2008/04/28 · 13:42

This morning MSNBC, fronted by Andrea Mitchell, Contessa Brewer and Nora O'Donnell, continued to play the Wright card with a have-it-both ways twist.

MSNBC gets cleverer and cleverer. Relying on previously established propoganda-- that Wright is an Obama surrogate--it introduces another false premise--that Wright bombed in front of the Press Association. Both premises can be disputed.

First, Wright is not campaigning for Obama. He isn't even Obama's pastor anymore. In any case, Obama's politics should no more be measured by Wright's beliefs than McCain's by Hagee or Parsley's.

Second, thousands of us think Wright accounted himself extremely well in his recent appearances, making a strong defense of the black church and providing context for the controversial quotes MSM extracted from his sermons.

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Why is MSNBC/MSM playing the Wright card?

248 votes Vote Now!

Why is MSNBC/MSM playing the Wright card?

It's not. It's just reporting on an actual and relevant controversy

17 votes

Because audiences, as Tom Wolfe said, love this stuff

46 votes

It gets two bird with one stone: gets ratings and raises doubts on Obama so as to get McCain

149 votes

S--happens. Don't read in all this subtext. News is News.

8 votes

Wright is playing the Wright Card

28 votes

Furzeball Interviews Hillary about FALN Pardons

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Sunday April 20, 2008 · 12:21 PM PDT

2008/04/20 · 12:21

FALN members pose threat, FBI official says

September 22, 1999_Web posted at: 12:21 a.m. EDT (0421 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Little more than a week after the release from prison of 11 Puerto Rican nationalists following a grant of clemency by President Clinton, a top FBI official has told Congress that the convicted FALN members are terrorists who still pose a threat.
"I think they're criminals and terrorists and represent a threat to the United States," Assistant FBI Director Neal Gallagher told Congress Tuesday, in the FBI's first public statement on the president's decision to grant clemency to 16 Puerto Rican nationalists.
Although the White House decision to invoke executive privilege prevented the FBI from explicitly describing the Bureau's recommendation on granting clemency, Gallagher left no doubt where the FBI stood on the issue.

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Thursday April 17, 2008 · 8:19 PM PDT

2008/04/17 · 20:19

They were at it again last night, chasing Jean ValJean through the same stinking sewer with their same phoney patriotism.This time they planted a lapel pin,a whisper of Hamas, and an old land mine Sean Hannity wired up.

Charlie Gibbons and George Stephanopolus, sharing the role of Javert, the obsessive police inspector, stirred the waters to roiling. But last night, Senator Obama was sick of running through their muck. He was tired of playing Frederick March to their Charles Laughton.

As for HRC, she dove to the usual depths. She’s no Annie Oakley, but she knows how to swim with the sharks. She knows it’s better to hunt than be hunted. She’s been there, done that.

As she put it, “everyone has rummaged in it [her baggage] for years.” She made out that she’s cleared customs, but Obama needs a body cavity search.

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ABC's debate?

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ABC's debate?

A total and cynical farce, an insult to the democratic process

97 votes

Had some substance

1 vote

Did its job: asked the questions Americans need answered

4 votes

persuaded me to vote for Clinton

1 vote

persuaded me to vote for Obama

8 votes

The Assassination of Jeremiah Wright: youtube, The New Smart Bomb

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Monday April 07, 2008 · 11:03 PM PDT

2008/04/07 · 23:03

On the anniversary of Martin Luther King's assassination, I want to address another assassination, this one by youtube, our new smart bomb.

I'm talking about the assassination of Pastor Jeremiah Wright. Like MLK, Pastor Wright is a preacher in the prophetic tradition. As MLK did,he preaches equality and non-violence. And much like MLK, he has become the target of a concerted campaign to discredit and defame him. Nothing personal. It's not about him. It wasn't about MLK either. In the virtual world we live in, we can blow up hope and goodness with the click of a mouse.

Before Obama surged to a lead over Clinton, most Americans knew next to nothing of Pastor Wright's 36 years at Trinity Church. They didn't know and they didn't care that Wright had increased the congregation to bursting, opened up 70 ministries, and saved the poor from starving, the homeless from dying on Chicago's cold streets.
On the verge of retirement, Pastor Wright could look back on the kind of life most of us wish we had, but are too self-centered to have earned. His was a life of service and inspiration. His huge flock loved him; his pastoral peers respected him; his sermons were legendary.

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