Dear John, From an Obama Supporter.

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Wednesday January 30, 2008 · 10:39 AM PST

2008/01/30 · 10:39

Dear John (and all of John Edward's supporters):

I see today you've decided to pull out of the Democratic primary race. I can only assume that the combined effects of coming in at the 15-20% range and fundraising struggles made it too difficult to continue. Its a cliche that discretion is the better part of valour, but in your case, it's true.

As a progressive and modern liberal (and Obama precinct captain), my more aggressive half just wants to clear the field of everyone and march on to victory. However, I do want to thank you and your supporters for running a strongly progressive campaign that generally avoided going into the gutter, as far as its possible in a political campaign.

::More on flip::

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Tuesday January 22, 2008 · 2:44 PM PST

2008/01/22 · 14:44

Courtesy of the New York Times:

The actor Heath Ledger was found dead this afternoon in an apartment in Manhattan inhabited by the actress Mary-Kate Olsen, according to the New York City police. Signs pointed to a suicide, police sources said. Mr. Ledger was 28.

At 3:31 p.m., a masseuse arrived at Apartment 5A in the building, at 421 Broome Street in SoHo, for an appointment with Mr. Ledger, the police said. The masseuse was let in to the home by a housekeeper, who then knocked on the door of the bedroom Mr. Ledger was in. When no one answered, the housekeeper and the masseuse opened the bedroom and found Mr. Ledger naked and unconscious on a bed, with pills scattered around his body. They shook him, but he did not respond. They immediately called the authorities.

And we now return you to our regularly scheduled broadcast of "Here are some lies about why your candidate is teh sux0r and my candidate is teh megaRAD."

Why I trust a bunch of white Midwestern farmers.

goblue72

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Friday December 14, 2007 · 10:58 AM PST

2007/12/14 · 10:58

I think I am beginning to get the "willies". The "willies" about this great mass of primaries that we have foisted upon ourselves. From the relative orderliness of Iowa and New Hampshire and a continuing plodding of primaries thereafter, we now have Iowa and New Hampshire and Nevada and South Carolina pulling Santa's sleigh over the holidays (and Michigan and Florida, too - even if they don't get to count.)

And then the tsunami hits with Super Duper Tuesday a few weeks later and its all over. Thanks for playing folks, it's time to go home. In our quest to be more "inclusive" and "representative" of the nation (whatever the hell that means), I think we may front loaded ourselves into an oblivion in which the only thing that WILL matter is cold night in a rural Midwestern state.

Can we just go back to a bunch of white farmers in Iowa and cranky New Englanders in the Granite State getting a first chew and then the rest of us having time to muddle it all over? We're electing the President here, not student council.

goblue72

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Friday August 31, 2007 · 11:11 AM PDT

2007/08/31 · 11:11

This isn't going to be much of a diary and if that offends the Kososphere, then I'd like Kos to please delete this fucking diary. (No pun intended. Mostly.)

Since it's Friday and Larry "Toetapper" Craig is still on the tips of everyone's tongues and gay men having sex in the restroom continues its upward trajectory of hypocritical vapours, I thought I'd just throw out a silly, but apropos poll:

Namely, to show how hypocritical all this nonsense is, let's see how many of us - straight, gay, bi, trans, & furry - are also guilty - guilty pleasure, natch - of that longstanding, full blooded, American tradtion: public sex.

Poll

212 votes Show Results

Where have YOU done it?

212 votes Vote Now!

Where have YOU done it?

Public restroom.

13 votes

On the beach, by moonlight - so romantic.

29 votes

On the beach, by daylight - sunburned bottoms!

13 votes

In a park.

30 votes

In a car.

65 votes

On the subway or bus.

4 votes

In an alley.

1 vote

At a historical monument.

7 votes

Card carrying member of the Mile High Club, baby!

4 votes

At the office/work.

23 votes

In the middle of a football field.

4 votes

At a museum.

3 votes

In a changing room.

1 vote

In the coat room at a party.

5 votes

On stage.

10 votes

Some Churchill on Election Eve

goblue72

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Monday November 06, 2006 · 12:13 PM PST

2006/11/06 · 12:13

Got that nervous feeling in the pit of your stomach? That tickle in your throat that says, "The GOP just might pull it off. Their unrelenting assault of gutter-trash slime and dirty tricks just might win it for them in the end. All we may get is a bare toe-hold in the House."

Yeah. I feel it too. But, luckily for us, this year is not the end, but a beginning. We should welcome the onslaught - they will through their worst at us, and we will respond with our best. At times like these, good old Churchill said it best:

We have to ask ourselves this question: Will the bombing attacks come back again? We have proceeded on the assumption that they will. Many new arrangements are being contrived as a result of the hard experience through which we have passed and the many mistakes which no doubt we have made - for success is the result of making many mistakes and learning from experience. If the lull is to end, if the storm is to renew itself, we will be ready, will will not flinch, we can take it again.

There Is Only One Poll That Matters: Election Day

goblue72

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Tuesday October 17, 2006 · 4:16 PM PDT

2006/10/17 · 16:16

We are 21 days out folks, 21 days between today and Democrat-Day. When we storm from our tiny little beacheads in places like New England, the Five Boroughs, MoTown, Baghdad by the Bay, Tinseltown, the PN-Dub, Ill-a-delph, and Second City, to liberate the Rockies, the Heartland, and even the Lone Star and Dixie from 12 long years of Neo-con Corporatist Fundagelical fascism. So now is NOT the time to rest easy and relax. Now is the time to stand up and push forward into the firefight.

Because for our brothers and sisters stuck behind enemy lines, those 12 years have been very, very long. Wage stagnation for anyone not name the Donald or Paris. Tax cuts for the rich and pink slips for the rest of us. Social insecurity. Health-care turned into Health mis-care. The return of guns and drugs and blood on our city streets. Gay bashing as national bloodsport. And melting icecaps - let's not forget those melting icecaps.

And that day is just about here. In 21 days. Three weeks to D-Day. Where will you be?

Whack a Mole, Whack a Mexican

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Tuesday September 05, 2006 · 8:55 PM PDT

2006/09/05 · 20:55

I have seen the post-Labor Day election strategy coming from Karl Rove's twisted peanut and he looks suspiciously like a Mexican. The NY Times today profiles the latest attempt by the GOP to continually hammer the immigration issues in a frighteningly successful attempt to stir the always simmering nativist tendencies of the American public.

[m]any Republicans, on the defensive here and around the country over the war in Iraq, say they are finding that a hard-line immigration stance resonates not just with conservatives, who have been disheartened on other fronts this year, but also with a wide swath of voters in districts where control of the House could be decided.

When in doubt, bash the brown people who don't speak English. But we already knew that. The really twisted part - and this tells you as much about the Republican worldview as anything - is the GOP spinning a hardline against Mexicans as a GOP "strength" on national security.

More loco Republicans on the flip. Read More

Bigotry is Cool!

goblue72

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Wednesday August 30, 2006 · 9:13 PM PDT

2006/08/30 · 21:13

Spread the word, from far and wide: Bigotry is cool again!

Ever wish you were a teen in the 50s when its was all the rage to pelt the "Negroes" with your malted shakes? Ever pine for the era of the segregated water fountain? Get misty eyed in U.S. history class when reading about the "yellow peril" and find yourself thinking: "Damn straight - they ARE trying to take over this country!" Do you find the phrase "reconquista" rolling sweetly off your tongue?

Then look no further - racism is COOL again in America!

What to find out how it goes far beyond "macaca"? Then join me on the flip. Read More

Blood on America's Streets & Bush is to Blame

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Monday August 28, 2006 · 5:47 PM PDT

2006/08/28 · 17:47

Five people were violently killed this weekend. In Iraq? Nope - in my own 'hood, San Francisco, a "safe" big city. To date, there have been 62 homicides in the City by the Bay, on pace to equal 2005's homicide total of 96, the most in a decade. And most observors project this year's total to actually exceed that number.

In this San Francisco is not alone. Across the bay in working class Oakland, where I work, there were already 67 homicides by mid-year at the end of June, 1.7 times more murders than the year before, itself a banner year for blood on the streets. At this pace, Oakland will have more homicides than at the PEAK of the crack-fueled crime wave of the late-80s/early 90s.

On every street, in every city and town in this country, there is more blood on the streets than we have seen in a decade.

And Bush and the GOP is a big reason why.

INVADE IRAN NOW!

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Wednesday August 23, 2006 · 9:01 PM PDT

2006/08/23 · 21:01

"Invade Iran Now!" Where did I read that headline? The American Spectator? The Weekly Standard? National Review? Nope. Its right there at the "liberal" NY Times.

Today, the NY Times reports with the lede "Some senior Bush administration officials and top Republican lawmakers are voicing anger that American spy agencies have not issued more ominous warnings about the threats that they say Iran presents to the United States."

I almost did a spit take with my coffee when I read that. But it doesn't stop there. The Times continues to spit out GOP spin "reporting" how various officials in DC think that the intelligence community is gun-shy and refuses to report the "truth" and declare that Iran is filled with nukes and we need to bomb the shit out of them.

Think I'm joking? Check the flip Read More

Unpimp Your Candidate

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Friday August 11, 2006 · 2:35 PM PDT

2006/08/11 · 14:35

Its time to Unpimp Your Candidate. Ned Lamont got unpimped. Spitzer is working hard to unpimp himself. Russ Feingold has been unpimped ever since he was the lone voice in the Senate opposing the Iraq War. And the late Paul Wellstone - make that the hugely popular late Paul Wellston - he was the Pimp of unpimping. Markos and Jerome have long been on the bangwagon - they even wrote an entire book on Unpimping yourself from beltway insider consultants. I think its called Unpimp the Gates or something.

For decades now, Democrats have played "not to lose" as opposed to playing to win. You certainly don't win Super Bowls this way - ask the master of the calculated risk, Bill Bellichick. Read More

Dear Mr. President, I want my money back!

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Monday August 07, 2006 · 12:51 PM PDT

2006/08/07 · 12:51

An Open Letter to the President:

Dear President Bush:

As they say in talk radio-land, long time listener, first time caller here. In the interest of full disclosure, I do root for the other team. However, I have been closely following your administration since you became President. I've been critical at times and mildly supportive at others. (I think you struck a properly defiant note in the wake of 9/11 and were correct to go after the Taliban.) On the other hand, I've been a bit, shall we saw, chagrined at your domestic policies, such as they are.

All that is by the by - no President is perfect. You seemed to be humming along to go down in history as a President that students would learn about in U.S. history class and then promptly forget - a Grover Cleveland or Zachary Taylor as it were. (Don't take it so hard - I think the same thing about Bubba.)

Until, that is - Iraq. Read More

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Dear John, From an Obama Supporter.

BREAKING: Heath Ledger is DEAD!

Why I trust a bunch of white Midwestern farmers.

Bathroom Sex Mega Poll!!!!

Some Churchill on Election Eve

There Is Only One Poll That Matters: Election Day

Whack a Mole, Whack a Mexican

Bigotry is Cool!

Blood on America's Streets & Bush is to Blame

INVADE IRAN NOW!

Unpimp Your Candidate

Dear Mr. President, I want my money back!