Just a friendly Manning related reminder...

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

Somewhere over the rainbow......

[Phox]

Way up high...

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I think you both have your heads up your arses.

Palin couldn't be that much worse, and she'd be a hell of a lot funnier.

Obama's jokes were funnier when the other guy did them.

The good thing about you electing the Smiler is that at least now it's crystal clear you get fucked both ways.

If McCain had won, a fuckload of semi intelligent people, and I suspect quite a few of our own would have still believed "we wouldn't be in as big of a mess if Obama had won".

Crushing those beliefs might just have been worth 4 years of slightly lower quality jokes.

I just hope that it doesn't demoralise a generation into thinking that nothing can change, so let's not even bother.

Hope in one hand, poop in the other.

Obama is driving people out of politics for the same reason Bush got them interested.

[Captain Utopia]

I guess a Cult of Ideology can't change course as nimbly as a Cult of Personality can.

Did the Right actually revere Bush, or just cheer him on because he was on their team?  In 30 years will the Right be yammering on about the "good old days" under Bush?

[Cain]

The right have been doing that since 2008.  See "Obama caused the recession" and "Black Panthers/ACORN raping old ladies for the lulz" for more.

[Cain]

Also, I'd just like to point out, on pretty much any left-leaning blog nowadays, criticizing Obama will lead to you being branded a "firebagger" (a cross between FireDogLake, a progressive blog critical of Obama, and Teabagger) and a Republican troll and of wanting Sarah Palin to be the President, which will somehow cause the Apocalypse.

Because, you see, as they've so carefully explained, when the choice between a long and painful descent into ruin and a quick and painful descent into ruin are offered, the former is awesome and the latter is evil and heinous and fuck you you fucking Republican KKK Firebagger troll for even thinking about it.

This has led to the amusing situation where Democrats attempt to rally their base and "get the vote out" by fighting petty in-party battles.

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Also, I'd just like to point out, on pretty much any left-leaning blog nowadays, criticizing Obama will lead to you being branded a "firebagger" (a cross between FireDogLake, a progressive blog critical of Obama, and Teabagger) and a Republican troll and of wanting Sarah Palin to be the President, which will somehow cause the Apocalypse.

Because, you see, as they've so carefully explained, when the choice between a long and painful descent into ruin and a quick and painful descent into ruin are offered, the former is awesome and the latter is evil and heinous and fuck you you fucking Republican KKK Firebagger troll for even thinking about it.

This has led to the amusing situation where Democrats attempt to rally their base and "get the vote out" by fighting petty in-party battles.

Though I haven't been called that specifically, I have observed the general principle.

Rachel Maddow's blog wouldn't even approve my comments regarding the lies about Wisconsin she tried to slime her way out.

Meanwhile, my critical comments always show up promptly at the National Review....

[Cain]

Things are pretty bad when even critical comments have to conform to pre-concieved ideological divisions in the press.

[Jenne]

Bah, I still wouldn't take Palin.  She'd round up my kids and put them in the crosshairs for being baby terraists.   Fuck her.

[Requia ☣]

I don't think Palin would have been that bad.

I just wouldn't want to put up with even more whining from people who think the democrats would fix things.

[Jenne]

...well, we know the truth about that one, now, don't we? 

[P3nT4gR4m]

Obama = final proof positive that democracy is a complete fucking joke.

The real punchline, tho, is the number of seemingly intelligent people who still don't get it. They'll turn up at the next election and vote for change.

So there's this great big shiny button with "utopia" written above it in ten foot high flashing neon letters and everytime you press it a huge, razor sharp spiky dildo comes flying out a trapdoor in the floor, straight up your ass. how many times will the average person press the button? In the case of democracy the answer would appear to be infinity.

[Requia ☣]

Democracy might be salvageable (not that we have much choice), first past the post & anything else subject to Duverger's Law needs to go though.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Obama = final proof positive that democracy is a complete fucking joke.

The real punchline, tho, is the number of seemingly intelligent people who still don't get it. They'll turn up at the next election and vote for change.

So there's this great big shiny button with "utopia" written above it in ten foot high flashing neon letters and everytime you press it a huge, razor sharp spiky dildo comes flying out a trapdoor in the floor, straight up your ass. how many times will the average person press the button? In the case of democracy the answer would appear to be infinity.

How many times can a man be mugged by the same people on the same street, before folks call him a rube?

[Captain Utopia]

Democracy might be salvageable (not that we have much choice), first past the post & anything else subject to Duverger's Law needs to go though.

The idea that we can trust anyone with power for four years at a time, where it is extremely difficult to remove them, has to go.