I am eager to see your supporting evidence for this claim.

…I usually follow Greg Palast…

Dude, I’ll save you the suspense. Go look up his DailyKos diaries from Fall 2004 or Fall 2006. You can read the whole shill in one sitting.

Spoiler: He never shows you his Pokemons.

Once the election is over, everyone will go home. So full of disappointment/triumph people will be that they’ll lose perspective on the details.

…And this would be a perfect demonstration of why you can’t seem to understand that you are a concern troll.

You should have thought of that before we left the house.

She’s been well coached and you’re grasping at fucking straws here.

Apparently Camp Obama has parachuted dozens of operatives into Alaska to find the skeletons in the Palin closet that it just knows must exist. Unable to process the fact that the left might not come into its rightful inheritance of power, which as we all know is the natural order of the universe, it is behaving like an American Stasi.

Liar. “Apparently” is weasel-word bullshit. Cite reliable sources or please STFU.

And the more it behaves in this grotesque manner, the more counter-productive it all is.

“Grotesque manner.” Got it. A political ad that depicts Obama looking down with a leer on his face and “teaching sex to children” is not at all “grotesque.”

Have a nice, big steaming cup of STFU.

Palin is a kind of barium meal for the US body politic: as she is ingested deeper into the system, the nastiness and sheer malevolence of the Democratic party and its bullying cheerleaders in the media are being sickeningly illuminated all around her.

Yeah, blame the “lie-bruls” and the “lie-brul media” for your vapid clown of a VP candidate who regurgitates the same speech day after day, outright lies and all, and looks like a caribou caught in the headlights when subjected to a softball interview with milquetoast Charlie Gibson for fuck’s sake.

Oh, I remember now – she was selected because “she’ll piss of the liberals!” What do you think this is, a fucking TV game show? This is life & death, war, catastrophe, and economic meltdown, you pathetic sack of shit. So kindly STFU, okthx?

No, not kindly. Just STFU.

As a result, the media and the Democrats are merely doing untold damage to themselves, particularly since the blogosphere is shredding the smears being hurled at Palin as fast as they are being produced.

When we want your fucking advice, we’ll ask for it. Since there’s no reason in the world wingnut trolls like you would give us advice you really thought would help Obama’s campaign, that’ll be about half-past never in a million fucking years.

Just to be sure we understand each other, STFU. No really, nobody gives a diseased goat-scrotum what you think. You have no power here. So begone, before somebody drops a house on you.

And…

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mikey, I think a lot of the wailing, as you put it, it simply people working out some frustration. The last two presidential campaigns were lost, in part, as a result of our guys trying to play nice and strictly honorable while being slammed by all the slime and dirty tricks the other guys could muster. I can’t blame anyone for fearing that it was just going to happen again.

I don’t think it’s happening again this year. Seems to me Obama’s been running a rope-a-dope on McCain. He’s letting the Repugs use up their best attacks while conserving his for when it counts. I think it’s a great strategy: unless the Repukes have a doozy of an October surprise in the works, everything they have to throw at Obama is now old news, while the attacks his campaign is about to unleash will be novel and exciting.

I certainly don’t trust the media to be on our side, but I think we can trust them to chase after the shiny new baubles like the mental children they are.

To extend the boxing metaphor a bit further, when Palin was added to the ticket McCain unleashed what seemed to be a wicked flurry of punches that looked like they did some real damage. However, most of that force went right through Obama and into the ropes. Now, McCain has worn himself out with that volley, and what seemed like an effective attack actually made himself more vulnerable to the still fresh Obama.

Man I hope I’m right.

Another point: I don’t think that fighting back requires us to be dishonorable or mean. We have the fucking truth on our side, after all. (as opposed to The Truth, of course) It does require not counting on the American people to simply see how good and honorable we are because we don’t do anything nasty like saying anything bad about our opponent. Our opponent is bad, we just have to point it out. And when I say “us,” that’s exactly what I mean. If politics comes up, then yes, we all need to argue for Obama and against McCain. Honestly, I think for a lot of people seeing and hearing an actual flesh and blood person argue for Obama is worth a dozen TV spots. Just don’t get yourself arrested, fired, or beat up over it. Obviously I’m not advocating crashing a Klan rally to pass out Obama/Biden bumber stickers.

It’s election time. Believe it or not, a lot of people do want to talk about politics, so the opportunities to sway an undecided are there if you watch for them.

And finally, my Palin name is Cuppa Invader Palin, which is fuckin roxxor.

That was what I was getting at, only was called away from the computer.

That’s why I mentioned her constituents as the ones uneasy about it.

If you’re not offending people who agree with you, practice, practice, practice …

My comments are guaranteed to offend only the literate.
Unless I post a jpeg.

Sadly, yeah!

I’m hoping what truly pisses in Rove’s Wheaties this time around is a BIG organized campaign to monitor the polls – no, that dig at community organizers was not a mistake. They fucking hate them, & they’ve got several good reasons for that hatred.

What’s your Palin moniker?

Claw Washout Palin.

We’re all Palins now!

it came from a deepseated uneasiness with her caretaking skills

Yeah. That. No place in a national campaign. Also, deeply sexist.

Considering that the job of the president is to look after — take care of — and guide the country much like a parent and child, I’d say that a candidate’s caretaking skills are quite relevant to the campaign. If you aren’t comforatble with the whole “Whose Baby?” thing, try this:

Look at how well Palin took care of Wasilla (20 million in debt!); look at how McCain cared for his severely injured first wife. If this is the kind of care that they show in small ways, with limited power, do we really want them caring for the entire country?

Yes and no, depending on the scale. I was just giving a local example. I certainly would like to see this coming from current and former members of Congress, elder statespeople as well as currently active political leaders.

I obviously misunderstood, and I do apologize. I wasn’t particularly mad, just very surprised You don’t need to take any especial care with my feelings, I’m not a particularly wilting flower. ;-)

I’m having an extremely bad day, and probably shouldn’t be doing to blog thing. In fact, I think I’ll go see if I can find something to eat.

I did quote your comment, but only as representative of hundreds, if not thousands of comments in left blogistan, and I was commenting on the trend in those kind of comments with my tongue firmly in my cheek.

Man, sometimes blogs just flummox me. I’ve been around these parts, as have you, for years now. In any other venue we would know each other well enough, and recognize the people we are dealing with on a daily basis, and you would know that I don’t “go after people”, especially not you.

It sometimes amazes me how much easier it is to hurt people’s feelings and be grossly misunderstood in a browser.

So I’m sorry, ma’am. Didn’t mean it the way you took it, and I’ll be a lot more careful with your feelings in the future.

I just thought that by now – ahh, it don’t really matter what I thought…

mikey

“so this is the shit the VP candidate has to know about…first thing Monday, I’ll ask my assistant to look up “doctrine” in the dictionary.”

I hate these assholes soooooooo much. It’s alright for them to insinuate Obama’s a pedophile supporter – the most outrageous slander – and then they get to come back on national television with “you protest too much” without so much as a “you’ve got to be SHITTING ME, YOU FUCKING COBAG” from the hired-for-being-pretty anchor.

Over the past eight years Republicans have gotten used to being openly and habitually sociopathic; and if they’re smug about it it’s because they get the “fair and balanced” air time to say whatever the hell they want about anybody and get away with it.

A few thousand illiterate thoughtless assholes can be expected to vote for them, but anyone with even a quarter of a brain will not be forgiven if they even consider giving these shitbags a kick at the can.

“Because John McCain didn’t just oppose the requirement that the government buy American-made motorcycles, he called Buy American provisions ‘disgraceful.’ Just ask the workers across this country who have seen their jobs outsourced. The very companies that shipped their jobs overseas have been rewarded with billions of dollars in tax breaks that John McCain supports and plans to continue.

“So when American workers hear John McCain talking about putting ‘Country First,’” Obama said, “it’s fair to ask – which country?”

Do you disagree that Obama and Biden should call out the lies for what they are? Do you believe that worrying about looking like the nice courtly guys is going to make the media suddenly start love-festing for the Obama campaign? Do you think we Democrats should just ignore the swiftboating?

Actually, engaging your co-workers and anyone else given a good opportunity to do so is a good idea. You don’t have to be an asshole about it. My partner has actually been explaining some things to a few less well-informed people with whom he works, and it’s worked extremely well.