http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/new-news

Indeed.

Would also have accepted; “Yer nam is Jams O’Donnell” minus the destructive blow to my skull with an oar of course.

April 16, 2008 at 21:23 (kill)

That was hilarious, Candy.

Actor212′s blog post is a different kind of hilarious altogether. I thought he was just a moron when he put up his typical white person post but I no longer think he’s serious. I think he’s parodying the worst of the Hillary Clinton supporters. Get a load of his commentary on the Plain People of AmericaTM and their attitudes on taxes:

Those taxes paid for your education, Senator. They paid for enforcing the laws that allowed a man born of a white mother and a black father to be treated as equals to his white friends. They ask little in return, just your gratitude, and a highway without potholes.

It gets even better when he starts discussing the symbols of patriotism:

They raise their flags on the Fourth, on Memorial Day, on Labor Day, and yes, on flag day, because they know that the flag represents something greater than just a bunch of fabric sewed together made of pretty colours. It means community. It means opportunity. It means all those myths that you find so quaint sitting in your drawing room in Chicago, sipping a brandy while listening to Shostakovich.

They believe in them and they wonder if you do, since you refuse to show even the smallest bit of respect for those myths.

And that text is accompanied by this picture. It is too funny forever.

What Patkin said. It might be better read as ‘the people’s anesthetic’ or whatever. I’m sure Kristol knows this and would even mention it if it would profit him.

“Kristol graduated in 1970 from The Collegiate School, a preparatory school for boys located in Manhattan. In 1973 he received an A.B. from Harvard, graduating magna cum laude in three years. He received a Ph.D. in government, also from Harvard, in 1979. ”

2008-2009 tuition to The Collegiate School, for K – 12 grades, is $30,000.

I am sure he has a lot in common with Pennsylvania small-town blue collar folks.

I remember reading the same point in a SF novel by Mack Reynolds back in the 1970s. However, it is clearly unpossible that a SF writer would understand the works of Marx better than a second-generation Straussian intellectual who has apparently lectured on the topic in front of real university students, so my memory must be at fault.

Kristol has shown that a comment by Obama can be misrepresented and misconstrued until it sounds a bit like an equally misconstrued bon mot by Marx… all in order to mention the two names in a column together (though without explicitly comparing them — that would be gauche). Sounds to me like he’s resorted to stealing Goldberg columns and stripping out the Simpsons references.

Those “bitter” people would kick Kristol’s effete ass if he got stuck on their territory. I for one am sick to death of people who have their own household staff telling me what the hell “small town America” is like, particularly the guns & ammo side of it. I’m from Georgia and I live in fucking Kansas. Yet incredibly wealthy New Yorkers like Coulter and SheWhoShallNotBeNamed insist that they know what these people are like better than be because they’re all Republicans? And Kristol? Where’s Krauthammer (a.k.a. the world’s sexiest man…ROFLMAO) on this one? I’m sure he knows the mindset of the gun show crowd and could even explain it to them in words they wouldn’t understand if they looked them up in the OED.

Go on Billy Boy, ask the maid what it’s like to be less-than-upper-class. Ooops, pardon my bitter elitism.

And more to the point, do the Kristols have a spare room?

“Obama thanks the vet for his service and tells him that the pin means a lot coming from him.”
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/04/15/obama.flagpin.cnn

Candy, that’s about what I hear, more-or-less, even from people sucking on the FOX teat everyday . ” #&*%%#! assholes!” , and they don’t mean Obama .

Darn it, you put that so much better than I could.

One final thing I’d like to point out, Senator. It’s a biggie.
You claim to oppose the invasion of Iraq, even if you have never ever cast a single vote against funding the war or in favor of withdrawing one single solitary soldier.

Those soldiers, Senator, come from these folks
…[snip]…
You owe these folks your freedom, because even in a war that no one truly understands, they sent their kids off to fight, to try to win, to protect America in whatever sense this invasion serves that purpose.

(emphasis added)

Now, let me get this straight – in order to criticize Barack Obama, from the left, you’re going to posit that the invasion of Iraq “protects America” in some vague, undefined sense?
Why should I buy into that?

mat said,

April 16, 2008 at 19:00

Kristol’s no dummy; he’s just crazy.

Sooooo … you think the Kristol’s cracked?

“You shall follow the LORD your God and fear Him; you shall keep His commandments, listen to His voice, serve Him, and cling to Him.” Deuteronomy 13:4

“So I’ll cherish the old rugged cross
Till my trophies at last I lay down
I will cling to the old rugged cross
And exchange it some day for a crown”

Damn elitist Bible and old-timey hymns!

Heartland Obama supporter: (Yawn) No. I am scared I’m going to lose my job at Citimortgage. They just laid off a whole fuckload of my co-workers.

Pundit: Aieeee! Obama said you’re bitter and so stupid you’ll turn to God and Guns! He’s an elitist swine who thinks you’re all morons.

Heartland Obama supporter: I haven’t been in a church in 25 years, and I don’t personally know anyone who has a gun. I am bitter, though. I think they’re going to foreclose on my house.

Pundit: Obama thinks you should eat vegetables! Aieeee.

Heartland Obama supporter: So do I. If you’d ever driven by a hog confinement or looked into a chicken barn, you’d never eat meat again. But I don’t think Obama’s planning to convert you to veganitude at the point of a sword.

Pundit: Obama ate expensive ham!

Heartland Obama supporter: Yep, it might even have come from this little boutique farm south of Des Moines where they feed the hogs nothing but acorns. The piggies get a happy life of roaming about and eating gourmet hog food. People have ordered meat from there from all over the world. Yum!

Pundit: Isn’t there anything about the smug bastard you don’t like?

Heartland Obama supporter: Well, I don’t like it that he continued to vote to fund the war in Iraq. He doesn’t seem nearly inclined enough to get us a single payer healthcare system, either. I wish he was more to the Left.

Pundit: (claws own eyes out) Aieeeee!

I used to eat a breakfast cereal of equal parts quinoa, amaranth, and kasha. Prepared like oatmeal.

It didn’t taste great, but you knew it was the colonic equivalent of a street sweeper. Yes, I was a fully invested DFH at that time. C’mon, I lived in Bellingham, for Dude’s sakes!

Although I guess it is from the papist brown garlic eating(*) “south of the border” so it doesn’t count …

* c.f. jokes about the fear of, um, “garlic eaters” amongst Anglo-American Protestants …