There’s no power in this universe, no temptation, no prize that could make me eat the filth known as a cheesesteak. Good for Obama.

God, but these so called “journalists” are such weiners. So the dude would rather eat his damn waffles then pander to your gossipy bullshit. Get over your selves, you guys just aren’t all that great.

Oh my god, whatever you do not read the comments to that post. Good lord, what happened to TL? I was never an avid reader but it used to relevant and substantive, at least I thought it was.

It’s a shame to see an educated and intelligent woman make a complete fool of herself.

Waffles? What a wimp.

Real candidates eat hash. Preferably Lebanese hash.

Yeah, but at least he’s not having cake for breakfast.

He’s having fried cake covered in syrup.

Jeralyn Merritt’s always been a dishonest hack. This is news to nobody who reads her blog and knows anything about criminal justice. She’s simply shifted the focus of her hackitude from the noble cause of advocating for criminal defendants to the ignoble cause of Rise Hillary Rise!!.

On another note, and in all seriousness, this is horrendous.

In all seriousness, if feministe thinks it’s bad now, just wait until anywoman is elected President. Hillary would be getting this treatment day in and day out as president because America (or the media and the right wing) is still so juvenile it can’t handle the idea of a woman in charge. Morons.

Oh, and Obama won’t be taken seriously as a presidential candidate in the press until he eats a bowling ball covered in maple syrup at the local Dairy Queen.

Moral: The America people want a President who eats Crisco out of the can and answers every question from reporters. Epic fail by Obama on both counts. Unelectable.

I like Cheesesteaks, but believe it or not I don’t demand that everyone like the same food as I do. Shocking, I know.

I have it on good authority that that waffle was a former member of the Weather Underground with connections to the Baader-Meinhof gang.

Lesley: In all seriousness, if feministe thinks it’s bad now, just wait until anywoman is elected President. Hillary would be getting this treatment day in and day out as president because America (or the media and the right wing) is still so juvenile it can’t handle the idea of a woman in charge.

I think you’re right, but only to a certain extent. For sure, the first woman who becomes a major party nominee, or subsequently gets elected President will be subjected to horrific sexist assaults and double standards every single day and every step of the way. But for every day that the country does not collapse into ruin under a woman President, I think there will be an incremental decrease in those manifestations of sexism. Perhaps not among the worst offenders — pundits, rightwingers, the media in general — at least not at first; but in terms of the electorate’s acceptance of a woman President, I think that once we’ve had a woman President, that sort of raging sexism should be less prevalent the next time a woman runs for the office.

Then again, I’m a glass-half-full kind of guy about stuff like this. Despite all the apparent evidence to the contrary, I still think most people are pretty decent. (I say “apparent evidence” because we tend to see or focus on only the worst behavior of people.)

The comments at The Swamp make me sad. Seriously, one quote with zero context, and now he’s an evil waffle monger who won’t be able to launch a nuclear attack against Iran at 3am.
Go to hell, fucktards.

In other news, Jerry’s Subs and Pizza is noticing a dramatic upturn in my patronage ever since Philly-Cheese-Gate. Mmmm….

Were they Belgian waffles? Because I don’t think America is ready for that sort of internationalism in her breakfast. I mean, Canadian bacon is already good enough for most people.

I like Cheesesteaks, but believe it or not I don’t demand that everyone like the same food as I do. Shocking, I know.

You’re obviously an out-of-touch elitist despite your preference for cheesesteaks, themann1086!

The point is not to demand that everyone like the same food as you do. The point is to demand that everyone like the same food (and stuff) as an imaginary white, working class normal American does.

Thus we must demand that our candidates love NASCAR. But we don’t have to follow NASCAR ourselves! (Can you imagine?)

FWIW, I love cheesesteaks, too. And tho’ I like ’em whiz wid, I’ve been known on occasion to have them with (gasp) swiss.

Then again, I was introduced to the cheesesteak at the thoroughly un-American (Greek actually) Hoagie Haven in Princeton, the Garden State’s answer to Moscow (or Qom or whatever).

I find it fascinating how they can complain that Obama should give more access to reporters when every time he does so, they end up making shit up and being petulant.

But for every day that the country does not collapse into ruin under a woman President, I think there will be an incremental decrease in those manifestations of sexism. Perhaps not among the worst offenders — pundits, rightwingers, the media in general — at least not at first; but in terms of the electorate’s acceptance of a woman President, I think that once we’ve had a woman President, that sort of raging sexism should be less prevalent the next time a woman runs for the office.

Gotta disagree. I think the record of the (Bill) Clinton years suggests that non-collapse does not interfere with a concerted campaign of pearl clutching. And sexism wasn’t even involved in that case.

On the other hand, if the first female president is a conservative Republican, my guess is that she’ll get a pretty free pass from the Village. Is that a half-full glass?

“Why can’t I just eat my waffle?”- B. Hussein Obama

Because it would be “cannibalism”…

Cheesesteak, schmeesesteak. Wimps!

Just wait till we annex the UK, and best and brightest have to campaign in Scotland and eat deep-fried Mars bars.

I’ve had both, and take it from me, for sheer weird unhealthy food, don’t even think of competing with the Scots.

I want to know what Obama’s stance is on wafflemania.

Dan you may be right but I pity the first woman who has to endure all that bullshit to prove that women can run countries. This wouldn’t happen in Canada, of that I am sure. (Even though my country is a disgrace politically these days, I’m fairly certain Canadians are more mature than this. Male or female? Who cares? Just as long as you can get the job done. Besides we had a taste of female PM for a time after Mulroney bit dust. Nobody blinked or cared that it was a she. Thatcher – bless her iron lung – never went through this crap in Britain.)

I cannot believe the crap women and minorities have to put up with down there. It’s terrible.

Yeah, but at least he’s not having cake for breakfast.

The cake is a lie.

Ingredients in a neoconservative casserole:

1 can of Spam
1 lb of ground burger meat fresh off the offal factory floor
Heinz Ketchup
Creamed Corn
Cheeto crumbs

Blend the first four ingredients. Sprinkle the fifth on top. Bake until done whenever the fuck that might be.

Eat until you develop esophageal cancer.

yeah, holy hell, talkleft is a cesspool. someone has to defend clinton, i guess, but i don’t know what they’re doing.

Dear god. The commenters at Talk Left are like Taylor Marsh minions, except with just enough self-awareness to understand the ultimate goal of their groupthink.

Sheesh, I’ve never read “talkleft” before tonight. It reads a lot like a “talkright” blog, to me.

I have a question for these rabid Hillary fans. If uh, she doesn’t win, will they be supporting the guy who likes to eat the occasional waffle in peace or McBush?

Shouldn’t this waffle eating thing make Obama seem like more working-class-whatever?

Seriously, take a camera, go to a diner and start bugging working class customers about their foreign policy while they eat, and I’m pretty sure that is the answer you get from them.

The man is in touch with the people…

Meanwhile, let’s check in with the reporters in the MSM:

“Oh my stars, did John McCain eat the doughnuts we bought him? He did? He ate the one with sprinkles, the one I picked out for him? Oh my heavens, catch me I think I’m going to swoon!”

After comparing the current Prime Minister of New Zealand to a cockroach, and describing her as “the former Prime Minister”, Clinton has definitely lost the all-important New Zealand vote…

Sheesh, I’ve never read “talkleft” before tonight. It reads a lot like a “talkright” blog, to me.

I read some of the comments over there. Seems more like “talkshit” to me.

After comparing the current Prime Minister of New Zealand to a cockroach, and describing her as “the former Prime Minister”, Clinton has definitely lost the all-important New Zealand vote…

OK, that was a gag, right Smut? Please tell me that that Newsweek article was just a gag, or a bad dream, or something.

Shouldn’t this waffle eating thing make Obama seem like more working-class-whatever?

No, I guess that if Obama refuses to eat “working class” food, then he’s an “elitist”. But if he does eat “working class” food, then he’s just unhealthy.

Shorter David Brooks, New York Times, Tuesday:

I have to write a lot about the presidential political campaigns, which gets really dull. Wouldn’t it be cooler instead to imagine you were C. S. Lewis who in turn was imagining how medieval people looked at the night sky and stuff? That would be cool.

You think I am exaggerating, but I Am Not.

Cheesesteak can be perfectly delicious if you make it yourself out of actual cheese and actual steak, as opposed to processed rubbery SHIT and hoof-and-eyelid mush, like most of the stands do.

In other news, that New Republic cover makes me long for the revolution.

People say they admire your tenacity, but at some point it gets to the question: ” But can she win? Look at the math. ” At what point does tenacity become denial?

But why don’t people ask [Obama] the same question? Neither of us can win without superdelegates. Neither of us can possibly get to the nomination unless something totally unforeseen happens, without doing what we are doing now. Why should I leave? I don’t understand that reasoning. I’ve won the states we have to win in the fall. I have a broader coalition that we have to build on in order to win in November. I believe my experience is much better suited to go toe-to-toe with John McCain. And it’s up to voters, and to people who get selected as delegates, however that process occurs, to make that determination. But I’m not going to short-circuit the process.
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And if the “process” wasn’t designed to make sure incumbents don’t ever have to face a re-election those “SUPER” delegates wouldn’t exist and you would be the loser.

And everybody with a bit of personal integrity understands this…

That’s why people keep asking when you plan to bow out and you keep missing the point…

The fact is, its doesn’t matter. You liberals are going to loose bigtime in November. We will win. McCain, or better yet, Bush/Cheney installed for two extra terms due to national emergency or military coup, caused either by a terrorist attack, a dem White House, or both, would be my dream and that of the Heartland.

Hmm. Wouldn’t eat (alleged) beef, did eat a waffle.

ZOMG, HEZ A STEALTH RADICAL HINDU!!

OK, that was a gag, right Smut? Please tell me that that Newsweek article was just a gag, or a bad dream, or something.
In fairness, Clinton was quoting the joke as an example of something inspiring that someone had sent her. The idea was that P.M. Clark’s tenacity is something to admire and emulate. But describing Clark as “former P.M.” does not help to reinforce Clinton’s foreign-policy credentials.

I’m not surprised by anything The Neocon Republican prints.

The TNR cover was . . . tasteless but for the Clinton campaign to cry about having all those statements and sentiments repeated with Clinton behind them in caricature would be pathetic whining.

The problem with Hillary (in my considered opinion) has nothing to do with her being a woman. I was very big on the idea of a Hillary presidency three years ago. I thought there were all kinds of advantages to it. Hillary being a Presidential wife meant that people could potentially fool themselves into thinking it was a 3rd Bill Clinton term, and once they’d done so we would then have a credible record of a woman running our country for 4 (or even 8) years, and a chance of it happening again.

She’s since disqualified herself as a leader. Remember her “experience” is in all reality paper-thin, dating only back to the beginning of her Senate career. She’s not actually been “vetted.” That vetting is happening now. And she’s gone completely berserk under the pressure of trying to beat a strong front-runner. I submit that every ridiculous attack she’s lobbed at the Obama campaign has damaged her in ways she will have difficulty recovering from, to the point that in a couple of years she’s going to get primaried out of her Senate seat.

All of those little quotes over her head in that cover are genuine sentiments she or Bill have uttered in the course of this campaign, with a couple of hyperbolic exceptions. None of them relate to her sex. They all relate to the absolutely nutty things she’s said in the course of her kitchen-sink campaign.

Someday I will be very happy to vote a woman into the Oval Office. Just not this woman.

Why am I almost completely convinced that Obama was being tongue-in-cheek when demanding to eat his waffle, and these clowns just took his word and ran with it?

If Obama really wanted the nod, he’d have been eating a Pop Tart, not a waffle, and he’d have answered the reporters questions with his mouth full, tiny crumbs and sugar sprinkles spraying forth with every syllable. That’s American.

Waffles aren’t fried, duh. They’re ironed.

What’s horrendous is that y’all have ads on your site for the SEIU, who are involved in physical attacks against other unionists.

Jeralyn is going to be so pissed when Hillary loses she will launch a criminal investigation! lol

Martin – I don’t do the ads, but it looks to me like the one in the sidebar leads to an anti-SEIU site.

Oh, wait – I see the ad for the anti-CNA site up there too. Never mind.

They actually put cheeze whiz on the cheese steak sandwiches? Shit, I don’t blame him for passing them up — that’s… Gag.

Jesus fucking Christ. All I can say is I’m glad the primary is today.

“I have a question for these rabid Hillary fans. If uh, she doesn’t win, will they be supporting the guy who likes to eat the occasional waffle in peace or McBush?”

The later, Lesley.

gary’s longing for a terrorist attack. why does he hate america?

“I have a question for these rabid Hillary fans. If uh, she doesn’t win, will they be supporting the guy who likes to eat the occasional waffle in peace or McBush?”

The later, Lesley.

We’ll call them the wire hanger Democrats.

I’m afraid I don’t see the TNR cover as being out of bounds. The picture is unflattering, but she certainly isn’t the first politician to get that treatment. The statements or sentiments are based on things that have actually happened.

It’d be different if TNR were predicting that Clinton’s behavior would follow sexist stereotypes based only on her gender. Mocking an individual for their actual recorded behavior is not sexist even if that behavior happens to mimic a stereotype. TNR’s use of the word ‘verklempt’ on the cover would only be sexist if Clinton had never become verklempt on the campaign trail.

Is it wrong that I’m amused to see an ad on Feministe for ‘McMaid’ maid service?

Barack Obama would be a disastor for America and for Western Civilization. He would surrender to the terrrorists and impose socialism.

Behold…DISASTOR, Space-Muslim conqueror from beyond the stars!!!!

OneMadClown beat me to it.

Nah, I stole it from your brain telepathically…with my eeeeeeeevilllllllll space-muslim mind powers!!!!!

ATTN Teh Sadlies — considering that his name does sound sort of alien…B’arack O’bama…and his secret identity as DISASTOR…would I be outta line requesting a “B’arack-as-Martian-Manhunter” photoshop???

TL really went to hell after Hillary became the underdog. It’s all BTD declaring that black people don’t count, Face Scratching(BIRD FLIPPING!), and wafflegate.

Apparently, making your opponent look ridiculous using still captures of them looking nuts, a long standing tactic of any campaign regardless of gender, is now BEYOND THE PALE. Because some women go out of their way to turn any attack on Hillary into the misogynist apocalypse.

God, just shoot me now so I don’t have to endure watching us lose in November because of these fucking whackos.

And… Now Talk Left is arguing that Hillary deciding to extend our nuclear umbrella to Israel, despite their nuclear arsenal, is a good reason to continue the primary.

Because making Hillary looks nuts isn’t just for the Obama-sphere anymore!

“TL really went to hell after Hillary became the underdog.”

Actually, TL went to hell when all the Hillbots fled HuffPost and Daily Kos and all come over to feed off JM’s rampant stupidity.

One cannot express a dissenting opinion over there without having their comments and ratings deleted. And, BTD is the worst at doing that. He is such a wimp that he cannot even defend himself–he has to delete and/or ban those who dare speak the truth to him.

Hillary didn’t do a very good job of vetting her theme song:

http://www.minnesotamonitor.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=B4F29884049D1ED0965E72EAED68D1C1?diaryId=3772

…as she left today’s rally in PA the [public address system speakers] played Journey’s ‘Don’t Stop Believin’.” Two salient facts about this song: It’s one of the worst, most cloying pop songs ever recorded, and it is also, infamously, the soundtrack to the closing moments of the last Sopranos episode.
That’s right: As the Pennsylvania primary race draws to an end, someone in the Clinton camp has seen fit to pull out a song now popularly associated with the last public moments of the Soprano clan. It’s the music Tony hears as he realizes that the rest of his life will consist of one close call after another as he navigates a world filled with enemies he’s made over the course of a lifetime — until the day it all collapses in a bloody showdown.

” And, BTD is the worst at doing that. He is such a wimp that he cannot even defend himself–he has to delete and/or ban those who dare speak the truth to him.”

It’s Armando’s Hideaway.

I have to go with a guy who’ll tell the world to shut up and let him eat his waffle. I hope he lobbed a pat of butter at the reporter.

mmm, a teaspoon of sweet irony with my coffee. Thanks gbear!

Hillary didn’t do a very good job of vetting her theme song…..Clinton camp has seen fit to pull out a song now popularly associated with the last public moments of the Soprano clan.

Um, how fast memory fades.

Don’t you remember her parody ad?

Ooos, hit submit too soon. Should’ve posted the Althouse link.

Althouse knocked back a couple of glasses of box Chardonnay and analyzed Hillary’s Sopranos ad. Her analysis compared carrot sticks to the Clenis and onion rings to vajayjays.

Oh, and Obama won’t be taken seriously as a presidential candidate in the press until he eats a bowling ball covered in maple syrup at the local Dairy Queen.

Well, fuck yeah. I know I’d be impressed.

If Obama ate some bowling balls or crushed a few bricks with his bare hands I seriously doubt if any reporters would have the cojones to interrupt his breakfast.

Speaking of Althouse, her and Jeralyn are now BFF’s now that Althouse’s son is a Clinton delegate. One is not allowed to speak ill of the Outhouse at TL.

Fortunately, our Dear Leader knows how to work the rubes connect with the people. Too bad he picked a shitty show on the long downhill slide: Deal or No Deal

(Hillary has) since disqualified herself as a leader.

An interesting thing about this seemingly never-ending Democratic presidential campaign is that the more desperately Clinton has struggled, the more she’s revealed herself as being unfit and the more she’s receded as a candidate and as a person. She’s campaigned herself into oblivion.

Someday I will be very happy to vote a woman into the Oval Office. Just not this woman.

And stuff like THIS sure isn’t helping. WTF?

If Obama ate some bowling balls or crushed a few bricks with his bare hands I seriously doubt if any reporters would have the cojones to interrupt his breakfast.

I’d like to see him crush a few reporters with his bare hands.

I’d like to see him crush a few reporters with his bare hands.

And then spread them over his waffles.

He would surrender to the terrrorists

I know. I’ve asked before. But nobody’s ever given me an answer.

So I’ll ask again.

Explain to me the nuts and bolts of “surrendering to the terrorists”. I mean, if one WANTED to, just exactly how would one go about it?

‘Cause I’m not seeing it. Wouldn’t you have to wave a white flag or sign a article of surrender or hand over your weapons or something?

Who would you surrender to? Where would this surrender take place? Afterwards, how would it work?

Please. Take the fifteen minutes or whatever you need and explain this to me! ‘Cause I’m pretty sure you can’t…

mikey

Explain to me the nuts and bolts of “surrendering to the terrorists”. I mean, if one WANTED to, just exactly how would one go about it?

(sigh) Maybe you hadn’t noticed that the USA of America has been barricaded by the Iranian Armada? Both coasts are hemmed in by tens of thousands of Iranian aircraft carriers, the Rio Grande is filled from Baja to the Gulf with Iranian Coast Guard battle groups and the Great Lakes, along with that river that goes straight west from there (and makes our border with Canada) is chock-a-block with Iranian submarines disguised as fishing vessels and leisure craft. (Ignorant LIE-brul).

I would think that even a commie like you would grasp the idea of Ted Kennedy surrendering his sword on the deck of the Iranian flagship, the USS Sharia Law. No?

Why do you think I constantly carry a fully erect M1 Battle Rifle™? When the Billion man Iranian army storms ashore from those countless troop ships waiting menacingly offshore, they’ll be headed straight for the heartland of the USA of America, with blood covered scimitars and kevlar turbans, killing anyone, including babies and infants, who won’t kneel down and worship an image of Allah on the cross. These people are animals and will probably eat up everything at every local McDonald’s, leaving *nothing* for the patriots of the heartland, save for the mayonaise packets (which they eschew on religious grounds).

Maybe it would be better to surrender. There’s no reason for us all to go hungry, maybe if we just said that we’d promise to be good Muslins that they’d just go home to their own McDonalds…I’m just thinking of the safety of the heartland here. We could give them Chuck Norris as a goodwill gesture (heh, though he’d probably kick the Iranian navel general all the way back to Arabia!).

the Iranian navel general
He may well be the Great Orange Satan that you people go on about.

Don’t tell anyone, but I’m actually from California.

Shania Law, bitches!

Do not worry Iranian navel general but there is a slight problem with the kevlar turbans.

It turns out that, by a small miscalculation in the factory, the turbans are made of lead instead of kevlar, they’re hollow, and the space is filled with a mix of mercury and roofies.

It should be fine…fine…as long as they aren’t punctured.

Good luck with the invasion!

hugs,
CKTS

We sail tomorrow.

Hanx, CKTS, victory will be ours!

Gee, I’d heard about these terists using the internets for their secret war planning but I never thought I’d see it.

I don’t think you can flush SEIU down the toilet because of something some of their members did. It is a gigantic union representing a lot of people working tough jobs.

Can we get this back to where it started – the New Republic article that D. Aristophanes calls horrendous. Apparently DA finds it horrendous because its portrayal of Clinton’s campagne is sexist. I agree that Clinton has been subjected to sexist ridicule, e.g. she can’t be President because she has fat legs and little sex-appeal. But I can’t identify sexist ridicule in the NR article. There’s discussion of Clinton’s campaign organization and presentation of fairly convincing evidence drawn from interviews with insiders that the organization is a mess. The article asserts that Hilary is ultimately responsible for the mess. That’s not sexist.

I don’t think the problem is so much with the article as with the cover, which plays to all of the sexist “crazy woman” stereotypes that we should be well beyond.

What’s really horrendous is the degree to which the left has taken sides and is throwing around really damaging allegations. And by damaging I’m talking about the trivial crap that’s going to hurt our side in the battle in November, when it really counts.

o’scrod – It’s the picture of Hillary. It’s obviously intended to make her look really, really bad. TNR is supposedly a liberal rag (funny you should call it ‘NR’, which mostly is used to refer to the National Review – they’re not so different these days).

What that means is that it’s not supposed to depict liberals, cheaply, in the worst possible light. Criticism is obviously fine, but for a serious, supposedly liberal policy magazine to run that photo is bottom-of-the-barrel stuff. It’s as if the National Review or Weekly Standard ran a picture of monkeyboy Bush on their covers – they’d never do it.

A few months ago, the Prospect ran a very unflattering photo of Giuliani on its cover. That’s obviously different – the Prospect is against most everything he stands for.

So the point is, it’s horrendous because it’s a big giant fuck you from TNR to half its supposed allies, the people who back Hillary — and in fact, a giant fuck you to even more people – people like me who back Obama but would support Hillary if she wins the nomination.

Does anyone have a larger size pic of that TNR cover? I’m trying to read the thought bubbles — just trying to be informed before making a decision on whether its terrible or terrible and sexist.

OMC, I believe there’s a link to a larger pictures in the comments of the original blog post that is linked from here. Er, that doesn’t make any sense. Follow the link above, read through the comments and you should find a linkey to a larger version of the picture.

And I used to subscribe to TNR until they got behind Bush and his Iraqian war. That tore it for me, especially when the editorial content was directly contradicted by the reporting. It was like I was reading the WSJ and it made me want to puke.

Gracias OneMan!

Having reviewed it thoroughly, I have rendered my self-indulgent and unimportant verdict: Its crap, but not really sexist crap.

At least O’bama wasn’t caught eating French toast–er, Freedom toast.

El Cid:
Shorter David Brooks, New York Times, Tuesday:
I have to write a lot about the presidential political campaigns, which gets really dull. Wouldn’t it be cooler instead to imagine you were C. S. Lewis who in turn was imagining how medieval people looked at the night sky and stuff? That would be cool.

No, I guess you weren’t exaggerating:

“Without turning into an Arthurian cultist, it’s nice to look up from the latest YouTube campaign moment and imagine a sky populated with creatures, symbols and tales.”

Yes, it’s too bad that no one has dared imagine that kind of stuff since the time of that great medieval bard, Georg de Lucas.

you idiots have doomed us all to another 4 years with a repug presnit. Morons.

you idiots have doomed us all to another 4 years with a repug presnit. Morons.

Are you actually from the future? And I don’t mean 7 hours into the future but like, 7 months? Forget the election, dood, who won the World Series?