you said this a thousand times better than I ever could.

also, I hope Leah, xan, and xenathon will come back

the ammunition and can we for chrissakes start aiming it outside the circle of our friends, colleagues, partymates and beloveds?

DCb, thanks for the kind words. I'm back, or will be back, as soon as there sets in a realization that there are things more important than "Hillary winning." Like maybe, "McCain losing."

I remember the days when we used to bare our fangs and rend the flesh of corrupt thieving Republicans. I liked those days and can't wait for them to come again. :)

I publicly folded my tent a couple of weeks back only to find that there were still, IMHO, a few fights worth fighting -- especially the disgraceful display of disinformation that captivated the MSM and the leftysphere this weekend.

I will say that "Let Go" is a message that has so often been foully laid upon those who fight the good fight, that it's not an especially welcome construction.

I can't account for why some loyal progressives are absolutely livid about what's gone down in this campaign, and others are still in the "two good candidates" or "two crappy candidates" mode.

At the end of the day, we all have to trust our lyin' eyes.

Do me a favor, if you would. Watch the entire ten minutes-and-change of this Keith Olbermann clip.

Yes, I know, the usual caveats about turning off the TV. But this is what now passes for mainstream progressive thought. Just please watch for ten minutes, and you'll perhaps understand why some of us feel our reality has been befouled just as bad as it was in the run-up to the Iraq War.

I don't disagree with your conclusion about the conclusion of this campaign, and I know I've disappointed some folks here by making that point.

I know we're fucked. But I also know that something's gone horribly wrong in progressiveland, and that while people are pushing back on it, I think they ought to have a little support. It may be quixotic, but it's just. And there are many worse things than that.

Lost my local guy to Obama last week, he said the same thing, that the bus is pulling out of the station and he didn't want to get left behind. Can't be angry with him, it is his job to know what to do and he's a damn good guy, but still; I was sorry to see him fold.

I have one more moderately rational numbers-based argument for why she ought to be the nominee; hopefully I can still put that up without lowering the standards too much. If I get out of line, you know how to handle it.

Should it actually end up Obama - and August 28 is a long, long ways away - I will do everything I can to help drag his sorry ass over the line; he's going to need all the help he can get, and the alternative is too horrific to contemplate.

No flames from me on this one; another time, maybe. :-)

i made this one sticky just to see if anyone is still awake.

vast, i hear ya. like i said, i was never one of Hers. anyway, i'm just talking hard stats, facts, and the ugly truth of the undemocracy we all live in. This Is What I'm Told By Those In Power. i happen to know some of those. i'm trying to share it with you all.

i could be wrong. it'd be funny, and interesting, if i am. but here's what's i was told today: supreme court, or veep, or senate chief. she's negotiating for that, at this point. or so insiders tell me. we'll see if i'm wrong. either way:

i want the old corrente back. stat. step up, yo? newbies, you can stay. but it's time to put out, or shut the fuck up. what else can you do but bitch (heh)?

something substantive, i hope. or, let lambert die. he gave his blog/life to you, and HRC. it's time to pay up.

teevee. clicking now. it better be good.

I am realistic in realizing that the Powers That Be will ensure Obama is the nominee, but I also realize that it guarantees McCain will win the presidency. Obama is too weak a candidate for "us" to make a difference--especially against McCain, a man too easily underestimated by the left.

No matter what the odds (and I don't think the odds are that great, whatever these unnamed "higher ups" say). Rather than flame I'll just point out that if I listened to folks tell me to quit, I wouldn't be a day and a half away from getting my PhD. I'm glad I didn't listen to the naysayers then. I won't listen to them now. Some people are worth ignoring, especially those who don't want to give democracy a chance.

Personally, I think that there are still battles to be fought. And I don't think that the dirt dumped last Friday should have been left unanswered.

But hey, I'm a guest here and if I do bring down the level of writing and analysis,then, fair enough. this place belongs to the people who built it.

"i want the old corrente back. stat. step up, yo? newbies, you can stay. but it’s time to put out, or shut the fuck up. what else can you do but bitch (heh)?"

And I'm certainly not one to overstay my welcome since I do think the level of hysteria and dirt from "the other side" has reached new low and will continue to do so, I make it a matter of principles worth fighting for to strike back. I just won't do it here.

I understand your reasoning, CD.

If my voice means anything here anymore, I would be very, very disappointed to see you leave.

are always loudest when Hillary is going to win. Those "in the know" have been talking about how Hillary's planned to get out for months. Is two weeks really too long to let democracy play out?

But hey, if I'm not welcome. So it goes. MSM/Obama has tried to shut us out of every other venue, this is nothing new.

you've done a lot of good stuff, in and out of the horserace. please, stay! i thank you for being here. i really, really do.

sorry, VL. KO just pisses me off. like all the rest of them. i grok your point. he's a teevee creation, and i've never thought otherwise. is he biased against her? of course! and will he be all super-brother-pro-obama in the fall? of course! will it make a fucking difference? fuck no?

you already knew i was going to say this: turn it off. convince your family and friends and neighbors to turn it off. or, die. your choice.

I believe that Obama is unelectable. I'm not going to hang out here bugging you about stuff no one can help. But I'm also not going to hang out with the Democratic Party if they knowingly accept an unelectable nominee.

I don't hear anyone discussing the issues that are lurking out there.

Do your powerful friends have any ideas?

I don't want to drag the place down, so I'll leave know. I just thought I'd share those questions before I go.

It was a blast. Thanks.

Those who seek balance need to add their own weight to the scales, and not seek to silence others.

For me, this primary turned into a justice fight long ago. I am in this 'til the last dog dies.

And if there's something preventing anybody from posting on McCain, I'd like them to explain what it is.

Have at it. Be the change you seek. Do the work. Because that's what I've done. Now there's a funded server and double the readers we used to have. So to those who were absent while that was accomplished and say "I don't recognize my blog," I answer "And?"

[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

yeah, that's right. i'm a sr fellow here too. stop your whining. i'm only trying to Get It Done, m'kay?

blah, blah, polysyllabic blah (that's a fav teevee quote, look it up) i'm so fucking sick and tired of horserace whining and bitching and race baiting and all the fucking rest of it. and you know what? you whiners have ruined my fucking blog. you. ruined it. fuckers. there, it's late and i'm that fucking angry. but you know what?

what the fuck have any of you done, beyond hold back the oborg? and yes, i agree with you, they are "the oborg." we'll get to that, in 09, and you won't be sorry to have been outside of it. i know this, i've said so, i grok that, etc.

this. isn't. about. him.

this is about the war/occupation. the reality that the SCLM picks our Leaders for us, despite our aims and goals. for krist's sake, i live in MI. did my vote count? was this primary "valid?" do you think it can't happen to you? does anyone here remember dukaukis? kerry? dean? hello, anyone?

...that's my angry side. it gets worse when i drink. lucky for you, i'm trying to Get Sober. want to help? go work for...oh, here's a crazy idea: someone KO never, ever speaks of. you know, those meaningless people in "congress" who fund the fucking war that is fucking taking food out of your fucking grandkids' mouths. ready for that? ready to get out, off your ass, off your computer, and give real and painful time to elect a "more and better" dem in your state? more than one, even? that's what i'm doing, who the fuck cares if it's BHO or HRC or whomever moderate, middle way rethug lite dem we have next year.

gas is 4 fucking dollars a gallon here. it's not even july. wake the fuck up, people. that's really the point of this post, sorry go all nukyular but i tried, and failed to hold the Real Me in on this subject. we got fucked, royally, in MI, and it's happening to the rest of you. wake up and smell it, or die. your choice.

Lost my local guy to Obama last week, he said the same thing, that the bus is pulling out of the station and he didn’t want to get left behind.

Same Democratic expedience that brought us Five Fabulous Years in Iraq.

Awesome.

I know this as one who’s thrown many successful parties and knows when it’s time to kick out the stumblers. Don’t let that be you.

Same high-school clique mentality which rules the lives of those in the Village.

Awesome.

How about we just let the nominating process finish?

yours. get over it

as well as in those that are flush. if you really mean that crap, fuck off and go away, and don't waste our time anymore. seriously.

disagree with me? go work for HRC. hate me? say so, and why, and with reason and logic. but give up? what a lame bitch you must be, if you wimp out over one fucking post. grow up. or, recognize that those of us who are in this for the Long Haul are real, and we don't need or want you.

hate me? tell me why. or run away like a little grrl. your choice. your turn.

some of you posting here lately are way below Correntish standards and we’ve tolerated that, for various reasons

I'm just saying.

he's the senior economist for the dlc, as well as obama's economic advisor.

unless of course, we end up with mccain.

Same high-school clique mentality which rules the lives of those in the Village.

Awesome.

hey, brilliant, i've got some news for you.

"high school clique mentality" runs the fucking country. or didn't you notice? i work for the party, for others in the Biz. i've live in DC. i've been on the fucking floor of more "capitols" than most people here ever will be, including this state and the "nation's," how about you? is it fair? is it right? of course, no it isn't. am i arrogant? fuck yeah, i am.

when was the last time you spoke with the senate majority leader? i can tell when i have. recently. and others.

tell me again: i don't know what the fuck i'm talking about. tell me again how Purity and Truth will beat out corruption and money. i'm sure there are some songs. i'm so fucking sick and tired of pie in the sky, we don't have to think abou that, la la la, dems.

as it happens, i too don't think BHO can win in the fall. i'm just like him, i've lived his life. i can't "prove" that to any of you, but it's true. i've also accepted: "maverick" is working. well, hard, whatever. this is the point of this post. are you ready to give up your own, interblogospherical battles that no one cares about? when will you be? people who read the political blogobullshit are like .00006% of the electorate. what about the rest? have you worked with, GOTV'd, funded, etc., any of those? people are dying, starving, motivated for Hope and Change.

obama won't bring us that. not willingly. so. are you ready to give up and die b/c it won't be HRC? or try to do something to make a moderate "black" candidate a true progressive?

trust me, i'm going to get mean on this one. i'm sick and fucking tired of the bitching. people are dying. like, me. so it's time to do something about it, or just be a lame Consumer who makes no difference. but myself: i won't go down without a fight. so now you have one. let's join together and direct it at the Real Enemy: mccentury.

But I've come to love this place: the posters and commenters have become important to me.

So, finding a lead story that battered my sense of Democracy (forget the votes -> Hillary's lost) and then says people like me are barely tolerated. Well. I took it personally.

I'm sorry about that. But, it's been that sort of day at other blogs too.

[Edited] I wrote the above before I saw your comment Lambert.

Thank you -- you are wonderful. And I will stay. But what is going on? Why has this weekend been so unbearable?

i bow to that one. yes, things are never the same. sorry to expect that. still, even. Let's Get to Work. you hate me (not really) others hate you (or not). what does that have to do, what can we Do, to stop mccentury?

that's all i'm going to say from now on. hate me, bitch at me, enjoy humiliating me (and why is that important, again?) not you, LB. i know your mind, the truth of you. but for fuck's sake: who is the enemy?

it's time to realize whom that truly is. gnite. and thank you for playing, all. it's time to step up our Game. or, i'm wrong and you should ignore me. my record is public; you choose.

it's your choice. not his, not mine, but yours. always and forever. that's why this is a truly Progressive blog.

honestly. i'd rather you all spend all day telling me how i suck and this post is wrong, than for you to go. for him, and his sake, more than any other's. seriously, i mean that. don't go. beat up on me if you need to, but don't go. it's all we have, all he has, in the end and in this SCLM reality. and now, for real, zzzzzz. later, bats.

That comment I made?
Submitted by katiebird on Mon, 2008-05-26 00:51.

That was me quoting chicago dyke's post -- it wasn't really me saying it. I should have been clearer.

CD, that's just silly, for several reasons.

1. Fighting for the right thing ("marginal is not insignificant") always matters, regardless of outcome. (The latest grotesquerie, the Argus incident, shows that about as vividly as can be.)

2. Our effort matters because, as "resistance historians," the record is straight.

3. Our effort matters because of new relationships created.

4. Our effort matters because of all the other seeds that were planted as we made the effort -- Single Payer among them. Or do you really think this blog is about fucking election outcomes instead of evolving a continuing critique? Yes, the critique is developed as circumstances dictate -- that's not pretty. It's a shame that we can't be doing the critique on more pleasant ground, but there it is.

5. Finally, the effort is worth it to learn something about the nature of politics as practices in the 21st Century in America.

Every sane Hillary supporter came here to get some kind of refuge from the shit storm and the Oborg. Do you really think it was smart to trash them for low quality writing? Because I don't. Wouldn't it make a lot more sense to start thinking of how to go forward with what we've got now that's new to make things better? I do.

As for "what are you going to do when the HrC party is over?" I've said before, many times, and I'll say again:

1. If Obama wins, I'll vote for him.*

2. I'll work on policy like Universal Health Care.

3. I'll work on downticket races

4. And now, I'll seriously think about PB2.0, to make sure that what happened this time never happens again (might even be #2 on the list).

But until the nomination is decided, I really must continue to do what I conceive to be my duty. Friends don't ask friends to do otherwise. Eh?

NOTE * Modulo some wild and incredible real alternative, like the NWP, and not, for pity's sake, Nader; that is one of the things that the [ ] ????? now in my sig means. And there's nothing I like less than making Obama supporters feel uncomfortable, so the question of working for him doesn't arise.

UPDATE And your friends would never lie to you. Right? Not even as part of the usual WWTSBQ wankfest that occurs, as regularly as the sun rises, before Hillary wins another election? Frankly, I hope she finds a way that they decide it's better to "let" her than not.

[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

I'm convinced that all the VP/Unity Ticket talk is purely designed to get HRC hardcores to spend a few minutes "having a conversation with themselves", visualizing walking into a voting booth and pulling the lever for him, or to at least acclimate one's self to complying with HRC's anticipated campaign-season pleas to vote D, whoever is at the top of the ticket.

Been there, done that, doesn't work for me.

But I've lost no sleep worrying that HRC is stupid enough to believe sweet lies and promises about the SCOTUS or governorships.

More important, yes?

[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

but I find this all a little strange a week before the DNC meets to make a determination about FL/MI. Then 3 more primaries happen. Then 2 months until the convention. Why decide it's over now?

There are so many ways it might not be over before the convention. Don't count on the fact that Obama won't implode. There are plenty of skeletons fighting to fall out of his closet. O and his wife continue to say and do stupid things. And if nothing else, 2 months is a long time for SD's to second guess themselves and think about whether they want to win or throw Clinton under the bus, because those are the only 2 choices.

So I'm puzzled. Why now?

the cats are helping me type here, so i managed to not finish my other reply before clicking on the wrong button, but i take issue with this: Soon, none of what you’ve put so much effort into will matter.

argh! i alternate between wanting to bring you a nice warm cup of lavender chamomile tea and some oatmeal cookies fresh out of the oven, and wanting to hit you upside the head with a 2x4 for raining on my parade.

of course it all matters.

critiquing the missing media critique.

calling out sexism and misogyny.

pushing the overton window.

exposing yet more flaws in the electoral system.

pointing out just how far left obama is not because once he's stacked up against mccain he's going to look like a raging pinko commie librul.

plus, i just plain have got problems with people whispering in my ear [or shouting, cf keith olbermann] that they know better than me and i should just step aside, sweetie, and let them take over.

double plus, my 80-year-old lifelong-political-activist mom has a chance to vote for a woman president and my 80-year-old lifelong-political-activist dad has a chance to vote for a black president. they are both thrilled about this, and significant portion of the electorate agrees with them. clearly, the two candidates should just suck it up, put their egos aside, and agree to be co-presidents.

oh, and i'm not going to advocate for the assassination of any pundits, but couldn't we just put duck tape across all their mouths until june 4?

CD, if they are talking to you, I hope they are listening to you and what transpires on this blog you call home. I apologize in advance for the length of this comment.

I pretty much felt after Wisconsin that Hillary wouldn't win and I cursed the day. Regardless, I still give money to her campaign (as recently as today) and I will continue to support her until the day she says she is done. So there OFB, bleh!

I came here because the other blogs I had read every day for several years became toxic to everything I believed in. Fairness, truth, equal treatment of people regardless of race, gender, orientation, universal health care, fighting back vigoursly against the crimes of Republicans because it was the moral thing to do rather than the partisan thing to do. None of those things seemed to be as important to many of those blogs as did humiliating Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton

Barak Obama has made it crystal clear he has no stomach to stand up for any of those principals except if they can help him personally. Likewise his supporters in general feel no reason to fight for any of those principals except if they feel they can elect their candidate.

Why is that? Why should it be rewarded? If abandoning principle in order to win is the prerequisite, what is the compelling reason to vote at all? Is there really a meaningful difference between Coke and Pepsi? Yankees and Red Sox? Meet the new boss, same as the old boss? Has anyone heard that before?

I understand that some will find a compelling reason to vote for a black candidate regardless of that persons stances, just for the fact they are black. Likewise I understand some will find it compelling to vote for a woman candidate, or hispanic candidate, or any other kind of "milestone" candidate. I appreciate that desire is going to be stronger in the Dem party than for someone like Colin Powell in the Republican party. Even if that person may even be more qualified to lead such a powerful and complex nation as the United States. But did that part of the equation slip our minds after 8 years of incompetence? Is it possible that what we see as a turning of the tide towards Dems is really a turning of the tide away from rank ineptitude?

So here goes with my background, I supported Kerry full bore, even when he looked like he was down in November, because I thought he was a fighter after years of seeing him talk tough on "the shows" (future note to self), I was wrong and he lost because he wouldn't fight (and Edwards wouldn't fight for him either). I supported Gore because I thought Bradley was a sure loser, Bradley was a loser, but Gore got all squishy and afraid to have Clinton on his side, then picked the odious Lieberman and the less said about that the better for Gore's legacy. I supported Clinton, early on after the Gennifer Flowers thing when I realized this guy was a serious motherfucking fighter, I was right and he won. I supported Dukakis because I thought he was a strong candidate and very sharp on his feet, but he didn't fight and he lost. I supported Mondale and Carter (in 1980), but Carter got kneecapped by his own idiosyncrisities(sp?) (and Ted Kennedy's ego) and Mondale was a sad sack, but since I live in Minnesota, I loved him, just like I loved Paul Wellstone (now there was a Presidential candidate).

And now I support Hillary Rodham Clinton, because she fights for Dem causes, because she fights for Dem voters, because she has the heart of ten prides of lions, and because, she would crush John McCain like a bug in November. I didn't like her last fall, but I have come to respect her like nobody I have ever respected in public life behind Paul Wellstone and I owe it to my family and everything I believe in to fight for her until the bitter end. Believe it.

CD, you may have the ear of some powerful Dem players, and next week I will have a chance to compare it to "powerful Dems" that I know as well. But normally, like you apparently, I traffic in the less lofty reaches, which makes me confident to say that if Obama is nominated, there is no amount of fluffing we peons (who after all couldn't get Clinton nominated in a "fair" fight) will be able to do to get him elected. So what then for us 0.0000006% who have no influence anyway? Talk about something pleasant while Rome burns?

Here is my observation and you can take it or not: all those folks derided as "Reagan Dems" and now dismissed as irrelevant, were neither Reagan Dems, nor irrelevant. They weren't Kerry Dems and they weren't Gore Dems, but they were still Dems: they were Clinton Dems and they will be Clinton Dems when the next Clintonite Dem reaches out to them and says, "I will fight for you and I will fight for what is right.". Until that person comes along, gutless wonders like Kerry, Gore, Dukakis, Mondale, Carter, and now Obama will have to go fish.

And don't get me started on the misogyny. It is making me look again at my own behavior and how it apparently was lacking in regards to Katherine Harris, Michele Bachmann, and other unsavory characters on the Republican side who were women and deserved to be called out for their policies but not for their make up, behavior towards Bush, etc.. Maybe that should have been the canary in the coal mine for the left blogosphere.

I hope I am still welcome here and as an offering I present here (and one time only) the link to my blog where I blog of everything EXCEPT politics.

insideoutside

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Good night and good riddance!

That's the way I feel about the Democratic Party but I'm afraid that it ain't gonna happen.

I'm one of the 'newbies' who came to corrente because it was a haven from formerly "progressive blogs" that turned into Obamamania and/or Hillary hater-land.

Lambert (in particular), vastleft, FrenchDoc, katiebird, TonyRz and quite a few other (many of which are "newbies" I've found out tonite) - have all given me hope that there are still sane progressive voices here in the blogosphere. To them I'd like to say that there are many of us who are mainly lurkers who really appreciate what they have to say. Please don't intimidate them or run them off.

All of this shouting about "shut up" and "get with the program!" of fighting our "real enemy" have made me realize that a lot of Democrats are so concerned with getting on with the battle in November that they've forgotten what a democracy is supposed to be about. You've even said that "they" - the powers that be - aren't going to let "her" win. They've picked their nominee and we're stuck with him. Yes, the old party bosses are pushing Mr. "Hope" and "Change". Someone they can control who has a new, pretty face and a compliant, groupie following. I'm sorry but I'm not buying it.

I want my party back but it doesn't want me. Except of course, for my vote, which they are threatening me with Roe v. Wade/Supreme Court appts., etc. Sorry, but I'm still not buying it.

What's been going on here isn't about a "horserace". It's about the future of the Democratic party. Fuck the goddamn GE. This is a subject that ain't going away any time soon. So fucking deal with it.

"Jesus and Obama have something in common; I'd like both of them to please save me from their followers." - Darrow

Regardless if the nominee is Hillary of Obama, no matter who wins in November.

Even if Obama wins and becomes President, there will be battles to fight. The same if it's Hillary.

In 2006 the Democrats won the Congress and we sat back and waited for them to make necessary changes.

We're still waiting.

The media critique still needs to be done. The GOP will still be there, and the soul of the Democratic party is still in peril.

Winning the election in November is only the beginning.

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“Rules are not necessarily sacred,
principles are.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt

I missed most of the media rush this weekend, but why the sudden hurry-up to shut it down all over the net? What is *everyone*'s problem -NOW- with only a couple weeks to go?

Why the desperate need for speed? the "hurry-up, move your asses,", NOW?

The Party will never let Hillary win. So?
Tell me something I didn't know in January. I'm still stunned that she got any votes at all.

Hillary will be forgotten soon enough as an 'also-ran', a few more weeks isn't going to hurt Obama's GE chances any more than they already are today. McCain will still be there.

Most of the Clinton-voters will support Obama in November. Some will drop-off, but there's always some, another few weeks won't change their minds either way.

As for McCain, I can't see anybody stopping anybody else from tackling McCain on this blog, or any other.

For me, I was burned-out or, maybe 'hated-out' months ago, being on the receiving end for so long, I just can't whip up the necessary passion for hostility for McCain, or anybody else for that matter. Sorry, I've twice checked the pantry, closets etc - seems I'm all out of hate, anger and hostility.

Soon as the Convention is over, I'm leaving the dems and joining the Great American Apathy Party.
Its peaceful and quiet in there.

In the meantime, I will continue to support Hillary for as long she chooses.

"I’m annoyed; some of you posting here lately are way below Correntish standards and we’ve tolerated that"
I heard that after drinking the orange koolaid that a difference of opinion is inexcusable. Lemmings. Looks like a McCain Presidency. Another bookmark bites the dust. See you at DailyKos, the main Obama Hub.

I think Dylan Thomas expressed my opinion on this subject the best...

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

I didn't do my work on Florida election law because I thought it would make a difference.
I didn't do my Bush military records stuff because I thought it would make a difference.
I didn't spend hours and hours and hours doing research about the forthcoming Iraq War because I thought it would make a difference.

I do stuff because I hate the idea of making decisions based on fraudulent information.

Oh well, I can always go back to 'self-publishing' my research on my website... but be warned--I'll blogwhore it to death!

i love trouble. so i thought, i can make some. clearly i have.

ok. without reading all 68 comments, let me clarify. hmm, perhaps i should do this in the original post. yeah, i think i will. hold on.

As someone who used to visit Corrente on a daily basis, and has of late found less and less reason to do so, I can only echo CD's comment:
"I’d like my balanced blog back, I’m tired of reading about the horserace."
That just about sums it up. Oh, and one other thing: I remember when hicks like me with dialup connections could actually read Corrente without having to wait for all the YouTube videos to load. The writing is what matters, and the thinking behind it.

downstreamer

And then, you'll "have your blog back!" I won't be checking in anymore, but I'm sure they'll be more than a few who will carry on.

Good luck.

i hear. i'm thinking about them. i updated to reflect some personal issues that got the better of me in the comments. thanks for understanding and sharing and listening and telling me why i'm wrong. seriously, i really appreciate it and that's why I Won't Quit, and neither should she. again i stress: the only way to get there is together. lambert, you know why i've not been blogging on mccentury so much, or anything. it's because i'm trying to grow some food. it's really that simple, and given how sick i am, there's only so much time in the day. but i'm trying to get back in the Game, this post/trouble/shitstorm is a start.

now, lemme go into my inbox and see what horror i can find to motivate you all to turn the anger on him. again, thanks so much for your love, anger, and fighting spirit.

If you know something, you owe it to the rest of us to spill the beans so we can fight them, not give in to them. And your garden blogging isn't political. It's an excuse.
Actually, of all the correntians, I could see this coming from you from a mile away. It's so much easier to just comply, give in, acquiesce, even if you know that it's wrong for all of us in every conceivable way. I truly am ashamed of you for being so passive.
How many times have we seen the impossible from places all over the world? Remember how the Berlin Wall came down? The storming of the Kremlin? The Orange Movement in the Ukraine? But you would have us surrender without even making a sound before it is all over because some poobah in the DNC or the SCLM says they won't let her win. That makes it sounds like Americans are the lamest people on the planet.
Thanks for the warning Chicago Dyke. I will be sure to avoid any of your posts in te future. You aren't the only person disappointed with the quality of the reading material. Thank God for Lambert, Vastleft and Paul.

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