Now, I gotta friend who spends his life
Stabbing my picture with a bowie-knife
Dreams of strangling me with a scarf
When my name comes up he pretends to barf
I've got a million friends!-- Bob Dylan, "I Shall Be Free No. 10"
It's not enough to vote for Barack Obama expressly because you like the idea of a first African-American president.
You have to make sure that you don't discourage treating his presidency as a four-to-eight-year Hallmark Moment. Because if you do, progressives will call you a "bugfucker."
Just remember: if you don't have the right emotions and statements, "there's something wrong with you."
Also, if you happened to prefer Hillary during the primaries, you are assumed to be a "she."
Welcome to our progressive future!
UPDATE:
In comments at Rumproast, I have demanded an apology:
With all due respect, I must strenuously object to your post that compares my penchant for bugfuckery to Obama's historicism.My "Obama Histeria Watch" uses Google News as its data set, not all of Google.
The latter source returns "Your search - vastleft bugfucker - did not match any documents" when presented with your designated query.
That's not to say that the MSM won't cover this important story at a future date, but as of now this search is a non-starter.
If you wish to compare web posts that document my insect-intercourse exploits to posts in the Google corpus about Obama being historic, please note the "Obama"+"Historic" benchmark stands at 15,500,000, a damn sight more than the 131 documents that reference my fornication with flies and the like.
I do hope that an apology will be forthcoming.
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first Bush, now Obama
I am about to get REALLY angry.
We put up with 8 years of Bush when we were told we were either for him or against him. Now, it's going to be at least four years of Obama where we are either for him or against him.
I have had enough. The ne4xt person who gives me that shit is going to get decked.
Come together at The Confluence
We're All Bugfuckers Now!
Whoohooooo!
If you don't want to be a bugfucker, get off the fact chase. Get out of the reality-based community!
Day-ummmmm. Bugfucker! Who knew?
Count me in as a proud bugfucker!
I mean, better bugs, than goats, right?
Also, like Cassandra...
Mickey Kaus was right, yes?
that word--
i've never even heard it as an insult before--how is it even possible?
so dumb.
Viewing him as "historic" and using his race and groundbreakingness as the preface to reporting and seriously assessing his actions is absolutely harmful to both him and to us on multiple levels. Your series of posts --and the reactions to you and your posts-- continue to remind us about narratives, conventional wisdom, and their implications.
"historic" is in the past. it's already happened. it's static and passive and pre-judged.
it's the absolute opposite view to take of someone who hasn't even taken office yet at a time of enormous problems.
"already been minted"
"... the gig hasn't even started yet and "O's" already been minted. ..." -- (Newsweek's) Obama's Lincoln -- http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2008/11/news...
Not just them...but in today's Seattle PI there is this...
....lovely little nugget by editorial writer Lynne Varner in which she waxes philosophical on Obama as having an analagous presidency to Lincoln and that those who dare stand in his way need to get out of it.
Here's the money quote:
Obama is too measured and polite to say so, so I'll say it for him. Come mid-January, Republicans and Democrats ought to follow the president's lead or simply get out of his way.
"Conciliation can only go so far," says professor Green. "The crises we're facing are so extraordinary they require bold action."
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Because 8 years of doing that with Bush wasn't enough, eh? The Village F*cking astounds me.
Linkage (forgive me for not knowing how to do the /a link thingy)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/op...
dictatorship? fine with them.
ugh.
B-b-but Big Brother Loves You!
hey.
don't you get it? everything changed after 9/11! You gots to watch what you say!
You only gots to say: I love Big Brother! I love Big Brother! I love Big Brother!
how hard is that?
Reporter to Gandhi: What do you think of Western Civilization?
Gandhi to reporter: I think it would be a good idea.
Wtf?
What's with all the weird-ass attacks lately?
signed,
bugfucker 14
PB 2.0 - Supplement the wonk!
thanks for the link.
there's so much hope and change over there.
Updated n/t
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Today, We Are All Bugfuckers!
And, let me tell you, Bugfuckistan isn't that bad. In fact, it's not bad at all.
I'll say it again, but have fun with P.B. 1.0. They are hear for entertainment. And, please be warned, they are only going to get more "fun" (i.e. nasty) as Obama continues to trip over himself. Again, just watch when Obama tells his loons in a not so subtle way to "fuck off." Watch the like of Kos flipping back to his original Republican affiliation as if it were nothing. These are fanboys manipulating poseurs all the while being manipulated by Teh Precious, and they are too dumb to realize it, or for the more perceptive ones, care.
But, we've always been at war with Eastasia...
Unwavering Adulation?
What to hell happened to 'critical thought' ? The temperament of the MSM and PB 1 is down right dangerous to democracy as a whole and the U.S.A. in particular. I'm amazed that a prediction of just a few months ago (sorry can't recall who or when) has actually happened, which was that we were going to see a lot of attacks on legitimate criticisms of The Precious.
As someone (Damon?) noted in another thread
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/11/19/c...
Cornel West on the Election of Barack Obama: “I Hope He Is a Progressive Lincoln, I Aspire to Be the Frederick Douglass to Put Pressure on Him”