I think this reality based critique and punishment of Oshama now equalizes and erases the treatment of Senator Clinton throughout the primary on the cheetoe site. I have now “gotten over it” and will come home.

Hillary Clinton, The Man of My Dreams

that Kos is slamming the barn door with us and the pony manure inside—and the unity pony got away?

As are many of the regulars on dailykos. It’s a website that caters to folks who have wild ideological swings and are prone to groupthink.

I’m just pissed that in an election year where everything is screaming “liberal Democrat”, we’ve nominated a milquetoast DLC-type, who is also our weakest general election candidate (who does he think he’s kidding, claiming he can be competitive in Mississippi and Alabama? that’s exactly what John Kerry was saying at this time in 2004). Even if he wins, the country loses.

We’ll need a bold political leadership to confront the serious challenges we’re facing- Iraq, energy, the economy, the national debt (both public and private). And we’ve got a guy who’s never led on anything. Finger in the air Obama.

This totally blows, and I’m pissed as hell at my fellow elitists for being retarded fuckheads and getting this one-term no-experience Senator with no moral compass and a lot of blather about how we all need to treat the Republicans more fairly as our fucking Presidential nominee. Really, liberal elitists? This was the fucking Presidential candidate you wanted? Really? Fuck you.

Bitter.

I think I cracked an office window laughing out loud at that one. (Then again, maybe I shouldn’t laugh that hard. After all, we’re stuck in the barn and that pony’s been eatin’ something naaaaasty…like maybe recycled Reaganism?)

going to be in a heap a trouble. I envision you as Hercules shoveling out the Stygian stables.

who does he think he’s kidding, claiming he can be competitive in Mississippi and Alabama?

Obama understands the power of voter registration. Very few people understand the sleeping giant that is the black vote. Obama can win every state in the south.

I see the logic, but… Are the numbers there?

[x] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

well, I doubt that.

I suspect that the GOP plans on doing a whole lot of what Democrats used to call “vote supression”, but ever since Obama took Alice Palmer off the ballot, is now referred to as “Chicago style politics” — and is perfectly acceptable as long as Obama does it.

I mean, if the GOP plays by Obama rules, the black vote won’t even get counted at all…

Not the Stygian stables.

EH? (And on several levels….)

[x] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

Southern states with high AA populations still don’t have enough AAs to overcome the white voters there —

NYT op-ed— The South Will Fall Again — “… In the 11 states of the former Confederacy, African-Americans were 17.9 percent of the age-eligible population and 17.9 percent of actual voters in 2004, analysis of Census Bureau data shows.

And when socioeconomic status is held constant, black voters go to the polls at higher rates than white voters in the South. In other words, a 40-year-old African-American plumber making $60,000 a year is, on average, more likely to vote than a white man of similar background.

The second myth is that Democratic presidential candidates fare better in Southern states that have large numbers of African-Americans. In fact, the reverse is true, because the more blacks there are in a Southern state, the more likely the white voters are to vote Republican. …”

turnout too—the Supremes allowed them, and many poor/minority voters are in for a surprise in Nov. if they don’t have a govt-issued id.

in Louisiana they only had a 30ish % success rate — most of the forms aren’t valid. — Democrats’ Vote Drive in Louisiana Stirs Concern — “… Democratic officials said the Louisiana drive, which was called Voting is Power, had produced 74,000 applications by the time it concluded last week. Registrars in the four main parishes where the drive operated report numbers closer to 50,000, but there is no breakdown of how many were submitted to other parishes.

Registrars have reported that as many as a third of the applications cannot be entered into the system, and many of the rest require more information. The state Republican Party called the operation “the Dems’ phony registration drive.”

Democrats say the burden is on the registrars to double-check and verify application information.

…

Michael Slater, the deputy director of Project Vote, said high numbers of incomplete applications were not unusual in such drives. He said as a rule of thumb, 35 percent of voter drive applications were new voters, 35 percent were change of address, and 30 percent were duplicates or incomplete. …”

That was great work, showing those screen-shots!

And so the price some bloggers personally are going to pay is—nothing? (other than lack of some income from our non-clicks and contributions.) Bob (of Daily Howler) always says there is no price to pay when public people and pundits act like this.

How can we show these bloggers how mistaken they are?

What should we do?

What to do is the point of the PB2.0 discussion tomorrow (see sidebar and Lambert’s post at the top of the page).

the fox is reassuring us that they’ll be guarding the henhouse—again.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/…

I am in Alabama now. I saw something on al.com where the Dems in the state have blue dot parties because in Alabama that’s what the Dems are; a series of blue dots in a sea of Red. Obama won the Dem primary here because of the large number of African Americans in the Dem party in this state. Add to that cross-over Republicans who wanted Obie to be the Dem candidate as they saw him as the weaker one.

Come November, AL will be a red state.

i’m as far west in florida as you can get without being in alabama, very red here too.

interesting thing i’ve been running into though… the social conservatives here, fundamentalist christians mostly, are talking about voting for anybody but mccain. before the republicans had the field whittled down to their [presumptive] nominee, my friends and neighbors were all arguing over which republican to vote for in the primary [huckabee was the most popular]. none of them thought at the time that it would come to this.

even the ones who sorta kinda maybe half-believe the emails they’ve been getting obama is the anti-christ! tell me they’ll vote for him and not mccain.

The numbers aren’t there as lambert implies.

Try examining the US census site.

oopsie, looks like more buyers regret