made you want to read more of the schmaltz on that site?

Here’s the deal, as far as I can tell:

the over-the-top elements in both campaigns — not necessarily the candidates themselves, although I am seeing signs of “trickle up” nastiness the last few days — are so invested, emotionally and spiritually and egoistically and maybe even financially, not in winning the general election but in seeing their candidate win the nomination regardless of the cost to the party or the bigger effort in the fall, that they really are reaching evangelofascist peaks of energy and effort.

problem this creates, of course, is that Senator McCain now can spend his time resting, tanning, and getting ready, while his staffers gather up nuggets of ammunition from both the remaining Democratic hopefuls’ attacks on each other for future re-use. Meanwhile, back out in the primary campaign, followers of The Chosen One have gone red in tooth and claw against each other, largely ignoring the GOP candidate.

the day may come when voters tire of the spectacle; even if they don’t, the main$tream media has already grown dissatisfied with its plaything.

us edwards supporters ought to be thinking about what a brokered convention could bring, no?

So, perhaps that’s why she should quit?

Via Talk Left -

In the latest edition of Surrogates Gone Wild: Obama’s key foreign policy aide Samantha Power has called Hillary Clinton “a monster.”

We f***** up in Ohio,” she admitted. “In Ohio, they are obsessed and Hillary is going to town on it, because she knows Ohio’s the only place they can win.

“She is a monster, too – that is off the record – she is stooping to anything,” Ms Power said, hastily trying to withdraw her remark.

http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/3/6/2… and, via Drudge (WTF?), Obama “decries it” and by Obama I mean his spokesman, http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/3/6/2….

As I noted at Talk Left, it is ironic that the woman who decries genocide and has criticized the Clinton Administration for its inaction in Rwanda calls the woman who advocated for intervention in Rwanda a monster. Meanwhile, she appears to have no problem working on a team that includes Susan Rice and Tony Lake, two people she has blamed for the lack of U.S. action in Rwanda. Perhaps she doesn’t understand what “monster” means?

… the “casual poetry” of the Obama campaign. Wonder if Power’s views are pervasive in Obama’s inner circle, or unique to Power?

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

……………..very bad places, bad in the sense of bad for our nation, bad for our society.

First, fear like the ’conservative’ ReichWingers they so much resemble in their thinking, speech and above all values as expressed in this desire to make ’it all stop…’ they are laboring in the grip of a profound fear of the diversity the primaries have demonstrated so far. Unity is all. Unity is strength. Unity is a pre-condition for the homogenous, fascist state they long for. Be they black, brown or white. Be they from Obama’s faction or Hillary’s. Be they corporatist press tools. Be they Dead Loser Caucus or Dead Change Committee Corpses. They cannot reconcile there calls for a cessation of the political process with democracy.

Second, they are spewing such ant-democratic nonsense because they stand to gain, they believe, if the contest is ended on their terms.

I say this to them, of whatever ’camp’, George W. Bush has not succeeded in stamping out the fire of Liberty in this still great nation, fools. You will not succeed either. Indeed, your pathetic attempts to thwart the will of the people will ignite a firestorm of blowback if you do not do one thing and that soon.

SHUT. THE. FUCK. UP. ABOUT. THIS!

Just get back and let the people vote. You do not want Democrats eyeing you with the same look of revulsion and disgust they turn on Bush.

You do not because the time of real action on the part of the people is fast approaching the point of explosion.

A. Citizen

Peace, Health and Prosperity for Everyone.

Of all the once great liberal blogs that have gone in the shitter, Booman has sunk the lowest. Worse than DailyKos, hell, even worse than HuffingtonPost.

Did Booman get his Unity Pony already? Mine’s on backorder.

i always dreamed them to be. i mean, it’s very clear that no one here has ever had a moment of intense stupidity, or been deeply and passionately incorrect.

must be nice to be perfect. i wish i could be that way.

…sorry corrine, i don’t mean this to be directed at just you. but i’m taking on a mission, forgive me if you don’t care for it. let’s attack the policy. let’s attack the voting records. let’s attack the weakness of the argument.

let’s lay off the personal, snide attacks on other bloggers. we’re doing the devil’s work for him, when we do that right now. it’s a complicated argument to lay out and i don’t have time today, but the short version is: the blogosphere is all we have. tearing it down at the crest of its influence is not smart strategy.

pure and simple.

makes it even plainer that much of the OFB will revolt if Hillary gets the nomination.

Hope, Unity and Threats

Could that be one reason why the aging, bitter, irrelevant boomers aren’t all that entranced by Romantic dreams of violence?

Thanks for the link to the eminently sane Rick Perlstein, scoff. Pretty frightening. Makes me wonder if the same hope, unity, and threats message is being delivered into more powerful ears than mine, and if that’s one reason for the sudden stress on conciliation. As Susie said:

I think the Obama campaign needs to nip this in the bud in no uncertain terms. If his followers are so unhinged that they’re planning riots, he needs to exercise whatever rhetorical power he has to put a stop to it.

Conciliation goes two ways, n’est c’es pas?

Goodness. A “movement” threatening violence starts determining election outcomes. That certainly bodes well for the next President, when I’m sure the movement will be put back in its box. Ick. I always balked at the implicit “or else” in the unity schtick but, again, I wasn’t nearly cynical enough, was I?

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

(and I said this the last time I posted here) is President McCain and a hole in the head of any hopes for the future.

This country can’t afford (ethically as well as financially)another four years of a Republican President and the obstructionism that would come with it.