On Hume’s show.
Early, sure. But how can anybody doubt Mort?
Socialism is on the move, people. Embrace the volk!
****
update: The end is near. Americans have chosen socialism. Or, more precisely, Americans have been carefully trained, over a number of years, to chose a candidate based on the most superficial of features (age, appearance), and for the most contrived of reasons (the campaign is “historic”; the candidate represents the “ideal of diversity,” etc).
But sorry: if Georgia and Indiana are too close to call at this point, the transition to a nannystate is just about complete.
Time to regroup and prepare ourselves for the lean years.
Comment by Bob Reed on 11/4 @ 5:53 pm #
Mort was a Hillz guy, but has fallen in line with O! since the end of the primaries.
Although he will admit to O!s flip-flops and shortcomings, he’s still a lefty when it comes right down to it…
Not as far left as Kos, Chris Tingle, and Olberdouche, but a southpaw all the way!
Best Wishes
Comment by Dan Collins on 11/4 @ 5:57 pm #
In the 1996 sci-fi film Independence Day, Mort Kondracke appears in the beginning of the movie on a morning talk show speaking about the ineffectual leadership of President Thomas J. Whitmore (Bill Pullman) saying, “Leadership as a pilot in the Gulf War is completely different from leadership in politics.”
Comment by lee on 11/4 @ 5:58 pm #
I saw that too.
Hume was like; “none of that Mort, there will be time for all that later.”
Pretty funny.
Comment by McGehee on 11/4 @ 6:03 pm #
Well, I know that when I want an infallible forecast of a future event, I rely 100% on a guy who is constantly being corrected on the facts in front of millions of people by Brit Hume.
Comment by cranky-d on 11/4 @ 6:06 pm #
Mort’s okay in my book. That book is called, “Mort’s Okay.”
Comment by happyfeet on 11/4 @ 6:07 pm #
Good catch, D. Also Mort is wrong. How sad for him. My country is a vibrant nation of free enterprise what has a robust respect for the individual and is notably a place where dirty socialist righteous winds the fruited plain do not bestir. Like ever.
Comment by cranky-d on 11/4 @ 6:07 pm #
Once Brit retires, I wonder who will be keeping the pundits in line. He lays a smackdown on Juan Williams around once per month I think.
Comment by Sdferr on 11/4 @ 6:13 pm #
When your tortillas aren’t good and fresh, like, right off the griddle, your tacos just won’t be snappy good. Get ‘em hot, well yes, good eats. Get ‘em tired and old (like Mort) they’re damn near inedible.
Comment by Benedick on 11/4 @ 6:19 pm #
I hope y’all are going to be around here tonight. I am. Peeks at The Corner here and there, but I’m going to need interactiveness as the Jack Daniels sets in.
Comment by Benedick on 11/4 @ 6:20 pm #
Plus, the awesome girlfriend who is a Democrat but voted McCain and put the smack down on the local liberal elections officials today is still sick, so no temptations in that direction.
Comment by dre on 11/4 @ 6:21 pm #
The O! has a waiting list for fellatio from many quarters.
Comment by Benedick on 11/4 @ 6:22 pm #
But we need to pick a thread and roll with it. Jeff’s prolific publishing today has scattered the banter. Not a complaint — just sayin’.
Comment by Sdferr on 11/4 @ 6:23 pm #
Who ran against Warner for Warner’s seat in Va?
Comment by dre on 11/4 @ 6:29 pm #
@13 Mark Warner is the former Gov running against Gilmore for John Warners’ seat
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 11/4 @ 6:29 pm #
But we need to pick a thread and roll with it.
Good point.
Jeff, how about a designated post for election returns?
Comment by happyfeet on 11/4 @ 6:32 pm #
James S. Gilmore III it says
Comment by C. Smith on 11/4 @ 6:32 pm #
@Sdferr:
Gilmore ran against Buck Teeth, but BT was highly popular as governor. So VA will have probably the two most conservative Democratic Senators going, in Warner and Webb.
BTW, the proper quote is “embrace the suck”.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/4 @ 6:32 pm #
that one is already called for Warner it says
Comment by Sdferr on 11/4 @ 6:33 pm #
Gilmore, former RNC chair, not to mention Gov, no? Not the Va. I grew up in any more, looks like.
Comment by lee on 11/4 @ 6:33 pm #
Jeff is probably busy sweating or something. This post would be appropriate I think.
Comment by maggie katzen on 11/4 @ 6:34 pm #
and Mort continues to disappoint me. *sigh*
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 11/4 @ 6:35 pm #
Fox claiming VT for Obama, KY for McCain.
Says McCain up by 53-46 in FL, but the number of votes counted is minuscule.
Comment by Benedick on 11/4 @ 6:36 pm #
Will MSNBC air Olbermann’s suicide if McCain wins?
Comment by Sdferr on 11/4 @ 6:36 pm #
Mort, for all his pretense of evenhandedness, has always been a nasty piece of work as a rhetorician. oh, I meant, he’s a narrow minded jerk.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 11/4 @ 6:38 pm #
WV now called for McCain.
Comment by Carin on 11/4 @ 6:38 pm #
Hubby says maybe we should move to Ky. I say top-thread is the best for kvetchen. Is it too early to start drinking?
Comment by maggie katzen on 11/4 @ 6:39 pm #
hells no
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 11/4 @ 6:39 pm #
McCain romping in VA so far. Down a bit in North Carolina, but I expect him to do better when the rural votes come in.
Comment by lee on 11/4 @ 6:39 pm #
FOX just had the popular vote at 51-48 Obama, close to 1.1 million votes each.
Comment by Carin on 11/4 @ 6:39 pm #
I refuse to check any other network but Fox. If anything funny happens on one of those channels yousguys will have to tell me.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 11/4 @ 6:41 pm #
Fox has EV at 8 McCain, 3 Obama.
Comment by lee on 11/4 @ 6:41 pm #
Is it too early to start drinking?
I’ve been asking myself that question since I got up this morning.
The answer has always been “no”.
Comment by Carin on 11/4 @ 6:41 pm #
Kondracke is useless. Humorless.
Comment by Benedick on 11/4 @ 6:42 pm #
I’m on Drink Three. Expect the typesmanship to deteriorate. Plus a steady increase in the use of non-words like “typesmanship.”
Comment by Carin on 11/4 @ 6:42 pm #
I hate exit polls. I’m not really interested in why and who voted for whom.
Comment by maggie katzen on 11/4 @ 6:42 pm #
I’m debating whether or not I should wait for RTO to get home.
Comment by Benedick on 11/4 @ 6:43 pm #
Drink, maggie, drink!
Comment by Carin on 11/4 @ 6:44 pm #
Benedick, are you drinking Benedicten? Or “B&B”? By any chance? Because that would be so totally appropriate.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 11/4 @ 6:44 pm #
Hmm… just remembered that I have some Bushmills I’ve been saving.
Comment by Carin on 11/4 @ 6:44 pm #
How long till he gets home? I mean, any chance you’ll be totally plowed by the time he arrives?
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 11/4 @ 6:45 pm #
Whoah…. McCain 70% in Georgia. I mean, yeah, Georgia, but still.
Comment by Carin on 11/4 @ 6:46 pm #
Humn … I have Absolute. And CC. And, Rum (variety). I don’t drink that stuff – it’s for entertaining. But, if things get desperate… I’ll hit it.
Comment by maggie katzen on 11/4 @ 6:46 pm #
I don’t know, really. some time after the polls close.
well, it doesn’t take much.
Comment by Sdferr on 11/4 @ 6:46 pm #
Have a Dr. Pepper maggie. A proud texican institution prune/chocolate soda.
Comment by maggie katzen on 11/4 @ 6:47 pm #
mmmmmm, Dr. Pepper.
Comment by kelly on 11/4 @ 6:47 pm #
“Is it too early to start drinking?”
Is this some sort of a sick question? I cast my vote at 8:30 this morning, dammit. I’ve been waiting all day for this. I mean, I just voted for McCain. But entre nous, it wasn’t all that hard. He’s only somewhat less socialist than O! And only somewhat less of a Global Warmer putz. Gah.
Comment by Carin on 11/4 @ 6:48 pm #
OMG, they’re showing the chicago party now. My husband is reminded of Nurnemberg.
Comment by lee on 11/4 @ 6:48 pm #
Maggie,
In the old movies when the dashing warrior returned home, his best girl would have a Martini shaker ready to pour.
We never could tell if the shaker was full when she poured it for him of course.
Just saying.
Comment by Carin on 11/4 @ 6:49 pm #
Baracky has really driven all that need to drink to vote for McCain out of me. I did it sober.
Comment by maggie katzen on 11/4 @ 6:49 pm #
fine, I’m heatin’ up the tasty garlic bread pizza and havin’ a beer.
Comment by Jeffersonian on 11/4 @ 6:49 pm #
Will MSNBC air Olbermann’s suicide if McCain wins?
That one’s going pay-per-view. And I’m ordering it.
Comment by Benedick on 11/4 @ 6:50 pm #
I’m on Jack Daniels tonight. Cut with just a splash of Coke, since I’ll be imbibing for somewhere in excess of six hours. If I kill the Jack, I’m moving on to Grey Goose. Tomorrow’s hangover will be the stuff of Irish ballads.
Comment by Carin on 11/4 @ 6:50 pm #
We could really use a troll here. Liven things up.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 11/4 @ 6:50 pm #
Delaware called for Biden –er– Obama. No surprise there.
Comment by Benedick on 11/4 @ 6:51 pm #
FNC just called South Carolina for McCain. Game, set, match.
Comment by Carin on 11/4 @ 6:51 pm #
Oh, I think I have some Jack too. I may have some bushmills. Man, I’ve got a shitload of alcohol.
Comment by Carin on 11/4 @ 6:51 pm #
YEA, South Carolina!
No Citron. I could use a Cosmo.
Comment by kelly on 11/4 @ 6:52 pm #
The better half and I decided we’re not even going to turn on the TV tonight. Which isn’t all that big of a hardship since we rarely watch anything but 30 minutes of the local news and college football.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/4 @ 6:52 pm #
I think I’ll pick up some wine at Ralph’s.
Comment by Sdferr on 11/4 @ 6:52 pm #
Radio says WV is sending the imbecile Rockefeller back to the Senate. Crushing stupidity really.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/4 @ 6:53 pm #
Also, chocolate soy ice cream.
Comment by maggie katzen on 11/4 @ 6:53 pm #
I’m not turning it on, either. yet…. RTO may have other ideas, though I suspect he may just pass out, what with being up since 4:45 this morning.
Comment by Benedick Impersonating A Troll on 11/4 @ 6:53 pm #
BushHitler Junior can never win. Obama is bringing hope and light and joy and sweetness and joyfulness and change and hope to everyone. We will have peace on Earth, and all the ReThuglicans will die horrible deaths. You Nazis can’t steal this one like you stole the last two!! ARBEIT MACHT FREI, MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!!!
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 11/4 @ 6:54 pm #
He was going to be an election judge or poll watcher, right, maggie?
Comment by Sdferr on 11/4 @ 6:54 pm #
Is House preempted for election coverage tonight? god I hope not.
Comment by dre on 11/4 @ 6:54 pm #
I think “exit polls” is what the tv people use as a segue to the real polls. Make one side “winning” and then to pump viewers show the other winning.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 11/4 @ 6:55 pm #
Maybe we should try saying some bad things about Orlando Bloom or Zack (?) Ephron (?) or whoever he is.
Comment by kelly on 11/4 @ 6:55 pm #
Guess I’ll have to open a big old Italian red wine. Y’know, as an homage to the original fascists.
Comment by maggie katzen on 11/4 @ 6:55 pm #
yes, he’s an alternate (meaning other party from the main) precinct judge.
Comment by Benedick on 11/4 @ 6:55 pm #
Wolf Blitzer is a passionless dweeb.
Comment by Carin on 11/4 @ 6:55 pm #
That’s really sweet, Benedick-troll. But, it’s just not the same. Plus, you can’t really parody those folks anymore. They’ve really destroyed the genre.
Comment by lee on 11/4 @ 6:56 pm #
Say, that wasn’t a bad impersonation!
Comment by happyfeet on 11/4 @ 6:56 pm #
oh. I just realized we are thorless.
Comment by Mr. Pink on 11/4 @ 6:57 pm #
Troll impersonation: You guys can’t steal this one because our stealing efforts outmatch yours this year. See we learned from you and perfected it. HAHAHAHAHHAHAHHHAHAHAHAHHA
Comment by Carin on 11/4 @ 6:57 pm #
There will be no “House” on the night of Baracky’s ascendancy. Remember the “Hope” sticker in the one scene last season?
Comment by guinsPen on 11/4 @ 6:57 pm #
“Cujos” to JG.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/4 @ 6:57 pm #
thorless and somewhat jeffless
Comment by Sdferr on 11/4 @ 6:58 pm #
It wasn’t too bad a rant, BIAT, but BIAT just doesn’t get it. How’s about BIATCH or sumpin or other?
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 11/4 @ 6:59 pm #
Oklahoma goes McCain. Again, no surprise.
Comment by Carin on 11/4 @ 6:59 pm #
Don’t make me check out that other thread. I like it here. What did Orlando say? And, why the fuck does a citizen of the UK think he can insinuate himself in our politics?
Comment by Benedick Impersonating Thor on 11/4 @ 6:59 pm #
Guantanamo abu ghraib Nazi cocksucker shit fuck Karl Rove queer fag moose bitch!!!!!!!
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 11/4 @ 6:59 pm #
IL Obama. Duh.
Comment by maggie katzen on 11/4 @ 7:00 pm #
because we rule the world! but we shouldn’t.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 11/4 @ 7:00 pm #
I’m sure every twelve year old girl in the country would vote for Obama if she could, Carin.
Comment by Sdferr on 11/4 @ 7:00 pm #
No House!!!? The fuck you say! late evening ruined, damnit, ruined I says.
Comment by Carin on 11/4 @ 7:00 pm #
Jeff should be here later, shouldn’t he? Thor won’t show his face until things are looking O’s way. Oh shit, they’re calling a bunch of states of O! thor incoming any moment now.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 11/4 @ 7:02 pm #
South Carolina McCain.
Comment by Carin on 11/4 @ 7:02 pm #
That one was better, Benedick. You still need to curve your spelling into a bit more phonetic.
Comment by Sammy Sosa on 11/4 @ 7:03 pm #
Cujos to you, JG.
Comment by kelly on 11/4 @ 7:03 pm #
Better, BIT, but you need to toss in some reference to Calvino, call everyone racists, and then remind everyone how damn smart you are. I’d give it ‘6′. Tighten it up for the next round.
Comment by dre on 11/4 @ 7:03 pm #
“And, why the fuck does a citizen of the UK think he can insinuate himself in our politics?”
Because O! has a nice internet site that takes his money wherever he is.
Comment by pdbuttons on 11/4 @ 7:04 pm #
i’m getting a tingle up my leg
and later-a tinkle down my leg
damn, i knew should have bought astronaut diapers today
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 11/4 @ 7:09 pm #
TN now marked as McCain.
Comment by Sdferr on 11/4 @ 7:10 pm #
SC called for the feygelah Lindsay Graham, schade.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 11/4 @ 7:10 pm #
I’ll be catching up on the DVR, checking out what the blogosphere’s talking about, and waiting for the Librarian to call.
I took this afternoon off. Voted, dropped the laptop off at the Apple store (hey! the repairs it needs are still covered under the warranty on the last repairs for the same problem!), and dropped the car off at the body shop. Got a rental — and have decided that I could never buy a Nissan Serta or whatever it is.
Supposedly, everything’ll be repaired by the end of the week.
Comment by mcgruder on 11/4 @ 7:12 pm #
fox news: 20% in in florida mccain down 46% to 54%
ga and ind should be GOP walks; bad news
liddy dole loses in nc
hoping that they were counting miami and tampa and hadnt gotten to rest of state
ind and ga with under 10% are in GOP camp…here’s pulling for the other 90%
hope texas gets its shit together
Comment by Sdferr on 11/4 @ 7:12 pm #
NC Senate called for Kay Hagan over Liddy Dole. Hasta la pasta Liddy.
Comment by Carin on 11/4 @ 7:12 pm #
Tonight Rob? Isn’t enough happening? You need to add the Librarian into the mix?
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 11/4 @ 7:13 pm #
Anyone heard anything on the Murtha race?
Comment by Benedick on 11/4 @ 7:14 pm #
Mitch McConnell hanging on is big. Liddy Dole losing sucks.
Comment by Benedick on 11/4 @ 7:14 pm #
I’m looking, SBP. One district over from me.
Comment by lee on 11/4 @ 7:15 pm #
Mcgruder, what do ya got against capitalization?
Help a brother out!
Comment by Sdferr on 11/4 @ 7:16 pm #
Zero vote count on Murtha race thus far. Fox election tracker site here, plug in your interests on the left.
Comment by Sdferr on 11/4 @ 7:18 pm #
No count on the Ron Klein, Allen West race in Fl. dist. 22 yet either.
Comment by Jeffersonian on 11/4 @ 7:18 pm #
PA for Hugo Chavez, Jr. Not good.
Comment by lee on 11/4 @ 7:18 pm #
OK, I girded my loins and ventured over to MSNBC.
They got the EV at 103-34 Obama.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 11/4 @ 7:20 pm #
Fox now showing Mac in the lead in the popular vote.
Comment by lee on 11/4 @ 7:20 pm #
That Gregory Character is hosting it looks like.
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 11/4 @ 7:21 pm #
Thanks, Sdferr.
Comment by mcgruder on 11/4 @ 7:21 pm #
With apologies Lee.
Swear to God I have no idea why, but i have hope….against all hope.
WV and VA. trending Red…
Gotta get TEX. and NC together
Cant even think on FLA
Obama camp talking shit about IND…
must win all states I just mentioned
Comment by dre on 11/4 @ 7:21 pm #
Looking at the line I faced today with a government run program, why anyone thinks that the government can be “efficient” in extending its control is a mystery.
Comment by Benedick on 11/4 @ 7:21 pm #
Carl Cameron is like a puppy.
Comment by Rob Crawford on 11/4 @ 7:21 pm #
She works late on Tuesdays, and we talk during her drive home.
Comment by dre on 11/4 @ 7:23 pm #
“#Comment by Jeffersonian on 11/4 @ 7:18 pm #
PA for Hugo Chavez, Jr. Not good.”
That precinct was the one with the “The New Black Panthers”
Comment by Benedick on 11/4 @ 7:23 pm #
Barone on PA: Exit polls show big margin for Obama, but no precinct returns, so relax.
Comment by Sdferr on 11/4 @ 7:23 pm #
Ugh, they just called NH Senate for Shaheen over Sununu
Comment by Carin on 11/4 @ 7:23 pm #
Fox isn’t calling PA yet. When it does, I got get my first drink.
Comment by pdbuttons on 11/4 @ 7:24 pm #
kondrake the magnificent said in a johnny carson voice with an envelope to my head
mmm..
western pennsylvania
dinkleberries
race pimps
answer is-bitter clingers
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 11/4 @ 7:24 pm #
Exit polls are even worse bullshit than the “real” polls. Ignore them.
Comment by Benedick on 11/4 @ 7:24 pm #
Is it just me, or are they calling states WAY earlier than last time?
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 11/4 @ 7:25 pm #
Moving up to the new thread that Jeff just started.
Comment by Sdferr on 11/4 @ 7:28 pm #
Sokie-dokie, we gone.
Comment by cranky-d on 11/4 @ 7:33 pm #
Fox called PA for O!, but I am not going to give up until we see the returns.
Comment by Lamontyoubigdummy on 11/4 @ 7:37 pm #
I’m on my first Johnnie Walker Blue.
2″ straight, ice water back.
I refuse to turn on the TV til midnight.
I’ve voted so all I can do now is fire up the XBOX and try to keep the college retards online playing Call of Duty 4 and away from the voting booths. My Barrett.50 snipes for McCain tonight baby!
If only I could pipe in Phish and create a heavily armed hackysack circle during the game.*
*stole that idea from Ace…cuz it was fucking funny…and true.
Youth vote my ass.
Comment by kelly on 11/4 @ 8:36 pm #
Second bottle of Italian red. Damn fine fascist wine, trust me. Go McSlain!!
Comment by MarkD on 11/4 @ 9:18 pm #
The tragedy is that the Contract with America would probably have led to another Republican sweep of the House. It appears that fiscal conservatives have been run out of both parties. Don’t blame me, I voted for loser who lost, not the loser who won.
I will, however, pay. I have a job.
Comment by phreshone on 11/4 @ 9:29 pm #
I just came to a realization. Reagan didn’t end up winning the Cold War…
Comment by Jonas Sedlar on 11/4 @ 10:16 pm #
Time to regroup and prepare ourselves for the lean years.
Yep.
I know this is gonna sound kind of, uh, collectivist. But this is where we really stick together, y’all. This is the point where we stick together, quietly for now if need be, and figure out how to transform America back into what it originally was: an idea. Liberty.
Comment by happyfeet on 11/4 @ 10:19 pm #
oh. It’s more humpty dumpty than that. There’s no going back, but tomorrow can be better.
Comment by kelly on 11/4 @ 10:26 pm #
Been nice knowing you folks. Hope we can meet up at the re-education camps.
We can make lanyards together.
Comment by kelly on 11/4 @ 10:26 pm #
Oh, wait. No lanyards. Finger painting of Our Dear Leader.
Comment by kelly on 11/4 @ 10:29 pm #
No macrame either. No shoe laces as well.
Songs. Lots of songs to Dear Leader.
Comment by Jonas Sedlar on 11/4 @ 10:45 pm #
There’s no going back, but tomorrow can be better.
Yes it can, in a phrase. Maybe “going back” wasn’t quite the right way for me to put it. But I do think the overall trajectory — the truly big, zoom-all-the-way-out picture — is in the favor of individual liberty and rights. It’s been the steady upward course of man for millennia. The dips here and there have been just that: little dips in the graph. The arrow ultimately points up.
We may be stuck with this weird soft socialism stuff for the rest of our lifetimes, but over the long run, humans will keep figuring out how to be more free.
Yeah, that doesn’t help us much tonight, I know.
Comment by Boots on 11/4 @ 11:26 pm #
I guess we took it for granted that when Reagan won the Cold War & killed off communism, that it would stay dead. Instead it slithered off to an upscale suburban neighborhood and reinvented itself.
Comment by Rusty on 11/5 @ 5:18 am #
Honest to god. I had no idea there were that many stupid people in this country.
Comment by jim on 11/5 @ 8:03 am #
Obama, socialist?
LOL!
Damn, dude, I’ll have what you’re smoking.
However … as for E-begging online: now THAT’s some REAL wingnut-welfare socialism that we can believe in, my friends!
Pot, kettle, both black.
Much like your next president.
Comment by McGehee on 11/5 @ 8:42 am #
Um, 1992?
And they’ve been reproducing since then.
Comment by JET on 11/5 @ 9:28 am #
It seems that the entire right wing needs to read up on what the words Socialism and Communism really entail. The way they’ve been thrown around as scary buzz-words, they’re really in danger of losing their original meaning.
Look, using any international metric, Obama – like most prominent Democrats – is right of center. Just because the dividing line in US politics has been moved quite far to the right doesn’t mean that anything to the left of that is Socialism. Get a grip, grow up, read some non-partisan books on politics and history, and then try again. Right now you’re only embarrassing yourselves.
And now you have to suck it up and respect the president, just like you’ve been demanding people do of Dubya. Or else you would be…*gasp*…hypocrites.
Comment by Jeff G. on 11/5 @ 10:13 am #
I wonder if Jim really did LOL!
No, seriously. I wonder about such things.
And of course, jim reads Andrew Northrup, so one would expect that he wouldn’t know the difference between charitable donations made of one’s own free will to fund an enterprise that one enjoys, and “spreading the wealth around” — to include “tax cuts” for people who don’t pay taxes (in the form of checks written in the names of those who do).
As for JET, maybe he needs to read Harper’s 2006 piece on Obama, who talks about why he’s been forced to be “pragmatic” — and how only once the Dems (read: progressives) have enough political power can they attempt to implement their agenda.
National Journal called Obama the most liberal member of the Senate, and the 4th most partisan. He is hardly “right of center” — unless by that he means that, as I’ve been writing since 2004 at least, he’s so far left he’s circled back around to join the paleocons and America Firsters. Congrats on that, “liberals”.
We’ll see what he does with trade.
As for the last bit, all I can say is I respect the democratic process. But I’ll work to see that the mainstream press is no longer considered “objective,” and that idiots like jim — perhaps even accidentally — stumble upon a clue, rather than waiting back for Andrew Northrup to tell them who to sneer at.
And really, if you don’t like the word “socialist,” try on fascist for size. Because that’s what progressive politics is. Inevitably and inexorably. It’s in the DNA.
Comment by McGehee on 11/5 @ 11:59 pm #
Too bad he wasn’t running for international president.
Comment by maggie katzen on 11/6 @ 12:00 am #
says you! McGehee. Obama maybe thought otherwise. kinda explains the Berlin to do.
Comment by thor on 11/6 @ 12:37 am #
Before the uppercuts sPies never saw coming were thrown and landed. Good comedy, as always.
Comment by thor on 11/6 @ 12:41 am #
I think you should use PW in an application for a NEA grant.
Why they hell not.