Belief in God? Silly. Belief that your energy field is tainted by elation and hubris, and that you may be an unwitting agent in the plan of the fates to thwart the return of the Once and Future King? Evidently quite reasonable.
Or, to put it another way: It’s official. We are Oprah Nation:
In the den of his home in New Hope, Pa., a liberal Democrat sits tap-tapping at his computer.
Jon Downs works the electoral vote maps on Yahoo like a spiritualist shaking his Ouija board. He calibrates and recalibrates: Give Senator John McCain Ohio, Missouri, even Florida. But Virginia and Pennsylvania, those go to Senator Barack Obama. And Vermont, Democrats can count on Vermont, right?
Right.
Almost always, Mr. Downs, 53, ends with Mr. Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, ahead, which should please this confirmed liberal and profound Obama fan. But just as often he feels worried.
“Look, I have this sense of impending doom; we’ve had a couple of elections stolen already,†Mr. Downs said. “The only thing worse than losing is to think that you’re going to win and then lose.â€Â
He considers that prospect and mutters, almost involuntarily, “Oh, God.â€Â
[…]
To walk on Broadway, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, is to feel [liberals’] pain. “Oh, God, I’m optimistic, but I can’t look at the polls,†said Patricia Kuhlman, 54, nervously tapping her Obama/Biden ’08 button. “I’m a PBS/NPR kind of person, and, O.K., I do look at some polls.â€Â
Ms. Kuhlman shakes her head and says, “If he doesn’t get this, I’ll be crying so hard.â€Â
A young woman, Shana Rosen, walks by. She is from Denver and said she had told her boyfriend that their love life was on hold while she sweated out Mr. Obama’s performance in Colorado. Ask Lucy Slurzberg, an Upper West Side psychotherapist, how many of her liberal patients speak of their electoral fears during their sessions, and she answers: “Oh, only about 90 percent of them.â€Â
There’s probably a detailed post in all this about how the intermixing of the personal and the political is a blueprint for extreme behavior — but I’m going to forgo all that and just note instead that some people are well and truly fucked, and that I’d be very much obliged if they’d keep the hell off my lawn.
(h/t Tom)
Democrats can count on Vermont, right?
Socialists can.
I find it interesting that in the last two nationals, the areas of the country that had the highest percentage of people seeking psychological help were also the precincts that had the highest percentage margins for Gore and Kerry…
Snail mail arrive yet?
Mike
You don’t believe in JINXES?! That’s just asking for it buddy.
Unfortunate comment zen:
“Horse porn beast porn zoo porn dog. on Random Sean Hannity thought, Monday, March 21, 1:44 PM EST”
You wouldn’t be thinking of a certain HuffPo election coverer, would you, Jeff?
What’s interesting about this is that it seems to suggest that at least 90% of the shrink’s clients are libs. No surprise.
And you see a girls brown body dancing through the turquoise,
And her footprints make you follow where the sky loves the sea.
And when your fingers find her, she drowns you in her body,
Carving deep blue ripples in the tissues of your mind.
The tiny purple fishes run laughing through your fingers,
And you want to take her with you to the hard land of the winter.
Her name is Aphrodite and she rides a crimson shell,
And you know you cannot leave her for you touched the distant sands
With tales of brave Ulysses; how his naked ears were tortured
By the sirens sweetly singing.
— Clapton/Sharp
“Shaking a Ouija board”?
Dude. Ur Doing It Rong.
Do you ever think we’ll hear the end of this bullshit? Even if O! wins(I’m not conceding anything), I’m not going to spend the rest of my life bitching that ACORN stole this election. I will however, insist that my representatives help pass legislation to develop a fair and verifiable process for future elections. And if they don’t, they’ll note get my vote.
Miss Rosen’s boyfriend is literally unfucked! Time for a squack upgrade!!! NO PUSSY, NO PEACE!!!
Alright Mojo, now I’ve got Clapton’s Wah Wah guitar and Ginger Baker drums pounding in my skull!
As intended, Thomas. As intended.
if obammy bam wins-will disraeli get wiped off the map?
jack bruce wants to know
should read: not get my vote. [stuffs another mini Milky Way bar in mouth]
Disraeli wont care, he’s dead. Might want to ask the cemetery caretakers though.
Strangely enough, didn’t Iran recently make some sort of weird threats directed at England?
Do you ever think we’ll hear the end of this bullshit?
No.
Nor will they ever stop ranting about big money donors buying elections, even as Obama blatantly makes a mockery of current laws and attempts to do just that.
anne bancrofts dead too..
a true miracle worker..
and so HOT
Note to Shana’s boyfriend: Keep a fire extinguisher next to the alarm clock. And wear a cast iron cup.
Trust me.
shana’s boyfriend-hardy har!
is that an oxy-maroon-like-jumbo shrimp?
come back shane-
baby come back…
u can blame it all on me….
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Damn you mojo now I have to go start my Pandora Cream channel.
[shakes fist at screen]
“Look, I have this sense of impending doom; we’ve had a couple of elections stolen alreadyâ€Â
He could have saved time by saying “I’m an idiot.”
I think he meant to say, “we’ve failed to steal a couple of elections so far…”
As to Shana’s boyfriend – dude, it may be time to Move On.
Have any of you guys dated a lady who was obsessed with some other guy? Didn’t work out, did it?
He could have saved time by saying “I’m an idiot.â€Â
Well, if you remove half of the vowels “Look, I have this sense of impending doom; we’ve had a couple of elections stolen already†is Welsh for ‘I’m an idiot.’
i swear i got a shot
is it the rosen thing that i’m hot…
i like records[long-= playing]
but the hillary[rosen] dillary didn’t move my….
permission to come aboard…
I’m wearing a Glad 4-ply heavy trash bag to work on Wednesday. I’d hate for my good clothes to be ruined when all those heads start exploding.
#12: Probably. Iran is always making weird threats directed at someone.
Somewhere Darth Rove steeples his fingers and says, “Excellent. All is proceeding as I have foreseen. Something something something dark side, something something something complete.”
It doesn’t seem like there is any jinxing Obama and the liberal illuminati in this one. I heard something about the Bradly law as well. That white people won’t vote for black people even if they say they will. All hot air being tossed about, it’s doesn’t matter. McCain needs something pretty huge if he is going to have a shot at anything. Maybe this secret Michelle Obama tape fox is putting out tonight will be the ticket. Ya never know.
hey s2pid they told me they need you back at the yootoob comments so I told em I’d let you know
McCain needs something pretty huge if he is going to have a shot at anything.
If you think a two point swing in the polls is huge, I suppose.
New Hope = San Francisco on the Delaware River
I dunno B Moe maybe EW is right and the Bradly law has been totally repealed? Baracky might could have a shot at this.
I’m thinking that Barky’s tears are going to taste even sweeter than Scott Tenorman’s.
tears 4 fears?
every-junky wants to rule his patch
Bradley effect my ass. O!bambi is going to lose not because he’s half-black or whatever, but because he’s a Marxist poseur and everyone with more than two brain cells to rub together knows it.
“Belief in God? Silly. Belief that your energy field is tainted by elation and hubris, and that you may be an unwitting agent in the plan of the fates to thwart the return of the Once and Future King? Evidently quite reasonable.”
That about sums up the secular proggs rationale, if you can call it that…
“Look, I have this sense of impending doom; we’ve had a couple of elections stolen already.”
If I only had a nickel for every time I’ve heard this here in NYC…Even in the hyper-inflationary environment of the failed Boooooosh economy(whatever that is suuposed to means, or be), I’d still be livin’ large!
“She is from Denver and said she had told her boyfriend that their love life was on hold while she sweated out Mr. Obama’s performance in Colorado.”
Yeah.right. I’ve had a few of these NYc kind of girlfriends in the past. One had to break up woth me in ’92, because there was no way we had any future together if I couldn’t, you know, trade all of my ideals in, become a sexual Walter Mitty, and realize just how awesome! Billy Jeff and Hillz were…Years later I found out she was gay…
Her boyfriend should just move on, because she’s got his balls in a vice already; and they’re only dating!
God help us all if O! is elected…
Among the best reasons to pray for a McCain victory, in addition to the good for the nation, is to watch the exploding lefty heads and the swelling of the local psychiatric wards…
I mean, that will create new jobs, won’t it?
Best Wishes…
New Hope PA is a Homosexual Haven. A Small elitist Gay Town.
[…] Anyway, Jeff Goldstein’s comment? […]
Frankly, these kind of folks need to have their hopes dashed a few times until they learn not to put their hopes in a figure like this.
For the children.
time 4 kwanza!
on hopey
and changey
belle
and michelle
lenny
and squiggy
and stories i do not tell
la-verne
and vern[sans bitter clingy guns]
zombie-time prancer
the fourth bee-gee..
and glinda of glee[wanda-kinda-fuck-her]-if her name was not bill[y]
and on the twelth[sp] day of xanadu
murtha-the red nosed ex-marine
“A young woman, Shana Rosen, walks by. She is from Denver and said she had told her boyfriend that their love life was on hold while she sweated out Mr. Obama’s performance in Colorado.”
Fortunately, that’s not the only excuse she has in her arsenal. He’ll find this out when they get married.
[…] a related (more or less) area, speaking of political histrionics, let’s not be these people. Not that I have (or want, currently) a love life to speak of, but I certainly can’t imagine […]
Putting your hope and faith in one human has never worked, so says the cold record of history.
Surprising to see so many self-identified intelligent people doing so. Or maybe they are intelligent, just not so wise.
BTW – I was at the grocery store yesterday. They are putting the candy canes on the shelves.
Self-identification as intelligent is about as reliable an indicator of intelligence as self-identification as sexy is as an indicator of sexiness.
See also: sashal, thor