Ah, About That Vote I Cast...

At some point, tho, someone's general vision has to prevail. Can't get around that, unless you want us to be Italy with 100 parties and a presidential election every year. So on some level, you do need someone to form the vision a party fights for. You do need idealogues who hopefully don't become demagogues.

And sad to say, the past eight years have created an atmosphere where lots of people in power will want sweet payback. Not ideal, but it really would be hard to blame.

 

No, Jim Cooper is useless to me because of all the work he did as a Democrat on behalf of those greedy bastards who run insurance companies to torpedo the Clinton health-care plan in 1993.
What makes you think that there is a great hunger in the GOP for bipartisan solutions that don't give them everything they want? Please cite an example from the past seven years. Hell, go back to the late 1990's, when they impeached a president even though the country told them, over and over again, that it wasn't on board. Please discuss the 51 percent strategy under which Bush and Rove governed from 2000-06. Please discuss the behavior of the congressional minority since then. Please back up your blithering with some fucking facts.
Thanks for playing, though.

 

I hope not.
I don't know anyone's who's perfect, for me or anyone else, at anything.

 

Christ, I hope not. We're journalists.

But this is not a bad bunch left in the prez race compared with the usual. Was talking to an acquaintance at a social gathering last week:

HER: What'd you think of the debates?

ME: I like them both.

HER: Me too. I don't even mind McCain.

ME: Me neither. I won't vote for him, but he's OK.

HER: I'm voting for Nader.

 

...and then you ran for the bar, right?

 

Eh, free country. Artist, what can you expect?

 

Fenian,

After 16 years of keeping score, you think four more years of it is useful?

I loathe most Republican leaders. I mean, loathe. Mostly because they've hijacked the votes of many who claim to be of my faith, and they've done very little of which Christian could be proud. Torture? Spying? Running the economy even further into the dirt by cheerfully encouraging Americans to get raped by insurance, mortgage and credit card companies?

But I am tired of keeping score. I just don't give a shit - and I don't think I ever did - about who fucked who, who needs to get fucked, how hard they need it, how good it'll feel when they do, etc. It just…doesn't really matter all that much. At most, the Dems just run the GOP back to their gated communities.

At this point, I prefer the heap of burning coal.

 

Wow, you should write movie dialogue.

 

Nice to see SJ4Obama.com is still going strong. Obama thinks he's Reagan, yet if elected he'll end up like Carter. And it's all so foreseeable. The irony will be quite rich if Obama is elected.

 

Ah, POO, ready to write the history book on President Obama, but couldn't see how HRC would get beat.

An interesting crystal ball you have.