MeFi comment:
"For the mob, "muslim" and "terrorist" is just a synonym for black.
When I'm doing campaign calls, a couple times a night I have to tell somebody Obama's not Muslim. Though that's true and important, I also feel a little lousy..." [
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favorited 30 times, recently by lazaruslong, mkultra, longdaysjourney, maryh, ambrosia, Amanojaku, dhartung, quin, elizardbits, turaho, scrump, RussHy, shmegegge, WinnipegDragon, contessa, lunit, almostmanda, mothershock, sa3z, birdherder, Who_Am_I, funkiwan, jonp72, every_one_needs_a_hug_sometimes, jb, Nattie, stirfry
8 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"No, I'm not kidding. I wouldn't defend Ayres' actions; but it's hard to defend those of my own relations on both sides of the domestic and international conflicts of the Vietnam era. I do believe in looking at the facts and applying commonsense..." [
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favorited 50 times, recently by lazaruslong, the bricabrac man, shotgunbooty, kolophon, RedEmma, ambrosia, Reverend John, gingerbeer, nickyskye, jivadravya, turaho, scrump, shmegegge, WinnipegDragon, mikeh, shitcock, Balisong, madamjujujive, lunit, mothershock, graventy, pointystick, Lou Stuells, Pope Guilty, birdherder, hazyjane, nax, rtha, MegoSteve, sutel, ersatzkat, cj_, strangememes, zarah, hap_hazard, scody, Skygazer, vsync, mrzarquon, blueberry
8 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"Now do you think that guy has a legitimate beef that Obama worked with Ayers for years?
Not at all. Because since that time, Ayers has become not a dangerous domestic terrorist, but a serious, accomplished, leading thinker and professor on..." [
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favorited 91 times, recently by lazaruslong, frenetic, Deathalicious, kolophon, marxchivist, ambrosia, RedEmma, Amanojaku, agress, elizardbits, Reverend John, gingerbeer, AceRock, jivadravya, jtron, milarepa, scrump, turaho, electroboy, shmegegge, shiu mai baby, Mick, lalochezia, WinnipegDragon, shitcock, madamjujujive, paddysat, contessa, bitter-girl.com, hal9k, Floach, cass, thejanna, mygothlaundry, bayliss, Faint of Butt, mothershock, sa3z, orrnyereg, pointystick, clever sheep, Lentrohamsanin, Lou Stuells, Pope Guilty, hecho de la basura, Hutch, Forktine, LMGM, synecdoche, liquorice, MegoSteve, Mayor West, snofoam, Optimus Chyme, FelliniBlank, Drexen, dansdata, By The Grace of God, ten pounds of inedita, minifigs, cj_, vac2003, every_one_needs_a_hug_sometimes, Dreama, blucevalo, hangingbyathread, iamkimiam, Robin Kestrel, Skygazer, MythMaker, jokeefe, highrise
8 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"Yeah, I've done a fair amount of study of lynch mobs, and this is pretty much exactly what they're like (particularly that second video, which IS better) - at least, in the manner in which they begin and in the social conditions in which they arise...." [
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favorited 35 times, recently by lazaruslong, babybuns, Reverend John, sondrialiac, Senor Cardgage, scrump, longdaysjourney, hecho de la basura, magstheaxe, axon, shiu mai baby, By The Grace of God, LMGM, every_one_needs_a_hug_sometimes, ignignokt, Robin Kestrel, exlotuseater
9 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"Wow, this thread is taking a turn for the weird.
You know, I think it's really misleading to refer to the other half of America as hate-filled, racist (or racialist, if you prefer, booyakasha!) wackos.
I totally agree. Despite the frightening..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by BeerFilter, Marisa Stole the Precious Thing, the other side
more than 12 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"Humanities moment: While reading this thread, I was reminded of Mark Twain's depiction of a "lynching bee" in Huckleberry Finn.
XXII. Why the Lynching Bee Failed
THEY swarmed up towards Sherburn's house, awhooping and raging like..." [
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favorited 12 times, recently by shotgunbooty, nasreddin, Smedleyman, Amanojaku, dejah420, Mick, peacheater, vsync, curse, Camofrog, middleclasstool, RussHy
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
"So that WSJ article by Bret Stephens attempts to justify Palin's inexperience by comparing her to three former VP picks who it argues were also inexperienced. Let's compare the three records [facts courtesy of Wikipedia]:
Calvin..." [
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favorited 34 times, recently by hindmost
Yesterday
MeFi comment:
", radio was the medium to use in the 1930's, today - not so much.
Radio is still a shockingly effective marketing medium. Radio listenership continues to be very, very high, partly because of its ubiquity and hands-free nature.
Laws today..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by LobsterMitten
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I hear the concern that it's a bit exaggerated to call them a lynch mob. But what's missing? Only a present target and an incitement to specific action. Those are important differences, but the conditions are there...." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by babybuns, scrump, From Bklyn
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I do not think that one must be CRAZY all caps to entertain the thought of removing those in power when their pursuit of happiness has been relegated to the back burner.
I'll have to part company with you there. I pretty much reject that option..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by cj_, vsync, Marisa Stole the Precious Thing
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"For the last couple of days (speaking as a gen-x white guy) I've been afraid that this ongoing campaign of hatred that McCain and Palin have been orchestrating will result in some nutter acting out an Obama assasination fantasy, ala 1968.
I hear..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Reverend John
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"by and large, a liberal's reaction to an opponent, up to and including seething abhorrence of said opponent, is never "let's kill him!".
Hell, I'm not thinking liberals will kill him. Not at all. I'm thinking someone from another country..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by RussHy, the other side, blueberry, nickyskye
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"The two statements are hyperbole of exactly the same kind
Please note that I did make sure to say that the conditions were there, but did not say that there was an actual lynching going on. My statement is factual; the accusations and atmosphere..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Ayers saying "I don’t regret setting bombs. …. I feel we didn’t do enough" in 2001 makes him sound like either a sociopath or somebody still capable of more bombing.
Yes, without context, it does. He clarifies here (as he did in the..." [
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favorited 5 times, recently by vsync, Malor
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I fear for the man. It's rare -- in the west -- that running in political office is such an act of bravery.
See, I'm saying strongly that it's not. You don't think Bush has a price on his head? Think about the stakes there for an assassin...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by davidmsc
2 days ago
MeFi comment:
"She will do very poorly with those undecideds huddled around the victrola, mailing in their absentee ballots written with charcoal on parchment.
Come on, now - we all know the Victrola vote was always in the bag for McCain anyway. I think that's..." [
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favorited 10 times
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"many people (knowingly or not) really want: a citizen-politican.
I agree with you with one emendation: many people (knowingly or not) think they want a citizen-politician. But that's only because they don't know anything about government, and they..." [
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favorited 73 times
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"My god, they went on for 5 minutes about that crap?!?
Great success! They:
1. Took another 5 minutes' major network time to talk about Sarah Palin, time which makes her seem more important as well as reducing time for coverage of issues or other..." [
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favorited 1 time
3 days ago
Ask comment:
"4. Invite all my friends over for a viewing?
I vote for four. But invite a lot of friends, and also call a few of your local papers - especially any that included the DVD in their Sunday editions - and ask if they'd like to cover the viewing. Then..." [
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favorited 1 time
3 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Has there ever been a game-changing Presidential debate?
Elections, especially ones like this, are games of inches. It would be convenient if debates were such clear blowouts that they swayed huge numbers of votes, but they rarely do. Obama's bump..." [
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favorited 17 times
4 days ago
MeTa comment:
"isn't a feature in heavy demand (sorry Miko)
Oh, I know. I just needed a hobbyhorse to pout about, otherwise the utter and complete perfection of the site would be blinding, of course. This is what I picked...." [
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favorited 1 time
4 days ago
MeFi comment:
"...it's interesting. The GOP is playing a very dangerous game by going so harshly negative. You go fishing in that particular pond in America, and you're going to drag up some ugly, ugly shit. Be careful when you seek support among the most..." [
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favorited 1 time
5 days ago
MeFi comment:
"But "people in the crowd" means like one or two people, not a bunch of the crowd. Now, neither McCain nor Palin (or anyone in the crowd) stops and addresses these yells
You're right, and it's very fair to note that. But it suggests a..." [
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favorited 1 time
6 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Is Sarah Palin the first time we've seen *directly* sexual marketing employed in a presidential campaign? I mean, the winking, the vamping, the flirtiness
**cough** Bill Clinton
I have not seen this directly proposed anywhere yet, but it..." [
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favorited 36 times
6 days ago
MeFi comment:
"he won because he was perceived as being more truthful. And in fact, he was.
Excellent points, wow. And I'd add that not only have Biden's texts become more deeply internalized and more readily available over the years, it's not only because of..." [
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favorited 22 times
6 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Good job. You found the one
Ah, you think you were the only one to ever make such an attempt at attack. I get it now. As it happens, someone else tried it a few days ago right here on MetaFilter, and I had essentially the same response. A few..." [
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favorited 5 times
6 days ago
MeFi comment:
"This is the easiest job ever. All I have to do is keep you all concentrating your energies in this little blue hole for a few more weeks. hehehehehe
I love these little attacks, because they tell you something about the attacker: that perhaps..." [
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favorited 11 times
6 days ago
MeFi comment:
"The campaign is set to release a 13-minute documentary
Every time I think the Obama campaign can't get any smarter, they do." [
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favorited 4 times
6 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Interesting, Nickyskye, and I agree with your take.
I've been noticing another verbal tic she has - it's far less telling than "tapped" but still catches my ear whenever I hear it, which is basically every time she speaks. It's her habit..." [
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favorited 6 times
6 days ago
Ask comment:
"Here's all I've ever needed. Get good quality.
Pans:
1- Large cast iron
1 - Nonstick saute with curved sides
1 - Stainless (All-Clad) saute
Pots:
1 - Large stockpot
1 - 2-qt stainless
1 - 1 qt. saucepan
Knives:
1 - good quality..." [
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favorited 2 times
6 days ago
MeFi comment:
"There's a place in Hell reserved for women who don't help other women.
Like when women don't help other women have self-determination over what happens to their bodies?
I fully agree!..." [
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favorited 4 times
7 days ago
MeFi comment:
"But any fair MeFite would have to agree that there are more members here than not who believe that Palin appeals primarily to uneducated, hick, redneck Americans in flyover country who do nothing but drink beer, watch NASCAR, and think Britney Spears..." [
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favorited 17 times
7 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I loved the Thunder Road video. But check out this one of Bruce testifying at the same rally. Now, that's inspiring." [
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favorited 2 times
7 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Oh, here's Palin's excuse, from today, about why the Couric interviews were so awful:
"The Sarah Palin in those interviews was a little bit annoyed because no matter what you say you're gonna get clobbered," she said.
Asked by Couric..." [
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favorited 9 times
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
"The Republicans won this when they were able to dictate the terms of the debate. 90 seconds of foggy word salad and buzzwords, with no real opportunity for rebuttal.
Absolutely. Because what's happened, and quite transparently, is that she's..." [
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favorited 4 times
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
"'I want to get back to Michigan, and I want to try,' Palin said in an interview on Fox News. 'Todd and I, we'd be happy to get to Michigan. We'd be so happy to speak to the people there in Michigan who are hurting.
The campaign can NOT be happy..." [
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favorited 2 times
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
"I'd rather be an elitist than a cynic.
And not only that (of the two, at least one is genuine and principled!), but I'm also done tacitly letting the "elitist" tag get thrown out there. It's absolutely ridiculous to call people elitist..." [
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favorited 29 times
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Yeah. Still bullshit. The third one is the only one that means anything to anyone; the fact that Krauthammer floated the phrase about the Kyoto protocol has little relation to what is called the Bush Doctrine today - the only one the Bush..." [
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favorited 6 times
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
"My vision is for people to be cared for by the private sector, by people who know what they are doing and can do it cost-effectively
So how do you deal with the fact that private sector has utterly failed to do this? That this vision doesn't work..." [
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favorited 10 times
8 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Were I a Republican voter in New York or a Democrat in Texas I would be sorely tempted to avoid the polls on election day and save myself the bother of waiting in line.
Thus contributing to the public misperception that Texans are either all..." [
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favorited 10 times
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"anyone who pulls a newspaper clipping out of his wallet to make a point is in automatic Grampa Simpson/Lyndon Larouchie territory for me.
Hey, have some sympathy! When you have to make it through the A section, the Week in Review section, the..." [
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favorited 26 times
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Hey, so right about John Winthrop! And the best bit? He was talking about a place on the East Coast:
the Lord will be our God and delight to dwell among us....hee shall make us a prayse and glory, that men shall say of succeeding plantacions: the..." [
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favorited 3 times
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Linda Wertheimer on NPR just talked about how Biden sometimes looked "bemused" at Palin, "as if appreciating a worthy competitor."
I thought the look contained more of the sentiment from the the classic Samuel Johnson story:..." [
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favorited 5 times
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"but I suspect many more were democrats abso-freakin-loutely desperate to take back US government at all levels.
I disagree; I do think the newsworthy element is using a dogwhistle (popular web comic) to reach a specific cultural network (internet..." [
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favorited 1 time
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"As somebody who listened to the debate on the radio, I would say that Palin did a pretty poor high school debate level job, let alone the vice presidential level she was actually (laughably, unbelievably) at.
It's true that she really needs that..." [
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favorited 1 time
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Biden almost cried.
That was awesome. It was genuine (which Palin wasn't), it was moving, and it was one of the few things she really couldn't have gotten away with herself...." [
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favorited 1 time
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"It would be fun to go through the debate text and do word frequency analysis on each candidate. I think there were at least 7 "mavericks" from Palin, and a whole bunch of "God" and "God bless" - a few more from Palin,..." [
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favorited 1 time
9 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Her words make so much more sense when they are read as poetry!
Just like Rumsfeld!
Count me among those who think that Palin will receive a bit of a bump in polls no matter how poorly she does. The reason is not that she's a good or bad..." [
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favorited 4 times
10 days ago
