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Ah, Jon Swift. You never fail to make me laugh through my gritted teeth. The piece cited here is one of the great satirist's best ever. The following is an excerpt, but there is more, lots more (my favorite bit may be his remarks on Lord Kos's so-sensitive response to the frustration and pain of his diarists---to read, click on the link).
What has especially irked Clinton supporters about Obama supporters at the Daily Kos is that Kossacks for Obama have learned what politics
is really about. Politics is not about getting someone elected or
changing the world, which anyone who has taken a look at the ability of
the Daily Kos to actually get people elected should know. Politics is
about feeling good about yourself. Who cares if Obama gets beaten in
the general election; he will make everyone who voted for him feel
really good inside. That's how Ralph Nader made people who voted for
him feel in 2000. It didn't matter whether he had a chance to win or
not, it only mattered that his supporters didn't feel icky by voting
for Al Gore or George Bush....
I don't know what the average age of Kossacks is but judging by the
level of their writing, it appears that most of them weren't even born
when Bill Clinton was President. But they have studied enough history
in school to know how terrible those years of peace and prosperity were
since they directly led to the war and economic downturn we are
experiencing now and understandably they don't want to go back to that...
Somebody finally did it----deconstructed the unfair and unbalanced way in which the Obama campaign, its comparatively sane supporters, and the deranged O-bots have managed to tilt the debate over the candidates.
Congratulations to Eriposte at The Left Coaster for articulating:
My co-blogger, Teh Nutroots---who gave me the name for this blog---posted this piece at Buck Naked Politics. I thought I'd cross-post it here:
by Teh Nutroots | Last night, at an assembly of "more
than 200 black
community newspapers across the country," Hillary
Clinton took a step in the direction of restoring civility to this
campaign. She apologized for any offense her campaign may have caused
to black voters across the country (Breitbart).
Yeah,
I know. It won't cut any ice with certain of her political
opponents. Some of them are so crazed with Hillary Derangement
Syndrome that they can no longer see any act except through the filter
of their Hillary-hatred. But as a former Obama supporter from early on
who got off the merry-go-round when all the Hillary-hating O-bots
clambered aboard, I'm really glad she did it.
[He] should become the first sitting governor in American history to say
the words, "At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply
into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the
world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is.
And so, my truth is that I am a whoremonger-American."....
Many of our founding fathers, men like Benjamin Franklin, for example, were whoremonger-Americans. In more recent times a number
of great political men have patronized prostitutes, men like Jerry
Springer, Rep. Joe Waggonner, Rep. Allan Howe, Rep. Fred Richmond, Dick
Morris and most recently Louisiana Senator David Vitter, and these are
just the ones who got caught. Many of these men have been forced to
live in shame for who they are and their political careers have been
ruined. But is that fair?
One measure of how crazy people on at
least one side of the Democratic nomination struggle have become: I’ve
gotten a number of complaints that the end of my last — entirely
non-political — column, “hope is not a plan,” was a swipe at Obama.
Um, guys, it’s a phrase military types use; I started using it a lot when Iraq went pear-shaped. In fact, if you Google it, the first entry that comes up is a book about the Iraq war.
I’m sorry to say that a large part of the progressive movement seems to have lost its sanity. (Krugman)
Hurray, PoliGazette linked to our Jon Swift tribute at BN-Politics! Michael van der Galien is one of the few conservatives I can still take seriously---not the only one, because there's still (for example) John at Central Sanity and other essentially "centrist" or old school conservatives. In MvdG's case, my affinity or whatever you call it for his brand of conservatism may arise from the fact (as he pointed out in a note) that it is European conservatism.
We're not saying that Democrats never do anything shady. (Cash-stuffed freezers
come to mind.) But as the saying goes, with great power come great
opportunities to screw up royally. And if your memory is as hazy as
ours, you could probably use a handy refresher. [quote ends; link in original]
You've got to love their interactive "illustrated guide to Republican scandals." There's also a text version here. You know, it really could be called "Bushies Cheating Badly." If you're going to be corrupt, at least prove you can be cagy.
Somebody finally did it----deconstructed the unfair and unbalanced way in which the Obama campaign, its comparatively sane supporters, and the deranged O-bots have managed to tilt the debate over the candidates.
My co-blogger, Teh Nutroots---who gave me the name for this blog---posted this piece at Buck Naked Politics. I thought I'd cross-post it here:
Satirist Jon Swift thinks Eliot Spitzer should stop apologizing and 
He writes, and it is a true word:
Hurray, 
