Comments on: Today is the day!

By: e

Wed, 07 May 2008 21:31:08 +0000

Looks like Time saw something of the same thing. Or something like that.

By: Swamproot

Swamproot — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:51:04 +0000

Really? “All the blogs”? Like all nineteen bajilllion of them?

At least it wasn’t like 2004. I would rather have 100 people coming by my house to solicit support for a candidate I didn’t like, than I would one to come by to solicit support for a delusional, I mean constitutional, amendment that would “protect marriage”.

I would vote for a third term for George W. Bush before I would vote to constitutionalize veiled religious bigotry. Oh wait, I take that back, I forgot they were the same thing for a second.

By: grimsaburger

grimsaburger — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:06:58 +0000

I try to read all the blogs, I really do. I should’ve been true to my academic roots and asked for citations including blog name, blog author, date posted, and number of responses and trackbacks. And then thwacked her upside the head with a copy of the Turabian manual of style. Maybe that would get our address put on the “Under no circumstances try to canvass this house” list.

By: Swamproot

Swamproot — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:21:13 +0000

“Is Barack Obama gonna have to choke a bitch?” That’s what you should have told her. (Chappelle Show reference)

You know “all the black people are voting for Obama!” probably means we are all going to have to pay for reparations. She probably doesn’t like the idea of Obama getting all of THEM stirred up, just like that Martin Luther King fella’ did when he caused all those riots.

Of course, nobody talks about the real and possibly the most important distinction between the two: Obama went to Harvard, Clinton went to Yale.

But to give her credit, you haven’t read ALL the blogs now have you.

By: el ranchero

el ranchero — Wed, 07 May 2008 03:41:52 +0000

There’s been honest to God examples of both racism and sexism in this race, and it’s too bad. On the other hand, it’s a helpful reminder to all of us just how far we still have to go on the whole equality thing, and hopefully in the long term, a lesson for everyone in the Democratic coalition that being a Democrat or a liberal doesn’t make you immune to the urge to stereotype other people, even those who are supposed to be on the same side.

It’s also a lesson about just how unenlightened even major media personalities are on issues of both gender and race (though probably moreso on gender).

By: grimsaburger

grimsaburger — Wed, 07 May 2008 00:42:23 +0000

Damn nuns. Always helping the poor and sick and educating generations upon generations of children.

By: Terri

Terri — Wed, 07 May 2008 00:25:51 +0000

Two weeks away. Still technically undecided, but leaning strongly towards Obama. Shakesville has an impressive missive that I'd like to print out and learn by heart because, sad to say, it's something that I feel the need to read to far too many male "liberals." Grrr. Of course, you know who's REALLY socialist, ya'll? The nuns.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:47:16 +0000

Oh, and I forgot the best part – when she asked me why I support Hillary’s “socialist tendencies” I followed up my puzzled awe by asking her if she even knows what she means by socialist. The answer was no.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:45:33 +0000

Well, I’m just glad I know smart and thoughtful people on both sides of the party line, otherwise I’d be a lot more angry and depressed. At this point I’m just looking forward to having a candidate and I know whoever wins will do their best to rally support for the party as a whole in an effort to defeat Darth McCain!

I’m also looking forward to the end of robocalls and bubble-gum popping campaigners trying to convince me…..well, of anything really.

By: el ranchero

el ranchero — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:07:51 +0000

I got pretty angry when I first read this, but the more I think about it, the more I want to cut the lady some slack. It’s a contentious primary (far more contentious than is warranted considering the similarities of the 2 candidates), it’s gone on too long, and everyone’s nerves are a little frayed. Plus, canvassing is emotionally draining and it BLOWS. She’ll learn to just follow up her “why?” with “okiedoke, have a nice day” after a few more unproductive confrontations.

And surely that McCain business is just sour grapes. Can you imagine the logic: “I’m voting for Clinton because I’m a feminist, but if she loses I’ll vote for the guy who has already said he wants to overturn Roe v. Wade and will actually get the chance?” No frakin’ way.