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For what it's worth, I respectfully suggest that you do the following:
Click on your Gravatar picture and then click on the Disqus "view full profile" link and then click on "Edit Profile" (just beneath your picture) and then look for “Display Name” and type in "CDS" [without the quotation marks] if you want to resume your traditional moniker.
The very idea that there could be a CDS2 – two of you, no less! -- is just a wee bit disturbing, given the fact that one CDS is more than sufficient. But, just call me a stickler for tradition despite my lefty values and perspectives.
Most of us agree with you about the "Clout" rating system, because we regard it as undemocratic, elitist, and fundamentally silly. So, to your everlasting benefit, feel free to ignore it.
The internets should be the last place where some form of established hierarchy -- based upon an arbitrary grading or rating system -- should be tolerated, let alone encouraged within online communities.
That said, please do stick around and be more than an occasional visitor-- I love our contentious but always civil debates on Ablog. We can always agree to disagree, and no harm, no foul.
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Thanks for the response -- it's good to know that my instincts are still up and running where it comes to reading people online.
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On second thought, it occurred to me that perhaps you're not the original CDS from the HaloScan days on Ablog and that you really are CDS2. If that's the case, then I apologize for suggesting that you change your moniker back to CDS. Or, maybe you are the original CDS and just fancied a new on-screen name.
I only mention it because the Disqus registration nazi forces one to select a user name and then won't accept the one that you have been using for the duration on HaloScan, thus demanding that you include numbers and underlines -- I had to go in and hit "Edit Profile" to change my name back to the one that I've always used on this blog without the stupid underlines.
PS -- beautiful dog.
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how many are there bashing Joe for telling the truth? I know there must be a few .
I hate this 'top down' comment thing.... does anyone read a book from the bottom of the page to the top??
it really sucks.
/snark off
now if someone will just tell Hillary. Oh wait, thats right, she WANTS MCCAIN TO WIN!
My main concern is that either candidate is going to be too "centrist" a president. After 8 years of horrific Republican rule where everything they touched turned into a disaster the last thing we need for the next 4 years (at least) is more Republican input. My dream is a Dem president with veto-proof Dem majorities in the House & Senate. Only that way would the Republicans be shut out from causing more disasters.
That is what usually happens when I support a candidate.
Better get a yard sign out ASAP!
It is remarkable that Sen. Obama is running against both an ex-president and his wife and the repubs and is still standing.
The big wigs need to stop her - now.
Where in teh DNC does it say that the SD need to follow Obama? They could do as they wish. They were created to avert this very scenario. Having a candidate in front that could cause us the election. They were created to correct mistakes and republican sabotage like Obama's candidacy. And this scenario would only be applicable if he would have reached the magic number, but he has not.
What the hell are you talking about?
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How well do you know your celebrity gossip?
http://originals.msn.com/thebigdebate?ocid=T002...
WTF?
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Immigrant...
But the bushes don't like tomatoes...
You mean you want the establishment to do this. The same establishment you people hate. Oh yeah, I forgot. ...love them as long as they support his majesty.
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You don't follow politics much, do you?
Hillary's the one who wants the Superdelegates to overrule the will of the voters and caucus goers.
It is you that want to change the rules to benefit Obama the republican candidate.
Next time stick to the facts and not what you want to believe. Nice try though.
If Obama wins, bill and hill become irrelevant has-beens. This aint so complicated.
NYTimes article by Adam Nagourny
Meanwhile . . . the Saudi royals and the sycophants dine in splendour. (Notice the foreign spelling?)
The Clintons will "say anything, do anything" in their quest for power and care less how many Democratic bodies they leave on the scorched field. They are as Machiavellian as Karl Rove.
They know she's covering up more dirt than Nixon.
And they know what a Repub commercial will look like showing Hillary not dodging bullets in Bosnia but claiming to.
She cooked her own goose with that one.
Those conference calls are costing Hillary a pretty penny. Wolfson, alone, earns $267,000 per month.
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You'd think it would be cheaper to hire some hack to throw his feces around every morning.
this diqus thing is about as user friendly as a German Jeep repair manual.
US deploys nuclear sub to Persian Gulf’
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=1...
US claims Iran behind rocket attacks on Baghdad's Green Zone
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/US_Iran_behind_Gr... ml
Saudis Prepare for Nuclear Fallout from Iran
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/13650
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funny, NONE of the candidates seem to be talking about the fact that it REALLY looks like we're preparing to bomb Iran.
would they authorize it or not?
I'd love to hear the sputter and spin answers.
Wonder how much will be redacted?
Umm ... Obama has the delegate lead, the popular vote lead and the is catching up quickly on the declared super delegate lead. Statistically speaking, there is no way for HRC to catch up without some doomsday/scorched earth scenario.
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again... if the SD's are in leauge with hillary... meaning, her's is the vision they have for the Democratic party, not Obama's.
then they'll vote for her.
our votes really don't matter... delegate-wise or popularity-wise.
they're the ones deciding what direction this country needs to go in.
doesn't THAT piss you off?
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22 days to release the Clintons' tax records...April 15? A week before the PA primary and on a Tuesday, so it won't get lost in the Friday news dump, at least.
Wonder how much will be redacted?
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two zeros on the right in the 'gross income' box... BEFORE the '.'
as in $20,000,000.00 becomes $200,000.00?
And the MSM acts as the crutch for this ridiculous sideshow sham to continue.
MSM is the biggest loser of all.
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I think we know where McInsane stands.
I thought Cheney went to the Middle East to prepare everyone for the bombing to come. Jeeze these guys are f*cking crazy.
OT - It is great this thing has spell check.
Anyway, the Clinton camp claimed that Hillary mispoke with regard to the Bosnia trip. No, if she misspoke, it would have been a detail that was not material to the story...Clearly, these were bold face lies. It is almost like me saying I am really the matriarch of Falcon Crest when I am really a gay man in Baltimore. Thank you for listening.
..... If she had half a brain and get out.
well... maybe not yet, as I was only the second person to comment...
I hate this 'top down' comment thing.... does anyone read a book from the bottom of the page to the top??
it really sucks.
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Well, the threaded approach really worked well, but a few people whined and John turned it off. Now, all the whiners have disappeared and we're stuck with this sucky approach.
Back on topic. One of Hillary's problems -- perhaps her biggest problem -- is that everything she has said and done for the last 20 years has been calculated for her coronation as the Dem candidate. Every time she sucked up the right-wing abuse and then went over and kissed their feet -- when she didn't go punch Monica in her cum-soaked mouth or at least toss Bill's shit out onto the White House lawn -- when she triangulated and capitulated in the Senate -- when she moved to Chappaqua -- it was all part of a calculation to get the nomination and become the first female president.
Then, along came Obama and it all started to fall apart. But, she's like a pit bull with a bone. She just can't let go. It means the last 20 years of her life were wasted.
and to top it all off... I JUST found out that Angela Channing is really a gay man living in Baltimore!!
egad, no more Falcon Crest on SoapNet for me.
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It's time to point this out and get the superdelegates to choose. Obama is certain to lose PA, but not by enough to make any difference, so any superdelegates waiting this out for some upset moment to give them cover are only delaying the inevitable to everybody's detriment. Somebody needs to step forward and say, "It's over, there's nothing noble about any of this, let's get it over with now so we can prepare for the general."
Hardball was fascinating today. Chuck Todd came right out and said that the Hillary strategy is to injure Obama enough that he loses to McCain in the general. So this isn't even a strategy for her to win the nomination anymore. This is just pure sabotage for personal ambition.
Just about everything I see from DC negatively affects my mood & outlook on the future.
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I don't know if anyone on this blog has had a chance to hear the new Pastor's Easter sermon at Obama's church. Seems to me that it's time for Obama to get the hell out of there. The ammo that is being loaded into the Republican guns just may be unsurmountable in the the General Election. Is it possible that the Democrats will 'snatch defeat out of a sure victory'?
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the fact that you're even interested in what was said by the new pastor at Obama's church proves you spend WAY too much time swallowing the MSM bullshit.
what ties whatever the pastor said to Obama? you're doing a great job of spreading shit for the sake of spreading shit. don't you feel good about yourself??
I thought it had something to do with that do-nothing-energy-bill.
See, you save enerby by not having to turn on your lights earlier in the evening by turning them on in the morning.
Make sense? No, oh well.
I guess the spell check feature doesn't help me very well.........
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Make sense? No, oh well.
Kerry
Did not mean that literally there Kerry. Comment was a way to highlight my personal dissatisfaction I feel with Washington politics.
Make sense? No, oh well!!
Thanks for the concern though, your a pal.
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Settle down! I was snarkily expressing the same. Nothing personal.
Your new pal,
Kerry
I really don't give a shit what Obama's minister may or may not have said, where someone gets a haircut, or whether he wears boxers or briefs. Anyone who does care is brain dead.
Kerry
Quite settled, I am just direct. Misinterpretations is one of the draw backs to replying to a post. Probably would have helped had you indicated that you were being snarky. Personally I find it quite difficult to get overly emotional from posted comments made by someone or some entity. Mostly I post for therapeutic reasons, to vent frustrated opinions & feeling. I used to come here for the humor & jokes, mirth, if you will. Lately though most of the fun has gone out of ablog for me at least. Used to be lots of laughs & jokes here, now not so much.
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And I just gave you a point!
And with that I am outta here for today.
Can she win the popular vote? Nope.
Can she win the pledged delegate count? Nope.
Can she win the most states? Nope.
So you might think, looking at these superficial and rather irrelevant numbers, that the math is not in Hillary's favor. Such an error would be forgivable as most folks do not possess an advanced degree in political mathematics from The Carville Institute. You see, in political math, 2 + 3 sometimes equals 5 but sometimes it equal 12 and at other times, zero. So, if you've run the math and come to the conclusion Hillary can't win, maybe you'll want to run that math. Again.
Can Hillary still win the Democratic nomination? From painful personal experience I can tell you that underestimating your opponent is the quickest route to undesired consequences. It's not that Hillary is unbeatable. She is, in fact, quite vulnerable and very stoppable. But it is far too early to call it over. You think it's all about the popular vote and the pledged delegates. That's like bringing a knife to a gunfight. Think Charlie Brown and the football.
That is basically the message you have given to the voters in Florida and Michigan. Rules are rules after all.
(I'm going for neg points here )
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Everything you said is right. I hope NY shows her the door when her senate seat comes up. It's time to see the Clintons retire from public life like Ford did.
Over a month late, networks, but welcome to the world of reality where your picture of a neck and neck contest is so far from the truth it might as well be on Fox.
I agree with posters here that a Hilary Super Delegate win will create a lot of resentment, but we may have to just swallow that in order to ensure a Dem wins in November. After all, if Barack wins there will also be a lot of resentment from the HRC side, not to mention voters in MI and FL who understand that it was the Obama campaign that killed the revotes. I don't see any sign that Barack's supporters will be reaching out to them. The bottom line is, we need to be one party in November. How will you accomplish that? Using irresponsible language like "coup" will ensure a McCain presidency.
The "Hillary Can't Win" meme is fast becoming conventional wisdom -- both inside and beyond the Beltway -- and this is a rare moment in politics when reality matches the perception.
Moreover, this useful meme even applies to Cokie Roberts’ law – “It doesn’t matter if it’s true or not…it’s out there!”
Sadly, despite the high numerical probability that she can't win the nomination by running a good race and winning the greatest number of pledged delegates and playing by the rules, Hillary is determined to continue her destructive and divisive campaign by employing the Clintonian classic -- triangulation of the Superdelegates .
The Clintons believe that the Democratic Party is their wholly-owned subsidiary, and that the voters -- and, especially, the Superdelegates -- are there to serve their own personal needs and ambitious, not the other way around -- and that gross misperception is going to be their nemesis in 2008. The Clintons have lost their mojo and it just ain’t workin’ this time.
Hillary is ahead in the latest Pennsylvania polls, but so what? It's just too little, and way too late – even John Murtha’s endorsement can’t save her:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/pr...
Still, even if Hillary's lead in Pennsylvania polls remains unchanged between now and the primary, she still can't catch up to Obama, let alone surpass him in the pledged delegate count.
Bon voyage, Bill and Hill -- Good fucking riddance!
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Clinton closes the gap -- and even surpasses Obama -- counting Michigan and Florida as-is.
Sorry, John. This Michigan voter doesn't agree with your assessment that Hillary is trying to "buy" Michigan. Most Democrats, except the hard-line Obama supporters, want a re-vote here at best, and to count at the very least.
There will be an MSM furor over Obama winning without accounting Michigan and Florida in any capacity because of the "rules." The SD's breaking to Clinton, IMO, is a better negative narrative than "Florida and Michigan didn't count -- Obama wins!" negative narrative heading into the GE.
Neither candidate can claim piety until these two LARGE DELEGATE STATES get their voices heard prior to the convention.
All the work accomplished contesting a state in the primary is work that will not have to be done in the general. All the precinct captains trained, the volunteer lists established, the voter registration, updated voter lists, canvas maps produced, etc. The foundation for getting out the vote in November will be laid.
A nasty, divisive campaign of course will do damage, but the practical side of what it takes to organize a state counts for something.
The party is strong and will rally behind whoever does end up getting the nomination. If you really think what amounts to typical politics between Obama and Clinton -- ooh, it's so bad that they're attacking each other in a political race! -- is going to erase eight years of the Bush administration from the general population's minds then you're really underestimating people.
It's not Clinton's fault that the system was designed in a way that did not reasonably allow for this type of close situation, so why shouldn't she see it through?
Hillary is welcome to "see it through" -- as you suggest -- and I expect her to do exactly that. But at what cost?
If you don't see the downside to a scenario in which Obama wins more pledged delegates, more popular votes, more red and blue states, only to have the nomination taken from him via a Clintonian power play involving the Superdelegates, then I wonder how you could imagine anything less than a serious breach of Democratic Party cohesion as we approach the November election.
Your confident assertion that all the Democratic and Independent voters who flocked to Obama's campaign for a variety of reasons will suddenly cut their losses and coalesce to rally behind Hillary Clinton at the 11th hour strikes me as a wee bit unrealistic and naïve.
Many of us will vote for the Democrat in November, even if we have to hold our noses while doing so, but for Independents and idealistic young voters who believed in Barack Obama’s campaign as a genuine movement for change -- and who believed that their participation in politics could make a difference -- might not feel very inspired or motivated to show up to vote for Hillary Clinton on election day.
Just sayin’….
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Oh, yes. I think you've JUST DESCRIBED John McCain's base! And I'm the one who is unrealistic and naive? :-)
Gov. Richardson did an awesome thing in his endorsement of Barack, Bless his soul!! I always liked him and he seems like a genuine good person, unlike that horrible James Carville!! I use to like him and the Clintons, but now they have showed their "fruits" that the bible tells us to judge one by, and they are in the mud!!
I will never vote for Hillary, I will stay home and not vote for that phony hateful deceitful person. Why can't her supporters see into her, they are those shallow thinking kind of people, who just go along with no thoughts of their own.
If Hillary should get the nomination -- which seems increasingly doubtful if not impossible at this juncture -- I will hold my nose and vote for her as painful and depressing as that will be -- for one reason:
I don't want McCain being in a position to appoint the next United States Supreme Court Justice(s) -- and there could be at least one or two openings in the next four years.
Justice John Paul Stevens was born in 1920, and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was born in 1933 -- do the math.
McCain has gone on record that he will seek nominees for the high court who embody all the narrow-minded fascist leanings of the current crop of right-wing wackjobs -- Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, and Alito -- and one (or more) crazy-clones like those four and Roe v. Wade will be history. But that’s the worst-case scenario.
Actually, I look forward to Barack Obama winning the nomination and being in a position to balance the Supreme Court with sane, rational, reasonable jurists who will uphold the Constitution and who demonstrate a willingness to put the rights of the people over those of giant corporations. What a concept!
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http://www.lvrj.com/news/16948521.html
I'm full of sh*t? Thanks.
I do direct anger at our State Party leaders over the initial fiasco. But now I direct anger at the Obama camp for trying to stall a re-vote, especially amidst the Kwame fiasco.
I give blame where it's due for then. I've WRITTEN my State dems over the Primary. But should I keep hating my state party - the outfit that governs our local policy - because a HYPOTHETICAL Presidential CANDIDATE is flagrantly ignoring any attempt at a revote?
No.
My State Dems still do good work for the citizens of Michigan. Obama and Clinton do nothing for Michigan on an intricate level. Clinton supports a re-vote. Obama does not. I am furious with Obama over this. If the roles were reversed, I'd be furious with Clinton.
Not allowing the most economically challenged State, and Ohio's more Democratic cousin, a place at the table is an egregious error.
Keep saying I'm full of shit. I LIVE in Michigan. Do you?
Obama's preacher friend was RIGHT!! The whole world believes the US of A interferes in other people's affairs in the interests of global capitalist corporations, like Monsanto or Halliburton and many others. The preacher tells the truth and poor old Obama has to distance himself from these uncomfortable truths.
No, it doesn't matter who wins (unless you think politics is only about non-monetary things like abortion rights or prayer in schools). Whoever wins will have to dance to the tune played by the Globals.
We no longer have the Cold War and all those nasty commies who MAKE us (honestly, we couldn't help it) spend money on Star Wars , so let us invent a permanent war...the War against Terrorism. Does no one realise that terror has been with us for many many centuries in one form or another...like prostitution, it is always with us...and so we can go on planning spending the taxes of Americans for virtually EVER.
The great British writer, George Orwell, writing his 1984 in 1948, shows a world in which war is permanent. The Bush administration has achieved that fictional reality in just five years.
And which of McCain, Clinton or Obama is going to dismantle this terrorist system? Does no one see how the government of the US of A commits acts of terror against not only the rest of the world, but against its own people?
Go ahead and vote if it makes you feel better.
Perhaps Hillary knows about a coming Iran strike and she is calculating that the country will turn away from calm, thoughtful Obama, opting instead for a bitch cowboy to "protect" us.
And most likely she is correct.
Many reason, including those you cite, to suspect that there will be no election. The scenario of events leading to a suspended election is fast becoming more plausible.
Trolls can vote, and the current crop is from a particular low-functioning blog.
John explained that the good thing with Disqus is snagging trolls is MUCH easier and there is no limit to the amount that can be banned (Halo only allowed for 20).
They can f*ck with our points, but they cannot get into our heads.
What we need to do is regroup now that we are getting used to Disqus. It seems to me that our sense of community has ebbed. One of these nights we need to have a blowout thread...and see how many -points we can accumulate!
Here's how I deal with the threads: Usually before commenting I read from bottom to top. I have my organize option set to load new comments at the top near the comment box. That way, once I comment, it's easy to keep up with new ones as they appear.
I prefer the 'flat' rather than indented comments. With indented, a commenter might reply to an hours-old comment way downthread and I'm likely to miss it.
so, If I go -54, i'm hitting a nerve...lol
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No matter how you spin the FL/MI delegates fiascos, your gripe is between you citizens and your state Dem leaders.
In other words, you're fulla s*it.