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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    10/31/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Biden was the most inscrutable choice, ever, for VP. Instead of "change" Obama brought out an old hack, who had trouble with both truth telling, even during the campaign, and with inserting his foot into his mouth. Oh, to know what kind of negotiation that was, to get him on the ticket---except, perhaps to allay terrified old white guys who feared a woman and a (half)black man on the ticket would bring on the apocalypse. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    apparently I am in the minority, but I love Joe Biden! I think he's like the lovable Steve Urkel of the White House. He comes in, says stupid stuff, knocks shit over, and is like "Did I do that?" Oh Joe. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Joe Biden is everything thats wrong and fucked up with congress. This dope won his seat in the Senate when he was 29 and has never had another job until being VP. He has learned about as much about how the country works from his perch in DC as Palin learned about Russia from staring at it. He is walking proof we need term limits.

    And he doesn't drink. I don't trust people who don't drink, unless they've already been alcoholics. #joebiden
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    Image of Motoko Kusanagi Motoko Kusanagi
    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Why is it that I feel compelled to defend Gawker's subject matter against the editors/writers at least once a day lately?

    Either this new crop of staff writers is utterly fucked, or the editorial direction has taken a nosedive, or both.

    Is there some negative correlation between the quality of stories and the quality of AJAX/CSS? #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: From where I'm standing, it would appear to be a positive correlation. It's a good day when I get tripped up by fewer than five unresponsive scripts, infinite waits for comments to load or what have you. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @romulus: The site gets prettier, and the content gets lamer. Just callin it as I see it. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    @Motoko Kusanagi: Oh yeah, I didn't mean to quibble. I agree that the site gets fancier all the time, but features seem to break often. I should have added before that it could well be my OS and browser causing headaches most readers don't experience. And in all fairness, I haven't been reading long enough to judge contemporary content against the past. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Not sure what point you're trying to make, Amrita... that you think Cheney's worldview makes some sense? That Cheney was initially popular, before everything he did brought his popularity rating to a low of 28%? I love it that Biden is willing to call a moron a moron. This is a ridiculous post. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    Oh, and if you're trying to poke fun at Vice Prez Biden for weeping during the debate when he spoke about his first wife and baby daughter who died, well then, that's just messed up. #joebiden
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    10/31/09

    @Conchie Birdie: One might argue that it was the worst kind of political hackdom for him to bring them up expressly to show his "empathy" side and try to squeeze a tear out of his plastic-surgeryized eye slots. #joebiden
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    10/30/09

    In reply to Nobody Loves Weepy VP Joe
    I'm absolutely NOT a supporter of ANYTHING Dick says... but, Good Lawwd, Biden, Bin Laden will always BE a part of the issue. I'm sorry, I guess if you had the prez saying this I could understand... but, uh, Joe? Nope.

    That being said, why are we posting crap from Fox News anyway - I thought we weren't supposed to take this stuff seriously?
    #joebiden
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    10/28/09

    In reply to Carr vs. Wolff in Superfluous Semantic Smackdown!
    The last time Michael Wolff was in touch with anything contemporary was when he was boffing that junior writer. #arguments
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    10/28/09

    In reply to Carr vs. Wolff in Superfluous Semantic Smackdown!
    Shoot, I think the SF Chron has a great business plan! Fabulous. They set records the last six months for over a quarter drop in circulation, but they raised the price of the paper 33% on the street, so they claim to be swimming in cash. Eventually there will be one old rich diehard on Nob Hill paying $25K per diem for one each and the only autographed copy of the paper that was the Chronicle. #arguments
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    10/28/09

    In reply to Carr vs. Wolff in Superfluous Semantic Smackdown!
    I thought the headline read "Superfluous Semitic Smackdown." Which would have been a different kind of battle entirely. #arguments
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    10/28/09

    In reply to Carr vs. Wolff in Superfluous Semantic Smackdown!
    Did Wolff bring his little chippie? #arguments
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    10/28/09

    In reply to Carr vs. Wolff in Superfluous Semantic Smackdown!
    Michael Wolff needs to get got more often. Carr's a rock star and the only thing he's missing for the gig are Michael Wolff's Steven Tyler-esque lips. A cockwaffle if there ever was one. #arguments
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    01/24/09

    In reply to Time to Drag Caroline Kennedy Through the Mud
    A "wrestling match" was how Patterson characterized his own internal thought process in deciding upon a person to succeed Senator Clinton. We now see that it was more a mud wrestling match devised by this accidental Governor for his own amusement and advancement. He believed that the longer he waited to announce his decision, the greater the suspense, and the more publicity he would garner. Both the process and the decision reflect poorly on Patterson. His next decision, whether to run for reelection, will be less protracted and more obvious. He will either not run, or will lose to Andrew Cuomo. And Kirsten Gillibrand, like Charles Goodell, the last Senator chosen by a NY Governor, will also be gone by the 2010 primaries.
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    01/24/09

    @Sarah Ostrinsky: I don't get why he had to turn this into a big game. Did he think it would help him function better as Governor? Or help get him re-elected next year (which is the prism through which he sees everything that he does)? Or was he just bored and wanted a few laughs?
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    01/24/09

    In reply to Time to Drag Caroline Kennedy Through the Mud
    The Times has a big article right now on how badly Paterson has hurt himself through this whole thing. I agree with them - that's the real story here. The way he has conducted this appointment process, and the way he continues to conduct things now that it's over, could very well be sealing his fate as governor in the next election. Or, should I say, sealing his fate as ex-governor?


    This whole thing has been a big farce, and as the Times pointed out, it's pretty difficult to piss off all three of New York's most powerful political families (the Kennedys, Clintons and Cuomos), especially since they all pretty much hate each other. Yet that's just what he did. Add in Carolyn McCarthy, who's probably the most powerful downstate rep, and he's in some serious trouble.

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    01/24/09

    In reply to Time to Drag Caroline Kennedy Through the Mud
    While I'm relieved that she's not going to be our senator, I think that Paterson's people trashing her is just gratuitously cruel and petty.


    Paterson botched this from the get-go, mostly because he's always kept his eye on the '10 election, instead of who would be the best person to be in the Senate, representing our interests. And now he will almost certainly not win that election.

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