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
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
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
@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
@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
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
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
@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
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
A conspiracy is simply two or more people working together in secret to achieve a common goal.
If anyone thinks that *doesn't* describe the Republicans, and hasn't *always* described the Republicans going back at least to the days of Nixon, then I don't know what word does describe them.
And the only thing that keeps the Democrats from having a "vast left-wing conspiracy" is that they're so inept at working together.
If a vast conspiracy is ever going to take root anywhere, it's going to be in the fertile ground of conservative paranoia. Trying to get liberals to agree on anything is like trying to herd cats.
The relentless drumbeat of whispers and "people say" is something I've been dreading about having a Democratic administration. The open-ended investigation of the Clintons lasted nearly his entire presidency and was nothing more than a politically-motivated game of gotcha. The investigations started with Whitewater, then morphed to failed S&L, a defunct law firm, Vince Foster, travel office, Paula Jones, an ultimately Monica. All along Starr was given endless funding and an open book on the Clinton's personal lives. Six years and $40 million taxpayer dollars later all he had was a blue Gap dress.
When I get depressed about politics, I re-watch Frontline's documentary on Watergate. Watching Nixon actively obstruct justice, tamper with evidence, attempt to fire the special prosecutor (Saturday Night Massacre), pay off CIA-goons with unlimited and unrecorded campaign funds, and have an executive privilege stand-off with the Congress and effectively negate the Constitution really puts bullshit like "the birthers" into perspective.
Oh, well if it's David Gregory who has bravely chosen to ask Clinton whether he's crazy, or merely insane to think that right wing sorts spent millions in a campaign to destroy him, culminating in the Lewinsky affair that was a fuckfest of misdirection as 9/11 loomed - well that's worthy of attention!
Gregory is a smirking chimp. Clinton was a fine President who left the country a better place than he found it. Belonsky is a person writing things on the Internet, relaying right-wing talking points for Gawker. Because of course, we revere our elders, and whatever a former president says is always bad news for the Democrats, whatever it is.
Uh, the very existence of the endless rightwing attack dogs as profiled on the front of the NYT yesterday, and the very nonstop virulent wackness funded by conservative sources, relayed and echoed on the internet, FOX pumping venom onto the media discourse relentlessly..
Oh yeah, Clinton is the crazy one. There aren't vast resources looking to destroy Obama, there isn't a 24-hour cable channel hating him nonstop. There isn't an array of corporate forces arrayed against health care reform lest their billions evaporate.
Yeah, Clinton is crazy to say that there's a right wing conspiracy to destroy initiatives like they almost destroyed him. That there are powerful forces out to destroy Obama, and his attempts to change the status quo- where the middle class is strapped to hell by health care costs alone.
Yeah, how crazy Clinton is to speak of the fucking truth- corporations have been squeezing the fucking life out of this country, they did try to destroy him, and Obama is their next target to bring down.
How in the fuck is Clinton speaking his mind going to make it worse for the Democrats? Above and beyond the relentless efforts of Obama's enemies, where they've already entertained whether he's the Antichrist?
Everything is always bad for Democrats, people. Always. And everything is always spun as great for Republicans. No matter what it is.
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WeepyVP JoeAnd he doesn't drink. I don't trust people who don't drink, unless they've already been alcoholics. #joebiden
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WeepyVP JoeEither 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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WeepyVP JoeThat being said, why are we posting crap from Fox News anyway - I thought we weren't supposed to take this stuff seriously?
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If anyone thinks that *doesn't* describe the Republicans, and hasn't *always* described the Republicans going back at least to the days of Nixon, then I don't know what word does describe them.
And the only thing that keeps the Democrats from having a "vast left-wing conspiracy" is that they're so inept at working together.
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09/27/09
The relentless drumbeat of whispers and "people say" is something I've been dreading about having a Democratic administration. The open-ended investigation of the Clintons lasted nearly his entire presidency and was nothing more than a politically-motivated game of gotcha. The investigations started with Whitewater, then morphed to failed S&L, a defunct law firm, Vince Foster, travel office, Paula Jones, an ultimately Monica. All along Starr was given endless funding and an open book on the Clinton's personal lives. Six years and $40 million taxpayer dollars later all he had was a blue Gap dress.
When I get depressed about politics, I re-watch Frontline's documentary on Watergate. Watching Nixon actively obstruct justice, tamper with evidence, attempt to fire the special prosecutor (Saturday Night Massacre), pay off CIA-goons with unlimited and unrecorded campaign funds, and have an executive privilege stand-off with the Congress and effectively negate the Constitution really puts bullshit like "the birthers" into perspective.
09/27/09
Gregory is a smirking chimp. Clinton was a fine President who left the country a better place than he found it. Belonsky is a person writing things on the Internet, relaying right-wing talking points for Gawker. Because of course, we revere our elders, and whatever a former president says is always bad news for the Democrats, whatever it is.
Uh, the very existence of the endless rightwing attack dogs as profiled on the front of the NYT yesterday, and the very nonstop virulent wackness funded by conservative sources, relayed and echoed on the internet, FOX pumping venom onto the media discourse relentlessly..
Oh yeah, Clinton is the crazy one. There aren't vast resources looking to destroy Obama, there isn't a 24-hour cable channel hating him nonstop. There isn't an array of corporate forces arrayed against health care reform lest their billions evaporate.
Yeah, Clinton is crazy to say that there's a right wing conspiracy to destroy initiatives like they almost destroyed him. That there are powerful forces out to destroy Obama, and his attempts to change the status quo- where the middle class is strapped to hell by health care costs alone.
Yeah, how crazy Clinton is to speak of the fucking truth- corporations have been squeezing the fucking life out of this country, they did try to destroy him, and Obama is their next target to bring down.
How in the fuck is Clinton speaking his mind going to make it worse for the Democrats? Above and beyond the relentless efforts of Obama's enemies, where they've already entertained whether he's the Antichrist?
Everything is always bad for Democrats, people. Always. And everything is always spun as great for Republicans. No matter what it is.
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