to TR a diary?

Stevens and Ginsberg are likely to retire within the next four years.

you decided to stop yelling.

Your diary does not lend itself to debate, discussion or rational conversation.  It is as if you are in a big aluminum room screaming at your distorted reflection.

peace out.

Hmmmm - so sweetie and H&L fliers? I think both campaigns have done worse than that....

Then don't vote for him.

Vote for Nader or McCain or Alan Keyes (he'll get back in eventually).

Just please shut-up about it.

Obviously in the anger phase.

Since virtually nothing in your diary is true, I suppose you can use it as an excuse to vote against Obama and feel justified. Maybe.

I think about Obama you're completely right on everything about him, all he does is politically expedient, but common, who cares if he called some reporter sweetie. Its not like he tried to molest her or anything. Are we that politically correct that we're going to go out of our way to call Obama a "woman hating sexist" over it? While I honour and love the Clintons, and am angry they won't be the nominee this year, if its Barack H. Obama, yea I'll vote for him. There is nothing worse in this world than the incorrect party in the White House. The incorrect party is the Republican Party, and I will do all I can to bring back prestige to this country.

this diary, unfortunately, is cruise control for fail.

"WHAT WOULD I BE VOTING FOR?"

a Democrat.

Nice raving diary.  You've contributed nothing but vitriol.  There are no points to refute.

However, if you really want to go there.....who got cozy with Richard Mellon Scaife?  Oh, yeah....

I am a woman and I call people (women and men) sweetie.  It is a southern thing.

At some point, we will need to opt for the most generous interpretation of the candidate who is entrusted with our agenda.  It's one thing to criticize on one or another point.  But there is also a great deal of choice involved in interpretation.  Do Obama and Clinton support reproductive rights because of a callous disregard for the 'sanctity of life' or out of principled respect for the rights of women to face the moral questions involved?  

I do not choose to interpret McCain generously as he advocates for things that I oppose, hence I want his advocacy to fail.  I will not go out of my way to smear him with things that are untrue, but I will not hesitate to depict him and his positions as harmful and to cast them in an unattractive light.  I choose to interpret HRC generously as long as she serves the agenda I support.  I choose the most generous interpretation of Obama as I believe he will be our nominee.  Smearing those in position to alter the direction of our country for the better serves no one.

Part of 2002 Anti-War Speech:

I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a US occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences. I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of al-Qaeda.
I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars.

You want a fight, President Bush? Let's fight to wean ourselves off Middle East oil, through an energy policy that doesn't simply serve the interests of Exxon and Mobil.
Those are the battles that we need to fight. Those are the battles that we willingly join. The battles against ignorance and intolerance. Corruption and greed. Poverty and despair.

Part of 2004 DNC speech:

And fellow Americans, Democrats, Republicans, independents, I say to you, tonight, we have more work to do...... more work to do, for the workers

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded. So instead of offering tax breaks to companies shipping jobs overseas, he offers them to companies creating jobs here at home.

John Kerry believes in an America where all Americans can afford the same health coverage our politicians in Washington have for themselves.

John Kerry believes in energy independence, so we aren't held hostage to the profits of oil companies or the sabotage of foreign oil fields.

John Kerry believes in the constitutional freedoms that have made our country the envy of the world, and he will never sacrifice our basic liberties nor use faith as a wedge to divide us.

For alongside our famous individualism, there's another ingredient in the American saga, a belief that we are all connected as one people.

If there's a child on the south side of Chicago who can't read, that matters to me, even if it's not my child.

If there's a senior citizen somewhere who can't pay for their prescription and having to choose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer, even if it's not my grandparent.

If there's an Arab-American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney or due process, that threatens my civil liberties.

It is that fundamental belief -- it is that fundamental belief -- I am my brother's keeper, I am my sisters' keeper -- that makes this country work.

It's what allows us to pursue our individual dreams, yet still come together as a single American family: "E pluribus unum," out of many, one.
Now even as we speak, there are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters and negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes.

I believe that we can give our middle class relief and provide working families with a road to opportunity.

I believe we can provide jobs for the jobless, homes to the homeless, and reclaim young people in cities across America from violence and despair.

I believe that we have a righteous wind at our backs, and that as we stand on the crossroads of history, we can make the right choices and meet the challenges that face us.

On, message for the last 6 Years.  He must believe some of it.

There was no campaign flyer more disgusting that the one Hillary sent out in NH. It was as dishonest a smear as any I've seen, sent out right before the election, and then quickly debunked by the media.

What sort of progressive that cares about choice uses this to attack another Democrat?  It was disgusting, with a capital D.  

But...

I forgive her and look forward to her campaigning for Obama.

Three more weeks.

Also don't you?  And it is not meant as an insult.
He probably learned it from his mother or grandmother.  Guys don't use it as much, but in most cases I hear it used they are trying to be positive and friendly by using it.  Or at least that is what my experience has been with that word.

Macaca on the other hand is used as an insult, and can be considered racist.   But I am willing to give you the benefit of the doubt also.

and do you know who shares it:

GLaDoS!!!

This version fits a little better though:

This was a triumph.
I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS.
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.
I'm so CONCERNED
I do what I must
because I can.
For the 'good' of all of us.
Except the ones who are calm.
But there's lots sense crying over every mistake.
You just keep on being 'concerned' till you run out of cake.
And the Doubt gets sowed.
And you annoy the bold
For the people who are still calm.

I'm not even concerned.
I'm being so insincere right now.
Even though you broke my talking points.
And mocked me.
And tore my points into pieces.
And threw every piece into a fire.
As they burned it hurt because I was so concerned for you!

Now these points of "data" make a beautiful line.
And we're out of talking points.
We're concerned all the time.
So I'm GLaD. I got concerned.
Think of all the things we tried
on the people who are still bold.
Go ahead and leave me.
I think I prefer to stay concerned.
Maybe John McCain
THAT WAS A JOKE.
HAHA. FAT CHANCE.
Anyway, this concern is great.
It's so delicious and moist.
Look at me still talking
when there's doubt to be sown.
When I look out there, it makes me GLaD I'm concerned.
I've diaries to right.
There is logic to fight.
from the people who are still bold.
And believe me I am still concerned.
I'm doing not so well and I'm still Concerned.
I feel CONCERNED but you're still calm.
While you're calm I'll be still concerned.
And when you're victorious I will be still concerned.
STILL CONCERNED

Sad, just plain sad. I know how to show Obama! Destroy our country a little more and help to ensure that McBush is reelected. WONDERFUL LOGIC. These posters better get banned after the nomination is settled. At that point, we need to put all our energy behind Obama and against McCain.

At the bottom of Obama, there really are no core values.  He is merely a political expedient and will use anybody he feels he needs to achieve his ends.  Nothing new here.

please recommend this diary, the wreck list is getting stale.

Ok it's your right not to believe in what BO says.
What if I said I don't believe you don't believe he believes? Would that make an interesting diary? ;)

However this diary is completely unsubstanciated.
BO is coherent in what he says. He always said he
thought one had to talk with everybody. This is his philosophy. He never wavered from it. That doesn't prevent him from being clear about what he fights for.

You may think it is a strategy, but you do not give any sound motivation for disbelieving him. Most of the times when people are being consistently coherent in what they say I have found it best to believe them a priori.

He appears at the same time open-minded and very firm on his principles; that may seem contradictory to you, perhaps because you have been experiencing 8 years of bushism and have somewhat lost your bearings, but it is actually usually considered as a civilized attitude. And people from all horizons find this extremely appealing, perhaps because they simply find it right.

Just to make things clearer: Republicans are now saying that just because BO says the US must talk with all other countries, it means that he is willing to concede everything to America's enemies
(and compare him to Chamberlain). Thereby confusing diplomacy and appeasement. Might you not be making basically the same mistake? Or perhaps you think republicans are right on that account?