Well, I thought things would slow down a little more around here than they have, since Election Day. But, Obama's preparations for taking office and the sinking economy, as well as the aftermath of the Proposition 8 vote in California, as well as down-to-the-wire Senate races in Alaska and Minnesota have dictated otherwise.

That being said, I'm feeling a little mischievous today, so I thought I'd bring this post from Markos over at DKos, "Research 2000 tracking poll accuracy," which has been on the top of the front page there for the past 45 mins. It looks to me like he's calling out our fearless leader, Jerome, front and center.

Now boys, take it out back during recess and let's have a good, old-fashioned playground brawl! LOL!

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THIS is one of the most blatantly dishonest posts I have ever seen on the front page of Daily Kos.  He argues Clinton's electability, but does so by, well lying. It is truly an amazing feat of perfidy, and done based upons the presumption that people will only look at what is there, and not what is missing.

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It should be obvious to anyone who thinks about it for a second that Karl Rove, who dominated American politics for the last 8 years, is much smarter than Markos Moulitsas, who may have influenced a couple of local elections somewhere.

So when Newsweek hired Kos to "balance" Karl Rove, it was a really a gift to the Republicans, but more or less immune to criticism by Democrats, who hate the idea of hierarchies of any kind. We Democrats are always down on all fours together, and the highest form of human thought is our "collective wisdom," common sense, or whatever euphemism we can dream up for a hash of the latest buzz-words: Change, Hope, Mom, Apple Pie...

Democrats aren't just anti-intellectual, we are anti-intelligence, and there's a smoking gun to convict us of this charge in every election cycle.

If you look back through the blogs and mainstream media from 2007, there was no more respected Democratic intellectual than Paul Krugman, fighting the Bush agenda with one brilliant editorial after another in the New York Times, and no one disputed that he knew more about the economics of healthcare than anyone.

But when Krugman attacked Obama's no-mandate healthcare program as a sham that echoed the arguments of right-wing opponents of universal healthcare, and called Obama the "anti-change" candidate, he suddenly became a non-person for the Democratic Party.

If Mrs. Clinton gets the Democratic nomination, there is some chance -- nobody knows how big -- that we'll get universal health care in the next administration. If Mr. Obama gets the nomination, it just won't happen.

Shut up, Paul!

Heathcare may have been the top domestic issue during most of the Democratic campaign, but we don't care how many times you prove that Barack Obama is nothing but a shameless bullshitter! He looks good on TV! We understand the wonderfulness of his slogans: Hope, Change, Mom, Apple Pie...

So the Republicans get an evil genius at Newsweek, and we get a little monkey who may have influenced an election in New Jersey once upon a time. It's just business as usual for the Democratic Party, where every teenage Obamabot is at least as smart as Paul Krugman.

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For millions of people in Latin America, Free Trade Agreements are a life-and-death issue. NAFTA, CAFTA, NAFTA-Peru... Every one of those monstrosities was designed to destroy a way of life somewhere.

Now when you knock on a door where a farm once supported a family outside Merida, there's never anyone at home except the children and an abuelita left behind to watch them, all of them waiting patiently for the next money-order from el norte. The meager cash crops that provided for what you can't grow on a farm in Mexico were driven off the market by cheaper imports from corporate agribusiness, and your kids can't go to school if you can't even buy a pencil. Absolute poverty... In the United States those words don't mean a thing. Even the homeless still get a little check, and it's stingy enough, but in Mexico and Peru and the Dominican Republic, you can fall all the way to zero.

So if Mom and Dad can't afford a ticket with some coyote, they climb a fence, wade across a river, trek through a stretch of desert, and live ten or a dozen to a room in industrial suburbs of Houston or Phoenix or Los Angeles, and send most of their money back home. It isn't a life they chose.

Every Free Trade Agreement ever signed destroyed a way of life, and now the Democrats are offering a choice between two candidates who voted for NAFTA-Peru.

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There is a diary on the Rec List at Daily Kos authored by one of the site's better contributors, clammyc, in which he ostensibly attempts to bring the Hillary supporters back to Daily Kos, for the benefit of the Democratic Party and the Progressive movement.  

Overall, it is another quality diary by a quality poster.  However, I believe the diarist either misses, or intentionally ignored the real problem, and the reason I will not return to contribute to Daily Kos after the primary season is over.

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