dont you find it truly amazing when the palest of spoiled upper middle class white boys think that it makes them "down" with the "people" when they call anyone or everyone that disagrees with obama on ANYTHING a racist?

Preach! This is precisely the same point I made to Jerome. It's so absurd it's funny.

I understand you 100%, mang. I love reading and contributing to blogs. I wish I had more time to devote to because I’d be posting every single day. But it’s hard for me to care that much about blogosphere politics with the power struggles, feuds and whatnot. You should definitely know that there’s a reason why they can’t keep Jerome Armstrong’s name out of their mouths: they desperately want him to care. Bullies are dominant and inescapable. These guys are nothing more than a clown bus full of poseurs who no one actually like or pay that much attention to anyway. Snark ‘em if you’ve got a minute or two to spare when they wander into your diaries. But for the most part, ignore them.

I know you’re not expecting me to actually open a new tab and Google that. You have any idea how much time I have already wasted with you? What are you, nuts? And if in fact it was the Rumproast crowd that was guilty of that particular instance of racial condescension, then you’re absolved. Although I would hasten to add that the Moose thing—a clique of poseurs sitting around, patting themselves on the back underneath the friggin’ seal of the White House—is equally fucking laughable. I love you all the same.

Jack Landsman, aka, Captain Fantastic

You’re really not supposed to feed the animals, dude. This faction isn’t even a collection of bullies. Bullies are dominant. We’re dealing with a gaggle of poseurs and losers. The one time I paid them any attention was after the “Chocolate Carter” contretemps. I can’t remember if it was the Moose thing or Rumproast—who cares?—but their reaction was to play the Race card. And since you’re not supposed to use it on a black person, they shifted and actually starting questioning whether or not I was black. I almost died laughing. And it’s a good thing I missed the seal of the White House. The EMTs would have had to carry me out on a stretcher with one of those grotesque Joker smiles on my face.

"I think Jerome should revoke Front Page privileges of Jack Landsman. The line which tipped the scale was the "Presidents I would like to fuck" comment - it seems to have been removed now, but it was there earlier."

It's not enough to say that; you have to fill out the necessary paperwork. You're welcome to borrow my pen, too, because I am still Christian and we have duties.

"My heart wants to bring back the Clintons, but..."

I'm in such agreement with this that it's stupid. I really want to believe that. But for the sake of consistency, I'm always careful to note how, with respect to policy, Obama is essentially Bill Clinton on steroids in a worse economy. In terms of political ineptitude, the Clintons had the 1994 debacle. Watching the current president on the tv this afternoon was painful. He's clearly out of his depth and he looked broken. But in fairness to President Obama, Bill Clinton's capacity for pathetic self-pity is exceeded by none ('cept maybe Sarahcuda), if we're to believe Dick Morris. Obama's temperament? "... [I]mmature, petulant, self-absorbed..." Yep. Still, I can't allow my ex-GF to skate by that easily. Up in New Hampshire, as she stared political death in the face, Hillary had a actual meltdown in the presence of voters.

God, I love the Clintons. Just like I still love, love, love Obama. It's ridiculously hard to explain. But nevermind all of that. It's immaterial. America is in decline and it's partly due to Barack Obama's policies more than anything else. Competent management isn't enough. And even if I scratch the surface there, it turns out the Hillary hype is chimera. We're engaging in fantasy; unfairly comparing Obama--a feckless, wretched president--to an idealized version of the Clintons that frankly never existed.

And yet I can't think of an alternative. I can't help but think we're going to end up with the Clintons and hope they have learned from both the 90s and the Obama experiment.

I didn't want to the guy directly above me to be confused.

Strum and Change, I mean.

Please stop, you two.

That was intended as a reply to this: "... [W]e have front page diarists wanting to teabag the teabag Senate candidates."

I don't do the tea-bagging. It's not quite that simple. And fwiw I edited the post. Rome thought it was tasteless and he's probably right. I shall henceforth keep my (non-political) Marco Rubio crush to myself.

Nevermind the "Mr." No need for handles. We're all friends here.

Like the Kennedys, the Bushes will be back. But 2012 is too soon, bro. This kind of establishmentarian treachery rests, I think, on the flawed presumption that Gov. Palin can't possibly beat the rather cool fellow who's been exposed to the world as a mediocre bungler. Their maneuvering, however, is shortsighted. It's one thing to beat Sarahcuda fair and square. In this scenario, she is Hillary. Although I'm not even sure Sarah still wouldn't bolt or somehow balk at party unity. Mr. Gross' recent Vanity Fair hatchet job may have been overzealous and sloppy in its specific examples, but I suspect he perfectly captured the egomania and the petty, vindictive character of Sarah Palin. (In the interest of fairness, 95% of politicians of her caliber are probably like that.) If the GOP establishment insists on carving her up, like the Bush people carved up John McCain in South Carolina 2000, they can kiss the 2012 election goodbye anyway. For all the certain talk of how black voters would abstain from voting should President Obama be denied renomination, that's nothing compared to the aggrieved, untrammeled fury of the Tea Party set.

If they know what's best, the Cocktail Party would run a respectable, clean campaign against Sarah Palin. If that fails--and it will--their best bet is to "shut up" (says Mike Steele; he and Palin are thick as thieves now) and rally behind her like they rallied behind Sharron Angle in that high stakes contest. McCain foisted this messianic political thoroughbred on the Republican Party and there's almost nothing the wise men can do about it. It's her time.