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Delusional conservatives now talking about secession

The stupidity and hatred from the conservatives who can't accept they lost a presidential election grows and grows.
The latest example is this thread started on Hannity.com titled "Secession: An idea whose time has come."
Secession? Really? Are you idiots that lame that you would actually want to secede?
Even more incredible ... the poll attached to the thread mentions a civil war.
The blazing stupidity of those who argue for this idea has no bounds.

Hannity.com meltdown

As internet outposts go, the Hannity.com message board is not on the edge of space, it's way past it. Some of the loopiest wingnuts on the seven seas are there. And the mods are as crazy as they are.

Today is probably the best example of that. They're really sensitive to what they call contempt of host. For some reason, Sean Hannity seems to attract people to that board that just don't like him. (Can't imagine why.) So apparently there was considerable activity in a thread by what was considered a troll. A moderator ruled:

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I have not finished going through all of the threads created by the troll yet. Here is the deal. When I am done.....
1) Any name that appears in Bold with an * next to it will be getting a 96 hour timeout for Contempt of HOST (quoted).
2) Any name that appears more than once will be getting a 24 hour time out plus an additional 24 hours for each time it appears.
3) Any name that appears once will be getting a 24 hour time out.

The list of offenders numbered 4o separate individuals.

Well, losing 40 members at one time is a chunk, even for a big site like Hannity's, that claims to have over 80,000, though not all of them are active, certainly and many have been banned. Still, with a number of banned posters like that, you could have a public relations problem on your hands, Mr. Hannity.

So a different verdict was certainly in order. So about an hour after the post above, the same mod posted this:

That is what should happen to these members. I am, however, going to take another approach. I will not do anything.... but warn them. If they ever respond to another obvious violation (post or thread) again they will simply eat a ban. This post will serve as the only warning to them which will be made.

Cooler heads -- or higher authorities -- prevailed. Probably the latter.

So it's a lesson for all you folks at Hannity or considering signing up there. Be careful (or fearful) of what you post. If a mod is in the wrong mood, you could get spanked. (Unless that's your idea of fun).

Hannity and Limbaugh - old and in the way?

The election really put into perspective how little Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh influence the Republican Party anymore, IMO. They were the go-to guys for all the garbage the GOP tried to throw at Obama. And son of a bitch, it all fell at their feet.

That's not to say no one listens to their shows. What it means is their words are resonating only to their devout lemmings and not the Republican Party at large. You could say the same thing about Randi Rhodes and Air America. Their influence on liberal listeners hasn't been that strong.

But Limbaugh, at least, did have the ears of Republicans at one time. The days of his ruling over the Republican Party are gone. And Hannity was and still is a pretender and not a great one at that.

Bill Ayers denounces attempts to link him to Obama

I'm sorry he waited until after the election, but I understand why he did. This is an interesting clip.

President-elect Obama's first press conference 11/7/08

It's not too early to analyze the election even though it's the day before

So yeah, it's only Monday, but here's a chance fto start overanalyzing what the candidates (depending on who you think will win) did right and did wrong. And if it turns out we're wrong Tuesday ... oh well ...

Here's my take: I think McCain blew it from the get-go. He threw his political history as a "maverick" into the trash by pandering to the right and letting the Republican Party get down and dirty with Wright, Ayers and everything else they tried to dredge up. The people weren't listening, but they kept on it anyway. If he'd have been more genial and less attack dog, a little more self-deprecating and relaxed and less looking so serious (Dole's big mistake), he might have had a chance. Palin, however, was the big nail in the coffin, as was the economic meltdown.

Obama had a plan from before the convention and stuck with it. Even when the polls showed him down, he never panicked (though many of us did). He knew his target audience. He knew young people would support him overwhelmingly. He knew minorities would. He had to convince the white middle class voters. And he did that by staying calm and being the voice of reason. Of course, the economic crisis certainly helped. I think, though, he would have pulled through regardless. His hammering of the "CHANGE" litany got through. Also, his prompt response to the slurs helped a lot. He made Jerome Corsi's book irrelevant and punchless by responding to it quickly and forcefully. If he made any mistakes, it was not completely supporting Jeremiah Wright, who, IMO, did nothing wrong. And his decision not to take public financing may have repercussions for him and other Dems in the future. (Great opinion piece in the SF Chronicle yesterday about that at this link: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... 01&sc=1000.)

There I said it.

Can't say it much better than this

If Opie, Andy and the Fonz think Obama's ok, well ...

See more Ron Howard videos at Funny or Die

A very funny video posted by Ron Howard (with a little help from some friends) on Funny or Die. This is even better than Paris Hilton's efforts.

McCain and Palin - dumb and dumber

What the hell is going on here? Isn't a presidential campaign supposed to show how intelligent you are and your readiness to lead the nation? It certainly isn't doing that for John McCain, who couldn't have looked dumber if he tried.
First, there were the contradictory mudballs slung at Barack Obama. First, he's a Muslim. Then a terrorist. Then a socialist. No wonder people were getting mad about Obama at McCain's rallies. They didn't know which way McCain was heading with his rhetoric!
And how does it feel when David Letterman, of all people, quizzes you harder than the press?
Then there's Sarah Palin, who makes Dan Quayle look like a Rhodes scholar. Sure, John, being in a beauty pageant and thinking foreign experience is living next door to a country is brilliant, isn't it?
Gotta hand it to "Saturday Night Live," though. They really pulled the wool over Palin's eyes. If she thought she was going to go there for humor, she found out what they really did was make her look stupid. You know, like the fat guy with the pocket protector and the extra thick glasses. That's the way Palin looked on that show.
Thank goodness, it'll all be over soon. Just think: We'll either have a smart president or dumb and dumber.
Let's hope America isn't dumber than John and Sara.

Paris Hilton seeks advice from a "president"

See more Paris Hilton videos at Funny or Die

Some observations with about 30 days to go ...

-- John McCain seems to have gotten the message and is toning the hateful rhetoric down, but too many Americans, I think, are disgusted by all this and will vote for Obama no matter what.

-- We know someone who was doing some phone bank work for Obama yesterday. One lady, age 92, said she wouldn't be voting because she was blind. They asked who she would vote for if she could. Her answer: "the white guy." No matter how much the polls show Obama in the lead, we don't know how this racial element will play out. This is new ground we're treading. The next couple of weeks will be quite interesting. If Obama is smart -- and he is -- he won't take anything for granted.

-- And we wish people would stop with all the nonsense about being crticial of the Clintons not getting more involved with the campaign until now. Understand this: Bill and Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail now has a bigger impact than it would have if they'd had been there all along. The smart folks at the Obama campaign know that. And don't think this wasn't planned.

Tina Fey's latest jab at Sarah Palin

Generals are on Obama's side - a spectacular argument for supporting him

Sarah Palin is like a bad movie

Her "handlers" are protecting her from the press, reports AP here. The story read,

Reporters were kept at a distance when she made a campaign stop in Philadelphia, although Palin took one question about the $700 bailout agreement.

Why kept at a distance? What are they afraid of?

It's obvious. Like a bad movie that studios are afraid to premiere to the press, Palin is a bad politician Republicans want to keep out of sight as much as possible. Out of sight, out of mind.

But Palin's projected role in this country is too great. If it were up to me, the Republican Party would be penalized for making such a stupid choice as Palin is.

There's one way they can be penalized. It's called voting for the other candidate.




Amazon.com Widgets

Did McCain say an expletive during the debate?

What does a suspended campaign look like?

Steve Benen of the Washington Monthly says it looks like a regular campaign. (Thanks to Brien Jackson of Below the Fold for pointing this one out.)

McCain's trailer trash running mate

It's all out in the open. Sarah Palin is not only dumber than a fence post, but her family wouldn't know the White House from the outhouse.

Let's start with her interview with Charles Gibson on ABC. It's here: http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=5782791

The most astounding and mentally deficient thing she said came in a question from Gibson on hether the U.S. as a member of NATO would need to come to Georgia's aid in case of war, Palin said,

"Perhaps so," reported CNN.

She continued. "I mean, that is the agreement when you are a NATO ally, is if another country is attacked, you're going to be expected to be called upon and help," she said.

The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively that Sarah's oldest son, Track, was addicted to the power drug OxyContin for nearly the past two years, snorting it, eating it, smoking it and even injecting it. And as Track, 19, heads to Iraq as part of the U.S. armed forces, Sarah and her husband Todd were powerless to stop his wild antics, detailed in the new issue of The ENQUIRER, which goes on sale today.

THE ENQUIRER also has exclusive details about Track's use of other drugs, including cocaine, and his involvement in a notorious local vandalism incident.

“I’ve partied with him (Track) for years,” a source disclosed. “I’ve seen him snort cocaine, snort and smoke OxyContin, drink booze and smoke weed.”

The source also divulged the girls would do anything for Track and he’d use his local celebrity status to manipulate other guys “to get them to steal things he wanted.”

I don't think we need another reason not to vote for the McCain trainwreck.

Where's Sarah???

WHERE'S SARAH??

She wasn't on "Meet the Press" or "Face the Nation" or the Stephanopolous show or even Fox News this Sunday. Every other candidate was.

Is she hiding? And who or what is she hiding from?

WHERE'S SARAH??

The brilliance (and the downside) of picking Palin

Democrats need to know that Sarah Palin was, from a Republican standpoint, a brilliant choice.

First, her tiny resume also accentuates the criticism Obama has been getting about his. Don't mention the fact that Obama's actually means something, though, where hers is weak.

Second, she also seems to be "of the people," another of Obama's traits. Never mind that without the TelePrompter and a staff of writers, she'd have stood on that convention podium going, "Duh .. duhh ... duh..."

John McCain sold out on this pick. She's everything he supposedly doesn't believe in.

But the Democrats can attack her in several ways. First, her inexperience. Yes, indeed. It's there for all to see.

Second, her personality. There have been charges she tried to have books she didn't agree with banned. There have been charges of racism from this statement attributed to her that she said about Obama beating out Clinton: "So Hillary beat the bitch."

Her husband's had a DUI, her daughter is unmarried and pregnant -- two big no-no's in the GOP playbook.

She's a trailer trash governor who could be one heartbeat from the presidency.

Does that scare you? It should.