Micah616

Worse than Haterism. This is truly Hateration. posted 05/16/2008 at 17:12:08

That's a pretty astute observation regarding the rightward shift of the country since Reagan. posted 05/16/2008 at 16:42:40

No disrespect, but that may be the dumbest thing you've ever written.

Elites v. Pocketbooks? Seriously? I am an Obama supporter. I'm 32, did two semesters at community college, and worked blue collar jobs since I was 16. I'm hardly an "elite." I live in Pennsylvania, in a small suburb of Philadelphia. There are a lot of bitter people here. There are a lot of people who have no faith in their government at any level. There are people who have become single issue voters. God, guns, and gays. It's not just in the small towns. It's in the suburbs. In the city. In the ghetto. It's not just in Pennsylvania. It's all over the country.

If you dislike Obama, that's fine. But if you want to try to paint him and his supporters as elitists, it's suicide for the entire party. And, if Hillary wins the nomination, it will come back to haunt her. posted 04/14/2008 at 11:23:12

Wow. This is perhaps the most intellectually dishonest post I have ever read. Well, except for the creationist arguments for a 6000 year old Earth.

I've been shot at. Anyone who's ever been shot at can tell you that they will never forget it. Getting shot at is rather uncommon, unless you are in the armed forces or law enforcement. Now, I was shot at 14 years ago. If I was to tell you that there were 3 guys in a blue car, but there were really 4 guys in a red car, then I would have misspoken. If I never got shot at, then there is no shooting to misspeak of, in which case I would be LYING.

Witnesses and their testimony about an event are a moot point when there's video of the events in question. Not to mention, I think everybody alive then would remember the first lady getting shot at. Regardless, there is a video of Hillary on the airstrip. There's Sinbad. There's Chelsea. There's a little Bosnian girl with flowers. There's no snipers, no running for cover. The facts aren't in dispute about this one, Pharos. She lied. She lied about the lie, and lied on the people who said she was lying. She is a liar. And then, she went on Leno and laughed in our faces about the lies. Kinda like Bush joking about WMD's during that press dinner a few years back.

Your argument is weak. posted 04/11/2008 at 15:56:31

Unfortunately, you'll never get honest answers to those questions. But you already knew that. Just like you know we both already know the answers. posted 04/11/2008 at 15:39:09

The important thing that you are forgetting is that a President is an executive. The President appoints cabinet members. Cabinet members provide advice, which helps the President to make a decision on how to execute whatever strategy is deemed best. Similarly, a Candidate is an executive. The candidate hires campaign managers. Said managers provide information and advice to help the candidate make a decision on how best to execute the strategy.

The failure of a Cabinet or a campaign manager is directly related not only to the success or failure of the person who hired them, but also to the judgment of that particular executive.

Many people before George Bush ran a better campaign than their opponent(s). Some of them have been great, some, not so much. The fact is that GWB did not win based on his campaign, he won on the strength of his name, and conservative America's perception of Bill Clinton. And the fact that the Republican field was weak in 2000.

If Obama hasn't run a brilliant campaign, considering he was a relative unknown until about 4 months ago, and that he's beating one of the world's most famous people, I think it's a little more complicated than your pat and underthought "right place, right time" attitude. Every success can be attributed to being in the right place at the right time.

If Obama's feet are made of clay, then Hillary's are made of gasoline, and she just can't stop smoking. posted 04/07/2008 at 22:09:39

Excellent quote. You should be commended. posted 04/07/2008 at 22:27:23

And everything you listed is only stuff from the past 4 months. Imagine the GOP machine with "35 years" of raw material to exploit. posted 04/07/2008 at 22:22:37

What a waste of time that was. The problem with Hillary's campaign and the rank and file supporters like yourself is that your arguments open a door to things that hurt your position. If I was to sit here and type out a list of impropriety and illegal activities that Hillary has been involved in, directly and indirectly, it would take far more than 10 talking points.

Her negatives aren't so high for no reason. Her "35 years of experience" is tarnished by misdeeds, political calculation, and outright lies. But you already know that. But what you don't seem to know is that Hillary has never fought for us, and she never will. posted 04/02/2008 at 14:43:03

Sorry, but this is desperate and disingenuous. You admit that the AOL straw poll is "unreliable and self-selected." I see that you want to use them as springboards to the anti-Obama rhetoric, but it actually does you and your position a disservice. I can tell you exactly why I'm voting for Obama, and I don't even need to mention Hillary. That's a road all of us, on both sides of the Democratic divide, should be able to do. Instead, you try to play the "young guy is arrogant" card, the "media is in the tank for Obama" card and the "she was there first" card.

I also find it interesting that you choose to use the combined delegate counts as part of your rationale while neglecting to mention the fact that since January, Obama has been picking up SD's at a rough 1.75 to 1 ratio. If that rate continues, he'll pick up roughly 200 of the remaining 330, which would give him the lead in the popular vote, the pledged delegates, and the superdelegates.

The linked national polls also do your argument a disservice. The only poll she leads in is the Fox poll, and the NBC/WSJ poll as them tied. Two of the polls have Obama up by ten, and one has him up by 3. The average for all 5 polls is a 4.2% lead for Obama. That lead has been fairly consistent since Febuary, as the lovely graph shows. posted 03/31/2008 at 11:52:04

Malarkey and balderdash. It may sound good to you, but I'm pretty confident that everyone else is fully aware that she's in it to win it. Sounds like you're backpedaling already. Now that you've seen the light, and know what it is, will you go to it? posted 03/26/2008 at 20:24:20

Alienating Florida and Michigan? Please. This is my fourth Presidential election, and the first time I'll ever have to actually go out and vote in the primaries. See, I live in PA. Every other time, the nomination was wrapped up. So can I cry about being disenfranchised now? posted 03/26/2008 at 20:16:33

A more seasoned game? Like blowing $140 million before Super Tuesday? Like losing 11 contests in a row by an average of 25%? Like having the nomination locked up as soon as she announced, and then finding herself in the unenviable position of being 700k votes behind a guy no one ever heard of 2 years ago? +160 pledged delegates behind an empty suit whose done nothing but give speeches? Talk about Kool-Aid. posted 03/26/2008 at 20:12:06

Right back at'cha. posted 03/26/2008 at 20:05:21

Well, Obama has been talking to everyone like equals. That's part of the reason why he's winning. Even better, he's talking to us like adults. Now, I may be wrong, but I've never heard the "less educated" meme come from the Obama camp. I saw that in the MSM. I've heard Hillary's surrogates call us Prius driving, latte sipping elitists. I don't have a college degree, and I will agree with you about relevance and life experience. But I'm sure that I'm not the only non-college educated Obama supporter.

The problem many of us Obama supporters have with you Hillary dead enders is that you have a difficult time separating what the media says from the actual reality, kind of like Republicans. You support a candidate who has a proven track record of lies and obfuscation, and when called out on those lies, you all act like it's not important, and then play gotcha games, kind of like Republicans. You want to go back to the 90's, no matter how unrealistic it is, kind of like Republicans and their 50's fetish.

Electability. Huh? Hillary Clinton has the highest negatives of any Presidential candidate ever. In the time since Obama announced, the best they got is Wright, Rezko, and Larry Sinclair. In 16 years of life on the national stage, Hillary has been involved directly or peripherally in more scandals that I can list. So, what is your problem with Obama? posted 03/26/2008 at 20:03:24

I agree with your sentiment, in part. The past is a way to look at the present. If you can understand the living present from history, then you can, to a degree, make predictions about the future. History should never be an excuse, for either side, but it is a very real factor in our motivations and worldviews today. It's not about blame, it's about taking stock of what was, so we have a fuller picture of what is, and thus what can be. posted 03/26/2008 at 15:02:15

Nicely done. posted 03/26/2008 at 14:51:48

Unfortunately, hypocrisy is a sought after quality these days. posted 03/26/2008 at 14:43:09

Most white folks of late have been making me proud. We'll always have some knuckleheads, like the "typical white person" crowd, but I think that America is finally beginning to understand that divisions of race only serve the class system. posted 03/26/2008 at 14:40:16

Those are great points that need to be brought up more often. posted 03/26/2008 at 14:36:13

"I'm black and there is no way for me to hide that in public..."

Why should you have to, or want to? I was going to put you on blast, but I reconsidered. Here's some unsolicited advice instead: Stop trying so hard. Men and women, both white and black, fought and died so that you can be who you are without shame. Don't get caught up in that madness. posted 03/26/2008 at 14:33:22

You're talking about the same Mormon Church that taught Blacks were inferior. Lamanites, Curse of Ham, Curse of Cain. Official doctrine until 1978. What an interesting take on racial indoctrination you must have. posted 03/26/2008 at 14:12:36

I'm a 2nd amendment guy, but I am fully aware of the motives and attitudes prevalent on such sites. Isn't it just amazing how a so-called Democrat would use something she found there to bolster an argument? Bottom line, if you want info on guns, that's the place, but the "politics" are unsettling. posted 03/26/2008 at 21:53:03

And Hillary waits for 2 days to do damage control, if she admits to the damage that a sane mind can see. Bosnian snipers, tax returns, Peter Paul, the Family, NAFTAgate, Sir Edmund Hillary, Norman Hsu, etc, etc. posted 03/26/2008 at 21:22:10

And what happens if the super delegates decide the race in Hillary's favor and then she loses to McCain in the GE? Winning is not a guarantee for any candidate. Hillary, with her high negatives and relation to many scandals, real and imagined, is still quite vulnerable. posted 03/26/2008 at 21:06:06

Looking back at halcyon days long past? It could just be me, but I thought that was a trait of an arch-conservative. The nineties are over, get used to it. It's time to move forward. posted 03/26/2008 at 08:43:24

Better than polls, people say otherwise, especially now that we've gotten to see the full context of Wright's remarks. posted 03/24/2008 at 00:52:34

Now, scandals......THAT was funny. posted 03/24/2008 at 00:45:43

Priceless. I may have to 'plagiarize' that comment in the future. posted 03/23/2008 at 05:01:44

Again, semantics and parsing. We don't know if men were injected with syphilis, as eyewitnesses who are unethical are not reliable. Still, that particular is academic. The point which you and other apologists keep missing is that these men were not made aware of their conditions and allowed to spread syphilis to their wives, lovers, and then unborn children. Who holds ultimate responsibility for those victims? I know that if had syphilis and gave it to you, and then you found out that my doctor knew and then did nothing, we'd both be receiving a large sum of money from said doctor.

So, re-read my post. And while you're looking at my bad grammar, don't forget to read the substance of what I actually wrote. posted 03/24/2008 at 06:54:38

Well said! posted 03/23/2008 at 02:42:32

It's simple. Let's say I'm a doctor, and I refuse to inform you that you have HIV/AIDS, and then go on allow you to go about your daily routine. You think it's just a nagging case of pneumonia, so you take your penicillin, and go over to your significant other's. You do what 2 people in love do, and now, she's got it too. Now, I didn't infect her, you did. But what if you found out that i willfully neglected to mention the fact that you had a fatal communicable disease? At that point, does it really matter who did the physical act of infection? Who holds ultimate responsibility? posted 03/23/2008 at 02:40:31

Malarkey. The researchers knew that syphilis was communicable. Thus, by not informing infected men of their infection, and allowing said infected men to infect others, the Tuskegee researchers did, in fact, purposefully and willfully infect Blacks with syphilis. Your logic is fallacious, and your argument is pointless. If you really want people to honor history, you should really try to not lie by omission or incompetence.

People always wonder why we can't have a serious discussion about race in America. What's your next post? Here's an idea:

"The Nazi's Only Killed 5,999,900 Jews, Not the Full 6 Million Claimed." I bet that'll go even better than this one. posted 03/23/2008 at 02:31:13

I'm going to try to give you the benefit of doubt. I don't know your story, and I've never read an article you've written, except for this one. That being said, I wouldn't call you a racist, but I would call you rather myopic. I'm not a homosexual, but I remember Matt Sheperd's murder almost a decade ago. Although I was the same age as Matt, I had no idea how bad things could be for gay people. None. It made me think.

I wasn't what you would call a homophobe, at least I didn't think so, but I wasn't very sensitive to the plight of the LGBT community. I'm not a card carrying member of GSANI, but since then, I don't allow homophobic comments to go unchallenged as I did in my youth. I know full well what ignorance, fear, and the groupthink mentality is capable of doing to people who know better. It's not a lot, but it's a start.

Matt Shepard's unfortunate passing provided me, and I'm sure many others, the opportunity for a little bit of understanding. It's a shame that someone had to die for it, and it would be even worse if we all "just got over it." That implies a shrug and a platitude, and the indication that nothing will ever change. There's a reason why Jews should never "get over" the Holocaust. There's a reason why black folk should never "get over" slavery and Jim Crow. Things like that should never be allowed to happen again, and if we "get over" them, we run the risk of forgetting how they came about in the first place, and then repeating them.

Now you may want to call it semantics, but I think you'd better serve your point by using "Get past it." Because that's what we need to do, and getting past it is specifically what Obama's speech is about. "Get over it" is a rather flippant way of minimizing real problems, that if left unchecked, destroy civil societies from the inside. We are not all the same, and we never will be, but we all have to find a way to work together to cure, or at least minimize, society's ills. "Getting over it" won't help, but getting past some of these problems is the best way forward. posted 03/22/2008 at 03:30:10

Geraldine Ferraro made the exact same comments about Jesse Jackson in '88. She also repeated the comments over and over again on every media organization that asked her to come on. She had every opportunity to clarify, qualify, and contextualize her statements. She did not.

Black people, by and large, didn't know who Don Imus was before White people who listen to him got offended and made it news worthy. Everybody knows Rush says far worse things, but we don't listen, so we don't really care.

Stop projecting. It's ugly. And please link to anti-white quotes made by Rev Wright. Try as I might, I can't find any.
posted 03/21/2008 at 22:58:24

Maybe the same could be said about Hollywood. posted 03/21/2008 at 19:17:30

And Hillary called Arafat her hero. So what? posted 03/21/2008 at 21:34:42

Intellectual honesty, for some of us, has the same effect that silver bullets have on werewolves. He'd just rather tell us of how discourteous we are. If you think about it, though, isn't it discourteous for one to stay somewhere where one is not wanted? Why would one continue to suffer when they have the option not to? But that idea won't cross his mind, he'd rather keep posting variations of the same theme, ad nauseum. posted 03/21/2008 at 21:30:22

Response of the day posted 03/21/2008 at 21:23:10

And I bet you won't take up the dare. posted 03/21/2008 at 21:18:58

Obama's been turning people into what?

Are you serious?

Bill went on Rush on the day of the Texas primary. Hillary was on the 700 Club talking about Bill's girl problems. Fox News and Hillary's campaign share the exact same talking points. Hillary all but endorsed McCain as a viable second. Republican voters "Rushed" the Texas and Ohio primaries in support of Hillary. Rupert-Fucking-Murdoch held fundraisers for Hillary.

What is wrong with you people? posted 03/21/2008 at 21:10:26

Talk about Irony... posted 03/21/2008 at 20:58:30

Aren't you all tired of this yet? It's over. Fuller contextual clips are out, and have been out. They're even having revolts at Fox News behind it. Here, go educate yourself. It'll only take 10 minutes:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=0T6-O8GIylQ&feature=related posted 03/21/2008 at 20:57:26

No disrespect, but no has defended Obama more than any Democrat over the age of 30 has defended Bill and Hillary Clinton. Let's not forget that many of us have been carrying water for the Clintons for 16 years. My back is tired, and I know Richardson carried a lot more water than I did. posted 03/21/2008 at 20:33:55