May 18, 2008
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gala1
3/8/2008
In case you have been wondering why I have not been commenting on Hillary and Obama--I have.
But the Huffington Post has instituted a new reign of censorship. Each and every one of my attempts to post on supporting Hillary and the really regrettable way Arianna's website has become a propaganda tool for Barack Obama has been excised and unprinted over the past several days.
The Huffington Post is no longer a First Amendment site but is now as carefully edited and screened as any right-wing Coulter perch.
I would never have believed it had I not spent the past several days witnessing and experiencing it.
Instead of commenting any further on this site I will be looking around the Net for another place to jot my observations.
This really is shameful and I don't want to be a part of it much longer.
3/23
Here's a pretty typical example just below. It was excised from appearing as a comment on Catherine Crier's Newsroom Revolt blog on Mar 22. Criticize Arianna and her Madame Mao tactics and Koolaid Crush on Obama and you just can't get it printed on the Huffington Post.
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You don't need a cable newsroom.
Talk about synergy.
As i was gloomily perusing the Huffington Post sites, it occurred to me that the HP whose name originally was a wittily back-handed tribute to aspiring to Washington Post status, has now sunk to mirroring the repellenty lurid sensationalism of the New York Post.
It is no longer a First Amendment site. There are 15 hall monitors now censoring posts to promote an agenda.
The HP has become a heavy-handed tool of the Obama campaign and is both losing its identity and lowering its standards to do so.
It's a shame to watch it happening all over the media. But its one way to cure a news addiction. And it's making it so much easier to turn it all off and enjoy spring instead.
Seven more months of all this toxic waste can't do anyone any good-- except for John McCain.
Because as usual the Democrats, here thanks to Arianna's ill-advised partisanship, are going to do what they do best- lose elections.
Again.
Feeding on our own is how we are going to elect John McCain. Three unelectable candidates in a row.
I wonder if there is a category in the Guinness Book of Records for Political Blindness.
You just don't get the concept of the one vote per person electorate in a two-party system, do you?
And Karl Rove gets it so well he's probably doing this one on automatic pilot.
And-----it's wartime. Lest we forget.
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Yes, gala and gala1 are the same poster.
My twinship is due to the ghost in the HP machine not being compatible with my old computer. So if you are reading either one, there is more at the other site.
If you are a literary masochist and need more, you can Google gandolina@hotmail.com huffington and my earlier stuff will show up. The HP archives seem to exist only in partial form for now.
Gala is eponymous, coming from my initials, not my aspirations.
The HP is where I first started blogging and my only attempt at it so far. I was originally driven by the combination of indignation and astonishment at how the neocons woefully mishandled the Cindy Sheehan matter.
But Mothers for Answers is not in reference simply to her. It comes from a remark that my little old Sicilian grandmother once made. That no one can better tell the difference between an excuse and an answer than a mother. She was watching the Watergate hearings at the time.
As for me, I am not too happily going back into having to be an antiques dealer after taking a few years off for some scribbling.
Seven years ago, I moved from dotcom infested San Francisco to Upstate NY to do this, nearly froze to death, ran through my money and am now back in the vintage saddle in the Pacific Northwest.
But I'd rather be writing.
At the moment I am working on either a play or a script called The Moral Minority.
It is about what happens when a liberal Huffington Poster finds herself living with a severely dysfunctional, two child, gay male, republican Christian fundamentalist family.
It's turning out to be as funny as it is sad. And it's based on truth.
So if you need an author underfoot that is an incorrigibly punning workaholic who is at her best at deadlines, dialogue and diamond-point ad copy, do let me know.
gala
gandolina@hotmail.com
In case you have been wondering why I have not been commenting on Hillary and Obama--I have.
But the Huffington Post has instituted a new reign of censorship. Each and every one of my attempts to post on supporting Hillary and the really regrettable way Arianna's website has become a propaganda tool for Barack Obama has been excised and unprinted over the past several days.
The Huffington Post is no longer a First Amendment site but is now as carefully edited and screened as any right-wing Coulter perch.
I would never have believed it had I not spent the past several days witnessing and experiencing it.
Instead of commenting any further on this site I will be looking around the Net for another place to jot my observations.
This really is shameful and I don't want to be a part of it much longer.
3/23
Here's a pretty typical example just below. It was excised from appearing as a comment on Catherine Crier's Newsroom Revolt blog on Mar 22. Criticize Arianna and her Madame Mao tactics and Koolaid Crush on Obama and you just can't get it printed on the Huffington Post.
--------------------------------------------------
You don't need a cable newsroom.
Talk about synergy.
As i was gloomily perusing the Huffington Post sites, it occurred to me that the HP whose name originally was a wittily back-handed tribute to aspiring to Washington Post status, has now sunk to mirroring the repellenty lurid sensationalism of the New York Post.
It is no longer a First Amendment site. There are 15 hall monitors now censoring posts to promote an agenda.
The HP has become a heavy-handed tool of the Obama campaign and is both losing its identity and lowering its standards to do so.
It's a shame to watch it happening all over the media. But its one way to cure a news addiction. And it's making it so much easier to turn it all off and enjoy spring instead.
Seven more months of all this toxic waste can't do anyone any good-- except for John McCain.
Because as usual the Democrats, here thanks to Arianna's ill-advised partisanship, are going to do what they do best- lose elections.
Again.
Feeding on our own is how we are going to elect John McCain. Three unelectable candidates in a row.
I wonder if there is a category in the Guinness Book of Records for Political Blindness.
You just don't get the concept of the one vote per person electorate in a two-party system, do you?
And Karl Rove gets it so well he's probably doing this one on automatic pilot.
And-----it's wartime. Lest we forget.
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Yes, gala and gala1 are the same poster.
My twinship is due to the ghost in the HP machine not being compatible with my old computer. So if you are reading either one, there is more at the other site.
If you are a literary masochist and need more, you can Google gandolina@hotmail.com huffington and my earlier stuff will show up. The HP archives seem to exist only in partial form for now.
Gala is eponymous, coming from my initials, not my aspirations.
The HP is where I first started blogging and my only attempt at it so far. I was originally driven by the combination of indignation and astonishment at how the neocons woefully mishandled the Cindy Sheehan matter.
But Mothers for Answers is not in reference simply to her. It comes from a remark that my little old Sicilian grandmother once made. That no one can better tell the difference between an excuse and an answer than a mother. She was watching the Watergate hearings at the time.
As for me, I am not too happily going back into having to be an antiques dealer after taking a few years off for some scribbling.
Seven years ago, I moved from dotcom infested San Francisco to Upstate NY to do this, nearly froze to death, ran through my money and am now back in the vintage saddle in the Pacific Northwest.
But I'd rather be writing.
At the moment I am working on either a play or a script called The Moral Minority.
It is about what happens when a liberal Huffington Poster finds herself living with a severely dysfunctional, two child, gay male, republican Christian fundamentalist family.
It's turning out to be as funny as it is sad. And it's based on truth.
So if you need an author underfoot that is an incorrigibly punning workaholic who is at her best at deadlines, dialogue and diamond-point ad copy, do let me know.
gala
gandolina@hotmail.com
Recent comments by this user
GOP' Needs New Slogan
Michael Moore: "Fahrenheit 9/11" Follow-Up Not A Sequel
In another interview, he proposed that he'd be giving us information that would leave us stunned.
The only thing that could stun Americans about the Bush League is any evidence at all that George Bush was even minimally capable, sentient or in control of anything more than his pill bottle cap.
If you tell us he was a lobotomized front, we already know.
If you tell us he is a Saudi sock-puppet we already know.
If you tell us he 's not all there and that Cheney and Rove are pulling his strings, we already know.
I'd like to weigh in to Michael Moore and point out ot him that there is stuff should go straight to TV, information shouldn't be peddled as entertainment. He can see for himself it's no the best way to use it.
About the truest thing anyone can ever say about George Bush is that at this point it is not at all possible that he could ever disappoint us.
gala1 posted 05/16/2008 at 18:39:52
The only thing that could stun Americans about the Bush League is any evidence at all that George Bush was even minimally capable, sentient or in control of anything more than his pill bottle cap.
If you tell us he was a lobotomized front, we already know.
If you tell us he is a Saudi sock-puppet we already know.
If you tell us he 's not all there and that Cheney and Rove are pulling his strings, we already know.
I'd like to weigh in to Michael Moore and point out ot him that there is stuff should go straight to TV, information shouldn't be peddled as entertainment. He can see for himself it's no the best way to use it.
About the truest thing anyone can ever say about George Bush is that at this point it is not at all possible that he could ever disappoint us.
gala1 posted 05/16/2008 at 18:39:52
Electing Sweetie
It really doesn't matter how you find yourself categorized.
Like it, dont like it. It won't change anything .
Obama started out with no experience and had nothing to do but give the voters instances of his judgement.
And also what to expect from those who support him.
Now we know. .
When your candidate has nothing, attack the opposition.
There's an alternate reality on the Huffington Post and the more I read it, the curious thing is it is blueprinting for me how the right-wing got to the mind-set that it ended up with
It's not what's there, it's what you want to be there.
In my flyover town not many are willing to give on the job training to another rhetorician whose only achievement is the size of his ambition.
Obama is your Icarus.
His fall will cause Mccain to rise.
He combines Bush's inexperience with Kerry's cluelessness.
Why you think that people will vote for that combination is not my problem.
But I, and a great many thousands like me, will have written in Hillary.
Why you think the same people who voted for Bush twice see anything they can relate to once in Obama isbeyond me.
He's as much a product of privilege as Kerry and all you are getting yourself is the experience of a Kerry retread.
Knock yourself out .
I don't know who you think is the majority that will vote for him.
Or why they would.
It sure isn't anyone around here. posted 05/16/2008 at 22:32:57
Like it, dont like it. It won't change anything .
Obama started out with no experience and had nothing to do but give the voters instances of his judgement.
And also what to expect from those who support him.
Now we know. .
When your candidate has nothing, attack the opposition.
There's an alternate reality on the Huffington Post and the more I read it, the curious thing is it is blueprinting for me how the right-wing got to the mind-set that it ended up with
It's not what's there, it's what you want to be there.
In my flyover town not many are willing to give on the job training to another rhetorician whose only achievement is the size of his ambition.
Obama is your Icarus.
His fall will cause Mccain to rise.
He combines Bush's inexperience with Kerry's cluelessness.
Why you think that people will vote for that combination is not my problem.
But I, and a great many thousands like me, will have written in Hillary.
Why you think the same people who voted for Bush twice see anything they can relate to once in Obama isbeyond me.
He's as much a product of privilege as Kerry and all you are getting yourself is the experience of a Kerry retread.
Knock yourself out .
I don't know who you think is the majority that will vote for him.
Or why they would.
It sure isn't anyone around here. posted 05/16/2008 at 22:32:57
Uh, oh, Erica.
You wrote about supporting Clinton on the a Kool-Aid stand.
Now you can count how many Obambots are going to cal you bitter and irrelevant. because calling you names is going to give Obama the experience he doesn't have, right?
Funny thing, all these flyover women, the older silent ones, are taking this in.
And sweetie or no sweetie what i is pushing them toward McCain is the way the Obama supporters have treated Hillary.
Interesting what t backwash can do, isn't it?
I've made a point of telling everyone over 40 that if they write in Hillary they won't be responsible for putting the wrong person into office for another four years.
Again.
It's interesting to watch how thoughtful their faces go when they start thinking on that one.
The best thing Hillary supporters can do is tell the rest of America about write in voting.
It's the answer to what is wrong with a two party system with two lesser candidates pushing out the best.
gala1 posted 05/16/2008 at 21:35:27
You wrote about supporting Clinton on the a Kool-Aid stand.
Now you can count how many Obambots are going to cal you bitter and irrelevant. because calling you names is going to give Obama the experience he doesn't have, right?
Funny thing, all these flyover women, the older silent ones, are taking this in.
And sweetie or no sweetie what i is pushing them toward McCain is the way the Obama supporters have treated Hillary.
Interesting what t backwash can do, isn't it?
I've made a point of telling everyone over 40 that if they write in Hillary they won't be responsible for putting the wrong person into office for another four years.
Again.
It's interesting to watch how thoughtful their faces go when they start thinking on that one.
The best thing Hillary supporters can do is tell the rest of America about write in voting.
It's the answer to what is wrong with a two party system with two lesser candidates pushing out the best.
gala1 posted 05/16/2008 at 21:35:27
Kerry Swiftboater: "We Will Attack Obama Viciously"
Here's the corrected copy.
Sorry. Must have hit the wrong button.
Think of it this way. Now you know what dyslexic copy (really) looks like.
And the HP system wouldn't let me in to correct it before this.
Kerry Swiftboater: "We Will Attack Obama Viciously"
......And all we'll hav e to do is retread what the Obamabots have done with Hillary Clinton.
How fitting he'll get a really big dose of the Obamabot's very own medicine.
Obama's second largest liability is the way his supporters have backbitten HALF the democratic party in their obnoxious clamber.
It is very effectively causing Obama to not become viable as ANY alternative.
Obama's first liability is his Icarus-like denial of what coming in too soon will lead to from a country that has not seen any thing other from him than the original complaint that he has no experience.
Every day all he does is show us the definition of what that really does mean.
And the latest is that Hillary supopporters will stay home or cave to Obama.
No, we won't .
We''ll go to the polls and write in Hillary.
gala posted 05/14/2008 at 15:30:25
Sorry. Must have hit the wrong button.
Think of it this way. Now you know what dyslexic copy (really) looks like.
And the HP system wouldn't let me in to correct it before this.
Kerry Swiftboater: "We Will Attack Obama Viciously"
......And all we'll hav e to do is retread what the Obamabots have done with Hillary Clinton.
How fitting he'll get a really big dose of the Obamabot's very own medicine.
Obama's second largest liability is the way his supporters have backbitten HALF the democratic party in their obnoxious clamber.
It is very effectively causing Obama to not become viable as ANY alternative.
Obama's first liability is his Icarus-like denial of what coming in too soon will lead to from a country that has not seen any thing other from him than the original complaint that he has no experience.
Every day all he does is show us the definition of what that really does mean.
And the latest is that Hillary supopporters will stay home or cave to Obama.
No, we won't .
We''ll go to the polls and write in Hillary.
gala posted 05/14/2008 at 15:30:25
Kerry Swiftboater: "We Will Attack Obama Viciously"
......And all we'll hav eto do is retread wha the Obamabots have done with Hiollary Clinton.
How fitting he'll get a really big dose of the Obamabot's medicine.
Obama's sedcond largest liabitly is the way his supporters ahve backbitten HALF the dmeocratic party in their obnoxious cmlamber.
It is very efrfectively cahsiing Obam tonot beocme bvialbe as aANY alternative.
Obanma's first laibility is his Icarus-like denail of what comiong in too soon will ead to from a country that has not seen any thing othe rform him thatn the original ocmpalint tha the has no experince.
Every day all he does is sho us the diefiniton of what tha treally does mean. posted 05/14/2008 at 15:05:07
......And all we'll hav eto do is retread wha the Obamabots have done with Hiollary Clinton.
How fitting he'll get a really big dose of the Obamabot's medicine.
Obama's sedcond largest liabitly is the way his supporters ahve backbitten HALF the dmeocratic party in their obnoxious cmlamber.
It is very efrfectively cahsiing Obam tonot beocme bvialbe as aANY alternative.
Obanma's first laibility is his Icarus-like denail of what comiong in too soon will ead to from a country that has not seen any thing othe rform him thatn the original ocmpalint tha the has no experince.
Every day all he does is sho us the diefiniton of what tha treally does mean. posted 05/14/2008 at 15:05:07
Hillary Agonistes: Why Doesn't She Concede?
Sorry. Something is definitely wrong with the HuffpO tech side today
If you hit spellcheck it goes right through to print.
So at the risk of being IGNORANT, here's my corrected copy.
And there's ignorant and then there's gullible, dear.
"Obama is unelectable" is not an argument.
.
Maybe- maybe not.
But in November you'll find out it's not an argument.
it's a fact.
The one thing you can't answer is why Joe Sixpack would want to vote for Obama. People, ignorantly not, vote for their self interest.
And he has NOTHING tangible to give them.
I don't know where you live, but where i am it's either Clinton or MCain.
It's more like Obama Who here .
You can either drink HuffPo Kool-Aid or take a walk in any flyover small town.
He has no way to relate to Joe Sixpack. He's Kerry in a hurry.
And that's who'll be voting.
And if you think that Dem wonks that call the party shots are going to pass up a sixteen year stretch and split the party to make you happy, you're not ignorant. You're delusional.
gala1 posted 05/14/2008 at 16:49:01
"Obama is unelectable" is not an argument.
Maybe- maybe not.
But in Novmeber you'll find out it's ntoan arugument.
it's a fact.
I don'tkno whwer eyou live, but where i ma it's either Clinton or MCain.
It's moe like Obama Who here .
You cna eithr drink HuffPo Kool-Aid or take a walk in any flyover small town.
He has no way to relate to Joe Sixpack. He's Kerry in a hurry.
And that's who'll b devoting. posted 05/14/2008 at 16:38:01
Maybe- maybe not.
But in Novmeber you'll find out it's ntoan arugument.
it's a fact.
I don'tkno whwer eyou live, but where i ma it's either Clinton or MCain.
It's moe like Obama Who here .
You cna eithr drink HuffPo Kool-Aid or take a walk in any flyover small town.
He has no way to relate to Joe Sixpack. He's Kerry in a hurry.
And that's who'll b devoting. posted 05/14/2008 at 16:38:01
Are you kidding?
99 percent of America doesn't read the HuffPo -- real statistic or I'm guessing much of anything else
It don't make me no never mind how much you want Obama to win.
He still won't.
People hav no way of relating to him. He has utterly nothing in common with Joe Six-pack.
He gives new meaning to the term Resident Alien.
The only thing that happens when you drop in in an everyday crowd is that he looks hilariously uncomfortable. Just like John Kerry.
Not programmed to have the Common Touch. It's just not THERE.
McCain's got that one down .
He can do charm the way Astaire can do softshoe.
And that will tell at the polls.
And the other half of the democratic party that support Hillary will always have the option of writing her in.
All Obama is doing is turning Democrats into Independents.
You can yada yada any way you want.
You can't make Obama win.
Deal with it.
gala posted 05/14/2008 at 16:31:46
There's no point listing logic to Obamabots.
It's the Kool-Aid overdose.
it makes them deaf to reason and inclined to cling to the delusion that just because their faction wants its candidate that the general numbers from the people who voted Bush in twice would ever vote in Obama once.
A vote for Obama is a vote for President McCain.
The only question will be how close to a landslide. Ifigure on 65-35.
Isn't it amazing that Democrats can manage to come up time after time with candidates that only make the GOP seem not so bad a choice?
Myself, i am writing in Hillary Clinton and showing every one else how to do so.
I won't have an ambitious, unaccomplished insipidity marketed at me.
gala1 posted 05/14/2008 at 14:58:44
It's the Kool-Aid overdose.
it makes them deaf to reason and inclined to cling to the delusion that just because their faction wants its candidate that the general numbers from the people who voted Bush in twice would ever vote in Obama once.
A vote for Obama is a vote for President McCain.
The only question will be how close to a landslide. Ifigure on 65-35.
Isn't it amazing that Democrats can manage to come up time after time with candidates that only make the GOP seem not so bad a choice?
Myself, i am writing in Hillary Clinton and showing every one else how to do so.
I won't have an ambitious, unaccomplished insipidity marketed at me.
gala1 posted 05/14/2008 at 14:58:44
That should read:
NOT switch to Obama at party say so.
Ba,ba little sheep.
gala1 posted 05/14/2008 at 14:48:25
NOT switch to Obama at party say so.
Ba,ba little sheep.
gala1 posted 05/14/2008 at 14:48:25
Why?
Well maybe it is because the split works at fifty- fifty.
And that means the Huffington Post is starting to seriously annoy about half of its democratic contingent by using censorship to suppress dissent and re-shape its input.
Merely at the cost of losing its journalistic credibility or self-serving delusion.
Why?
Maybe because, she feels, as we do, that Obama is unelectable.
And that just because there is an Alternate Reality for the gullible in the Huffington Post that has been manipulated to appear that way, the real world is not supporting Obama to anywhere near the extent you believe.
Why?
Because millions of people like me are going to vote for her Or switch to Obama at party say so..
Even if we have to write Hillary Clinton in to do it.
Why?
Because seeing the Huffington Post reduced to Rovian tactics is a a very good indicator as to why we need a three party system. Or writing in your ticket as a viable alternative.
You can yada yada all you want.
What you can't do is make Obama electable once. to the same people who voted for George Bush twice.
Part of the price you pay for considering yourself above it all ina general election.
Tough luck.
Now go ahead and be a good flock and bleat about how I am a bitter racist..
I doubt that any here is left but Obama supporters on thier way to making McCain president.
Pathetic.
gala1 posted 05/14/2008 at 14:29:55
Obama Wears Flag Lapel Pin For Second Day In A Row
Apparently you don't get to be a patriot til you give up golf because it sends the wrong signal.
.......................And then you invade the wrong country
gala1 posted 05/13/2008 at 21:27:39
Bush: I Gave Up Golf For The Troops
well, now Oliver Stone has finally got just the right turd to put on a grassy knoll............
gala posted 05/13/2008 at 20:50:54
Or in his case, "Another child's left behind."
gala1 posted 05/13/2008 at 20:47:40
Yes, now alll we need is the Post-Huffington to give us news free of Obamabot Kool-Aid.
I'm serious.
This place has turned into an Alternate Reality Twilight Zone.
At the mere cost of it's journalistic creditability.
But, to find the silver lining, it's made me explore the rest of the places I didn't know were there til i gave them my former HuffPo attention.
Part of Obama losing will be all the now that we've witnessed it too leery to read the HuffPo's former readers.
gala1 posted 05/13/2008 at 20:45:22
Dear HP:
I suggest we use "MORE COWBELL" when referencing the Bush League.
it is so much more meaningfully appropriate than sniping Drudge drek
gala1 posted 05/13/2008 at 20:18:20
Eight wild lies and when you touch down
Youll find that its stranger than known
Signs in the street that say where youre going
Are somewhere just being their own
Nowhere is there warmth to be found
Among those afraid of losing their ground
Rain gray town known for its sound
In places small faces unbound
Round the squares huddled in storms
Some laughing some just shapeless forms
Sidewalk scenes and black limousines
Some living some standing alone posted 05/13/2008 at 20:03:38
Youll find that its stranger than known
Signs in the street that say where youre going
Are somewhere just being their own
Nowhere is there warmth to be found
Among those afraid of losing their ground
Rain gray town known for its sound
In places small faces unbound
Round the squares huddled in storms
Some laughing some just shapeless forms
Sidewalk scenes and black limousines
Some living some standing alone posted 05/13/2008 at 20:03:38
Funny, Lincoln almost said the same thing about that Gettysburg soundbite.................
gala1 posted 05/13/2008 at 19:59:17
And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal."
So does invading the wrong country.................
gala posted 05/13/2008 at 19:55:07
So does invading the wrong country.................
gala posted 05/13/2008 at 19:55:07
Bush: I Gave Up Golf For The Troops
....And yet he thought he had found the best way to build a better sand trap.
what would America be like if Bush had decided to become a brain surgeon instead?
gala1
gala posted 05/13/2008 at 19:52:47
Sue Simmons (Video): New York NBC Anchor Screams "What The F*** Are You Doing?" In On-Air Promo
Too bad she wasn't singing hip-hop, she'd be getting a Granny Grammy.
And consider, when Cheney says it, he means to do it.
Every time.
gala1 posted 05/13/2008 at 14:57:22
And consider, when Cheney says it, he means to do it.
Every time.
gala1 posted 05/13/2008 at 14:57:22
Hillary Clinton Refers To The Next President As A "He"
I don't think McCain can lead this country.
i think Hillary can, but you won't let her.
i think Obama is unelectable.
I think the same people who wouldn't vote for Kerry and voted in Bush for a second time are going to see Obama as someone else they flat out can't identify with.
People vote, in the end, for their self-interests.
They're going to look at McCain who, aside from being a corporate shill warmonger , is asmuch a nice guy as Ronald Reagan, and lots smarter to boot, and say, that's my vote.
i know you'd like Obama to win., But he won't .
Deal with it..
I now think of the HuffingtonPost as the last bastion of the Arugula Index.
People who know or care what arugula is are likely to vote 60-40 for Barack Arugula.
People who are the disdained fly-overs who you think have less of a vote than you do- when the fact is despite how much better you are than them, you each get exactly one- are going to vote for what they always do and always will -- Iceberg McCain.
Maybe an appropriately tortured analogy, but it's true.
And let me be the first, in advance as of today, to say to you all I told you so.
Myself, I'm writing-in Hillary.
Obamabots, you're the reason I, and thousands of others you've turned off, would never vote for Obama.
You've turned into his second worst liability.
gala1 posted 05/12/2008 at 22:39:42
i think Hillary can, but you won't let her.
i think Obama is unelectable.
I think the same people who wouldn't vote for Kerry and voted in Bush for a second time are going to see Obama as someone else they flat out can't identify with.
People vote, in the end, for their self-interests.
They're going to look at McCain who, aside from being a corporate shill warmonger , is asmuch a nice guy as Ronald Reagan, and lots smarter to boot, and say, that's my vote.
i know you'd like Obama to win., But he won't .
Deal with it..
I now think of the HuffingtonPost as the last bastion of the Arugula Index.
People who know or care what arugula is are likely to vote 60-40 for Barack Arugula.
People who are the disdained fly-overs who you think have less of a vote than you do- when the fact is despite how much better you are than them, you each get exactly one- are going to vote for what they always do and always will -- Iceberg McCain.
Maybe an appropriately tortured analogy, but it's true.
And let me be the first, in advance as of today, to say to you all I told you so.
Myself, I'm writing-in Hillary.
Obamabots, you're the reason I, and thousands of others you've turned off, would never vote for Obama.
You've turned into his second worst liability.
gala1 posted 05/12/2008 at 22:39:42
NO, dear, I don't think McCain can lead this country.
i think Hillary can, but you won't let her.
i think Obama is unelectable.
I think the same people who wouldn't vote for Kerry and voted in Bush for a second time are going to see Obama as someone else they flat out can't identify with.
People vote, in the end, for their self-interests.
They're going to look at McCain who, aside from being a corporate shill warmonger , is asmuch a nice guy as Ronald Reagan, and lots smarter to boot, and say, that's my vote.
i know you'd like Obama to win., But he won't .
Deal with it..
I now think of the HuffingtonPost as the last bastion of the Arugula Index.
People who know or care what arugula is are likely to vote 60-40 for Barack Arugula.
People who are the disdained fly-overs who you think have less of a vote than you do- when the fact is despite how much better you are than them, you each get exactly one- are going to vote for what they always do and always will -- Iceberg McCain.
Maybe an appropriately tortured analogy, but it's true.
And let me be the first, in advance as of today, to say to you all I told you so.
Myself,. I'm writing-in Hillary.
You are the reason I, and thousands of others you've turned off, would never vote for Obama.
You've turned into his second worst liability.
gala1 posted 05/12/2008 at 22:17:22
You Obamabots have yet to ask yourself why anyone other than yourselves want an inexperienced rhetorician with no accomplishments other than ambition to be running against a personable war hero senator who knows his way around Congress inside out .
So McCain will likely have the last laugh and you will have given it to him.
Thanks loads.
it's not about what your little set wants.
it's about what will fly .
And Obama is not of the slightest interest to the average American who has no way to relate to him. He's weirder than Howard Dean.
Not to mention the countless Democrats that the Obmabots have alienated by their Rovian tactics and personal attacks.
It is one thing to tell all those that don't agree with you that they are old and wrinkled and clueless.
it's another to expect them to ever consider toeing your line.
Especially since we have the alternative of writing in whoever we want .
And a huge number of us plan to do just hat.
You've got yourself Kerry redux and you might as well stick him on a sailboard ans dress him in pink shorts.
Without a track record there is nothing you have to convince the demographic that voted for George Bush twice to vote for just another politician with generic promises and nothing to back them up once.
You can insult me any way you want.
What you can't do is make Obama electable.
gala1
gala1 posted 05/12/2008 at 19:32:03
The Why of Chokingly High Oil Prices: Bush Together with Saudi Arabia Spells Disaster for America
It's the while they can part t that will make this interesting.
There are articles appearing in New England newspapers about mid-income families being wiped out heating-oil payment wise from last winter and about to have their utilities shut off by the hundreds, if not thousands.
And yet next winter the cold will come agian. And who will pay and where is is this money going to come from since a great many people are being laid off and a great many more are being stretched to their limits by increased prices.
And a new president will take helm in what is historically one of the coldest weeks in the year.
Then what?
Will oil profiteers suddenly en masse find the need to become country squires and spend more time with their families? O r do they get to feel some of the pain they've caused while sitting in a jail cell?
Of course, there is that other question.
Why is an economy that can come up with nano-chips and stroll on the moon still tied to a millstone of pretty much the same internal combustion engine in use with the Model T?
Isn't it inevitable that we need to find not just an alternate fuel, but an alternate engine?
gala1 posted 05/12/2008 at 18:52:03
There are articles appearing in New England newspapers about mid-income families being wiped out heating-oil payment wise from last winter and about to have their utilities shut off by the hundreds, if not thousands.
And yet next winter the cold will come agian. And who will pay and where is is this money going to come from since a great many people are being laid off and a great many more are being stretched to their limits by increased prices.
And a new president will take helm in what is historically one of the coldest weeks in the year.
Then what?
Will oil profiteers suddenly en masse find the need to become country squires and spend more time with their families? O r do they get to feel some of the pain they've caused while sitting in a jail cell?
Of course, there is that other question.
Why is an economy that can come up with nano-chips and stroll on the moon still tied to a millstone of pretty much the same internal combustion engine in use with the Model T?
Isn't it inevitable that we need to find not just an alternate fuel, but an alternate engine?
gala1 posted 05/12/2008 at 18:52:03
If you are on public transit and not behind the wheel that commute time can be used for any number of pleasurable or useful things.
Reading, writing, music, meditation,. conversation, de-stressing..
It's part of your day and it is up to you to make it good.
Let me get this straight. You go 25 miles each way to work as a passenger, and this is a bad thing?
You should meet the NY suburbanites who have 2 hour each way commutes, driving every day.
Now that is the very definition of insanity.
gala1 posted 05/12/2008 at 15:24:03
Reading, writing, music, meditation,. conversation, de-stressing..
It's part of your day and it is up to you to make it good.
Let me get this straight. You go 25 miles each way to work as a passenger, and this is a bad thing?
You should meet the NY suburbanites who have 2 hour each way commutes, driving every day.
Now that is the very definition of insanity.
gala1 posted 05/12/2008 at 15:24:03
No one in Europe commutes long distances by car, or drives SUVs the size of kitchens, or goes miles and miles out of their way to shop for daily items, like groceries.
Mass transit is the norm in Europe. it's cheap, available, convenient and part of the fabric of life.
Since I made the decision about 30 years ago to not drive, I have been regarded with wonder by most of my neighbors.
Especially in places like San Francisco, where before there was oil there was, and is, the torture of parking. Generally there was me and the cleaning ladies on the bus if it wasn't rush hour.
People would be stunned and ask: You seriously don't drive, and I'd reply: I seriously don't park.
I get off the bus and it goes away..
It would be interesting to do an article on how long a fill-up lasts and where it takes both Europeans and Americans.
I wish Learsey would please,please start writing about where the other half of our money the Saudis aren't taking is going.
These prices are made possible by war profiteering.
And , as Bill Maher pointed out, with the Saudis subsidizing Al Quaeda, we're the only nation in history to be funding both sides of the same war.
The Saudis holding back oil and the country holding back mass transit are part of the exact same profit.
The next president will have to face nearly the same conditions that led to WPA policies.
gala1 posted 05/12/2008 at 13:01:56
Clinton's Top Gun: "I Have Seen No Evidence Of Interest" In VP Spot
Posts like Tropiholic are why Obamabots are going to find themselves holding the losers baggage.
There is NO mandate to Install Obama .
Right now he may be slightly more than half and , possibly ,Hilliary may be slightly less.
But just because Obamabots are slurping Kool-Aid certainly does not mean that should Hillary not be around, we are going to consider lock -step joining you.
You've left ta legacy of a few too many references to "tired old baggage" and a few too many personal attacks against those who have supported Hillary.
it doesnt' make for a swing-over.
Right now Obama's biggest obstacles are his supporters.
There is no way I would,. or will, affiliate myself with most of what i have read in the posts that support Obama. It's naive and delusional.
In fact, the only real talent I see Obama having is for tailoring rhetoric to its lowest common idealogical denominator.
He has utterly no way, let alone any probable intention, to follow up on them.
We are now an electorate so amnesiac tha they do not know the definition of a campaign promises.
it makes for a write-in.
II'll be writing in Hillary Clinton.
I won't be alone.
If Hillary Clinton supports Obama, I will write in Joe Biden.
i will under NO circumstances EVER vote for Barack Obama.
And you better believe I speak for at very least as many as you think you do.
gala1 posted 05/11/2008 at 20:38:11
Clinton goes from inevitable nominee to on the ropes
See, this is EXACTLY why you are not going to get support from any but your own faction.
You think that just about half is a mandate and you get to presume to insult everyone else in the process
You take politics and go Karl Rove personal.
Dear, i know I am not bitter. And that is a silly and innapproriate claim to make in a political context
It.
It's not just me that is losing. you will be too.
There's no reason to think Obama is going to win, other than you wanting him to.
He has no record, no skills and no accomplishments.
i don't know what makes you think that the average American, past whatever crew you are in, will relate to and ever want to vote for Obama.
You have got show them something tangible for that to happen.
And, guesses what,.
There isn't anything.
That doesn't make me bitter dear.,
That makes me amused at your naivete.
And very sad that you're helping elect John McCain.
I myself will be unbitterly and with a totally open heart, writing in Hillary Clinton.
Unless she caves in and supports Barack Obama. Which is unlikely.
Bu tin which case, i will write in Joe Biden.
The one thing i will never do is vote for barack Obama until he gives me any tangible reason to..
And I plan to spend between now and the elections showing everyone else how not to either.
And I'm not alone.
gala1 posted 05/11/2008 at 21:42:23
You think that just about half is a mandate and you get to presume to insult everyone else in the process
You take politics and go Karl Rove personal.
Dear, i know I am not bitter. And that is a silly and innapproriate claim to make in a political context
It.
It's not just me that is losing. you will be too.
There's no reason to think Obama is going to win, other than you wanting him to.
He has no record, no skills and no accomplishments.
i don't know what makes you think that the average American, past whatever crew you are in, will relate to and ever want to vote for Obama.
You have got show them something tangible for that to happen.
And, guesses what,.
There isn't anything.
That doesn't make me bitter dear.,
That makes me amused at your naivete.
And very sad that you're helping elect John McCain.
I myself will be unbitterly and with a totally open heart, writing in Hillary Clinton.
Unless she caves in and supports Barack Obama. Which is unlikely.
Bu tin which case, i will write in Joe Biden.
The one thing i will never do is vote for barack Obama until he gives me any tangible reason to..
And I plan to spend between now and the elections showing everyone else how not to either.
And I'm not alone.
gala1 posted 05/11/2008 at 21:42:23
Well, one example of his "exceptional campaign skills' is that remark about his granny.
Making him the first politician to actually throw his grandmother under a bus.
That's not the bad judgement part.
That would be expecting every "typical white grandparent" to vote for him after saying that..
Why , having said this, isn't he a racist, when Hillary made a remark in context of her electioneering categorizations and is being raked over the coals for it.
.
Me, I 'm the person who's spent the last decade in small towns where you take one look at Sunday congregations and realize it's where Karl Rove found his answers.
You don't want to believe that people who voted for Bush TWICE wont' t vote for Obama once, then don't.
You want to think Obama is Tinkerbell andit is your very own clap that will call the difference, knock yourself out.
It's not going to change one single vote at the polling place.
And he will hav no one to blame but his own ambition,, in propelling himslef forward too soon with not one single accomplishment to show for it.
I don't have to wish anyone ill and no crystl ball is in the least neccessary.
It's what's going to happen. Why on earth wouldn't it?
I 've been around long enough to remember past elections and know what the definition of pragmatic is.
Obsess? You can spout this bilge about Obama and think I'm obsessing?
What a sad joke.
Grow up. posted 05/11/2008 at 21:02:22
Making him the first politician to actually throw his grandmother under a bus.
That's not the bad judgement part.
That would be expecting every "typical white grandparent" to vote for him after saying that..
Why , having said this, isn't he a racist, when Hillary made a remark in context of her electioneering categorizations and is being raked over the coals for it.
.
Me, I 'm the person who's spent the last decade in small towns where you take one look at Sunday congregations and realize it's where Karl Rove found his answers.
You don't want to believe that people who voted for Bush TWICE wont' t vote for Obama once, then don't.
You want to think Obama is Tinkerbell andit is your very own clap that will call the difference, knock yourself out.
It's not going to change one single vote at the polling place.
And he will hav no one to blame but his own ambition,, in propelling himslef forward too soon with not one single accomplishment to show for it.
I don't have to wish anyone ill and no crystl ball is in the least neccessary.
It's what's going to happen. Why on earth wouldn't it?
I 've been around long enough to remember past elections and know what the definition of pragmatic is.
Obsess? You can spout this bilge about Obama and think I'm obsessing?
What a sad joke.
Grow up. posted 05/11/2008 at 21:02:22
Boy, are you ever sucking in that Kool-Aid.
Two straws, huh?
You're providing the GOP with yet another win, folks.
This time next year you'll be moaning about McCain and the rest of us will be remembering he's there because you mad it possible.
Thanks loads.
Obma is unelectable. you ware really delusional if you think the silent majority that voted for George Bush TWICE ha s any way to relate to Obama enough to want to vote for him once.
He blew in way, way too early and you don't have to be a Fulbright Scholar wannabee on the HP to not see what that means.
Ambition and rhetoric don't cut it when the reality calls for perspective and experience.
Which part of his judgement in these pas few months is anything but bad judgement?
It is kind of sad really , for you to want what he represents so much , you are in denial about what's actually there.
The kind of tunnel vision that sort of makes you honorary Bush Republicans , doesnt it?
You want to tie more feathers onto his Icarus wings, knock yourself out.
He's not going to win.
Deal with it.
gala1 posted 05/11/2008 at 19:13:30
Two straws, huh?
You're providing the GOP with yet another win, folks.
This time next year you'll be moaning about McCain and the rest of us will be remembering he's there because you mad it possible.
Thanks loads.
Obma is unelectable. you ware really delusional if you think the silent majority that voted for George Bush TWICE ha s any way to relate to Obama enough to want to vote for him once.
He blew in way, way too early and you don't have to be a Fulbright Scholar wannabee on the HP to not see what that means.
Ambition and rhetoric don't cut it when the reality calls for perspective and experience.
Which part of his judgement in these pas few months is anything but bad judgement?
It is kind of sad really , for you to want what he represents so much , you are in denial about what's actually there.
The kind of tunnel vision that sort of makes you honorary Bush Republicans , doesnt it?
You want to tie more feathers onto his Icarus wings, knock yourself out.
He's not going to win.
Deal with it.
gala1 posted 05/11/2008 at 19:13:30
America's Favorite
You could rather say that Mrs. McCain is the sort of uber trophy-wife that looks like an E.T. that's been pickled in 90 proof money.
You could say lots of other things.
But the one thing you really can't say is anything about her tax return.
It's not joint. It's hers.
And she''s not running for office.
So, dear, it really isn't any of your business.
Stop being such a yenta.
gala posted 05/09/2008 at 18:54:23
How Will Hillary End Her Campaign?
Determined to drop the ball, the media isn't picking up on the real story.
This probably isn't the end of Hillary Clinton, and why should it be?
But it's a sinkable threat to the two party system.
It will be the first three candidate election.
Ironically, we have Karl Rove's tactics to thank for pioneering the destruction of the two-party system.
The more I think about having to choose between Obama and McCain, the more I realize I'm not going to.
And that I dont have to.
I am writing Hillary Clinton. The only one out of the three I feel is a credible candidate.
The combination of McCain and the GOP makes it convenient for me not to have not enumerate all the endless reasons why voting for McCain is not a thinkable alternative.
Obama to me is the saddestly iconic sight in America.
Another Emperor in New Clothes, but this time it is the Twilight Zone experience of the true Believer Kool-Aid bunch being on the left instead of the right.
I now think of him as Badrisk Onboard.
I'm willing to accept another four years of living through the inevitable consequences of another bad idea -probably McCain, since Obama is either unelectable or inadequate if he squeaks in.
But I won't be responsible for putting him there.
The people who voted for Bush got just what they deserved .
I'm not going to be saying that about my vote. It is too precious to me.
gala posted 05/07/2008 at 12:42:05
Obama Victorious, Clinton On The Ropes
I don' t need to make things up. I 've been writing here almost daily since Cindy Sheehan.
Troll, honey where have you been?
I've been here almost from the start.
This once was as tie about ideas.
Now it's a flock.
Once the Huffpo stopped being objective and went on this Obama tear, posts began to be censored..
Most didn't appear, many were pulled own within an hour.
This one will be gone, too.
I've even had the content changed on a couple of mine through editing.
I'm one of many.
i
The Karl Rove playbook is all about controlling the opposition and stifling dissent.
You are reading an alternate reality.
What makes that any different if from being right wing and reading Oreilly?
So it's bad if karlRove does it, but if the HuffPo does , you want to participate in it?
gala posted 05/07/2008 at 14:39:18
nope, I've learned to turn into an Independent.
this has certainly been an education as to why I should.
If only I had trusted that I could write-in sooner.
gala posted 05/07/2008 at 14:26:38
Funny thing, a great many of the posts anyone sends in supporting Hilary don't get to exist past the censors on the Huffington Post ,either.
Shall we call it synergy or disinformation tactics?
All it does is make the Huffington Post a PR outlet and lose it's journalisitic credibility.
I don't have to have that as an opinion.
I've watched dozens of my posts be pulled off or simply not appear..
It will happen to these, too.
How does that make things any different than right -wing sites?
gala posted 05/07/2008 at 14:22:49
Shall we call it synergy or disinformation tactics?
All it does is make the Huffington Post a PR outlet and lose it's journalisitic credibility.
I don't have to have that as an opinion.
I've watched dozens of my posts be pulled off or simply not appear..
It will happen to these, too.
How does that make things any different than right -wing sites?
gala posted 05/07/2008 at 14:22:49
My old, wrinkled age?
Well, obviously you HAVE read the Karl Rove playbook
What page is that one on?
I hadn't realized that we are now playng by Facebook, rules little girl.
As for my unoriginal thoughts, well if mine are so unoriginal, so where are your fresh insights, dearie?
Reading your profile is an , um, interesting experience:
"Awesome Arianna... dang it, Awesome!"
Now that should be carved in stone.
And as for my wrinkles, i actually have liked every one .
What's supposed to be wrong with wrinkles, anyway?
And if wrinkles are worrying you, may your wish to have the alternative fate come true.
And may Obama help you accomplish just that.
And probably he will.
gala posted 05/07/2008 at 14:15:51
Yes, merely another political blog by someone who supports Obama is what the Huffington Post has sadly TURNED INTO.
It used to be so very much more.
It used to be a news outlet, dear.
And it is losing everyone who thinks otherwise than Obama and feels that stacked deck should not be stooping to censoring out any opposition.
Don't tell me the Huff doesn't stoop to disinformation.
Why do you think the posts we are writing aren't appearing here.
Some show up for an hour and then they are pulled off. Some never go up.
And there are so many of us us who have heard that happen and then left..
are you really so willing to accept the stifling of dissent just because we don't agree with your point of view?
This is worse than I could have imagined.
What Obama supporters want is a censored, age-limited (have you noted how many times I've been called old and stupd here?) lock-step tree-house.
So what makes this any different than Bill Oreilly these days?
gala posted 05/07/2008 at 14:00:53
you must be new here
Since the election began the Huffington Post has been censoring Hillary supporters and our posts have almost no chance of being posted.
The people who do not support Obama are being carefully and systematically squeezed out of this site by the censors.
The management here has decided you get to read manipulated posts or nothing at all.
You might want to be a sheep. But I have better things to do then get flocked by
an agendized bunch.
We used to laugh at the right being manipulated by Karl Rove and his campaigns of disinformation..
Well, suckers, the shepherds have come home to roost.
I already have made up my mind. I'm wriotingin Hillary.
Why would I change that?
Do you think that just because he might be on a ticket, Obama will suddenly acquire experience and accomplishment?
Who could guess hope could leave us so delusional?
gala posted 05/07/2008 at 13:36:21
Since the election began the Huffington Post has been censoring Hillary supporters and our posts have almost no chance of being posted.
The people who do not support Obama are being carefully and systematically squeezed out of this site by the censors.
The management here has decided you get to read manipulated posts or nothing at all.
You might want to be a sheep. But I have better things to do then get flocked by
an agendized bunch.
We used to laugh at the right being manipulated by Karl Rove and his campaigns of disinformation..
Well, suckers, the shepherds have come home to roost.
I already have made up my mind. I'm wriotingin Hillary.
Why would I change that?
Do you think that just because he might be on a ticket, Obama will suddenly acquire experience and accomplishment?
Who could guess hope could leave us so delusional?
gala posted 05/07/2008 at 13:36:21
yeah, you DID
You. just put MCain into the Oval Office.
Thanks loads.
gala posted 05/07/2008 at 13:17:14
You. just put MCain into the Oval Office.
Thanks loads.
gala posted 05/07/2008 at 13:17:14
I am writing in Hillary Clinton.
I won't be alone.
And I won't be paying attention to any stacked deck venues with censors manipulating reality.
But that's besides the point..
Who could have ever believed tha the Huffington Post went into this election using the Karl Rove playbook.
How disapointingly irresponsible
Like anyone is ever going to get to read this here.
But they will elsewhere on the Net.
Look for:
gala1 posted 05/07/2008 at 13:15:20
Exit Polls: Limbaugh Effect Seems To Rear Its Head
Bitter--
Nope.
I never shook Obama's hand in Pennsylvania and so i wasn't one of the downtrodden he flattered the rich with in California.
Mandate.
Nope .
A mandate means an impressive margin.
60 -40 is not impressive when you consider the tiny percentage of actual voters a primary represents, Probably less than half the population of registered voters in Rhode Island overall.
And how most of those who do participate are motivated by a political agenda for doing so.
Most of America is so sick of this gladiatorial sport that they are ignoring it til the day they have to deal with it.
I can either read the censored manipulated alternate reality of the less than one percent of America on the HuffPo or take a walk in my small town.
Where I could come back home having freely heard "Obama Who".
When Obama threw his grandma under the bus and then expected to get the senior citizen vote of "typical white Grandmas" he gave you an indication of what sort of judgement he's got.
All Obama will do is put McCain in the Oval office.
And you Kool-Aid swilling Obamanbots will be directly responsible for that.
Obama can't make anyone feel safe and can't show you anything tangible by way fo fixing things
I can only marvel at the mass level of gullibility and think what sad things it says about us that we've been reduced to yet another snake oil salesman.
gala posted 05/06/2008 at 22:32:22
Nope.
I never shook Obama's hand in Pennsylvania and so i wasn't one of the downtrodden he flattered the rich with in California.
Mandate.
Nope .
A mandate means an impressive margin.
60 -40 is not impressive when you consider the tiny percentage of actual voters a primary represents, Probably less than half the population of registered voters in Rhode Island overall.
And how most of those who do participate are motivated by a political agenda for doing so.
Most of America is so sick of this gladiatorial sport that they are ignoring it til the day they have to deal with it.
I can either read the censored manipulated alternate reality of the less than one percent of America on the HuffPo or take a walk in my small town.
Where I could come back home having freely heard "Obama Who".
When Obama threw his grandma under the bus and then expected to get the senior citizen vote of "typical white Grandmas" he gave you an indication of what sort of judgement he's got.
All Obama will do is put McCain in the Oval office.
And you Kool-Aid swilling Obamanbots will be directly responsible for that.
Obama can't make anyone feel safe and can't show you anything tangible by way fo fixing things
I can only marvel at the mass level of gullibility and think what sad things it says about us that we've been reduced to yet another snake oil salesman.
gala posted 05/06/2008 at 22:32:22
..................and maybe it could have been more cowbell.
What a crock.
Face it.
Obama does not have anything the working class can relate to.
People get down to voting their self -interest.
In times of war they are going to vote for whoever makes them feel safest.
In times of financial crisis they re going to look for the fixer.
They have been snookered by eight years of blinkered rhetoric.
They are not in the mood to listen to more.
Obama blew it by not being ready yet.
And then made ti worse by showing us the the downward curve of his increasingly bad judgement.
Even if Hillary vanished tomorrow, which she won't, all Obama would do is give McCain enough fo a margin to win 65-35.
He's Kerry Redux. You might as well shove him on a sailboard and deck him out in pink shorts.
You may be addicted to Obama Kool-Aid. But Middle-America is not about to go for another trendy-driven mistake.
And no matter how chubbily-laid Oxyrush's plans, after the election, his protectors will be too busy trying to cover their own about to be prosecuted for profiteering butts to do much about finding the right circus tent to cover his triple-wide. So much for malicious mischief.
It is what it is.
gala posted 05/06/2008 at 21:08:16
Penn Jillette Makes Hillary "White B*tch" Joke On MSNBC, Joe & Mika Condemn Him
How about not TELLING a cheesy joke?
"It's nasty so let me tell you" is deliberately floorplaning the anticipation. To an entire country . Not face to face.
This joke was made possible by the media abandonment of journalistic standards in preference of freefalling reporting into a gladiatorial sport.
The media is responsible not just for the hard data, but also for the tone it's broadcast in.
This is just more of the decision to dumb down the news and go for tabloidization so that, what, valley girl mentality will suddenly include current affairs?.
Fox made money by wading in the sewer for the bottom thirty percent of America who want themepark affirmation instead fo analysis. It should have been curtailed as irresponsible and propagandistic right there.
But, nope. TV news now has to go 24/7 .
We are getting to watch it bottom out after 60 years of letting the country know what's going on.
Most of their rancid rancorous campaign news is far moredrudgery to watch than the feckless, clueless press has chosen to let us know.
You might as well let Howard Stern run the news departments of all the TV networks.
Id he already was, how could you possibly tell?
I'd say thank God for print, but that would be wishful thinking.
Thank God for spring. We can walk away intthe sunshine from the whole thing and write in our choice anyway.
gala posted 05/06/2008 at 12:55:38
"It's nasty so let me tell you" is deliberately floorplaning the anticipation. To an entire country . Not face to face.
This joke was made possible by the media abandonment of journalistic standards in preference of freefalling reporting into a gladiatorial sport.
The media is responsible not just for the hard data, but also for the tone it's broadcast in.
This is just more of the decision to dumb down the news and go for tabloidization so that, what, valley girl mentality will suddenly include current affairs?.
Fox made money by wading in the sewer for the bottom thirty percent of America who want themepark affirmation instead fo analysis. It should have been curtailed as irresponsible and propagandistic right there.
But, nope. TV news now has to go 24/7 .
We are getting to watch it bottom out after 60 years of letting the country know what's going on.
Most of their rancid rancorous campaign news is far moredrudgery to watch than the feckless, clueless press has chosen to let us know.
You might as well let Howard Stern run the news departments of all the TV networks.
Id he already was, how could you possibly tell?
I'd say thank God for print, but that would be wishful thinking.
Thank God for spring. We can walk away intthe sunshine from the whole thing and write in our choice anyway.
gala posted 05/06/2008 at 12:55:38
Laura Bush Discusses Jenna's Wedding During Myanmar Press Conference
Dear Laura
More Cowbell.
gala posted 05/06/2008 at 19:57:25
More Cowbell.
gala posted 05/06/2008 at 19:57:25
Bill: "I Didn't Come Here To Ask You To Vote For My Wife"
Nope.
Your private life is your private life.
and so is Bill Clinton's .
You have no claim on what he does in his private life.
Only his family does.
And that's none of your business.
Unless you can go ahead and legally prove how it is.
Knock yourself out and let me know how anyone's sex life is yours to claim.
gala posted 05/05/2008 at 15:46:52
Your private life is your private life.
and so is Bill Clinton's .
You have no claim on what he does in his private life.
Only his family does.
And that's none of your business.
Unless you can go ahead and legally prove how it is.
Knock yourself out and let me know how anyone's sex life is yours to claim.
gala posted 05/05/2008 at 15:46:52
No, don't be so silly.
I don't know who is right or wrong. and even if I did it still would be none of my business..
But I simply dont see how this was doing the Prom Queen. Bill Clinton did not hit on a passing girl scout.
Anyone trotting out her thong is not there for the conversation. So just why do you think Monica indulging in some thong snapping was saying no?
and how many times did she came back for more?
That's rape?
Sex between two consenting adults is not rape. Particularly when one is recording the other to make a buck.
How you get a rape victim from some silly cow that went off to Washington bragging about her intent to use presidential kneepads well before the fact, then very willingly wired herself for the opposition and then got her mother involved as her investment consultant is beyond me.
It doesnt look much like anyone would have to worry about clueless misunderstood rape victims in this situation.
And I really do resent your presumptions otherwise.
You don't know me or anything at all about how I view rape.
But you sure do have a strange view of how other people think
gala posted 05/05/2008 at 15:42:38
I don't know who is right or wrong. and even if I did it still would be none of my business..
But I simply dont see how this was doing the Prom Queen. Bill Clinton did not hit on a passing girl scout.
Anyone trotting out her thong is not there for the conversation. So just why do you think Monica indulging in some thong snapping was saying no?
and how many times did she came back for more?
That's rape?
Sex between two consenting adults is not rape. Particularly when one is recording the other to make a buck.
How you get a rape victim from some silly cow that went off to Washington bragging about her intent to use presidential kneepads well before the fact, then very willingly wired herself for the opposition and then got her mother involved as her investment consultant is beyond me.
It doesnt look much like anyone would have to worry about clueless misunderstood rape victims in this situation.
And I really do resent your presumptions otherwise.
You don't know me or anything at all about how I view rape.
But you sure do have a strange view of how other people think
gala posted 05/05/2008 at 15:42:38
I've been a woman long enough to know that questions of infidelity need to be answered by no one but the parties involved.
What the hell does that have to do with being a woman, anyway? Do men have an inherent right to butt into anyone's private lives?
Why would this be anyone's business outside the Clinton's front door?
Obviously Bill Clinton couldn't do anything right,, what with all that prosperity and innovation and a country on a roll and all.
Damn him for being more responsible to his country than his party.
You must really be fond of JFK, by the way.
gala posted 05/05/2008 at 14:33:38
What the hell does that have to do with being a woman, anyway? Do men have an inherent right to butt into anyone's private lives?
Why would this be anyone's business outside the Clinton's front door?
Obviously Bill Clinton couldn't do anything right,, what with all that prosperity and innovation and a country on a roll and all.
Damn him for being more responsible to his country than his party.
You must really be fond of JFK, by the way.
gala posted 05/05/2008 at 14:33:38
Funny how the Fifteen Censors overlooked this remark.
Now if someone had said that about Obama....................
gala posted 05/05/2008 at 12:49:32
Now if someone had said that about Obama....................
gala posted 05/05/2008 at 12:49:32
Oil at $120, Gas Tripping $4 -- Time for Plow Horses and Buggies, Even Toed Ungulates?
Humble or not, an election is a job interview and you pick the best of what's available.
Would you hire a CEO with no experience as opposed to someone who in the balance has a lot more success than failure or the hack who represents all the failure of the status quo?
If you needed brain surgery which would you choose for yourself:
the guy right out of med school who always wanted to be a surgeon, the competent seasoned one who had practiced and attended major surgeries or the guy with the high death rate?
Then think about that "you" being the pool of, what, 200 million voters and which person they would over all choose.
I always wonder when i read Obamabot comments here, who they expect to elect Obama and why.
People in the end vote for self-interest.
In wartime they vote to feel safe, in financial crisis they vote to feel better led.
It's too critical now to find yourself riding on the rims after the fact.
It's not the time for good intentions and on the job training.
Rhetoric and ambition are a far second to credibility .
No one demographic has any tangible certainty of any accomplishment with Obama. He can't put anything on the plate except promises.
And every election's about pie-in-the-sky promises.
So what's new here?
gala posted 05/06/2008 at 04:01:31
Would you hire a CEO with no experience as opposed to someone who in the balance has a lot more success than failure or the hack who represents all the failure of the status quo?
If you needed brain surgery which would you choose for yourself:
the guy right out of med school who always wanted to be a surgeon, the competent seasoned one who had practiced and attended major surgeries or the guy with the high death rate?
Then think about that "you" being the pool of, what, 200 million voters and which person they would over all choose.
I always wonder when i read Obamabot comments here, who they expect to elect Obama and why.
People in the end vote for self-interest.
In wartime they vote to feel safe, in financial crisis they vote to feel better led.
It's too critical now to find yourself riding on the rims after the fact.
It's not the time for good intentions and on the job training.
Rhetoric and ambition are a far second to credibility .
No one demographic has any tangible certainty of any accomplishment with Obama. He can't put anything on the plate except promises.
And every election's about pie-in-the-sky promises.
So what's new here?
gala posted 05/06/2008 at 04:01:31
no, I hadn't even realized I did until you mentioned it.. I
i use google's spell check and I had no idea that it was even there. I have noticed that when you use their spellcheck there is a correction for Osama but none for Obama, (hm, I wonder what they may know) so that is all the nefarious goings on I've been up to. I guess I have a guttersnipe spellcheck.,Oops.
By the way, I don't even drive and I live in the country.
I decided long ago that cars and all the money that is endlessly poured into their upkeep is something I could do without.
And I was at least a decade ahead of you in realizing how environmentally unsound cars are compared to public transport.
You may have car keys to feel guilty about , but I have decades of bus passes instead.
and I don't pay much attention Obama since I have been around long enough to figure out there aren't enough trendies to get him elected. The curse of the select when it comes to voting in the majority.
Quel dommage.
gala posted 05/05/2008 at 23:20:25
i use google's spell check and I had no idea that it was even there. I have noticed that when you use their spellcheck there is a correction for Osama but none for Obama, (hm, I wonder what they may know) so that is all the nefarious goings on I've been up to. I guess I have a guttersnipe spellcheck.,Oops.
By the way, I don't even drive and I live in the country.
I decided long ago that cars and all the money that is endlessly poured into their upkeep is something I could do without.
And I was at least a decade ahead of you in realizing how environmentally unsound cars are compared to public transport.
You may have car keys to feel guilty about , but I have decades of bus passes instead.
and I don't pay much attention Obama since I have been around long enough to figure out there aren't enough trendies to get him elected. The curse of the select when it comes to voting in the majority.
Quel dommage.
gala posted 05/05/2008 at 23:20:25
I'm guessing Obama's name isn' t there because he is too inexperienced to even know what a gas tax might be for.
And he is a bit to busy pouring Kool-aid to find out.
What are you going to do if your misplaced hopes on yet another
someone who can't cut on the job Oval Office training .
And gas turns into $10.00 a gallon , dear?
When are you going to figure out tha just because some ambitious rhetorician promises you anything on a campaign trail, it doesn't' mean he'll get the slightest congressional cooperation to carry it through.
And then what will you do?
Assuming the most unlikely. That mid-America would find any reason to vote for Osama. posted 05/05/2008 at 14:22:35
stallions treat mares better than women are treated in some of the areas where our oil comes from............................
And KBR treats profits with far more care than the American soldiers fighting n areas where the oil comes from. The military gets to die from KBR giving substandard service while charging unquestioned hyper-inflated profits for their shoddy services.
Why are we so acquiescent about profiteering and its consequences?
KBR and Blackhawk are just as responsible for American deaths as Al Qaeda.
Except we know exactly where their corporate headquarters are.
gala posted 05/05/2008 at 12:22:01
And KBR treats profits with far more care than the American soldiers fighting n areas where the oil comes from. The military gets to die from KBR giving substandard service while charging unquestioned hyper-inflated profits for their shoddy services.
Why are we so acquiescent about profiteering and its consequences?
KBR and Blackhawk are just as responsible for American deaths as Al Qaeda.
Except we know exactly where their corporate headquarters are.
gala posted 05/05/2008 at 12:22:01
Clinton Camp Says It Will Use The Nuclear Option
you know , I have mentioned this a grand total of ONE other time.
And i am putting it forward as what desperate measures the Huffpo is reducing itself to in the bridge-burning set of tactics it is determined to pursue.
Why not just change the name of it to the ObamaPo and make it honest.
I've posted here for a couple of year sand its kind of a twilight Zone experience to see the Obamabots adapting every Rovian tactic including photoshopping images.
it didn't help Rove too much in the end either, did it?
Arianna should have just titled that book: Right is Contagious.
I can't see the point in reasoning with a bunch of true believers.
It's moot anyway. he has less popular support than Kerry and it's bleeding away as his bad judgement is all he has had to show for his campaigning.
At best you end up with Mr. Rodgers who needs on the job training.
Just what you need up against Bin Laden and Big Oil.
At worst its four more years of having induced McCain. And all down to you .
And you don't even want to think about how incrementally heinous that will turn out to be.
I'm starting to read about $10.00 a gallon gas. And not on right-wing sites either.
gala posted 05/05/2008 at 02:35:08
And i am putting it forward as what desperate measures the Huffpo is reducing itself to in the bridge-burning set of tactics it is determined to pursue.
Why not just change the name of it to the ObamaPo and make it honest.
I've posted here for a couple of year sand its kind of a twilight Zone experience to see the Obamabots adapting every Rovian tactic including photoshopping images.
it didn't help Rove too much in the end either, did it?
Arianna should have just titled that book: Right is Contagious.
I can't see the point in reasoning with a bunch of true believers.
It's moot anyway. he has less popular support than Kerry and it's bleeding away as his bad judgement is all he has had to show for his campaigning.
At best you end up with Mr. Rodgers who needs on the job training.
Just what you need up against Bin Laden and Big Oil.
At worst its four more years of having induced McCain. And all down to you .
And you don't even want to think about how incrementally heinous that will turn out to be.
I'm starting to read about $10.00 a gallon gas. And not on right-wing sites either.
gala posted 05/05/2008 at 02:35:08
Golly.
A conveniently timed statement of politically correct intent
and a whole whopping website.
Sound the clarions and start building a triumphal arch. This should win over every tapped-out working class voter in America.
Really relevant stuff here.
Pathetic. Just how many gallons of Kool-Aid does it take to get to this point of gullibility?
What did you really expect an ambitious rhetoretician to do?Provide a tangible accomplishment past paper or what?
gala posted 05/05/2008 at 02:16:39
A conveniently timed statement of politically correct intent
and a whole whopping website.
Sound the clarions and start building a triumphal arch. This should win over every tapped-out working class voter in America.
Really relevant stuff here.
Pathetic. Just how many gallons of Kool-Aid does it take to get to this point of gullibility?
What did you really expect an ambitious rhetoretician to do?Provide a tangible accomplishment past paper or what?
gala posted 05/05/2008 at 02:16:39
One person may not be missed , but the obviously vicious overblown unrelenting bias against Hillary Clinton on this site is turning this into an Obamabot PR preserve.
And with headlines like that, it's at the cost of the Huffpo credibility and journalistic integrity.
When the censors came in a lot of people left and a lot more aren't making this much of a priority any more now that it has all gone tabloid.
The irony is that it is the working classes that determine the presidency, since they are the highest demographic.
They don't read and they dont analyze.
He has yet to give an 8-year snookered country any tangible accomplishments other than the length of his rhetoric and the breadth of his ambition.
People who voted for Bush twice are never going to accept having Obama marketed to them once.
It's only vote apiece and a write in alternative.
And Obama is not an electable candidate by working class standards. They have absolutely no way to relate to him. They all look reciprocally uncomfortable and bewildered when he shows up.
There is no visceral connection and no way to have one, since what isn't unknown about him are public displays of bad judgement.
Other than amongst politicians and celebrities, he doesn't fit in with anyone any better than Kerry did..
The sad part is he could have chosen to be a populist candidate and he blew it.
It won't reprise.
gala posted 05/04/2008 at 21:53:43
oh, look .
yet another picture of Hillary Clinton in a open-mouth Manchurian Candidate Mom stance.
What does that make, the 200th one?
Meanwhile Obama gets photoshopped yet again into a very tanned JFK. Pleeeease.
Now how is it that articles noting Obama having difficulties aren't appearing here on th HP either.
Like him not being accepted by a lot of the working-class because they care not in the least about his color.
Having lived hard lived and bad presidents,. it just might be tha they value experience enough to make it preeminent.
And Hillary is the one who has the tangible accomplishments.
It's the working class with so few options that guarantees the outcome of the elections. Not the Obamabots who don't know that having options is the greatest luxury of all.
gala posted 05/04/2008 at 16:47:33
yet another picture of Hillary Clinton in a open-mouth Manchurian Candidate Mom stance.
What does that make, the 200th one?
Meanwhile Obama gets photoshopped yet again into a very tanned JFK. Pleeeease.
Now how is it that articles noting Obama having difficulties aren't appearing here on th HP either.
Like him not being accepted by a lot of the working-class because they care not in the least about his color.
Having lived hard lived and bad presidents,. it just might be tha they value experience enough to make it preeminent.
And Hillary is the one who has the tangible accomplishments.
It's the working class with so few options that guarantees the outcome of the elections. Not the Obamabots who don't know that having options is the greatest luxury of all.
gala posted 05/04/2008 at 16:47:33
My Friend's Son Killed in Iraq: By Contractors and U.S. Agency?
If we have to ask that question, imagine how the enemy might come up with some answers to it..
Although at this point , I am inclined to think the real enemy of America is Wartime Profiteering.
Or haven't you filled up lately?
It's exactly like those massive parasitic infections that kill hospital patients in for small surgeries.
I wonder if the candidates could imagine how voters would flock to the idea of anyone espousing enough responsibility for a war crimes tribunal.
And mandatory personal fines and jail time.
The tragic part is tha Mrs. Harris has a dead son and his murderers, KBR, have a record profit.
And worst, no one in power is available to do one damn thing about speaking up.
If these sons had been dogs, at least the ASPC A would probably be there to stand up for them and American media would weep and wail over four legged creatures so needlessly lost.. Probably there'd be acongressional inquiry into that one.
And the real crime here is that American citizens are willing to own KBR stock and are not willing to question KBR practices or be responsible for them. Or hould their executives to any standards of, let alone actual, accountabilty
gala
gala posted 05/05/2008 at 12:03:23
Although at this point , I am inclined to think the real enemy of America is Wartime Profiteering.
Or haven't you filled up lately?
It's exactly like those massive parasitic infections that kill hospital patients in for small surgeries.
I wonder if the candidates could imagine how voters would flock to the idea of anyone espousing enough responsibility for a war crimes tribunal.
And mandatory personal fines and jail time.
The tragic part is tha Mrs. Harris has a dead son and his murderers, KBR, have a record profit.
And worst, no one in power is available to do one damn thing about speaking up.
If these sons had been dogs, at least the ASPC A would probably be there to stand up for them and American media would weep and wail over four legged creatures so needlessly lost.. Probably there'd be acongressional inquiry into that one.
And the real crime here is that American citizens are willing to own KBR stock and are not willing to question KBR practices or be responsible for them. Or hould their executives to any standards of, let alone actual, accountabilty
gala
gala posted 05/05/2008 at 12:03:23
Rove's Next Trick -- If Obama Must Answer For His Minister Now, Just Wait to See What the Republicans Will Do To Clinton Inc. in October
I live in a rural county, pretty much the same as all the places you fly-over-- and by far the largest demographic.
People here don't pay much attention to more than a few minutes of the evening news.
I don't much hear any support for Obama.
Not out of prejudice, most towns have been diverse for decades.
It's the experience thing. How could you think that with Bush leaving everyone 8 years snookered and getting in twice on the bottom-line of experience that Obama speaks to anyone here with the slightest sense of commonality.
He had every advantage most of these voters have been locked out of.
And he has no tangible accomplishments worth them paying attention to.
He came in too early with only rhetoric and ambition to show for it on day one, and since all he has done is delineate progressively worse judgement.
Why you think this somehow would inspire confiedence in the masses and make him a credible candidate is beyond me.
As far as my location is concerned he's just another John Kerry, with nothing that meets the voters expectations in any tangible way and no way to connect to him.
People who voted Bush in twice don't ahve a reason to vote once for Obama.
gala posted 05/05/2008 at 21:37:07
People here don't pay much attention to more than a few minutes of the evening news.
I don't much hear any support for Obama.
Not out of prejudice, most towns have been diverse for decades.
It's the experience thing. How could you think that with Bush leaving everyone 8 years snookered and getting in twice on the bottom-line of experience that Obama speaks to anyone here with the slightest sense of commonality.
He had every advantage most of these voters have been locked out of.
And he has no tangible accomplishments worth them paying attention to.
He came in too early with only rhetoric and ambition to show for it on day one, and since all he has done is delineate progressively worse judgement.
Why you think this somehow would inspire confiedence in the masses and make him a credible candidate is beyond me.
As far as my location is concerned he's just another John Kerry, with nothing that meets the voters expectations in any tangible way and no way to connect to him.
People who voted Bush in twice don't ahve a reason to vote once for Obama.
gala posted 05/05/2008 at 21:37:07
I LOVE how silly the arguments are going on the HuffPo.
You might as well banner Obama's Tanking in bigger print across the huffpo daily
If you seriously think that the GOP is going to do anything other than snicker at the idea of cooperating with a lambchop undergoing on the job training like Obama, keep drinking the Kool-aid.
One excellent way to defuse Rove would be to initiate War Crimes proceedings the day after the inauguration.
And then start auditing very publicly every dollar spent by the Bush League on this war
Then there are the GOP ties to Big Oil. Blackhawk . Halliburton
Expect a lot of more time with the family resignations if Hillary comes in.
Teh Clinotns have got the map of whee the bodies are buried.
One more excellent reason to vote for Hillary.
Payback time, dear. Not just personal. But national.
Revenge is best served Oval Office glacial.. posted 05/05/2008 at 14:47:52
You might as well banner Obama's Tanking in bigger print across the huffpo daily
If you seriously think that the GOP is going to do anything other than snicker at the idea of cooperating with a lambchop undergoing on the job training like Obama, keep drinking the Kool-aid.
One excellent way to defuse Rove would be to initiate War Crimes proceedings the day after the inauguration.
And then start auditing very publicly every dollar spent by the Bush League on this war
Then there are the GOP ties to Big Oil. Blackhawk . Halliburton
Expect a lot of more time with the family resignations if Hillary comes in.
Teh Clinotns have got the map of whee the bodies are buried.
One more excellent reason to vote for Hillary.
Payback time, dear. Not just personal. But national.
Revenge is best served Oval Office glacial.. posted 05/05/2008 at 14:47:52
Superdelegates Must Tell Color of Change What it Can Do With its Silly Vote for Obama Petition
No one ever asks these organizations what they will do if they get what they want and providing on the job training for Mr. Rodgers doesn't cut it .
Dubyous is doing what he has done his whole life --leave the mess of failure behind him.
Do you really want to have to find out the hard way that Obama has little talent past rhetoric?
Why SHOULD those who made it possible for Bush TWICE - based on the bottomline determinant of experience- vote for Obama once? Based on what tangible thing?
What was true on day one - no experience and not the best of judgement - is no less true today.
Throwing your grandma -the one that raised you, by the way-under a bus is one great way to get "typical white"grandparents- the largest voting demographic to vote for you, no?
Sound judgement all the way, right?
gala posted 05/03/2008 at 17:52:40
Dubyous is doing what he has done his whole life --leave the mess of failure behind him.
Do you really want to have to find out the hard way that Obama has little talent past rhetoric?
Why SHOULD those who made it possible for Bush TWICE - based on the bottomline determinant of experience- vote for Obama once? Based on what tangible thing?
What was true on day one - no experience and not the best of judgement - is no less true today.
Throwing your grandma -the one that raised you, by the way-under a bus is one great way to get "typical white"grandparents- the largest voting demographic to vote for you, no?
Sound judgement all the way, right?
gala posted 05/03/2008 at 17:52:40
Fox News: The "Ins And Outs" Of Shaving Your Pubes
God...............
talk about hitting bottom.
gala posted 05/03/2008 at 02:10:15
talk about hitting bottom.
gala posted 05/03/2008 at 02:10:15
A Point of Clarification
And writing in a candidate will make for a de facto third party.
Hopefully the Clintons, if they need it, will know how to make the most of it.
We are not voting for a party .
We are voting for a candidate in a time of national crisis.
One who will beat McCain, not make McCain look like the more acceptable option.
Foist another unelectable like Obama on us, and we'll know to use the write-in option.
An informed electorate is beyond party manipulation.
With you have nothing but misplaced hopes in someones ho can't manage on the job training when he needs to hit the ground running.
Waht have you seen in actual judgement as opposed to a swirl of rosy rhetoric that makes you feel Obama will cut it.
If we need to be wondering at all if he is the right candidate or the Wright candidate, maybe this is already a bad idea now that can only get worse.
gala posted 05/04/2008 at 15:32:06
Hopefully the Clintons, if they need it, will know how to make the most of it.
We are not voting for a party .
We are voting for a candidate in a time of national crisis.
One who will beat McCain, not make McCain look like the more acceptable option.
Foist another unelectable like Obama on us, and we'll know to use the write-in option.
An informed electorate is beyond party manipulation.
With you have nothing but misplaced hopes in someones ho can't manage on the job training when he needs to hit the ground running.
Waht have you seen in actual judgement as opposed to a swirl of rosy rhetoric that makes you feel Obama will cut it.
If we need to be wondering at all if he is the right candidate or the Wright candidate, maybe this is already a bad idea now that can only get worse.
gala posted 05/04/2008 at 15:32:06
well maybe wartime and financial crisis with someone who needs on the job training for Washington, let alone the Oval Office, might not be the best time or place to start.
All I am getting from the Obamabot Hillary teardown is the realization that when it comes to rhetoric, the left may be even more gullible than the right.
Of course, but of course, any candidate is going to tell you what you want to hear.
I can write the sweetest rhetoric ever to be uttered, it doesnt mean I'll ever have to be responsible for a word of it.
it's amazing the power that cheap rhetoric apparently has.
And its scary how easily Rovian tactics predominate this site these days.
What if all your hopes are misplaced? There is no tangible backup, is there?
There's nothing in the judgement shown by your inexperienced candidate since he began campaigning that shows any of what we need in a crisis.
I've seen Clinton act in crisis. i have no doubts her experience will be anything but the asset that's needed.
Mindset?
People who voted for Bush twice will never EVER choose Obama once over McCain.
It's not about what you want. It is what it is.
gala posted 05/04/2008 at 14:38:43
The label thing?
You're still on the Label Thing?
For those who don't have personal assistants, but are starting to need personal assistance and know that the real legacy of the Bush League is to have turned the American dollar bill into a five dollar purchase, what with bread, milk and oil all now costing that, who cares whether the candidates are hermaphrodites or plaid?
it's about the experience,dear.
All politicians are ambitious. All are given to rhetoric All make the prettiest promises.
Bu they are being handed what George Bush has always left behind. The mess of failure.
And whoever gets the prize has to hit the ground running with crisis management.
Hillary Clinton was my state senator for 8 years and I watched her handle crisises.
it's why i can sit here today typing on this computer which would have otherwise been flood-lost.
I am not interested in giving Mr. Rodgers on the job training til he may or may not get it right.
I want a pit-bull that can kick butt NOW
I'm writing in Hillary.
I could care less abut what trend is being marketing to who.
i won't have another mistake foisted upon me.
gala posted 05/03/2008 at 20:36:53
You're still on the Label Thing?
For those who don't have personal assistants, but are starting to need personal assistance and know that the real legacy of the Bush League is to have turned the American dollar bill into a five dollar purchase, what with bread, milk and oil all now costing that, who cares whether the candidates are hermaphrodites or plaid?
it's about the experience,dear.
All politicians are ambitious. All are given to rhetoric All make the prettiest promises.
Bu they are being handed what George Bush has always left behind. The mess of failure.
And whoever gets the prize has to hit the ground running with crisis management.
Hillary Clinton was my state senator for 8 years and I watched her handle crisises.
it's why i can sit here today typing on this computer which would have otherwise been flood-lost.
I am not interested in giving Mr. Rodgers on the job training til he may or may not get it right.
I want a pit-bull that can kick butt NOW
I'm writing in Hillary.
I could care less abut what trend is being marketing to who.
i won't have another mistake foisted upon me.
gala posted 05/03/2008 at 20:36:53
Arianna Discusses Her Book "Right Is Wrong" On CNN's "Situation Room"
I don't think Gore Vidal ever hired fifteen censors to keep dissent from shaping a very carefully manipulated image at the cost of the creative integrity of the institution he began.
Given the stony ground these sorts of decisions signify, I suggest Arianna re-name her book: Right is Contagious
Like anyone is ever going to get to read this,. Right, Mr. Censor?
gala posted 05/02/2008 at 21:14:35
Given the stony ground these sorts of decisions signify, I suggest Arianna re-name her book: Right is Contagious
Like anyone is ever going to get to read this,. Right, Mr. Censor?
gala posted 05/02/2008 at 21:14:35
What Will A Clinton "Victory" Feel Like?
It's not an epithet. it's a warning.I adored every minute of Mr. Rodgers time on my screen.
but I would never have elected him president.
If you would, then I can't even begin to explain to you the difference between why we need a leader and why we don't need a Mr. Rodgers as president.
There really is very good reason why nice guys finish last is nowhere truer than in politics.
It's fascinating to me how fantasists have ascribed every sort of villainy to Hillary Clinton simply because they need to demonize her as an opponen against a man who has nothing to offer but rhetoric and ambition.
So lets tear down her accomplishments because Obama doesn't have any.
This is really pathetic kool-aid peddling.
George Orwell lives on.
gala posted 05/04/2008 at 04:00:29
but I would never have elected him president.
If you would, then I can't even begin to explain to you the difference between why we need a leader and why we don't need a Mr. Rodgers as president.
There really is very good reason why nice guys finish last is nowhere truer than in politics.
It's fascinating to me how fantasists have ascribed every sort of villainy to Hillary Clinton simply because they need to demonize her as an opponen against a man who has nothing to offer but rhetoric and ambition.
So lets tear down her accomplishments because Obama doesn't have any.
This is really pathetic kool-aid peddling.
George Orwell lives on.
gala posted 05/04/2008 at 04:00:29
nope, I never said that.
And Obama would never not take the VP slot on a Hillary ticket.
It's all he's got . and it's what's going to happen.
here's how it falls. It's 50-50, Huffpo censors notwithstanding.
So, the party wonks are perfectly aware that Clinton can run as an independent and make it a three way election. And won't hesitate to do that.
She doesn't need Obama.
A lot of voters feel that Obama is being foisted on them and will not toe the Dem line.
There is a real write-in Hillary possibility here. Older people are in the main unimpressed with Obama and he has nothing tangible to give them.
And the Clinton' have the pull to make it an interesting ticket for whoever VPs as an independent.
Why do you think you have been hearing about VPs?
Obama was inexperienced on day one and has since shown not much in the way of very good judgement.
Dems will realize that voters will gripe about not having Obama this time, but will settle down and realize Clinton is obviously a better choice than McCain.
They won't do that if presented with McCain Obama choice, because the issue of experience is paramount.
Obama creates an unbalanced ticket. And makes for yet another unelectable trend-impaired candidate.
People who voted Twice for Bush will never once vote for Obama.
It's not about who you want in. it's about who everyone will vote for.
gala posted 05/04/2008 at 03:48:16
And Obama would never not take the VP slot on a Hillary ticket.
It's all he's got . and it's what's going to happen.
here's how it falls. It's 50-50, Huffpo censors notwithstanding.
So, the party wonks are perfectly aware that Clinton can run as an independent and make it a three way election. And won't hesitate to do that.
She doesn't need Obama.
A lot of voters feel that Obama is being foisted on them and will not toe the Dem line.
There is a real write-in Hillary possibility here. Older people are in the main unimpressed with Obama and he has nothing tangible to give them.
And the Clinton' have the pull to make it an interesting ticket for whoever VPs as an independent.
Why do you think you have been hearing about VPs?
Obama was inexperienced on day one and has since shown not much in the way of very good judgement.
Dems will realize that voters will gripe about not having Obama this time, but will settle down and realize Clinton is obviously a better choice than McCain.
They won't do that if presented with McCain Obama choice, because the issue of experience is paramount.
Obama creates an unbalanced ticket. And makes for yet another unelectable trend-impaired candidate.
People who voted Twice for Bush will never once vote for Obama.
It's not about who you want in. it's about who everyone will vote for.
gala posted 05/04/2008 at 03:48:16
well, hey.
You have two other choices.
An outright warmonger --and someone who has handed you nothing but rhetoric, bad judgement and ambition peering though all rapidly thinning scrapes in the veneer of his shining armor.
why you would want to pick wartime and financial crisis to install a movie of the week candidate with absolutely no experience, who knows.
There is something really simple minded about requiring a candidate to fill exactly your aspirations in exactly the size you want them.
What that leads to is the gullibility of someone telling you exactly what you want to hear.
Without any of the skills whatsoever to back it up later on.
Moot, anyway.
In the real world, I almost never hear anyone over 40 intending to vote for Obama.
Not racsim. Lack of experience. Period.
Yes, I know you are here. And so are the ones that you can't read because they re being rigorously censored out.
People who voted for George Bush twice will neve vote for Obama once.
Get over it.
gala posted 05/03/2008 at 23:31:22
You have two other choices.
An outright warmonger --and someone who has handed you nothing but rhetoric, bad judgement and ambition peering though all rapidly thinning scrapes in the veneer of his shining armor.
why you would want to pick wartime and financial crisis to install a movie of the week candidate with absolutely no experience, who knows.
There is something really simple minded about requiring a candidate to fill exactly your aspirations in exactly the size you want them.
What that leads to is the gullibility of someone telling you exactly what you want to hear.
Without any of the skills whatsoever to back it up later on.
Moot, anyway.
In the real world, I almost never hear anyone over 40 intending to vote for Obama.
Not racsim. Lack of experience. Period.
Yes, I know you are here. And so are the ones that you can't read because they re being rigorously censored out.
People who voted for George Bush twice will neve vote for Obama once.
Get over it.
gala posted 05/03/2008 at 23:31:22
Actually, i think you can say the same of Obama.
He has nothing to stand on, so he's cutting Hillary down to fit his problems.
There is something slightly creepy about considering holding the black vote as a commodity.
Candidacy is basically a job search and its' about the best qualified person getting the job.
Obama may be a great candidate for Mr. Rodgers, but.......
Maybe it's the rhetoric thing with me. I know how incredibly easy it is to write rhetoric . it's merely idealized and glorified advertising copy . and in an election it's easier still to tell people what they want to hear and promise them every phase of the moon.
Listening in at Obama all this time, I am getting more and more convinced that there is less there than meets the ear.
All I am hearing is determined ambition.
I need more than that --I need a track record and tangible proof.
I am writing in Hillary Clinton and helping others to do so because she is the one I feel will act best in a crisis.
She doesn't need on the job training. and she is not afraid to be disliked.
gala posted 05/03/2008 at 22:45:42
He has nothing to stand on, so he's cutting Hillary down to fit his problems.
There is something slightly creepy about considering holding the black vote as a commodity.
Candidacy is basically a job search and its' about the best qualified person getting the job.
Obama may be a great candidate for Mr. Rodgers, but.......
Maybe it's the rhetoric thing with me. I know how incredibly easy it is to write rhetoric . it's merely idealized and glorified advertising copy . and in an election it's easier still to tell people what they want to hear and promise them every phase of the moon.
Listening in at Obama all this time, I am getting more and more convinced that there is less there than meets the ear.
All I am hearing is determined ambition.
I need more than that --I need a track record and tangible proof.
I am writing in Hillary Clinton and helping others to do so because she is the one I feel will act best in a crisis.
She doesn't need on the job training. and she is not afraid to be disliked.
gala posted 05/03/2008 at 22:45:42
right.
Clinotn and Schumer were the ONLY two that voted that way.
Just exactly how did YOUR senator vote?
gala posted 05/03/2008 at 21:19:38
Clinotn and Schumer were the ONLY two that voted that way.
Just exactly how did YOUR senator vote?
gala posted 05/03/2008 at 21:19:38
Why do you assume the black community will vote as a block?
And the black community, like it or not is a minority, and doesn't decide much in
comparison to the numbers of older voters who aren't black and haven't really had any tangible reason in terms of experience to vote for Obama since day one.
All he has shown since is not very good judgement .
And a lot of ambition.
And on websites that are not carefully censored as they are here, there is far more of a balance tha you are not getting to see here,
gala posted 05/03/2008 at 21:17:09
And the black community, like it or not is a minority, and doesn't decide much in
comparison to the numbers of older voters who aren't black and haven't really had any tangible reason in terms of experience to vote for Obama since day one.
All he has shown since is not very good judgement .
And a lot of ambition.
And on websites that are not carefully censored as they are here, there is far more of a balance tha you are not getting to see here,
gala posted 05/03/2008 at 21:17:09
Let me tell you something about this older population of Boomers.
The largest voting demographic in a country where 40 %of eligible voters don't vote.
We don't play by Party Rules. Nor do we give the slightest damn about them.
if this is going to be a three way write-in race, then so be it.
I am writing in Hillary Clinton regardless.
And I am showing everyone else how.
And I am sure as hell not going to be alone.
And what will Obama do if Hillary refuses, as she undoubtedly will , to be number two on the Ticket? She doesn't need him. NY loves her as a senator.
Although no one on the Huffpost ever asks why exactly that is..
Obama untethered from Hillary on the ticket will have to be up against her in the voting booth.
And McCain will win because Obama couldn't wait eight years for a better chance and insisted on losing now. posted 05/03/2008 at 19:47:24
The largest voting demographic in a country where 40 %of eligible voters don't vote.
We don't play by Party Rules. Nor do we give the slightest damn about them.
if this is going to be a three way write-in race, then so be it.
I am writing in Hillary Clinton regardless.
And I am showing everyone else how.
And I am sure as hell not going to be alone.
And what will Obama do if Hillary refuses, as she undoubtedly will , to be number two on the Ticket? She doesn't need him. NY loves her as a senator.
Although no one on the Huffpost ever asks why exactly that is..
Obama untethered from Hillary on the ticket will have to be up against her in the voting booth.
And McCain will win because Obama couldn't wait eight years for a better chance and insisted on losing now. posted 05/03/2008 at 19:47:24
No, the good things we got were what we elected her to do.
She was THERE, under a dripping umbrella, helping assess what was needed. It's why I can write this on this computer today.
You'd be the one sneering about her not being there, had she not been, right?
What has your senator done for you in doing his job? And I'll bet if we compared statewide earmarks you'd come out ahead.
There is something really weird about a country where a woman senator with a great track record is condemned for doing her job well so a nobody with no tangible accomplishment s other than rhetoric and ambition can stake a political claim to the job that requires the most experience and best judgement in America.
What will you do when he cannot cut it? He hasn't been so far.
gala posted 05/03/2008 at 19:17:14
She was THERE, under a dripping umbrella, helping assess what was needed. It's why I can write this on this computer today.
You'd be the one sneering about her not being there, had she not been, right?
What has your senator done for you in doing his job? And I'll bet if we compared statewide earmarks you'd come out ahead.
There is something really weird about a country where a woman senator with a great track record is condemned for doing her job well so a nobody with no tangible accomplishment s other than rhetoric and ambition can stake a political claim to the job that requires the most experience and best judgement in America.
What will you do when he cannot cut it? He hasn't been so far.
gala posted 05/03/2008 at 19:17:14
well, since half the population says the same thing about Obama --what we've got is a de facto three way race.
Hillary can run independent in a heartbeat and count on the huge segment of the population that most consistently votes --those who according to Obama are "typical white grandparents". And whom Obama has offended.
forty percent of the eligible voters in past elections haven't voted at all.
Lots of people intend to vote and never get around to it. Most of them young and irresponsible.
So it's who gets to the polling booth that matters.
Hillary can go back to being Senator with no problems if she doesn't want to run. Obama, without her as number 2 is up the creek.
Hasn't it struck you as odd that no one is talking much about running mates. Why do you think that is?
Clinton has enough guts to never be number two. Obama can either be number two or lose an election and make McCain president -- thereby taking the blame for what happens next and becoming more unelectable in future..
Now just how do you think the chips will fall ?
gala posted 05/03/2008 at 18:58:42
Hillary can run independent in a heartbeat and count on the huge segment of the population that most consistently votes --those who according to Obama are "typical white grandparents". And whom Obama has offended.
forty percent of the eligible voters in past elections haven't voted at all.
Lots of people intend to vote and never get around to it. Most of them young and irresponsible.
So it's who gets to the polling booth that matters.
Hillary can go back to being Senator with no problems if she doesn't want to run. Obama, without her as number 2 is up the creek.
Hasn't it struck you as odd that no one is talking much about running mates. Why do you think that is?
Clinton has enough guts to never be number two. Obama can either be number two or lose an election and make McCain president -- thereby taking the blame for what happens next and becoming more unelectable in future..
Now just how do you think the chips will fall ?
gala posted 05/03/2008 at 18:58:42
A 30.000 job loss in a state the size of NY in these economic times should get her a medal, not criticism.
That actually adds up to less than fraction of one percent of NY population.
Every candidate promises jobs. And every state has had job losses.
All I know is what I saw. I was there, were you?
Hillary Clinton & Chuck Schumer take charge during flooding and in less than24 hours truck convoys from all over NY were curtailing damage that we have seen get so much worse elsewhere.
Like her or not, she knows how to fix things and she knows how to act immediately in crisis.
We have seen tangible proof.
All we have seen from Obama is a lot of rhetoric followed by some pretty poor judgement. Followed by nothing but ambition.
All elections are about ambition. But the job description is crisis management.
We can't afford taking chances giving on the job training to Mr. Rodgers.
What are you going to do if he gives you another four years of someone who can't cut it?
gala posted 05/03/2008 at 18:42:55
That actually adds up to less than fraction of one percent of NY population.
Every candidate promises jobs. And every state has had job losses.
All I know is what I saw. I was there, were you?
Hillary Clinton & Chuck Schumer take charge during flooding and in less than24 hours truck convoys from all over NY were curtailing damage that we have seen get so much worse elsewhere.
Like her or not, she knows how to fix things and she knows how to act immediately in crisis.
We have seen tangible proof.
All we have seen from Obama is a lot of rhetoric followed by some pretty poor judgement. Followed by nothing but ambition.
All elections are about ambition. But the job description is crisis management.
We can't afford taking chances giving on the job training to Mr. Rodgers.
What are you going to do if he gives you another four years of someone who can't cut it?
gala posted 05/03/2008 at 18:42:55
The republicans are supporting Hillary because either way, the candidate inherits crisis from the first second. And that crisis is going to include finger pointing as well as repair. It will take experience to fix things as fast as they need to be.
I am writing in Hillary Clinton . Either way the Dem nomination is going to lose about half its supporters since it looks to be an even split.
Obama needs Hillary on the ticket , a lot more than she needs him.
Ergo, if she flat out refuses number 2 and goes independent instead, it will become a de facto three party system.
What would it be like to have Hillary as president?
Well, I had her for senator for eight years and , like most of upstate NY we have done nothing but get good things by her.
In crisis like floods she is right there, hands on, making sure that it gets done in record time.
Katrina victims are still waiting.
We've been in normal for a long, long time since we were wet..
gala posted 05/03/2008 at 17:37:38
I am writing in Hillary Clinton . Either way the Dem nomination is going to lose about half its supporters since it looks to be an even split.
Obama needs Hillary on the ticket , a lot more than she needs him.
Ergo, if she flat out refuses number 2 and goes independent instead, it will become a de facto three party system.
What would it be like to have Hillary as president?
Well, I had her for senator for eight years and , like most of upstate NY we have done nothing but get good things by her.
In crisis like floods she is right there, hands on, making sure that it gets done in record time.
Katrina victims are still waiting.
We've been in normal for a long, long time since we were wet..
gala posted 05/03/2008 at 17:37:38
The Deal: Hillary and Obama's "Granita Pact"?
So what would be so terrible if Obama got eight years experience he doesn't have now being vice president instead of four. He'd run in eight years. Big whoo. So what? He'd be all of 54. Talk about long in the tooth.
Instead of losing this election and making McCain president. Which would happen should Hillary refuse to be Obama's VP.
Then Obama would not be a contender for anything more than what he's got now ever again
.And even that won't be guaranteed as eight years, most likely.
None of the Obamabots on the huffPo ever answers me when I ask what does Obama have to once offer a nation that voted in Bush TWICE, with experience being the bottom line issue. He'll be running against an Experience Poster Hero.
Why would "Typical White Grandparents" who have been offended by Obama and are the largest demographic in a country were 40 % of eligible voters don't vote, be inclined to chose Obama?
What tangible reason?
gala posted 05/03/2008 at 19:35:18
Instead of losing this election and making McCain president. Which would happen should Hillary refuse to be Obama's VP.
Then Obama would not be a contender for anything more than what he's got now ever again
.And even that won't be guaranteed as eight years, most likely.
None of the Obamabots on the huffPo ever answers me when I ask what does Obama have to once offer a nation that voted in Bush TWICE, with experience being the bottom line issue. He'll be running against an Experience Poster Hero.
Why would "Typical White Grandparents" who have been offended by Obama and are the largest demographic in a country were 40 % of eligible voters don't vote, be inclined to chose Obama?
What tangible reason?
gala posted 05/03/2008 at 19:35:18
CNN Poll: George Bush Most Unpopular President In Modern History
Why would anyone who voted for Bush twice vote for Obama once?
If Hillary drops out, all these scared people who need reassurance over the fact that they are neck-deep in a tanking economy will look for reassurance.
Obama has not one tangible to offer. And the way he has handled himself since his emergence does certainly nothing to judge him in any beneficial way.
Say what you want about old white men, but they call the shots on every level in an election.
Hillary , who is no non-nonsense enough to remind everyone why you ended up better for having a stern grade-schooleacher, can overcome the national revulsion against all that GOP corruption.
faced with a choice between McCain and Hillary , it ill still be a vote against the GOP.
Obama can't even get himself out of the lightweight sand traps.
All Obama does is make MCCain look like the better choice.
Obama is not electable. And Hillary has the smarts to have independents willing to write her in.
I'll be writing her in regardless
gala posted 05/01/2008 at 17:01:02
If Hillary drops out, all these scared people who need reassurance over the fact that they are neck-deep in a tanking economy will look for reassurance.
Obama has not one tangible to offer. And the way he has handled himself since his emergence does certainly nothing to judge him in any beneficial way.
Say what you want about old white men, but they call the shots on every level in an election.
Hillary , who is no non-nonsense enough to remind everyone why you ended up better for having a stern grade-schooleacher, can overcome the national revulsion against all that GOP corruption.
faced with a choice between McCain and Hillary , it ill still be a vote against the GOP.
Obama can't even get himself out of the lightweight sand traps.
All Obama does is make MCCain look like the better choice.
Obama is not electable. And Hillary has the smarts to have independents willing to write her in.
I'll be writing her in regardless
gala posted 05/01/2008 at 17:01:02
You do have to seriously wonder what is wrong with the other twenty-nine percent.
And remember not everyone in the US bothers with any attention to the news at all.
i wonder if that 29 percent could find Iraq or even Washington on a map.
And that statement should be written so that it is more precise.
George W Bush is the most unpopular president in ALL of American History.
Maybe only in comparison with Ivan the Terrible could he be considered George the Worst when it comes to world leaders.
Even Catherine the Great's husband who was clinically an idiot had a better military record.
And God help us all, if there is anyone who ever tops such so much feckless malfeasance.
He makes Warren Harding look like an altar boy.
gala posted 05/01/2008 at 15:44:35
And remember not everyone in the US bothers with any attention to the news at all.
i wonder if that 29 percent could find Iraq or even Washington on a map.
And that statement should be written so that it is more precise.
George W Bush is the most unpopular president in ALL of American History.
Maybe only in comparison with Ivan the Terrible could he be considered George the Worst when it comes to world leaders.
Even Catherine the Great's husband who was clinically an idiot had a better military record.
And God help us all, if there is anyone who ever tops such so much feckless malfeasance.
He makes Warren Harding look like an altar boy.
gala posted 05/01/2008 at 15:44:35
Exxon Mobil Earnings Disappoint -- Pity Poor Exxon
If you want Learsy to respond to legitimate counterpoints, then ASK HIM SOME QUESTIONS.
Maybe what Learsy should do is write a 101 oil primer here for rudimentary questions. Like:
Have the American oil corporations formed a de facto cartel to manipulate oil markets?
Are cartels legal in America today? If not, why aren't they being prosecuted?
Are the American oil corporation profiteering in wartime to manipulate oil markets?
Is Oil Profiteering in wartime legal?
If it isn't, considering that we're living a textbook example, why should it be?
I am for the summer oil prices, since if all you've got is a band-aid , you might as well use it, no?
And more important than gas, it buys us a little time.
Barring another attack, the first and most deleterious crisis the new president will face comes from within.
Al Qaeda's American attacks were a mere temporary flea bite. America is being permanently cannibalized by its own corporations.
The Bush League's only real accomplishment was to take the dollar bill and turn it into the five dollar purchase.
By the time Dubyous leaves, a loaf of bread, a gallon of gas and a gallon of milk will all cost five dollars.
Guess who are the only people who have quintupled their corporate earnings?
Guess what business the entire Bush League springs from.
When France fell, the price of bread incited the revolution.
You can't solve a problem until you answer the right questions toward finding a solution
gala posted 05/03/2008 at 11:02:09
Aaron Brown: Olbermann Is "Smarter, Funnier, Better Read, And Eminently More Talented" Than O'Reilly
compared to Oreilly, Olbermann is "smarter, funnier, better read and eminently more talented."
So is the average houseplant.
And it is also far more functional, has a positive purpose in the environment and is a whole lot easier on the eyes and ears than Der Furor.
gala posted 05/01/2008 at 13:18:48
So is the average houseplant.
And it is also far more functional, has a positive purpose in the environment and is a whole lot easier on the eyes and ears than Der Furor.
gala posted 05/01/2008 at 13:18:48
Daytime Emmy Nominees: "The View," Ellen, Rachael Ray Up For Awards
RACHEL RAY??????????????
Oy Vay.
you'd be so much more credible givng the award to your remote.
How not to do everything should be her subtitle. Total waste of time, taste and air space..
gala posted 04/30/2008 at 21:50:27
Oy Vay.
you'd be so much more credible givng the award to your remote.
How not to do everything should be her subtitle. Total waste of time, taste and air space..
gala posted 04/30/2008 at 21:50:27
Whoopi Goldberg Disses Writer's Scripted Joke On "The View" (VIDEO)
1. Exactly what circle of Hell must being a writer for The View fit into?
2. Even if it a slow news day. please stop with The View, Huffpo, unless they actually have something relevant to say. (The day has not yet dawned....)
The View is exactly why most people dont watch daytime TV.
And I say that with regret, since Whoopi Goldberg is so utterly effortlessly topically brilliant, and Joy Behar is unappreciatedly so,too. But it's like listening to a group of people you know to be challenging, fascinating and raunchy being forced to make bowdlerized raised pinkie conversation with the local bishop.
Really, it should be on late-night. You'd guarantee curing insomnia within minutes.
I'll never understand why Whoopi Goldberg's hilarious show was cancelled.
Not even Netflix has it - or the lost episodes. If HBO had done it, she'd be preparing statuettes by the dozen.
This egregious waste of talent seems like adding injury to insult.
The defection of the year would be getting Whoopi and Joy onto daytime Comedy Central and letting them loose n the same format. here is a whole demographic Comedy Central stands to gain by it.
gala posted 04/30/2008 at 12:28:00
Latinos Blast CBS, Compare Couric To Dobbs, For Outrageous Immigration Story
Let me see if I 've got this right.
You are calling yourself Tex Mex and representing a group that cannot be bothered to learn any English at all, besides draining away from America the billions that they soon will no longer be getting and the issue you are worried about is where my subjects meet my verbs? Ola!
I could pretty much question your reading comprehension skills since I have never even been to San Diego, and got flamed by you for my time there.
Yes, I do hang out around poor Mexicans when I visit my country friend who helps artichoke growing migrants to learn enough English to let me know that they go back every winter to have another baby, some are up to the ninth or tenth and then bring the older ones back with them for schooling. I've known them since they were only up to their third or fourth.
I don' t think the Mexican government should be dumping the social welfare responsibilities these people desperately need in the laps of California citizens. We've no reason other than kindness to be paying these bills. And kindness is finite.
If you want Mexicans to be here, why shouldn't Mexico be paying its fair share for them to be here?
Which is dumber? Taking that as a question or getting your serape in a twist over which noun meets up with each verb?
How much Spanish have you taught to American migrants in Mexico, anyway?
gala posted 04/30/2008 at 21:23:45
You are calling yourself Tex Mex and representing a group that cannot be bothered to learn any English at all, besides draining away from America the billions that they soon will no longer be getting and the issue you are worried about is where my subjects meet my verbs? Ola!
I could pretty much question your reading comprehension skills since I have never even been to San Diego, and got flamed by you for my time there.
Yes, I do hang out around poor Mexicans when I visit my country friend who helps artichoke growing migrants to learn enough English to let me know that they go back every winter to have another baby, some are up to the ninth or tenth and then bring the older ones back with them for schooling. I've known them since they were only up to their third or fourth.
I don' t think the Mexican government should be dumping the social welfare responsibilities these people desperately need in the laps of California citizens. We've no reason other than kindness to be paying these bills. And kindness is finite.
If you want Mexicans to be here, why shouldn't Mexico be paying its fair share for them to be here?
Which is dumber? Taking that as a question or getting your serape in a twist over which noun meets up with each verb?
How much Spanish have you taught to American migrants in Mexico, anyway?
gala posted 04/30/2008 at 21:23:45
I don't live in San Diego.O r have a clue what you are so nastily going on about.
if you need to vent on the Huffpo, at least go find the right place to do it.
gala posted 04/30/2008 at 21:04:26
if you need to vent on the Huffpo, at least go find the right place to do it.
gala posted 04/30/2008 at 21:04:26
Geoffreys
well then, using your logic, why don't you have a municipal vote and form two tax systems.
one for those sharing your viewpoint- And then one for those who would prefer not to provide the social services system for a foreign country that provides for some of the world's richest people.
If you want to pay it your way, fine.
Bu why should anyone else be FORCED to provide for people that no reason to be paying for?
gala posted 04/30/2008 at 19:33:46
well then, using your logic, why don't you have a municipal vote and form two tax systems.
one for those sharing your viewpoint- And then one for those who would prefer not to provide the social services system for a foreign country that provides for some of the world's richest people.
If you want to pay it your way, fine.
Bu why should anyone else be FORCED to provide for people that no reason to be paying for?
gala posted 04/30/2008 at 19:33:46
You are just not facing the new reality.
When bread is 5.00 a loaf and milk and oil are the same very high price, there is not going to be any more money to keep on doing this.
The tap is going to be shut. Why it should have been open this long is really the question.
so either it gets sorted out to make it reciprocal or Mexico will be cornered into the worst of both worlds.
Having to create their own social system and a lot of locked in poor.
Why should the world's richest man now be living in Mexico?
How much has he done for his own country?
Why should we be doing it for him and all the rest of the Mexican upper classes instead?
gala
We hav eNO responsibility to do this. At some point it will stop.
and, if you are reading the papers, you know how fast things are going bad.
and you'd have to be out of your mind to think tha tObama would have a clue of how to fix this.
gala posted 04/30/2008 at 13:15:41
When bread is 5.00 a loaf and milk and oil are the same very high price, there is not going to be any more money to keep on doing this.
The tap is going to be shut. Why it should have been open this long is really the question.
so either it gets sorted out to make it reciprocal or Mexico will be cornered into the worst of both worlds.
Having to create their own social system and a lot of locked in poor.
Why should the world's richest man now be living in Mexico?
How much has he done for his own country?
Why should we be doing it for him and all the rest of the Mexican upper classes instead?
gala
We hav eNO responsibility to do this. At some point it will stop.
and, if you are reading the papers, you know how fast things are going bad.
and you'd have to be out of your mind to think tha tObama would have a clue of how to fix this.
gala posted 04/30/2008 at 13:15:41
Maybe the answer would be for each country to take financial responsibility for their own.
You don't hear about a whole lot of Americans successfully going over to , oh, Toronto to have babies. Why is that?
We can't deny another human being the basic services of human rights. But we can bill their government for our outlay.
And we can take it back in trade.
Isn't Mexican oil a state controlled industry?
there you go....
Why not make Houston the first of many test cities.
It's not that hard to calculate what Mexico is costing Houston. Do it on an annual basis.
If Houston is a Mexican baby factory, then Houston should be getting that money back from Mexico. Or take it in oil deliveries.
Or decline services until that happens.
Someone has to start somewhere.
Publicize it well ahead that of a certain date, either Mexico coughs it up or tankers start showing up with oil or Mexicans will not be served. And make very sure the Latino knows that date.
Maybe the thing to do is instead of stopping them from coming in , stop their money from going over, no mail or electronic connections and stop them from going back until Mexico starts paying us for their social service system we provide for them.
end of problem. posted 04/30/2008 at 13:02:46
You don't hear about a whole lot of Americans successfully going over to , oh, Toronto to have babies. Why is that?
We can't deny another human being the basic services of human rights. But we can bill their government for our outlay.
And we can take it back in trade.
Isn't Mexican oil a state controlled industry?
there you go....
Why not make Houston the first of many test cities.
It's not that hard to calculate what Mexico is costing Houston. Do it on an annual basis.
If Houston is a Mexican baby factory, then Houston should be getting that money back from Mexico. Or take it in oil deliveries.
Or decline services until that happens.
Someone has to start somewhere.
Publicize it well ahead that of a certain date, either Mexico coughs it up or tankers start showing up with oil or Mexicans will not be served. And make very sure the Latino knows that date.
Maybe the thing to do is instead of stopping them from coming in , stop their money from going over, no mail or electronic connections and stop them from going back until Mexico starts paying us for their social service system we provide for them.
end of problem. posted 04/30/2008 at 13:02:46
Well, if this isn't true and Mexicans are paying for the social serves they are using in a country not their own, I am sure it would be very easy for the Pro-Immigration bunch to prove it.
Having had a friend who tutors Spanish, I personally have met MANY Mexicans who first cross over, then go back and get married, then get their pregnant wives over here and then, still illegally get to use health and school systems.
Then there are the bunch that do real genius things like get drunk, eight to a car with no seat belts and of course no inusrance, get into car crashes and get to have Rolls Royce level health care at Stanford for half-million dollar brain injuries. Although I am tempted to ask that with anyone putting themselves in that situation in the first place, how could they possibly tell?
And who pays hospitalization for the Americans they hit?
What i don't understand is why we aren't billing Mexico for providing their entire social services system gratis.
Why don't we trade it to them for oil.
Don't forget the world's richest man is Mexican and tha money came from oil.
gala posted 04/30/2008 at 12:43:43
Having had a friend who tutors Spanish, I personally have met MANY Mexicans who first cross over, then go back and get married, then get their pregnant wives over here and then, still illegally get to use health and school systems.
Then there are the bunch that do real genius things like get drunk, eight to a car with no seat belts and of course no inusrance, get into car crashes and get to have Rolls Royce level health care at Stanford for half-million dollar brain injuries. Although I am tempted to ask that with anyone putting themselves in that situation in the first place, how could they possibly tell?
And who pays hospitalization for the Americans they hit?
What i don't understand is why we aren't billing Mexico for providing their entire social services system gratis.
Why don't we trade it to them for oil.
Don't forget the world's richest man is Mexican and tha money came from oil.
gala posted 04/30/2008 at 12:43:43
Kellyanne Conway, MSNBC Guest, Calls Hillary Clinton "Chief White Woman" In America
She is the spawn of Karl Rove.
Or as they call him on the res - Dances With Halliburton.
Another credit to the GOP.
If I were Hillary (aka Chief White Woman), I'd be making the most of being outed on her Native American connections.
I can't wait to see what Colbert does with this.
It's just irresistible.
gala posted 04/30/2008 at 00:21:30
Or as they call him on the res - Dances With Halliburton.
Another credit to the GOP.
If I were Hillary (aka Chief White Woman), I'd be making the most of being outed on her Native American connections.
I can't wait to see what Colbert does with this.
It's just irresistible.
gala posted 04/30/2008 at 00:21:30
Obama's Reverend Wright Press Conference (VIDEO)
Which is to say - anyone who doesn't agree with your point of view is a racist.
CYA is CYA--
and who needs four more years of it.
So much for change.
Obama blew the ability to show himself, at very beginning, as the living embodiment of the American Dream.
He could've said that he'd celebrate being both black and white--SINCE HE IS--- and not even tolerate alluding to race . Choosing one over the other has not added anything positive to this campaign. It was utterly unnecessary.
What it does show is the limits of Obama's judgement.
Unseasoned and unpracticed and, if he can't even manage his own PR, that puts him as even less able than Bush.
Not that Bush was capable to do it himself, he knew to pay the right people to do it.
I am not voting for on the job training for a leader who has to guide a country in crisis.
This is the Big Leagues, not more Bush League.
We aren't voting for Mr. Rodgers. We are voting for who can fix this mess best.
It is silly for you to keep giving free passes to someone who repeatedly shows how far good intentions are from good governance
We are so lucky to have Hillary Clinton in this race .
I am writing her in regardless.
I refuse to have another incompetent president foisted on me. And I refuse to be marketed to.
How much worse do you need it all to posted 04/29/2008 at 23:22:53
CYA is CYA--
and who needs four more years of it.
So much for change.
Obama blew the ability to show himself, at very beginning, as the living embodiment of the American Dream.
He could've said that he'd celebrate being both black and white--SINCE HE IS--- and not even tolerate alluding to race . Choosing one over the other has not added anything positive to this campaign. It was utterly unnecessary.
What it does show is the limits of Obama's judgement.
Unseasoned and unpracticed and, if he can't even manage his own PR, that puts him as even less able than Bush.
Not that Bush was capable to do it himself, he knew to pay the right people to do it.
I am not voting for on the job training for a leader who has to guide a country in crisis.
This is the Big Leagues, not more Bush League.
We aren't voting for Mr. Rodgers. We are voting for who can fix this mess best.
It is silly for you to keep giving free passes to someone who repeatedly shows how far good intentions are from good governance
We are so lucky to have Hillary Clinton in this race .
I am writing her in regardless.
I refuse to have another incompetent president foisted on me. And I refuse to be marketed to.
How much worse do you need it all to posted 04/29/2008 at 23:22:53
Hillary Clinton To Face Bill O'Reilly On "The Factor"
That is one terrific idea.
But what I really don't understand is why Hillary Clinton, who I intend to write-in regardless, would waste her time. How very disappointing of her to be so ill-advised.
Very much like the extremist Obamabots that have appeared Ont the HuffPo, there really is nothing you can say to the Faux audience and have them process that as thought.
They exist for affirmation not information.
Show them hard data and they will blindly counter with opinion, no matter how peculiar , ignorant or unsubstantiated. They are the part of America who have free-fallen from hope to delusion.
O' Reilly and the Faux Disinformation Network have a viewership of about, at very most, 3 million. That is about one percent of America .
Hillary should concentrate on the other 99 percent who are too well- informed to let a professional Petomaniac like Der Furor distort whatever to fit his flatulist shuck.
It's not like it could be that he is in it for the money or anything, right?
Bu t if you really feel like flag-waving , you can wear your patriotism on your sleeve of a Bill O'Reilly Professional Patriot Hero shirt peddled on his website.
Give him your money and you join the ranks of American Heroes.
Why bother with ethics when you can grub for spare change?
I suppose it is an extension f the neocon tenet that saying any lie is more credible than acting out any truth.
.gala posted 04/29/2008 at 15:29:48
But what I really don't understand is why Hillary Clinton, who I intend to write-in regardless, would waste her time. How very disappointing of her to be so ill-advised.
Very much like the extremist Obamabots that have appeared Ont the HuffPo, there really is nothing you can say to the Faux audience and have them process that as thought.
They exist for affirmation not information.
Show them hard data and they will blindly counter with opinion, no matter how peculiar , ignorant or unsubstantiated. They are the part of America who have free-fallen from hope to delusion.
O' Reilly and the Faux Disinformation Network have a viewership of about, at very most, 3 million. That is about one percent of America .
Hillary should concentrate on the other 99 percent who are too well- informed to let a professional Petomaniac like Der Furor distort whatever to fit his flatulist shuck.
It's not like it could be that he is in it for the money or anything, right?
Bu t if you really feel like flag-waving , you can wear your patriotism on your sleeve of a Bill O'Reilly Professional Patriot Hero shirt peddled on his website.
Give him your money and you join the ranks of American Heroes.
Why bother with ethics when you can grub for spare change?
I suppose it is an extension f the neocon tenet that saying any lie is more credible than acting out any truth.
.gala posted 04/29/2008 at 15:29:48
Wolfowitz: U.S. Was "Clueless On Counterinsurgency"
said the U.S. was "pretty much clueless on counterinsurgency.........."
..................U.S., us, Kemosabe?
What the hell where you collecting a paycheck for, Half O'Witz?
Why isn't this incompetent alone grounds for setting up the next Nuremberg tribunal?
I know that a blogging site is only as good as its words, but there are some criminal who are definitely unspeakable.
The only question is how history could be too unkind to minds as inexplicably destructive as the Bush League.
Even Big Oil must be mortified to have stooped to using this sewer as a front.
gala posted 05/02/2008 at 12:45:04
..................U.S., us, Kemosabe?
What the hell where you collecting a paycheck for, Half O'Witz?
Why isn't this incompetent alone grounds for setting up the next Nuremberg tribunal?
I know that a blogging site is only as good as its words, but there are some criminal who are definitely unspeakable.
The only question is how history could be too unkind to minds as inexplicably destructive as the Bush League.
Even Big Oil must be mortified to have stooped to using this sewer as a front.
gala posted 05/02/2008 at 12:45:04
Mel Gibson Signs On For First Acting Role Since 2002
No it's RATTLE THAT ROSARY- THE RESURRECTION OF ARCHIE BUNKER
This Time it's Traif.
gala posted 04/30/2008 at 21:46:54
This Time it's Traif.
gala posted 04/30/2008 at 21:46:54
Millionaires No Longer "Feel" Wealthy
I wish I was making this up but it really is true and too funny not to pass on.
I wa having a country lunch with a friend who works for a Seattle decorator.
And letting him know how scarily hard times have been here for us rurally.
He had absolutely no idea what I was talking about .
But to empathize with me, he mentioned that an appliance heiress client was now feeling the squeeze and had opted out of having $19,000 worth of fringe removed form the high five-figure draperies she was installing.
True story.
Times are hard all over.
gala posted 05/01/2008 at 03:40:24
I wa having a country lunch with a friend who works for a Seattle decorator.
And letting him know how scarily hard times have been here for us rurally.
He had absolutely no idea what I was talking about .
But to empathize with me, he mentioned that an appliance heiress client was now feeling the squeeze and had opted out of having $19,000 worth of fringe removed form the high five-figure draperies she was installing.
True story.
Times are hard all over.
gala posted 05/01/2008 at 03:40:24
Arianna On John McCain: Hijacked By The Right
I was wondering the same thing. That entire exchange was exceedingly creepy. And exceedingly L.A.
And as for Gary Shandling wasting about half the precious time of this too rarely sen show:
This Is Your Dope On Vote
gala posted 04/26/2008 at 19:47:33
Rush Limbaugh Sings: "I'm Dreaming Of Riots In Denver"
and now you see
I've gone completely out of my mind.. And..
They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!
They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa
To the funny farm. Where life is beautiful all the time and I'll be
happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats and they're
coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!!!!
You thought it was a joke and so you laughed, you laughed
and that would make me flip my lid.. RIGHT???
I know you laughed, I heard you laugh, you laughed you laughed and
laughed but now you know I'm utterly mad... And..
They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa,
They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa.
To the happy home. With trees and flowers and chirping birds and basket
weavers who sit and smile and twiddle their thumbs and toes and they're
coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!!
I
They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa.
To the funny farm, where life is beautiful all the time and I'll be happy
to see those nice young men in their clean white coats and they're coming
to take me away, ha-haaa!!!
To the happy home, with trees and flowers and basket
weavers who sit and smile and twiddle their thumbs and toes and they're
coming to take me away, ha-haa!!!
To the funny farm, where life is beautiful all the time...
gala posted 04/25/2008 at 17:11:16
I've gone completely out of my mind.. And..
They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!
They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa
To the funny farm. Where life is beautiful all the time and I'll be
happy to see those nice young men in their clean white coats and they're
coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!!!!
You thought it was a joke and so you laughed, you laughed
and that would make me flip my lid.. RIGHT???
I know you laughed, I heard you laugh, you laughed you laughed and
laughed but now you know I'm utterly mad... And..
They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa,
They're coming to take me away, ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-haaa.
To the happy home. With trees and flowers and chirping birds and basket
weavers who sit and smile and twiddle their thumbs and toes and they're
coming to take me away, ha-haaa!!!
I
They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa.
To the funny farm, where life is beautiful all the time and I'll be happy
to see those nice young men in their clean white coats and they're coming
to take me away, ha-haaa!!!
To the happy home, with trees and flowers and basket
weavers who sit and smile and twiddle their thumbs and toes and they're
coming to take me away, ha-haa!!!
To the funny farm, where life is beautiful all the time...
gala posted 04/25/2008 at 17:11:16
Pelosi On The Dream Ticket: "No, I Don't Think It's A Good Idea"
well, being upstate and reading screeds about her daily including low polls in the papers I sure don't remember her having any chance of winning. In my county the local Republicans were near prostrate with surprise
As far as delegates, if she doesn't get them, she has the option and the very real possibility of running as an independent.
And you can't be your level of politically involved without both knowing that and knowing full well what that means for the democratic party. And so do the people who run it and are Darwinian enough to want to keep running it.
which part of the Pennsylvania primary do you choose to be in denial about?And just keep in mind that those who bothered to do the primary thing are the politically motivated. The average vote in November Joe Sixpack is not about to want to crack open the beer he can't afford anymore with someone he's going to have to to provide on the job training for and who so far has has only exhibited bad and worse judgement.
If you really want to see McCain invade Iran and have the memory of when $5.00 gas was cheap, go ahead and keep foisting an unelectable Obama.
We'll have you thank.
And as far as Bin laden is concerned, my opinion is you couldn't provide in PR terms a better opponent for him than Obama. Untested, unready and combining the weakness of both East and West.
gala posted 04/25/2008 at 19:29:42
As far as delegates, if she doesn't get them, she has the option and the very real possibility of running as an independent.
And you can't be your level of politically involved without both knowing that and knowing full well what that means for the democratic party. And so do the people who run it and are Darwinian enough to want to keep running it.
which part of the Pennsylvania primary do you choose to be in denial about?And just keep in mind that those who bothered to do the primary thing are the politically motivated. The average vote in November Joe Sixpack is not about to want to crack open the beer he can't afford anymore with someone he's going to have to to provide on the job training for and who so far has has only exhibited bad and worse judgement.
If you really want to see McCain invade Iran and have the memory of when $5.00 gas was cheap, go ahead and keep foisting an unelectable Obama.
We'll have you thank.
And as far as Bin laden is concerned, my opinion is you couldn't provide in PR terms a better opponent for him than Obama. Untested, unready and combining the weakness of both East and West.
gala posted 04/25/2008 at 19:29:42
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