What have they said about RFK Jr.? It's vile, no doubt, because the obamabots are vile. They'll turn on anyone who doesn't support The Precious. Guess I should be thankful that I gave up visiting the sewers they inhabit (Orange State, Huffpo, etc.) so I don't have to read it first hand.
 

O My dear GOD! Hillary was refering to history and it going into june before anyone knows what just may happen~ for her to stay in this race! never did i associate what she said to nobama being killed!! why do nobamacrats have so much hate in them? i could use some fowl choice of words but have more human compassion in me for all of mankind not to!!! It is all just amazing!

obamacrats, STOP drinking the kool aid! come out from under the hypnosis you have seemed to fall under!!!!

YES~ change will happen alright~ when June shows Hillary what the decision of the people who vote these last primaries want. And then, just maybe she will run Independant and show the haters just who can win this!!!

BTW~ I will NEVER vote nobama, even if she is VP on the ticket!! I will write her in or I just might throw my vote to McCain.

peace to all~
 

Great blog page you have here!! glad a friend sent a link on my space!!! I will be sure to visit daily and make a small paypal contribution!!
 

Thanks, jw4h. I've lost a number of old friends this season -- but I've made new ones, and perhaps better ones.

Many years ago, when I was a kid, I picked up a copy of "Mister Miracle" by Jack Kirby. In this story, our hero's task was simple: He had to get from the top floor of an office building to the bottom floor. There was only one problem: An aerosol-born neurotoxin had transformed everyone in the building into a pack of bloodthirsty maniacs.

I remember that story every time I visit the O-blogs.
 

Olbermann's filthy rant last night was nothing more than hate speech. In truth, he should lose his job over this. It went far beyond mere entertainment. Hillary Clinton's only mistake was apologizing for the RFK remarks. Anybody who saw and heard the interview she gave with the Argus Leader would know that.
 

I would say I'm gob-smacked, but I've learned that no low is too low. I saw Joe Scarborough on Today this am, and he was the voice of reason fer chrissakes.

I didn't even get why it was controversial, then thought because of Teddy (obviously HRC thought same was the only rational thing to apologize for, and even then, I'm so sure all the Kennedys are trolling the tubez this weekend to catch HRC's 87th editorial board interview)

Then I heard good old Axlerod's faux outrage. Jackass should be in the Cirque de Soleil for all the contortions he works to find offense to Obama.

One of the more absurd examples of Obaamaite (not a typo - they're sheep) surrealism involves the kid who sold his bike to donate to HRC. the NYT blog followed up (disguised as interest in such a nice kid, but the undertone was looking to nit-pick ala the Ohio pregnant woman dying anecdote.) The kid was great - so the story ended snarkily that no PR rep could ask for better.

the 'bots went from snarling at Hill the Millionaire taking $ from a kid, to saying she should have refused it and told him to send it to the poor, she should have reimbursed him (illegal, no?) and finally to whether donations from a minor were legal (citing the on-line donation form as "evidence" - eyeroll) and whether that was a violation....wow, just wow. I was going to go back to look for entries for your contest, but that would be the psychological equivalent of diving in the East River buck nekkid with open wounds.

I read here often, and should have commented before just as a gesture of support. You're a highlight on my greatly reduced regular blog tour. Thanks for regular doses of sanity.
 

The official position of the Obama camp is that the remark was "unfortunate." Hillary has apologized if she offended anyone. That's the end of it as far as I'm concerned. Personally I rarely even read the comments at DailyKos or other sites. It would not even surprise me if Republicans were posting nasty anonymous comments to stir up trouble, although there are nuts on both sides.

Most Obama supporters realize that we are going to need Hillary's supporters in the general election.
 

Your dubious claims to be a serious JFK assassination investigator are now completely dissolved, extinguished, evaporated, and what may be left of all those claims is now a tiny puddle in a filthy street corner of your mind. A tiny, almost unnoticeable puddle of your own uncontrollable urine, you irrelevant mental midget.

Washington Post


In the context of Obama, Clinton's words broke a double taboo, because since the beginning of his candidacy, some of Obama's supporters have feared that his race made him more of a target than other presidential hopefuls. Obama was placed under Secret Service protection early, a full year ago. To be unaware that one's words tap into a monumental fear that exists in a portion of the electorate -- a fear that Obama's race could get him killed -- is an unusual mistake for a serious and highly disciplined presidential candidate.

please go change your clothes
 

It is disgraceful that so many Hillary-haters act out with vile comments about Senator Clinton especially regarding this recent incident in which she references the assassinations while there is more-than-enough reason to deny her the Democratic candidacy for the general election based on her authorization vote given to Bush for an Iraq attack based on that phony intelligence. Sacre bleu.
 

The media are also trying to claim the 1968 extended primary season analogy by Clinton is a poor one because it only lasted three months. The only problem was the primary didn't pick the nominee. The delegates controlled by Hubert Humphrey did--in August, during the convention in Chicago. Humphrey never ran in a single primary. Because the convention was so divisive, the DNC decided to put less power in the hands of the delegates and more control in the primaries. Clinton's comparison is apt; after all, it is very possible this nomination will be resolved in Denver instead of on the 31st of May.
 

Hi Joe,
Been reading a long time. Enjoy your perspective.

I have been on DU patiently grinding out my reasoning for supporting Hillary. With this latest flap I started a post called, "Now its on to Denver and lets win there!" (I was a little irritated with them.) I argued that this kind of hysterical unfounded overreaction would not play will in the fall if they tried to use it against McCain and Obama would lose.

I even said I preferred him to McCain and want a Dem victory in November, that I revere the memory of RFK, etc.

No dice. Within a couple of hours the thread was locked for being inflammatory.
 

Mike: YOU were inflammatory? That's funny indeed!

The great thing about posts like these is that when guys like anon 9:45 show up, they actually help to demonstrate the point I'm making. I used to get a message like that every hour or so; previously, I would delete them after getting a whiff of the writing style -- one or two lines did the trick. But now, I want more.

Gary, your personal reading habits aren't the point. More people visit Kos than turn on cable news.

Although I have to tell you a story. When I talked to the Secret Service guy, I mentioned the website where I saw the death threat. And he said: "Daily Coast?"

I said: "No. Daily Kos. K-O-S. You never heard of it?

"Nope."

Kind of puts the blogosphere in perspective, doesn't it? I think I would have had to define the term "blogosphere" to the guy, if he had heard me use it.

By the way, I gotta ask -- why is it that everyone fixates on the IWR vote when it comes to Hillary, but never anyone else? As I've documented, Kos was once fervntly in the corner of John Edwards, as was I. He voted the same damned way. In the case of Edwards, progs are willing to describe trhe thing correctly: It was not a vote for war per se; it allowed military force if UN resolutions mandating inspectors were not observed. But the inspectors. But the inspectors DID go in, and the UN was happy with their work. Which means that there never was a legal basis for the invasion.

With Edwards, this point is understood. With Hillary, the progs willfully MISunderstand it. Some of them talk as though she planned the war and Dubya were merely her unwilling dupe!
 

On one Obamafacist blog today they had the audacity to claim the RFK comment was directed the the Chosen One.

Oh, please if he could be so lucky. They made it sound like Hillary was staying in the race "in the hope" of getting the nomination because of an Obama assassination.

Found you're site recently, and am quite interested in your libertarian - Freidmanite analysis of the kid.
 

This is such crap. The bots are scared shitless that the superdelegates are starting to get a clue about the electability factor, and are resorting the most vile form of false smear tactics.
I am a female between the ages of 40-50. I once briefly entertained the idea of voting for obi, but not in a very long while. It was not really once thing, just a culmination of arrogant, amateurish missteps along the way that place me firmly in Senator Clinton's camp. If she is driven out of this campaign because of these vile, misogynistic cretins, I will be voting for McCain. Not abstaining - voting for McCain. I know he isn't as Precious, but he is a known commodity who will NOT be worshipped by the faux "free" press. It is a no-brainer for me, and I deeply appreciate bloggers like Joseph who really understand this.

The thing is, I'm just a "regular" working person, and I know at least 75-100 people just like me.
In January 2009, we will either be a swearing in President Hillary Clinton, or President John McCain. Get it???
 

Oh so good to find you!
I'm seriously getting creeped out by BO in the last month. Something really, really 'off' about him. Seriously.
This jumping on the offhand remark by HRC to justify her staying in the race has seriously blown my mind. WTF? It had nothing to do with the asassination for f's sake.
I'm sorry she apologized. There was nothing to apologize for.
I've given up on Alternet, Huff, KOS, KO, Dowd, Randi and their ilk who have all drunk the Koolaid or are getting serious payola from McCain.
Did journalism sneak out the back door and turn out all the lights?
It sure seems like it.
 

Now this is more scary.

New Obama Movie
 

That movie isn't scary. It's right-wing nonsense.

But...I do fear that stuff like that will be effective if and when they keep piling it on.