It seems that I am a "stalker"

Davey Sirota, whose amusing meltdown was noted in all of three previous posts (only one of which was sizable), now classifies me as a "hate stalker."

He links to a post detailing his deceptive writings on Obama's equally-deceptive NAFTA stance. Other bloggers would be grateful for the link. I am not -- for reasons which we will discuss at the end.

Alas, Davey doesn't see fit to engage my argument about Obama's NAFTA fraud. How can he? He has no argument: The facts are beyond dispute. In his campaign literature and in his speeches, Obama lied about his NAFTA stance in order to win key states -- and then he gave back-channel assurances to the Canadians, to whom he revealed his true feelings.

That post also takes Sirota to task for repeating the canard that, in 2008, racism posed an electoral challenge equal to or greater than sexism. Davey cited no poll numbers to prove his assertion; the afore-linked post cited hard evidence to prove the opposite.

Davey -- who psychotically thinks that Obama's main challenge is combating "Clintonism" -- has expectorated many, many more words attacking the Clinton wing of the Democratic party than I have written, or ever will write, about David Sirota. As mentioned earlier, all of three posts mention his name. The first one was long-ish. The second one amounted to no more than a brief mention. The third was also short, although I could not resist including a cartoon, which seemed to make the readers giggle. Nothing wrong with a good giggle.

That's stalking?

Dave, if you are reading this, let me assure you: You have no idea what stalking is.

Let's talk about stalking. Those who took an anti-Obama stance during 2008 know all about it. They learned, on a daily basis, what it feels like to be on the receiving end of true, visceral, seething, screeching, non-stop fanatical cyber-hate.

As long-time readers know: In 2008, I grudgingly voted for Obama in the California primary. Shortly thereafter, the obnoxious behavior of the Obots -- coupled with their outlandish attacks on the Clintons -- caused me to take a closer look at the candidate's shifting stances. I also started paying attention to his shady associations, not to mention his empty resume.

It is a fact that he accomplished nothing as a so-called "community organizer," or as a state senator, or as a Senator -- unless you count ruthless self-promotion as an accomplishment.

It is also a fact that nearly every time Blagojevich got a pay-off, Obama would get a smaller one. This blog has been making that latter point (and linking to the evidence) long before Blago became a national punch line.

Because I dared to write such heterodoxy -- because I dared to suggest that a black politician might be as duplicitous as any white politician -- arrogant "progressives" routinely hurled accusations of racism and even Nazism. Their whole-body hate-gasms made the Freepers and the dittoheads seem like blissed-out flower children.

We're not talking about once-a-day attacks. We're talking about once an hour. At times, they came every few minutes.

These attacks were, for the most part, pure abuse; few comments engaged the specifics of any given argument. I received five or six rather serious-sounding death threats, and discussed two or three of them online. (Contacting the authorities proved irritating and fruitless.)

I began to check the IP numbers of these hourly attack messages. Quite a few of them originated from a certain computer in Chicago. Those messages -- "drive-bys," some would call them -- seemed to come from folks who had no previous knowledge of or interest in my writings.

Every so often, someone using that same IP number would try to palm off a hoax. For example, one anti-Hillary letter allegedly came from the mother of a soldier in Iraq. I didn't publish it, but other bloggers did. It was proven to be a fake.

Again: Much of this nonsense originated from the same address in Chicago.

Who was at the other end of that IP address? A normal person who dislikes a blog would simply go elsewhere. A normal person would not launch attacks hour after hour, day after day, week after week, month after month.

Obviously, this incessant barrage was not the work of a normal person.

Was it the work of a group of people attached to the Obama campaign -- which just happened to be headquartered in Chicago? Is it possible that their (paid?) task was to bully opponents, and to flood all of blogland with the propaganda line of the day? Were they trying to spread disinformation about Hillary? Were they using accusations of racism to cudgel Obama's opponents into submission?

Gee. Gosh. Do ya think...?

Let's not be naive. Of course blogs like mine were on the receiving end of an organized attack by the Obama campaign. Those thugs do politics Chicago-style -- always have, always will. Once I figured out what was happening to me, it was easy to see the same process at work on other, larger blogs. The pattern was obvious. And if anyone wants to accuse me of paranoia simply because I recognize the existence of the obvious -- well, go ahead. I really can't give even half a damn.

Davey, do you honestly expect a cyber-stalking victim to support a candidate -- and a party -- that would engage in such vile tactics? Don't you understand that unfairly calling someone a racist has consequences? Those disgusting attacks are the reason why this life-long liberal (not "progressive": liberal) finally said adios to the Democratic party -- a party whose candidates have had my vote since the year after you were born.

And do you honestly expect me to feel sorry for you, David Sirota? Do you really think that you have suffered from "stalking"?

Davey, your compatriots in Obotland have proven themselves to be the most zealous, overbearing and downright obscene cyber-stalkers in the history of the internet. (Incidentally, I still get daily hate messages, although they no longer come from that Chicago address.)

The disgusting behavior of the Obama campaign cannot and will not be forgotten. If such behavior is forgiven or rationalized, it will be repeated.

And now, Davey, I see that you too have become a "racist," for you have dared to criticize He Who Must Never Be Dissed. Under the new rules -- let us call them the Kos rules -- anyone who treats Barack Obama as just another corrupt politician stands damned as a born bigot, indistinguishable from David Duke.

They're having a sale on white sheets at Target, Davey. See you at the check-out counter.

"Self interest": Davey thanks his "stalkers" for reasons of "self interest": Anything that drives up readership stats is fine by him. That's a key difference between a relentless self-promoter like Davey (whose appearances on the Franken program were heralded by a blaring theme song called "My Sirota") and a guy like me. In order to forestall accusations of "self interest," I long ago instituted a policy of discouraging links to this blog. I fought with sites like RAW Story to remove Cannonfire from their blogrolls. I've also turned down all offers (yes, I've received a goodly number) to lecture, to appear on the radio, and to write about politics for payment.

Perhaps we now have some insight into Davey's attraction to Obama. Both men belong to the same religious cult -- the cult of Me-Me-Me.