Comments on: Supercilious disdain for me, but not for thee

By: merl

merl — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:17:12 +0000

A commie and an elitist!!! I guess that makes sense to some dumbfuck somewhere.

By: TheKenoshaKid

TheKenoshaKid — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:51:58 +0000

I haven’t read much Karl Marx since the early 1980s, when I taught political philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania.

That’s the kind of first sentence that screams “Skip the rest of this.”

By: DennisSGMM

DennisSGMM — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:30:16 +0000

If they did they might run screaming. Like I said, I lived through it. Anyone could be accused of being a Commie; people who favored fluoridating water, people who felt that persons of color should be treated equally, members of the press who dared to assert that America might not be the most perfectest nation on earth, most musicians and many liberals. It was an ugly fucking time. You could cut the paranoia with a knife. In other words, a Republican paradise.

By: fauxmaxbaer

fauxmaxbaer — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:12:46 +0000

Do the younger folk even know what a communist is? It’s getting to be a bit obscure. And I think it’s hard to make the Islamist sympathizer thing stick. Sliming your opponent has become such a chore nowadays.

By: lilysmom

lilysmom — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:38:40 +0000

Dropped my NYT subscription over this article today and told them why I was doing so.
It was just the last straw.

By: sophronia

sophronia — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:37:27 +0000

Well, hey, it’s only Monday. Give the GOPress a chance to bloviate about this for another week or two — and barring a major distraction, you know they will — and we’ll see what happens.

I don’t think playing up the word “bitter” is working. Most people out there are bitter and aren’t afraid to say so. I expect the wingnuts will pick up on this and switch tactics to how Obama insulted religion again.

By: Phoenix Woman

Phoenix Woman — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:17:21 +0000

dstatton: Yeah. It also reminds me of the spring and fall of 1998, when the talking heads were saying that Monica was gonna drag the Democrats down in the midterms and they wound up breaking even in the Senate and gaining five House seats. The media flatly refused to believe it would happen right up to election day.

By: dstatton

dstatton — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:37:03 +0000

Thanks for that. One would never guess those trends listening to the media noise. McCain has fallen against Hillary, and Obama’s lead over him is steady. Can this be one of those times when the media fails to move public opinion? I’m thinking of the Terry Schiavo circus.

By: Phoenix Woman

Phoenix Woman — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:40:53 +0000

Meanwhile, Bittergate has hurt Obama sooooo much that he now has a ten-point lead over Hillary and a two-point lead over McCain nationwide as of Gallup today.

By: captphealy

captphealy — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:59:48 +0000

We’re moving from Commies to Islamofascists, so there will be no gap. Haven’t you noticed?

And Charles Pierce noticed that Bill’s column has a bit of what Daffy Duck inimitably referred to as “pronoun trouble”.