Thank you, East Coast liberals. Thank you, West Coast liberals.
Thank you.
Thank you for the disgusting attitude of moral superiority with which, over the decades, you’ve regarded the rest of the nation. Thank you for the smug condescension with which you’ve regarded the “fly-over” country between your two domains. Thank you for your repeated jabs and snubs against the Interior West, the Midwest, and the South.
Tonight, you voted for the war candidate. The Interior West, the Midwest, and the South did not.
Now shut the fuck up. I don’t care who goes red or blue in November: just shut the fuck up. Enjoy your coasts, enjoy your cities, enjoy your Writers’ Strike, enjoy your Republican governors and mayors, enjoy your electoral votes, and enjoy your goddamned war. When it’s all said and done, you voted for the war candidates. We didn’t. So shut the fuck up.
Fuck you right back. I didn’t vote for a war candidate, nor did anyone I know. Nothing I wanted more than to see her lose, but it’s damn tough for a senator to lose his or her own state. In fact, for a senator with home court advantage, Clinton came pretty close to giving up the ghost here in NY, which is something that gives me a satisfied smile.
You object to stereotyping and blanket labels of your region, so naturally, naturally, you resort to the same ugliness. Hypocrisy is a disgusting thing.
I’ll add this. I dislike Hillary Clinton immensely for her corporatism, her craptastic record on the War, and for many other reasons. But being “right wing” is not one of them, unless you mean “right wing” of the Democrats. She’s still a better choice for a real liberal than any Republican except maybe John Dean, who ain’t exactly an option.
(Disclaimer: I find this post relatively interesting whereas I find the OP himself to be dull and dimwitted. Take this response as a general response to this sort of message and not to the OP himself, the OP himself probably has no interest in actually discussing this issue)
You voted for the local candidate just like New York, Arkansas, Arizona, and to a degree Massachusetts and Utah, did. Nothing more, nothing less.
The war is mostly going to be a non-issue in the general election. I will say that in a general election against John McCain, I expect Obama to become a bit more hawkish or lose, quite simply. With the war going well now people aren’t going to vote for a candidate who is decidedly in the “pull out ASAP” camp, that ship has already sailed, if we held a presidential election in 2006, that would have been a great platform to run on. It just isn’t the case anymore. Most Americans don’t care about the war anymore and those that do perceive us to be winning, a candidate that is campaigning on losing the war is going to upset the portion of Americans that cares about the war and probably cost themselves the election.
I predict a subtle shift in Obama’s policies in regards to Iraq if he gets nominated.
Every vote for Hillary was a direct endorsement of GW Bush’s foreign policy. Every vote was a thumbs-up to the murdered and mutilated american military youth. You chose death. You choose war. You are pro-war if you voted for Hillary. You are a Republican if you voted for Hillary. May you children be the first on the front lines when we go to war with Iran. May their heads be the first to receive bullets, because you voted for the war by voting for Hillary. Murderers.
I mean, what kind of person votes for Hillary? Seriously?
I don’t think I’ve ever felt as close to doing some sort of “monk lighting himself on fire in public” thing as a form of protest. Instead, I’m going to cry and go to bed.
Actually I must agree with mr. alphabet soup’s rant. Hillary is a shrill beast, at least with voting for Barack I could let go of years of my white guilt.
While I don’t think I have much white guilt to rid myself of, I was also pretty disappointed to see Massachusetts go to Clinton. At least the primaries aren’t winner take all like the final election, so even if Hillary wins a close one she doesn’t walk away with all the delegates.
What’s the OP going to do if the Dems have a Clinton/Obama ticket going up against a McCain/Huckabee ticket? This would give the Dems the female and African-American vote, along with some of the high population states, which would be a good wedge against McCain/Huckabee who could be expected to take parts of the West and the South.
Additionally, it would be a good bet that Hillary could win re-election in 2012, thus helping to set Obama up for an easy win in 2016 (since by spending 8 years as VP, he’ll have lost that “new candidate” smell which some people find troubling).
They would never run on the same ticket after the accusations they’ve flung at eachother during the debates. They’d be a laughing stock if they even contemplated it.
You fuckers need to get your act together. It’s a primary not a general election. Yes you want your boy/girl to win but you are all on the same side. Stop getting so personal about it. If you can see the difference between a Dem win in Nov and a GOP win then you’re a fucking moron IMO.
I’m reminded of a great scene from the recent Battlestar Galactica. The vipers(small fighters) from two Battlestars(Space aircraft carriers) are going at each other and looking like they are going to start fighting with each other. Then the Cylons(the real enemy) are spotted and all the ships suddenly lock into formation and go for their foe. You fuckers better start thinking that way and stop being so wrapped up in your passion for your candidate.
I’d love to see Obama win. If I was American in the States I think I may be pounding the streets campaigning for him, if he loses though I hope Clinton will win and win big. People like the OP worry me. I could see him switching or at least not voting out of spite.
Most of the “spat” between them has been media hype (IMHO, the “heated” talk between the two of them during the debates was a carefully calculated plan to shut Edwards out, and it worked quite well, I’d say), and the two of them have been making concilatory noises towards one another of late. (Jon Stewart did a pretty good expose of this on A Daily Show a couple of weeks ago.) Nor would it be seen as a bad idea if the two are nearly tied as far as delegates go when the convention rolls around. Right now, they’re very close in the regular delegates that they’ve racked up, however, Hillary leads 2 to 1 in the super delegates.
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And thank you, rural states in the interior west, the midewest,and the south, for the disgusting attitude of moral superiority with which, over the decades, you’ve regarded the rest of the nation. Thank you for the smug red-necked condescension with which you’ve regarded major urban centers and large populations on the coasts.
The poor, beset upon Midwest and South. As a resident of the District of Columbia, I have been wringing my hands for years, worrying when this nation will finally listen to the oppressed and misunderstood people of those geographical regions.
Will nobody listen to the concerns of the farmer? Or the Southern Democrat? Or the union faithful? When will the injustice of these voices being ignored on the national stage finally be righted?
Until that day finally comes, I am not an American, for I know that I live in Amerikkka.