Fucking Clown-Shoes.

Alabama.
Alaska.
Arizona.
Arkansas.
California.
Colorado.
Connecticut.
Delaware.
Florida.
Georgia.
Hawaii - Three pages worth of Google results for "hawaii school obama speech concern" didn't turn up any local articles regarding that state's schools censoring the President's speech; only the standard AP article about it.
Idaho.
Illinois.
Indiana.
Iowa.
Kansas.
Kentucky.
Louisiana.
Maine.
Maryland.
Massachusetts. (A letter to the Editor.)
Michigan.
Minnesota.

You know, I'm tired for now. But any of you who are shocked or baffled that this is going on in your area.... it's everywhere.

Descent is the highest form of patriotic.

(See explanation of title here.)

Here's the big difference, you deliberately clueless motherfuckers, between Bush fils's Town Hall Meetings and Obama's Town Hall Meetings:

Bush banned people and cancelled meetings which were not to his hand-picked specifications and engaged in all kinds of other media fuckery.

Obama and other pols out there on the Town Hall circuit are actually getting the opportunity to hear - and thus publicly air - other sides of the issues. Even when they're batshit fucking insane.

Lock-step? Um, no.

You know, I keep seeing folks on the Right talking about folks on the Left being in lock-step with Obama just like they always were for Bush and Cheney and whomever else was in favor at any given time. "You people all think he's the Messiah!" they say. "You all parrot whatever message the Left-Wing Mainstream (wait, what?) Media tells you to say!"

One of the best Venn Diagrams I've seen was one which looked like this only, you know, circles:

((People who call Obama "The Messiah")) ((People who voted for Obama))

You'll note that the circles do NOT intersect.

Anyhow, from Crooks and Liars:

Are the Obama people really that dumb? They were "surprised," "caught off guard" by the massive dirtstorm unleashed on healthcare reform?

These are the geniuses of 11-dimensional chess? Puhleeze. I think they've started to believe their own press. Obama the Healer, Obama the Post-Racial Lincoln. What a bunch of damned dopes.

Yeah, we Lefties are sure a bunch of lock-step "Yes" men, aren't we?

Yes, Barack Obama is inexperienced.

Here's the thing.

I am forced to agree completely with anyone who says that John McCain has more experience in government than Barack Obama. Eh, "forced" is the wrong word; there's no shame in being younger than one's opponent, you know?

I think Barack Obama knows far more about actually LIVING in the country he wants to govern than John McCain does. McCain has had power and prestige going for him pretty much since birth (except for the 5 1/2 years he yeah yeah I know, who doesn't?), and it feels to me as though Obama has grown up in the same country I have. I'll cop to a wholly emotional argument. As far as politics go, I think emotion holds at least as much force as logic.

I agree that Barack Obama is inexperienced with foreign policy. The thing is, I think Biden brings enormous foreign policy experience to the ticket. I also think that Obama is bright enough to bring in people who will give him good intelligence. I think that Palin brings absolutely NOTHING to McCain's ticket. The people who have said that she has executive experience, etc... well, for one thing, I've read about how she USED her position.* For another, while she has held positions of power, her apparent complete lack of intellectual curiosity is unacceptable. It's not that she isn't very knowledgeable; it's that she doesn't CARE that she's not knowledgeable. She only seems interested in the things people tell her she's supposed to be interested in. This is no big deal if you're a Project Manager in Generic Corporation, but I think it's downright dangerous in the Vice President of the COUNTRY.

Mother Fuck. I started this four hours ago and then had to do a bunch of TOTALLY UNIMPORTANT (read: real world) things and now I've lost both my train of thought AND my eloquence. So assuming anyone still reads this thing, maybe I'll grace you with more later.


*And no, I don't believe everything I read on liberal blogs, because the Right has no monopoly on stupidity.