Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Our Obama backers are feelin’ kinda glum right about now. There is the despair over the abandonment of principles that may have been probably were purely mythical from the get-go, as we discussed yesterday. And then there is Adam McKay’s column in the Huffington Post…the headline of which, says it all.
We’re Gonna Frickin’ Lose this Thing
“Stop saying that!” my wife says to me. But this is not a high school football game and I’m not a cheerleader with a bad attitude. This is an election and as things stand now, we’re gonna frickin’ lose this thing. Obama and McCain at best are even in the polls nationally and in a recent Gallup poll McCain is ahead by four points.
Something is not right. We have a terrific candidate and a terrific VP candidate. We’re coming off the worst eight years in our country’s history. Six of those eight years the Congress, White House and even the Supreme Court were controlled by the Republicans and the last two years the R’s have filibustered like tantrum throwing 4-year-olds, yet we’re going to elect a Republican who voted with that leadership 90% of the time and a former sportscaster who wants to teach Adam and Eve as science? That’s not odd as a difference of opinion, that’s logically and mathematically queer.
It’s our turn, dammit! Waaaah!
Things aren’t any more encouraging on the most popular and prestigious resource the left side of the blogosphere has ever known…because the KOSsacks have just seen the poll results.
New Gallup: McCain up 10, 54-44 (LV), 50-46 (RV)
Don’t shoot the messenger. A new poll coming out in tomorrow’s USA Today has McCain up 54 to 44 amongst LVs, 50 to 46 amongst RV. Here’s the link
The only good news is that Kerry was behind by more at this time in 2004. Then again, that isn’t such great news.
I always thought McCain was likely to win this election, once he won the primary and Obama was the Dems nominee.
HRC would have likely done better. But honestly at this point, I think things are bleak for Obama. He’s not a great debater and John Kerry actually was quite good. His media campaign sucks.
I think some people need to start thinking more deeply about the toughness of the task at hand.
To add: I really like Obama and have donated a good amount of money to his campaign. I have been a member of this community since 2003, which I imagine is longer than most of those calling me a troll. I wish it weren’t so and I wish I didn’t see it coming, but I [get] sick of a lot of the spinning and wishful thinking I’ve been seeing on this website today. L[o]ok Obama, as it stands, is going to lose this election unless he gets his ass in gear.
It gets worse, because if you read the comments in the thread under this posting, scanning in particular for some actual ideas on how The Chosen One can get his divine ass in gear, you aren’t going to find a whole lot. The usual crap-fest you’ve been seeing if you’ve followed this stuff…oh, we’ve gotta play dirty like those Republicans do…we need to highlight what’s wrong with Sarah Palin…we should call John McCain an old man…we liberals tend to appeal to intellect rather than emotion (snarf!).
Yeah. Good luck on that.
I’d say if this election was a movie, it would be The Phantom Menace. Right up until the final square-off it’s been just so much absurdity and nonsense someone thinks I should be wanting to watch…maybe the special effects hold my interest the first time, but when the same flotsam and jetsam and “yoosa peepul gonna die?” is repeated ad nauseum it gets old quick. Right up until Darth Maul walks through the door, and suddenly it all changes. You don’t even want to hit “pause” to go on a potty break.
In my world, Darth Maul just walked through the door.
You know what I’d like someone to answer for me, because I don’t know if this is the case or not. I have my disagreements with the conservative wing, call ’em what you will — Republicans, McCain backers, people who know we’re screwed of Obama is elected, extremists, moderates, whatever. From these disagreements, I know the folks to the political right of the aisle are quite willing to discuss why they want the election to turn out the way they want it to turn out. Hell, they’re not only willing, they’re anxious to say this out loud.
Is there a page on DailyKOS somewhere about “Why I want to see Obama win”? I mean, something with some meat to it. Not Oh Boy, That Guy Is The Real DealTM. Seen it. I’m talking something to mirror what I see on the conservative side: I care about abortion…I care about national defense…I care about putting the kibosh on this global warming hooey…I care about capital punishment…I care about an end to affirmative action quotas…
Are you not allowed to talk about that on the left? Or is there something I’ve somehow managed to miss? I’d really like to know.
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