Matt Taibbi's excellent new article from Rolling Stone

[SoFlaJet]

do yourselves a favor fellow democrats and take 15 minutes or so to read this one


http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/20830259/the_superdelegates

[AtomicKitten]

1. Love Matt Taibbi.

thanks for posting ... :D

K&R

[SoFlaJet]

3. you are welcome...yea he's great AK

and it's worth the read too

[AtomicKitten]

39. hey SFJ

What a great article! Matt Taibbi is one of my favorite political pundits. I linked to the article in my sig line.

Again, thanks for posting! :D

[Hope And Change]

2. K & R!

[billyoc]

4. DiFi: What the fuck are you doing? People are starting to stare!

:rofl:

[SoFlaJet]

7. hey Billy is that your pic there

sportin' that 70's porn star 'stache?

[billyoc]

13. Bwhahaha! That thing is atrocious, eh?

It's a picture from an ID card. They said I looked like one of the weathermen.



I should use a newer, stache-less one. :)

[SoFlaJet]

14. hey that friggin ID card is expired!!!!!

who let him in here anyway? As a musician I wish I had that much hair though...

[billyoc]

17. It's expired because we fixed everything down there.

Didn't we? :eyes:

[SoFlaJet]

19. I'm sure you guys made a better effort

than Bush and Brownie did...damn homo-sexules and their parades

[Window]

38. That cracked me up too.

[Tatiana]

5. Hmmm....

"Yeah, my buddies were goofing around a little bit there," he says with a laugh. "It's slowed down some since I declared for Obama — but I still hear from the Clinton campaign, e-mails telling me Obama can't win and so on."

[BeyondGeography]

6. "The Clintons are finally done...

They were a big draw for a long time — but I think we're all going to be surprised by just how much and how thoroughly we won't miss them once they're finally gone."

[SoFlaJet]

8. yea that is a great line BG

a-fucking-men to that sentiment

[Cha]

22. Au contraire...not only not miss them but

celebrate their hoistiness on their own Petard.

[kenny blankenship]

30. ...unless they are NOT done,

in which case the era in which the people chose their candidates & final winners is what's over n done.

He has something of a contradiction on his hands - when you describe those you can get snarled in paradoxes as he did. The Clintons are done, or else we are done as a democracy. Bushler's resort to extra-Constitutional, undemocratic casuistry and string pulling to win the White House in 2000 won't be just a one-off freak event in the history of our system if the Clintons succeed now. It will be confirmed as the new normal, and votes will become much less important than the power of those who count the votes. All elections of consequence will go into overtime and be decided by "Rules Committees", Combines, Commissions, Star Chambers and Syndicates.

[IndianaGreen]

9. No more tearful "How can you do this to my mom?" phone calls to superdelegates

Wow! Quite an article! K&R

[Adelante]

10. An electoral banana republic

That's us, all right :(

[SoFlaJet]

11. this is another great quote;

While we wait for this process to play itself out, we are as helpless as Chinese citizens waiting for the Politburo to hand them a new premier, or Catholics watching the chimney in St. Peter's Square for word of a new pope.

[Cha]

24. "Helpless"...that's been us but,

NOT THIS TIME.

[Ichingcarpenter]

12. "Sometimes," says McGovern

"Sometimes," says McGovern, "the candidate is the last one to know it's over."

Excellent Article

[nichomachus]

15. Aside from the very unfortunate opening line . . . n/t

[lisa58]

16. This line made me laugh:

no more of a hectoring, red-faced Bill Clinton lecturing us about whatever side of his ass we forgot to kiss that day

[Ichingcarpenter]

18. Yeah, that was a keeper too

Here you go




Now read how Bill Clinton helped start the problems with gasoline prices by allowing
Unchecked Refinery Mergers

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3335821

[Cha]

26. I'm sorry but isn't

bil clinton looking older than his time? Maybe he's the one who needs the vaca?

[ForeignSpectator]

20. Yep n/t

[Cha]

25. Yes, Matt Taibbi's take is priceless and more

than one generation reads it in Rolling STone:)

[Tarheel_Dem]

29. LMAO.......I love it!

:rofl:

[Cha]

21. hilary will be sitting in the Senate doodling "Obama can't win" next year.

"..It's slowed down some since I declared for Obama — but I still hear from the Clinton campaign, e-mails telling me Obama can't win and so on."


"In the end, whatever happens, it's impossible to get around the fact that all of this, really, is the responsibility of one person: Hillary Clinton. We headed irrevocably down this path toward a democratic crisis the moment she decided to stay in the race despite impossible mathematical odds. That is a heavy thing for one person to bring about all by herself, on purpose and with her eyes wide open. The question we all might have to start thinking about soon is Why? What the hell was she thinking? Was she trying to drag us into a Banana Republican coup scenario on purpose? Or is there something even simpler at work?

"Sometimes," says McGovern, "the candidate is the last one to know it's over."

Think there's going to be a lot of analysis of this Democractic primary campaign? How much psychoanalysis of hilary will come down the pike in years to come?

[Willo]

28. "...on purpose and with her eyes wide open."

Strong article.

[Cha]

34. "Anything could happen" Except

hilary finding a brain.

[americanstranger]

23. Whoa. Taibbi rawks.

So no more Hillary: no more Rocky references, no more Tom Petty, no more carefully orchestrated leaks of human imperfections mined deep in the anus of Barack Obama's increasingly sullied biography. No more guilt-by-association raps, no more purges of insufficiently ruthless campaign staffers, no more woe-is-me whining about media conspiracies and the "race card" and Florida and Michigan and her empty war chest — no more whining about being outspent, from a candidate who had eight years of White House chips to cash in. No more tearful "How can you do this to my mom?" phone calls to superdelegates from Chelsea Clinton, no more of a hectoring, red-faced Bill Clinton lecturing us about whatever side of his ass we forgot to kiss that day. The Clintons are finally done. They were a big draw for a long time — but I think we're all going to be surprised by just how much and how thoroughly we won't miss them once they're finally gone.

Yowch.

- as

[SoFlaJet]

27. yea he was bitching last week

about Tom Petty's I won't back DOWWWNNN being played over and over and over again at her rallies...funny he brought it up again this week

[me b zola]

31. I loved the article

"The Clintons are finally done. They were a big draw for a long time — but I think we're all going to be surprised by just how much and how thoroughly we won't miss them once they're finally gone." :thumbsup:



~and I learned a new word. Approximocracy.

[Yael]

32. I love me some Matt Taibbi

Thanks -- good read!

[SoFlaJet]

33. who's your buddy Yael?

SFJ

[Yael]

35. ...

:D

[Window]

36. K/R.

:kick:

[SoFlaJet]

37. how many recs to get to the greatest page?

?

[Window]

42. Five.

Peace:thumbsup:

[hisownpetard]

40. K&R. Great article. Thanks for posting.

[SoFlaJet]

41. bumping for the Sunday crowd

just in case ya missed it

[sam kane]

43. love him. nt