Oh, this is a funny column....

[CarolNYC]

From James Wolcott's blog in Vanity Fair....

The Sorrow and the Pity Party
Look, I understand the knocks against Hillary Clinton, truly I do. There are no flaming arrows fired her way that I haven't seen traverse the air before, no bill of indictment drawn up containing charges with which I'm unfamiliar. Reciting her sins and liabilities has become a familiar refrain, but if it's the Gregorian chant you live by, if you find Hillary Clinton such an insupportable choice for the Democratic nomination that you prefer to suckle your pride and idealism rather than soil your conscience should she be at the top of the ticket, fine, have fun with that. But, please, I beg of thee, could you at least spare the rest of us your longwinded, preeny, pious dirges?

(snip)

If only returning to the womb were a viable escape option from Hillary's taloned deathgrip! Probably such posts are indicative of the low morale pervading Sullivan's side pocket of the universe, his readers mirroring and amplifying his own downcast, defeated mood in a dispersed pity party. Hillary Clinton's bounce-back on March 4th had Sullivan drowning his sorrows ("I just had a Jager shot, and hope to get drunk very soon"), and staggering like a ghost through the stricken ruins of his dashed hopes, lashing out at Hillary like Sebastian blaming everything on "mummy" in Brideshead Revisited. Or perhaps Sullivan is closer in the depth of his despair to Sebastian's lover Kurt, sadly, bitterly contemplating his wounded, pus-ridden foot. For Sullivan, Hillary is the psychic pus that torments him so (she's not just any old "monster,"she's a "fratricidal maniac"), Obama the healing, uplifting ointment.
Roll that around in your head awhile.

(snip)

For some intellectual clarity and sanitary relief, not to mention a respite from all this rhetorical emo, repair to NYCweboy's day-after analysis of the March 4 primaries, with this passage in particular worth directing to those tender hearts intent on cleaving to their innocence:

High toned notions of "respectable" campaigning aside, political arguments are not ice cream socials: things are bound to get rough, a little ugly, more than a little mean. My own suggestion: toughen up. If you're prepared to get into it with people you disagree with, great; but if you plan to complain that such-and-so is unfair or mean or beyond the pale, don't expect much sympathy. Neither side is innocent here, and things will get worse before they get better... and that's before John McCain's "we will respectfully and politely call the other side terrorist loving pantywaists" approach to campaigning comes into play. You want nice... look elsewhere.

As political disciples of Saul Alinsky, Hillary and Obama don't need to be told the facts of life, but such instruction seems to have eluded Obama's supporters, many of whom seem to be in a hurry to go from hoping to moping, from feeling better about the future to feeling sorry for themselves. God forbid she wins Pennsylvania--that'll really give these crybabies something to cry about.

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/blogs/wolcott/2008/03/look-i-understa.html

You have to read the whole thing.... :rofl:

[maddiejoan]

1. Crap!

Now I'm in love with James Wolcott.

[zabet]

2. LOL!

Thanks for posting!

Here is another funny web post
about Obama...I have not been to
this site. Got this in an email.

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Obama speaks!

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Posted: March 06, 2008
1:00 am Eastern

© 2008

Thank you very much. It's great to be here.

You know, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over again and expecting a different result. We are going to do things differently and expect a different result. And if we don't do things differently, well, the results we get, well, they'll be the results we deserve. Thank you.

We deserve better results, and that, ladies and gentlemen, is why I'm running for the presidency of the United States of America. If you want the same results done in a different way, then you're going to get the same results, only achieved differently.

If, however, you want different results with a different way, but not done the same way, without the same results, but with new results in a new way, while ensuring the new results are much more new than the old results we've had the old way, then I'm sure you'll agree with me that we, ladies and gentlemen, must work toward a different way, to achieve results in a different way than the way we used to achieve the results differently. Thank you.

Change is never easy. Change is hard. Some change is harder than others. And easy change is never as easy as hard change, if only because hard change is hard. Changing the easy to the hard is harder than changing the hard to the easy.

But if, ladies and gentlemen, you are looking for easy change done the hard way, then that hard change will not be easy, if only because change is hard, and harder change is much harder when it is hard than when it is easy. This is especially the case if you use the same way of changing results that ultimately result in change done the hard way. And that is why I am proposing hard change with a different approach that could ensure a different change than we've had in the past with the same approach only with different results with easy change than the hard change that we've had when change was, in fact, easy. Thank you very much.

We must have hope. Hope is what we must have. If you have no hope, then you are without it more than you would be if, indeed, you had hope. Without hope, there is only hopelessness. If you have hopelessness, then those without hope will never have hope because those who have it, do, and those who don't, don't.

And that is why I intend to hope that we may have more hope, so that those without hope can get it from those who do have hope. So the hopeful must share the hope with the hopeless to reduce the hopeless while uplifting the hopeful. And I certainly hope that we can all agree that hope alone without hoping for those without hope is, in fact, a recipe for further hopelessness. Thank you.

I ask you not to take a chance on me, but to take a chance on your own aspirations. And aspirations are nothing without inspiration. And with inspiration comes perspiration. So I ask you to aspire to perspire so that you may inspire. And with your inspiration, coupled with the aspirations of those who perspire, that perspiration will create further inspiration to which all of us can aspire. And those who inspire the most will perspire the most, only because their aspirations create the greatest inspirations. And it is a false choice to think you can have inspiration without perspiration.

So, if you can't stand the heat in the kitchen, better get yourself out, unless you're popping popcorn! Until you see the whites of their eyes, then, by god, don't you fire! I have but one life to give to my country, but I sure do regret it! We have nothing to fear, but fear itself, especially when fear fears us back! Ask not what you can do for your country, but what your country can do for you! Sí, se puede! Pass the guacamole. Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce, special orders do not upset us. Boo-ya!

So to sum up, in conclusion, per se, so to speak, if you will, on the one hand, if not on the other, let me say this: Don't do drugs!

Thank you, and may God bless you, and may God bless America!
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=58136

Edit because I posted the wrong email! D'oh.

[golddigger]

3. Lmao, could you post this in GD:P citizen_jane I want to read the comments fro the Obama supporters

:rofl: :hi:

[zabet]

4. Can do!

Will be back to post a link!

:evilgrin:

[zabet]

5. Here it is....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4992954

Had to only post the first 4 paragraphs
so the Obama supporters would not alert
on it for that.

:hi:

[golddigger]

6. lmao, I think they were more outraged at the piece than it being from

WND. Knowing that it rings true. Sorry for all the shit you took, but you held your own.

They deserved to get a dose of their own medicine. Linking Druge, Politico.com and other right wing sites to smear Hillary. Friggin hypocrites all of them.

[libbygurl]

7. Oh, that was precious - just to see their dumb knee-jerk responses to it!

Good responses to the pack o' wolves!

[libbygurl]

8. LOL! That was very brave of you to do that - and to outwit them with your clever retorts!

I'm glad you're on our side! I'd hate to be your enemy, citizen_jane - you intimidate me with your smarts!