My favorite snarky comment in the blogosphere so far (from a gleeful poster on Glenn Greenwald's excellent blog) is:
Why does America hate America so much?
And, oh, man, heaven bless Jesus' General for wading into the swamp of Little Green Footballs so nobody else has to. This comment curdled the contents of my stomach:
Bush is losing precisely because he has took the high road after 9/11 instead of Zyclon B-ing most of the muslim world after attacking our shores as they have been doing to our shipping since 1800.
This is a world war and not a tea party for the Yale/Harvard clique...
Islam must have a boot smashing into its face forever until it becomes a grown up religion not bent on murdering everyone on the planet...
Off now to soak up the bitterness of the Freepers and read the
Salon
article tommyrot linked. I'm being petty and heartless and, just for now, I absolutely don't care. It's a beautiful morning!
Naderites still trying to sell the "there's no difference between 'em" meme
Are there any of those left? (Besides Nader, I mean.)
I'm trying not to gloat. I just want to be happy for a while and anticipate an overall return to national sanity.
I got Owen to say "good for democracy" this morning.
Now it's time to get us around and dressed (we celebrated in our jammies) and get to the park.
The American public deserves what it voted for -- Tax & Spend
What Tom said, about "Isn't tax & spend better than not-tax & spend?" Cause, I mean, if you're gonna have money going out, isn't it necessary for money to be coming in, at some point?
I know this is the nation of credit card debt, but holy moley.
Ehrlich has conceded. Governor Martin O'Malley. Huh.
Sign of the times (and too damned many ads!) this cracked me up:
In downtown Annapolis, as a light evening rain fell, hairstylist Tarsha Beavers, 23, arrived to vote with her young daughter, Jaylin, in tow. Beavers said she liked Martin O'Malley and Ben Cardin as Democratic candidates for governor and senator.
"Everything's so close and I had to make sure I vote," she said. "My friends ask me why."
Jaylin, 4, looked up from the water fountain and said, "I approved this message."
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Backing up Nora,
I have read some RIdiculous and easily as vile things on liberal blogs over the past 6 years.
The only reason I think that Freeper comment about "stupid, lazy voters" is funny is because surely some of the people who voted yesterday are the same people who voted in 2004, when the results went the way the Freepers wanted. Right? It's not like all the people who voted yesterday were people who didn't vote in 2004.
Which would mean that people who, it would seem, *weren't* stupid in 2004 -- people who the Freepers would have approved of in 2004 -- have now suddenly become stupid in the eyes of the Freepers.
I just find the lack of logic funny, is all. Not the hate.
(Or am I over-explaining something that nobody else even noticed? I probably am. Sorry.)
Not inter-occular ingestion, right?
My eyeballs are coffee-free.
I actually saw a steele ad that I liked last night. Him and his two sons on the steps of a house, the sons were talking about how they had to let people know about their dad -- he listens to Sinatra and Motown. But he has integrity, blah, blah blah. Then he says I'm Micheal Steele and I approve this message . . . I think. Very cute. But, he's still a lying misdirecting scumbag who refuses to concede. Asshole.
