― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 22:35 (seventeen years ago) link
Advocating “one side of a social, political, or cultural issue that is a matter of partisan controversy.”
even professional douchebag David Horowitz released a statement that thi s was going a bit far
― they be stealin' kingfish's bucket (kingfish), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 23:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:26 (seventeen years ago) link
That's Dan Perry one step closer to the White House, then.
― The Many Faces of Gordon Jump (Leon), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 21:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― nuneb (nuneb), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070221/ap_on_el_pr/clinton_obama
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/02/20/dreamworks-geffen-slams-_n_41732.html
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 21:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― they be stealin' kingfish's bucket (kingfish), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 21:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Del Monte Young (ex machina), Friday, 23 February 2007 20:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Saturday, 24 February 2007 00:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― they be stealin' kingfish's bucket (kingfish), Saturday, 24 February 2007 00:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― nuneb (nuneb), Saturday, 24 February 2007 00:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― they be stealin' kingfish's bucket (kingfish), Saturday, 24 February 2007 01:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― they be stealin' kingfish's bucket (kingfish), Saturday, 24 February 2007 01:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Saturday, 24 February 2007 02:45 (seventeen years ago) link
Barney Frank will not seek reelection
http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2011/11/breaking-barney-frank-to-retire.html
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 28 November 2011 15:37 (twelve years ago) link
I think some other parts of the world might think differently about us if we elect a guy with Hussein in his name.
not so much as long as he keeps drone-bombing 'em, eh?
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 28 November 2011 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
That Nobel Peace Prize may have been a mistake. Now that he has one, he obv isn't aiming for two.
― Aimless, Monday, 28 November 2011 15:49 (twelve years ago) link
Seeing Bill Frist and Sam Brownback's names on this thread remind me of how far we've sunk.
― Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 28 November 2011 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
speaking of brownback
― OH NOES, Monday, 28 November 2011 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
#heblowsalot
― drugs a. money (henrietta lacks), Monday, 28 November 2011 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
She tweets that a politician "sucks" and someone on his staff contacts her school principal about it?! I am speechless at this assininity.
― Aimless, Monday, 28 November 2011 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
yeh fuck him
― gov. brownback blows a lot (henrietta lacks), Monday, 28 November 2011 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
wow!!!
― superb mario bothers (crüt) (step hen faps), Monday, 28 November 2011 16:40 (twelve years ago) link
I love the SRS BIZNIZ happening in the comments on that article
― OH NOES, Monday, 28 November 2011 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
WDinDallas Typical youth of today. No respect, no discipline, all about me attitude. She will not make it in the real world. Suicide waiting to happen.
― superb mario bothers (crüt) (step hen faps), Monday, 28 November 2011 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
very disappointed that there's no followup "oops that was supposed to only go to my friends" comment on that one
― OH NOES, Monday, 28 November 2011 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
Loved this line from NRO yesterday: "This is the moment where it’s going to be hardest for Gingrich to restrain his Newtness."
― clemenza, Monday, 28 November 2011 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/the-future-of-the-obama-coalition/?hp
Giving up on trying to appeal to white folks who do not have college degrees-
For decades, Democrats have suffered continuous and increasingly severe losses among white voters. But preparations by Democratic operatives for the 2012 election make it clear for the first time that the party will explicitly abandon the white working class.
All pretence of trying to win a majority of the white working class has been effectively jettisoned in favor of cementing a center-left coalition made up, on the one hand, of voters who have gotten ahead on the basis of educational attainment — professors, artists, designers, editors, human resources managers, lawyers, librarians, social workers, teachers and therapists — and a second, substantial constituency of lower-income voters who are disproportionately African-American and Hispanic.
It is instructive to trace the evolution of a political strategy based on securing this coalition in the writings and comments, over time, of such Democratic analysts as Stanley Greenberg and Ruy Teixeira. Both men were initially determined to win back the white working-class majority, but both currently advocate a revised Democratic alliance in which whites without college degrees are effectively replaced by well-educated socially liberal whites in alliance with the growing ranks of less affluent minority voters, especially Hispanics.
― Another Suburbanite, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
yeah that's based on very little evidence
"A top priority of the less affluent wing of today’s left alliance is the strengthening of the safety net, including health care, food stamps, infant nutrition and unemployment compensation. These voters generally take the brunt of recessions and are most in need of government assistance to survive. According to recent data from the Department of Agriculture, 45.8 million people, nearly 15 percent of the population, depend on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to meet their needs for food."
uh right clearly not things that would appeal to poor non-whites
― iatee, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
basically there's a difference between 'the numbers look better for us in colorado than ohio' and 'obama gives up on poor whites'. if anything the story is 'poor whites gave up on obama'.
― iatee, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
http://takingnote.tcf.org/2008/11/digging-into-th.html
(also mostly didn't vote for him in 2008)
― iatee, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
That NYT article just accepts the reality that Reagan Democrats are now Rush Republicans.
― Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
The New Deal Coalition — which included unions, city machines, blue-collar workers, farmers, blacks, people on relief, and generally non-affluent progressive intellectuals — had the advantage of economic coherence. It received support across the board from voters of all races and religions in the bottom half of the income distribution, the very coherence the current Democratic coalition lacks.
Yes, although FDR flip-flopped a bit too. If Obama and the Democratic Party had offered a strong and consistent and coherent economic message (lets pretend the blue dogs and the Goldman Sachs crowd didn't exist) would that have won back Rush Republicans, or just aggravated them more?
― Another Suburbanite, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
we haven't had rush republicans for a long time and there's good reason to believe that the reason goes beyond economics.
― iatee, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:57 (twelve years ago) link
we = San Francisco?
― Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
oh I'm sorry were you not aware I am a registered democrat
― iatee, Monday, 28 November 2011 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
lets call the next politics thread #heblowsalot
― max max max max, Monday, 28 November 2011 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
sounds good to me
― gov. brownback blows a lot (henrietta lacks), Monday, 28 November 2011 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
Iatee, I know there are/were cultural and race issues as well and that one can trace things back to attacks on Dem candidate Adlai Stevenson in the 1950s for being an egghead, and later the Republican southern strategy, and hippie bashing...As the article noted:
In an interview, Greenberg, speaking of white working class voters, said that in the period from the mid-1960s to the early 1990s, “we battled to get them back. They were sizable in number and central to the base of the Democratic Party.” At the time, he added, “we didn’t know that we would never get them back, that they were alienated and dislodged.”
― Another Suburbanite, Monday, 28 November 2011 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
Also, "we" still have blue dog Dems
― Another Suburbanite, Monday, 28 November 2011 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
Not that they help
2010 wiped out a lot of them actually
― iatee, Monday, 28 November 2011 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
I naively dream that someday liberal/lefty ideas will win over the non-college degree demographic (and even win over the Democratic party too). It's all a dream...
― Another Suburbanite, Monday, 28 November 2011 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/judge-rejects-sec-citigroup-settlement/2011/11/28/gIQA8KsH5N_story.html?hpid=z1
But this is real, and is good news (though slighly depressing but expected that Obama's SEC would push a weak settlement that only benefited Citigroup)
― Another Suburbanite, Monday, 28 November 2011 22:00 (twelve years ago) link
shd we start a separate Republican primary thread, because lol:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/28/politics/cain-accusation-affair/index.html
― OH NOES, Monday, 28 November 2011 22:03 (twelve years ago) link
Just like black walnut ice cream, Herman Cain tastes good all the time. (stares at ILX and takes a thoughtful drag on his cigarette).
― Aimless, Monday, 28 November 2011 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
lol, herman cain.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 28 November 2011 22:19 (twelve years ago) link
pretty soon people will be able to set up a "6-degrees-of-herman-cain" game, based on your proximity to some woman, somewhere, who has been harassed or dated the man whose been screaming "999" into your television set.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 28 November 2011 22:20 (twelve years ago) link