As I’m sure you’ve heard by now, Obama beat Clinton pretty decisively in Wisconsin last night and things aren’t looking so good in Hillshillville. Over at No Quarter, Larry Johnson’s hand-picked spazmo SusanUnPC has been reduced to spewing utter garbage like this:
(I hear Joe Biden reads the newspaper when Obama is asking questions during full committee hearings.)
The question remains how much longer will these sore losers keep “just sayin’” after Obama puts this away?
Back at SusanUnPC’s House of Spittle, a reasonable Hillary supporter unleashes the obvious:
Susan, but you must admit he’s got the Big Mo. Hillary might win Texas but Obama is scoring big in Ohio by reminding them what NAFTA did to their economy. I don’t think you understand how bad it really is. If Obama wins Ohio then he’s going all the way. While I admire your loyalty & tenacity at some point you may have to come to the realization you’re just cranking soundbites for McCain.
Amen. Don’t count on Susan or Mushy, two of the pettiest and most destructive dickweeds working the left side of the blogosphere, to pull back any time soon. There’s gotta come a point when some of the the more respected and trafficked liberal bloggers (read: not me) start publicly calling out these dopes on their bullshit. I’m seeing way too many blogs with Taylor Marsh links prominently displayed in their blogrolls. She’s a loose cannon and it’s time a few prominent lefty bloggers started pissing on her gun powder.
MORE: John Cole is an ill-informed, misogynistic hope junky (evidence here and here). I loved this pull-quote from one of his commenters:
Looking over the race, how much of Obama’s criticism of Clinton have been o f the nature that would harm her and the party’s chances in the general election? I seriously cannot think of any. While everything—EVERYTHING—coming out from the Clinton camp is stuff that can be picked up and used by the Republicans in one way or another or is designed to damage him as a candidate going forward as much if not more than it impacts him now…
Cops with automatic weapons and bomb-sniffing dogs will patrol Amtrak trains and randomly search carry-on bags in a dramatic tightening of security to be announced today.
Although some riders were unhappy with the idea of guns on the trains, most welcomed the new security plan.
“I think it’s good,” said Yvette Davis, 23, an assistant shoe store manager from the Bronx, while waiting for a train in Penn Station. “You can never be too protective, especially with some of these crazy people.”
“I think it’s great,” said Manhattan software salesman Dan Hurley, 39. “I’ve often wondered why there is so little security on trains. They could do as much damage as a plane.”
April Holder, 30, from Manhattan, said only, “Just don’t make us late. New Yorkers hate being late.”
Amtrak officials insist the security ramp-up won’t make anyone late.
“We’re very conscious of the fact that you’re in an environment where commuters have minutes to go from train to train,” said Bill Rooney, vice president for security strategy and special operations.
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Amtrak’s new “mobile security teams” will go into action soon on the Northeast Corridor between Washington and Boston, the railroad’s most heavily used route.
Later they’ll be expanded to the rest of the country.
Sen. Chuck Schumer hailed the beefed-up security as “a strong step toward making the highly vulnerable rail system more secure,” but also said it should be done “in a way that won’t increase lines and wait times.”
Amtrak chief Alex Kummant insisted riders will hardly notice the change.
Passengers won’t have to arrive at stations far in advance, and those selected randomly for screening will be delayed no more than a couple of minutes, he said.
He said security teams will show up unannounced at stations and set up baggage screening areas in front of boarding gates.
Officers will randomly pull people out of line and wipe their bags with a special swab that is put through a machine that detects explosives.
If the machine detects anything, officers will open the bag for inspection.
Anyone who is selected for screening and refuses will not be allowed to board and their ticket will be refunded.
Pheew, I was worried this was a violation of my 4th Amendment rights until I read about the refund. Freedom isn’t free, but it is refundable.
Holy fucking god. If you thought it couldn’t get worse (or funnier) than “Hillary4U&Me,” you were very, very wrong. I know I’ve been laying it on a little thick with the Hillshill bashing lately, but how could I not post this one?
Warning: Avoid watching this if you’ve eaten anything within the last two weeks.
MORE: Check out the comments at YouTube. They love it!!! (The love fest is sure to take a dark and ugly turn once this video inevitably starts trickling through the snicker circuit.) UPDATE: In comments Will S. lets us know that they’re holding YouTube comments for approval, so I guess that explains the love fest.
WAY TO GO: Let’s temper this post with a hearty “bravo!” for Bill. The red-faced charge is silly because he handled the situation well (better than I would have). That loudmouthed pro-lifer deserved a kick square in the ‘nads, not stern condemnation.
Giving Senator Barack Obama new momentum, one of the nation’s largest labor unions, the United Food and Commercial Workers, endorsed him on Thursday. Another giant, the Service Employees International Union, was on the brink of backing him.
The endorsement of the service employees, which with 1.9 million members is seen as the nation’s most politically potent union, would be considered a special boon. Members of the service employees’ board were casting votes by e-mail and fax on Thursday night, and two top S.E.I.U. leaders said an Obama endorsement was likely.
The two unions did not make endorsements until now largely because they were so torn among Mr. Obama, John Edwards and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. But with Mr. Edwards out and Mr. Obama winning eight straight contests, many of the top leaders of the unions decided it was time to back him.
It looks like that Giuliani-like “come and get me” strategy is really paying off for Hillary…
MEANWHILE: Someone had better buy rabid anti-Obama Hillshill Larry “Barber Bowl” Johnson and big ol’ sack of deep breaths. What a loon.
BONUS POINTS: Name the song referenced in this post’s title (without Google) and win oodles of hope and change!
Geepers, if Hillshills think the MSM is tough on Hillary, let her try spending a day in Jeff Gordon’s, errrrrrr, jumpsuit. Look at the questions from “fans” that TIME recently hurled at him:
How does it feel to go from the kid to the old man on the tour? What’s it like to hear people booing you?Will having Dale Earnhardt Jr. as a teammate cut down on the number of bottles and cans thrown at you when you win at Talladega this year?If Dale Earnhardt Jr. is in the lead for another win at Daytona, would you bump him and take out your team member?Why is it that some parts of the country support you and others don’t?Your wife is taller than you. Has that ever made you self-conscious?
I had a terrible and annoying and endless day at work (which still isn’t over and I have to be on a 7:15am train tomorrow), so this made me very happy ... GObama!
Looking closely at the NBC exit polls from Virginia, I see numbers that will make delightful reading for the Barack Obama campaign—and a cause for deep concern in John McCain’s camp. Obama, the figures show, is expanding the demographic reach of his surging Democratic candidacy, while McCain is hemmed in by his increasingly glaring failure to win over conservatives and evangelical Christians.
With a large turnout among Democrats and independents (anyone can vote in any primary in Virginia), Obama scored smashing victories over Hillary Clinton among groups with whom he needed to show strength. Everybody knows he has the African-American vote locked up tight, as well as young people, single men and affluent, well-educated voters. But the other winning percentages in Virginia are the news Tuesday night, and they are pretty powerful. According to the NBC exit polls, Obama carried:
—women: 58 percent —white men: 55 percent —latino: 55 percent —60 years old and older: 52 percent —those with incomes under $30,000: 68 percent —independents: 67 percent —Roman Catholics: 52 percent
I swear to St. Maverick, I came up with this idea the minute I saw the “Yes We Can” music video, but unfortunately I have no musical talent, no video skills and no funny hats…
“And the Powerline ‘Book of the Year’ award goes to…”
Earlier we cited how Jeffrey Goldberg poked fun at Norman “Please Bomb Iran So I Can Get Blood Flowing to My Loins Again” Podhoretz in his recent (and excellent) article in The Atlantic. Well, now The New York Sun has come to the defense of that doddering old tool by drooling out what has to be the dumbest political cockup unveiled so far this year .... The Podhoretz Method:
Norman Podhoretz, the neoconservative sage, will be honored tonight at a dinner in Manhattan, where his “World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism,” will be given the “Book of the Year” award by Powerline.
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[A} kerfuffle has been sputtering on the World Wide Web over a question Mr. Podhoretz asked in respect of the Kurds. Mr. Podhoretz asked the question five years ago at a banquet in New York honoring Robert L. Bartley of the Wall Street Journal, Bernard Lewis of Princeton, and Jeffrey Goldberg, then of the New Yorker. Mr. Goldberg, a marvelous reporter, was being saluted for a dispatch from Kurdistan that had helped light the way for American entry into the Battle of Iraq. Mr. Goldberg had just come in from Northern Iraq and spoke about Kurdistan. In a tour d’horizon of the Middle East in the January/February number of the Atlantic, Mr. Goldberg related that after the event, Mr. Podhoretz asked him, “What’s a Kurd, anyway?” Mr. Podhoretz, in Mr. Goldberg’s account, “seemed authentically bewildered.” As it happens, we were either in the same or a similar conversation with Mr. Podhoretz at the same banquet, and we took him not as being ignorant of the Kurdish question; after all, Commentary during his years as editor in chief contained plenty of references to Kurdistan. We took him to be curious as to how Mr. Goldberg would answer a question of ethnography that has never been resolved.
Basic questions are what one might call the Podhoretz Method, and we predict that generations from now, journalists will study his knack for — his insistence on — pressing the simplest seeming, most basic questions as if each were fresh and open to new implications. The Podhoretz Method is one for our moment, too, what with our country at a crossroads and in the midst of a presidential election that for the first time in decades appears it will involve neither a presidential nor vice presidential incumbent. It may well shape up as a contest between, on the one hand, the Republican who, in Senator McCain, has been most determined to stick with the fight and most outspoken in warning of the consequences of retreat and, on the other hand, a Democratic nominee, in Senators Clinton or Obama, who either regrets going into the Battle of Iraq or opposed it from the start. It is a time when, more than ever, we need sages like Norman Podhoretz to ask basic questions, and deliver basic answers, which no doubt explains why so many — including Secretary of State Kissinger and Mark Steyn — will be crowding into the Four Seasons as Mr. Podhoretz is honored this evening.
Generations from now journalists will appreciate Podhoretz’s ability to ask basic questions and deliver basic answers? That’s really what they think? Could they possibly be that fucking dumb (or be cocky enough to think that we are)?
TO MY GREAT CHAGRIN: The eagerly-awaited (in my house, at least) world premiere of the documentary To My Great Chagrin: The Unbelievable Story of Brother Theodore comes to MOMA this Wednesday, February 13th (also playing on March 1st). He was a complex, brilliant and vastly underrated performance artist and you can view some of his pitch-perfect and hysterical ravings in a video compilation we posted here back in September.
FUERZABRUTA: Friday I took my lovely wife Chris to see Fuerzabruta, the new spectacle from the creators of De La Guarda, for her birthday at the Daryl Roth Theatre and was totally blown away by it. I enjoyed De La Guarda, but thought it was a little over-hyped and found myself wishing it would come to an end about 45-minutes into it. Fuerzabruta, on the other hand, I never wanted to end, noticing at several points during the performance that my face was smeared with a thoroughly ridiculous shit-eating grin that only a child can accommodate without feeling like a complete tool. As an added bonus, I was selected by one of the Fuerzabruta “dancers” to join her on a metal platform and dance in front of hundreds of people before having an oversized, exploding paper cinderblock dropped on our heads. According to Chris the crowd was cheering me on (I inserted several of my death-defying robot maneuvers into my routine) and afterwards the dancer came over and gave me a big thumbs up when she found me back in the crowd. If you’re a New Yorker, I highly recommend checking this show out. If the $72 price tag is too steep for you, they sell $25 rush tix at the box office two hours before each performance.
