skippy the bush kangaroo: works for us

Saturday, March 08, 2008

works for us

via no fish no nuts, we find that our bud d-day is calling for political blog amnesty day, in which both clinton and obama supporters must, for the good of the country, drop out of the race now.

addendum: via avedon, html menken succinctly pinpoints the problem w/the cult thing over at sadly, no!:

eh. it's not the support or supporters i object to, it's the enthusiasm and the fanatics. for any politician. but especially for such mediocre ones. after all, it's not as if either clinton or obama are exactly fdr incarnate; they are both fairly average "liberal" politicians who are thoroughly schooled in the arts of serial triangulation. they ain't radical; nor are they idealist; they are simply better than any republican alternative. they're good enough for a vote (with or without one's nose tightly held) but that's it. it just won't do to mask this homely reality with fawning, drooling praise of either politician.

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oh, to believe again! oh, to be able to turn the page, to forget the bad nixon reagan bush years, to sacrifice vigilance and skepticism, to pretend that all the damage was an accident, an aberration and not an inevitable result of the stupidity and wickedness of the republicans in particular and reactionary ideology in general. oh, to go back again to the halcyon days when honest conservatives and sensible liberals honorably and civilly overcame their differences to form a trustworthy government! yes, yes: this infantile desire is the thumb that, once placed in one's mouth, will always become a hook.

yes, we wish patrick duffy would step out of the shower and tell us, it was only a dream, a horrible, horrible dream.

Labels: amnesty day, clinton, obama, prez campaign, snark

posted by skippy at 7:46 PM |

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Batocchio, 11:21 PM PST

Yeah, the original post is pretty funny!

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Batocchio, 11:35 PM PST

please tell me the past 7 years has been a Dallas dream as well

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Distributorcap, 4:17 AM PDT

That's another thing I can do without, the blind faith. You apply that to politics, especially at a critical phase in any country's history, and you risk winding up with groups like the Bolsheviks or the Nazis.

No thanks, not interested...

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Jim Yeager, 4:45 AM PDT

Works for me too. It's not so much the misplaced fanaticism that I mind, it's the OBSESSION over this horserace speculation. Can we please (a) just shut up and let the democratic process take its course this year and (b) find a way to truncate this campaign season next time? This may be a wonk's wet dream but it's a nightmare for regular citizens.

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Elayne, 7:53 AM PDT

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