The Deciders, As Classy As Ever

This time, it's a hate-filled screed directed at Matthew Vadum, a guy from Newsbusters who appeared on The Daily Show and has the temerity to post a humorous picture he took with the show's John Oliver.

Here is what NYT reporter Dan Mitchell left on Vadum's Facebook account as a result:

I notice that you have a picture of you and Oliver there. This seems to be fairly common among people who have humiliated themselves before millions of people on shows like the Daily Show - they pretend they were in on the whole thing and it's all just a big laugh. But it doesn't change the fact that the vast majority of people who know you will *always* know you as a giant a*****e. And this will never change. This video will be online forever, haunting you, and superceding everything you have ever done or ever will do. And rightfully so. You deserve it.

Nice. If the NYT isn't using Facebook to snoop on McCain's daughter, they are using it for genteel debate such as the above.

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He was wrong

Over at The Corner last night, Rick Brookhiser wrote a post about Obama and McCain and their respective stances on the War in Iraq:

As a state legislator, then a freshman senator, Barack Obama opposed the war, and resisted fighting it to win. His policies would have left Saddam in power, then let his followers murder their way back to it.

McCain owed his position to military experience; his grasp of such issues over a long career; and his character. Obama’s position shows a lack of the first two qualities. It is no bad reflection on his character—he had to buck the political climate to take his initial anti-war stand—but it shows that he was bold in a bad cause.

Obama’s failure is more conspicuous because it is the only significant public act of his life. His candidacy is not a disgrace, like those of the amateurs who have infested the process for twenty years—Jesse Jackson, Pat Robertson, Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan. Obama knows the political game from the inside, and he has held positions of responsibility. He has moved through them, however, without a trace—except for his early opposition to the Iraq war. He did one thing in his career, and he did the wrong thing.

Maybe Barack Obama will change over time. It’s possible—he is shrewd, ambitious and relatively young. Let’s let him change before we reward him with the football. Tuesday I vote for the man who knows where we are.

That's exactly right. We're supposed to elect this guy on the basis of his vaunted "judgment," the cornerstone of which has always been his opposition to the Iraq war. And he's been wrong about that for quite some time.

Actually, I shouldn't say that it's exactly right, since Obama didn't really have to "buck the political climate to take his initial anti-war stand," considering the fact that he came from a liberal district of Chicago, so it wasn't like he was really making a stand that would make him unpopular there.  And while he's not an amateur, his campaign has been a disgrace, with its Truth Squads, astroturfing, "Obama Action Wire" thugs, ready to shout down anybody who dares to disagree with The One, and state officials who are willing to violate the law to dig into Joe the Plumber's records when he dares to ask The One a question that he managed to inadvertently answer truthfully.

But Brookhiser is one hundred percent right about one thing.  Obama may change after this election.  I hope he does change.  But from what I've seen of him, that's not a Change We Can Believe In.  Not by a fucking longshot.

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Obama Wants A Civilian Security Force?

Am I paranoid in thinking he wants to create a secret police?

Why is it I have a vision of a Chavez-like administration that will fuck everything up, yet not lose re-election due to vote fraud and demagoguery?

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Looks like Moron Pundit isn't the only one with a Doom Meter

The New York Times talks to a few of the sort of people who, well, still read the New York Times, and they're worried:

“Look, I have this sense of impending doom; we’ve had a couple of elections stolen already,” Mr. Downs said. “The only thing worse than losing is to think that you’re going to win and then lose.”

 

He considers that prospect and mutters, almost involuntarily, “Oh, God.”

To talk with left-leaning Democrats in New Hope, San Francisco or Miami Beach, to drill deep into their id, is to stand at the intersection of Liberal and High Anxiety.

Right now, more than a few are having a these-polls-are-too-good-to-be-true, we-still-could-lose-this-election moment. Their consuming and possibly over-caffeinated worry is that their prayers and nightly phone calls to undecided voters in Toledo, Ohio, notwithstanding, Mr. Obama might fall short on Election Day.

To walk on Broadway, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, is to feel their pain. “Oh, God, I’m optimistic, but I can’t look at the polls,” said Patricia Kuhlman, 54, nervously tapping her Obama/Biden ’08 button. “I’m a PBS/NPR kind of person, and, O.K., I do look at some polls.”

Ms. Kuhlman shakes her head and says, “If he doesn’t get this, I’ll be crying so hard.”

There's a reason why these people are worried. It's because this thing is not over. Not by a longshot. And the pollsters and Captain Bullshit's media lackeys are flat-out LYING about his lead, trying to keep you from turning out on Election Day. They think you're stupid, but you're not.

Get out there. Volunteer for McCain-Palin. Talk to everyone you know and make sure they turn out to vote. Show YouTube videos to someone you know who's on the fence and doesn't pay attention to this stuff as closely as you do. Help take veterans to a local polling place. Do whatever it takes.

And then, sit back and enjoy Patrica Kuhlman's bitter, bitter tears.

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Update: I knew I'd seen this article somewhere else:

They may as well have typed "We're not scared, maybe you're the ones who are scared" 110 times and hit Send.

Exactly.

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Use Facebook? Have liberal friends? I've got a game for you.

I've noticed that many of my more....ahem....tolerant friends have been setting their Facebook statuses to say how stupid Gov. Palin is, how she can only say things she's been "trained" to say, etc. 

I've found it's fun to respond by commenting and agreeing with the status, and then saying "Did you see where she said [insert Biden gaffe of choice here]?" 

They'll say, "No, man, she's dumber then I thought!"

Repeat. 

Then, eventually, crush their spirit. 

It's worked every time thus far. 

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The latest comment from the professional man on the street

Greg Packer, commenting on the Phillies win.

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