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Jesus fucking christ, I’m gonna end up with no hair on my head the next time I have to hear a smug right-winger declare that poor people are a bunch of lazy drug addicts, so why should the government want to help them?

It happened this weekend in an otherwise semi-constructive discussion between me and a Texan. He threw that line out and I lost my breath, saw stars, and nearly left. I did announce that this was no longer a conversation I could have.

That shit’s just patently offensive.

Fucking really? Yes, really. They exist still. I ran into one these incredible douchebags today, unknowningly having a beer with him until the current election began to be discussed.

To give you an idea of the level of ignorance of someone who still supports Bush, he believed that Obama was a Muslim for thirty years and only became Christian for the election, and that this was not only true but also an evil thing to be, and that Obama wanted to do away with the military entirely to please other countries.

It was at this point that I felt something in my head break, a funny tingling movement like throwing your back out of alignment. I no longer wanted to be a polite liberal. I wanted to foam at the mouth and be a ranting crazy godless aborting fag lover.

Instead I semi-cogently explained that what he was saying about Obama was untrue, and he obviously had no information on the subject, but was simply repeating something he had heard someone say.

Then he brought up Bush. Specifically, that people blame him for everything that’s wrong that’s not his fault, like the Iraq war.

He shouldn’t have said that. It made it personal.

And here is how true astoundingly ignorant you have to be to still love George Bush. It was worse than trying to argue with Bill O’Reilly. He couldn’t answer a single question, but instead would make random blanket crazy statements like “The Iraqis want us there.” And then would get really angry and put words in my mouth that I had never said. At one point he honestly said, “I can’t argue you because you refute everything I say with facts,” without any intentional irony.

After a few rounds of rational, information based, reasonable questions and statements, I just got pissed. That’s what someone who still loves George Bush will do to you. They’ll turn you into the only thing they can understand: a loud idiot.

I got so fucking angry. I finally ended up calling him a fucking retard. At least he understood that. He got really quiet and stared at me across the table like he was going to come across it.

I really ruined the post finals party.

Later I thought of a great line to make him swing at me, the kind of line I can only ever think of after the fact: It’s going to be really embarrassing to get your ass kicked by a liberal. Well, I wanted to add “you fucking douchebag,” but that probably makes it less cool.

He made me so pissed, I could blog.

Her night? FUCK HER and her sad insane racist aging soccer-moms and never left West Virginia fat hate filled fucks. She had damn well better concede tomorrow, or I’ll be truly fucking furious. As much as my hatred for her has grown over this primary season, I still believe that she has 0.000001% humility, grace, and concern for the party. If she does not concede today, I will believe she has absolutely none, and I will be utterly and completely done with her for good in any way. Vice President? Maybe if you had acted ever so slightly less maniacal. Maybe even after every thing else you’ve done. But after the assassination insinuation? Never. Vice President? FUCK YOU. You can be vice president of licking the sweat off my taint. I hope the party burns you for this. I can only hope you’re truly finished. You’re a Republican at heart. You and goddamn Dick Cheney are merely two sides of the same fucking coin.

God dammit. I’m so pissed…I could blog. – Rob

My god, now this: A group of female Hillary Clinton supporters are threatening to undermine Barack Obama’s nomination, as they put it, “should he get it.”

First, fucking MEMO TO YOU IDIOTS: Obama has the nomination. And guess what? He’s fucking pro-choice! Shocking, ain’t it? The other guy, the guy who’ll win if your efforts are successful, he’s not. Wow!

Second, if Hillary Clinton had won the nomination through the very same process that elevated Obama to front-runner and then presumptive nominee, do you honestly think prominent Obama supporters would threaten to undermine Clinton’s efforts when the NAACP endorsed her? When it clear to everyone except the candidate and his most close-minded supporters that Clinton was going to be the one actually running for president? Do you think they’d dare cry “racism”?

You people are so ignorant.

Elizabeth Edwards told one of MSNBC’s puppet anchors yesterday that she was endorsing Clinton’s health care plan, but not the candidate herself.

So I go back to being pissed at Elizabeth for the same reason I’m pissed and annoyed by John — lack of endorsement.

She for tacitly endorsing the loser in the race, he for failing to endorse anyone. Ugh.

My lord, I get up this morning and find this article on Huffington Post detailing how the mainstream media are licking Hillary Clinton’s balls eating up the whole Cinderella, Comeback Kid narrative that propelled Bill to the nomination in 1992.

Are they freaking serious???

John Judis, at The New Republic, says Pennsylvania proved that Obama’s supporters are just kids and minorities, that’s it’s another McGovern (or, dare I say, Howard Dean?). That’s horseshit, and it pisses me off. Obama has built an enormous coalition across the country of young and old, men and women, all races, gay and straight. One or two states that outlie that trend doesn’t prove anything.

Then blowhard Joe Klein at Time claims that Obama left Pennsyvlania “stale, battered and embittered,” yet goes on in the same sentence to recognize that he’s “still the mathematical favorite for the nomination.” Joe, are you reading? He’s not the “favorite” of the math. He’s the solution to the stubborn equation.

Go watch his speech from Tuesday and please, please point out to me how he’s embittered. I won’t bother spinning the results in PA, but I will say he did better than originally expected, and that the delegate math doesn’t change significantly. Clinton netted 10-14 delegates. We’ll see in a couple weeks, but I have a feeling Obama can largely erase those gains in Indiana and North Carolina.

Jesus Christ, the mainstream media are so terrible and make my blood boil.

I’m so pissed when I hear Dems say, “I hate Hillary so much, that I will vote for John McCain if she’s nominated.” I hate that.

UGH!

Enough of this shit. I’m so sick of the Clinton campaign changing the rules, changing the measured outcomes of everything. All they have to do is realize it’s over, and we’ll all be better off if they just leave.

From the above-linked article:

“After last night’s decisive victory in Pennsylvania, more people have voted for Hillary than any other candidate, including Sen. Obama,” wrote spokesperson Phil Singer. “Estimates vary slightly, but according to Real Clear Politics, Hillary has received 15,095,663 votes to Sen. Obama’s 14,973,720, a margin of more than 120,000 votes. ABC News reported this morning that “Clinton has pulled ahead of Obama” in the popular vote. This count includes certified vote totals in Florida and Michigan.“

Bold is mine, to convey the stupidity of some who works (ostensibly for money, though they barely have any) for Hillary Clinton.