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Confessions from a Troll

I never really felt like I was a troll or unwelcome on this site but lately according to some of the responses I have seen to my comments, I just don't know anymore. I have been visiting this site for...

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Some post-debate humor that may explain things.  (a repost)

(This moved down the list so quickly that only a few people saw it yesterday, but they all seemed to like it...) The Democratic Conspiracy: a private conversation A quiet room. Not too fancy. Probably...

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John Weiss -- Digg It

I ran across this entry at the New York Times and decided to post it here because it's too good to let it be lost among the hundreds of posts.  I think you will all enjoy it.  I just love good sarcasm...

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I'm Bitter About Elitist Obama

Barak Obama is such an elitist. Did you know that he comes from a very rich family? In fact his father, back in Kenya, owned an entire herd of goats. How many Kenyans own even one goat? Not too many. A...

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Just for Fun are u Bitter? w/poll

I admit it, he just capped it for me. Even though I do not live in PA, I do feel bitter. Maybe it's a West Coast thingy after all he was talking to a left coast crowd. Yes. the Bush Years have left me...

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The Bitter Truth: Can Obama Tell It and Still Win?

I'm of a mixed mind about whether Obama is electable. Why? Because the more I like him, the more I realize it is because he is giving the voters the bitter truth that they don't want to know. If he...

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Bitterness, Expectations, Divisive Debates, and Where You Come In

Hello again. I'm Bryan Lentz, the freshman State House Representative for the 161st Legislative district of Pennsylvania, in Delaware County. I wrote a diary a couple of weeks ago about how Barack...

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Vote: How will Hillary spin her own bitterness towards the Democrat base?

With Hillary's previous mishaps and shortcomings, it was at least somewhat predictable how she'd spin the story to save face.  But in this situation, even if you give her the benefit of the doubt and...

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Pennsylvania's a Bellwether...No, Really!!!

Are Democrats really going to subscribe to another American Idol election?  I think Tuesday may tell us a lot about the answer to that question. Absorbing the events of the past week or two ("bitter"...

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"God, gays, and guns": Bill Clinton agrees with Barack Obama?

Seems like another case of then and now. In 2004, Bill Clinton said that even though the Democratic approach to government is favored by most Americans, the Republican approach to cultural issues like...

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Nash McCabe proves Obama's "bitter" point

Hey, ABC and all other news organizations, doesn't Nash McCabe's question about Obama's flag lapel or lack thereof seem to prove the exact point that Obama was trying to make? According to McClatchy's...

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Krugman and Bartels Are Wrong: Re-bunking the Obama/Frank theory of small...

A duo of columns in the New York Times a few days ago purported to puncture the soundness of Barack Obama’s sociology in his much-discussed "bitter" comment and his later clarifications. First it was...

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Whats the matter with Paul Krugman?

Paul Krugman's new article argues that Obama was actually wrong about rural Pennsylvania, but a closer inspection of his statistics shows that he contradicts himself.

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Obama- The man for the people

Idealistic, hopeful and slightly nerdy Obama supporters, PLEASE watch this clip!!! My attempts to put this scene into words and make the correllation between this "Man in the Iron Mask" scene and Obama...

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LDS Leader agrees with Obama

I was raised in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Currently I am not active in any religion, but many in my family are practicing Mormons. My neighbor is LDS and recently gave me an...

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Hillary Clinton Attacks Activists and Southern Whites & Alienates Progressives

Hillary's problems are multiplying. It isnt just that she is behind by numbers that make it mathematically close to impossible to win, she is turning off large groups of voters and her negatives and...

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This Test Is Not Barack's To Fail

Truth be told I saw this "bitterness" flap coming a mile away.  Not the exact words, of course, but something like it.  It's how politics works nowadays.  Political opponents & corporate media are...

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Pass the Remote, the Truth Sucks

The Truth Sucks. You people keep talking about the Truth.  Well let me tell you something:  I'm sick and tired of the Truth.  The Truth is Ugly & Depressing & Troubling & Sad.  The Truth...

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The Democrats Eat Their Young

In the six weeks since I drafted the comments below, we've had Tuzlagate, Wrightgate, Bittergate, Who'sToughergate and the continuing, disheartening, disengenuous use of race and class cards, multiple...

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Obama Video: PA and Ohio "Ready to shut down globalization tomorrow". The...

In a strange turn of events, a short video recorded at a Marin County California (northern S.F. Bay area) fundraiser on the 6th of April was removed from YouTube less than 24 hours later and after...

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Chris Mathews 2.0 (R, PA)

Once upon a time, Obama's oratory sent tingles of Chris Mathew's leg(s). Like many of us, his inner democrat was deeply moved by the refreshingly different approach Obama brings to our sully politics....

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John Edwards...where for art thou brother?

I started this long campaign as a staunch Edwards supporter.  Alas, he is gone from the scene.  Completely gone.  I mean...you couldn't find him with a geiger counter.  He has simply vanished....as if...

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I Don't Give a Rat's Ass About...

It’s no secret that this country’s news media swallowed a big fat stupid pill at some point in the past. But Christ almighty... I’ve about had it.  We must be at the point where "the press" is jumping...

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Makeshift Repository for Satire:Obama: "Let ‘em Drive Drunk"

Already up on Specious Report but it was edited for brevity (that's my interpretation of that, anyway). I think it works better with the Garrison Keillor paragraph. The good part of all of that is that...

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The Troll Under the Bus? Mayhill Fowler of HuffPos’ ’Off the...

This is an opinion piece, not a satire like my other entries here so far. I'm posting the links here on top because I don't yet know how to hyperlink (yes,I feel like a dork)so my apologies for the...

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WV > NC > PA > TX ??

If you look at the electoral college map then Texas looks like the largest, not the smallest, of these 4 states, and Pennsylvania is 2nd largest. But Hillary Clinton only got 10 more pledged delegates...

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I wish all Americans would "cling" to Constitution in the same way

Obama characterized "bitter" Pennsylvanians.  In the most famous sound byte of that speech he said they "cling to guns or religion." Never mind that he was spot on about those whose jobs have been...

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"BitterSweetiePlagiaristicFlagPinAyresWrightGate" UPDATED!

Look, kids! Its the brand new tongue twister game! Say it three times fast and join in the loads of fun!

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Spiteful Ferraro May Not Vote for Obama.

Geraldine Ferraro, our former Vice Presidential candidate, is considering following the path of Joe Lieberman. From the New York Times: Ferraro, who clashed with the Obama campaign about whether she...

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Color me STUPID . . .

Because I believe that who leads in the "popular vote" is relevant (neither dispositive nor irrelevant). In fact, it is obviously so. Because it's all about delegates. According to a recent diary,...

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What Hillary's Kennedy Assassination Misstatement Really Means

Hillary Clinton and John McCain have fed the media a diet of scandal and innuendo and kept feeding it to the point where it has become a monster that will consume them both.

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Hipocrital Hillary - Slammed Obama for mis-statements

Hillary and her supporters have an awfully short memory about Democratic candidates experience with the MSM after mis-speaking. Clinton and her supporters claim that the media is in bed with Obama. The...

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Turning of the screw

"This may be the last day I'm ever involved in a campaign of this kind" That was Bill Clinton this morning. At first I thought "wow they finally see the light". All morning this statement kept bugging...

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How to Fit 6 Letters Into a 4-Letter Word

Or Revisiting the Ridiculous By WBRAMH It was Saturday morning and Hillary Clinton was on the verge of finally conceding the Democratic nomination to Barack Obama.  I was mindlessly tuned into CNN’s...

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How many want a 2nd rate President?

I've just read a Financial Times review of Deer Hunting with Jesus by Joe Bageant. In the vein of What's the matter with Kansas, Bageant returns to his boyhood home in Winchester Virginia. that used to...

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It's Personal For Hillary Supporters

Let's get real, almost all of the remaining Hillary Clinton supporters who have not committed to backing Barack Obama are women. And their decision has absolutely nothing to do with politics or policy....

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Palin: Talks about Hillary one way in LA, Another in Dayton

Lot's of chatter today about how Palin mocked those oh-so revelatory "bitter" comments by Obama last spring. Said the new tribune of Small Town America: "I might add that in small towns, we don't quite...

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McCain a petty bitter man

Tonight we got another example of the petty, bitter John McCain.  During the debate on the bail out bill Barak Obama crosses the aisle to John McCain. This is how the New York Times describes the...

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Bittergate and the Rebuilding of the Republican Party.

"Folks are bitter, and they cling to guns and religion." It was a tremendous gaffe, but Obama was 100% right when he talked about how rural cultures, cut off and ignored by the political process in...

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The bitter cynicism of Daily Kos --cleaned up

I wrote this one quickly,  too, and realized i moved some paragraphs around so the post was confusing. This is a clearer rewrite. I've just moved the paragraphs where they are supposed to be. And also,...

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Who won? I only get Fox (tv broke) and they say too close to call.

My cable is broke and I don’t have internet.  Fox keeps saying it’s too early to call the race.  They don’t know who the president is... Please let me know.  My satire meter is broken and I can't even...

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I'm An Atheist Who Gives Good Snark.

Why do I do this to myself?My "Bitter Atheist's Wish List" just got a huge and seemingly random uptick of viewers. So like an idiot, I tried to find out what was up and what people were saying about...

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Killing MORE people will solve the problem

Yes, please, let's send our soldiers, armed with guns, bombs, knives, and large vehicles that can easily hit a man and keep going.Clearly when we just gave those things to the people IN the country,...

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F**k Me

And that's just hourly. I make much less because I don't work full time. I got signed up for my healthcare but I can't afford to pay the monthly premium and now I'm in debt to another corporation...

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Good news, everyone!

As of today, you still cannot legally be sold into slavery.  (Except, of course, as a punishment for a crime.  Which nobody's going to really do.  They WILL pay you convict labor rates, a growing and...

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Diary Of a Madman, Chapter 1: Bureaucracy

I'm insane.  Clearly I don't have a grasp of the political realities and actual life experience of Bureaucracy.So therefore, I'd really appreciate it if somebody could please explain the logic to...

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Living with my folks.

This is gonna be a bit rough.I'm moving back with my folks.  I'm 38, and right in the middle of a financial crisis which has caused me to lose my apartment. I'd like to thank all the organizations who...

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Question of the night: Which of the basic tastes is your favorite?

We now know that the following is wrong…it used to be felt that 1 tastes bitter, 2 tastes sour, 3 tastes salt, and 4 tastes sweet.We now know that all taste sensations come from all regions of the...

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I believed in the FBI of 20 years ago. This is utterly disgusting.

I hereby withdraw permission to use my accounts for the FBI to investigate the election law violations.The FBI is not the Law Enforcement agency I knew when I worked in the Bureau OF Prisons.It is...

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This is my experience

I have had MRSA for years. I took care of my dad at home up and until the bodybag. I caught it from him, probably.Known to doctors, nurses, healthcare workers, I was a disease vector. They wore gloves...

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