Comments on: In the 11th Hour, Republican Flop Sweat & A Crazymaking Strategy

By: Kate McLaughlin

Kate McLaughlin — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:39:46 +0000

I, too, am boggled by the fact that so many buy the FOX et al-pandered half-truths and convoluted tales spinning out of the RNC.
It IS frightening to realize that a large percentage of our citizenry has lost the ability to listen attentively, think critically, and act responsibly.
And yet I have hope…

By: Mary

Mary — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:29:57 +0000

There were 12,500 of us at Obama’s rally in Sarasota last Thursday and Obama’s message of hope was palpable, substantial and true. I was elated!
Every time I see a McCain/Palin sign in someone’s yard my heart sinks a little but I still believe the rational/compassionate party will prevail.

By: Jenny, bloggess

Jenny, bloggess — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 21:59:52 +0000

You know how the book “Clockwork Orange” had a different ending than the movie? That always freaked me out.

What were we talking about again?

By: Little Sun

Little Sun — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 13:22:36 +0000

Hey, Pirate Queen–I, for one, am still feeling hopeful!

My own sanity requires it

I have to have hope, cautious though it may be, to help me balance the conversations I keep having with, not just uneducated folks, but with a lot of otherwise usually grounded and intelligent people who keep telling me things like Obama isn’t a U.S. citizen and that he’s a Palestinian/ Muslim/ socialist/ communist/ fill-in-the-blank-with-nonsense terrorist “plant” or tell me things like Palin was “absolved” in Troopergate and, and, and…. people who WANT so badly to BELIEVE this stuff, they’ve shut down their brains and doggedly refuse to be swayed by pesky little things like facts… (I’m still waiting to hear that Obama is from an alien species! Maybe they’re saving that one for tomorrow…)

I have to hope there are still enough rational people left out there who have flat-out had it with reality being stood on its head by these people (with the complicity of huge portions of the media) and who are ready to stand together and say, “Enough!”

By: Pirate Queen

Pirate Queen — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 05:53:02 +0000

Where is the hope that was bubbling forth a week ago, y’all?

According to my friend in AZ, (a life-long Republican, who’s sending ME pro-Obama links, btw) McCain has missed over 80% of all the roll call votes in the Senate in his tenure. So, I guess his 90% voting support of Bush’s policies would mean that, in the Republican manner of thinking, that since McCain hasn’t voted 90% of the time, he cannot have voted 90% of the time for Dubya’s policies.

See? I GET it!! I GET Republican thinking! Finally!! (I sure am glad I voted yesterday and not today. I was thinking rationally yesterday.)

By: C.S. Lewiston

C.S. Lewiston — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 02:53:18 +0000

I’d like to think that Americans are too smart to swallow whole the lies and half-truths they’ve been spoon-fed for almost a decade, but I have to agree with Bill Maher, who, at a recent live show, remarked emphatically from the stage, “NO, THEY’RE NOT”!

I don’t want to have to jump into a rowboat and spend the next three months rowing to Costa Rica, but if it’s that or spend the rest of my natural life in a religio-fascist regime (or in a Kellogg, Brown & Root concentration camp), then pass me the oars!

Lest I be taken for just another nattering nabob of negativism, while I basically agree with the late George Carlin (”Fuck hope!”), I’m secretly looking forward to seeing the look on John McCain’s ghoulish face when he concedes!