One More Week
I posted my first story/item about Barack Obama during the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, or roughly 21 months ago. Today, in any event, marks the beginning of the final week of '08 Presidential campaign. Eight and a half days from now, all present-tense anxieties will be stilled and we'll all start to feel a huge depressing shift in the current.
It's probably unrealistic to hope for 60 Democratic U.S. Senators once the dust has settled, but it'll be beautiful if it happens. An FDR-like New Deal overhaul of priorities would be possible. The next step would be to go out and really do something about the right-wing crazies once and for all. If I could exterminate the lot of them by clapping my hands three times, I would clap my hands three times. No, that's going too far. I didn't mean that. What if the worst of them could be forcibly relocated to Alaska? Then they could all get together and eventually secede with Palin leading the charge and running the show. That wouldn't be a bad thing at all. It really wouldn't.
Posted by Jeffrey Wells on October 27, 2008 at 9:32 AM
comment #1
Deathtongue_Groupie
says ...
We were on track to not only get 60, but maybe 61 (meaning, Lieberman can get tossed under the bus too), but now stories like this one out of Georgia where 50,000 were "mistakenly" purged from voting rolls with ONE WEEK to correct it.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/26/voter.suppression/index.html
Posted by Deathtongue_Groupie
at October 27, 2008 9:56 AM
comment #2
Jack Price
says ...
Um... Jeff? Are you trying to get another guest-spot on the O'Reilly Factor?
Posted by Jack Price
at October 27, 2008 10:12 AM
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SaveFarris
says ...
Glad to see Wells has shifted from enacting a Conservative Holocaust ... to merely forcing Conservatives into Concentration camps.
Progress!!!
Posted by SaveFarris
at October 27, 2008 10:29 AM
comment #4
Sabina E
says ...
I agree. Send all those conservative assholes to Alaska.. or better yet, send them to Iraq and force them to fight on the front-line and see how they like it!!!!
Posted by Sabina E
at October 27, 2008 10:43 AM
comment #5
Mr. Muckle
says ...
I give great kudos and thanks to Jeffrey Wells for making me pay some attention to Obama way back when. And then, WOW!
Yesterday I was at the Obama rally with more than 100,000 others in Denver. I tell ya, just walking up there (after a bus trip) I got tears in my eyes thinking what an amazing thing it will be if he wins. Not that our problems will be magically solved, but what a statement! The rally was huge loads of fun and beauty.
I think Americans just wanted somebody decent for president, after these eight years of other than that. And now we may not only get somebody actually decent, but a genius in the bargain. And I must say that we probably seriously undervalue the worth of being seen by the rest of the world as a better people than we have been. And if Barack Obama wins, we certainly will be.
Posted by Mr. Muckle
at October 27, 2008 10:57 AM
comment #6
Cadavra
says ...
I'm also not on board with extermination and forcible relocation, but in the wake of the Hudson tragedy, I'd be happy if the Dems find their balls and finally stand up to those bastards at the NRA who keep enabling tragedies like this one.
Posted by Cadavra
at October 27, 2008 11:45 AM
comment #7
SaveFarris
says ...
You think a guy who's willing to kill is gonna let a gun ban stop them? Chicago ALREADY has a ban on handguns. Did that stop this guy? Why would you think any adding any additional regulations stop him?
Bad guys get their hands on guns no matter what laws you pass. That's what makes them bad guys in the first place. Enacting restrictive gun rights only prevents the good guys from being able to defend themselves.
Posted by SaveFarris
at October 27, 2008 1:16 PM
comment #8
D.Z.
says ...
Jeff: That recent Stevens conviction should help us get that magical number.
Farris: "Glad to see Wells has shifted from enacting a Conservative Holocaust ... to merely forcing Conservatives into Concentration camps."
Well, your party likes doing the same to Arabs in Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, so...
"You think a guy who's willing to kill is gonna let a gun ban stop them?"
It's stopped quite a few people in Japan and Europe.
"Chicago ALREADY has a ban on handguns."
And did you notice that the last significant shooting was in Arkansas?
"Did that stop this guy?"
It stopped her ex-husband, so it's a start.
"Enacting restrictive gun rights only prevents the good guys from being able to defend themselves."
If it keeps them from defending themselves from their psychoses, then I'm all for it.
Posted by D.Z.
at October 27, 2008 2:18 PM
comment #9
62Lincoln
says ...
The last time the dems had 60 in the senate: Jimmy Carter's presidency. Those were the days.
Posted by 62Lincoln
at October 27, 2008 5:04 PM
comment #10
D.Z.
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Lincoln: Well, we weren't at war and we came closer to Middle East peace and alternative energy, so I'll agree.
Posted by D.Z.
at October 27, 2008 6:59 PM
comment #11
mlear
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Jeffrey
Search your archives, I could have sworn that you commented on Obama's 2004 democratic convention speech. Anyway, your postings really were the first things that drew my attention to him (missed his speech in '04). I think you predicted this longer ago.
Posted by mlear
at October 27, 2008 7:28 PM
comment #12
TheJERMSguy
says ...
Replace "right-wing crazies" with "Jews" and reread your post.
Posted by TheJERMSguy
at October 27, 2008 7:33 PM
comment #13
polarbear2
says ...
What? We don't want Alaska anymore? If we followed Jeff's suggestion, the U.S. would be giving up Alaskan Oil, ANWR, and sacrificing it's claim to the Arctic Sea (which thanks to the melting ice caps will be the new major trade and exploration route under international contention.)
Posted by polarbear2
at October 27, 2008 8:07 PM
comment #14
buster
says ...
uh, except, Jeff, you're a right-wing crazy. You hate the lower and middle classes, are a misogynist and a bigot, and regularly fantasize about purging the world of people who have alternate views. Oh, oh, you care about polar bears and are voting for a black man, so I guess that makes you progressive...
Posted by buster
at October 27, 2008 9:29 PM
comment #15
Josh
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The Far Left should just move to Mother Russia. That way they could be closer to Karl Marx. Create your gov't Utopia there.
Posted by Josh
at October 28, 2008 6:06 AM
comment #16
Cadavra
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SaveFarris: Where in my post did I use a word even remotely resembling "ban?" Once again, you only see what you want to.
Posted by Cadavra
at October 28, 2008 11:17 AM
comment #17
D.Z.
says ...
Josh: "The Far Left should just move to Mother Russia. That way they could be closer to Karl Marx. "
According to Palin, we can just move to Alaska.
Posted by D.Z.
at October 28, 2008 11:33 PM
comment #18
janee
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