How Kids React To Dead People

This is from Bookworm Room:
"My 9 year old (4th grade) came up to me today and said “Obama is a really bad man.” Striving for neutrality, I said asked “What makes you say that?” His answer surprised me: “We have free time to look at the internet and I found an article telling how all these people died in the ice storms because he didn’t do anything to help them. That’s really bad.”"

Better to Shoot the Conservative Bastards Like Rabid Dogs

Recently the Think Progress site ran an interesting piece. The writer expressed disgust that the same conservative writers with whom Obama had dinner recently had the nerve to publicly disagree with him. Implied therein is a strange belief that these conservatives should have been won over by spending an hour with the great man. How could mere mortals not be so enchanted by the physical presence the great Obama? And how could their way of life and thinking have not been transformed by being in his Presence?
The writer and many commenters seem to feel that these few minutes spent with these few writers is what Obama meant when he promised bipartinsanship in the election. Basically he spent a few minutes on the effort and all of the tens of millions who voted against him didn’t change their tune so f___ ‘em. He has now officially been bipartisan. He kept his promise, it didn’t work and now we know that change might not be such a great idea.
It is difficult to be bipartisan when your base thinks it’s a ridiculous, maybe traitorous cause. And a reading of the comments makes this pretty clear. It’s a long comment thread. Much of it degenerates into petty and endless squabbling between pairs of commenters that frequently characterizes the dregs of the net. I will copy intact some of the comments that show the hate and antipathy to even allowing basic human dignity to those on the right that seems to characterize lefty discourse.
Before I do the copy and paste I have a couple of quick observations. Obama spent much, much more time bragging about this promise on the campaign trail than he probably will spend implementing it. It was merely a campaign promise. A campaign promise in the great tradition of, “You weren’t stupid enough to believe that were you?”

Each comment below is exactly as it appeared.

lokidog Says:

I hope President Obama has learned a simple lesson: reaching out to rabid dogs will only get your hands ripped off.
Better to shoot the bastards and put them out of their misery - and help the nation out at the same time.
January 25th, 2009 at 12:21 pm



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grover nerdkissed Says:

let’s hope he doesn’t bother kissin’ those pimply asses again.
January 25th, 2009 at 12:26 pm


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WaltB Says:

Barak had to give it a try. He can easily say he tried to reach out to these fools, while all they can do is whine and complain. Now he can go back to reminding them who won.
Come to think about it, now he could also use some of Bush’s favored strategies, invoke the Patriot Act on them and send them all (Rush especially!) to Gitmo!
January 25th, 2009 at 12:31 pm ===================

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Klem Kiddilehopper Says:

Let’s start playing hard with those as*holes!
First take Krauthummers wheelchair away, and let him crawl around forever!
Make Brock work as the towelboy in gay bathhouse, never to leave!
Kristol should be put in a round cage with Malkin, both of them butt-naked and roll them from one Repug meeting to the next one!
January 25th, 2009 at 1:19 pm

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TXProgressive Says:

Obama did the right thing in dining with them. It’s not Obama’s fault that his dinner guests have the mental and intellectual maturity of 7 year olds.
January 25th, 2009 at 4:42 pm

Hat Tip/NewsBuisters

Both Sides of Obama's Mouth Get Talked Out of Within Ten Seconds

If Bush made the best decisions he could under the circumstances, why didn't Obama vote for him?

Hat Tip/Hot Air

Obama Brings Peace to Georgia ? ? ?

Stupid Democrat credits Obama's words with bringing ceasefire while Russian pillage of Georgia continues. Are we going to end up with some Obamian equivalent of, "peace in our time"? Will Barry bring us peace through diplomacy and constructive engagement that will have Russia, China and Al Qaeda dividing the earth among themselves? Will the Democrats even know what is going on in the world? If you don't even know the location and actions of a rival's army, what can you do but lose when you talk to them?

Coulter Says,

"we are now left with two dangerous choices for president -- a young liberal who is friendly with terrorists or an old liberal who is friendly with Teddy Kennedy"