"This is how Führer Obama wants us to conduct dialog about race, by physically threatening academics and journalists who would dare to disagree with the Führer." - tnathan

No, no, no.

That is Grade A bullsh*t. An academic unaffiliated with the Obama campaign suggested this strategy on a blog. More importantly, up to this point, only one other poster has endorsed it, and yet you believe that it is a logical response to hyperbolically condemn the entire campaign--of which, I must repeat, the poster in question is not a member of--as an exercise in fascism.

And the funny thing is that it is this very hyperbole, be it rooted in allusions to Obama's purported lack of patriotism or allusions to Obama's personal racial and religious background, which irritated the poster in question in the first place.

Clinton and Obama stand for the same values, and support very similar policies. These values and polices are not fascist.

If you want to condemn the strategy, that's fantastic, but don't pretend for a moment that it is rational to assume that, because one academic blogger advocated an aggressive campaign strategy on, of all things, a TPM user blog, there is a "totalitarian Obama movement." That is an inference which is simply not represented by the facts. The overwhelming majority of Obama's supporters are like those of Clinton: Democrats who support a system in which the nomination will go to the candidate who maintains a majority in the popular and pledged delegate vote at the end of the primary season.

That's the campaign strategy which is being pursued by the Obama campaign.

It's a clean campaign, and it's winning.

Deal with it.

Posted at March 27, 2008 3:13 AM in response to Billary's One-Two Punch Has Changed the Game

Don Key, anatol and tnathan:

There is a reason why why none of you can write a post without namedropping Nazis or communists: there is no substance to your respective arguments (that is, if the three of you are not, in all actuality, simply different handles for the same troll), only vitriol.

Your candidate is not entitled to be President.

You can troll all you want, but you can't change the fact that Obama is winning in all categories of this contest (save for the superdelegate vote, but, as I've pointed out, he has gained over sixty in the last three months, while she has picked up less than ten).

You can rant and rave all you want, but you can't change reality.

Posted at March 27, 2008 1:32 AM in response to Billary's One-Two Punch Has Changed the Game

See my response to "anatol" below...

Posted at March 27, 2008 12:13 AM in response to Billary's One-Two Punch Has Changed the Game

You Clintonistas are so full of chutzpah, it's astounding. Before this election, I would have never believed that the current Democratic party could sink so low.

*Obama is ahead in the pledged delegate vote
*Obama is ahead in the popular vote
*Obama has won more states
*Obama has picked up over sixty super delegates in the last three months; Clinton has picked up less than ten
*Obama's national approval rating is at 49%; Clinton's is down to 37%

And when his supporters point to these facts, they are considered totalitarian.

Let me break it down for you: your candidate is not entitled to be President. At this point, she cannot win without infuriating the majority of the party, for, unless she wins all of the remaining states by over sixty five percent (a feat of which she has an infinitesimal chance of accomplishing), she will not have won the popular vote of the Democratic Party, let alone the pledged delegate vote. The fact that you would risk a full fledged intra-party war over this election, in the face of an unavoidable and quantifiable political defeat, effectively demonstrates that the malignant cult of personality resides on your side of the aisle.

Your candidate is not entitled to be President.

Deal with it.

Posted at March 27, 2008 12:12 AM in response to Billary's One-Two Punch Has Changed the Game

She's about two weeks too late...

Posted at March 25, 2008 4:23 PM in response to Hillary Amplifies Criticism Of Obama Over Wright

At least she's not a message board troll.

Talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Posted at March 21, 2008 6:30 PM in response to Girl In Red Phone Ad Denounces Hillary And Her "Politics Of Fear"

"How is Weaver a troll?" -MKyleM

Reread the first post of the thread:

"...Obama is racist and America-hating..."

Hysterical allegations of racism = trolling. Period.

Posted at March 20, 2008 10:29 PM in response to Asked Whether Advisers Are Pushing Wright Story, Hillary Demurs

People: So long as Obama remains the probable candidate, Weaver will be a troll*.

Do not feed the troll. Nothing productive will come from it.

*Unfamiliar with the term? Read more here.

Posted at March 20, 2008 9:39 PM in response to Asked Whether Advisers Are Pushing Wright Story, Hillary Demurs