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Deep Thought

by BooMan
Mon Jun 2nd, 2008 at 03:46:37 PM EST

People talk about how this election has exposed certain fault lines within the party and the country and brought forth a lot of latent racism, and sexism, and classism, and ageism. Yeah. It did all that. But mostly it just stirred up a World of Stupid.

Deep Thought | 18 comments (18 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Deep Thought (4.00 / 3)

latent? surely you jest

Latino Político | "We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit." - Octavio Paz

by Man Eegee (man.eegee at gmail.com) on Mon Jun 2nd, 2008 at 03:53:29 PM EST

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well, it brought it to the surface. How's that?

by BooMan on Mon Jun 2nd, 2008 at 03:58:28 PM EST
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Re: Deep Thought (4.00 / 5)

There was always stupid if you knew where to look. This was the year that stupid went mainstream.

"This is Barack Obama's party now." -- Chuck Todd

by Omir the Storyteller (omir.the.storyteller -CAT- gmail -DOG- com) on Mon Jun 2nd, 2008 at 03:59:24 PM EST
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Sorry, but 2004 was when stupid went mainstream. Half the country was as stupid as a bag of hammers.

nalbar

by nalbar (nalbarsatgmaildotcom) on Tue Jun 3rd, 2008 at 04:29:09 AM EST
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Re: Deep Thought (none / 0)

Hm. You have a point.

You know how stupid the average American is, right?

Well, by definition, half of them are even dumber than that.

And they all voted for Chimpy McFlightsuit . . .

"This is Barack Obama's party now." -- Chuck Todd

by Omir the Storyteller (omir.the.storyteller -CAT- gmail -DOG- com) on Tue Jun 3rd, 2008 at 09:02:24 AM EST
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True, but this year the Stupid drifted into our half as well.

by RollaMO on Tue Jun 3rd, 2008 at 11:02:06 AM EST
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...more like it needs to be summoned to Wexler's committee for steroid abuse.

Latino Político | "We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit." - Octavio Paz

by Man Eegee (man.eegee at gmail.com) on Mon Jun 2nd, 2008 at 04:04:19 PM EST
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Will Teh Stupid World stuff continue? (4.00 / 2)

So Hillary has summoned all her biggest supporters for her speech tomorrow in New York. The rumor mill has her "shedding staff". The conventional wisdom is that tomorrow she punches the candidate clock for the last time.

Why do I just have the gut feeling that tomorrow we will be treated, not to a concession speech, but to another "why we're ahead and why we will win" speech?

Yes, common sense would indicate that tomorrow it will all be over.

All the more reason to believe that tomorrow it will continue.

We are truly living in George Constanza's "Do the Opposite" world. Where you first ponder and weigh all your options and based on that you decide what is truly rational and logical........and then do the complete opposite of that. In the end, it didn't work out for George, either.

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity"

by MikeInOhio (miken45054@yahoo.com) on Mon Jun 2nd, 2008 at 04:02:34 PM EST

Re: Will Teh Stupid World stuff continue? (none / 0)

It's being billed as a "Victory Speech". WTF?

At McCain's inaugural, she will be clinging to his ankles screaming, "No, it's mine!"

by The Voice In The Wilderness on Tue Jun 3rd, 2008 at 08:41:35 AM EST
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It was the year that some attempted to build upon stupid.

Fear will keep the local systems in line. -Grand Moff Tarkin -SLB-

by boran2 (blogistan@yahoo.com) on Mon Jun 2nd, 2008 at 04:15:34 PM EST

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Lots of STUPID out there - unfortunately..

One way or the other, this darkness has to give....

by Denim Blue on Mon Jun 2nd, 2008 at 04:20:26 PM EST

Now if we could just... (none / 1)

Now if we could just convert Stupid into energy, we'd be set.

by Primordial Ooze on Mon Jun 2nd, 2008 at 04:20:45 PM EST

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We've been living in a World of Stupid for a lot longer than that. The Stupid is always out there. It's just that sometimes we look away from it and pretend the world is better than it is.

Obama is a Patriot

by Steven D on Mon Jun 2nd, 2008 at 04:20:50 PM EST

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The World of Stupid is always stirred up. You break you TV?

Bush is "the first President to admit to an impeachable offense." --Former Nixon counsel John Dean

by DaveW on Mon Jun 2nd, 2008 at 04:53:15 PM EST

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. . . is it safe to try to read the site yet?

"This is Barack Obama's party now." -- Chuck Todd

by Omir the Storyteller (omir.the.storyteller -CAT- gmail -DOG- com) on Mon Jun 2nd, 2008 at 09:52:43 PM EST

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What can you do if you're a Rovian running the Republican campaign this year? You've got an old McCain who can't help but contradict himself and the facts and whose entire staff is made up of lobbyists. The economy is in the tank, which is just as well because no one can afford to put anything else in it.

So what do you do? You go back to the old tried and true: religion, racism, sexism, George Soros.

by Bob In Pacifica on Mon Jun 2nd, 2008 at 10:04:52 PM EST

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And you thought this county was smart? Elections have always appealled to the lowest common denominator. Unfortunately, it is not about the issues unless they are inflammatory and divide. When Kennedy ran, he was suspected because he was Catholic. Remember when a candidate could not be divorced...kiss of death. Lincoln was called a long armed ape.
But this year the democrats have taken polarization by prejudice to new heights....or should I say the Clinton campaign has. When the election was perceived to be a sure thing for HRC, she ran as a policy wonk. It was only after her multiple defeats on super Tuesday that she became more divisive. Obama had originally been perceived as post-racial, until he achieved a majority of the african american electorate, and suddenly race became an issue. We also witnessed discrimination against black liberation theology because it hits hard to a collective sense of guilt.
As HRC became more and more behind in delegates, she started to play the gender card, whipping up women to believe that she was being discriminated against because of her sex.
I guess what we see is that these issues do polarize and if skillfully played can produce deep chasms. The old feminists still feel wronged. Perhaps we are foolish to believe that we are post-feminist.
Politics is a game and Rove tactics do work. It just was rather fascinating to see them played out by a democratic candidate.

by prajna32 on Tue Jun 3rd, 2008 at 08:54:37 AM EST

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Congrats on the all traffic Booman. As a loyal reader, good to see you get all of the pub/street cred.

"The heart of darkness is the president. Nobody knows what he thinks, even the people who work for him."

by Mac G on Tue Jun 3rd, 2008 at 08:57:13 AM EST

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