I'm taking a forced break from this Forum. It has become the Palin Forum, and I don't like it.

It is way over the top.
smells like Peyton place around here.
And the obsession for this woman, even in trying to dig up dirt
has become the new pastime, unfortunately.

My candidate has like 2 threads about him, if that.

I won't be here to witness when the polls even out,
and the nervous nellies start doubting our
most sublime dynamic Dynamic Ticket




I'll be busy writing letters to the Newspapers to help shape the debate to keep Obama on top,
by talking about Barack and Joe.....About why they are my pick, and why they should be the pick
of other voters.

Our guys have been busy today! :patriot:




















See Ya! :hi:

Bye-bye! :hi:

Focus on baby, affair, teenager....never mind civil liberties, tax breaks for big oil, her flat earth beliefs.

All this Palin bullshit is nothing but a DISTRACTION!

We will kick ass on the issues, the rest is a red herring and I'm amazed how many people are flocking to it!

We're now fighting another culture war.

There's no such thing as sliming the vile bitch too much! :patriot:

every important issue that he ran on. He now supports gun ownership ala Heller, he admits that the surge worked and that we are winning (won) in Iraq. He is all over the map on the economy! His health care plan is watered down Hillary. He stands for change but changing to what?

If he is to beat McCain, it will be on charisma alone. The rest has been prostituted away.

on almost all issues. However - he is VASTLY superior to McCain on EVERY issue.
Cheers codswalloper.

AND - I will be better off and safer with Obama than McCain.

"Sliming the vile bitch?"

The culture wars were created by right wing propagandists. They set up a playing field and have every advantage in it. They scripted our roles and lines for us. We cannot win it. But so long as we are willing to play, we lose.

It is a phony war. You are chasing shadows and swinging at thin air. There us nothing you can possibly do that helps the right wing more than to allow yourself to get suckered into this cultural war nonsense.

She needs to be completely destroyed.

It was fun while it lasted. Now I need to get stuff done. (Like register voters). Anyway, I don't want to give that ugly, repulsive human being any more of my time and energy. She's just not worth it. BTW, this is not a diss against anyone who's still enjoying it. I say, enjoy it while you can. I'm just so fucking over that racist harpy.

The stakes are too high.

We have to take her down. And we will.

All the best to you, and you know I mean that. But I respectfully disagree here.

try living with her.

from Obama's bounce after the convention, from the number of his mansions, etc., then it worked.

You can be as high minded as you want to and stick to the issues when the plain folks are going gaga over Palin but you'll be sitting there on November 5th bewildered with President-Elect McCain. I've seen enough elections where we refused to engage forcefully and THEN redirect back to us. How many times do we have to lose in order for Democrats to get it?

and since she won't be coming forward to address anything - we have to use what little we know and neutralize.

To sit by and do nothing is just plain stupid.

I never figured you for a goodbye-cruel-world type. Goes to show what I know.

I am sick to death of Palin and the hoopla over some damn bimbo repub. We are so busy on DU gossiping about her shit and not staying on track. I go to GD-P for news on my guy Biden and on Obama. I am an original member of the Biden group here on DU and now I usually just read and post there if I want to catch up on their daily events. GD-P has become a wasteland.

I still think a lot of it is that we're just finding out who she is.

Mind you, if you're not enjoying or getting anything out of DU, then the proper course of action is pretty obvious; I've taken the extended break from here too. I just didn't make an announcement about it.

scandal count, and waiting for her to implode.

What would you have us do? I'm just along for the ride... if everyone in here is happy, that's great. It's the Palin week... we'll burn out on her and forget her completely soon.

though, before too long-
Her dramatic arrival and snarky venom was a sla in the face after the incredible unity of last week.
Pretending 'sweetness' while delivering really cutting, untrue sarcastic remarks that are really difficult to ignore- (and maybe shouldn't be ignored-)

I hope you don't stay away too long- we need your voice and energy.

:hug:


:hi:


YES WE CAN!!! YES WE WILL!!!


peace~
blu

First off you are one of my favorites.

People like a good wreck and seem too be flamming the fires with Sarah.

Anyway, I am spending way too much time here, too the detriment of my business, so a break seems like a good idea.

Check back in on Monday, maybe the 24x7 Sarah will be waning and the focus can return to the major issues.

Don't go. :(

thanks for the great pictures. The last one is really extra-special. :pals:

Hang in there with those of us who try to find balance. If you temporarily vacate, the whole board will be wall to wall Lipstick Pig Girl.

If you feel you must...COME BACK SOON, REAL SOON, QUICK LIKE!

You're a voice of reason around here.

I also got out of the way.

They do have stronger feelings toward attacking Palin than I do, and it's great on the one hand and wrong on the other hand.


If they steal it, what side will they take then?

I know how you feel, but I think it's just a lot of frustration we all feel about this idiotic VP pick. The sarcasm, unprofessionalism, lies, and just down right stupidity of the McCain campaign has people reeling. We do not like how she talked about our guy and his "community organizing" and we/I can't stand her smugness with avoiding the MSM questions. I think that's what is going on here and I have to admit, I feel a lot of anger about it too, however, you are right, we have to stay focused. The McCain camp is waging it's bets on us getting frustrated and rattled. When actually we shouldn't be. Obama and Biden bring strength, wisdom, courage, insight, and yes, tons of personality :D So if we are voting on who has the best personality our guys win hands down:applause:

You do a good thing here--you keep us focused! Some of us are listening;) You better not go anywhere, 'cause for one thing, you always have the best pics and secondly, you're needed!:hug:

Well, at least not in the last fifteen seconds.

Poooooooooor widdle FrenchieCat. :cry:

And we do need to keep the positive Obama threads coming. Great pics!! Thanks.

On the other hand, Palin's lies and hypocrisy needs to be addressed. The problem
is, there's so much to address!

It'll die down after she gets the boot. :)

an hour.

Goodbye cruel world, indeed.

What a joke.

although you wish. :eyes:

Hang in there, come back soon - we love you and know you're fighting the good fight. :patriot:

Don't let the crap get to you. The main thing is that we're all fighting in the ways we feel best - keep going!

I'll stay here in the slime that I'm helping fan (to each their own).

:hug:

than posting about policy differences. Normally DU stays away from personal scandals (or issues) and focuses on the war, the economy, civil rights, etc. We even blast freepers and RWers for spending so much time interfering in people's personal lives.

So along comes an occasion where we can let our guns blast away about a politician's family life (to work or stay at home), teenage pregnancy (for once we get to judge a girl and her mother), marital fidelity (WE get to go looking for a blue dress), etc. It is kind of a release that we can be "freepers" for a day, before we go back to being boring policy wonks and discussing how stupid and dangerous McCain's positions are.

we REALLY should try to ignore Gidget

Thanks! :hi:

I've got a team of 30 Obama volunteers meeting me tomorrow -- I could use that graph.

Too bad it doesn't work in presidential elections. Great way to govern, terrible way to run a campaign.

for those of us who aren't comfortable yet starting threads. i always read yours. understand if you need a vacation, but please come back.

:loveya:

The woman (Palin) just hit the scene last week! Can we have a few minutes to discuss her without folks getting upset?? This is your second "Good-bye GD-P" post since she came out -- a WEEK ago. Why all of the drama???

The tube-people are doing the vetting that the McCain camp didn't think was necessary. She is a woman, after all, what could she have to hide?

The idea is simple. If it can be proven that McCain made a serious judgement blunder in picking his running mate, then it can be easily inferred that he can't make the right decision when it matters on any issue.'

I know you are frustrated, but this is the R's week.

Monday is back to business.

:shrug: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :hi: :hi:

the last word.

If you don't like it, you're doing the right thing by leaving.

I left for several months during the primaries - I know Hillary supporters won't believe this, but I was beaten up whenever I argued AGAINST Hillary. I hated the tone and sniping so much that I left.
(Hey, I was 100% behind Edwards, and thank god THAT didn't happen)

Now we're all united behind Obama, and whatever else is going on is OK by me.

Take some time off - it will be good for your blood pressure (unless, of course, you're doing what my mother used to call "being a martyr", in which case, good luck with that)

Great photos, is you were not here, they would not be here. Please rethink your leaving.

I enjoy your posts, but I understand.

Knowing you'll be working to elect our guys makes it easier to not have you around for a while.

:patriot:

where did you get the graphic with the bubble chart showing the issues addressed at the conventions. It's a great visual representing the true depth of the Obama/Biden platform. Keep up the good work.

She's drowned out the three men and her family dynamic has taken over every political discussion--all Palin, all the time, 24/7.
There are other things worthy of discussion.

its the same bullshit threads about her rehashed every 4 minutes.

I'm outta here too, I need a break. I'll be hanging out in JBSG and photography group

We should be talking more about Obama and more about McCain's weaknesses.

.

:hi:

I agree the gimmick is wearing thin.

GOBAMA!

:kick:

nellie on everyone.

announcing you're taking a 6 hour break?

ATTENTION EVERYONE!! I'm going to bed soon and will not return for something like 10 hours because you all have pissed me off royally.

So are you going?

The little men behind the curtain (cuz there's more than one carney hustler pulling the levers back there) were able to foist the bastard child of Howdy Doody and Alfred E. Newman on us twice, over the bones of two vastly superior intellects. I think back to the late great Bill Hicks and his routine about the other Kennedy assassination film. You might recall it - the one where Hicks talks about a newly inaugurated president being whisked back to a secret screening room at the White House and shown a 8mm clip that looks like Zapruder, but is shot from another vantage point (suspiciously like the grassy knoll). The film ends, the lights go up, and one of the cigar-chomping fat cats in the room asks the new President, "Any questions?" I have had the feeling for almost 8 years now that some of those same cigar aficionados brought us the Shrub on a bet (ala "Pygmalion," "My Fair Lady" or "Trading Places"). Picture it: the boys-who-own-everything sitting in a real leather and polished wood private club somewhere and Fat Man #1 turns to Fat Man #2 and says, "I bet you a dollar we can get these chumps (that would be us) to elect a totally clueless bum straight from the cast of Animal House." And Fat Man 1 collected his dollar (and maybe they went double or nothing on the 2004 election). Problem for us is that we are now suffering the economical, environmental, and foreign policy chaos resulting from these two experiments. For metaphorical illustrations, see the Three Stooges versions of this kind of wagering, e.g. the pie fights at the end of "Hoi Polloi" (Columbia Short Subject 1933) and "Half Wits Holiday" (Columbia Short Subject 1947)and "Pies and Guys" (Columbia Short Subject 1958). The Stooges figured they could feed us the same fare three times, and I betting that the Fat Guys in the smoke-filled club are certain they can run this scam again with someone even more outrageously under-qualified. Wasn't it Jefferson who said the people get the government they deserve? And Benjamin Franklin said, "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." If we let this lightweight become VP, what will that say about us? In less than a decade we will have gone from Rhodes Scholar to confused frat boy cheerleader to hapless hockey mom. Getting a kid to the rink on time is certainly sufficient prior experience, don't ya think?

DON'T LET UP ON THIS LADY AND DON'T LET UP ON THE MASTER FLIP-FLOPPER WHO PICKED HER.

But began posting again 20 minutes later...

Is it love? :loveya:

When will some people learn?

Ask Al Gore.

Sorry Frenchie - love your posts, always.

Hopefully things will die down to a small ember and you'll come on back in soon.

It's what for breakfast, lunch *and* dinner :) And all under the guise of being a ass kick'n Dem :)...that just lost sight of ball again! :):(

Damn straight she's going to be discussed nonstop. We will overturn every stone, every pebble, every grain of F'ing sand until she has been thoroughly politically and personally dissected. Whatever ammo I can use against her, depending on the person I'm discussing her with, I intend to do so.

After hearing her G'damn high-school-theatrics rant that is being praised as a "speech," the gloves are off. I have despised people like that since I was old enough to see them for what they are.

She's dangerous. I want her exposed for what she is, whatever it takes.

Some people need to give it a rest.

I can't believe how popular US magazine has become with our crowd. :eyes: