And if you are so stupid that you do not understand what a caucus is and how it works — it is a Native American word for the process by which consensus decision is reached by the tribe — then you are too ignorant to even have a voting right in this election.

Thanks Oliver. Good post.

Obama doesn’t need that. Enough scaredy cats already see him as a scary black dude. And he doesn’t have to. He is a genuinely nice guy who can debate with people who disagree with him with grace.

Grace in a President. I miss that.

Jesus. You just want a blood bath, is that it? You think she “took on and beat” O’Reilly? From what I saw, they were this close to grabbing some Glenlivet together and singing “Danny Boy” arm in arm.

Why is it important to you that the candidate of choice be such confrontational tool? Didn’t your grandma ever tell you “you catch more flies with honey..”?

This is not WWE. There is no cage match. This is politics. This is about tact and diplomacy and doing things differently than we are used to.

Duros, look up. See who started up.
I will defend myself by whatever means necessary, even (especially?) if it involves French.

Yup, I see that. You’re still bein a dick. And when you start insulting the French, you pretty much give yourself away.
Lessee, a couple of days ago you parroted a Hannity talking point, today you are pointing approvingly to Joe Scar and using French-iness derogatorily.
You might be a conservative.

What’s tough is growing up as a black child with a single white mom.

What’s easy is calling your opponent an elitist who doesn’t understand ‘real America’. We believe that we are all real Americans.

What’s tough is deciding to campaign for President against a field of eight seasoned, talented politicians when you are the newcomer.

What’s easy is do what you are told by party insiders. That it was someone else’s turn and to wait till next time. We can’t wait our turn because the last time we checked the Constitution of the United States of America, there was no provision for turns.

What’s tough is beating all but one of your opponents out of the race. (So far.)

What’s tough is to build a community organization in every state in America and in every territory and with Americans abroad too.

What’s easy is to not bother with half the states and when you lose, claim that they don’t matter.

What’s tough is to do the work of understanding the tiny details of every single caucus state far in advance and to organize people to participate.

What’s easy is to complain, after you lose, that caucuses are really not fair because everyone can’t have time to come.

What’s tough is to reach out across party, racial, ethnic, age, educational and gender lines and include everyone in the campaign.

What’s easy is to cut up, divide, and denigrate the opposition. It’s often what others call “being tough.”

What’s tough is to out-fundraise all your opponents, to raise more money than any single campaign in the history of American politics.

What’s easy is to complain that you are being outspent 3 to 1. Complaining is often called being tough by the other side.

What’s toughis calling the other side to congratulate them when we lose.

What’s easy is to have someone else do the call or have a press release the next day.

What’s tough is getting 1.5 million individual donors averaging less than $100 each to the campaign.

What’s easy is to round up the BIG MONEY guys and twist arms and get the special interests of lobbyists and PACS to foot the bill. And then claim that they “represent” the ordinary folks.

What’s tough is to tell truth to power. To tell people what needs to be told not what they might want to hear. That’s tough.

What’s easy is to keep reinventing your message to fit the time and place. You notice that after a while everyone was running on change.

What’s tough is accepting all Americans as they are, with all our diversity and all of our differences, we have more in common than the opposition believes.

What’s easy is to carve out the folks who are different from you and denigrate their beliefs.

What’s tough is facing down the media frenzy about your ex-pastor by addressing the underlying issue of race in America. It would have been easy to just denounce and bail out.

What’s easy is sitting on the other side swiping away, fanning the flames. The people reporting want a fight! It’s good for ratings. When we say we won’t play the game, then that’s the new story. We won’t play because we are out to change politics. They say we aren’t tough because we won’t mudsling back. Too bad. That’s too easy.

What’s tough is bowling.

What’s easy is basketball. I thought I’d toss that in.

What’s tough is showing our patriotism as we each individually choose. No one owns the one true way to be patriotic. No person or political party owns patriotism. We will not attack our opponents’ patriotism.

What’s easy is to attack your opponent’s patriotism for the way they dress, or speak, or for the people in their lives. It would be easy to dig up every detail of our opponents’ daily dress and look for the missing lapel pin.

If you choose to run a campaign based on tearing down the opposition instead of lifting up the nation, then that is how you will govern. You will resort to divide and conquer tactics with an eye to the next election. You will vilify the opposition party and ignore their input and devalue their good ideas.

No, he complained they asked him inane questions.

Look, can’t we all just agree to leave him alone and let him eat waffle in peace?

No, he complained they asked him inane questions.

I will defend myself by whatever means necessary, even (especially?) if it involves French.

Hillary will take voters from McCain. Saw it clearly last night, no question.

Lessee how Obama “teh Precious” does against Russert on Sunday, K? He was a creampuff to Wallace last weekend. Then I want to see him take on and beat O’Reilly head-to-head like Hillary did. Kirsten Powers today in the NY Post said how Obama complained that Charlie Gibson and Stephanopoulos were so mean to him: Then Hillary goes fearless into Bill O’ Reilly!

Like him or not (I think he is lowlife scum) O’Reilly has by far the highest-rated show on cable news. Every night.

For the Hillary show, close to 3.7 MILLION people tuned in, over a 700% increase to his usual audience!

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/ratings/the_scoreboard_wednesday_apr_30_83864.asp?disqus_reply=405068#comment-405068

I do believe your name means “Chambermaid” in French.

Now get on your knees and wash the floors you soiled here.

Yes, carrots and sticks. Bright shiny objects flashed in the faces of the populace. And if you send me $19.95, I’ll share my secrets to getting rich NOW.*

*hint: it involves getting dummies to send you $19.95.

Hillary gets it. She snatched the issue away from McCain and left him looking like a foolish, taxpayer-funded deficits old man, while she looked strong, capable, and looking out for you.”

Wow Wellstone, Joe Scarborough that’s quite an endorsement. Any news on getting that Sean Hannity nod? How about Glenn Beck and Michael Savage? If Hillary keeps running to the right of McCain she might get Tom Tancredo’s endorsement too!!!!11!@!!

By the way, Clinton is losing. It’s close and whatnot but she is losing and she will lose.

No, I was saying that you seemed to indicate that passionate people of conviction were not necessarily intelligent. But the college-educated do not immediately spring to mind when one talks about unintelligent people.

Maybe you didn’t mean to say what you wrote, because after all, you find passionate people of conviction from all educational and class backgrounds. If you did mean it as you wrote it, then my point stands–you think that people who voted for Obama in the caucuses were passionate and convicted but not intelligent. I’m sure they’d be happy to tell you to go to hell.

One more thing and then I’ll shut up. For a while.

I was thinking about this this morning. When she was first lady, championing health care reform, where exactly was that grit and determination? She spearheaded a reform package, it got smacked down and we never heard about it again. For 7 years. Where was that “I’ll never stop working for the little guy” that we hear so much now?