Comments on: Tightening! http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/10/30/tightening/ Like Kryptonite To Stupid Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:35:20 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Duros Hussein62 http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/10/30/tightening/#comment-124906 Duros Hussein62 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:50:53 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=11035#comment-124906 <i>Also, how ignorant do you have to be to refer to “Marxist theology”?</i> Yeah, that's a thing of beauty. Also, how ignorant do you have to be to refer to “Marxist theology”?

Yeah, that’s a thing of beauty.

]]> By: Duros Hussein62 http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/10/30/tightening/#comment-124903 Duros Hussein62 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:48:52 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=11035#comment-124903 <i>Did he actually throw the ‘fag’ line or are we hyperboling?</i> Well, no. That was an embellishment. But I think we all know who No. 2 is. Did he actually throw the ‘fag’ line or are we hyperboling?

Well, no. That was an embellishment. But I think we all know who No. 2 is.

]]> By: hack http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/10/30/tightening/#comment-124881 hack Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:03:25 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=11035#comment-124881 It's worth keeping in mind: in 2004, we were getting excited every time a poll showed our guy 2 points ahead. Now, the other side is getting excited every time a poll shows their guy 3 points BEHIND. It’s worth keeping in mind: in 2004, we were getting excited every time a poll showed our guy 2 points ahead. Now, the other side is getting excited every time a poll shows their guy 3 points BEHIND.

]]> By: PG http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/10/30/tightening/#comment-124779 PG Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:51:05 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=11035#comment-124779 He's awaiting trial. Due process, kids, even for Republicans. Just because they don't believe in it doesn't mean we shouldn't. He’s awaiting trial. Due process, kids, even for Republicans. Just because they don’t believe in it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t.

]]> By: Jaime http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/10/30/tightening/#comment-124778 Jaime Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:50:59 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=11035#comment-124778 I will still be be a nervous Nelly, worried all the way to the polls until he is announced the winner. God forbid something drastic happen and all these polls are false or something. I tend to not trust polls because they represent such a SMALL minute sampling of the actual population. Scary. I will still be be a nervous Nelly, worried all the way to the polls until he is announced the winner. God forbid something drastic happen and all these polls are false or something. I tend to not trust polls because they represent such a SMALL minute sampling of the actual population. Scary.

]]> By: Steve LaBonne http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/10/30/tightening/#comment-124774 Steve LaBonne Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:46:06 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=11035#comment-124774 The main thing that offends <i>me</i> about DeLay is that he's not in prison where he belongs. The main thing that offends me about DeLay is that he’s not in prison where he belongs.

]]> By: PG http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/10/30/tightening/#comment-124772 PG Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:39:15 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=11035#comment-124772 Actually, what offends me about the DeLay interview is that he, like most white conservatives, is ignorant about the African American church yet assumes that he must know everything about everything without putting any actual time into learning about it. (White liberals, on the other hand, <a href="http://dsadevil.blogspot.com/2008/05/how-i-read-rev-wright.html" rel="nofollow">will stop and read some goddamn books</a> before putting themselves forward as experts about blacks.) <i>And twenty years of association means that he must agree with the Marxist theology of black liberation theology.</i> Evidently one of DeLay's staff did a search on "liberation theology" and assumed that sticking the word "black" ahead of it didn't change the content. I just wish someone had prodded DeLay to talk about Rev. Wright, the Jesuit. Also, how ignorant do you have to be to refer to "Marxist theology"? Or was DeLay talking about some different Marx who didn't refer to religion as the opiate of the masses? Actually, what offends me about the DeLay interview is that he, like most white conservatives, is ignorant about the African American church yet assumes that he must know everything about everything without putting any actual time into learning about it. (White liberals, on the other hand, will stop and read some goddamn books before putting themselves forward as experts about blacks.)

And twenty years of association means that he must agree with the Marxist theology of black liberation theology.

Evidently one of DeLay’s staff did a search on “liberation theology” and assumed that sticking the word “black” ahead of it didn’t change the content. I just wish someone had prodded DeLay to talk about Rev. Wright, the Jesuit. Also, how ignorant do you have to be to refer to “Marxist theology”? Or was DeLay talking about some different Marx who didn’t refer to religion as the opiate of the masses?

]]> By: SaveFarris the Plumber http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/10/30/tightening/#comment-124770 SaveFarris the Plumber Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:24:54 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=11035#comment-124770 Did he actually throw the 'fag' line or are we hyperboling? Did he actually throw the ‘fag’ line or are we hyperboling?

]]> By: Steve LaBonne http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/10/30/tightening/#comment-124762 Steve LaBonne Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:40:31 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=11035#comment-124762 This has been over for a good month. Barring statistical fluctuations, the polls have pretty much been set in concrete that whole time. Not an excuse to stop working, just saying that people needn't lose sleep worrying. This has been over for a good month. Barring statistical fluctuations, the polls have pretty much been set in concrete that whole time.

Not an excuse to stop working, just saying that people needn’t lose sleep worrying.

]]> By: jr http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/10/30/tightening/#comment-124742 jr Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:08:14 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=11035#comment-124742 Matt Drudge is still singing Love Of A Lifetime by Firehouse to McCain Matt Drudge is still singing Love Of A Lifetime by Firehouse to McCain

]]> By: Duros Hussein 62 http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/10/30/tightening/#comment-124737 Duros Hussein 62 Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:01:37 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=11035#comment-124737 Anyone happen to catch Tom DeLay on Hardball last night? Flat out called Obama a Socialist commie pinko fag bastard and Tweety let him get away with it. Shouldn't he be in prison somewhere? Anyone happen to catch Tom DeLay on Hardball last night? Flat out called Obama a Socialist commie pinko fag bastard and Tweety let him get away with it.

Shouldn’t he be in prison somewhere?

]]> By: PG http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/10/30/tightening/#comment-124736 PG Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:57:59 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=11035#comment-124736 When I look at the RCP map, I have to do my own math because I don't count any state for Obama that doesn't simultaneously give him at least 50% (just in case the folks sulking about McCain's immigration stance get scared into voting against Obama at the last minute) and a 7 point lead over McCain (just in case some iteration of the Bradley effect is in play this year). By my count, and noting that Pennsylvania just went from "solid" Obama to "leaning" Obama, he's got 269 electoral votes (the 238 "solid," PA, NM & NV). I'm going to be phonebanking this weekend; I hope y'all will do the same. When I look at the RCP map, I have to do my own math because I don’t count any state for Obama that doesn’t simultaneously give him at least 50% (just in case the folks sulking about McCain’s immigration stance get scared into voting against Obama at the last minute) and a 7 point lead over McCain (just in case some iteration of the Bradley effect is in play this year). By my count, and noting that Pennsylvania just went from “solid” Obama to “leaning” Obama, he’s got 269 electoral votes (the 238 “solid,” PA, NM & NV). I’m going to be phonebanking this weekend; I hope y’all will do the same.

]]> By: ed http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/10/30/tightening/#comment-124734 ed Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:45:05 +0000 http://www.oliverwillis.com/?p=11035#comment-124734 Whatever. Stay on target, bitches! Do like Mr. Obama said and help Get Out the [Good Guy] Vote! Whatever. Stay on target, bitches! Do like Mr. Obama said and help Get Out the [Good Guy] Vote!

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