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The Onion Comes Through Again
Balloon Juice —
Love it:
Nation Finally Shitty Enough To Make Social Progress
After emerging victorious from one of the most pivotal elections in history, president-elect Barack Obama will assume the role of commander in chief on Jan. 20, shattering a racial barrier the United States is, at long last, shitty enough to overcome.
Although polls going into the final weeks of October showed Sen. Obama in the lead, it remained unclear whether the failing economy, dilapidated housing market, crumbling national infrastructure, health care ...
The Onion Calls It
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
An instant classic: Carrying a majority of the popular vote, Obama did especially well among women and young voters, who polls showed were particularly sensitive to the current climate of everything being fucked. Another factor contributing to Obama's victory, political experts said, may have been the growing number of Americans who, faced with the complete collapse of their country, were at last able to abandon their preconceptions and cast their vote for a progressive African-American.
Citizens with eyes, ears, and the ability to wake up and ...
11/5: Yes, He Did
Blogometer —
... more to the point, a leader. As others have noted tonight, Obama won't have to do much to look good in comparison -- a little energy, a bit of heartfelt optimism, a sense that we put a modicum of forethought into our policies. I have some hope that Obama can do more than clear that low bar. (His speech tonight struck all the right notes.) But for the time being, I'll take having a sentient being in charge." LEST WE FORGET: Nation Finally Shitty Enough To Make Social Progress From The Onion : "WASHINGTON -- After emerging victorious from one of the most pivotal elections in ...
Failure to Blow Election Stuns Democrats
Interesting Times —
Wednesday, November 05, 2008 Failure to Blow Election Stuns Democrats Being a recovering ADD (Anxious and Defeatist Democrat), I can really appreciate the humor of Andy Borowitz . Update: Also, this from The Onion: "Nation Finally Shitty Enough To Make Social Progress" posted by Chris Andersen at 9:57 AM [image] [image] 0 Comments: Post a Comment Links to this post: See links to this post "> ">$BlogBacklinkURL$>" rel="nofollow"> "> ">$BlogBacklinkTitle$> posted by ...
What it all means; or, some bombastic post-election post
The Reaction —
By non sequitur First of all: brilliant, if uncomfortably true (and somewhat similar to what I wrote yesterday). The Republican/right-wing spin seems to be that McCain only lost because of the financial that hit in September--when he was actually ahead in the polls! He had to deal with an unpopular incumbent, and then when the banks looked like they might fail, he couldn't get out from under that. But the fact that he did so well even against such "strong headwinds" just goes to show what a deeply ...
Infrastructure
the talking dog —
... by DNC delegate (and former AmStreet blogger) Jenny Greenleaf, outlining in part Dean's vision then in proto-form, as he positioned himself to be DNC chair, shortly after the debacle of the 2004 election. And in less than four years... the seemingly unthinkable (in a good way!) has not only happened, but dramatically so . The whole nation is now engaged in these presidential campaigns-- not just Ohio and Florida, though they too get their share of attention; those in "blue" or "red" states can engage in a nearby swing state, and what were once solidly "red" yesterday may be ...
Nation finally shitty enough to make social progress
WTF Is It Now?!? —
Our long national nightmare is finally over! The Onion: Carrying a majority of the popular vote, Obama did especially well among women and young voters, who polls showed were particularly sensitive to the current climate of everything being ...
Liberals Have to Get Better At This
Open Left - Front Page —
The Onion makes a really good point with jokes:
Nation Finally Shitty Enough To Make Social Progress
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"Today Americans have grudgingly taken a giant leap forward," Williams continued. "And all it took was severe economic downturn, a bloody and unjust war in Iraq, terrorist attacks on lower Manhattan, nearly 2,000 deaths in New Orleans, and more than three centuries of frequently violent racial turmoil."
It shouldn't be this hard.
"If Obama learned one thing from his predecessors, it's that ...
Never Failing, Always Failed
The Republic of T. —
... unwrapped one in a headline from The Onion that should give Democrats something to think about. Read his post for more on that. ...
Never Failing, Always Failed
Booman Tribune —
... unwrapped one in a headline from The Onion that should give Democrats something to think about. Read his post for more on that. The jaw-dropper, though, comes from the Wall Street Journal , (hat-tip to Steve Benen at ...
Not just another New Year's Eve
the talking dog —
... that in 220 years of our Constitutional system, no man who was either (1) a graduate of Columbia College or (2) not born in the lower 48 or (3) not White had ever been elected President before, and no sitting senator since JFK. Barack Hussein Obama has shattered all of those barriers at the same time, running a near-perfect campaign to overcome heavy favorite Sen. Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries and to overcome a late charge by Sen. John McCain in the general election ( albeit aided by some rather dismal economic news ... the other remarkable part of 2008). I'm ...
Mistakes, though never admitted, were made
the talking dog —
... . One possible exception to Bush's dynasty of doom, is, as The Onion noted, that things got so bad, that at least the genuine social progress of electing a Black man to the Presidency became possible. But that's it... other than being good at creating disaster, this is not a man who succeeded at anything in his entire life other than getting Poppy to get his friends to bail him out... and unfortunately, it's no longer Junior who needs bailing out, but the 300,000,000 of us, and even Poppy's friends just ain't that rich. With around 10 days left of the debacle known as ...
The 22% Solution
the talking dog —
... But at this point, I just want to comment on all the wonderful emotions that the Bush Presidency has brought to bear: paranoia, xenophobia, fear, anger, denial, helplessness, intolerance... in short, all of the underpinnings of the Great Southern Strategy that has kept the Republican Party going since Reagan: racism masquerading as "family and moral values," now finally brought out into the open, thanks to traumatic events. It seems, however, that this envelope got pushed so far... it finally got torn apart . And now it seems, only a 22% share of the nation is still willing ...
