You seem to take a certain amount of joy.  Maybe glee in saying that this could cause trouble for your incoming president.   Do you think that because of the existence of Governor Blagojevich that President Elect Obama should not have run?  Are you hoping that this causes your new president to fail even before he has begun?  It seems that he should fail speedily regardless of reason rather than so after a sober examination of his policies.

You seem to take a certain amount of joy.  Maybe glee in saying that this could cause trouble for your incoming president.

Yeah, that's a fair assessment.

Do you think that because of the existence of Governor Blagojevich that President Elect Obama should not have run?

I think that, had the press done its job, Obama's candidacy would have ended in the primary season.

Are you hoping that this causes your new president to fail even before he has begun?

Well, he is the candidate of hope, after all.

I think that, had the press done its job, Obama's candidacy would have ended in the primary season.

I think what you're really saying here is that the GOP are a bunch fuckin' pussies, whom despite having a 24hr election cycle for two whole fucking years, a TV network dedicated to conservatism, a million blithering idiots on talk radio, and an army of douchebag bloggers looking under every rock in the country for that elusive footage of Obama, Ayers, and Rezko having a SATANIC threesome with MaCauley Caulkin, still couldn't dig up one iota of dirt on Obama, and are now reduced to the hilarious and yet-so-very-shrill position of faulting the media to do what they themselves were unable to pull off.  This is what it's come to for y'all on the right? Blaming the press just like those disgruntled, left-wing, anti-war protesters did that y'all hate so much. Sweet, delicious irony, that's fucking rich, man!

Somewhere in my soul, there's always Rock -n- Roll... Joe Strummer

elusive footage of Obama, Ayers, and Rezko having a SATANIC threesome with MaCauley Caulkin

See? This is what I mean about disingenuous liberals -- that would be a Satanic foursome. ;-)

Baby...if you can't Satanic with three you just ain't trying.

Why does reduced fat Swiss cheese have twice as many holes are regular Swiss cheese?

Guilty as charged: Math Dumbass™, that's me!!

Somewhere in my soul, there's always Rock -n- Roll... Joe Strummer

So you would like to see this president fail and put millions in deeper jeopardy simply because you are unhappy with the result of your elections?  And not fail because he is a bad president but fail because his administration is distracted by the actions of another?  Such pettiness is beneath you and diminishes you.

So you would like to see this president fail and put millions in deeper jeopardy simply because you are unhappy with the result of your elections?  And not fail because he is a bad president but fail because his administration is distracted by the actions of another?

Reverse the causality chain of the first: I'm unhappy with the election result because I believe Obama will put millions in deeper jeopardy. As for the second, any scandal which makes it less likely that damaging legislation will be enacted is acceptable to me.

I would also claim that any distraction provided by Blagojevich is indicative of Obama being a bad president. He had total control over the people who are appointed to his staff, what steps were taken to isolate the President-elect from Illinois political corruption, and how the response to the press was handled. If Obama can't handle this, where almost everything is under his control, how will he manage an international crisis, where almost nothing will be?

Jeez Louise, Gerry.  Gettin' all altruistic on us?  Don't lie to the noob.  You could give a rat's ass about the festering millions.  You don't even care about folks who have to drive to another state or something just to get the meds some moralistic prig won't stock.  Admit it...yer getting a buzz off of the whole Blaggy thing.  Which of course will make watching the resulting buzzkill all the sweeter if Obama succeeds.  

Why does reduced fat Swiss cheese have twice as many holes are regular Swiss cheese?

There is nothing to reverse.  You expresed your glee before and in stronger terms than your logic.  You only expressed your thoughts logically when you were criticized.  Sadly petty smallness trumps fairness again.

At first glance it looked like you said you missed bestiality.

Why does reduced fat Swiss cheese have twice as many holes are regular Swiss cheese?

My favorite among the parrotings is the one that made sure to highlight the point that Warren compared gay sex to bestiality and family-fucking, unfavorably.

escalators never fail; they just become stairs

My favorite part was about "gay homes."

My home is very gay but only at the holidays.

escalators never fail; they just become stairs

What, you were unaware that Warren is anti-science? Or were you unaware that Obama transcends science?

    Anti-science? Never thought about it much. I mean, wasn't Warren's schtick that he combined self help rhetoric with ministry? Because there's not a lot of pro-science talk in those circles, near as I can tell: Wayne Dyer with his messages from the universe, Deepak Chopra with what looks to be rehashed Hinduism, Don Miguel Ruiz with his "ancient Toltec wisdom", and so on and so forth. Combining evangelism with this happy talk didn't seem like a recipe for Stephen Gould like love for science.

    If your goal was to mock a slogan, then by all means carry on. Slogans deserve to be mocked, successful ones more than the rest. I just didn't see any connection between your post and mine, that's all.

Ex ignorantia ad sapientiam; e luce ad tenebras

Anti-science?

Specifically, Warren doesn't believe in evolution. Maybe Obama could have found a minister who does, but maybe not. I dunno.

If your goal was to mock a slogan, then by all means carry on

What slogan?

I just didn't see any connection between your post and mine, that's all

You wrote that the left was bitching about Warren. The only bitching I heard had to do with him being anti-gay; no one seems to care much that he's anti-science. That leads me to wonder if "the left" cares more about gayness than about science. I think they probably do, by and large. (People on the left are not terribly fond of science unless it's the sort of science that fits into their ideology.)

     Well, the scandal du jour is over gay marriage, but a quick Google found at least a couple recent hits pointing out that Warren doesn't believe in evolution, including a Nation article and a snippet from Paul Krugman. Whether that's enough for you, I don't know, and don't much feel like pursuing any further. Warren did debate Sam Harris last April, and there was possibly a little buzz about it back then.

    Could Obama have found a minister, preacher, pastor, what have you, that believes in evolution? Certainly. But it wouldn't have made a splash, which is something he seems to want to do on many fronts.

Ex ignorantia ad sapientiam; e luce ad tenebras