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"It's 3am...Michael Bay wants to do another crappy remake of a classic movie...who do you want answering the phone?"

nooooooooo!!!!!!

Mr. Poland, you do understand that, at least in this context, "3AM" is a metaphor, right? If not, then wow. Either you're conveniently ignoring that just so you can criticize it, or...I'll stop typing now.

That said, the commercial is pretty lame.

Odd Duck: I get that it's a metaphor, but it does not change how annoying her campain has become. It's simply annoying, and annoys me as a Obama supporter.

Stop the presses!! IOIOIOI, the most sane, reasonable and diplomatic Obama supporter to ever post comments on this blog is annoyed by Hillary Clinton's campaign! Maybe you can write her a memo and tell her this - I'm sure she'll quit then.

Odd: you miss the point. It's annoying because it's an out and out lie. The metaphor would be easier to tolerate, if she indeed had more experience that actually happened. Her experience is smoke and mirrours, and some people have absolutely bought it hook, line, and sinker.

Also... seriously... look at your response to me and you call me the crazy one? Really? Maybe in your hood not in mine.

Seriously, before you go thinking that you aren't batshit crazy, look at some of the stuff you wrote in this thread.

http://www.mcnblogs.com/thehotblog/archives/2008/03/bitch_vs_black.html#comments

I think you managed to turn half of the Obama supporters against you in that one!

It's also this sort of stuff that cracks me:

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/04/candidate-clint.html

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They really believe he cannot be elected. Ladies and Gentlemen, Hillary Clinton has now officially entered LUDICROUS SPEED!

I forgot, DP-- are you voting for Obama, or against Hilary? Because you've gone almost exclusively "Hilary sucks because ______" I don't like Hilary at all, and even I'm finding it a little tedious.

Mr. Poland, I find it telling that you're now blocking my comments but let IOIOI's rants fly. Look at the stuff he wrote in this thread: http://www.mcnblogs.com/thehotblog/archives/2008/03/bitch_vs_black.html#comments

So after all of that, you block my comments after seeing my "stop the presses" entry?!?!? Sorry, but that's absurd and seems pretty weakminded to me. Just look at all the people he straight-up insulted with vulgar language in that thread. Sure I'm no ambassador, and throw elbows with the best of them, but generally keep to the merits. If you can compare your treatment of the two and see anything but a blatant double standard between Clinton and Obama supporters, then I don't quite know what to say.

Hey, it's your blog, do what you will, but think for a minute whether this was actually fair, or just easy.

Cadavra,

I want the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad answering that phone.

Ummm...aren't 80% of them, like, dead?

mystery... I have no idea who you support... but I do recall that you seem to have been finding this tedious from the first post.

I am pro-Obama. I am pro-hope. I am pro-leadership that at least tries to be something other than just being about tearing others down.

And I am outraged by the Clinton campaign's relentless games playing. Yes, politics is politics. But it is time for people to stand up and stop worrying that she'll somehow steal this election and push back when people claim Obama is all about hype and passion and call out Clinton every time we feel that spin and twist and angle... like trying to claim that she didn't tell Bill Richardson that Obama could not be elected... which she's had to back off of now.

And frankly, I don't give a damn about whether you find it tedious. This is my country we're discussing... our country... the home country to most of my readers. This election matters more than any movie.

And I HATE SPIN. I hate it in any arena. I hate it in the movie world. I hate it in the media world. And I really hate it in this race. Clinton has earned her underdog status by losing. The spin that she was the underdog back in Texas and Ohio is a LIE. She lost about half her lead in both states as they came to the election. But they want to sell it as a come-from-behind win. Crazy!

Every single signpost indicates that she is far behind... whether it's fundraising or votes or delegates. It's not that Obama can get enough delegates to assure a nomination. It is the fact that the only way she can win is if the superdelegates overturn the delegate totals. That means, to most sane people, that she cannot win... because for the Democratic Party to disregard the will of the voters is suicide. And they know it.

And the same shit that assured that Gore would not get a re-vote or re-count in Florida - cherry picking and lying and saying the effort was just about not disenfranchising people - is what makes me expend so much energy regarding Clinton these days. I voted for the man, but the argument was disingenuous. I would have been thrilled to have Gore win 2000. But instead of getting a real national consensus by saying, "Let's do the whole state," his team sought to re-count or re-vote only the counties where he felt it would advantage him. And Florida and Michigan are right there again. It might be nice or even better to unring the bell... but it can't be done. And there is no reasonable argument for seating either state's delegates based on the votes that occurred outside of DNC rules. Period.

What kind of national leader talks about big states mattering and smaller states not mattering? (And again, I point to the 11 states with over 70 delegates - the big states - in which Obama still has a delegate lead of more than 20... including Texas, where he won in delegates because of the caucuses.)

I am old fashioned, in that I believe in rules and I believe in fairness. Winning is NOT the only thing. Sorry to keep bringing that up. But it still matters to me.

"...but I do recall that you seem to have been finding this tedious from the first post."

That wouldn't make any sense. I do recall being turned off by the fawning and swooning. What I find tedious is, for lack of a better term, the whining. Now that doesn't make it wrong-- it reminds me that this is a blog (YOUR blog), and some shoot-from-the-hip entries are to be expected. But its like having your kids in the back seat on a trip-- one kid may be exclusively antagonizing the other, but after several miles of "He's poking me!", "He's looking at me!", "His foot is on my side!"-- you want EVERYONE to shut the hell up.

I don't disagree with much of your analysis, but much of it doesn't resemble analysis more than it resembles a campaign press release/official response-- all outrage, all of the time. I can see you're following all of this rather closely, and that what you see is having a cumulative effect on you. As a reader, I just with you'd present your political ruminations in a format more resembling a traditional Hot Button topic-- a more comprehensive, measured, and less frequent entry.

Dude... you just do not understand the severity of this situation. This is an act area of agression. Agression is highly recommended. We are playing for keeps now. No time to pussyfoot around.

IO said "pussyfoot". That doesn't own, at all!

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