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Wake Up Democrats: You Are Hung up on Barack, but Hillary is What You Need
Posted April 4, 2008 | 07:12 PM (EST)


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As a long-term registered Democrat who increasingly identifies as an independent and has weathered a torrid, post-9/11 love affair with conservatism, I am in a good position to judge Democratic prospects this nominating season. And I think we ought to listen to Mama and let Daddy-o go.

Fellow Democrats, there's something I've been meaning to tell you, but I've been a little uneasy bringing it up. Well, here goes. I don't think Barack Obama is for you. And I think we need to talk about it.

Wait, wait, before you get defensive--just


more ...http://www.huffingtonpost.com/heather-robinson/you-are-hung-up-on-barack_b_95181.html

[kid a]

1. Been awake for 43 years - Obama will be the President of the United States in 2009 nt

[MadBadger]

2. The entire article is awfully insulting to Obama supporters

[emilyg]

3. You complain?

After all the insulting articles about Clinton.

[anigbrowl]

13. Please see post #12...

[MadBadger]

14. Find me an article I posted that insults Hillary supporters at all.

[emilyg]

18. You have not. I hold you dear.

[Maddy McCall]

6. Thanks! Now I have more interest in reading it.

:P

[40ozDonkey]

9. Well, then it's right in line with Hillary's campaign.

More wind-pissings.

[sorrybushisfromtexas]

4. Awake for 58 years

He will be the next President of the US. I support him completely, with my time, money,and prayers.

[GarbagemanLB]

5. what a condescending twit. "Sweetie"? Fuck her.

[GarbagemanLB]

7. How old was Bill when he took office in 92?

[grassfed]

8. another PNAC neocon relic

[Forkboy]

10. I don't see this thread going well.

;)

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[anigbrowl]

12. "a torrid, post-9/11 love affair with conservatism" And this wasn't a red flag?

Meantime, over at politicalmavens.com: http://politicalmavens.com/index.php/2008/04/05/switch-hitting/

Switch-hitting
By Heather Robinson (bio)

Had a little fun tonight over at Huffington Post. Liberals can sure be touchy, even when you write something positive about one of their own!


Looks like Operation Chaos claimed another victim. Congrats emilyg, you got pwned by a right-winger.

[charlie]

15. She's James Taranto's sweetie

The editor of the WSJ opinion page. The relationship apparently serves her well:

Instead of building her credentials by getting a job at the copy desk of her local Pittsburgh paper (as the daughter of the late Sanford N. Robinson, she could easily afford to get by on a journalist’s salary) and becoming knowledgeable enough about a subject to get assigned to a beat, doing award-winning work on that topic, turning that beat into a column – and then into a nationally syndicated column, Robinson instead took the oldest shortcut in the profession, and now gets published in The Wall Street Journal and on OpinionJournal.com because she has a "personal relationship" with editor James Taranto.

...

As for Taranto, he habitually fails to make the necessary conflict of interest disclosures when he publishes and promotes Robinson’s articles...

http://thestilettoblog.com/2007/10/19/stern-response.aspx

http://heatherrobinsonandjamestaranto.com/

[grassfed]

16. this neocon represents the real machine behind Hillary

and why Hillary will nuke Iran. Read some of this woman's articles. She is a fanatic itching for race war in the Middle East. People looking forward to a woman president would be wise to wait for someone other then HC, for the sake of the planet, Hillary may have meant well years ago but she fell into a cesspool.

...............
http://www.stopclustermunitions.org /
film http://npaid.websys.no/item5/eng/1193308434

Cluster bombs and landmines are particularly terrifying weapons that wreak havoc on communities trying to recover from war. They are fatal impediments to reconstruction and rehabilitation of agricultural land; they destroy valuable livestock; they disable otherwise productive members of society; they maim or kill children trying to salvage them for scrap metal. Over 150 nations have signed the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty.

In the autumn of 2006, there was a chance to take a step in the right direction: Senate Amendment No. 4882, an amendment to a Pentagon appropriations bill that would have banned the use of cluster bombs in civilian areas. Amendment No. 4882 was an easy one to vote against: Who'd want to risk accusation of "tying the hands of the Pentagon" during a never-ending, global War on Terror? As is so often the case, there was no political cost to doing the wrong thing. And there was no political reward for doing the right thing.
But Senator Obama did the right thing.

Senator Obama of Illinois voted IN FAVOR of the ban.

Senator Clinton of New York voted AGAINST the ban.

Analysts say Clinton did not want to risk appearing "soft on terror," as it would have harmed her electability. Amendment Rejected.

[TML]

17. Horrible article

It wasn't labeled satire, either.

[SeattleGirl]

19. Seemed a bit condescending to me.

But she's entitled to her opinion. OPINION. That's what it was. Not fact. Just opinion.

Everyone of us has a boatload of them.

I just don't concur with hers.

[Mooney]

20. You really didn't research who Heather Robinson is, did you?

[grassfed]

21. scam artist?

In late 1994, a 16-year-old American girl named Heather Robinson ran an elaborate scam in what she said was an attempt to make her recently divorced mother happy; she obtained access to an Air Force base and used this access to make up an imaginary Col. Cunningham, who then carried on a 3-month virtual relationship with her mother. She even sent her mother a marriage proposal from Col. Cunningham, along with an engagement ring, bought with a stolen credit card.

"We were 16 years old, and I wanted to do something good for my mom," Robinson said. "After the court stuff was done, my mom put her arm around me and said, 'I understand why you did it and maybe some day they'll make a movie about it.'"

And a movie is in the pipeline, masterminded by the same Heather Robinson. This time, she has pulled it off by getting a job at AOL, illicitly finding contact details of Hollywood celebrities and producers, and befriending them under false identities. The family-oriented romcom The Perfect Man is apparently autobiographical. Proof that social engineering pays, or itself a bogus story planted by some Universal Studios marketroid to generate buzz for an otherwise insipid-sounding film?

¶ hollywood marketing scams

http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2004/04/63147

[Joe the Revelator]

22. First of all, any writer who starts off talking about how she switched to the republicans after

9/11 can fuck off automatically. That means she has about as much political acumen as my coffee table.

Second of all, she shows absolutely zero ability to analyze ANYTHING. She just spouts off lame, tired, Hillary talking points, and adds the word "honey" and "doll" to give her article folksy charm so we think that she's really talking to us.

Thanks emily, for wasting 3 minutes of my night.