How can you tell this primary season has gone on far too long?

[cali]

Bookbags. Bookbags for the love of reason. Sheesh. Was there ever a
dumber thing to nitpick over? Whatever else they fix, they damn well
better make sure that never again will there be a 7 week gap between
contests. There's just too much time for stupid.

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm so sick of primary season I
could :puke:

[countingbluecars]

1. Yes,

bookbags and sweetie were two really dumb issues.

[Blue-Jay]

2. I demand that you apologize about the Book Bag fiasco!

Fer fuck's sake. People are fighting about book bags.

Dear Supporters of Sen. Clinton - I ain't apologizing for shit, because this was a stupid thing to bring up in the first place.

Dear Obama Supporter who tried to make this an issue - That was the lamest attempt at deriding a candidate that I've ever seen.

So... we're done, then?

[cali]

4. It doesn't get dumber than that.

I stand in awe of that level of stupidity.

[Blue-Jay]

17. Just wait. It'll get dumber.

50/50 on which side is going to start it, but by the prickling of my thumbs, something stupid this way comes.

[Blue-Jay]

29. Well, THAT didn't take long!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5439058#5439271

Told ya! :rofl:

[Broken_Hero]

3. At least

the griping about John Edwards house isn't still the hot topic....now its a book bag...the mysteries of the primary abound.

[XemaSab]

31. *cough* *cough* *haircut* *cough*

Wow, must be some dust in the air or something. :P

[Broken_Hero]

38. Ah yes, the haircut fiasco...great times....

:sarcasm: :D

[SoCalDem]

5. Just the mistrust of her "words"

She made such a big deal of Obama's "words", and yet hers tend to be the least trustworthy...and relate directly to policies she espouses..

[cali]

7. Oh please

there's no excuse for that level of idiocy.

[dchill]

9. Right - the issue isn't whether there were "bookbags"...

It's whether anything was actually hurled. And I can no longer just take her at her word.

[sniffa]

6. That's enough to make me hurl my book bag across the room

It's as if everything has been shattered.

[FlyingSquirrel]

8. Drop the bookbag, sweetie! We got incoming sniper fire

:crazy:

[SoCalDem]

10. Books could shield oneself from the sniper fire.. don't throw that bag

[Window]

11. My moment came during a dream last night. I have collected elephants

from all over the world for years, and I have them in a beautiful display case. Well, last night I dreamed I removed the elephants and began collecting DU tombstones and put them on display.

True story. Yeah, it's been a long contentious primary alright.:wow:

[Cali_Democrat]

12. Sometimes I wonder if your even an Obama supporter

You seem to always attack and nitpick what Obama supporters say.

Hillary supporters were nitpicking over Obama calling some woman "sweetie."

[cali]

16. Yes, of course, I'm really a stealth Clinton supporter

and you're really not peeved because I've repeatedly criticized
your posts for being stupid, petty flamebait. And yeah, the sweetie
thing was idiotic too.

[Cali_Democrat]

22. I'm not peeved at anything

I just have my doubts about where you claim to stand. Carry on ;-)

[cbayer]

26. You are kidding right?

Cali is one of the most ardent Obama supporters on this board. The thing you don't like is that she is not a Clinton hater and calls some Obama supporters out for their outright stupidity.

You present an example of what I see all over this board - if you dare to question anything the Obama supporters say or do, you must be a traitor of some sort.

I respect her. Some other supporters on this board, not so much.

[merh]

13. Can you see my response?

:hide:










You know it has been too long of a primary season when everyone in GDP has you on ignore. :silly:


:rofl: They can't handled the truth!! :rofl:

And I don't call folks names or use those stupid names to refer to the candidates either. :rofl:

The facts, just the facts folks. :freak:

[hfojvt]

21. Everyone has you on ignore?

There are still lots of people who brag about not having anybody on ignore. I am not one of them. Ironically, one of my ignores was one of only 3 people to respond to one of my recent threads. So what did I do? I switched to Firefox and read his reply anyway. I'm bad at ignoring.

[merh]

34. Every time I post to someone, they never respond back.

I am relatively polite, I don't curse, I hate using the silly names for the candidates or their supporters, I try to be factual, maybe hard headed and abrassive, but factual and honest --- and I do bathe.

All I can figure is they have me on ignore.

:shrug:

[hfojvt]

35. Never? And sometimes that's not a bad thing.

I find that something like 50% of my responses involve some DUer telling me what an idiot/a$$hole I am.

I never know when I should respond or not. Sometimes I let it drop after a little back and forth and hope the other person does not feel snubbed, and sometimes if the post is too "old" people might not check their "my posts" beyond their last ten posts, especially if they are getting lots of replies. I check if people have me on ignore by trying to PM them. If I don't get "this person does not wish to receive PMs" then they probably don't have me on ignore. Although I certainly know what it feels like to think most of DU has me on ignore.

[AspenRose]

14. How do you know?

When people start bitching about who has the rights to use HOPE in their campaign rhetoric

When people speculate whether or not Obama turned down any lucrative offers after law school (I mean REALLY, who CARES?) :wtf:

When it seems like having a wall of shame is a GOOD idea to make the zealots on BOTH sides SHUT UP

[redqueen]

15. Eh... I'm glad it's mostly dumb stuff now.

I think the dumb stuff is much easier to forgive and forget.

It's the serious charges that will stick around and cause real problems, IMO.

[cali]

18. That's a very good point. n/t

[Catherine Vincent]

19. I agree.

Some of the Obama supporters here are dumb nitpickers. :)

[redqueen]

20. Ah go on... call us assholes again.

:P

[Catherine Vincent]

23. Some of you are but that was a quote from Obama. :)

[SoFlaJet]

24. I go back to your thread from yesterday Cali

it just kind of "feels" like this thing is almost over

[KittyWampus]

25. I like the bookbag threads where DU'er got nostalgic. They were some of the nicest threads

[kwenu]

27. When one candidate has no chance of pulling ahead but stays in the race anyway.

[cbayer]

28. K & R nt.

[Maddy McCall]

30. That's not indicative of the primary season lasting too long.

That's indicative of pettiness on the part of the doubters...and too much time on their hands.

[XemaSab]

32. You look at the ebbs and flows of the primary season

and the buildup to Iowa, Iowa results, New Hampshire, South Carolina... on down to the more recent contests... yeah, there was stupid stuff in there, but there were ACTUAL ISSUES at play... REAL things to discuss...

When it gets down to who loves MLK more... come on, that's just silly.

[AllentownJake]

33. When I read

On here there is an organized movement in NY city to have a protest with banging pots and pans....that's when I know this has gone on too long.

[ecstatic]

36. It's funny you say that. I remember before Iowa I was so upset

I thought Iowa and NH were going to determine the entire thing again! I was so angry! I wanted every state to get a chance to have their say... well... that has certainly happened but for some reason I feel extremely irritated. :spank:

[chill factor]

37. I do wish it was over...

This spread between primaries ia taking its toll on everyone - no matter which side of the fence you are on. We nitpick at the most inane things, are rude to each other, call each other names. I do wish the primaries would end and we could have a nominee. Then, we could fight the Republicans and not fight with each other. :banghead: