Danger, Will Robinson! Um... as long as Obama-Biden don't go there, who cares what we do?

[whatchamacallit]

Not being official spokespeople for the Obama campaign, I really don't see the danger in exploring McCain's VP pick. The "don't go there" alarmists are assuming we have much more influence than we do.

[featherman]

1. Exactly... it's the role for the blogosphere to be irresponsible

[ClassWarrior]

5. If calling Rape-Publicans irresponsible is irresponsible, then you're right.

If not, then sensible people have to wonder about the agenda of anyone who would post something like that.

NGU.

[Pamela Troy]

8. "Rape-publicans?!" Oooooh! How clever! What brilliant political satire!

[ClassWarrior]

9. Your point?

NGU.

[Pamela Troy]

14. That many DUers seem intent on proving that Freepers come in every political flavor.

[ClassWarrior]

17. Because I use Sam Seder's word, Rape-Publican? Oooh, that vicious FReeper, Sam Seder.

:rofl:

NGU.

[Pamela Troy]

23. Not his finest hour.

That's what you carry away from Sam Seder? The word "Rape-publicans?"

Pathetic.

[ClassWarrior]

24. "Not his finest hour?" Have you even heard of Sam Seder?

NGU.

[Pamela Troy]

26. Yes. Do you consider the term "Rape-publicans" his finest hour?

[ClassWarrior]

29. Who is he then? And in what "hour" did he say it?

NGU.

[Pamela Troy]

32. A left-of-center television writer and actor with a talk show.

I don't know when he first started pronouncing the term "Republicans" that way. I consider it on about the same level as referring to Democrats as "Dimocrats."

[ClassWarrior]

34. Ahhh, Google is your friend, huh?

:rofl:

NGU.

[Pamela Troy]

35. You really think I didn't know who Sam Seder is?

Why?

[ClassWarrior]

36. Planning on listening to his show on Tuesday?

NGU.

[Pamela Troy]

40. No, I don't generally listen to radio. What's your point?

[ClassWarrior]

43. QED.

NGU.

[Pamela Troy]

46. So you don't have one. I thought not.

[TankLV]

42. golly - I hope you won't be mad at me for using the term REPUKES...

[Pamela Troy]

48. It's not a matter of being mad. It's a matter of having truly little respect.

That kind of infantile namecalling tells me you probably don't have much else to offer.

[ClassWarrior]

49. Infantile? Like your use of the word "stupid" all up and down this thread?

Namecalling? LIke your calling your fellow DUers "freepers" all up and down this thread?

:eyes:

NGU.

[Pamela Troy]

27. Dupe. Deleted.

[annabanana]

18. you may need to find a more "polite" corner of the internet... n/t

[Pamela Troy]

22. I've been here since 2001. I have a stake in seeing this "corner" of the internet

not be completely lobotomized.

[Ikonoklast]

31. Seniority doesn't count on the intrawebs

Being the the first of anything doesn't lend credibility to opinion.

Not trying to be argumentative, just pointing out the obvious.

Like me being a contributing member, and some not.

[whatchamacallit]

38. Look Pamela

I understand your desire that we be "better" than republicans and freepers, I really do. I'm not saying everything is fair game, but there are many questions surrounding Palin. To not look critically at a choice of this importance, out of some romantic notion of propriety , is silly and potentially dangerous. Trust me, the republicans will bring a gun to a knife fight.

[Pamela Troy]

45. If there are plenty of questions surrounding Palin, choose something other than an attack on her kid

It's not a "romantic notion of propriety." It's common decency and common sense.

"A knife to a gunfight?" Do you imagine attacking Palin's kid qualifies as tough-guy tactics? Kind of like Clint Eastwood, all bristly and chomping on a cigar? Or maybe like Sean Connery in THE UNTOUCHABLES?

Wake up. It's the tactic of the giggling, pudgy, cowardly Karl Rove. And the Republicans use him because they know their own arguments won't stand on their merits.

[whatchamacallit]

51. I haven't made any posts about the baby thing cuz I don't have a fucking clue whose baby it is

but if there are other people who wanna look at that, it's not my place (or yours) to stop them.

[rch35]

55. are you aware that you have girls name.... AND a boys name??!! nt

[ClassWarrior]

2. Exactly. That's the purpose of surrogates.

NGU.

[TheDonkey]

3. Seriously. These DUers who are trying to scrub the forum from anything they don't "approve"

of is ridiculous. I chose not to respond to the "baby" threads and maybe they should too.

[Ernesto-Che-Guevara]

4. Reporters will eventually ask Obama if he agress or disagrees

With his supporters regarding the baby story.

[ClassWarrior]

7. I trust him to answer responsibly.

NGU.

[TexasObserver]

52. ONLY if the MSM have decided to make babygate a topic of discussion.

And even then, guess what? The campaign can say "we don't want to go there, we want to stay on issues."

Our role as partisans roving the interwebs is not the same as the campaign's role. You don't have join in, but you do have to get out of the way of those of us who are doing the Lord's work.

[Pamela Troy]

6. Those of us who've been at DU since the beginning and have a stake in believing

that we're something better than just a bunch of liberal-leaning freepers.

[whatchamacallit]

10. Okay, whatever that means?

:shrug:

[Pamela Troy]

11. What was unclear about it? What are you having trouble understanding?

[ClassWarrior]

12. And your post #8 is a wonderful testimony to that sentiment.

:eyes:

NGU.

[Pamela Troy]

15. Yep, thinking up "funny" nicknames for your opponent in lieu of actual

argument is a pretty Freepish thing to do.

[ClassWarrior]

21. There's nothing "funny" about an institution dedicated to raping the public.

NGU.

[Pamela Troy]

25. And you figure namecalling is the way to deal with it, eh?

Like I said -- pathetic.

[ClassWarrior]

28. Why so sensitive about it?

Why are you taking it so personally?

:shrug:

NGU.

[Pamela Troy]

33. I loathe stupidity in all its forms.

[ClassWarrior]

50. Namecalling? Like calling your fellow DUers "freepers" and "stupid" all up and down this thread?

:eyes:

NGU.

[ClassWarrior]

60. No answer?

NGU.

[TankLV]

44. ahhhh - YOU "get it" - too bad miss manners will never "get it"...

I think the lable is HIGHLY appropriate...

[annabanana]

16. the beginning of what?

May 05th 2006?

[ClassWarrior]

19. Since when is 2006 "the beginning?" I've been here longer than that.

Or are you suggesting you're a sock puppet?

NGU.

[POAS]

20. Been here since the beginning?

[Desertrose]

62. Been here since day 1...I don't care about freepers..I care about TRUTH

I don't worry what they'll think when I am trying to find the truth about the latest lies.


"liberal leaning freepers"?

Interesting.....

[POAS]

13. If I thought I could hurt Obama by

speaking my mind at DU I would STFU.

Too many inflated egos with keyboards.

I come here to rant and see the views of others and too often I see the STFU threads. Sometimes as expressions of concern, and sometimes as insults like calling out sexism where none exists, but in the end it is all just keyboard masturbation with little to no influence outside our little DU world!

If people want to help stop saying STFU on DU and go phonebank, knock on doors or register voters.

[ClarkUSA]

30. Let's ignore the Palin PC Police.

I have to wonder why so many DUers have come to her defense all of a sudden.

[Pamela Troy]

37. Because I loathe, despise, and abhor freepers in all their forms.

Next question?

[ClarkUSA]

61. Sure you do. By the way, calling DUers "freepers" is against DU rules.

Careful with your anger... perhaps you can direct it towards the GOP ticket?

[TexasObserver]

53. Indeed. I favor mass extinction for Care Bears.

Just do it.

[crispini]

39. right on!

:thumbsup:

[FatDave]

41. You're correct.

Who cares what a bunch of loons on the internet are saying? No one. We'll be immediately dismissed by everyone of importance.

[redqueen]

47. Babygate is in the M$M. Troopergate, Bridgegate, and Debtgate are not.

You do the math.

[whatchamacallit]

54. Well they should be. I wouldn't be surprised to see some DUers call those off limits as well n/t

[adamuu]

56. then you haven't been listening. fight hard, just don't touch the family issues.

its a trap.

[whatchamacallit]

58. A trap for who? Anonymous internet posters?

:shrug:

[redqueen]

57. They don't have stupid amounts of threads about them do they?

No, only the tabloid crap does.

Geee... I wonder whyyyy :think: :eyes:

[whatchamacallit]

59. Agreed. My post isn't about defending baby-gate in particular

it's about overstating the importance of opinions of anonymous folks on an internet board.