The REAL numbers are worser (sic) still.


I'm so angry about this I'm shaking.

Why is Obama in money trouble? BECAUSE HIS SUPPORTERS ARE TAPPED OUT. We got hit heavy during a stupid and wasteful and counter-productive primary season that put ALL the emphasis on personalities and very damned little on issues.

Now we've handed that strategy on a silver platter to a senile old liar and his political boinkee. The personality war WORKED for the Dems -- and it handed the pukes a tapped out, exhausted, somewhat demoralized base. Furthermore, it handed the pukes the PERFECT weapon against us. Absofuckinglutely perfect. The controversy over Palin is giving them hours and hours and hours and hours of free campaigning. John Edwards' scandal disappeared in a few days; Mooselini's linger.

And now all those pukes with all that money, and all the power to make donations in other people's names and fund 527s and donate to the party, etc., etc., etc., are free to do so.

We fucked ourselves. We put ideology ("let the people decide!") over practicality.

Am I gonna shut up about this? No, I'm not. Because I think the sooner we Dems admit we did a fucking stupid thing, the better off we'll be.

What the fuck is the matter with Obama and this absolute bull shit of holding off on rolling back the tax cuts on the rich? Doesn't he fucking know he's turning off his BASE? What's Biden saying? Is he getting any coverage? OR IS THE MEDIA STILL SLAVERING OVER PALIN? Don't bother to answer that one.

If your boss is a McCain supporter and makes no secret of it, and you're lucky to have a job at all and can't afford to lose it, are you going to put an Obama sticker on your car? Are you going to risk putting an Obama button on your purse? THAT'S WHY IT COMES BACK TO JOBS. People without jobs, people without income, those are frightened people. People without security are frightened, timid, cautious. And now we've got a candidate who says "Lay off the kids" even as Palin is USING HER CHILDREN AS CAMPAIGN PROPS.

Don't lay off the fucking kids (pun intended). Anyone who goes out and preaches abstinence as the best and virtually the only proven method of avoiding teen pregnancy better have a house full of abstaining teen-agers. Palin can't claim that. HER POLICIES DON'T WORK IN HER OWN FUCKING FAMILY.

But we can only say that here. We can't go out into the workplace and say it, because too many of us don't have jobs or have tenuous employment situations or are a paycheck away from disaster.

That's why jobs matter. Jobs empower people, whether they're working for solid living wages and saving for retirement and their kids' education or they're able to start their own small local businesses and provide the same quality goods and services at a competitive price as the big guys.

The pukes, with help from Bill Clinton (the only Dem in that quarter century of puke tyranny), destroyed the foundation of America. And I don't see Obama/Biden doing much to fix it.


Tansy Gold, enraged