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  •  Re: DEAN, THE ANGRY CANDIDATE? (none / 1)

    Oh come on. I love this, absolutely no one is saying that there aren't things to be angry about. Your post amounts to nothing but a meaningless destruction of staw-man argument. The point is that americans, no matter in what bad straights, generally do not respond to angry candidates.

    Look at past democrats who defeated incumbents. FDR, he wasn't angry, he was hopeful and spoke of grand visions of how to rebuild America. Look at Clinton, he wasn't angry, he spoke of how to rebuild the american economy.

    No one is saying that there is no reason to be angry. You can have your little temper tantrum and shake your fists and scream about the evil clarkies. Well boo fricking hoo, the rest of us are trying to rebuild america. I don't have time for this content free crap.

    "Together we must rise to ever higher and higher platitudes" - Daley the Elder chanelling dubya

    by samiam on Sat Dec 27, 2003 at 03:23:17 AM PDT

    •  Re: DEAN, THE ANGRY CANDIDATE? (none / 1)

      Content-free is okay if it's funny. And it was funny. Lighten up, will ya? If you want to be dreary, go hang on the Kerry blog, and if you want to be all sweetness and light, there's the Dean blog. :}

      W was elected to protect Them from Us.

      by Radical Middle on Sat Dec 27, 2003 at 03:39:34 AM PDT

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      •  Re: DEAN, THE ANGRY CANDIDATE? (none / 1)

        I'm just a little riled up by this rabid and totally unmoored attack on a position no one actually holds. Its nutty and his anger is so misplaced it makes me angry. His argument is kinda like:

        Of course Howard Dean doesn't eat babies. All these people are saying he eats babies when he clearly isn't. All the people who critize him are saying he eats babies and so they all must be Republican scum.

        Substitute eats babies with is unjustafiably angry and you pretty much have his argument. Its a straw man attack, its underhanded, mean and nasty and I don't like it.

        "Together we must rise to ever higher and higher platitudes" - Daley the Elder chanelling dubya

        by samiam on Sat Dec 27, 2003 at 03:54:27 AM PDT

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    •  Re: DEAN, THE ANGRY CANDIDATE? (none / 0)

      George W. Bush is a very, very angry man.  What do you mean we don't like angry candidates?  we're finally glad we have a real shitkicker who'll suspend the constitution at the drop of a hat and go kick some terrerist ass!

      i believe it is YOU who are mistaken.  500,000 Dean fans can't be wrong.

      later

      by Randomtask on Sat Dec 27, 2003 at 03:42:30 AM PDT

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    •  Re: DEAN, THE ANGRY CANDIDATE? (none / 0)

      Oh, lighten up, Francis.  Sorry, but a rant on  Dean having cause to be angry but that he should refrain from expressing that anger doesn't scan very well.  It was meant as satire, silly.  Sorry that your sensibilities prevent you from reading it for what it is.  (Sorry, too, that I was so hard on Clark [eyes roll at this point] that you couldn't see the humor in the piece.

      If you don't have time for content-free crap, what the hell are you doing paying attention to politics, anyway?

      Now drop and give me 20, soldier.  

      We need a better president.

      by Mike in Ann Arbor on Sat Dec 27, 2003 at 10:34:47 AM PDT

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