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Oh sweet Jesus (5.00 / 5) (#6)
by lilburro on Thu Mar 27, 2008 at 07:26:20 PM EST
Americans and race...honestly what is our problem?  Why does this word post-racial even exist?  Post-racial only exists if you put us all in a blender and the color turns out being...guess what, red.

What I'm beginning to hate most about blogs is the complete lack of indepth engagement on whatever subject comes our way.  Does anyone blog about the revote issue in regards to the FL 2000 voting issue, and the significance of modern day enfranchisement in our lives and how that might affect voter turnout or anything else for that matter?  No.  Why?  Because no matter how various, no matter how rooted in other problems our current political tribulations are, they must be covered now, in four paragraphs and they must be reduced entirely to NOW and OBAMA OMGZ!!!  

(Most) political blogs are like a bad bet that you never have to pay for.  Get away with not paying for your bad bets, aside from your quibbles of guilty conscience, if you still have one, and you grow used to betting badly, but authoritatively, over and over again.  Woohoo.  See you at Zogby's cocktail party.

It's worse than that. (none / 0) (#9)
by jerry on Thu Mar 27, 2008 at 07:41:53 PM EST
The way links work is to provide incentives to some of the more outrageous statements.  This leads to people vilifying in the worst ways people who they probably share a great deal of agreement with.

What's worse is that in an enemy of my enemy is my friend manner, old enemies are forgiven when they happen to agree with you.

Hence the current love affair from several left wing blogs to the Politico as well as the programmed denunciations for all things Hillary, or all things Obama.

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