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For Barack Obama, The Party's Never Really Getting Started

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braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
12/11/08

In reply to For Barack Obama, The Party's Never Really Getting Started
I am pleased that they are finally ditching that "Czar" thing. Man, "Drug Czar" was bad enough, but remember when they wanted to make a "War Czar"? That's some crazy shit.
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eatsshootsleaves
12/10/08

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I'll make a shamelessly bold prediction now: there is no way that the auto bailout passes the senate. If the Republican party blocks any aid to Detroit, not only is it politically popular, it might also make the economy worse, which would be great news for Republicans.
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scootersidecar
12/10/08

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I went to high school with Carol Browner but have no memory of her. It was a big school, about 900 people in my graduating class.

At the 20th reunion, one of her friends took out a half page ad in the reunion book to congratulate her friend on her EPA job. All she would talk about during the reunion dinner was her friend Carol. I thought it was sad that 20 years on, that person's major achievement in life was that in high school she knew someone, who some day would have a high government job.
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Breamworthy
12/11/08

@scootersidecar: Holy crap! There weren't 900 people in my whole high school - and that was in Toronto, not some small village.
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MeganGlass 就是一个古代的三明治
12/10/08

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Hoho! Now Don Young's under scrutiny! Surprising noone in Alaska. Wow, It's a real change of the legislative guard underway up there. Keep digging folks, Yon Dung's got plenty of skeletons to find.
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sportz.star
12/10/08

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If the auto bailout really is going to be a loan (not that I like it) can we start calling it that? "Bailout" makes me stabby, along with many other things today.
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PinkSoxHat
12/10/08

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What? Americans are giving rights to foreign brown people we suspect of wrongdoing? You mean we're respecting our constitution and basic human decency? Color me shocked!
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BeckySharper
12/10/08

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I have tickets to a ball. The gown is at my local Korean tailor's getting hemmed. I have an apartment within walking distance from the Capitol lined up.

I AM READY, BITCHES!
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Crabby Cakes
12/10/08

@BeckySharper: I AM JEALOUS, BISH!
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cwisto moweina has got yer goat
12/10/08

@BeckySharper: MUST BE NICE

/jealousy
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BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit)
12/10/08

@BeckySharper: Oooh! Is it muslin to go with Barry?
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Lizawithazee
12/10/08

@BeckySharper: You better represent Jezebel well by indulging in a lot of harlotish behavior.
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Crabby Cakes
12/10/08

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Oh, Blagojevich- the Illinois political machine is going to EAT YOU ALIVE.
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BeckySharper
12/10/08

@Crabby Cakes wants some Dance Biscuits.: There won't be anything left for the machine after Patrick Fitzgerald gets through with him. Seriously, I think Fitzgerald is going to eat him with a knife and fork.
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vamusical
12/10/08

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DC is going to be a nightmare on Inauguration weekend:

[www.washingtonpost.com]

I'm scurred.
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BeckySharper
12/10/08

@vamusical: True. Even my family's home in Arlington seems too far away and I'm scurred of what the Metro will be like, so I'm staying near McPherson Square so I can walk to the craziness if I have to.
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ae
12/10/08

@BeckySharper: I live near McPherson Square, so I'm just planning on avoiding the Metro and pretty much walking everywhere.
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CherriSpryte
12/11/08

@vamusical: Nightmare, yes, but a drunken one - last call is 5am from friday night thru tuesday. its like we're a real grownup city!!

And i'm pretty sure that's the definition of the party getting started, right there .....
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LaFemme
12/11/08

@ManicPixiePoliticalGirl: Me too! I debated leaving town, but never really got that together. So I guess I am staying and walking around town, probably pushing tourists out of the way on my walks to Whole Foods or my job and whatnot. I am a native New Yorker, I cant help it.
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Gundam_Halo
12/10/08

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Obama's nominating Stephen Chu for Energy Secretary.

Nobel prize winner heading up energy? Jawesome.
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DangerMouse
12/10/08

@Gundam_Halo: Not... science people in charge of science decision-making? Heavens!
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ronaldpagan
12/10/08

@ejc.wants.pie.now: I heard some science people don't even believe in heaven. That's some scary shit right there.
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Brigit
12/10/08

@ejc.wants.pie.now: You have no idea how happy that has made me! Will we finally get a reality-based government?
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DangerMouse
12/10/08

@Brigit quiere comer pasteles!: Will we finally answer the question: is the globe warming?
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rmric0.wedding.photographer.and.manny
12/10/08

@ronaldpagan: I also hear that they think that the Earth is more than 6,000 years old.

@sportz.star: I could use some bailing out right now.
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girlnamedblue
12/10/08

@rmric0.yes.we.did!: And the universe, they say it wasn't created in seven days!
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GoldenRatioφ (aka -girl11)
12/10/08

@Gundam_Halo: I am so excited about this! My bf is working on his Physics Phd, and Chu went to our undergrad, so we are just so excited about this. It's inspirational to him to see scientists getting some love. It's sad how much of a shock this appointment was, I guess I get so used to oilmen and Sarah Palin touted as energy experts.

An apt comment from a Huffpo commenter:

"Well I think we need a little less SCIENCE in our energy policy and a little more JESUS. Jesus saves, and therefore Jesus saves energy! That's how we'll save energy. We should spend less time driving and more time praying and looking down on minorities."

[www.huffingtonpost.com]
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Ulookinatmyjunk, JOC
11/14/08

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Seriously though, going beyound this experiment, just about half of the people in our fair country are very put-out by ol' Obama's win. And a subset of those people are willing to do him bodily harm; folks are mad. I am a bit worried about his safety. I don't know if I would want to be the First Black anything in this country...maybe the second or third, you know, when everyone's already gotten used to the idea.

Na, takebacks I wouldn't have minded being the first black dentist or first black woman to pilot an aircraft. Hell, I would love to be the first black trillionaire...but prez? Naw, I would let someone else cross that bridge before me.
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langtry
11/14/08

@ULookinAtMyJunk: You're reminding me of Dave Chapelle's bit about how his Grandmother told him never to be "the first black man to do anything." This is the one with the man who used the Whites Only toilet at the plant b/c he had a case of the "Mud Butt" which led to the nation's first "Sh*t-In" protest. If you've never seen it, I think it's Season One, and it's absolutely spot-on, not to mention hysterically funny.
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Ulookinatmyjunk, JOC
11/14/08

@langtry: I DO remember that! Man, I forgot all about it 'til now...crazy. But seriously, it's never safe to be the first.
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piratealice
11/14/08

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I'm sorry but this "experiment" only proves what we already know, kids aged 12-14 are mean and will take ANY excuse they can find to gang up and pick on other kids. It is not a reflection on how liberals or conservatives act. It is a reflection on how life in Jr High truly is...it's a constant bombardment of "if you don't fit in - we will mock you."
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Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
11/14/08

@piratealice: Also, when I was that age I was the only kid I know reading my dad's P J O'Rourke and my mum's Naomi Wolf (I was really 'different'). While kids obviously have some political interest, at that age you're only really old enough to reflect the attitudes of your parents and your peers.

Actually, that kind of just makes the outcome of this 'experiment', however flawed it may be, kind of more sinister.
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tryharder
11/14/08

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As someone born and raised in "the people's republic of Oak Park," I'm not surprised she got that reaction to the McCain shirt. Although I am very much a product of my hometown and am very liberal, I hope that I could keep my judgments and opinions to myself if I saw anyone (besides Heidi Montag) sporting some Republican gear. Thankfully, I still live in Chicago, so those instances are few and far between.
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champagne
11/15/08

@tryharder: Ooooh I just visited Chicago for the first time this year. I loved it! It's the only time I'd ever been in a fly over state but it's certainly not a fly over city! The architecture is fascinating and the art institute was great. The restaurants I went to, Gibsons (insanely good) and Ruth's Chris (very good, been to other locations) and staying at the hilton for functions in the Versailles room complete with actors dressed up in Louis XIV outfits in a really attractive historical hotel made me appreciate our President elects' city.
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BiBiVirtue
11/14/08

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I was really sick to death of this kind of thing in the run up to the election (and I'm in England and only exposed to a fraction of your media). Liberals proclaim to be committed to freedom and choice and all the rest and can often be the most insulting, unbending, and the least willing to accept alternative points of view. Bill Maher, Richard Dawkins etc..set a bad example. And Jezebels? You're not all completely innocent.
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champagne
11/15/08

@BiBiVirtue: I concur, fine Briton.
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rmric0.wedding.photographer.and.manny
11/14/08

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As I have said in other venues, that I won't reference because it's shameful self-promotion, that the break down in civility because of this divisiveness is probably one of the worst things for society. I mean, the economy sucks sure, but if everything is the war of all against all, or us against them, that's not society that's almost anarchy.
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