• Published:June 3rd, 2008
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• Category:News Comments, Politics

The Democratic primary season is over, so let the post-mortems begin! Over at ABC.com, Matthew Dowd has submitted his contribution in what promises to be 2008’s biggest growth industry. There’s nothing in Dowd’s piece that hasn’t been already said, though this self-consciously “hep” analogy ranked high on the cringe-worthy index:

Obama was the Ipod of this election, while Clinton was the Walkman. The Walkman is reliable and easy to use and works great, it just doesn’t have the hip factor that an Ipod does.

So Obama will be replaced each six months by a slimmer model with more functionality? Go politics 2.0!

It’s the comments, however, where things really get “off da hook,” as the kidz say. (They do say that, right?)

“white woman ind. voter”:

SHE WAS TO SELF CENTERED ALL FOR HERSELF AND TO HECK WITH THE REAS OF YOU,NOW SHE WANT VEE P NO way THE ARE ALREADY USING HER WORDS TO SMEAR HIM THANKS HILLY YOU WITCH

“s.b.”:

Easy answer voter fraud at caucuses and at the DNC.

Fraud is Chicago politics as usual.

Too bad voter intimidation and rigging caucuses with out of state students wont work in a general election.

He is unelectable and Democrats are dumb. 35% of Clinton voters are walking.

Yeah, you do that. Take your ball, go home, and let a man eight orders of magnitude to the right of Clinton walk off with the election. THAT’LL SHOW THEM!

“freetradein” does some freestylin’:

hillary what a disasta…just like nafta…shakin’ hands with newt….keeping the vote open past 15 minutes and bribing houston congressperson with million dollar contracts….0 the humanity!…maybe she’ll get fsc

Word up, DNC! Supah-delegates represent!

“Joan”:

To All Obama Supporters: You go ahead keep being mean;guess what, Obama WILL lose in Nov. because a big portion of Hillary’s supporters, including my whole family, will vote for McCain in Nov.!

How to spot Joan’s family at the polling station: Look for the group of people who have cut off their noses to spite their faces.

“novote” smells a conspiracy:

Obama can get all the delegates and super ones too. Not my vote though.
I bet all the conspirators will eliminate write in candidates to prevent Hillary from the ballot.

“nomob” (who in no way is “novote” posting under a different user name) blames the media:

The media has helped to create the Obama momentum when it treated Obama as a rockstar and acted as his advance men during much of the early campaign.
Once the momentum is on track, the celebrity-blinded public just followed the crowd without questioning. And the crown got bigger and bigger.
Belatedly when the media started to look into the truth of this rock star Obama, all the eyebrow-raising questions about this man did not matter anymore because the blind passion obstructed any fact and truth.
Hillary’s message and her contributions to America have been washed away by the tsunami of the mob passion.
ANOTHER TRIUMPH OF THE MOB WITH THE HELP OF MEDIA DRUMMER BOYS.
CONGRATULATIONS! AMERICA.

…and after having read the umpteen near-identical screed along these lines:

I have a son 16 years old!
I do not mind him to go to Iraq if he wishes to go!
I would have votedd for hillary but will never vote for Obama!
I’d rather being in Iraq 4 more years than living in a communist coutry under Obama admin!
Go McCain
Janet thanks for the link!
I just donated %10 for McCain!

…the only thing I’m convinced of is that there needs to be a mandatory intelligence test before one can use the internet, much less vote in a national election.