By Art Smith. Posted Saturday, Jan 26, 2008 at 12:35 pm Filed Under: 2008 Presidential Election, Democratic Party
I’m just a bit annoyed and disappointed this morning. I’ve been plugging around the blog-s-phere hoping to see some good solid belly-aching about what Clinton is trying to get away with, and all I’m finding (probably 95% — of the comments, not the blog articles) is discussion about how maybe we should take a look at this, maybe Hillary’s right, maybe the DNC made a mistake and we need to correct it by going along with Hillary. Where is the outrage? Why aren’t we all incensed by this? At the PoliGazette, Dan Pawson hit it out of the park in his article titled Cheater, which he closes with:
Anyone really up for four years of this deceit?
So, I read through the …
Here’s what you do. Have a contest where everyone buys a lottery ticket and then you have one chosen from all the tickets, and the ticket purchaser gets a big prize! That’s great right? Now here’s a cool idea, tell everyone that the contest is canceled, but you go ahead and buy a ticket “just to be nice”. Then, you say “Um, since a ticket was bought, we should have the drawing!” Then, you get the prize! Great plan, right?
No? What’s wrong with that?
Oh yeah, it’s stupid. No, not stupid, it’s cheating. No, worse than that, it’s pandemoronapathetic! (It’s a new word that means “a lot of people were incredibly stupid, knew it, and didn’t care”). And it’s exactly what Hillary Clinton is …