Comments on: Strip-mine strategy

By: DLS

DLS — Thu, 15 May 2008 01:34:05 +0000

Well, I'm in Iowa, land of many hard-working people, and the formerly environmentalist-beloved alternative energy source ethanol is treated by liberals as worse than coal and strip mining these days.

At least in Detroit, where I'm going, second largest Midwest city (Philadelphia's sister city if you've been around this nation as have I), ground zero of the industrial Midwest,

Hotbed of Bowling Talent [tm] <= "working people's place"

and Bluey-Blue-Blue as a place can be, industry has been given a lib pass lately.

By: Brainster

Brainster — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:05:02 +0000

Well, one thing is consistent. The Hillary voters trash Obama and the Obama voters trash the Hillary voters.

By: daveinboca

daveinboca — Wed, 14 May 2008 14:16:17 +0000

Yes, WV doesn't count because the people didn't go to college and are probably Reagan Democrats anyway. She far outdistanced even the pessimistic predictions of the Obamaniacs and this is a cloud bigger than a man's hand. Unless she's the VP, prepare yourselves for four more years!

Identity politics is a tricky game, eh?

By: Pseudo-Polymath » Blog Archive » Wednesday Highlights

Pseudo-Polymath » Blog Archive » Wednesday Highlights — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:12:42 +0000

[...] review of the WV primary winning the “Most evidently an arrogant elitist” subtext. Plus, isn’t most strip mining in the Western states and deep shaft mining in [...]

By: Don Quijote

Don Quijote — Wed, 14 May 2008 03:56:40 +0000

Congratulations on a glorious and Pyrrhic victory for Sen. Clinton in West Virginia. Hillary, you earned this one… and you won it West Virginia clean: clean like a slurry run-off.

It will not be the only Pyrrhic victory we will see this year. I am going to enjoy watching the dismay & disgust on the faces of all the self-righteous right thinking liberals when McSame wins the Presidency despite the fact that a McSame Presidency is likely to be another disaster.

By: ryan

ryan — Wed, 14 May 2008 03:02:48 +0000

The level of anti-Obama rhetoric coming from the Clinton camp seems to have declined greatly over the past week – it would be nice to see a similar decline in the level of anti-Clinton rhetoric from Obama supporters. While there is truth to the arguments being made in this post, at this late stage it is effectively scratching at a wound in the name of a candidate whose message is unity; we would do well if more of his supporters heeded his message.

Also, in response to vwcat, Obama's reason for not campaigning in WV likely had more to do with not wanting to make Clinton's large victory seem significant. By not campaigning his campaign can say that they lost big in a state that they expected to lose; had he campaigned there they would have no excuse for a large loss.

By: vwcat

vwcat — Wed, 14 May 2008 02:16:52 +0000

I feel Obama did not contest WV to give Hillary a big win and so she could hopefully go out on a high note.
However, she will use it to continue with her destructive ways.
Look for Obama to wipe the floor with her next week and make sure he leaves a message to her for her being so obtuse and stubborn