Comments for Suburban Guerrilla

Comment on Up Against The Wall, Redneck Mother by Karen

Karen — Sat, 10 May 2008 18:27:02 +0000

Thank you for this. I live in Austin, and knowing the words to this song used to be a requirement for moving here.

By the way, I’ve just discovered your blog and really like it. I look forward to reading you lots in the future.

Comment on Feeling Safer Yet? by brendancalling

brendancalling — Sat, 10 May 2008 18:26:52 +0000

votermom: I’m not campaigning for Obama. And I never said Obama doesn’t pander: like our hostess, i believe all politicians pander.

What i did was answer, with specifics, exactly why Clinton’s gas tax proposal wouldn’t work. And I again I say anyone who thinks that President Bush is going to sign off on a windfall tax that not only hurts his oil company cronies, is hopeless deluded.

I’m sorry if reality doesn’t dovetail with what you wish were true, but hey keep digging: maybe you’ll find that pony someday.

Comment on Feeling Safer Yet? by votermom

votermom — Sat, 10 May 2008 17:29:35 +0000

BC: Yup, your online campaigning for Obama is really helping him.
Close you eyes and pretend Obama doesn’t pander. That’ll work.

Comment on I Can’t Make You Love Me by votermom

votermom — Sat, 10 May 2008 16:50:38 +0000

I agree about the red flags. Like wanting to commit after just one week. A lot of people who do that — sort of jump-start into commitment - turn out to be very insecure, needy partners, and possibly controlling ones as well.

Comment on Vision of the Future by Bob

Bob — Sat, 10 May 2008 16:22:57 +0000

Eunice henwood brown @ 40: “Ok, I’m lovin the Clio piece here…yes indeed, a player in Chicago politics, how else does someone with one year in the beltway pull this off?”
Gee, what an insightful comment on an insightful comment. I mean, insightful if you ignore the fact that 7 of the last 8 presidential terms have been filled by people who came to the White House with A. zero years “in the beltway” and B. no connection to Chicago politics.
How indeed? What an anomaly this Obama fellow is.

Comment on Vision of the Future by Bob

Bob — Sat, 10 May 2008 16:10:30 +0000

mbw: Buy a clue, please. The Gore of 2008 is different than the Gore of 2000. Gee, why might that be? I guess this was all my mistake, I thought we were talking about politics. See, the point is Gore had a long career in politics during which he acted the same way Obama, a current politician, is acting today. Gore is being built into some progressive crusader today but the question is where was that progressivism when it could have accomplished something? Oh, that’s right, he was always too concerned with winning the next election to move outside the mainstream.
“He’s a whole other creature, and a vastly, vastly more Progressive Democrat than Obama.” Think through the ramifications of your own statement. First, he’s not today a Democratic politician – a rather important distinction, no? Freed from the demands of fund-raising and campaigning he’s able to stake positions he never willingly staked while fund raising and campaigning. Any possibility that’s not a coincidence or an example of his “growth” and “change”?
Christ, Clinton/Gore supporters really need to embrace reality. You’ve taken two career centrists and projected all sorts of progressive fantasies onto them. Meanwhile, poor Obama - another career centrist - gets your Joe Lieberman fantasies projected on to him.
Really, open your eyes before your gift to us is President McCain. If you’re so vested in progressive politics why are you wasting time with the Democratic Party? It’s a coalition of center-left groups who believe in electability first and foremost. Seeing as you’re so damned progressive and pure allow me to suggest the Green Party. You can protect your much valued purity, keep your smug “holier than thou” attitude intact, and have absolutely no say in how the country is governed.
Give me Obama over McCain ANY EFFIN DAY OF THE WEEK. Would I rather see Kucinich in the White House? Yes. Is there any realistic scenario under which I will? No. My options: embrace reality and go with the career centrist or become a smug purist pining away over the loss of Eugene V. Gore, a creature who never existed.
Nader in 2000 – “there’s not a dimes worth of difference between Bore and Gush.” How’d that turn out mbw?

Comment on Vision of the Future by Tom Fitzpatrick in Seattle

Tom Fitzpatrick in Seattle — Sat, 10 May 2008 16:09:52 +0000

Tom Fitzpatrick in Seattle…the one who used to write for Az Republic? Hey, you guys ended up with Jon Talton who I would call a good acquaintance and very good writer.

Nope. Just plain ol’ Tom Fitzpatrick in Seattle!

Comment on Thinking About November by TheRightRevArugalaTurnipHead

TheRightRevArugalaTurnipHead — Sat, 10 May 2008 15:54:16 +0000

A suggestion:
Let’s call off the democratic civil war. Stop posting anti Obama tirades, stop worrying if a black man can win the general election, stop pretending that the nominee will not be Obama.
If you don’t want to use your blog to support the democratic nominee, fine but stop attacking him. Is that too hard?

Yours In Christ Where There is No East or West
The Right Reverend Blind Arugala TurnipHead

Comment on Vision of the Future by lambert strether

lambert strether — Sat, 10 May 2008 15:48:40 +0000

Oooh, steveeboy, this is just too easy:

oh that’s rich, kind of like a little spoiled child.
will you want “cherries on top” of that?

Yes. In fact, I’d like yours.

Your trolls never disappoint, Suzie.

Comment on Thinking About November by TheRightRevAruglaTurnipHead

TheRightRevAruglaTurnipHead — Sat, 10 May 2008 15:32:46 +0000

Lambert! You shop at Whole Foods? ^_^ Meet’cha at the juice bar, we can converse in proletarian!
No shit, I thought he’d be buying ham hocks, mustard greens and green tomato chow chow at the Piggly Wiggly.