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- jonohull, on 05/07/2008, -3/+152Why is Olbermann the only mainstream guy to be saying stuff like this?
- Jacksonian, on 05/07/2008, -3/+115This is hilarious. Through his use of humor and irony, Olbermann underscores the pathology-- and the pathetic nature-- of Clinton's bid for the Democratic nomination.
- kanabiis, on 05/07/2008, -2/+82Olbermann must have had a crystal ball, he was dead right about whos vote mattered tonight (tuesday), the old people. According the exit polls, they were the only consistent base in Indiana for Hillary Clinton, pretty much everyone else leaned twords Obama.
Look, I love my grandparents to death, they are a blast, and I have learned alot from them over the years, but when it comes to today's issues, and the realities of todays world my grandparents are not the people I turn to as experts.
My grandmother has had the same tank of gas in her car for a month, she drives to church on Sunday and bingo on Wednesday....
She is not in danger of loosing her house, its been paid for since i was a baby, her and my grandfather purchased it back in the 50s for about 7 grand... yes, seven thousand dollars, what I will pay in mortgage over the next 3 months or so.
Layoffs!? my grandparents have been retired for almost 12 years now, unemployment means vacation to them.....
Sure, old people have to deal with healthcare, we all do..... but when it comes to the issues that are really impacting the US right now, its the young, guys like me, 32 years old with families, we are dealing with it, and this is why people my age overwhelmingly are supporting Obama.
If you wanna hold onto the Clinton years as the best years of your life, thats fine... sit in your rocking chair and remember the good old days, for me, I'm trying desperately to find good days at all, delusional fond memories don't put food on the table, and won't fix tomorrow. - tnoy, on 05/07/2008, -2/+61I wish Olbermann wasnt the only one with the balls to say this stuff.
- playuhh, on 05/07/2008, -1/+50Imagine if Clinton had to debate Olbermann...
- thethinktank, on 05/07/2008, -5/+28So Hillary has a good 7 voters on her side that really count. I fart in their general direction. Gobama.
- Heavypettingzoo, on 05/07/2008, -4/+26Unfortunately the people doing most of the voting won't be able to understand what that was about.
- carbbomb, on 05/07/2008, -1/+22You can add the popular vote to that list.
- JNudda, on 05/07/2008, -1/+18Last 30 seconds = golden
- twinmomma416, on 05/07/2008, -0/+17WOW!!!! You couldn't have hit a more perfect home run!! I myself am 32 yrs old and are living the same life. Very well put!!!
- EnviroChem, on 05/22/2009, -1/+17Colbert and Jon Stewart have also done a pretty good job of telling it the way it is. It seems that only those are supposed to be funny and sarcastic are able to tell the truth.
- rpebble, on 05/07/2008, -1/+17Ah man I just watched Good Night and Good Luck last week, fantastic movie. Made me really sad we don't have more people like them around.
- boicityboy, on 05/07/2008, -1/+17Out of context? Not really. For every caucus or primary that Hillary doesn't win or doesn't meet expectations (which is almost all of them), her campaign has some inane excuse they throw out to try and discount Obama's outright win or higher-than-expected showing. She never addresses the real issue: *her campaign*. She's not dumb, and had she run a more positive, trustworthy, policy-based campaign, she probably would have done *much* better than she has (if not easily won). She chose the low road... She chose to try and cut the legs out from under Obama's campaign with drama and controversy, rather than spend time actually debating policy differences. Expect to see more of these "compilations" in the future... This isn't the only area her campaign has tried to grossly distort the facts in her favor.
- MidgardMurda, on 05/07/2008, -1/+16Why do people seem to think we care about why you buried something? Just bury it and be on your way...we don't care why.
- kanabiis, on 05/07/2008, -2/+17I love it when people attack your user name and some slight grammatical errors rather then the discussion at hand....
If only there was some term for that, oh, thats right, ad hominem...
For the record, my quote saying delusional fond memories, wasn't about MY memories, but the memories of the Clinton Administration....
I was also not knocking the elderly vote, I understand it is the most consistent vote historically, key word historically.... I don't know if you noticed, but the young people are actually beating out the old in terms of overall percentage of votes.....
But hey, lets not let facts get in the way of your ad hominem attacks.... its easier to debate when you don't have to think..... - ajadams, on 05/07/2008, -0/+14The Olbermann article was hilarious and on the money. However, what left me speechless was that some of the readers were calling Olbermann "sexist". As a woman, I am extremely offended by this comment. Hillary has whined about getting too many questions at debates, pandered for sympathy by talking at various public forums about her "public humiliation" due to her husband's infidelity, and has brainwashed a large portion of the women voters into believing that they have to vote for her, otherwise they are betraying the sisterhood. Basically she can lie, cheat, use the gender card, and be so contradictory that your head spins when you try to follow her logic, but by god, you point any of this out and you are a sexist pig. What we need are powerful and well respected women, preferably middle aged, who can represent in the media the silent majority of women who see through Hillary's manipulations and do not support her. As women, they do not have to worry about being labeled "sexist".
By the way, I am not an African-American, or a college student, or ultra-liberal, or rich, and I absolutely hate lattes. - yellowfish04, on 05/07/2008, -4/+17Because there can only be one..Olbermann
- mozert, on 05/07/2008, -3/+14Olbermann is our hero.
- LBobRife, on 05/07/2008, -0/+11I'm not going to tell you that you are wrong because you're entitled to your opinion and choice is really subjective. I do hope you contemplate the media's role in your understanding of his personal beliefs however.
- OfNumbers, on 05/07/2008, -1/+12I'm sick of Hillary. That's all I have to say.
- yellowfish04, on 05/07/2008, -1/+11My crazy what? I think you dropped a noun somewhere..
- Elliuotatar, on 05/07/2008, -0/+10If this was Jon Stewart the clip would have ended with him saying he's found the one person who fits that description, and he would ask them who they're going to vote for and they wouldn't say Hillary.
- inactive, on 05/07/2008, -3/+13Obama and Clintons policies are almost identical. They are both good candidates and they both would make a good president, certainly better than whats being offered from the republican machine. I was in the Hillary camp but these past few months she showed that she will do and say anything to get the votes. She pulled the Republican card and used fear to get votes with her 3:AM ad. ***** that, I voted Obama yesterday here in NC. My girlfriend liked Hill to in the beginning but she just couldn't stand all the negative crap coming out of the campaign. When we went digging for Obama dirt, we found out that he's pretty clean. Bottom line, two votes for Obama.
- mr100percent, on 05/07/2008, -0/+9So is the homeless guy who stands on the corner and yells at buildings, but I don't take my cues from him.
- nihilite, on 05/07/2008, -0/+8With US Politics you either have to laugh or cry.
and noone wants to see a grown man cry. - papashawn, on 05/07/2008, -1/+9The last 25-30 seconds is really all you need to see.
- LBobRife, on 05/07/2008, -1/+9In summarizing many things get left out, but the overall point still rings true, yes? I think it does.
- Crosshare, on 05/07/2008, -0/+8Right, and he had that team of witty writers behind him at Sportscenter too.
- neognostic, on 05/07/2008, -1/+9Judging by his username, appears to be a Republican congressman or senator.
- aliengoods, on 05/07/2008, -1/+9He did slam her for it. He said she was further to the right than McCain on that issue. Do you think that's a compliment?!
- bluemist, on 05/07/2008, -6/+14I'm not from US, but as I've noticed, Clinton is like HD-DVD back in the days of people trying so hard to find the freaking final nail in the coffin.
- rpebble, on 05/07/2008, -2/+9I mean the next guy to come along will have to chop off his head to assume his place, and while that would make pretty good TV, Olbermann is far too awesome for that.
- aheartapart, on 05/07/2008, -0/+7This is just incredibly sad. If you disagree with Obama's policy positions, that's fine, but to try to scare people with this Muslim bogeyman nonsense is just pathetic.
- Flappity, on 05/07/2008, -0/+7That'll teach her.
- Velvolver, on 05/07/2008, -0/+6Amazing ***** post, and I agree. Your grandparents are dumb.
- masterm1nd, on 05/07/2008, -3/+9She's got to have a red ring of death somewhere.
- usingpond, on 05/07/2008, -0/+6EVERYBODY WHAT OUT
- mupaully, on 05/07/2008, -0/+6He's not. Sadly the other guy gets discounted even more because he's Jon Stewart.
- Crosshare, on 05/07/2008, -0/+6I take offense to you comparing HD-DVD to Hillary, at least HD-DVD was lovable. Like the little format that could.
- Badandy127, on 05/07/2008, -1/+6Back in the day?! The HD-DVD battle only ended like two months ago. Jesus, what are you, 6?
- MiddleOfNowhere, on 05/07/2008, -1/+6So you say you do neither like the story nor the source, so you have to think of a good reason for ignoring it?
Good thinking. - zmjone2992, on 05/07/2008, -1/+6Hey HD DVD were awesome. I take offense to you slandering HD DVD.
- Barclay1188, on 05/07/2008, -2/+7Probably because he talked too fast and used big words.
- foxyvoxy, on 05/07/2008, -2/+6Did you really LOL?
- kanabiis, on 05/07/2008, -0/+4Yes, I agree, my grandmother is an amazing person, and as I clearly pointed out, absolutely out of touch with the realities that is 2008 in rural America.
I'm sure that she will have alot of good stories about how hard life was when she was growing up, and the depression, and the war, and they are great stories, and great pieces of wisdom, but they arn't going to get me out of debit, her wisdom will not open the plants closing and jobs being sent out of the country. No amazing recipe will put the food in my refrigerator and her fond memories of her youth will not erase the Constitutional abuse that has occurred over the last 8 years or so.
This is what faces me today, and Obama has felt it, he was not sheltered by 110 million dollars over the past 8 years, he has 2 daughters who are close to my childs age, his income level 4 years ago was much closer to mine then Hillary Clintons was 20 years ago. For her to claim she feels my pain more the Obama, she clearly thinks I am stupid.
Most of the young people (I feel weird calling my 32 year old ass young, but I digress) that I have talked to feel the same way.
If you didn't get that out my first post, I hope I clarified the point a little. - inactive, on 05/07/2008, -3/+7What out John Stewart, you have competition.
- Lugano, on 05/07/2008, -0/+4What about a grown woman, who is trying to become president?
- BurningSky, on 05/07/2008, -1/+5Yeah..wow. If only the rest of the reporters could have his sense of humour about the whole thing. I think the news would be better/more accurate if it just took the piss on all of the candidates instead of trying and failing to sound like it legitimately cares about the issues...
- flintmecha, on 05/07/2008, -0/+4I agree. It's something I've been saying since the beginning. Policy-wise, they're near identical and both would make great presidents. But Obama has something Clinton doesn't - a respectable, likable character.
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