Assuming the account is accurate, it's strange how the campaign can take on the persona of the candidate. This reminds me...

David Brooks of The New York Times has a brilliant column today on where policy and personality intersect for Hillary--regarding health insurance mandates.

What's so funny though is the sentence with which Brooks begins his column:

I’m not a Hillary-hater.

It's like Brooks is bracing for the barrage that's sure to come from the Erica Barnett types who try to conflate any questioning of Hillary Clinton's character and judgment with hatred. Of Hillary. And really of women.

This isn't even about HRC. It's about "Hillary supporters and campaigners." I particularly like how your "reporter" doesn't give any examples of why they want to "shoot them in the face" (yikes!), other than "pompous, and arrogant."

They never assume the locals know anything or have anything to contribute, sadly.

And they won't get better, even if we give them eight years to do it in.

They're "entitled".

Hillary can GTFO.

Do we really need to like the President on a personal level? It's the fucking President of the United States! It's probably one of the most stressful and difficult jobs on the planet. I will settle for qualified asshole.

If people started flinging equivalent race-based insults, the backlash would be much louder and any writer for a mainstream mag who dared to go there would lose their job.

I read that article and it pissed me off too! Matt Taibbi is a dumbass.

It speaks to the article ECB posted last night, the line from Harriet Tubman that she could have freed thousands more had they realized they were slaves.

In any case, Fnarf is also right at 26, this slur is from a moron and is meaningless.

Although, maybe Romney.... I'm pretty sure there's not a campaign worker in Seattle for Romney so the chance that one might be less than gracious is pretty slim.

@26 -- How many morons saying shit like that do there have to be for it to have a net effect upon the universe? From where I sit, there are an awful lot of morons. It's easy to dismiss one or two as idiots, but in larger numbers it begins to look like a trend.

@29 -- "Virtually all of these people are women." Yeah, right. I don't doubt that there are plenty of women who have internalized this, but I would strongly disagree that some men don't have this problem too.

On a slightly related note, maybe it's because I am apparently living under a rock on Mars (which I'm not, so I'm confused here), but I hear more people decrying sexist remarks and talking about how racist remarks would be lambasted than I hear actually making sexist remarks.

It's possible I just haven't stumbled upon them. I'm not saying they're not there. It just seems odd.

Maybe this is not how political campaigns work, but in the rest of the world it's pretty much the norm.

Stop doing the GOP's work for them.

Either Obama or Hillary would be light-years better than any member of the Xtian Taliban, the same fucking people who've left us in the quagmire of Mesopotamia, the nightmare of the Patriot Act and all its offshoots, the misery of the sub-prime mortgage crisis, and 8 long centuries - I mean years - of having to listen to a half-wit, silver-spoon, arrogant, coked-out fuckwit squat in our White House and alienate the entire rest of the planet.