Right, that's what he was doing. Dismissing small town America by actually caring enough to tell the truth about their experience. What a load of crap.

Hint: lots of people live in urban areas.

* I was going to say "strident and constantly outraged", but I thought that ECB might not have enough triggers for apoplexy today and figured I'd help her out.

The Boss for the win!

Hint: Tacoma does not qualify, nor does, for example, Bothell.

Exactly. Didn't the Stranger do an excellent piece following the 2004 election: its the cities stupid.

sincerely,
diggum

While I appreciate ECB viewpoints from time to time, she exhibits more and more troll like behavior in the most tenacious and unrelenting ways. I presume she enjoys the attention and self centered righteousness created by drawing Obama supporters into the ring, then characterizing them as asinine or mindless when they engage. It’s the worst type of con imaginable. There are plenty of pro Obama intellectuals to engage with in a clear, respectful conversation, which she ignores.

Instead by cherry picking the worst examples of pro Obama fanaticism, and generalizing a few poorly formed opinions as a trend representative of all Obama supporters, she claims victory, proving to herself that the effort was worth the struggle; and she uses their knee jerk reaction as reinforcing evidence of the superiority of her personal opinions. Not only do I find this behavior offensive to me, but offensive to genuine Hillary supporters who think she will be a better president. ECB’s sentiment creates only a forum for the most offensive and asinine commentary which ignores the more important and harder problem—to unite as a party against a common enemy—John McCain.

I am no pacifist myself, but to deliberately fan the flames of division and widen the chasm of understanding between democrats is inane, nonconstructive and harmful in the long run for all democrats.

For this reason, I have created a Yahoo pipe to block all political ECBs post from showing up in my RSS feed by keyword. (It ignores posts in ECB posts which contain Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, politics and a few other choice words). If anyone is interested, please post a comment—I’d be happy to share the script.

Erica's interpretation of press release: 100 small-town PA mayors endorse Clinton.

Among those 100 "small-town" mayors:
Mayor Michael Nutter, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County

I must say, I've lived in Philly, and it didn't strike me as a small town. However, I am willing to defer to Erica on matters like this.

P.S. I think DOUG. @10 beat me to this one: Pittsburgh's a small town?

In Erica's defense, I can say, having lived briefly in Pittsburgh, it does at least have a small-town feel.

Of course! Yahoo Pipes! You are my new god, dude. I'm going to go make one that ignores all Dan Savage and ECB posts.

Bruce Springstein. Duh.

So, yeah, I guess everything.

The other chick with down syndrome dropped out because of kidney failure. Congrats on the promotion Erica. You are truly "special".

Oh yeah, Hill's campaign goes on, long after the chance of winning is gone...