Guess there’s something wrong with me
Jesus Christ, is there no escape from the propaganda steamroller? Even Paul Krugman has succumbed:
Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008, is a date that will live in fame (the opposite of infamy) forever. If the election of our first African-American president didn’t stir you, if it didn’t leave you teary-eyed and proud of your country, there’s something wrong with you.
So I’m supposed to be teary-eyed and proud of my country for electing a morally bankrupt demagogue? I’m supposed to be teary-eyed and proud of my country for endorsing the most sustained and vicious bout of public misogyny of my lifetime?
I’ll tell you how I felt on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008: nauseated. Granted, that probably had something to do with the viral infection I was incubating, but I’m still nauseated. Women’s rights have been set back decades and the country is gripped by pseudo-religious worship of a nasty little tin-pot Nero. And I’m supposed to be happy?
Hypothetical question of the day: if McCain-Palin had won, would Paul Krugman be writing “if the election of our first woman vice-president didn’t stir you, if it didn’t leave you teary-eyed and proud of your country, there’s something wrong with you”?
27 Responses to “Guess there’s something wrong with me”
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song says:
Of course no one would have been saying that about McCain Palin.I believe many people are caught up in the “idea” rather than the “reality”; the “image” rather than the person..
The patriarchy is a hot air balloon… Inflating its latest balloon..to rise high above us all. People are mesmerized by the ascent of larger than life balloons. Children point at them with glee. Adults pull out their binoculars to view them more closely,
These magnified moments of the heights we witness are merely show, and painstaking attempts at controlling which way our heads will turn.I am not particularly obscessed with the ascent of any leader..
and so while the crew and the crowds are clamoring for the liftoff of the latest floating contraption..i have the tendency to go to the sewing room, i never use searching for a pin cushion..hoping my words may be as sharp as a thousand pins to bring the folly down. We either believe in the inflated image. Or we are sane.
You, Dr. Socks have many more pins in your pin cushion…
and they should be the ones who are nauseated…not you!!!
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CoolAunt says:
Hypothetical question of the day: if McCain-Palin had won, would Paul Krugman be writing “if the election of our first woman vice-president didn’t stir you, if it didn’t leave you teary-eyed and proud of your country, there’s something wrong with you”?
Hell to the no.
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soopermouse says:
how can someone feel proud oftheir country when a known and proven fraud and liar becomes president?
If McCain/ Palin would have won we would have had 4 years of Palin’s wardrobe, her children, her glasses,her hair and whether or not she married a virgin.
If this acocmplished anything, it’s telling women that they are not welcome at the top.
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Polly styrene says:
Well don’t worry soopermouse, you can hear about Michelle Obama’s wardrobe instead.
Has no one caught on what is happening yet? We are clearly stuck in ‘invasion of the bodysnatchers’. They have targeted female leftish (particularly meeja) types first, as evinced by the Guardian, whilst some male right wingish meeja types remain immune. However it can’t be long before they come for us all.
We need a plan.
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slythwolf says:
if McCain-Palin had won, would Paul Krugman be writing “if the election of our first woman vice-president didn’t stir you, if it didn’t leave you teary-eyed and proud of your country, there’s something wrong with you”?
No.
But I would.
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kenoshaMarge says:
When Krugman, who has at least shown some small sign of being a man of integrity writes such drivel will we finally accept that there is NO credible media left in the United States?
And no Mr. Krugman, if you think that I have to agree with you, then there’s something wrong with YOU.
Everytime I think I can’t hate media types more they lower the bar. Krugman, another name to cross off my reading list.
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bluemorning says:
“if it didn’t leave you teary-eyed and proud of your country, there’s something wrong with you”?
Welll, yes there is. I’m a c**t, a b**ch, a ho.
That’s what’s wrong with me- thank you for pointing it out,
Obie and the Obots.I thought I was a productive, thinking member of society,
equal to those with external genitalia- but I have now seen the error of my ways- what a transformative moment (sarcasm) -
Cyn says:
The Fourth Estate strikes again. Pretty soon, they will be dressing us. Lord knows, we aren’t smart enough to come in from the rain. We need to stop thinking, follow all of their orders and march in lockstep like Stepford wives into the ovens.
Who the hell do these men think they are?
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octogalore says:
Can’t Paul say he’s happy about the milestone without making it about shaming those who might also be, but who aren’t teary-eyed?
I’m happy about the milestone, I think many are. I’m not happy about the way it happened, and feeling it’s long overdue doesn’t make one automatically believe BHO is qualified. That’s a very simplistic, shaming analysis coming from Paul.
I think he’d have expressed the joy with Clinton, though not with McCain/Palin. But in neither case would he have tried to shame others who weren’t “teary-eyed” — and the reason why not is disgusting.
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qaz says:
Can’t Paul say he’s happy about the milestone without making it about shaming those who might also be, but who aren’t teary-eyed?
That tells me though that there must be quite a few people who aren’t ‘teary-eyed’, otherwise he wouldn’t even be writing about it.
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Kiuku says:
I’m supposed to be teary eyed that someone was elected president by oppressing others?
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Kiuku says:
The author is just a privileged little turd, pissed that some people might be depriving him of his equality glory of how great and open-minded he is by electing a Black skinned MAN, while not forgetting the oppression and injustice and clapping appropriately on the side lines.
Well Boo-Hoo
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Blue Jean says:
At least Bob Somersby at the Daily Howler gets it right.
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atheist woman says:
Who the hell do these men think they are?
Gods.
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Kiuku says:
There is a popular phrase in philosophy that someone should introduce this turd to:
“The end does not justify the means”
So cry all you want. You’re still a worm.
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vbonnaire says:
Right.
Thought you might like to see this one…
Let’s see now. Why is she being blamed? There is a graf mid way down that does cause a wee bit of alarm because it has everything to do with that ol’ thesis.
Blaming is just such an easy out –
Anyone who did a little research feels very sick about what we have seen — the censorship, the distortion of facts, the out and out lies.
And, when I read this one?
It gives me pause…
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TheOtherDelphyne says:
I was just over at Riverdaughter’s place and someone linked to this story that has the headlines:
Planning underway for Obama holiday
http://cjonline.com/stories/11.....2770.shtml
I don’t even know how to react to something like that.
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CoolAunt says:
TheOtherDelphyne says:
I don’t even know how to react to something like that.
Well, I guess I’m with the commenter there who said that she’s always up for another holiday, so why not put this one in the dead of summer and call it B.O. day. Hahaha!
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Alwaysthinking says:
I am sick. It is beyond my comprehension how people like Krugman — and I would say Moyers, too — can fail to understand how this partially black man “won.”
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ugsome says:
What prompts such seizures in otherwise intelligent people? Digby’s notorious ‘presumptuous is racist’ post is another such example.
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ugsome says:
Kiuku wrote, “The author is just a privileged little turd, pissed that some people might be depriving him of his equality glory of how great and open-minded he is by electing a Black skinned MAN..”
Here in California we have a political catastrophe on our hands thanks to BO’s clearly-telegraphed homophobia. Now that self-congratulatory white libs like Terry Gross, Paul Krugman, my Obot spouse and the dude who trolls me on Facebook have their precious coupons good for one racial redemption in their grubby little hands, they’ll go back to sleep and let thinking women and gays clean up the goddamn mess.
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madamab says:
How do you guys think I feel? My stepmother literally helped Obama win Virginia. (Yes, she’s AA.)
I respect that she was doing what she believed in, but ugh.
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julia says:
Paul Krugman has been into Obama for a while, so I stopped reading him. I am shocked by the women who endorsed him, like Catherine MacKinnon. The only explanation I’ve read is that she’s worked at U of Chicago and may know him.
That’s not enough.
How can someone who has written the most brilliant books about feminism and law endorse BO?
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polly styrene says:
In relation to the homophobia – anyone remember when Lindsay Lohan offered to support BO and he said he didn’t want her support?
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soopermouse says:
i’m going to drink another coffee and pretend Paul Krugman said nothing.
Then I am going to feel bad for the people in Poland who are already feeling Obama’s incmpetence.
Then I am going to get angry because we could have had a decent person in the WH.
Then I am going to laugh at the morons who really think that pointing out how the homophobia in the AA community passed P8 is racist and untrue because there are not enough AAs in Cali to make it pass.
Then I am going to e-mail a couple of my LGBT Obot friends and tell them “I told you so”.
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Kiuku says:
“Here in California we have a political catastrophe on our hands thanks to BO’s clearly-telegraphed homophobia. Now that self-congratulatory white libs like Terry Gross, Paul Krugman, my Obot spouse and the dude who trolls me on Facebook have their precious coupons good for one racial redemption in their grubby little hands, they’ll go back to sleep and let thinking women and gays clean up the goddamn mess.”
And we will Ugsome, we will.
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Yanni Znaio says:
polly styrene says:
In relation to the homophobia – anyone remember when Lindsay Lohan offered to support BO and he said he didn’t want her support?
That may explain why, on one of those stupid shows that comes on after the nightly news, she made some comment about “how great it was that America had elected its first colored President.”
Or else she’s an airhead, or a bigot.
