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1. #1
   On April 16th, 2008 at 11:51 am, On-my-soap-box said:

   That map is great except there is a small little spot on the east coast of Florida northeast of lake O’ that will remain “yellow” if I have anything to do with it. It may be a small spot for sure but it will be there!

   If you will be blogging the mess tonight, I will have a glass of vino and be thingking about you. LOL Sombody might as well relax.

2. #2
   On April 16th, 2008 at 11:51 am, zorro said:

   If you’re blogging the debate here, I’ll “watch”, otherwise, no way Jose.

   Another great Photoshop too.

3. #3
   On April 16th, 2008 at 11:52 am, libocrat said:

   You forgot Hawaii, where Barry O’ learned how to use a bong.

4. #4
   On April 16th, 2008 at 11:55 am, Mister P said:

   Unfortunately that is also the world of McCain.

5. #5
   On April 16th, 2008 at 11:59 am, Buckaroo said:

   no, it is not McCain’s world — why we insist on trying to draw equivalence between an admittedly unconservative repub. and an off-the-wall marxist is frankly beyond me …

6. #6
   On April 16th, 2008 at 12:01 pm, Teddy Kennedy said:

   Errah, my masterplan has a large green line from texomexico up to the canadian border for the SPP. Please update your map errah.

7. #7
   On April 16th, 2008 at 12:01 pm, Mister P said:

   no, it is not McCain’s world — why we insist on trying to draw equivalence between an admittedly unconservative repub. and an off-the-wall marxist is frankly beyond me …

   You are trying to create a distinction without a difference.

8. #8
   On April 16th, 2008 at 12:03 pm, Rusty said:

   These attacks make less and less sense. There are no “elitists” in CA?

   Oh, the joke is that he wants to give half the country back to Mexico and turn the rest into the District?

   How did the snob meme start anyways? Because he said that areas with unemployment are bitter? How snobby!

9. #9
   On April 16th, 2008 at 12:03 pm, 30 pcs of silver said:

   Got the popcorn ready…it’s going to be a great show…

   I’ll have to miss it… my studies call.

10. #10
    On April 16th, 2008 at 12:04 pm, Teddy Kennedy said:

    Errah, I’m having John and Lindsey over for drinks and the debate errah.

11. #11
    On April 16th, 2008 at 12:05 pm, Buckaroo said:

    McCain’s going to jack up every conceviable tax rate? McCain’s going to sign every stupid un treaty running around?

    /what.ever.

12. #12
    On April 16th, 2008 at 12:08 pm, Silkyinfamous said:

    Why is Florida not green?

13. #13
    On April 16th, 2008 at 12:08 pm, DanVanSmak said:

    Where all the white people at?

    *out*

14. #14
    On April 16th, 2008 at 12:11 pm, Teddy Kennedy said:

    Errah Disneyworld and Lake Okeechobee errah

15. #15
    On April 16th, 2008 at 12:14 pm, pressto said:

    I have still not understood why no one has asked him about the “Black Value System” he and all members of his church endorse and follow.

    http://www.tucc.org/black_value_system.html

    Change the word Black to White there and you have something just as extreme as any White Supremacy group. Oh wait that is right they are black so they can’t be racist.

16. #16
    On April 16th, 2008 at 12:14 pm, Zelsdorf Ragshaft III said:

    Rusty, how do people live in a small town without some form of employ? Where were the industrial jobs in small town America? Is Pittsburg a small town? That was where the steel mills were.

17. #17
    On April 16th, 2008 at 12:16 pm, John Ansell said:

    Mister P #14, Bingo. McCain is no better on the illegal invader problem.

18. #18
    On April 16th, 2008 at 12:16 pm, John Ansell said:

    That’s #4, not 14. SOrry.

19. #19
    On April 16th, 2008 at 12:19 pm, Concerned Citizen said:

    On April 16th, 2008 at 11:51 am, On-my-soap-box said:
    That map is great except there is a small little spot on the east coast of Florida northeast of lake O’ that will remain “yellow” if I have anything to do with it. It may be a small spot for sure but it will be there!

    I got your back from down in Jupiter.

20. #20
    On April 16th, 2008 at 12:23 pm, John Ansell said:

    McInsane will not get my vote until this scum bag is gone Apology to scum and to bags.

21. #21
    On April 16th, 2008 at 12:24 pm, The Traveler said:

    Absolut(ly) bitter, to be served with a twist of arugula. Drink it before it condensates. [Or is that condescends?]

22. #22
    On April 16th, 2008 at 12:29 pm, JustifiedRight said:

    Springsteen: “Elitist-Class Hero.”

23. #23
    On April 16th, 2008 at 12:31 pm, Shilo said:

    So it looks like I need to move West. Is that South Dakota that is left… a… right…. a sane?

24. #24
    On April 16th, 2008 at 12:44 pm, flyovercountry said:

    Looks more like Nebraska…I’m already there!

25. #25
    On April 16th, 2008 at 12:45 pm, CharlieT said:

    This past Saturday night, my wife and I (from Virginia that hasn’t voted for a democrap for president for over 4 decades) were having dinner at a nice Pennsylvania tavern with friends from PA and NY. Our NY friends are solid upstate Republicans, but our PA friends are starting to drink the Obama kool-aid. We were in the midst of an intervention, when our waitress came to take drink orders. When she was listing the brews on tap, she mentioned a very good ESB. When one of our PA friends asked what that was, the waitress replied “Extra Special Bitter.” I immediately told our PA friends to “Drink up! If PA goes for Obambi, you’ll need it!”

26. #26
    On April 16th, 2008 at 12:56 pm, corkie said:

    How did the snob meme start anyways? Because he said that areas with unemployment are bitter? How snobby!

    Rusty, I’m pretty sure you’re smart enough to know that it’s more about his claim that these areas cling to religion, the 2nd Amend, and anti-illegal immigration because of bitterness.

27. #27
    On April 16th, 2008 at 1:00 pm, BlameAmericaLast said:

    These attacks make less and less sense. There are no “elitists” in CA?

    Of course there are! All the folks Snobama met with last week in San Francisco!

28. #28
    On April 16th, 2008 at 1:03 pm, Boomer said:

    It will be interesting to see them attempt to enforce the Washington DC gun ban in what the fantasy maps shows as part of fly over country we currently call Idaho. The Obamination is bad news walking and he may think he understands my irritation with our elitist political overlords, oppressive tax burden, and the disregard for the rule of law, but he sure as heck doesn’t every want to see me angry.

29. #29
    On April 16th, 2008 at 1:06 pm, On-my-soap-box said:

    Yo CC,

    We will have to get together near Vero a.k.a little yellow spot!

30. #30
    On April 16th, 2008 at 1:13 pm, b4lucy said:

    There are a couple of acres right smack in the middle of that green (Utah)that is decidedly bright Red, White, and Blue…Absolut is banned…and we are locked and loaded….pardon the pun…

31. #31
    On April 16th, 2008 at 1:28 pm, James Felix said:

    How did the snob meme start anyways? Because he said that areas with unemployment are bitter? How snobby!

    That’s a nice attempt to distort what he said and render criticism of it invalid. It won’t work.

    It’s not Obama saying that people are “bitter” that we draw such offense from. It’s his suggestion explicitly stated belief that such bitterness is the way they come to their opinions on religion, immigration, free trade and gun rights. He clearly believes that it’s impossible for any reasonable human being to disagree with him, anyone who does must have some kind of problem or mental defect.

    He is of course badly mistaken. Obama is a gifted salesman and talented huckster, but he’s not the messiah and he’s not nearly smart enough to be able to dismiss the ideas of others’ like that.

32. #32
    On April 16th, 2008 at 1:31 pm, Rekd said:

    OMG!!!

    Coffee, nose, monitor…

    I sure am glad I wasn’t eating Cheerios when I looked at that!

33. #33
    On April 16th, 2008 at 1:50 pm, Romeo13 said:

    There should be a Tan area around the San Francisco Bay are… Barry won’t through his “people” out of the country…

34. #34
    On April 16th, 2008 at 1:50 pm, Larraby said:

    If Bruce Springsteen is the essence of America and if Bruce Springsteen represents America as the MSM baby boomers insist that he does, how is it that Mr. Springsteen said his first vote was for McGovern in 1972 and McGovern lost in 49 states? How is it that Springsteen refused a nice compliment from President Reagan in 1984 and Springsteen said he preferred Mondale and Mondale then won only in one state? How is it that in 2004, Springsteen endorsed Kerry and Kerry got whipped? It says to me that Mr. Springsteen in out of touch and is another Beverly Hills liberal.
    BTW, Mr. Springsteen reportedly docked pay for some roadies because they brought him his watermelon with the seeds still in the watermelon. You don’t do that to the boss!

35. #35
    On April 16th, 2008 at 1:53 pm, abstractmind said:

    just a random thought

    If he’s gonna redraw the map, wouldnt tequilla be the poison of choice? It’s not like we wouldnt get the worm to shove in the bottle in the process.

    “Reconquista Tequilla…Always both Smooth and Bitter, with a taste you’ll not find anywhere Left of the Border. Buy your bottle today!”

36. #36
    On April 16th, 2008 at 1:56 pm, On-my-soap-box said:

    On April 16th, 2008 at 1:50 pm, Larraby said:

    Bruce Springsteen sounds like the kiss of death. Let’s hope so!

37. #37
    On April 16th, 2008 at 1:56 pm, abstractmind said:

    “Reconquista Tequilla…Always both Smooth and Bitter, with a taste you’ll not find anywhere BUT Left of the Border. Buy your bottle today!”

    There, fixed it

38. #38
    On April 16th, 2008 at 2:14 pm, libocrat said:

    Rusty is the typical lib. He saw what Obama said, he knows what Obama said, he realizes what Obama said. He knows Obama made an ass of himself.
    So what does Rusty do. Like a lib, he plays a dishonest game.
    Here’s how it works. Lib gets caught in a lie or a mistatement or a blue dress, and instead of just skulking away to his brie and chardonnay, he tries to turn a lie into the truth.
    It’s not about honesty it’s about winning.

39. #39
    On April 16th, 2008 at 2:27 pm, Flarn said:

    Between Gore’s “Global Warming” blather and Barack’s “Bitter Arugula” postering, we might all end up living in Al-Obama anyway.

40. #40
    On April 16th, 2008 at 2:39 pm, libocrat said:

    Sweet Home Al-Obama.

    In Birmingham we luv the governor!

41. #41
    On April 16th, 2008 at 2:54 pm, Texasdave said:

    “If you’ve been filling up your gas tank, you’re angry,” Obama told the union members. “You’ve got to feel some frustration. You’ve got to feel some anger when you get the sense that the American way of life for so many people is slipping away.”

    The only reason I’m angry when I fill up is that I know the price would be a LOT lower if the liberals in the gummint weren’t jacking the price up the price of fuel by:

    1) restricting supply through preventing drilling in proven domestic reserves,

    2) restricting supply by mandating different types of fuel for each region and season,

    3) restricting supply by mandating the use of government-subsidised ethanol, and

    4) restricting supply by threatening to change tax laws that will discourage investment in the energy industry.

42. #42
    On April 16th, 2008 at 2:59 pm, IndependentTom said:

    Kinda think there’s a smudge of middle-america yellow in southern Colorado as well.

43. #43
    On April 16th, 2008 at 3:28 pm, spidgy said:

    Barack and Michele Obaggage.

44. #44
    On April 16th, 2008 at 3:31 pm, Azygos said:

    “If you’ve been filling up your gas tank, you’re angry,” Obama told the union members. “You’ve got to feel some frustration.

    Yes frustrated that I don’t have a huge chunk of change invested in Exxon. And tell me why is it ok for the government to make 70 cents per gallon and the oil company is evil for making 10 cents per gallon?

45. #45
    On April 16th, 2008 at 3:39 pm, Alphonse said:

    Obama is unpatriotic and unAmerican.

46. #46
    On April 16th, 2008 at 3:45 pm, Fat Jolly Penguin said:

    Yeah. If you notice, Utah’s completely absorbed by Mexico in that picture, and in the original ad. Over. my. dead. body.

    /where I live

47. #47
    On April 16th, 2008 at 4:09 pm, TheOtherSide said:

    Some food for thought - a reader on another blog submitted this:

    “My background: I’m an educated centrist, and as it were, gun-owner and sometime duck hunter.

    On the ‘elitist’ debate: I’ve been amused to see the likes of Bill Kristol, Roger Kimball and Rich Lowry and other conservative commentators so incredibly desperate in their efforts to convince people like me that we’re being looked down upon by Obama — a black guy raised by a single mom who worked as an organizer among the poor of Chicago, etc. etc.

    I personally don’t feel in the least that Obama is an elitist. Rather, I feel the elitists are those highly educated, inside-the-beltway weenies like Kristol, the bow-tie wearing Kimball, the UVA grad and prepster Lowry who are tripping over themselves to tell me how offended I ought to feel when I know damn well I’m not offended. Id be shocked if Roger Kimball, Lowry or God knows Bill Kristol know the first thing about hunting ducks, or if they could survive ten minutes in a cold duck blind before dawn, the artery-clogging breakfast that follows or the round of beer and whiskey drinking that goes on the night before.

    In my opinion, listening to these folks go on and on about how offended I should be makes me feel a hell of a lot more condescended to than hearing some single throw-away line at a fundraiser. Obama said his thing once; these wankers won’t shut up. It’s as if they think I’m too stupid to figure things out for myself, so they can’t miss an opportunity to tell me how I’ve been slighted. Well sorry, weenies — I just don’t feel slighted, and that’s because I’ll be damned if I’m going to pick a president based on a stupid gaffe when there is a war going on and when the economy is going in the shitter. These guys must really think I’m a moron. “

48. #48
    On April 16th, 2008 at 5:14 pm, rooster said:

    On April 16th, 2008 at 4:09 pm, TheOtherSide said:
    Some food for thought - a reader on another blog submitted this:

    Sorry for calling you a knucklehead when I read this crap on the other story from MM’s site.

    You are an moron!

49. #49
    On April 16th, 2008 at 5:30 pm, TheOtherSide said:

    You are an moron!

    Should be “a moron”…oh the irony!

50. #50
    On April 16th, 2008 at 6:02 pm, Southpaw said:

    A little historical background: In 1579 Sir Francis Drake claimed the Pacific Coast of North America for England. Cabrillo had done some exploring earlier but the there was no claim made by Spain. So, California was claimed first by England more than 500 years ago. Speculation about the original location of Aztlan, if it ever existed, centers on the state of Nayarit, IN MEXICO.

    Nova Albion.

51. #51
    On April 16th, 2008 at 6:37 pm, corkie said:

    4:09 pm, TheOtherSide said: #47

    Thanks for providing providing evidence that one (1) person in PA wasn’t offended.

    Feel free to provide other anecdotes.

52. #52
    On April 16th, 2008 at 6:47 pm, TheOtherSide said:

    corkie,

    Check the polls…he may of offended some, but it doesn’t look like many. Point is, is that the punditry are making more out of this than the majority of voters are.

53. #53
    On April 16th, 2008 at 7:40 pm, corkie said:

    Check the polls…he may of [sic] offended some, but it doesn’t look like many.

    There ya go. Polls probably make a bit more sense to use. The quote you used before was worthless.

    Point is, is that the punditry are making more out of this than the majority of voters are.

    You might be right, but remember that even a few percentage point impact would be bad.

54. #54
    On April 16th, 2008 at 8:08 pm, rooster said:

    On April 16th, 2008 at 5:30 pm, TheOtherSide said:
    You are an moron!
    Should be “a moron”…oh the irony!

    Noted, please don’t have a typo, or any kind of a wacky lib rationalization posted TOS.

    Because, dis bitter sumbeetch will be ready fo’ ya’!

55. #55
    On April 16th, 2008 at 8:27 pm, havok said:

    3) restricting supply by mandating the use of government-subsidised ethanol, and

    Keep in mind that it takes two gallons of regular gas to get 1 gallon of ethanol. So by forcing the use of ethanol they are using more gas thus gobbling up supply and causing an artificial price increase….

56. #56
    On April 16th, 2008 at 8:44 pm, TexasTiger said:

    Check the polls…

    Screw the polls. That goes for everyone. Given the choice between a poll and the information markets, go with the information markets every time.

    Take your pick. There’s Intrade, IEM and many more.

57. #57
    On April 16th, 2008 at 10:46 pm, Andy said:

    havok @ #55,

    Don’t forget that a gallon of E85 only gets you 2/3 the bang for the buck in terms of mileage & horsepower. That’s a lose-lose-lose situation any way you slice it.

58. #58
    On April 16th, 2008 at 10:52 pm, Andy said:

    TheOtherSide @ # 52 said:
    

    Check the polls…he may of offended some, but it doesn’t look like many.

    That’s because most pollees don’t want to appear racists for admitting they feel offended.

    Instead, they’ll anonymously vote their bitterness by pulling the lever for ABO (anybody but Obambi) and it won’t necessarily be for cHillary. As indicated by Frank Luntz’s post-debate survey, about half the dems indicated they would vote for McVain if their favored Dem is beaten by the other.

59. #59
    On April 16th, 2008 at 11:58 pm, tencz58 said:

    NaNa this black muslim doesn’t understand my anger at all. It’s really simple !!
    I have NO BODY to vote for . NO CFR clown takes my vote

60. #60
    On April 17th, 2008 at 5:05 am, scottthong said:

    My ever-expanding collection of cartoons at Barack Obama’s Bitter Remark Editorial Cartoons. 19 and counting, and 40+ Wrightgates. Enjoy!

61. #61
    On April 17th, 2008 at 5:08 am, graysonret said:

    After reading the news every day, about how the illegals are getting free rides in this country, adored by our politicians, and more are coming in than going out,I wonder about that Absolut map. The more I think about it, the more accurate that map is becoming…a few years early, but Absolut in 5-7 years, may have the last laugh.

62. #62
    On April 17th, 2008 at 5:51 am, Lilycat said:

    If those of us in Middle America, and I don’t mean that as a geographic designation, remain silent, our area of influence will remain static or more likely, decrease. We need to be more vocal and more active in securing our own future. We gather and complain to each other but why are we not organizing and being as visible as those on the left? (As an aside, Pittsburgh is spelled with a final H.)

63. #63
    On April 17th, 2008 at 8:20 pm, Buckaroo said:

    “why are we not organizing and being as visible as those on the left?”

    we have jobs …

64. #64
    On April 18th, 2008 at 9:03 pm, Dimsdale said:

    On the ‘elitist’ debate: I’ve been amused to see the likes of Bill Kristol, Roger Kimball and Rich Lowry and other conservative commentators so incredibly desperate in their efforts to convince people like me that we’re being looked down upon by Obama — a black guy raised by a single mom who worked as an organizer among the poor of Chicago, etc. etc.

    Actually, I think he was raised by his white grandmother, who he said he looked down upon for being a “typical white person.” Thanks for everything, Grandma!