“The allure of a charismatic demagogue”
Blinded by the glow…
Must-read weekend meditation: Mark Levin ponders “the Obama temptation” and asks, “Is the allure of a charismatic demagogue so strong that the usually sober American people are willing to risk an Obama presidency?”
One of the biggest puzzles to me is why so many have fallen for the notion that the bland cipher Obama is “charismatic.”
But I guess if you have enough in-the-tank media propagandists photoshopping halos around your head, people start to believe it.
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Fooldroolcup,
We were talking about income taxes, not business taxes. She pays business taxes on very little because of the expenses. And yes, the business pays for her car, apartment and all those expenses because the business owns them and she uses them. It’s all legal because of the tax codes. Maybe you need a better accountant for your business. She does pay her employees but she doesn’t pay herself. The point was that SHE doesn’t pay income or SS on her income because she doesn’t need an income. It is as if she doesn’t work at all. Is thinking out of the box too difficult?
too bad your savior doesn’t feel the same way. I’m sure you’ll look good in your starched brown shirt!
If Obama should win heis going to have to perform. There is no evidence he can. I also would expect him to get steam rolled by the Democratic Congress.
He has got enormous expectations heaped on him by the crazies. Those expectations are not going to be met. Then what? Do not expect these intolerant people to tolerate Obama’s inability to perform.
Truesoldier, #31:
That would be the ultimate “justice.” HA
and levin says america will survive…but it’ll be a different place. he’s not kidding there, it will be the new USSA the united socialist states of ameriKKKa..a socialist hell hole, where some pigs are more equal than others…
we’ve seen obama’s future…and it sucks.
Of course it’s a race preference vote, largely on the black side! Imagine the polls if black Americans were as politically diversified as white America instead of thinking as a color club.
I WISH people wouldn’t put their hopes on a Conservative term after Obama “fixing” his damage. The Dems are going to seal in concrete social programs that would be poison for any Republican to touch. “Recovery” to the right isn’t going to happen. Pendulum swings die eventually, and it’ll left tilting when it finally rests, when we’re saddled with mega social programs that NO administration after Obama will ever get rid of (i.e FDR and SS).
James Greenidge
Queens NY ( — third largest “city” in USA — where at least 75% of which believes in socialism — no joke)
A Thompson man forced to vote McCain to keep a socialist monster in his cage.
Reasons to vote Obama:
I want to be part of history!
I don’t want to feel like a bigot.
President McCain wrecked the economy!
Will his ears fit on Mount Rushmore?
Doesn’t matter. That ego won’t settle for anything less than a mountain all his own.
The first black president?.. I will bet the liberals will give him a whole damn mountain of his own, or maybe rename the WHITE house in his name…
What the hell happened to my country?
I am getting soooo depressed.
or maybe rename the WHITE house in his name…
Amazing. You should be more depressed at your racist attempts at “humor”. They truly stink.
RAAAAACIST! lol… liberal mating cry…
Thanks for your input into the racial tendencies of everyone and thing that you don’t agree with you affirmative action fool!
#197
What could you POSSIBLY have meant about the crack about the WHITE house? Go ahead, explain.
You’re not only a racist, but you’re a coward when confronted with it. Pathetic on two counts!
You really appear to be too ignorant to understand waterhead, that most conservatives could care less about a libtard screaming racist. The dems are the party of racial division…..you libtard. No offense to any tards in being associated with waterhead!
#202
Do you fight all of Rob’s battles for him, Rooster? That’s sweet.
Rob who? I just despise liberals for all the damage they have done to our country…..you moron.
rooster, don’t encourage…
#204
Let the hate flow through you. Good, good. Use your agressive feelings. Give in to your anger.
#206
(That was from Star Wars, of course. Rooster’s gone to the Dark Side, apparently!)
brooklyn you’re right, however you should have said, don’t encourage it!
And I notice Rob still can’t explain his “rename the WHITE house” comment away. Because, of course, is was about OBAMA’S COLOR. And he’s too afraid to defend it. Coward. Racist.
#208
Rooster, you are a fascinating study. So angry!
After reading the papers, following FOX, and watching the Obama money machine and advertising, I’ve concluded that a lot of the Obama the mystic is based on ego, ego, ego.
Ego is like a balloon, it can pop pretty easily.
Obama has been able to market his balloon to the populace. When the first problem shows up and he is not able to solve it to the expectations of his followers, they will turn on him.
The expectations are too high. He’s promised utopia.
The creepy crawlies will start coming out of the closet within weeks of his election (if he is elected).
Keeping the creepy crawlies in the closet will become a nightmare. It will be like the carnival game “Bop a Mole.”
If he is truly the Messiah, then he needs to prove it by going to the emergency room of a hospital to cure the ill or a funeral home to raise the dead.
An old saying goes, “be careful what you wish/pray for, because you just might get it.”
Catholics Cowboy Up.
http://catholics4mccain.org/?p=263
rooster, It’s all good. Just say no. Me: I got Giants/Steelers on…
For many, many years now, I have noticed that a large number of the American people aren’t usually sober.
Obama is the latest of a long list of politicians that demonstrate too many Americans are drunk on their a$$. One might be tempted to compare them to druken sailors, but that would be an insult to drunken sailors.
Obama is all halo, no Jesus.
If anyone wants to see the world of Obama, just look at western PA, thanks to Murtha.
I’m from western PA and, on a recent visit, was stunned at the despair of the locals. Murtha’s spent millions and millions on western PA. There are improved roads, government offices, hospitals and medical clinics all named after Murtha.
He’s brought in millions, but it is not enough. He can never bring in enough money to solve everyone’s problems.
And that’s where the problem in western PA is, the people expect someone else to take care of them. This is why he continues to get voted in. They are looking for Nirvana. Nirvana, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy do not exist.
This is the Obama plan. Promise anything and hope that you can find someone to blame when you can’t turn water into wine.
Jeepers.
I think the idea that people are voting for Obama just because he is charismatic is simply not true. There are plenty of reasons to support him. I have conpiled a short list:
Top Ten Reasons To Vote For Barak Obama:
1. Lots of cool, free stuff.
2. Electing Obama will show those Wascally Wepublicans!
3. The French will like and respect us again, just like they did before Bush.
4. We’ll finally have a president that can do a proper thug thizzle.
5. He’ll lower the oceans and temperatures to their proper, historical level.
6. Democrat White House scandals are so much more interesting than Republican scandals.
7. We will all actually enjoy paying taxes as they will now be an investment in the future.
8. What this country needs to lead it is a community organizer trained in Chicago politcs.
9. Sending children off to government care 2 years earlier will finally make public schools a success.
10. Socialism has such a history of success in other countries how could we say no?
jsr, re: 10. Socialism has such a history of success in other countries how could we say no?
That alone makes it worth wading through the troll swill. Thank you.
Thomas Sowell tries to unravel the love given to The One and the mystery of his “change” mantra.
If Odumbo was conservative, I would vote for him. However, you liberal morons are making this sooooo much about race, I might just have to take you up on it.
RAAAAAAACIST… do I have to screw a liberal? God, don’t make it be one of those code pink lesbian dykes!
I have been using the ’success of socialism in so many other places’ analogy with a lot of people and they are so blinded they do not see. They want change and potential consequences be damned. It is like an evil spirit has diminished some folks ability to see or hear the truth for themselves. Sad for our country, but sad.
You speak as though Obama’s election is a done deal and the final results have been certified. Last time I checked, no one will really know until November 5th at the earliest.
So tell us, Watershed, if McCain / Palin do win, will you stipulate that the crap, as you put it, should stick based on the fact that more American people refused to buy Obama’s nonsense.
Seems only fair to me.
Off topic, but here is a letter I just e-mailed to Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace.
To Chris Wallace:
I just watched the panel on Fox News Sunday. I wanted to throw something through the TV screen!! What were you thinking??? The panel discussion was a POST MORTEM on the McCain campaign. I wasn’t aware he had lost. I thought there was over a week left before the votes would be counted. Yet, here you were…doing a “what went wrong with this loser campaign” discussion. I am so angry with you! I have not counted out McCain. There is still a chance. But what you did was totally irresponsible, making people think it was all over but the crying. Then, at the end…Brit Hume saying the Obama campaign had to “warm your heart” made me sick. It doesn’t warm my heart to think that a corrupt, terrorist-loving, anti-semite, black liberation, socialist might become the leader of the free world. At least it is free now…just wait until Obama and his Chicago thugs get power. Add that to a Pelosi and Reed Congress. Might as well move to Venezuela.
SHAME ON ALL OF YOU! FOX News was the one organization I thought I could trust and you blew it.
I expect a reply and an apology to all of us who were counting on you for the truth
He won’t be steam rolled by the Democrat Congress. Rather, he’ll be the rubber stamp that passes their bills into law. He’s a patsy whose main job will be to remove the Presidential impediment from the path of a power-hungry, socialist Congress, and to put a pretty face on it for public consumption. His rule #1: just read the TelePrompTer.
Internationally, his job will be to remove the impediment of the United States from various tyrannical thugs, like the ones who hate Israel. He won’t fail in handling those matters, it will just seem to you like he’s failing (according to Biden).
travlinman said:
I have been using the ’success of socialism in so many other places’ analogy with a lot of people and they are so blinded they do not see.
True that, credit where it is due. The “success of socialism” is not only the best stance, it is 100% troll proof.
#222
If McCain wins, yes, I will say that his campaign of divisivness and fear worked on the voting public, and they were too scared as a result to vote for Obama. You can hold me to that.
If Obama wins, I will not go around yelling “He’s not my president” or other such deranged junk, like the libs have been doing to Bush for 8 years. However, I have NO respect for the man. He is a corrupt thug who has lied consistently about his past. He can look straight out at the American People and lie through his teeth. Just like Clinton did. I will never ever trust him or believe him. If he wins, I will just suck it up and pray for someone better in the next election. That is, if we have elections in the future.
Good! You are catching on. Waterbutt is definitely an “it”.
Absolutely correct, FilmLadd.
I always cringe when I hear people make the argument that from Carter we got Reagan, so if Obama is elected, we’ve got a shot at getting RR redux in 2012. I’ve even heard “conservatives” say they’re voting for Obama so that it can happen.
Not necessarily. Today, there are a lot more Americans who think like Obama than there were people who thought like Carter in the late 70’s and a HUGE increase compared with people who thought like Wilson in 1920. People would do anything to avoid the shame of taking welfare in the early 20th century. Even during Carter’s term, the Great Society was in its first generation. We now have millions of peope who have grown up watching their grandparents and parents get a handout and believe there is a free lunch. And Obama is just the guy to give them the latest and greatest version. There is absolutely no concept of shame among a large segment of the population … about anything.
I am not optimistic that if Obama is elected that the next RR is just around the corner. Nor that the “right wing conspiracy” (my, how I wish it really was vast!) will ever be able to regain control of the political debate once Obama, Reid, and Pelosi get a chance to spend 4 years ripping the foundations of this once great country from underneath us.
You give me hope!
No Odumbo, no stealing my money to give to the inner city losers… be afraid, be VERY afraid! No Muslim in the WHITE House!
Go fear, go divisivness, ANYTHING! Keep that liberal out of the WHITE House.
Waterboard watershed!
Goooooo PALIN!
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Note a problem. I taught my kids to be afaid of crossing the street without looking, of open cans of gasoline, driving without their seatbelts, and drugs. Teaching people to be afraid of some things is in fact a reasonsable thing to do.
There are legitimate things to be afraid of. If you have my view of the world there many logical, legitimate, and may I add PRUDENT reasons to be afraid of Barack Obama.
If people become afraid of him for legtimate, logical, and prudent reasons, there is nothing dishonorable or dishonest with that. And if irritating Obama Kool Aid drinkers whose minds are closed and made up is by your definition divisive, then so be it. No principled person ever went through life without detractors, even enemies. I can live with that.
#231
Astounding. A proud racist crowing his hate. It’s like a bigot’s buffet here on the Malkin boards.
GCO, I think your description is better put than mine. I agree wholeheartedly.
Helene, I hail from southwestern PA, and I was shocked to hear my mom say Murtha was still going to get the vote of a nearby town because they need a fire truck and he promised to get one for them. Honestly, there’s nothing left in these little towns, so his pork goes a long way — but that’s no excuse not to vote for Bill Russell!
THE VIDEO WATERSHED DOESN’T WANT YOU TO SEE…
How the State of the Union Address will look like after liberals run things for a few years.
Liberals in charge…
BE AFRAID, OBAMA WILL DESTROY US, BE AFRAID!!!
From The Telegraph:
Aides to George W.Bush, former Reagan White House staff and friends of John McCain have all told The Sunday Telegraph that they not only expect to lose on November 4, but also believe that Mr Obama is poised to win a crushing mandate.
They believe he will be powerful enough to remake the American political landscape with even more ease than Ronald Reagan did in 1980.
The prospect of an electoral rout has unleashed a bitter bout of recriminations both within the McCain campaign and the wider conservative movement, over who is to blame and what should be done to salvage the party’s future.
Mr McCain is now facing calls for him to sacrifice his own dwindling White House hopes and focus on saving vulnerable Republican Senate seats which are up for grabs on the same day.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/3260074/Republican-fears-of-historic-Obama-landslide-unleash-civil-war-for-the-future-of-the-party.html
I saw nothing racist here.
#232
I think there is a big difference between being quote, unquote, “afraid” of someones political policies, and it can be a healthy thing, one that steers debate and political excitement.
Using fear tactics to win an election, calling someone Arab, terrorist, Muslim, kill him, socialist, etc, is a far different thing. There are posters on this board who even have the nerve to cry of “concentration camps” if Obama wins, of course not realizing the anti semeticism of such absurdity. There’s nothing logical or prudent about that, wouldn’t you agree?
Jet Jaguar, if you feed the troll we must all suffer the inanities. DO NOT FEED THE TROLL.
Didn’t the media do the same thing with the Bush/Kerry election of 2004 and Bush/Gore in 2000 say the Dem had already won before we even voted? I don’t trust a lot of these polls.I will say one thing though if Obama gets in there and starts messing with Israel he’s toast,The Almighty God will take care of him.
#238
Rob wants to keep the WHITE HOUSE WHITE. You don’t see the racism there? Suuuure. Whatever!
Ha ha! You do remember Clinton’s `92 “mandate,” and where that ended in 1994?
Obama will not win. America’s smarter than that!
But it can be so much fun to knock them down
If not in `08, then an assured clean-sweep in `10 and `12!
#243
Clinton’s win is nothing comapred to what this artice alludes to.
This is the second time on this thread that you’ve written something as though it is cast in concrete, but that hasn’t actually happened yet. I know you can’t predict the future. If you could, you’d be the wealthiest person on earth and certainly wouldn’t be hanging out commenting on this blog.
This time around you claim you’ll be getting a tax cut under Obama. How do you know? Because he told you yesterday what his tax plan is going to be in 2009? I remember Bill Clinton doing exactly the same thing. He promised big tax cuts in 1992, then once he was in office in 1993, he came back and said it wasn’t going to happen after all. The government couldn’t afford it! In fact, he presided over one of the largest tax increases in history that year.
Obama has backtracked on many of his statements since he started running for POTUS. Why are you so sure he won’t backtrack on this one too? Again, I stipulate you have no ability to foretell the future.
And even if you do get a tax cut, so what? You’ll get it for a year and then see taxes increase far in excess of the decrease you got, so how are you ahead? What don’t you get about “spreading the wealth around?” That’s code for Obama saying “I’m the king and you’re a POS.”
You got that right – Gingrich and Dick Morris ran this country from 1995-2000!
#247
I am simply going on everything he has written on his website, said in public, and at every debate. Literally every time he is asked he says so. You seem to just want me to assume he is lying. If he is lying and pulling a “read my lips” I will take it back and come to thins board and say, YOU WERE RIGHT.
But, if I should just assume he is lying, why not then assume everything every candidate is saying is a lie? And dont vote at all? Pretty anarchic view.
Sure I do, and Colin Powell wants a black guy in it, and all the black hole welfare suckers want a black brother in it…
Like likes like. Go figure.
RAAAAAACIST… lol
WATERBOY,
If you are offended by the views of some of those who post on MM site, you are free to leave at any time. Most of us here would proudly vote for any candidate that truely loves this nation and believes in the principles of our founding fathers. The color of their skin would make no difference as long as the candidate believed that we are each responsible for our own successes and failures. That it is NOT the role of government to penalize those who succeed by rewarding the weak. They would support a candidate that understands the principle that there are consequences for bad judgement. That honesty and hard work is how we get ahead and that Government only puts barriers in front of achievers when it wrongly tries to help slackers.
AS to your implication that MM’s site is full of racists, it has been my view that those who accuse others usually are covering up their own failings.
That said, I for one don’t want that lawn jockey as my president, douchebag!
Obama might win because the nation is full of little feckless whores like watershed who act smart but have no core.
Check this out
It’s pretty funny. Actually, Obama wants to paint the White House RED.
madchef, oh freakin great! you fed the troll. now we all get another 12 or 15 posts… thanks a lot.
Now that we have a black president can the whites get all the welfare and the blacks have to work? That would be nice for a real “change.”
hahahahahahahahaha… lol.. made me laugh
Watershed #239,
Okay we have some common ground here. However, I would encourage you to differntiate betwen people and campaigns. Here is what you wrote that promoted my response:
You wrote in #239:
My points are no one in the McCain campaign have said or even implied Obama is an Arab, a Muslim, a terroist or he should be killed. Have McCain supporters said these things? Yes. Is it irresponsible? Yes. Inexcusable and no better than many things said about McCain or Palin from the other side.
Some of the posts on this sight about “concentration camps,” “getting my guns,” etc. etc. are over the top IMO.
Among things that I am “afraid” of are Obama’s shared values with terrorists. Bill Ayers is a decades old enemy of mine. Obama shares the same values as his pastor. He displays all of the behaviors of a traditional Chicago politician. Obama is demonstrably a socialist. While Obama knows the label is a loser to the electorate, he is unapologetic in his views, which are by their formal definition socialist. He’s very honest and open about them.
Every idea Obama has proposed economically, politically and in foreign policy is not new. A review of history will reveal to you they have all been tried and all have failed and in some cases failed miserably. He’s not a leader. He has a radical view of people like me and human life. He is unable to take criticism without a vindictive response, which is indicative of immaturity and intolerance. He takes everything personally; not good for a leader.
I am not afraid of him at all. I am afraid of where he could take this country.
Watershed,
In terms of getting a tax cut, I suggest you do what I have done with McCain and Obama. IGNORE EVERYTHING they have said since January of this year.
They are morphing to get elected. Obama is nothing like the man you heard in January. McCain is also changed but to a lesser degree.
Their voting record and past statements is the key to heir post election behavior. Reason #35 why I have nothing in common with Obama.
No tax cut from Obama. No secure border from McCain. No support of the troops from Obama. No drilling from McCain. That’s reality.
Sorry Red, I thought I could shut him up. I take full responsibility for my actions.
#257
I appreciate your candor. And I must disagree on a few points.
The McCain campign absolutely has implied that Obama is a terrorist. Even flat out said that he “palled around with” them. That is inexcusable, imo, and has nothing to do in any way with the real issues that the two campaigns could be discussing. The economy, the war, etc. Intead, no, it’s Ayers and terrorist terrorist terrorist. The implications of such feed hate. hate I can read all around me on this site (Lawn jockey, WHITE house, etc. It’s atrocious.)
Like McCain finally said, two months too late, “he’s a decent family man citizen who I happen to have disagreements with.” Why couldnt the whole campaign be from that place?
Also please give me any example of similar actions/words/tactics in the Obama campaign. Keating 5? come on.
“Watershed” sounds like the worst of my oh-so groovy former mental health clinician “colleagues.” Fortunately, I was able to retire a long time before they did. BTW, the Secret Service found it to be completely unfounded that anyone said “kill him” at a Palin rally. Is he a terrorist? Perhaps not yet, but he ascribes to the value systems and the fraudulent intellectual positions of those who have been or still are.
madchef, see now what you have done!
Too funny!
Gee
I go on a long hike in our beautiful Idaho mountains and come back to a polluted thread with watershead.
Watershed #260,
The McCain campaign has said Obama has palled around with Bill Ayers, who is by Ayer’s on words an unrepentant terrorist. Is Obama a terrorist? No, but he not only tolerates one he has workes actively with one on programs desgined to indoctinate children with what I feel are radical socialist ideals. He has endorsed Ayers book filled with radical, anti-American ideas. OBAMA DOES NOT DENY THAT.
Examples of Obama spreading fear? Try this one:
ANNOUNCER: John McCain’s health care plan. First we learned he’s going to tax health care benefits to pay for part of it. Now the Wall Street Journal reports John McCain would pay for the rest of his health care plan with major reductions to Medicare and Medicaid, $882 billion for Medicare alone, requiring cuts in benefits, eligibility, or both. John McCain, taxing health benefits, cutting Medicare. We can’t afford John McCain.
OBAMA: I’m Barack Obama and I approved this message. Note: Even David Shuster of NBC said this ad was totally false. The 30 year old FEAR tactic of Republicans doing evil of old people.
Why do I object strongly to Obama and call him a socialist? I give you Obama’s own words. Go to this Newsbusters link and listen to their link of Obama in 1995. If you agree with his views, that is your choice.
I do not and never will.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/john-stephenson/2008/10/24/obama-race-baiting-interview-1995-reveled-will-media-ignore
All right, it is a shame that I have to go here BUT, to all of those who would pray “and lead us not into temptation…” and yet surfer us this troll…
You can not reason with evil! Your egos shame you! Do you think that you can out smart Satan? Damn the troll don’t feed it! just sayin
O.K. Waterboy, you want to talk issues, lets go.
Let’s start with taxes, shall we.
Your rookie senator will raise capital gains taxes, tax our 401k’s, remove the Bush tax cuts which will increase the lowest rate from 10% to 15%. He will also raise the corporate tax rate and institute a a windfall profits tax on oil.
Well, this thread is killed..
Well, this thread is killed..
Watershed: Why can’t we drop all public educational music classes and have only private schools like yours?
Red, Waterboy isn’t Satan, just a lesser demon.
Waterehed,
P.S. I am frustrated that emotional, irresponsible comments from conservative bloggers, some of which you have noted cloud and distract from REAL concerns about Obama and give Obama supporters the opportunity to rationalize away these concerns by grouping them with the irresponsbile ones. NOT WISE on our part.
madchef said:
Red, Waterboy isn’t Satan, just a lesser demon.
Oh, and in your vanity you wish a lesser demon upon us…
Gosh Red, I was just trying to entertain myself. I’ll open a window, maybe it will fly out.
madchef, yes perhaps it will… just don’t feed it.
You mean like when Al Gore started up the Willy Horton feeding frenzy to try to destroy Dukakis?
WTF? I don’t get it… does Watershed really think that Concentration Camps were a “Jews Only” form of punishment?
Watershed, today’s your lucky day!!! I’m here to enhance your D minus public education in history.
Concentration camps were for ANYONE that the Nazi government found distasteful regardless if they were subversive or not. Not only Jews but concentration camps held:
Social Democrats
Trade Unionists
liberals
Communists
Freemasons
anarchists
“habitual criminals”
Foreign Forced Laborers
emigrants
homosexuals
sexual offenders
Jehovah’s Witnesses
mentally ill
alcoholics
vagrants
beggars
aristocrats
intellectuals
pacifists
draft resisters
prostitutes
and Roma (Gypsies)
That’s pretty damn arrogant (and incredibly ignorant) to call someone antisemetic when they use the word “Concentration Camp”, looks to me like you need to look inward and re-evaluate your education. I’m sure, if you’re honest with yourself, you’ll see that like your adoration of The One, everything you know is wrong.
Okie Dokie.
What the rest of America will look like!
NOBAMA!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuNzZlVCiK4&feature=related
I am Happyscrapper the raaaaacist!
Me too! I am a RAAAAAACIST!
Why no mention of the Palin video that the gutter-dweller Andrew Sullivan is promoting?
“They Know”
Alert Joe the Plumber!
Obama Discussed Redistribution of Wealth on February 27, 2001:
Some excerpts of Barack Obama’s comments (emphasis mine):
He goes on to explain, in a response to a caller’s question, how redistibution of wealth is better accomplished through the legislative branch than the judicial branch. In Barack’s mind, there is no question that redistribution of wealth is what must be done, even if it means changing or reinterpreting the Constitution! It’s not a question of if it should be done, but rather how best to do it!
The YouTube video is a 4:17 edit of the original 52:59 program found on this page.
I’m late to the party here, admittedly, but I have a message for watershed:
They’re missing you over at sfgate.com.
Best head on over there and play with your other lib-bot friends.
These rantings of yours are exactly what I see at sfgate all the time.