Memo to My Obama-Supporting Friends
If you so much as say ONE. FUCKING. WORD. in that motherfucker’s defense, you’re getting a beer shower and a Buffalo wing up your nose You know who you are.
Don’t tell me I don’t understand, or that I have to calm down, or that I need to look at the big picture. The lying, triangulating, Chicago version of Hillary Clinton broke his promise to support a filibuster of the FISA legislation that’s about an hour or so away from passing Congress. You got punk’d, and in doing so managed to punk me as well. I don’t know why the fuck I listened to you to begin with.
Oh, and don’t tell me that I’m nuts for supporting Bob Barr instead, because you’re the equivalent of the person who complains that the food sucks and the portions are too small.
As Larry Lessig (h/t to Greenwald for the link) writes,
All signs point to an Obama victory this fall. If the signs are wrong, it will be because of events last month. These events constitute a so-far-unnamed phenomenon in Presidential campaigning — what we could call “self-Swiftboating.” To understand “self-Swiftboating,” you’ve got to first understand “Swiftboating.”
Some use the term “Swiftboating” to refer to harsh, even vicious attacks on an opponent. I use the term in a more restrictive sense: “Swiftboating” is (1) attacking the strongest bits of a candidate’s character, with (2) false or misleading allegations. That was what Kerry suffered — attacking his courage as a soldier, the characteristic that distinguished him most from Bush, with misleading (at least) allegations by some who knew him when he served.
Self-Swiftboating is to Swiftboat yourself: For a campaign to do something that has the effect of undermining its own candidate’s strongest characteristic, with actions that are (at best) misleading. The Obama campaign has now self-Swiftboated candidate Obama.
“Change We Can Believe In”? Hardly: change YOU believed in, and which I bought into because y’all seemed to know what you were talking about and argued a good game.
You were wrong. And I was wrong to listen to you. From now on, keep your fucking advice to yourself and don’t you DARE presume to tell me how it is and the way I should vote.
Your man just helped gut the Fourth Amendment, despite his pathetic vote for amendments he knows won’t pass. I hope you’re proud of him, and yourselves for helping to place him as the Democratic Party’s candidate. Unfortunately, you didn’t choose a member of the Democratic Party: you chose a member of the corporate-asslicking Democrat Party. You’ve made a fool not only of yourselves, but of me.
I’m voting for Bob Barr, and giving my money to Accountability Now.
Oh, and don’t cry to me if your candidate loses in 2008. He did this not only to himself, but to the American people. My support for Mr. Obama is withdrawn. Don’t ask me for money, don’t ask me to volunteer, and don’t ask me to announce or promote Obama’s events in Philly, cus it ain’t gonna happen.
Personally, I hope the guy loses.
July 11th, 2008 at 6:29 am
I’m still voting for him. Aim the beer shower at my liver.
August 22nd, 2008 at 6:45 pm
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