But it seems worth looking at, that in this post-post-ironic environment, people can show so much enthusiasm for someone they know so little about. I get a feeling there’s something else going on….America needs psychoanalysis.

I lost your number, bro. Call sometime. I’ve been reduced to trolling your blog, and that’s just fucked up.

There’s only one thing different about Barack Obama when it comes to being a Democratic presidential candidate. He’s half African-American. Whether that will make any difference, I don’t know. I haven’t heard him have a strong crackdown on economic exploitation in the ghettos. Payday loans, predatory lending, asbestos, lead. What’s keeping him from doing that? Is it because he wants to talk white? He doesn’t want to appear like Jesse Jackson?

I agree with David Weigel over at Hit & Run here:

Here’s a little more evidence of why Nader isn’t taking off this year: He doesn’t pay attention. Obama has talked about capping interest rates and “driving unscrupulous lenders” out of business. Ironically, he’s bragged about removing asbestos from Chicago housing projects (got to milk those community organizer days!) to such a degree that some of his old allies think he’s hogging credit. Hell, he did a town hall/PR performance about this stuff in Chicago two weeks ago.

There are a lot of reasons to roll one’s eyes at Obama’s candidacy, but I don’t think Nader’s passes muster.

“I mean, first of all, the number one thing that a black American politician aspiring to the presidency should be is to candidly describe the plight of the poor, especially in the inner cities and the rural areas, and have a very detailed platform about how the poor is going to be defended by the law, is going to be protected by the law, and is going to be liberated by the law,” he said. “Haven’t heard a thing.”

A legitimate criticism, it seems to me. But ooooh, people gonna be SO mad…

Also, “America’s Next Top President” is funny.

It’s like watching America’s Next Top President. Creeps me out.

And I’m not a Clintonista or conservative. I’m a Left values voter.

I did — I thought the campaign backing her was odiously racist and the embodiment of Democratic machine politics.

I’m pretty sure “possumus” means “we can” and not “it’s possible.”

I don’t think Clinton’s Supreme Court’s appointments would have been so bad compared to Obama, so I think there must be another reason you supported Obama over her, to the point of knocking doors, than that.

Also, you’re kind of nuts: Anarchists for Obama.