Here are some examples of your “rapier wit.” I understand that some are responses to others.

“Good to know you guys are keeping your focus on the important issues: finding as many scary black people as possible to associate Obama with! Eyes on the prize, and all that…”

“(stop me if I’m not writing with sufficient intelligence for you), and in fact (that’s in reality, I mean, not in your fantasy world) In your happy little delusion land, Obama is in trouble. ”

“You are living in a dream world. Seriously. You haven’t the faintest clue what you are talking about this year. ”

“Don’t wade into waters you do not understand, beebop.”

“But hey, you continue to delude yourselves that Obama is “toast,” “unelectable,” “cannot win.” You have a few more months to have fun with your cute little fringe hate site before you have to return to reality.”

“You PUMA people, honestly, are a fucking joke. Your numbers are utterly miniscule — not even a rounding error in national electoral calculus — the traffic numbers on your network of sites are not growing (yes, we are watching, just in case, and they aren’t; NQ peaked right when Larry was promising a whitey tape and dropped way back down after the tape failed to surface). The vast majority of HRC voters will wind up voting Democrat this fall, for the simple reason that, hello, they’re Democrats. Unlike you hate site clowns”

As to your effect on free speech, please consider that many of the people that post here were driven off Democrat blogs for nothing more than differing from a pro-Obama perspective. It is hardly surprising that they feel hostile to people that come in here using the same tactics that conquered their earlier homes. I have experienced it first hand. Analytic posts containing no ad hominem, racist, sexist, or homophobic commentary were removed because they did not agree with the Obama party line.

Furthermore, locales that offered refuge were then flooded with the now f(l)amed Obamabots, such as happened in this thread today from you, though your commentary is less insulting or extreme. This ties into my point about the assault on freedom of speech. By flooding/polluting refuge blogs, or getting them shut down, Obamabots inhibit freedom of association by crashing the party.

In this regard, Democratic sites were sanitized of discourse so they could provide Obamaesque meditative drones. Fine. We want our drones as well, but Obama supporters craving the rough and tumble discourse that their sites disallow feel the need to harass us.

Finally, we would both be foolish if we thought that the more egregious posts were not the work of black ops people employed/motivated by those that want to discredit this blog.

Yours,
Steven

Since, he has disposed of all his positions.

If they only knew….

As the intrepid sfhillary keeps trying to point out, almost every anti-Obama link in this zoo is from a non-Democratic perspective. It makes it hard to believe that you’re not on the McCain team.

News flash: Obama defeats McCain EASILY among “the middle” today, and unless something changes drastically over the next few months, he is going to defeat him easily among “the middle” in November.

Come on, man. Even a minimal amount of dispassionate research makes quite clear that I am correct, at least for now. Start frequenting fivethirtyeight.com if you want really good, even-handed electoral analysis. Poblano is outstanding — maybe the most respected polling analyst in the country today — and he has (based entirely on everyone else’s polls and sheer math, not on his personal views at all) Obama comfortably ahead in the electoral college today.

Again: this doesn’t mean he is guaranteed anything in November. But it does mean that he is winning now, and thus favored to win in November. And it means that all the crap I’m reading here about what Democrats supposedly think is nonsense: the polls are the polls. The math is the math. When McCain pulls ahead of Obama in Ohio, or CT, or Michigan, or PA, or Colorado, I’ll start to worry. since Obama is ahead, on average, in all of those states, I see no reason to expect anything other than a Democratic victory.

I also don’t see how I’m thwarting anyone’s free expression. If anything I’m encouraging it by repeatedly spending lots of time on a site where mine is so obviously the minority opinion.

I’d also challenge you justify the use of the phrase “spewing your invective” at me. I am, on average, far more polite and reasoned than many posters here. Every time I choose to come on one of these threads, I do dso knowing that half the respondents will just curse me, tell me to leave, tell me how stupid I am, etc.

As for my comment about research: very few posters here who write anything about topics that require real research — like polling or demographics or the like — have any relevant sourcing to back up their (generally misguided and incorrect) assertions. My specific comment was directed at someone who wrote that reading Victor Hanson, of all people, constituted “research.” Please. A site that was genuinely interested in the truth and serious research would not automatically dismiss any writer, article, poll, media pundit, or electoral result that didn’t favor their predisposition. About 99% of the posters on this site do. Don’t expect me to grant them all any intellectual respect just because you’re getting your PhD (for which I admire you, btw; I barely managed my MA and had to abandon my PhD dreams due to lack of discipline).