Under the Bus Denial: You might be Experiencing It

Posted: June 20, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , | 8 Comments

Hello, my name is Dakinikat  and I’ve been under the bus since Obama and the DNC told the U.S. that they didn’t need Hillary Voters to win the GE.  Since I am now a veteran of under-the-bus syndrome,  I have been authorized to point out symptoms and suggested cures for those of you from Daily Kampf, Huffpoop, and even my old haunt FireDawgFLake that have just recently been thrown UNDER THE BUS.  Let me help walk you through Under the Bus Denial.

Yes, I know, you’re standing there, thinking… why did he throw me under the bus.  

Yesterday I was important.  Yesterday I was a person with a vote  that counted.

Remember, this is your first clue.  There is a meeting held some where in a dark room where he finally says something to the effect of:

“However, I need to make a decision in the next few months as to how I manage that since I’m running against John McCain, which takes a lot of time. If women take a moment to realize that on every issue important to women, John McCain is not in their corner, that would help them get over it.”

Rep. Diane Watson, D-Calif., a longtime Clinton supporter, did not like those last three words — “Get over it.” She found them dismissive, off-putting.

source:  http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/06/tense-moment-at.html

 

Yes, Representative Diane Watson, you are under the bus.  You must embrace it in order to heal and move forward.  You know you’re beginning to get better when the Unity Pony comes calling and something seems to be amiss.

I’ve chose a few posts from Huffpoop (yes they are real) about the FISA position.  Perhaps you’ll recognize some of the symptoms and realize you too, could be suffering from under the bus denial.

“Choking on all that Kool-Aid I drank after Iowa. wow! I feel like Barack just punched me.”

This definitely is symptomatic of coming to terms with being UNDER THE BUS.

“I think it’s time for some emails to the Senator’s senate office pointing out that we the people, who have funded his campaign, are not pleased.”

Sorry, sweetie, you are in strong denial of being under the bus.  Please get with an Under-the-Bus partner and by all means, go to OTHER websites.  LOOK for the PUMA LABEL.  You can be helped.

“why wouldn’t he give us a taste of that change we yearn for? why won’t he be the leader that we are all expecting him to be? it doesn’t seem like this would be such a hard battle for him to fight…especially since we have been told he taught constitutional law. 41 senators is all he would need to fillibuster this bill. do you honestly believe that would be a difficult task for him to accomplish? just seems to me that this is the opportune time for him to show us what kind of president he will be.”

Yes, classic denial.  Notice the fleeting hope that this yet might be resolved some other way than saying “I’m now UNDER THE BUS”.  

“If he is forced, politically, to support some bill or other, how is going to bring the kind of change he has promised us? I’ve never heard such orginal excuses as I have seen on this thread this morning. Can’t we just be honest about it and say that if all the other Democrats were wrong to support it, so was he?”

Wow, that is a strong sign of moving from the denial of being thrown under the bus, to the anger of being thrown under the bus.  This blogger at HuffPoop has actually come a long way in less than 24 hours.  Now, here’s my advice for those of you in this place.

Remember just to wake up tomorrow and say:

 

“Hello, my name is Cheetoh”

and I’ll be right there …. Hello Cheetoh.  Then you say this,

“and I’ve been Under the Bus for 1 day now.”

 

Then go to your computer and THEN to this site:  http://www.justsaynodeal.com/

What you will find is at least 18 million others who were also thrown under the bus and we’re all here to help you.

Some of my friends have had lOBAtaMAys

Posted: June 18, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , | 6 Comments

I was sitting in my favorite neighborhood bar the other night.  Nearly every one in New Orleans does that.  It’s a bit like your front room but with a few more people and a better liquor selection.  Two long time friends were there.  One owns the bar and the other is a lawyer and we have always agreed on nearly everything.  We all supported Hillary in the primary.  After a few minutes, it became obvious that I was the only hold out.

I mean it was really late.  I had had quite a few glasses of wine.  I knew they’d been drinking all day at the festival in the quarter.  I don’t even remember how the subject came up actually.  But I said it.  I will not vote for Obama under ANY circumstance.  You’d have thought some drug had been droppped into their drinks.  I was suddenly confronted by the same nasty hate filled spews I’ve been putting up with for months now out here in blog land.  At first I thought I could shake them off with, yeah, right Republicans will set up housekeeping in my uterus and my grandchildren will be dying in iraq 100 years from now.  If we just stick a few references to  9-11 in there enough I’d think I’d gotten shoved in a time warp of 4 years ago in a black hole of fear tactics. Except, it wasn’t just all that fear-mongering.  It was hateful and mean! Instead of being called a racist, I was asked how my ‘boyfriend’ (who happens to be a black longshoreman) would feel about this.  I was called anti Roe v. Wade.  I was accused of being a bad buddhist since I was obviously now a war-monger.  I was double-teamed until I was called out on saying iran instead of iraq once and then you’d have thought I’d been caught skinning neighborhood cats alive for all the ruckus that created.

I could only take so much of that.  I mention all the gaffes and flip-flops I catalogue here.  I mentioned my favorite Obama sound bite about how we can’t have a timetable for Iraq and we should look at what it takes to be successful from April 2005.  (See the youtube clip on the gaffe page because his website says he supported a time table in 2005.) Of course I got back THE story about sniper fire and she VOTED for THE war!  All the things that I’m more than used to by now. I can list a dozen of his things to her one and it still doesn’t sink in, once you’ve been lOBAtaMAized.  I finished the wine, leashed up my poor dog Karma, who by now was even the subject of wrath and simply walked out the door. But not before I unleashed my parting shot:

“Just THINK!”  I said. “You thought I’d just go along and not question anything.  Well, if you were wrong about me, how many more do you think you’re wrong about, because let me tell you, there are a lot of us out there.”

And the moral to this story is there are a lot of us out there.  Even if some of your friends have gotten lOBAtaMAys, you can find a lot of support on the web.  You can avoid all that ‘prepare to be assimilated’ Oborg stuff. Thankfully, Karma has Blue and I have all my friends at Bitterpoliticz, the Confluence, and No Quarter and … well.  Just check the blog list right there on the right>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Taylor Marsh Doesn’t Get It …

Posted: June 16, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: No Obama | Tags: , , , | 14 Comments

  It’s not about towing the party line, Taylor.  It’s about principles; democratic principles.  Yes, yes, we know the Obamamites were threatening to take away your credentials to the DNC convention because you were too cozy with HIllary supporters.  Yes, we know Hillary now ‘supports’ Obama, as she was told to do. 

Some of us, however, have principles.  Some of us vote not for the party label and not even for a single issue if there are bigger principles at stake –like democracy, justice, truth, and the American Way.

The American way is winning an election by getting the most votes when every voter counts as a voter.  Justice is NOT taking your name off a ballot then having a group of party insiders give you pledged delegates from that state and taking away votes cast to another candidate for rhetorical voters.  Truth is NOT going on and on and on about how unfit and unqualified one candidate is one minute, then switching to a completely different line seconds after a speech.

Democracy is NOT a decision made by party insiders.  Democracy is election not selection.

There are some principles worth standing up for and worth doing things that may not be in your individual interest if it is in the interest of the country you love.  For me, it’s not voting for Obama under ANY circumstances because of his character, his poor judgement, his continual storytelling, his lack of achievements, and the folks he chooses as counsel.  Clear enough?  I’m not selling my country out so I can attend the DNC convention or get an abortion in Louisiana instead of having to fly to New York City.  No amount of gold can get me to sell out my principles. But then Taylor, I have them.  I’m not sure you do.

PUMA!

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