“There has to be at least one member of the Boing Boing team that doesn’t consider themselves a liberal.”

Why? Because liberals can’t have “varied political opinions”? Seems the GOP has all sorts of opinions this year. Some of you theocratic fascists have even said that Palin should drop out. Fancy that.

“…they’re all I got.”

There is one other option: sanity. You’d rather have a grade-A, blithering nutjob like Sarah Palin drooling over the button? Her IQ is lower than Obama’s finger’s.

I am encouraged. I don’t believe in a binary world of black and white and right and wrong, humans are too squishy for that. Apart from the odd genetic freak of psychopathy, everyone is somehow redeemable or at least explicable in light of their upbringing and circumstances. But Evil is Evil. It is a Good Thing that Evil is being recognized here and being called out. There is yet hope.

And Nautch? You are a silly person. Examine why you do what you do, you do have choices.

Palin is funny only so long as you do not remember Danforth Q. As I recall, he got the job.

I think the strong reaction may be, in part, a build up of liberal (not in the pejorative sense) frustrations over the past 8 years.

By most accounts, including those of the current Republican ticket, the last 8 years have been a disaster. Not of the blowjob in the oval office kind either.

Many of these folks see Palin as a repeat of the Bush election bid: an under-qualified self-righteous but likable aw-shucks figure head who pays no heed to the voice of those not in her camp.

The use of Palin as a marketing gimmick by the McCain camp seems painfully obvious to more than just that dirty liberal media. She is a target and an easy one at that. Defending her will make you a target as well.

Just for one example her stating Obama voting against funding of a troop spending bill. Obama voted against a certain version of the bill but voted for the other. McCain conversely voted for the one Obama didn’t vote for, and voted against the one Obama voted for.

Everytime I hear this so-and-so did or didn’t vote for such and such a bill I laugh, and they just look stupider to me. Everyone who knows anything about how a Bill works knows that Politicians love to try to/attach Riders, Amendments, and what’s known as ‘Pork’ (such as the Bridge to nowhere that Palin supported, then when everyone caught it, she was like Oh Noes, I don’t support it, Stopped the project but guess what? Kept the money).

Such Riders, Amendments, and Pork can completely twist a Bill from it’s original purpose. Good Bills with good purposes that are for the people are regularly turned into Living Nightmares.

These are the kind of things that politicians like to repeatedly keep out of their so and so did/didn’t vote for such and such finger pointing.

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That’s common among us deaf and dumb hearing-challenged types.

Frankly, it’s never been a more embarrassing time to be an American. But then I’m not a small-town Christian, therefore I’m not a “real person” and my opinion doesn’t count.

“You may not agree with McCain, Biden or Obama but all three are to be respected. Palin… ehhhhh… not so much.”

Absolutely! Stop settling for hayseed morons as national leaders, America, and the wars and recessions might stop.

Good question. Why don’t you put one together? I don’t see the connection between Obama (labeled as an elitist pointy-headed intellectual) and a low-brow comedy centered on characters from inner city LA–outside of ‘he’s black, and so are they!’–but you apparently have some concept bubbling on the stove. Go for it.

Well good luck with that. I’m sure if you think hard enough you can come up with other ways to annoy the commenters. I won’t say you are squelching free speech because this is your site and you can do whatever you want to with it but I feel less inclined to keep coming back.

@ Tom Hale:

“There has to be at least one member of the Boing Boing team that doesn’t consider themselves a liberal.”

Why? Because liberals can’t have “varied political opinions”? Seems the GOP has all sorts of opinions this year. Some of you theocratic fascists have even said that Palin should drop out. Fancy that.

TAKESHI, Teresa, the lead moderator said on the BB moderation policy“There is no Boing Boing party line. The Boingers have varied political opinions.”

I find it useful to understand how and why people are thinking a certain way, even if it has no merit. I think Palin said it best: “I’m not going to compromise…” [later]“…I’m going to work with everyone and get bipartisan support to get things done!” …or something like that, I couldn’t listen too closely. Wait! At first I thought that was incongruous, but maybe she’s some sort of Jedi(Sith?) or something.

Thanks for comparing me to Putin, but I prefer Stalin.

There’s no doubt that BB is biased to the left, but that’s not saying much, since the editors, moderators, and commenter’s are, by a vast majority, obviously liberal. I don’t see any way for them to be completely unbiased in their posts, nor would it make much sense for them to do so. I do believe the moderators to be mostly fair in their moderation in that if they were to leave every opposing comment, no matter how on topic, the comments section would turn into one huge flame fest. Read the Wikipedia article about Boing Boing – apparently this is exactly how the comments section used to be before they changed BB’s moderation to its present form.

I’ve been reading BB for close to a year and have had problems with moderators only a few times – increasing a bit as the election closes. Since I’m a Republican, there are of course a ton of posts and comments that get me riled up, but for some odd reason I’ve really warmed up to the BB community. When Xeni Jardin can post a beautiful video about Africa’s wildlife one day, and post this article the next, it makes the political post a lot easier to take. Or when Mark Frauenfelder shows his love for all things Geeky and Retro in his posts – things I also love – it bothers me much less when I see one of his political posts. I’ve found it best as a Republican to try to avoid commenting on the political post, and if I absolutely have to comment, at least try to keep my comment as nice and close to neutral as possible.

Here are 14 more lies:
http://www.johnmccain.com/McCainReport/Read.aspx?guid=343ba934-6417-4b65-ac9e-92348acb5e97