I would rec this if I could. "Patience and Steel. Yes, yes. yes." (0.00 / 0)

One of the great ways of playing the netroots is to write post afyter psot about how "we're losing man" omg omg, instead of researching, praising and urging action.

If you are whining you are working for McCain.

Contribute to the campaign, there is no other honorable action now. Think of the epic battle scenes of moviedom, massed armies coming over the hills spread out before them, deep and wide with the leaders on massive horses at the center with their commanders beside them. The opposing armies massed opposite in similar fashion.

With our coalition, Obama and most of his forces, are arranged battle ready, except for the host of 'supporters' drinking coffee and screaming "Oh man we're in trouble now" "look at the size of that army we're facing man!" and using their empty pens to shoot spitballs at him and walking around in front of the horses.

To continue the analogy, if you shout out "look there is a cohort to our flank," thats helping. If you yell "help we aren't going to win" then a Sargent gets to run you through.

Try try try and see the difference between offering advise, and sowing discord. Obama is going to win this, but we need a big mandate. We can't a big mandate if we arent all jeeped and "fired up and ready to go."

We are tied up again already, not surprisingly
http://www.openleft.com/viewQu...
we are being urged to work harder,
http://www.openleft.com/viewQu...

Nerves of Steel! Eye on the prize! for gods sake imagine what it was like to face the dogs and truncheons on the bridge in Selma! We are huge, we are strong, we are going to win! Stop the fudging whining!

From now on I urge everyone to call out the wankers and McCainists posting here. Offer help and advise and encouragement or take off.

Thanks for the diary queen.

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The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies. -Chomsky

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by: HousesofProgress @ Sat Sep 13, 2008 at 13:22:31 PM UTC