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You should repost your diaries from Kos. I think they'd be even less welcome here.

There are many indicators that there is a secular shift underway as the appearance of a crisis is now looming over us. What does that mean? It means a rollback to more traditional values, xenophobia, nationalism, and conservative lifestyles. This shift is going to be massive and shocking in it's scale as progressive social positions get chucked overboard to save the sinking ship of culture. How is that going to affect an Obama presidency? How will he incorporate the cultural shift and crisis into his leadership approach? He's absolutely spot on, it WON'T be politics as usual.
What are some of the indicators? The poor reception of anti-War films at the box office and the lowest Acedemy Awards ratings. The lowest rated Emmys of all time and poor ratings among fall premiers.
There is a cultural backlash underway. McCain is going to be on the receiving end. Like Mr. Miyagi said "squash like grape".

Or this one:

As a "fellow" Alaskan I am stunned by Sarah Palin's bizarre mixture of down-homeyness, aping the memes of the hick-like T.V. culture of the 60's and 70's and collating a contrived vocabulary of "homespun" sayings that are laughable. She didn't speak like that BEFORE she was John McCain's running mate. Her dad was a teacher for crying out loud, HE doesn't speak like that! Her Mother doesn't speak like that. As a sportscaster and a "journalist" I'm sure she was trained not to speak as she did in the "debate". Honestly, when I heard Tina Fey spoof her for the first time I thought she was overdoing Palin's "accent" thing...now I don't think that is even possible.
Did she get abducted and held prisoner in Fargo by faux-potty mouth great-grand aunts? What is going on here?

Well, let’s see. The DKos Diary about Xenophobia was intially talking about a Obama and how he would lose in a landslide, I completely edited it, flipped the script to McCain instead of Obama. If my comments had not been HR’d by the thought police at DKos you might be able to see the intent of that diary.

The Palin diary WAS on point, she has gotten a little weird lately. I didn’t get any grief from them on that one.

When I lamppooned Obama for being a Marlboro man supporter I nearly got banned (even though I was drawing a ridiculous comparison between him and Ayer’s with it.)

As I clearly stated I in my post I was there under false pretenses and was guaging them for what was a “successful post” in their eyes. As “extreme” as i was I still got banned. Did I help them? What do you think, I think absolutely NOT.

I don’t feel a need to defend my posts on DKos any more than a hunter needs to defend wearing camo when he goes into the woods. As bad (liberal) as I was they still labeled me a “troll”.