@mekkaokereke@feld@PJ_Evans there's a lot of people who just assumed that Obama would never take on one of the most far-right, racist senators in the Democratic party as his vice president.
"Balancing" the 2008 ticket has turned out to be one of the most destructive choices in Democratic history.
@tillshadeisgone and frankly you don't have to be a minority to see the deep, abiding problems in American society that liberalism likes to sweep under the rug and conservatism actively seeks to make worse. You've just gotta have eyes and a memory longer than a few weeks.
@br00t4c it's tempting to frame it as foolishness, but I think this is classic iron law of institutions dysfunction.
Those who currently control power within the democratic party would rather lose the election and keep that power, than give some of it up and have better chances of winning.
@ark_lamp_umbrella@privateger@seraph sorry to pick on you, but to anyone reading this: don't use regular expressions to parse your urls. Use a trusted library like urllib in Python or URI in .net.
There's way too many pitfalls, don't reinvent the wheel or you'll be like Elon.