Getting Sick and Tired of Hillary Clinton

For being a liar, as demonstrated in this video:

And for being a racist. (In the words of Lawrence Lessig: "That Olbermann gets television time is the best evidence that free speech lives.")

It's making me increasingly cynical that the mainstream news media (not MSNBC) wants to make out the Clinton campaign as somehow still relevant and competitive, if only to increase ratings and ensure excitement around the news coverage of the election.

[The only thing I'm more sick and tired of today than Hillary, is people spreading FUD that Twitter is an example of Rails not scaling. I went ballistic on a panel today when someone said that. Twitter is one of the best examples of how Rails DOES scale, massively.]

Comments

[Raul Murciano]

Hey Obie, I've recently listened on the spanish news that the increased aggressivity between both candidates could finally lead to a massive abstention on the loser side followers and making easy a republican victory.

It would be a sad scenario, do you think it could be true?

[Danno]

Rails scales, but it's not an out of the box thing. That's not bad though, most stuff is not out of the box scalable.

I've worked with only one technology that I can truly say is out of the box scalable: KX system's proprietary language Q (APL-ish vector programming stuff). And to be honest, that scalability only applies to a pretty limited set of applications: mainly, Vector processing!.

So, here's my theory: If Rails weren't just an application framework, but an entire language built around programming MVC web apps, it'd probably scale out of the box like crazy.

Then again, I think if someone wrote an entire language built around programming MVC web apps, we'd think that was kinda weird!

[Mike]

Hey Obie,I hear you... in fact when I first heard Hillary's comment about dodging sniper fire in Bosnia it took me back to the 11 months I spent in 1996 in Bosnia as part of Operation Joint Endeavor.

While the deployment was certainly no walk in the park, from the day we landed in Tusla in January until I left in November there was not one single instance of organized violence on the part of the Bosnians. In fact, I remember Hillary's visit... She unfortunately didn't visit the camp I was stationed at, but it was a big deal at the time.

[Clay Shentrup]

It's good to see you're in the same boat as me. Someone who passionately loves Rails, and hates the gross mischaracterizations of its scalability, as well as the reptilian careerism and fear-mongering of this entitlist self-aggrandizing hack.

I simply long for the day when she drops out of this race. But as Andrew Sullivan points out, she's now running for President in 2012. If she can do enough damage to Obama now to make him lose to McCain, she'll have another "see, I told you so" shot in 4 years.

Someone high up in the Democratic party needs to set this woman aside and give her a strong talking-to.

[Clay Shentrup]

Must watch:

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/03/we-are-clinton.html

[Dean Holdren]

I was at that panel yesterday. I think you showed a lot of restraint. I literally almost fell out of my chair, and I was just an audience member.