KISS & TELL: Confessions of a Campaigning Callgirl

Last Will and Testament

2007-12-04T10:30:00.000-08:00

(NOTE: Up until about two minutes ago, I still had strong yearnings to not do this. After reading the comments from the last article and the fairly childish argument that the recently-elected president at U4Prez was having with one of its most adolescent and, not coincidental, popular candidates, I am convinced I have to do this. Sorry, Wiz.)

Wherever you are, welcome. Call me X, a member of the U4Prez community, and once and for all, I am laying Olivia, a persona I had been developing for over a decade, to rest. Not to give too much away, but I know some at U4Prez would rather chase your tails over who Olivia really is instead of promote democracy or talk politics, so I will leave this a mystery for the elites to opine. I will say this, I am a male, which means when Copulate was coming onto me a few months ago, he was coming onto a dude. I still have his number, maybe I should test it. Also, when he is musing over whether Olivia takes it up the ass, he was verbally pleasuring himself over a man's hairy butt. Hey, U4Prez, you all decided THIS is what you wanted for conversation, instead of intelligence and integrity, you chose Copulate. Don't blame anyone but yourselves for letting him drag you to the gutter with him.

Instead of going on concerning the birth and development of Olivia, or any sort of apologies for creating her and making her an apparently believable hoax, let me jump right into it with bullet points.

For instance, I am terminating Olivia, not because she was found out, but because maintaining her as a viable entity is taking much of my time and energy. There are always individuals who suspected she was a fraud, but over time I’ve learned all sorts of Jedi mind tricks to make such individuals fade in their desire to pursue the matter further. My own persistence kept her going, and as such I’ve learned anyone who suspected her to be false better have more than a suspicion, or else I would run them around in circles. At U4Prez, I have every reason to believe I could have maintained Olivia indefinitely, no matter the amount of heat taken, even if the villagers had taken up torches and pitchforks and stormed the countryside.

Why now? Because I let it slip. Going back and forth from Olivia to X, I ended up with X’s profile and Olivia speaking. It was a slip certainly someone must have picked up, though at this writing it appears no one did. Maybe the slip was accidental, but I’m more inclined to believe it was subconscious, that I slipped in order to force myself into this. Perhaps this was my subconscience’s was of telling me, it’s time to end this. So I ended up sabotaging her, hence sabotaging X, my own very real campaign based on myself. By destroying them both, it takes me away from U4Prez altogether, neat and clean, snip snip, it’s done.

In other words, this is my choice. It’s not because anyone found me out, no one cornered me. No one corners Olivia. She may have her haters, but as I said, she fights the good fight. Any criticism brought up is nothing we haven’t heard in the past. As much as I want to stick around and continue to fight the good fight, even with Demo’s latest proposal, I’m not falling for it. This fight was already fought, Copulate lost, and goading me into more of it is proof that they are losers who would rather use the U4Prez world as their ‘hood, extending fights they lost a long time ago because apparently that’s all U4Prez is to them. If that’s all this is to you guys, go for it. Even as a whore and a self-exposed hoax, Olivia has more integrity than that.

Demo made an ultimatum to Olivia last night, to confront Copulate about something he chickened out of twice previously. I was starting to set up a show on BlogTalkRadio, and I would read all this out loud, and send Olivia out with a bang. I woke up this morning, thinking how a show would go. But I realized, this is all pretty stupid. Copulate is too chickenshit to stand up to me, so he gets Demo to do it? Apparently Olivia is somehow a coward because she stood up to Copulate, watch him vacillate all over himself TWICE, and she has enough sense to let him just twist in the wind? Copulate had his chance, and like a punk who gets his ass handed to him, he jumps up after the fact and starts talking shit again. Anyone who supports him, quite frankly, is condoning this kind of behavior and is an accomplice. I mean this. The best way to shut Copulate up is to withdraw your support. Judging by his rating, it’s apparent the U4Prez community would rather vote for a shittalking backstabber than for someone of quality, someone with no virtue except being obnoxious instead of someone with integrity, someone who can debates like a freeper in the worst sense than someone who debates with professionalism. There are 800 Republicans on the board, and U4Prez thinks he’s one of the best? Maybe Olivia picked a good time to jump off the wagon, if THIS is their concept of a solid candidate.

This is what would have happened. Olivia would have blown them off, per usual. Copulate, with renewed keyboard courage, would have talked shit, because that’s all he has to offer, everyone who knows that’s all he does will have said, yeah, whatever, and life would have resumed, Olivia unscathed. Olivia has dealt with nine months of negativity, what's a few days more?

And after I dismantled Demo, Copulate, and the latest swarm of thugs, what’s next? There’s always going to be a new set of goons. Last year it was the Hard Right. Now it’s this nameless gang of thugs, I was going to call them the Saggy Middle in honor of BigDaddy. In a couple of months, I take on a new gang, and another one, always victorious, always at the top of the hill, but this game takes a lot of time and energy I no longer have the ability to maintain. Lord knows I want to, but I am pulling this plug and sending Olivia to her death, because, at the end of the day, it’s all dust in the wind. I feel for the next candidate they try to burn in effigy. But I have to do this. As entertaining it is to watch a prostitute run circles around the U4Prez elite, this has to stop, with Olivia on top, once and for all, no more fecal matter slung, no more endless extensions of an argument that was stupid in the first place. If the candidates at U4Prez can’t look at the record for themselves, there’s not much more anyone could do, vocal or otherwise.

The hope was actually to dissolve Olivia, and by the time she faded, X would be up and running and with a degree of gravitas. It was working—within a week X was getting into conversations and debates and even calling in on talk shows. I was thinking about putting together my own show, do a few videos, and pretty much have X in a great position to take over when Olivia’s plug was pulled.

Oh, well.

Originally, I actually wanted to leave in August for good, when you all watched Olivia flame out. When that happened, and I presented Kiss & Tell, I was convinced, after two or three angry posts, I would be ignored, and that would be that. I had no idea Eric Gurr would be scolded by his corporate masters, that the “Hard Right” would buckle and break up and become dust, that the blog would become such a part of U4Prez, and that Olivia would gain just as large a status being a disgruntled bitch as a candidate.

Again, I pulled the plug in September, thinking I would never come back, and I stayed away from the place, thinking six weeks of cold turkey would cure me. But I peeked back in, guilty of curiosity, and before I knew it, Olivia was back in, with apparently only BigDaddy giving her a hard time. Faustus won the presidency, but I thoroughly believe, had Olivia come back two weeks before, putting together a strenuous and vocal campaign, she would have won as a write-in. Or at least better than Musicman.

At U4Prez I realized two things. First, Olivia was taken seriously, and though I could keep the charade up for as long as I wanted to, the fact that she was so welcome therein was shocking. And second, there were limits to what she could do, even though she made every effort to overcome those limits. The fact that a candidate who never spoke a word could create such bedlam at a place where the spoken word was becoming more and more important truly surprised me. I’m sure I could have found someone to play Olivia’s voice, and thereby keeping the hoax going. But there was never a need for Olivia to be heard. Through today, there is still no need for Olivia to be audibly heard in order for her to have merit.

The slip, whether anyone caught it or not, is evidence that I need to end this, this is ridiculous. I probably could have glossed over it, I don’t know who noticed, but I did, and that was enough.

The smartest candidate ever at U4Prez was Catbus, not just because he is a liberal genius who truly cared about people, and not because he put conservatives to shame with fact instead of conjecture, but because he knew how engrossing this is. To put up with the abuse any liberal takes from conservatives on a message board is bad enough, especially when you don’t make a dime from it. But to get so deep into it that it consumes you, that’s something else. After a couple months, he realized it was sucking his time up, so he left, a quick paragraph on his profile, and never came back.

I’m not going to sit here and say GOTCHA. Every one bought her. I know BigDaddy and Copulate and many others are going to say they were onto this all along. But all of you bought the hoax, every one of you. There may be one or two who suspected here and there, but no great push was made to ever expose the hoax.

As much as some might want me to apologize, quite frankly, the only one I should apologize to is TheWiz. For the most part, Olivia was met with a great deal of respect from many, but more than any other candidate, Olivia absorbed a lot of abuse, and I defy anyone to name me a candidate who took as much as her. From day one she was scorned for her profession by such paragons of virtue as Hawk. Her “honesty” concerning abortion, something you don’t ever see on a board like this, was met with the kind of stone-throwing that would make a right-to-lifer picketing a Planned Parenthood proud. Anything she revealed about herself was used against her. More than any other candidate, what she allegedly did off U4Prez was made front-page news here, and not all of it was to her liking. What other candidate here had her MySpace rummaged for quotes? What other candidate had nearly TWENTY negative videos made about her? What other candidate received sexual slurs like she did? You all said things to her you know damn well you would never say in public, I guess the keyboard courage was running high with you all. I am so thoroughly impressed with just how crude, annoying, disrespectful, and downright thuggish many of you can be. I listened sometimes to the talk shows, for as much trash talk you throw around therein, you all are downright gentlemanly there compared to the boards at U4Prez.

Before you start with, we never did that, well, yes, you did. You, collectively. There were many individuals who were kind and intelligent and even professional. But there were many more who would say the meanest fucking things they could think of, and they would say them to her, I can only fathom why. Keyboard courage, I guess. As the internet allows me to create an identity out of the ether, so it also allows others to let their inhibitions run wild. Freud and Jung would have a field day on a message board.

Olivia is no victim, hell no. She gave far better than she got. She never started an argument, but she finished them all. She kicked ass and took names. She put herself on the line a lot, and in most cases she was chastised for it in the present, but in time many saw what she was trying to do. She forced you to have an opinion of her, and from my point of view, Olivia was applauded just as much as she was demonized.

There were a few of you she would considered friend, and I welcomed the chance to phase Olivia out and install X and get you to know me instead of her. It’s far easier to befriend someone who looks like Olivia. No one claims to be superficial until a pretty face comes along. It was strange to have kt2020 greet X as a newbie, when Olivia had known her since March. Some admitted having crushes on Olivia, and it was strange talking to them, knowing this. In my warped mind, Olivia and I are separate people, so the pronoun I gets bandied around a lot in my head. For those who respected Olivia, I was very jealous and wanted to be respected just as easily.

How much of me is in Olivia? My belief that democracy is more than just counting votes is part. The idea that American politics had gotten adolescent and that partisan politics borders the absurd, that’s something we shared. The sense of activism, Olivia’s starting petitions and organizations and blogs and the Constitution, that’s something I wish I could do more often, and I’m jealous that she did. Disappointment that more people weren’t as eager to participate in anything other than partisan bickering. The belief that one person indeed could make a difference. That U4Prez is a microcosm of American democracy. These are all things Olivia stood for, in her words and deeds, that come from my own heart. In time, X would have taken this mantle over, but since both are dead, we mourn instead of continue.

I still maintain that U4Prez was a microcosm for American democracy. Was. I believe too many candidates really bought into the bad argument that Eric Gurr’s precious rights of ownership were being taken away by the candidates, and truly, there is a mechanism for producing such change. That change is the implementation of the kind of democracy liberals have praised and conservatives have railed against for years. By applying pressure to Gurr in his wallet, the candidates could—and still can—truly instill change within U4Prez. This is his baby, his million-dollar idea, but it’s like a football game, people come either to play or to watch those playing, no one comes to see the referees, or in this case, the moderators. The candidates were always the attraction, and if enough key candidates quit and encouraged others to do the same, U4Prez would slowly die. Going back to the bad business argument many made, you can have your little business, but if you have no customers because you insist on selling crap and refuse to listen to them when they complain, why bother?

U4Prez could have championed American democracy. Instead, it is a haven for the very worst American politics has to offer.

Eric Gurr knew this all along, that a few candidates were more important than others. Olivia was perfect in feeding this belief in him. Beautiful, cheeky, from a dark background, yet articulate, bright, and with a seemingly firm grasp on politics, she was his wet dream, figuratively speaking (I have to put a disclaimer like "figuratively speaking" in there, because BigDaddy doesn't know what it means to be tongue-in-cheek. You listen to him, you may actually think I said Gurr and Kempite were on a couch somewhere). Using Jedi mindtricks, I was able to keep him believing in Olivia, even when she wouldn’t return his calls. Yes, he did give his number, and regardless of his motives, it was to promote her over the rest.

As much as I believe the microcosm theory, I don’t know if I truly learned anything about American politics. If U4Prez is a parallel to the real thing, then we’re fucked as a country. Faustus put it best, in his 17-plus years in politics, U4Prez was the most brutal experience of his career. U4Prez is full of petty people who would love to be taken seriously, and they found a forum which rewards the lowest common denominator. The loser with nothing better to do, who spends 20 hours a day on that site, gets further than someone who is thoughtful and engaging and has things like a family and a job to attend to. Unless you are part of the entrenched elite, there is little chance of you getting anywhere. And unless you are a backstabbing shittalker, don’t expect to be noticed.

If this is a microcosm, then this much is true about American politics. It is far easier to be loyal to something than to be honest about it. Candidates don’t want their leaders to be honest, they merely want their side to win. Voters would rather be with a winner than vote for the best candidate possible. The left and the right not only need to find common ground, they can. The real threat to American politics does not come from the left or the right, but from those who would drive wedges between the two in the name of partisan allegiance. All candidates, real or simulated, talk in soundbites and talking points, not facts. To conservatives, the world began in 1970; to liberals, in 1932.

As to U4Prez itself, it’s a million-dollar idea run by an apathetic idiot. Gurr has no idea what kind of fortune has been plopped in his lap. Instead of trying to cash in as soon as possible, as he did last year, he needs to perfect his product. He had barely a thousand profiles last year when he started talking about reality TV. He needs to work on the step ahead of him before he starts the next. And he needs to LISTEN to those who are in the system. Any good businessman listens to his customers, and one would consider the rather childish claim many made concerning the Constitution, that it’s Eric’s toy and we should butt out, bad business.

Don’t let U4Prez turn into an elitist site. It’s already very cliquish, and many own up to this. You who have been there for a while, you have no idea the harm you’re doing to the place. You have already chased off probably hundreds of candidates who saw Copulate’s antics, or Olivia’s responses, or BigDaddy’s thuggish exploits, or the Hard Right’s gang politics, and said to themselves, this is not worth the aggravation.

Copulate is just cruel, and I started pushing Olivia away from him ever since the Hedrick thing, because he was a bastard and had nothing to offer except being a bastard. BigDaddy is actually an intelligent candidate, as I’ve heard him on the talk shows, he’s thoughtful and much more civilized. He doesn’t translate it very well to a message board, and that’s his biggest problem. But since the U4Prez world has expanded to include things like blogs and talk shows and videos, he fits in better. Olivia was too proud to ever let up on him. Me, I think he needs to stop playing GOTCHA games just to do it, because if he himself just opened up and stopped the bullshit, he could be a real contender. Instead, he is a clown, mostly because he doesn’t take himself serious enough.

U4Prez has some real problems. Copulate claims to have 41 profiles, which is more than 1% of all profiles ever created, and Gurr doesn’t lift a finger? There are fraudulent candidates left and right, everyone knows it, and those who have them don’t deny having them. The elite candidates are currently benefiting from a system that produces the same schedule every week, OF COURSE they’re going to defend it, they are benefiting from it. Healthy skepticism always takes a back seat to personal privilege. Change can only knock them off their cushy pedestals. It’s oligarchy.

I was thinking about exposing every dirty secret I knew, but that’s spite, and Olivia isn’t leaving because she was thrown out. There’s no reason to be angry. It was a slip. There is no resentment on our part, despite the very graphic things she dealt with. There is no one left to GET. No one ever GOT Olivia in any GOTCHA, although some will try to say otherwise, don’t believe them. It’s a trick. No one made me quit. I slipped, I did it, I am quitting because of my own doing.

Here are a few holes for the filling, though:

Chelsea was Smashey.

Bluproject and Olivia made up, and she hasn’t talked to him since.

Kempite, just before she left in August, apologized to Olivia, and it sounded more like a deathbed confession than an apology. That was when he and Copulate were at it over a PM concerning him having AIDS. He said he loved Olivia, to which she replied, in typical Olivia fashion, thanks, but you’re still a jerk.

Olivia was never any other candidate, despite the many conspiracy theories that circulated. She was not White Rose. She was not TheWiz. She did have an umbrella of profiles that everyone knew about, like the Antipartisan Pledge and the Women’s Leagues, but in terms of parading around in a profile disguise, no, Olivia never did that, and no, I didn’t, either. Actually, I take that back, I ran the Archie B. profile, which several candidates already know, just as they must know other celebrity profiles are false. Anyway, the point is, there are no surprises in this regard.

I truly believed the fix was in, and the fact that Kiss & Tell took off as it did, and that people reacted and moved in ways, was evidence there was something fishy going on.

If the Constitution failed, it would have been alright by me. This is democracy. U4Prez, not U4Copulate or U4Olivia. However, had more shenanigans taken place like last year (and this week’s runoff schedule certainly doesn’t help matters, being recycled from last week’s list), I would have led a revolt. Several candidates quit U4Prez in August because they had enough of the place and followed my lead. Had we all returned to the same crap, I would have become to this democracy what Gandhi was to India—a nonviolent pain in the ass. Don’t ever underestimate the power one single person has in a civilized society. I would have organized boycotts, walk-outs, or mass resignations. And they would have worked, because unlike those who strictly believe a business is a piece of property that’s apparently fixed and unmoving, Gurr knows a business is much more, and it needs the energy of users to keep it going. No, no one had a gun to make the moderators do anything, but we certainly could lay a case where it would be in their best interest to do so. Olivia said it before, if Gurr wants a site with just BigDaddy, Copulate, and a bunch of newbies quitting, keep picking mediocrity over sanity. Right now, there is little mobility between the newbies and the elite, and there are NO middle classes therein. That makes U4Prez ripe to become a true oligarchy, or worse. Gurr is parading democracy as a commodity at U4Prez, but his apathy is letting it become a wasteland for the few. The Constitution may be a lot of things, but it was an expression of democratic distillations. I wish it was seen as more than a sandcastle for a couple of thugs to kick over.

But, life is what you make of it, right? If you want U4Prez to be a vibrant society, it will be that way. If you want it to be a band of thugs, like it was in 2007, keep doing what you’re doing. Those who thought they were defending Gurr’s property rights, I feel, are going to kill U4Prez in the long run.

Wiz, you are going to take the a lot of heat for this, and I am very sorry for doing this to you. Everyone else could take or leave Olivia, but you were her fiercest defender, her most loyal combatant, and her best friend at U4Prez. I wish there were something I could say that could keep the dogs off of you, but there isn’t. I hope they show a little compassion and realize they were duped just as you were, and in that, it won’t be so bad. Reality, though, tells my otherwise. Take this any way you wish, but at U4Prez, there was not a more honest soul, a more genuine candidate, than you. You and Olivia brought U4Prez to its knees, you made all the big boys here wet their pants, and you had fun doing it, not through cruelty like Copulate or bloviating like BigDaddy or shaking babies and kissing hands like Faustus or trying to be perfect like Kempite. You were your own man, and as far as I can tell, you are the only truly unique candidate there. Everyone else is a copy of an archetype. Wiz is the everyman, tired, drunk, wanting to shout down the powers that be but never quite doing it, finding a way to stick it to them without being a jerk about it. I wish Olivia could call you, but she can’t. And I am very sorry for that. A lot of people loved Olivia and will be disappointed, but you were more, and I’m sorry Olivia couldn’t give you more than she did. More than anyone else, you deserved a voice to go along with your commitment to her. Not Copulate, not Al, not Bluproject, not Erock, not any of the many who loved her and who she called friend. You were Olivia’s best friend. Singularly. And to you alone, I apologize. I’m so sorry.

I will not be back to U4Prez, I might just peek in to see who is doing what, but I won’t participate, so you need not worry if that new candidate who has good grammar and a slight temper is really Olivia. Depending on your point of view, one of U4Prez’s shining lights or biggest assholes is now gone. I know she had an impact. You can’t tell me otherwise. After a lot of shit talk about her, she will fade and die. This blog will be terminated before January 1, her MySpace is already dismantled, as is her U4Prez profile. Her email will remain. This is closure for me, something I didn’t give Olivia in the past. This article is a good catharsis, to get the last of her out of me. I am sure you think the absolute worst of me, and that’s fine, I didn’t give you much of a chance to get to know me, so I refuse to take much of the criticism personally. I’m sure I’m considered little more than a virtual-reality drag queen at this point. Whatever. I do hope, though, that Olivia is remembered for what she brought to the U4Prez world, truly, of all her incarnations, this was her finest hour.

Love, Olivia & X. XXX

The More Things Change...

2007-12-02T10:07:00.001-08:00

I thought the U4Prez Constitution was unnecessary, because the new servers and software and fuzzy dice and everything else Eric Gurr shelled out $25K for was supposed to be the panacea to solve each and every problem we candidates ever raised a stink over. Never another problem with voting or results or oversight or anything we were all complaining about all year long. I vividly remember, just last week, people coming up to me and saying the new wizardry would take care of all the little things I was getting so pissy over.

Why, then, did I wake up this morning, and the run-off schedule is virtually identical to the one from last week?

I shit you not. It's right there on the homepage for all to see. Compare it to last week's schedule.

Here are the only differences between the two. You ready? Tuesday, it's Polakoff instead of TheWiz running against Icababe, and Faust instead of Sparks420 against Lucky on Wednesday.

That's it!

Now, some would say, Olivia, it's a statistical anomly, a coincidence. Let's talk about this "coincidence".

Ten of the twelve candidates are the same from last week to this. TEN OF TWELVE. 83% of the candidates get a redo. All through last year, I think I was up in a run-off, in primaries or otherwise, three times in five months. That was with old-fashioned moderator bullshit. Now that they have the software to really fuck things up, they can no shuttle in virtually the exact same candidates every single week. To hell with the 2000-odd other candidates who would like a chance to compete. The computer, by whatever means, picked pretty much the exact same list of candidates from the week before.

Wait, there's more. Not only are they pretty much the same candidates, in four of the six pairings, it's the EXACT SAME PAIRING AS LAST WEEK! No flipping, no JKurth vs. KT2020 instead of KT2020 vs. JKurth. No mixing and matching. The exact same matchups, and even freakier, on the exact same days of the week! Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, you're voting for the same candidates in the same order.

Since when did Election Day become Groundhog Day?

In the past, if something like this happened, favoritism would be screeched from the rooftops. Or at least I would screech it, it's become apparent that many candidates accept apathy and incompetence as a way of life at U4Prez. I might even say a fix was in. I may yet. But not toay. Today, since everyone has been touting the infallibility of the new software, I'll simply say you've all put your faith in the wrong god. You wanted something that would solve all our problems, and apparently it's just created another problem.

Olivia, what's your problem, if you don't like it here, why don't you just leave? I just might. I came back, partly in the hopes that the new server, the new look, the new $25,000 wonder, was indeed an attempt to solve the very things that plagued U4Prez all last year. I was impressed by its new style, and I'm figuring it out slowly but surely, and I'm sure many looking to manipulate the new system are slowly but surely doing their thing. But if I came back, for THIS, for the love of Christ, please tell me what's changed.

I expect the moderators will trot out the same tired deadpan explanation, that they're working the kinks out, that it's something we need to be patient with. Haven't we heard this kind of thing since U4Prez started? Where is the evidence there's a new sense of urgency in Eric Fucking Gurr?

Isn't this evidence that the Constitution, still in the drafting process and slowing down for the moderators to catch up, has merit? Unless you accept mediocrity on a daily basis, why does one simply let the moderators off the hook for their own ineptitude? Instead of it being their mistake, it's now their $25,000 mistake.

Olivia, it's Gurr's site, it's his business. I'm not faulting the man for trying, he probably spent the rest of his mother's mortgage on this new contraption, I'm sure he's shitting bricks. Unlike those who apathetically say Gurr will solve his own problems and Olivia Shut Up, Gurr himself has all his eggs, not only in U4Prez, but this wondermachine that was supposed to take all the worry out of picking candidates for runoffs and elections and ensuring their legitimacy.

When last week's run-off schedule is basically regurgitated and called this week's schedule, I balk at the idea of legitimacy.

But hey, that's what you guys, you who attacked the Constitution the hardest, this is apparently what you want, another year of THIS.

And it's especially strange, the two yutzes who yelled the loudest and blew the most smoke up everyone collective ass--BigDaddy and Copulate--seem to benefit from there being no Constitution, no oversight, no candidate regulation. Having lost last week, it seems they get a chance the very next week to try it all over again. I wouldn't say it's a fix, and I say this because you two are expecting me to say as much. Ten candidates benefit from a fix? All I'm saying concerning you two blowhards is, you sure did get a gimme, I would thank my lucky stars and whatever golden calf I prayed to and slink away as quietly as you could. You are benefitting from Gurr's mediocrity, as expensive as the pricetag on that mediocrity now is. For $25,000, you guys who want things to stay exactly as they are, and for all to have faith in a box that will apparently just pick the same candidates over and over, you better be on your knees, thanking Gurr for his incompetence.

And before you two start on the OLIVIA IS A MAN rant, mind you, whenever someone stands up to you two, you start in with adhominems, with dodging, with deflection, and with anything else you have to try to take the spotlight off of you. You both scurried to the shadows like rats when I confronted you both on some very vulgar things you said about me, on the air, on Thanksgiving Eve, on Friday Night Fights, at around the 89-minute mark. When Faustus was putting the Constitution grievance concerning the candidates somehow seizing Gurr's private property to rest, BigDaddy starts questioning the validity of Faustus's presidency, making insinuations of fraud. It's called deflection, and it's a sign of surrender when one is in over his head in an argument.

You two are wrong on everything else, why wouldn't you also be wrong about this?

Now, would a Constitution have solved this? I don't know, it's still in the drafting stage. It's whatever we would make of it. Would a Constitution have given the candidates a little more access to the run-off process? Possibly. I don't know. What I do know is, after all these months of putting up with this, it seems the more things change, the more they stay the same. The definition of stupidity is doing something over and over again and expecting a different result. For Gurr and the moderators to say over and over and over again they have the answer, yet some new fuck-up occurs as soon as we turn around, at some point we candidates need to use our own power to force a change. If not with peer pressure, then with boycotts. If not with the ballot, then with nonviolent disobedience. If not with petitions, then with resignations.

The only defense for these shenanigans is that the ten who are back earned their spots. I peek in, I'm not sure what great strides MatthewJ made to secure another spot, same day of the week, against Erock yet again. Other than talking trash about people on a talk show, I fail to see how Copulate, Demo, and BigDaddy did anything to further the U4Prez cause. I certainly don't buy that the new crop of candidates is so incredibly weak that it's impossible to break the elite's hold on the run-offs. What I'm more likely to believe is, if we buy the argument that the ten earned it, everyone else did not, and there is no room for someone improving themselves if the elite have taken up all the spots and can keep themselves there indefinitely. I don't buy the idea that there are only ten candidates making such sufficient strides as to give them a do-over, and 2000-odd candidates have no idea what they're doing.

Despite the belief that Gurr could turn this place into a porn site if he merely wanted to cash in, Gurr knows he has a million-dollar idea, and now is not the time for his newest trinket to go berzerk. More than anyone, I am addicted to this place and want it to succeed. I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm tired of always doubting the moderators and having little faith in Gurr to do the right thing. U4Prez is turning int a game of Whack-A-Mole, you push the mole down one hole, he pops up in another, and you chase to that hole, he pops up in another.

I, for one, will not vote this week. And I strongly encourage every candidate who feels the same with me to not vote for any of the run-off candidates this week, not so much in protest of mediocrity, but because we already voted for these ten. We've been there, we've done that. There has not been enough significant change in U4Prez for anyone to think the outcome between Austin08 and Copulate will be any different.

The only way the incompetence of Eric Gurr can continue to rear its ugly head is if we candidates continue to complain at best and do nothing at worst.

I still support the Constitution, and this is evidence to me that the moderators, left up to themselves, can't screw in a lightbulb, no matter how expensive the devices are that they buy to make it so. With or without it, I will always champion the candidates and their ability to create change through their own determination. THAT'S what democracy is all about.

Memo to Demo: Drop Cop and Roll!

2007-11-30T16:07:00.000-08:00

Dear Demo,

The other night, you explained to me, on the U4Prez boards, how you've come to the realization that, somehow, BigDaddy and Copulate are your friends. And while I respect you as a person and as a fellow candidate here, I do have to question your loyalty. I have to. I can't let this go whatsoever. We all know how you ROLL, but I would hope that doesn't, for whatever reason, make you set aside things like integrity.

I jumped on IronLady long, hard, and frequent in her blind loyalty to her mates on the Hard Right, and I would be a hypocrite if I didn't jump on your with the same level of honesty.

If you haven't heard the comment, let me tell you exactly where to find it, so you can no longer pledge ignorance on the subject. On the Thanksgiving Eve edition of Friday Night Fights, right around the 88-minute point and for about three minutes thereafter, I encourage you to listen. On it, you will find your two best buddies making the kind of comments that would make any woman cringe; the fact that Copulate was my oldest friend--what's this "friend" thing anyway, are we in MySpace--and my partner in crime sort of separates his words from BigDaddy's.

Now, I realize Friday Night Fights are akin to when work buddies go to the bar after a long day of work, and they let their hair down, have way too many, and talk all the shit they wish they could get away with at work. I get the concept. I know how you ROLL. The difference between FNF and the bar is, the Internet goes everywhere. At the bar, you just piss off the people around you, and maybe you get thrown out. On the Internet, the entire world could be listening in, and there's no volume control.

Frankly, I could give two shits. If that's how you like to ROLL, by talking shit about people behind their backs, that's your business. If that's the kind of "friends" you honor, more power to you.

Thanksgiving Eve was last Wednesday. On Saturday, a candidate I don't normally talk to comes up to me and tells me I was talked about on the show. Which is nothing new. Kempite and Mduminiak couldn't keep me out of their mouths. Whatever's left of BigDaddy's ass after I get done with him, he hobbles onto a stool and gets on a show and talks shit all night. No sweat, happens all the time, I told this candidate it's just part of being Olivia.

I didn't expect my oldest friend to be saying such gems as:

"She's real, she's a great human being, and if you've got a spare thousand bucks..."

For someone who was all over Kempite for calling me hooker, this coming out of Copulate's mouth, no matter how drunk at the time, was a surprise. I expect that from a lot of people, making my profession a subject in the attempt to silence me, hoping the mere mention of it would turn me into a pariah. I expect that from those that either don't know me or act holier-than-thou. I expect that from those who have nothing else in their arsenal. I didn't expect that from my formerly oldest friend.

When BigDaddy declares Copulate the candidate the most obsessed with all things Olivia, your buddy Copulate replies with, "I'm a sick bastard in that I think she would do anal."

Since your best friend brought it up, and since that's now the biggest question at U4Prez, let me explain it to you, Copulate, and anyone else who felt it funny to take it to this level. Yes, I do anal, and I enjoy it immensely. Anal sex is an acquired taste, sort of like beer, you think it tastes like piss, but the more you drink it, the better it tastes. I cum rather intensely from a good hard fuck in the ass by someone who knows what they're doing, and the feeling of my pussy spasming in orgasm while my ass is fucked makes me scream! Normally, if all a client wants to do is do me in the ass, I charge $500 for a base fee and $1000 for the act. Most of my clients pay me $2000, and within reason, that covers ANYTHING and EVERYTHING.

Copulate wanted to go to this level, I'm just answering his queries. What else did this paragon of virtue you declare your neverending faith in say in the night in question?

BigDaddy's retort was, "At a thousand bucks, she better!" This, I expect out of Daddy. Daddy is a pig, you know that, I know that, especially he knows that, and would come to my face and say, hell yeah, I'm a pig, what are you going to do about it? I can't stand BigDaddy, he knows it, I know he can't stand me. But I can respect him in that he knows what he is. He knows he is dumb as a box of rocks and has nothing to offer U4Prez except gameplaying and thuggery. He can't even think for himself, he needs Copulate to start talking up the Olivia-is-a-piece-of-ass angle before he starts. He even chuckles at just how far Copulate would go, perhaps wondering why he didn't go there first. Whatever. I can at least respect him for being himself, for standing up for himself, and for never wavering, no matter how stupid he might be.

Copulate: "Exactly! Exactly! I don't care about her MySpace page! I care if she gives it up the ass!" Note the jubilation in his statement, the pride in knowing BigDaddy has gone along with him on this mental journey to Misogynist Paradise. This must all make you proud.

Copulate: "I want it bareback, by the way!" You'll notice, throughout the joyful romp through Olivia's ass, a couple of uneasy silences. KT2020 and Lucky are listening in uneasily, even KT2020 can be heard saying the show has definitely taken a turn for the worse. Some actually acknowledged that Copulate might have gone too far. Not you, Demo, when I talk about it to you, you say you love Copulate because he tells it like it is. In other words, you enjoy this kind of thing, you like people who talk the worst kind of shit behind someone's back.

Again, I didn't hear it, because I don't do the talk shows, that's not how I ROLL. I do anal, Copulate made sure everyone knew how I ROLL. But I don't do talk shows. Other candidates did, and one told me I was being talked about, like I said. Didn't think it would be so gutteral, I figured it would have been something stupid, and Daddy was bloviating about some thing or other. Didn't know my former oldest friend was talking about me like I was a gutterwhore, like I was nothing more than a fuck to pass around and laugh at while she's used and abused. But then again, he's now YOUR friend, that's how you ROLL.

So I confront Copulate about it when he was bagging on the Constitution because he apparently had nothing better to do. I ask him about it, and he dodges. I asked him again, he starts saying I'm a liar. Again I ask, he demands proof.

Now, you told me you admire him because he tells it like it is, and he doesn't back down. He tells the entire Internet about his desire to know if I take it up the ass--I'm sorry, the exact words are if I "give it up in the ass". Wouldn't want Copulate to cry bloody murder because I misquoted him. He tells the whole Net this, and when I stand up to him, he denies it, he says I'm a liar. Is this what you admire in Copulate, his talking shit and then acting like a coward when confronted?

Wait, there's more. In his longing to bring up the fact that I have not been on a talk show, he brought up a time when, in his usual drunken state, he drilled me to call him. I don't know what his motives are, perhaps he was horny and wanted to get some free phone sex, perhaps he truly wanted my opinion on something, considering how all he can think of is fucking me up the ass without a rubber, I think it's the first one. I never brought up the subject, because it was in a PM, and I never give one up. I don't play GOTCHA games, not like that, at least. But Cop broke the news, so I had nothing holding me back on asking him about THAT as well. First thing out of his mouth, he was drunk and gave me the wrong number. Then he said he never did it. Then he started on about my identity. Again, instead of manning up, he starts backtracking, making stuff up, trying to deflect.

THIS is why I respect BigDaddy and not Copulate. If BigDaddy said those things, he would have come up to me and said, you bet I said it, and I'll say it again. I know this, when he made a wifebeater comment he said it over and over, no matter how loud I screamed about it. I can thoroughly imagine him saying, yeah, Olivia, I tried calling you, but you punked out. Or, yeah, Olivia, I said it about doing you up the ass, you got a problem with it? As crass and vulgar and simply sick some of that might be, at least it's honest, and in that respect I agree with you about the fat hairy slug we all call BigDaddy.

Copulate is a worm. When confronted, he tries to slither out of whatever mess he made for himself. I brought up two prime examples of Cop at his best.

There is a reason why he's my FORMER oldest friend here. For one, I noticed a while back, even though we might have been fighting the good fight at U4Prez side by side, Copulate is cruel when he wants to be, and we all see how relentless he can be. If cruelty is how you ROLL, then Copulate is your kind of guy. When Hedrick played games with a PM that fell into BigDaddy's vile clutches, a day or so after that, several of us were confronting him, including myself and BigDaddy. JohnnyMars made the comment about us dogpiling him, and I realized we were doing the very thing we always accused the now-defunct Hard Right of doing, so I pulled back, as did the rest of us. Not Copulate. He continued to bear down on Hedrick about the PM, really letting him have it. As much as I wished he would let up, Cop continued, loud, hard, fast, relentlessly, I thought he was being hard on Hedrick unnecessarily. Finally, right in front of everyone, I yelled, COP, SHUT THE FUCK UP! It took me saying it like that again before he finally did. Sometimes doing the right thing trumps loyalty--that might seem strange to you, Demo, but it does.

Ever since, I think we'd been moving apart from one another. When he cracked (sorry, I know all the anal talk) the case on Kempite's vote manipulation, he alerted me, and I made sure it got onto this blog, so everyone would quickly know.

Yes, he emailed me once when I was away this October, and I replied. I am fascinated how he rubs that in Wiz's nose, how petty he can be when he wants to be. Is that how you like to ROLL as well, finding a sensitive spot in someone and digging into it relentlessly? Would it have made you smile if Copulate got Wiz, or anyone else, to cry? Kidding is one thing, but come on, Copulate goes well beyond kidding. Cop is cruel.

And cruelty is apparently how Demo likes to ROLL.

The last candidate I really laid into this was IronLady, who would turn one blind eye after another. Wouldn't matter what her little friends at the Hard Right did, so long as they were conservative and letting her into their clique, it was all good. I said right from the start, I respect you, and you can dance a drunken jig with BigDaddy and Copulate until you pass out in a naked pile on the floor.

Just don't give me any lines about being friends with Copulate because he stands up and tells it like it is. Copulate says a lot of mean things, and when confronted on it, he tries to weasel out of it. I hate BigDaddy's guts, but I respect how he would do the same thing and dare me to do something about it. Copulate, however, is the opposite.

I can't do this anymore concerning Copulate, watching him twist people like Lucky, taking his words and making them into something they aren't. I know the whole babykiller thing with Lucky was complete bullshit when I saw it, because Copulate has defended me when I said something similar. In fact, I've made much more harsh remarks concerning the military in the past, and I was defended by him. I saw Lucky's remarks, and I saw how grossly Cop took them out of context.

This is the game Copulate plays, and for a while it was cute. Back in July, when he was trying to dismantle the Republican Steering Committee, it was cute, because it was part of the battle between all that is good and the Hard Right. Mduminiak and his Committee tried to play it off, but Copulate succeeded in splintering the Republicans, apparently because he can, and for no other reason.

Shortly thereafter was the Hedrick incident, and that's where I started to get off the Copulate bandwagon, at least in spirit.

Since I've been back, forget it. I come back, and the first thing I see out of him is distorting Lucky's comment, apparently because he thinks there's enough dumbasses at U4Prez who will believe him.

Demo, you've seen Copulate's act, you see how he likes to ROLL. If that's what you call a friend, that's your business. Just don't be a hypocrite about it. If he's your friend because he's a cruel, relentless asshole, just say it. If you like him because he talks shit, then when cornered, he squirms like the worm he is, just tell me as much. But don't attach any virtue to Copulate that isn't there. Don't make Copulate into something he simply isn't. Even BigDaddy wouldn't assign any credit to Copulate, because for as much of a pig BigDaddy is, he knows Copulate is lower. BigDaddy stands for BigDaddy, at least that's something. At least BigDaddy defends his right to be a pig. Copulate is completely incapable of standing up for himself. He lets his mouth write checks his ass can't cash.

There are things in this world greater than loyalty, and I pity anyone who blindly follows someone in the name of friendship. Friendship is not asskissing. Friendship sometimes means looking your buddy in the eye and saying, you're fucking up, knock it off. Friendship sometimes means walking away when you know he's doing something you find disgusting. I told Copulate in the past, going back months, I wasn't going to play this game with him, him pushing my buttons like he does everyone else, then come back and expect everything to be hunky-dory. I can't be party to this anymore. I told Copulate that his Olivia privileges are terminated, and in response to this, he starts talking about me--let me get the quote right--about if "she gives it up in the ass."

Is THIS what you encourage with your blind loyalty? Should I refer to you in the same vein that I do IronLady, someone without principles, who stands for blind loyalty, no matter how ugly the incident? People applauded me when I went after Kempite calling me a hooker and a crackwhore, why let Copulate off the hook just because he's your friend? Do you want to be known as someone who condones the filthiest of thoughts?

If nothing else, even if it's all just a bad joke gone wrong, what's wrong with asking for an apology? Copulate had a chance to apologize, but instead, he called me a liar. Is that something you applaud?

Yes, I'm pretty upset about this. I've been at U4Prez for a while, getting some pretty good insults slung my way, and I think I've given as good as I've gotten. I was hoping I was transcending the image of prostitute I introduced myself as, and that people were seeing me as a person with a brain and a heart and a desire to put them to good use. Everywhere else in life, people see me as a piece of ass. Try as I might, I was hoping U4Prez was the one place to accept me, to note of my profession, but to see past it and discover what I have to offer. Some of my most notorious rivals here never did what Copulate stooped to. Mduminiak started out making Olivia-is-a-whore videos with Kempite, but Monkeyboy eventually started dealing with me as a candidate with a mind and left the hooker stuff behind. I don't think BigDaddy ever wallowed in the gutter the way Kempite and now Copulate have. Hawk brought it up every time he saw me, never giving me a chance. This one hurts, I really thought Copulate, of all people, was passed the superficial, and saw me as a candidate, a mind. I truly thought my former friendship with him was based on trust and respect. All I ever was to him was a fuck.

Even if, as some say, I'm overly sensitive, if someone is hurt by what you say, what do you do, Demo? Do you keep insulting them, or do you back up a little and reflect on what you said? Do you tell that person they're entirely wrong for feeling hurt, or do you think about it and try to see where they're coming from? Compassion is not a priority among your buddies, I truly hope at least you know what that means.

There is no compassion, or any other virtue, in Cop. Cop is a coward.

And if that's what you look for in a friend, then that's how you ROLL.

U4Prez Federalist #3

2007-11-26T15:29:00.000-08:00

I appreciate the massive support being received upon this Constitution I've been proudly assigned to administer. On this very blog, I initiated the concept of a Constitution, something that would create a structure for ethics, candidates and moderators alike. The enormous support I'm getting from every angle is evidence that I am not alone in the belief that U4Prez has shortcomings, and if we all work as a community, there is nothing we can't achieve together.

I also appreciate the many dissenting voices, and I hope they continue to come. Without differences of opinion, these drafts we write will be shortsighted, and mistakes we as a Constitution Committee make may not be seen until it is too late. Without many different opinions coming to this vortez, yea and nay, this Constitution will not receive the legitimacy it truly needs. The hope is, through all these differing voices, we can put our selfish agendas aside in this endeavor, so far the largest, most complex, and certainly the least partisan project in the short history of U4Prez.

I do know the difference, however, between honest dissent and bullshit. I can tell when a candidate has a true grievance, a problem, a question needing an answer, and someone kicking over a sandcastle just because they can. I have had many spirited debates the last few weeks on this, and I know who is sincere and who isn't.

BigDaddy is not one of the sincere ones. Anytime someone has the audacity to call his editorial a Federalist Paper, and compare those seeking negotiations with the moderators a bunch of Nazis ransacking the Jews, it's time to wonder how rational he is. Typically, when in an argument, the first to pull out the Nazi card is the loser. In Daddy's case, since he pretty much calls anyone who ever opposes him a fascist, a collectivist, a communist, whatever name pops into his head, I fail to see why anyone would take him seriously.

Federalist #1 blown out of the water, let's blow out Federalist #2, this time taking on the name of Orwell. One of the concepts George Orwell talked about was doublethink, the ability to hold opposing views in one's mind can make perfect sense of it. BigDaddy has already contributed to the brainstorming process of this Constitution, having initially made a remark to MejicoJohn concerning a cut-off limit for voting in the general election. I invite the candidates of U4Prez to rummage through the U4Prez Constitution caucus, about three weeks ago, and there's BigDaddy, brainstorming it up for all to see, even though he was against it. Now, some might spring to the word hypocrite in this case, how can a candidate allegedly against the Constitution give ideas for it? Some may call this hypocrisy or a contradiction. Not me. It's just doublethink.

Daddy, do me a favor, if you're going to namedrop, drop a name you're familiar with. Federalist #2 down the crapper.

Having put the biggest blowhard at U4Prez behind us, we can get a little more serious.

This Constitution is not the work of one person, and I have said over and over, a committee is being put together to ferret out the latest draft. The first draft was written largely by Faustus before the general election, with at least myself, Wiz, and Lucky contributing to it. Along with which, two dozen candidates from all parties participated in the brainstorming session a couple weeks ago, and many ideas from that session made its way to the second draft. A committee will be announced in the next day or so to continue the rewrites, and as always, continued criticism is appreciated and definitely needed. I would say, around forty candidates have chimed in on one level or another. For U4Prez, that's a solid handful. Anyone who thinks this is Olivia doing it all is sadly mistaken.

The biggest complaint I hear concerning this Constitution is that it violates the rights of ownership. There's a lot of talk these days about private property and its sanctity, and a whole lot of energy has been spect on the subject. And I agree with every one of you who believe that the candidates have no right to dictate what ownership should do. President Faustus agrees with this as well, that the candidates are toothless to enforce a damn word of this Constitution.

But BigDaddy, and many of the others who oppose this Constitution on the grounds of the private property issue, agree with Faustus and me in that, if we want any sort of changes made at U4Prez, it will only happen through negotiation. This much, I think every candidate who has had to sit and deal with much of the mediocrity the moderators have handed us this year, we can agree upon, that if we want anything to change, it has to be done through negotiation. Even the biggest son of a bitch here, BigDaddy, agrees.

Well then, if we're all in agreement on this, what's the problem?

If the moderators don't want it, it won't happen, plain and simple. There's no way we can put a gun to Eric Gurr's head to enforce anything.

For all the talk about this Constitution being a form of tyranny, not a single candidate has come forth and explained how this Constitution can be enforced without the moderator's approval. No one has shown a single method in which we candidates can wring the server our of the moderator's hands and wrest power away for ourselves. Not one of you who have bellyached about this issue have come up with a plan for the lunatics to overrun the asylum and take it over. And until you do, I consider any talk about forcing anything on the moderators complete shit.

What's more, when I ask for someone to explain to me exactly which rights we will be taking away from the moderators, no one has an answer except me. The only "rights" the Constitution seeks to take away from the moderators is the ability to be lazy and negligent without at least a slap on the wrist. That is, of course, if we first had the ability to unilaterally force anything on the moderators in the first place.

Until I hear a cohesive argument about how we silly candidates are going to ramrod this Constitution down Eric Gurr's throat, I will consider that subject closed. Until someone stands up and tells me exactly how the desire for the moderators to do the job they're fucking paid for in the first place is somehow snatching their rights away, again, I see no merit in pursuing the argument further.

For all the namedropping and hyperbole BigDaddy offers, in the end it's just another rant spewed upon the U4Prez population, another attempt at a GOTCHA. He cares not one whit about Eric Gurr or U4Prez, they could both go to Hell as far as he's concerned. So long as he can get a GOTCHA, that's all he wants. And who better to try to knock down than his old nemesis, Olivia? He's tried to play GOTCHA with me and failed miserably over and over again. This has nothing to do with constitutional conviction for him, don't ever think otherwise. This is personal. He is a bully, I don't think anyone really thinks him to be anything but. He got his ass kicked by a girl for months, he has been exposed to be nothing but a mean fool trying to manipulate U4Prez for his own amusement, and here's Olivia, being loud and proud again, let's knock her and her little project down if we can. He's not doing this out of any principles, because he's proven he wipes his ass with principles. This is a bully trying to get in just one shot, after having the crap beaten out of him time and again, before he is knocked out once and for all.

Perish the thought, but exactly what would these candidates do if Eric Gurr actually thought the Constitution was worthy of consideration? I want you to think about that one, because it goes to the core of why you fight for his private property rights against a Constitution no one has proven will take a single right away, and no one has proven will not take effect without moderator permission. If he is for this, or at least for negotiating with the candidates for the sake of some meaningful changes, would you still be against this project? If Eric approves this, exactly how would we be forcing him to comply? Exactly which rights would we be violating? It's the same Constitution.

Or, if he is intrigued by the idea of this website, allegedly promoting democracy, having its very candidates, its users, pen a set of principles in which all might abide by, would that be what it takes to get you to jump on the bandwagon?

I appreciate dissent, never think I don't. But I will not accept a blanket accusation against a document, still in its larva stage, if you haven't read it. Show me where the great tyranny lies within. BigDaddy writes in generalities and paints with a broad brush, but he never tells you a single article or section that violates the principles he's allegedly championing. He talks about we who are writing this Constitution being Nazis taking property from the Jews, and yet he does not tell us how we will do this, by what means we will snatch power from the helpless moderators and declare ourselves diabolical rulers for life. He and others talk about violating rights, and yet no one can define what rights they are, and offer only generalities, clouds in the sky, wishful thinking on their part. BigDaddy thinks you all are a bunch of dumbshits he can easily sway for his own pleasure, he says so on his own talk show, he's just out there to play his little games. This is just another one, another attempt to GET Olivia.

I have always relied on the intelligence of the U4Prez community to do the right thing. Time has proven to me, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that when push comes to shove, the candidates will stop listening to empty rhetoric, bullying tactics, and meatless sophistry, and make a decision based on intelligence and principle. What I see in the candidates to be ethics and undertanding, BigDaddy will always see as strings he can use to yank you like the puppets he thinks you to be.

If this Constitution fails, either by moderator disinterest or inability to ratify, I will be proud of the work we've done in penning what we did, in raising the issue of U4Prez sovereignty, and in talking seriously about where U4Prez goes from here.

I encourage all candidates to not only continue to show your criticism, your dissent, and your support for this, but to also get involved in the process. As I've said, the early contenders for 2008 will get their start here. It's one thing to come to U4Prez and campaign, but if all you're going to do is bitch about politics, what's the point? This Constitution is a great idea to put yourpolitical abilities to practice, to show yourself to be a real leader. When this Constitution is ratified, we all will be able to point to it with pride and say, we made that. WE made that. Down the road, when we resume our campaigns and start talking about things like principles and leadership, you will be able to smile and say, what others merely talk about at U4Prez, I actually did it. While others were complaining, I stepped up and did something. While others continue to browbeat one another with useless rhetoric, you will tower above them as real candidates, real contenders, and real leaders.

Love, Olivia. XXX

The Second Constitutional Draft is in!

2007-11-22T15:49:00.000-08:00

Just a moment ago, I posted the promised second draft for the U4Prez Constitution. I took the essence of the first draft written by Faustus and Lucky, took as many of the issues we brainstormed a couple weekends ago to heart, and finished this up this morning. I am aware it is not a perfect piece, and some will find loopholes in it that have to be closed, or items that either should be added or deleted. In any case, it is a draft from which to work with, and I am delighted it's done and can now go onto a committee for a critique.

Anyone interested in being in the committee, contact me.

And anyone interested in criticizing without getting involved, I would love to hear and all remarks you have on the subject, good or bad. Mind you, I am more inclined to go through the committee for amending it, but I will take all ideas into consideration.

U4PREZ CONSTITUTION
(Second Draft)

PREAMBLE
It is in the spirit and celebration of America, democracy, and the tradition of American-style politics, that we, candidates and moderators alike, come together to enforce this Constitution for the website U4Prez.com. With this document, we hope to create an experience whereby all candidates can freely conduct their campaigns, secure in the fact that every vote is legitimate, every election is above reproach, every grievance will be handled with the utmost urgency, every system can be easily explained, every notice will be clearly posted, and every alteration made is done in such a way as to minimize confusion, reduce negligence, eliminate apathy, and, most importantly, install faith in whatever changes are deemed necessary to move U4Prez forward.

ARTICLE I (The Moderators)

SECTION I: By definition, a moderator is anyone employed specifically to maintain the server for U4Prez, and is responsible for the upkeep of the website.

SECTION II: The creator of U4Prez, or any other person of like authority, is considered a moderator. The moderators are entitled to name one of their own for the sake of various votes and negotiations.

SECTION III: The moderator must keep all functions pertaining to U4Prez interactivity in working order, or explain in a clear and obvious manner as to why this cannot be done.

SECTION IV: The moderator must maintain lists and pages for all processes within U4Prez in an obvious location. The moderator must also maintain a calendar of upcoming events, schedules, run-offs, and monthly primaries, in an obvious location.

SECTION V: Any changes in processes concerning the interface or server must be explained to the U4Prez population in a clear and concise manner, and it will be posted in an obvious location. This notification should be made before the changes are made, and sufficient time must be allowed between notification and action.

SECTION VI: The moderator will make every effort to adequately satisfy any inquiry made by any candidate pertaining to the functions of the site.

SECTION VII: The moderator will be responsible for carrying out any sentence against any candidate put forth by the Board of Canvassers.

SECTION VIII: The moderator must make available to the Board of Canvassers all necessary materials needed to settle a contested election, upon the demand of the Board, in a timely and urgent manner.

SECTION IX: The moderator reserves the right to suspend any candidate for any reason pertaining to the User Agreement. However, the suspension must be immediately reported to the Board of Canvassers for proper sentencing. The moderator must also make all grievances made by candidates known to the Board in an immediate manner. Although there is officially no penalty of termination at U4Prez, should the moderators feel it necessary to terminate a candidate for violations of the User Agreement, the moderators must submit an explanation to the Board of Canvassers in a timely, clear, and obvious manner.

ARTICLE II (The Candidates)

SECTION I: A candidate is defined as any user at the U4Prez website. Said candidate must not have direct access to the U4Prez server. Validation of email address is prerequisite to any actions within the U4Prez website.

SECTION II: A candidate is free to choose whatever party to belong to, or, if choosing no party affiliation, the candidate can choose to be part of the Independent group. A candidate may change party affiliation at any time, but must give up any responsibilities or primary wins gained in duration with previous party. Candidates may be held responsible for any actions within their chosen party according to their bylaws.

SECTION III: A candidate is free to conduct a campaign of his or her own choosing, provided that no part of said campaign is in violation of the User Agreement or this Constitution.

SECTION IV: A candidate is entitled to consult with a moderator at any time concerning the website itself and to register complaints pertaining to the conduct of other candidates.

SECTION V: A candidate, upon validation, may vote for any candidate or caucus as (s)he wishes. However, the candidate must have been a member of U4Prez no less than twenty days prior to the general election in order to vote therein.

ARTICLE III (The Parties)

SECTION I: A party is any organization seeking to put forth candidates for run-offs, primaries, and general elections.

SECTION II: There are two kinds of parties. Major parties are sanctioned by U4Prez and have met criteria for legitimacy. Such criteria include membership of no less than twenty candidates upon application, a spokesman, and formal recognition of the U4Prez Constitution. Minor parties are groups actively seeking major party status but have not met all criteria.

SECTION III: Upon the ratification of this Constitution, the Republican and Democratic Parties will be recognized as major parties.

SECTION IV: The Independent group will be considered a major party by definition, as it will have the ability to create its own leadership and bylaws. It will also retain all minor parties until they achieve major party status, as well as all candidates not seeking party affiliation. The Independent group must assist minor groups in achieving major party status, regardless of platform, core issues and principles, or placement on the political spectrum.

SECTION V: All powers not specifically delegated to the moderators, the President, or the Board of Canvassers, are hereby delegated to the major parties, the Independent group, or the candidates. No bylaw created by the major parties, however, may violate any part of this Constitution. The major parties have the power to construct their own organization, draft their own laws of conduct, and offer names of candidates for primary competition and the Board of Canvassers.

SECTION VI: The major parties, by their own means, must choose a leader. The party leader serves a three-month term, with term limits to be decided within the party. Terms begin on the tenth day of December, March, June, and September.

SECTION VIII: Each major party must choose three candidates to participate in the Board of Canvassers, and the Independent group must choose two candidates. Each Canvasser will serve a term of one month, the terms of which to be decided within each party.

SECTION IX: No newly-formed major party may compete in the primaries immediately following the granting of major-party status, but may compete the following month.

SECTION X: Each major party, including the Independent group, may offer up to six candidate positions each month for competing in that month’s primary. No candidate in the position of Canvasser may compete in a primary, but will be given first consideration for a position in the primary the month after his term as Canvasser is done.

SECTION XI: A major party may not prevent a candidate from joining the party, nor may it coerce a candidate into leaving the party. However, a major party has the right to install whatever restrictions it wishes to on its members pertaining to primary qualification, Canvasser qualification, or leadership positions.

SECTION XII: A major party may be dissolved if its membership drops below ten candidates, the members formally declare the party void, or if the party leader is found guilty of systematic vote manipulation or of concealing any knowledge of such vote manipulation within the party.

ARTICLE IV (The Election Processes)

SECTION I: The selection of Canvassers and major party leaders will be left to the major parties and the Independent group themselves.

SECTION II: Daily run-offs are at the discretion of the moderators.

SECTION III: Concerning monthly primaries, each major party and the Independent group will receive six slots for candidates to compete against one another. The selection of these candidates will be determined within the major parties and the Independent group themselves. Among these six selections will include any qualified automatic primary bids gained by candidates rewarded for their service with the Board of Canvassers.

SECTION IV: For each monthly primary, per major party and the Independent group, the candidates participating will be engaged in three round of competition. In the first round, the candidates will be paired up in run-off fashion. The four candidates with the highest raw scores will move onto the second round, where the highest-scoring candidate will be paired with candidate #4, and candidate #2 with candidate #3. The winners of these head-to-head pairings will move onto a primary final. The winner of this final pairing wins their party’s primary for that month.

SECTION V: A primary win is the ONLY means by which a candidate is guaranteed to compete in the major party conventions and the general election. Primary wins are non-transferable. A candidate who chooses to switch parties must give up any primary wins from his previous party. A primary win may not be given to another candidate if the recipient quits U4Prez, or, for whatever reason, cannot compete in the conventions and general election. Primary wins confiscated by the Board of Canvassers due to discipline, especially if said discipline comes from the actions of a third-level crime, cannot be returned upon reinstatement of candidate.

SECTION VI: All primary winners will compete in their party’s convention, to be scheduled approximately 3 to 6 weeks prior to the general election. They will follow the same format as the monthly primaries, with candidates competing in run-offs, and the candidates with the four highest raw scores competing in the second round and the final. Candidates with multiple primary wins can only gain one position in the second round. If, for whatever reason, less than four candidates qualify for the second round, the candidate with the highest raw score will receive a “bye”. The winners will represent their given major parties and the Independent group in the general election.

SECTION VII: The general election will take place during the first full week of November, with voting taking place on Wednesday through Friday. Nominees from every qualifying major party and the Independent group will be placed on the ballot.

SECTION VIII: The general election is the only election where write-in campaigns are welcome, and a place for write-ins will be placed in an obvious place within the ballot.

SECTION IX: In the event where no majority is achieved by a single candidate, the three candidates with the highest vote counts will compete in a run-off. At this point, the candidate with the most votes wins and becomes President. During the general election, if a write-in candidate appears to be one of the top three candidates in terms of vote count, that candidate will be allowed in the run-off.

SECTION X: In the case where an election is decided by less than five percent, any candidate who is involved may notify the Board of Canvassers of their intention to challenge the results. A candidate may also notify the Board of Canvassers if they have reason to suspect a third-level crime was committed. In the event where an election is decided by less than two percent, the Board of Canvassers will automatically challenge the results.

SECTION XI: No primary election or general election will be considered valid and legitimate without the Board of Canvassers’ approval.

ARTICLE V (The Office of the Executive)

SECTION I: The President of U4Prez, shall be voted on by the eligible population of U4Prez, as deemed in a predetermined fashion, to serve a one-year term. So long as (s)he is legitimately voted to the position, there is no term limit.

SECTION II: The President is the chief negotiator on behalf of the candidates of U4Prez concerning the moderators. Aside from interface problems, candidates should work with the chief executive concerning matters for moderators where the server, vote processes, and any other systemic issues come up.

SECTION III: The President shall appoint his own staff at his own discretion, within the confines of this Constitution.

SECTION IV: Upon taking office, the President must appoint a Vice President, who is to serve concurrently with the President who appointed him. The Vice President can be removed from his office, either by the President alone or through the impeachment process. The Vice President represents the executive in the Board of Canvassers, voting within the Board only to break a tie.

SECTION V: The President shall appoint within his staff at least one candidate with computer expertise.

SECTION VI: The President may not serve in any other office during his term.

SECTION VII: The President, at the commencement of major party conventions, will be granted an automatic primary win, and must compete with other primary winners within said party for the nomination. The President is exempt from the primary process and will not compete in any election until the party conventions. No other formally sitting President has this honor.

ARTICLE VI (The Board of Canvassers)

SECTION I: A Board of Canvassers will be maintained, consisting of three representatives from each major party, two representatives from the Independent group, and the Vice President.

SECTION II: The duties of the Board of Canvassers include election oversight and validation, judging candidates for their conduct and administering consequences accordingly, and voting on other various issues as they arise.

SECTION III: The Vice President shall chair the Board of Canvassers, bringing matters to its attention. The Vice President may only vote within the Board to break a tie.

SECTION IV: Except for the Vice President (who serves at the leisure of the executive), Canvassers serve one-month terms without limits, in accordance to the bylaws of their given parties.

SECTION V: To preserve the integrity of the election process, no Canvasser may run in a primary so long as he is in the position of Canvasser. Upon leaving the position, the former Canvasser will be granted an automatic primary position for the subsequent primary, taking one of the six positions guaranteed to each major party and the Independent group.

SECTION VI: No primary election or general election will be considered valid and legitimate without the Board of Canvassers’ approval.

ARTICLE VII (Justice)

SECTION I: There are three levels of crime within U4Prez. It is incumbent on the Board of Canvasses to conduct an adequate investigation pertaining to any accusations made against any candidate, to categorize said crime, to list any sentence to be carried out, and to consult the moderators concerning enforcement.

SECTION II: The first level of crime pertains to a single episode which violates the User Agreement, either in practice or in spirit. Such events include, but are not limited to, excessive swearing, over-aggressive abuse against another candidate, and posting vulgar or pornographic material on one’s profile. The penalty for such actions will be a suspension of no less than 72 hours for a first offense, with the Board of Canvassers given the right to lengthen the suspension for repeat offenses.

SECTION III: The second level of crime pertains to repeated episodes which violate the User Agreement. Such events include, but are not limited to, spamming and repeated abuses of another candidate, because of their repetitive nature. Also, any candidate who repeatedly commits a first-level offense may be sentenced as a second-level offense, having committed the offense no less than three previous times. The penalty for second-level offenses will be a suspension of no less than one week, with the Board of Canvassers given the right to lengthen the suspension according to the repetition and severity of the offense.

SECTION IV: The third level of crime pertains to tampering and manipulation of any processes having to do with U4Prez servers and software. Such events include, but are not limited to, manipulation of another candidate’s profile, hacking into the U4Prez server, and vote tampering. Since these offenses affect the integrity of the website, they are considered the most severe and should be sentenced accordingly. The penalty for third-level offenses will be a suspension of no less than thirty days, as well as the termination of any responsibilities granted and any primary wins.

SECTION V: If the moderator finds it necessary to immediately suspend a candidate for any reason, the moderator must immediately consult the Board of Canvassers for proper sentencing.

SECTION VI: At the end of a suspension, the candidate in question must apply for reinstatement with the Board of Canvassers. The Board may not deter any candidate from reinstatement and must approve all applications, provided the sentence is completed. No candidate may ask for a reinstatement of primary wins.

SECTION VII: The article concerning justice at U4Prez is limited to conduct as a candidate on the U4Prez website only. No judicial action may be taken against a candidate because of conduct in real life or elsewhere on the Internet. The exception to this rule is any action that leads to a third-level crime.

SECTION VIII: The Board of Canvasser’s has no authority to sentence a candidate to termination. Should the moderators feel it necessary to terminate a candidate for violation of the User Agreement, the Board is entitled to a detailed explanation, and this should be posted in a clear and obvious manner.

SECTION IX: Any violation of this Constitution, which is not rectified in a timely manner, may be considered a second-level crime, with subsequent violations rendering them third-level status.

ARTICLE VIII (Impeachment, Ratification& Amendment Processes)

SECTION I: Any candidate may inquire upon the Board of Canvassers to move to impeach the sitting President and/or Vice President and seek to remove him from office, provided the accused has evidence against him to initiate an investigation of his guilt of a third-level crime. Upon a vote of 2/3 of Canvassers and 2/3 of all major party leaders (including the Independent group), the inquiry shall be put up on petition for the U4Prez population. The petition must collect no less than thirty confirmable candidate signatures within thirty days. If these criteria are met, the President will be removed from office, with all rights, responsibilities, and privileges going to the Vice President, or to whoever the President has previously designated as a successor. If no successor is named, the Board of Canvassers will convene and decide among all major party leaders, naming the new President from among them. If the criteria is not met, another impeachment proceeding may not commence for sixty days thereafter.

SECTION II: Major parties and the Independent group may initiate their own impeachment processes for the removal of their own leadership or Canvassers. The only reason an entity outside the party may remove a leader or Canvasser is in the case of a third-level crime, having been judged by the Board of Canvassers and sentenced accordingly.

SECTION III: This Constitution will take effect upon the unanimous approval of leadership among the Republican and Democratic Parties, as well as the Independent group, as well the President, a spokesman for the moderators, and the signing of no less than thirty candidates not currently in a leadership position.

SECTION IV: Any amendment to this Constitution must be approved by no less than 2/3 of the Board of Canvassers, 2/3 of major party leadership (including the Independent group), the President, and a spokesman for the moderators. Upon this, the amendment will go into affect upon the signing of thirty candidates not in any of the previously mentioned positions at the time of amendment approval. If these criteria are not met within thirty days, the proposed amendment must wait thirty days before commencing the process again from the beginning.

With the assistance of over two dozen U4Prez candidates, I humbly submit this draft for the population of U4Prez to criticize, dissect, re-write, and re-submit.

Second Constitutional Draft composed by Olivia Cortez (aka Olivia2008).
November 22, 2007

Voting for the Best Of U4Prez 2007 Starts Now!

2007-11-18T10:02:00.000-08:00

The election is over, and although I strongly encourage every candidate to take part in creating the U4Prez Constitution (second draft due this coming week), from now until January 1, there's not much going on in terms of campaigning. There's always time to debate and bitch, but in terms of revamping our platforms, of renovating our profiles, of posturing and peering and prying and and getting ourselves in position to contend in 2008, this is the time of year to take a break, recharge our batteries, enjoy the holidays, and just chill.

This is a perfect opportunity to send 2007 off with a bang, to remember the year that was, and back in June, I thought a year-in-review would be a fantastic way to congratulate the candidates that made the effort to get here every day and duke it out. This is where the readers of K&T can give kudos to their favorite candidates, and show them your appreciation for fighting the good fight this year.

Originally, this was going to be a Best & Worst Of, but I got to thinking, there has been a lot of negativity at U4Prez, and it's one thing when it's the heat of battle, and feathers get ruffled. This is limbo, the dead part of the year, this should be a joyous time. We bag on each other all the time, and I'll be the first to admit, I give as good as I get. I started thinking of categories like Biggest Douchebag, Biggest Cunt, and I know I can be opinionated, vicious, even cruel, but that crosses the line, even for me. We have the rest of the year to wallow in our schadenfreude. to put others down, to make one another look bad. Let's have one event, where everyone can participate, something to get everyone talking about last year in a good way, without someone necessarily having to be the goat.

HERE ARE THE RULES
1--The Kiss & Tell Best Of U4Prez Awards 2007 is not sanctioned by U4Prez.com or its creator, Eric Gurr. U4Prez.com is not responsible for any remarks made by Kiss & Tell concerning any candidate. Kiss & Tell is solely responsible for the content of these rewards, and complaints should be registered directly to Olivia, by any means necessary.

2--Consider this a sort of People's Choice Awards, or better yet, voting for Prom King or Most Likely To Succeed in high school. It is designed to celebrate the candidates of U4Prez in a lighthearted way.

3--Any U4Prez candidate who can prove her candidacy is eligible to vote and to be voted for. Votes can be made by sending your vote list to Olivia, either through a comment here at K&T, a comment or private message at U4Prez.com (profile: Olivia2008), email (irresistibleolivia@hotmail.com), or a comment or private message at MySpace (myspace.com/irresistibleolivia). Simply list the categories below, and add the name of the candidate you want to win to that category. Vote for as many categories as you wish. One vote per voter. All votes made privately will remain private, and no identities will be made public if their votes are cast in private.

4--Olivia cannot vote for anything having to do with Olivia or Kiss & Tell. Anything I said and did and made, I cannot vote for. However, if I am the subject of someone else's work, then yes, I can. If my name is mentioned by someone else on their video or talk show, you can't blame me for that one.

5--The deadline for getting your ballot to Olivia is Sunday, December 16, 2007 (and I won't be so cutthroat as to put an exact time).

6--Winners will be announced in the Sunday, December 23, 2007 edition of Kiss & Tell. Consider it my Christmas present to U4Prez!

7--All winners will receive the validation of the U4Prez world. They will be able to puff out their chests for the entire next year and say they were the best at something around here. They will also receive a dumb but cute little avatar as a kind of trophy to paste onto their profiles, or, if they're really proud of it, blow it up to poster size, print it, and paste it on their bedroom walls.

8--In the event of a tie, all candidates in that tie will be declared winners and given awards.

HERE ARE THE CATEGORIES (26 total)
PRESENTATION (11)
Best Avatar
Best Banner
Best Blog
Best Caucus / Organization
Best Jukebox
Best Photoshop Pic
Best Platform
Best Profile
Best Sound Bite
Best Talk Show
Best Video

PERSONALITY (9)
Candidate I’d Most Like to Have a Beer With
Candidate who Made the Biggest Impact
Most Controversial Candidate
Most Creative Candidate
Most Diplomatic Candidate
Most Entertaining Candidate
Most Improved Candidate
Most Intelligent Candidate
Most Professional Candidate

PERFORMANCE (6)
Best Liberal Candidate
Best Conservative Candidate
Best Centrist Candidate
Best Candidate NOT to Win a Primary
Best Leader
Most Likely to Actually Become President of the United States

If you wish to know who I am voting for, I will post my votes in the comments section of this article later today.

You have a month to mull this one over, to argue over it, to think who is deserving.

I will advertize these awards in my own way, but remember, these are OUR awards, voted on by the candidates, for the candidates.

Love, Olivia. XXX

Election Post Mortem

2007-11-14T17:13:00.000-08:00

The election is over, 2007 has mercifully come to an end, and we have someone new we can burn in effigy when times at U4Prez get rough. While Eric Gurr certainly has done his share to garner criticism, the democratic process, however legitimate it might be around here, produced a President.

I congratulate Faustus37, better known to Idahoans as W. Lane Startin, better known to Evie as Daddy, for being the first President chosen by the candidates of U4Prez.

Okay, that’s long enough of a honeymoon. You can officially start ripping on him.

Voting for Faustus for President at U4Prez is sort of like voting for Winnie the Pooh for President of the Hundred Acre Wood. After he won Democratic primary #3, it was evident he was the man to beat. And let’s face it, Independents and Republicans, he was able to accomplish what the rest of us couldn’t—he got his entire party behind him.

While I don’t consider a victory of six to nine votes, depending on who you listen to, a decisive mandate, I do feel Faustus is probably the best choice for U4Prez at this juncture. This place needs someone who can start right away, and he hasn’t screwed around, already putting together a Cabinet and taking an active part of the Constitution we at Kiss & Tell had previously discussed.

Faustus’s win did not come without its share of controversy. Many candidates were screaming foul about how votes were gathered, not just concerning Faustus, but in the other camps as well. Like virtually every other election in U4Prez history, this one will be questioned long after the fact.

All this, you already know. You didn’t come here to read about events you participated in and already know backward and forward. You came to see how I would torture the facts, twist events to fit my warped view of the world, and butcher history for my own delight.

And away I go.

Musicman deserved every one of those 42 votes he got, and not a single one more. Whether my previous comment about how a vote for Music is a vote coming from your rectum had anything to do with his poor showing, I don’t know, but I have no problem taking an inkling of credit for it. Music was the victim of a thoroughly divided GOP, and while Mduminiak did the very noble thing in taking the blame for the Republicans’ pathetic showing in the election, I think he quit about three months too late. Musicman was thrown under the bus for Mduminiak’s ineptitude, much of which has been recorded elsewhere on this blog.

Mduminiak can’t say Olivia didn’t warn him. I was saying as early as July, the Steering Committee was a bad idea, but NOOOOOO, Monkeyboy was going to divide his party, no matter what anyone told him. He installed his own flunkies and more or less turned the entire U4Prez GOP into his personal Liberty Caucus, the same way Kempite put the LC together in the first place: throw in a few moderates and liberals as tokens to make it look broad based, but make absolutely sure the extreme right wins out, by any means necessary.

I know it’s the politically expeditious thing to do, to tell the rest of us all is well, Olivia is just making shit up, but when you have high-profile Republicans like Copulate and HAK beating down the Steering Committee’s door to get in, and lackeys like Goffdale and Friday acting like they actually know something, something’s not quite in sync with reality. The very fact that Mduminiak set up his own buddies in this committee screamed cronyism, and considering the real GOP has been riddled by one awful appointment by Bush after another after another, and we have to watch in awe their complete ineptitude when things like a hurricane drenches New Orleans, I’m not how anyone can think anything but another disaster could occur. Mduminiak remained obstinate, denying the very truth that his party was fracturing; it’s not news that Mduminiak, Kempite and the Hard Right wanted to steer the GOP even further to the right, and they fully expected the slightly more moderate elements of the party, like Copulate and HAK and Efferiss, to follow blindly in partisan loyalty.

This piss poor decision bore its fruit in the Republican Convention and the multiple runoffs. There is a potential for things to turn ugly anytime Copulate gets in the middle of it, and this was no exception. Musicman might have won the nomination, but instead it being a uniting victory, it was a stumbling escape from a war of attrition. Musicman survived instead of conquered, and by the skin of his teeth, by the looks of it.

For his part, Musicman could have done a better job of uniting the party after his “victory”, but instead of picking a running mate that could have done that, he picked his friend, Ghost. At one point this summer, I thought Ghost and Musicman were one and the same, for one always did what the other did, one was the other’s shadow. As much as I can appreciate the loyalty (I said previously I would have picked DonnyWiz to be my VeePee if I were in such a position), considering a GOP in ruins, he could have done better by picking a better mate. This is where thinking only of yourself hurts an entire party. Despite months of Mduminiak’s gross negligence and ignorance of how dangerous that negligence was, Music could have repaired some of the damage done by an egotistical party leader and a brutal convention. Instead, he thought only of himself. Which is why he deserved 42 votes but not 43.

For the Republicans, 2007 proved one thing, and unless they solve this one problem in 2008, the same thing will happen. And that thing is, don’t fuck with Copulate! All throughout the year, Copulate was a thorn in the Hard Right’s side, questioning any sort of authority with his customary variety of caustic sarcasm and relentless nagging. He was a high-profile candidate that no hardcore conservative could stand, and because the self-proclaimed powers of the GOP wanted to go further right, Copulate was deemed an outsider, a nuisance. Next year’s leadership would do itself a favor in keeping Copulate in the loop, if for no other reason but the old adage of keeping your friends close and your enemies closer. Left to his own devices, Copulate will fuck the GOP up again in 2008. Instead of engaging him in constant bickering, instead of letting him turn molehills into mountains, instead of letting minor incidents become front-page news, I strongly encourage you to play nice with him, find a way to include him into your schemes. You definitely want him on your side instead of against you. He is a warrior. Enlist him before you allow him to feel like an outsider. He made more of a difference in determining the president as a one-primary-win candidate than the party leader and the longtime Golden Boy Kempite. If there are any dirty-tricks or rumors of dirty-tricks, he will be all over it and biting hard. The best offense, in this case, is a good defense, and if you can’t beat Copulate, let him join you.

Two of the three major candidates employed late-registering candidates to boost their numbers. There isn’t anything illegal about it, some would even call it ethical. Not me. Among others, I noticed the stream of newbies coming in on the last night of the election. While I can appreciate someone working within the rules to find an advantage, the whole thing just reeks. Many are questioning the validity of this election, which figures, every election has been tainted, why should the big one be any different?

The rosy comments Gurr put on the homepage concerning this last year being a banner year, I hope no one bought that trash. Just like Friday and Goffdale trying to convince everyone Olivia is full of shit and the GOP is just fine, Gurr has no choice in the matter. He had to put on his brave face and lie. In such a speech, of course he isn’t going to mention how the moderators—him being one among equals—fell asleep behind the wheel on several occasions, screwing several candidates out of their positions in run-offs and primaries. He’s not going to tell you he had his favorites, and I can say this because I was one, and Kempite was another. He’s not going to tell you his wanting to buddy-up with his favorites, and his desire to play on U4Prez and partake the talk show circuit, not really caring how it looked to new candidates trying to get a toehold, while the creator was laughing it up with his handpicked president to be. He’s not going to tell you how this very blog got the attention of his corporate masters, forcing them to jerk his chain back and knocking him down to glorified-moderator status. He’s not going to tell you how every election can now be scrutinized and seen as frauds. He’s not going to tell you how his own pick for President was guilty of manipulating votes, proving every word ever uttered on this blog concerning corruption and the fix. And in what should have been U4Prez’s finest moment, he’s not going to tell you how the general election was tainted by the questionable ethics displayed with new candidate registration. Gurr’s optimistic comments were complete horseshit, and anyone who’s been at U4Prez for any significant amount of time knows it was horseshit.

But we can do something about 2007. We can learn from it and never let it happen again.

The Constitution is the perfect place to ferret out all the problems we’ve seen this past year, and correct them, once and for all. Gurr either won’t do it or can’t do it, so we’re going to do it.

In what is already turning into the biggest multipartisan project in U4Prez history, ideas for a Constitution are being brainstormed by many candidates. Even those who have previously opposed the writing of a Constitution (BigDaddy, Copulate, and Mduminiak, to name three) have contributed their thoughts to it. This is reason to celebrate, because this is a recognition that U4Prez does have problems, and it’s not just a handful of disgruntles candidates complaining. We can’t solve these problems unless we know they exist, and unless we’re honest about them, any solution will be in vain.

President Faustus supports the project, and he has named Olivia as Chairperson of the Constitution Committee. I will be talking more about this on U4Prez, on the U4Prez Constitution Caucus. We’ve already had at least one world-class brainstorming session, and in a little over a week, we should have rough draft #2 up for dissection and criticism and committee rewrites.

2008 does not have to be a repeat of 2007. Virtually every candidate has, at one time or another, expressed dissatisfaction with U4Prez. By working together in the spirit of camaraderie, the candidates can create a means by which the many problems with U4Prez, especially those concerning the moderators and our interface with them, can be resolved, and an infrastructure can be put up to solve any other upcoming crisis. Up until this pivotal point in the history of U4Prez, we were at the mercy of the creator and his moderators, who collectively proved to be inept, corrupt, favoring, negligent, and at times, outright dangerous and not giving a damn. As of this writing, we no longer have to be victimized by their carelessness, their dumb little games, their corruption, and their fuck-ups. As of right now, we no longer can blame the moderators for all the problems we’ve had to deal with. We can empower ourselves. We can ensure the moderators abide by a certain protocol, and if not, we can have a system to alleviate any effects of their negligence.

The election is over. We lived through it, just barely, but we did it. 2007 was a year of figuring out what U4Prez is and what we could do with it. We no longer have anyone but ourselves to blame if 2008 goes the same way. We certainly have the brains and the creativity to make it so; all we need is the will.

Nobody Does It Better

2007-11-04T13:25:00.000-08:00

When I returned to U4Prez this week, after a nearly three-month hiatus (six weeks of which included exile from this blog), one of the first to greet me back was Faustus. Faustus is probably the most professional candidate at U4Prez, himself running for the office of Governor in Idaho for 2010. He is a polished speaker, having clearly defined positions on all issues, and has no problem speaking his mind. Unlike most of us, though, he is smart enough to keep out of the fracas when the partisan bullshit starts to fan out. He never has a harsh word for anyone, and I don’t think anyone has a harsh word for him.

Faustus, quite expectedly, breezed through 2007, winning three of the monthly primary positions for the Democratic Party. With Elected_Al resigning his position, Think08 taking a long and unexpected leave in the summer, and Bluproject willing to present himself as Kempite’s whipping boy, it became even easier for Faustus to push through to the convention and win the nomination. Do not perceive this, however, as a case of the Democrats imploding this year. Quite the contrary. Most Democrats have come to respect Faustus deeply, and it is very easy to support someone who is as polite, thoughtful, intelligent, and professional as Faustus. When he left U4Prez, Elected_Al made it a point to endorse Faustus on his own profile, perhaps to consolidate the Democratic base, but most likely to show support for a candidate who genuinely deserves the highest of praises.

Why, then, am I endorsing MejicoJohn?

Those of you who have been following the Olivia soap opera since March, you should already know why.

I can’t remember the conversation I was having, who I was having it with, but I remember saying about three weeks into my campaign, I would not be surprised at all if MejicoJohn won the whole thing. MejicoJohn gets it. When many of us were running ourselves ragged, taking U4Prez way too seriously, MejicoJohn would chime in with a new video, or say something that made us all crack up.

Even as a newbie, I realized John was campaigning differently. He wasn’t putting together polished, fanciful videos, he wasn’t putting the finishing touches on his platform or challenging others to a duel or a debate. Rather, he was having a good time, something we all, including myself, should have been doing all along. Every time I see John, I picture him in his room in Nuevo Laredo, beer bottles and cigarette butts all around his keyboard, laughing his tail off at the dumb things the rest of us do. He is unique to U4Prez—there are liberals and conservatives galore, and Dems and Reps and Indies are all over the place, but there is only one MejicoJohn. For every Hawk, there are a hundred just like him on U4Prez, not quite so high-profile, but still stewing in his own juices, playing partisan bullshit games, denigrating U4Prez for his own amusement. You can say the same about me, or many others.

While others are trying to dissect tort reform and pollution policy and stem-cell research to their finer components, John has flat out said his desire is to be King of North America, to run the country under a pseudo-dictatorship, where he basically ends all the dumbshit once and for all, all the corruption in Washington, all the deficit spending, all the wars-for-profit, and sets us back on a Constitutional course. There are no fine details to hash out with John, nothing to negotiate. He has no desire for longterm aggrandizement, he is no Fidel Castro seeking to liberate his countrymen and then hold himself in power for the next fifty years. He is blunt, decisive, and has the kind of simple feel for the tone of the American public many believed George W. Bush had in 2000.

John is no Dubya, far from it. I liken him to George Washington. I am dead serious about this. Washington in the Cincinnatus argument, where, once he won the War for Independence, when clamored by many to take over and use his strength of character and leadership to mold the new America in his own image, he simply returned to his farm in Virginia. And again, once elected President under the new Constitution, after two terms, he could have ran for a third and stayed in power for the rest of his life; instead, he served, and then he went home. Throughout all of human history, with rare exceptions, every leader of a revolution has ultimately betrayed the ideals they fought for, and the populations they claimed to liberate, for the sake of power. MejicoJohn, like George Washington, is an exception to history, an anomly, a fly in the ointment.

Did you like me comparing John to Washington? Here’s another for you. In his Republic, Plato daydreamed the perfect political system being run by a “benevolent despot”, one who was raised as part of a ruling elite to do nothing more than run a government. He was not to be rewarded handsomely, for to Plato, power was a burden, and certainly not something to profit from. MejicoJohn is U4Prez’s benevolent despot, the kind of singular leader that can take a nation, shake it clean, and set it back on course, all the while sipping a beer and eating hot peppers straight from the jar.

One aspect I’ve always appreciated from John is his self-deprecating humor. The first one he laughs at is himself. His videos are genuinely funny, not by bullying opponents or making fun of anyone, but because he looks like he is really enjoying clowning with us. Who else has his own anti-campaign, the NOMJOHN campaign? Many of us have enemies who make no bones about it, and some have even come up with anti-campaigns for the elite. I’ve seen my share of anti-Olivia campaigns, Kempite’s seen anti-Kempite campaigns. But no one would dare talk himself down like John does.

As for me personally, I have supported MejicoJohn for a long time, and in terms of time and energy, I do feel I assisted him a little. We came to know one another, and in our talks, we rarely talked politics. We always talked about our personal lives. That’s something I’ve learned can’t be easily done with sincerity. While many of us talk about our jobs and families in a general way, John put his life out there for all of us to watch and enjoy. When John was having problems concerning his father and moving to Nuevo Laredo, I think we all held him in our hearts, hoping for the best.

The third video I made was devoted to MejicoJohn, even though it was titled “Antipartisan Pledge #9”.

When I became Independent Leader this summer, I took a video I was working on and turned it into a campaign promo for the Independents on the whole. MejicoJohn’s face was among the dozen-or-so Independents on that video.

I used the Independent Leader profile as a sort of billboard for promoting Independent candidates, and any Indy with a video was on there. MejicoJohn had nearly forty short videos all over YouTube, and I always put one of them on there that summed up his political beliefs.

Then, on that fateful day in July, the fifth, when the moderator fell asleep at the wheel and almost screwed MejicoJohn out of his place in the primaries, I raised holy hell to get the situation rectified and gave up my own position in that primary in protest. With the moderator asleep at the wheel and John in the midst of moving and dealing with his family and not being about to come online at all, let alone campaign, I felt like I had to act. For those of you who felt I was grandstanding, how important is it now that I did that, how necessary was it for me to not let an Independent get screwed out of his position? How many Republicans or Democrats similarly got screwed, and are sitting on the outside now, voting for President instead of being voted for? This is where I indeed will pat myself on the back a little bit, because MejicoJohn did emerge from that Independent Convention as our nominee, and had he lost his chance to compete in the June primary, the whole history of U4Prez would now be different. No offense at all to Icababe or CoryF or Maditude, had it been them screwed by moderator apathy, I am sure I would acted the same as I did with John. But it remains that it indeed was John that was in that position, victimized by moderator ineptitude, for a moment gone from the race. That may have been his only real shot, considering how Independents up until that time never even had a primary of their own.

And now he is on the verge of being President. Yes, I take a good amount of personal satisfaction in that.

While I do believe Faustus is the best out of all of us in terms of political polish and professionalism, I can’t desert my Independents, I put far too much of myself into out “party”. And I put a lot of personal capital into MejicoJohn, not only in terms of promoting him and getting him back in the running, but in terms of our shared experience at U4Prez. My dear friend and Photoshop extraordinaire Donny Wiz made a series of pictures of us together, and while they were made in fun and jest, they were also personal. They meant something to John and me.

When I left U4Prez in August, MejicoJohn was one of many who unfairly received heat for my exile and blog. On one memorable night, on Kempite’s talk show, John was put in the position of defending me, something I wouldn’t want anyone close to me to ever have to do. He gave the Hard Right no issues of importance, nothing they could use, no ammunition. I am sorry they put him in that position, having to defend me, when he had no idea what was going on. And yet, there he was.

In the future, I hope to continue to work with Faustus and MejicoJohn to improve the U4Prez experience. My head says to vote for Faustus, because he is indeed the best. My heart, though, says to vote for MejicoJohn, because I have put so much of myself into him, and because I think we do have a respect, admiration, and, dare I say it, love for one another that makes no sense in reality, but perfect sense here. That’s not to say I’ll start posting John Averitt memorials whenever my ratings start going down, but it means, so long as we are a part of U4Prez, he will always have a special place in my heart.

Hence, I am putting my heart above my head.

I am voting for MejicoJohn, and while I would like others to do the same thing, I would be just as thrilled to see Faustus win.

One last thing—as happy as I am that a true Hard Right candidate did not make it to the general election, Musicman is in their sphere of influence. I will work with him should he be voted in President, but it won’t be pretty. I called Musicman a pussy on plenty of occasions, mostly because he is a decidedly partisan candidate who decided to sign the Antipartisan Pledge, yet started to cry like a little girl whenever I called him on it. I don’t care what he did and does in the real world, on U4Prez, he is a whiner, a NeoCon, and a perfect lackey for the Hard Right cabal. He shows no signs of leadership, deciding to try to shout me down when I was defending John’s place in the June primary. How does that look now, Musicman actively seeking to squash John’s chances of fairly staying in the primaries, now they’re both in the general election. I realize the Republican Convention became a battle of attrition, but I don’t know how anyone could vote for someone as whining, as hypocritical, and as opposed to someone standing up for what’s right.

If you vote with your head, vote for Faustus.

If you vote with your heart, vote for MejicoJohn.

And if you vote with your ass, vote for Musicman.

I will vote with my heart. How are you going to vote?

Three is STILL the Magic Number

2007-09-22T07:21:00.000-07:00

I was reading a few moments ago about how CoryF and Icababe have wrapped up the last two primary spots for the Independent Party. Somewhere, there is a list of qualifiers for the Convention, and I would put that list up proudly against those representing the U4Prez Democrats and Republicans.

I ran my campaign as pretty much a single-issue campaign, to end the two-party system, to destroy the myth of Republocratic dominance, and to bring more parties, more candidates, and more philosophies into the Washington mix. Each in their own way, I believe that not only the Independent primary winners, but the vast majority of Independents themselves believe in this, to one degree or another. They might be conservative or liberal, it doesn't matter, they are disgusted with politics-as-usual, and they are willing to take the risk of a campaign run alone, without a true party machine behind them, than compromise their principles for the sake of popularity.

Just like America itself, we are Independent.

It is this spirit we share that binds us, and has kept us bound as the strongest party at U4Prez. It is the appreciation we have for one another, no matter where on the political spectrum we might fall, that has kept the Independent Party vibrant and positive. And despite the countless many times we have seen others try to drive wedges between us, we realize its just another variation of the partisan gameplaying we all got sick of years ago, and we recognized it for what it is.

That is why Independents didn't have a problem voting for a liberal like me in June to be leader, or a conservative like Icababe most recently. In the end, our bond goes beyond the weak labels the Republocrats like to divvy up everyone under. I got along fine with strong conservatives like CoryF, because we share the same singular belief that nothing we want to do will come to fruition if we don't first clean house, rid Washington of the two monopolizing parties, and come up with some real answers for real people.

Independents get that, and that is why I have no problem giving my complete support to Icababe and encourage all Independents to not only join with him in solidarity, but to also participate in his committee to build a better party. This isn't the sort of Steering Committee Mduminiak installed with the Republicans, which was little more than an elitist collection of his bestest buddies to decide for the rest of the GOP world. Icababe wants everyone to join in. There should be far more than the four or five names on the committee list. While I realize every candidate is running her own campaign her own way, it still wouldn't hurt to chime in.

I have always had a respectful relationship with Icababe, and I appreciate his want to get as much input from the other Independents. He deserves the same sort of commitment from the rest of you. When he creates a committee any Independent can join, I would like to think there would be many who would jump to help. Likewise, I see he has created a chat page in which Independents can discuss issues and strategy. In respect, I haven't tried to peek in, but I truly hope it's being utilized.

The Independent Party has to move forward, and I recall a few comments Icababe made concerning me, and I agree with him. The Party cannot move ahead, and cannot perfect itself, if the conversation constantly returns to the past. It is unfair to everyone to continue to bring my name up every time Independent Party Leadership is discussed. No party leader will ever get a fair shake if he is constantly compared to Olivia, even in a congradulatory way. The party has a convention coming up in a couple of weeks, it will not properly be prepared to take full advantage of the attention it will receive if the focus remains on a former candidate who is not active on U4Prez itself and can only influence things from the outside looking in.

What's more, many use my name in a petty fashion, trying to use my name as a wedge. Just as some would previously try to drive a wedge between me and the conservative Independents, they again seek to use my name to play partisan games. These are the very same games Independents detest in the first place. Such games are expected out of the Republicans and Democrats. Don't sink to their level. Don't give into this bullshit. Recognize it for what it is, and root it out.

However you saw my stay as party leader, as a good thing or a bad thing, in the end it is over, and if the Party is to be at its best, it must look and move forward. I appreciate all the positive feedback, and I note all the sarcasm and hurtful things said my way. But so long as the talk remains on what Olivia did or didn't do, you're not giving Icababe a chance at all, and the Indys will remain stuck in Summer 2007 instead of looking forward with their sights on the general election.

I believe the Independents have a legitimate shot in winning the whole thing. Kempite's campaign is in flames, so if there was ever a "fix", Eric Gurr would be pretty stupid to maintain it at this moment. Look at the final roster when it comes out. If we're looking for someone with name recognition, MejicoJohn is as strong a candidate in terms of sheer popularity as there is at U4Prez. I believe we have the truest and most sincere conservative at U4Prez, namely CoryF, which, if the Independents backed him, he could legitimately defeat Mduminiak, a candidate who has had virtually every break go his way, who is grossly over-exposed, and who is just as into playing partisan bullshit games as he is to chime the conservative chime. You have Maditude, probably the closest thing to a champion of the Libertarian Party U4Prez has, someone who has quite quietly put together a solid campaign, and again, he has not engaged in gameplaying and partisanship. Icababe is proving himself to be a strong leader for the Independents.

Once there is a list put out as to who will represent the Independents up to the general election, I will be on my toes to support them all as best as I can, but also to prop up whoever ends up representing the Indys in the general election.

Whatever cancers there are in the Independent Party, root them out now, before we get down to brass tacks. I do believe our diversity is what makes the Indys successful, being able to set aside our ideologies, without compromising them for a moment, for the sake of a greater good. Ask yourself, when you see Independents engaging in partisan hackery, if they are representing the best the party has to offer.

Everyone knows my displeasure with BigDaddy, and with Mduminiak capitulating and Kempite impaled and twitching, he is the biggest partisan gameplaying hack on U4Prez. He came to the Indy Party, thinking Independents would be stupid enough to elect him leader, even though he goes against everything Independents stand for. He continues to show his true colors, calling anyone left of him a socialist, trying to drive wedges between the left and the right within the Independents, trying to use my name to show division within ranks, as if continued contact with me were something sordid, as if appreciating my tactics as leader were tantamount to treason. THIS is why we all became Independents, because we were tired of the two main parties bickering with one another, pointing fingers, calling names, driving wedges, and more-or-less dummying down American politics. BigDaddy has been one of the bigest partisan bullshit artists since he came to U4Prez. He has said it for himself, partisanship is so engrained into American politics, it might as well be in the Constitution. He proves this belief every day. I have always urged you, and will continue to urge you, to shun him, to make it clear his petty gameplaying is not what being an Indepedent is about, and that he can go back to the Republicans if he wishes to continue his shenanigans.

At the end of the day, I always lay my trust in the intelligence and the commitment Independents share. No matter the odds, we've managed to construct a "party" that is truly all-inclusive, liberals and conservatives uniting under the belief that the status-quo will kill America, and the cure is to unravel the total domination the Republocrats hold in modern American government. If we can win at U4Prez, maybe we can do it in 2008 for real! We have a destiny as a party. It can be done. We have the candidates, we have the smarts, the commitment, the issue, the leadership, the unity. The Indys have it all. It's just a matter of putting it all together and sprinting to the finish line.

In these final weeks until the general election, I hope to have a few "gifts" for the Independent Party, something to pick their spirits up. I am your biggest cheerleader, your number-one fan. You can do it!

Love Always, Olivia. XXX

Dissecting a BigDaddy GOTCHA

2007-09-18T21:05:00.000-07:00

Last weekend, we watched arguably the biggest name, the largest ego, certainly the biggest hypocrite at U4Prez get caught, committing one of the worst sins one can commit when talking about respect to democracy. Kempite was proven to have manipulates votes, which proves how "serious" a candidate he truly is.

Unfortunately for some, U4Prez is little more than a grand game of GOTCHA, and if that is the case, Copulate has pulled down the biggest bird by bringing Kempite's scheme to the attention of Eric Gurr.

Realizing that's all he has to offer, realizing there aren't too many other names as big as Kempite's to pull down, and realizing the Hard Right made him who he was, BigDaddy is going after me with renewed vigor.

Which is fine, so long as we all realize who his is and what he stands for. Political discussions, I've seen he has the ability to hold a discussion on a smarmy adolescent level, yet he is capable. That's not his passion, his reason for being. Promoting a conservative agenda is what he does when he has nothing better to do, and even that can only be promoted by him through calling anyone who disagrees with him a socialist.

His true passion is to play GOTCHA, and were he not able to do this, he probably would have left U4Prez a long time ago.

I've mentioned his antics playing hero for gay rights for deciding to browbeat Copulate's remarks in a PM to Kempite, yet never quite getting around to browbeating Kempite for doing the same thing to Bluproject. Which tells me his belief system is selective at best, hypocritical at worst, and when it comes to deciding where BigDaddy really stands concerning the issues facing the homosexual community, I fail to see how anyone could do anything but laugh wholeheartedly at him. Bullying one fagbasher and letting his fagbashing master off the hook doesn't sound like someone who is morally principled. Sounds more like bullshit partisanship to me.

As for me, he's tried to make things stick with me in the past. And like I said, whatever, you can't blame a leech for being a leech, he is what he is. My name is dotted all over his GOTCHA list, as if my name on such a list somehow ruins me, as if I were a communist merely for showing up on some McCarthy-era blacklist. Not that anything he claims he's "got" me for amasses to much, the only place where it might matter is in his own warped mind.

For instance, I voted for Michael Badnarik in 2004 for President. Not George Bush, not John Kerry. I voted Libertarian. Apparently, BigDaddy believes, for whatever reason, my vote somehow has no merit, which I still laugh at the ludicrous logic that somehow goes into such a thought. He claims to have voted for Badnarik in 2004 as well, and apparently he is insulted that I would vote for him, and since he believes he is the sole protector of all things conservative, my vote for Badnarik is somehow not good enough for him, hence it counts as a GOTCHA. In his bigoted and thoroughly partisan mind, how in the world could a liberal vote for a conservative? Such a notion apparently makes his soul shake in his rotting torso, because he is so deeply immersed in partisan bullshit that he cannot fathom such a thing to be possible.

I grew up in Arizona, the so-called birthplace of the modern conservative movement. There is no person in the history of Arizona more beloved than Barry Goldwater, the father of modern conservatism, and whether you are on the right or left politically, no one has an ill word to speak concerning Goldwater. He is everything that is good and honest in conservatism, and in an era dominated by neo-conservatives who take up the cloak of conservatism to merely get themselves elected, then go to Washington and spend like drunk sailors and snub their constituents for the sake of payola, Goldwater becomes more and more revered, and were he in his prime today, dare I say it, his policies would be deemed liberal, or as BigDaddy would call such things, socialist.

I liked Michael Badnarik from the first time I heard him on the radio, as championed by Charles Goyette. In a day when the two big parties are trying to drive wedges between one another and trying to disclude others from being in their camps, Badnarik argued that there is a place for both the left and the right with the Libertarians; if you are a conservative, you should try the Libertarians because they preach fiscal responsibility, and if you are a liberal, you should try the Libertarians because they champion civil liberties. From this introduction, I took the angst I felt for my fellow Democrats, and started to really shop around, considering other parties, seeing what they have to offer. If Badnarik was representative of the best of the Libertarian Party, maybe he and his party deserve more attention than they get.

During the 2004 election cycle, many were disgruntled with having to choose between Dumb and Dumber, and though 99% of American voters still voted for these two putzes, I do think, were there more exposure given to the other candidates, perhaps such disparity wouldn't continue. Unfortunately, the Republicans and Democrats have engrained themselves so deeply into the election and legislative processes, that they have colluded to not allow other candidates or parties to partake in presidential debates. When you realize that such debates are funded by taxpayer monies, you come to the conclusion that such collusion is not only illegal, it is dangerous to the integrity of American democracy.

Michael Badnarik and David Cobb, the Green Party nominee, believed in this so strongly that, on the day of the debate in St. Louis, they found a judge who agreed with them and would write them a court order to take to the debate in order to arrest party officials for collusion. The judge realized what I just told you, that the Dems and the Reps were breaking the law and working together to do so. Badnarik and Cobb went straight to the debate, wove their way through the crowd, and when they came to the barricades, the police ignored the court order and told the two, should they try to crash the party, they would be arrested. They looked at each other and broke the police line, to which they were immediately arrested.

In an era where everyone is scared of losing their jobs over the slightest hiccup, such an act should have stood out like a sore thumb. This is an age of covering your own ass, and these two could have gone to the press and made a big stink of the whole thing. Instead, they did what they felt was their duty as Americans and sought to deliver the court order. It's that kind of civil disobedience that distinguishes American democracy from every other political ideology in history, the idea that an individual or a small group can band together and expose the inherent evil of a given law by standing up to it. This is why we remember names like Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi, and Henry David Thoreau. Not that Badnarik and Cobb should be considered as great of men as Gandhi, but at a time when everyone is out to get their piece of the pie and protect it at all cost, it's refreshing to see someone actually take a stand against corruption and collusion, even if it puts their careers in jeopardy, their reputations at risk, and their persons in potential harm. While many gripe over the two big parties working with one another to keep alternative voices out of the mix, such an act of defiance should be seen as a rallying cry, and such men deserve to be seen as heroes.

Hence, I voted for Badnarik.

Apparently, such lofty thoughts for Badnarik mean nothing to BigDaddy. According to him, this isn't good enough. I am a liberal, Badnarik's a conservative, my vote for him must be wicked and twisted in some way. In BigDaddy's own words, there is nothing in Badnarik's platform that I would agree with, therefore my vote for him is worthless. This is BigDaddy's version of democracy, where you can only vote for your own kind, you can only vote for someone on the basis of agreement in core issues, and such concepts as leadership are not things to consider.

And I still don't understand it. You would think this could be something we could agree with, something we have in common. I'm glad BigDaddy voted for Badnarik. But for the life of me, I don't understand where he thinks my vote is somehow lesser than his. I would have thought, a liberal voting Libertarian, that would be a rallying point for him, to show there are reasons why a liberal could and should vote for conservatives. If he were truly a champion for all things conservative, you would think he'd think this nothing but positive.

But BigDaddy is not a positive person. He is petty. He puts partisan gameplaying over principle. Everything I just told you on why I voted for Badnarik, I told BigDaddy already, and apparently, this wasn't good enough for him. Again, I am a liberal, voting for a conservative, I must have some deep shady reason for doing so. As such, this becomes a GOTCHA in BigDaddy's mind.

I would like to believe, in these partisan games and petty party bullshit games that have ripped through American politics and have become more brutal with every passing cycle, the intent is to get more to vote your way. Deep down, I would like to think, when Mduminiak bashes a liberal, he's doing it because he is trying to show conservatism superior to liberalism, not simply because he is political bigot who is aroused by browbeating liberals and calling then names. While this belief is slowly eroding, I still would like to think, at the end of the day, partisan hacks are really trying to get their guys elected and are merely going over the top.

It's candidates like BigDaddy that help erode this belief, that partisan bullshit tactics aren't to get your guy elected, but to fill some deep-seeded need to kick someone, for whatever reason. We no longer live in a world where you can call an African-American boy, or a woman a broad, or even a homosexual a faggot. The hate in a bigot has to take some form, and politics is one arena where such bigotry, under the cloak of blind loyalty, is actually rewarded. As such, BigDaddy has no integrity. You would think, a liberal voting conservative, should be something he would welcome. Instead, he thinks it's a GOTCHA.

It is such a big GOTCHA to him that it's on his little list, the first thing you see on his profile, the thing he takes the most pride in.

I still don't get the part where I am supposed to tell BigDaddy, okay, you got me, I'll come clean. Do any of you? I voted Libertarian. Should I have consulted with BigDaddy first? Should I have asked for his permission before I voted? Christ, if he really voted for Badnarik, wouldn't you think he would be trying to talk others into voting for him? If he wanted Badnarik to be President, why in the world would he want me to NOT vote for him?

For as much animosity as there is between me and the collective Hard Right, their candidate-du-jour is Fred Thompson, someone I wouldn't vote for if a gun were pointed at my head. But let's just say, for the sake of argument, I woke up one day, my soul conveniently ripped out of my body, and I believed Thompson would make an excellent president, and I wrote with the same lovey-dovey tone that I did concerning Badnarik. Do you truly think a cheater like Kempite and a monkeyboy like Mduminiak, for as petty of people as they are, would tell me I as a liberal shouldn't vote for him? More than likely, they would say, yeah, you stupid liberal, even you came to your senses, and if Public Liberal Number One can vote for a manly man like Fred, surely the rest of your socialist brethren can do the same.

Not BigDaddy. Never think him ever capable of setting partisan gameplaying aside, even to find some element of common ground. Instead of considering our mutual vote for Badnarik something to build respect upon, he, in some twisted way that only dogs understand when they lick their own nutsacks, he considers it a GOTCHA.

Someone out there care to enlighten me and explain how he GOT me?

Vote Manipulation! "Serious Candidate" Kempite Exposed!

2007-09-15T16:38:00.000-07:00

We interrupt our usual Week in Review to deliver the following article of the utmost importance. Part of the purpose of this blog is to deliver the news in a readable medium, in a way so any candidate who peruses here can get a real bead on what happens in the U4Prez world. I write this so you don't have to dig through several comment threads and rely on other candidates who don't quite know either what's going on. It is such a bombshell, that the first word from the moderator on the subject is the word Boom.

*From u4prez on 09/15/2007 02:47 am
"BOOOM! Candidate Copulate exposes voter manipulation scheme. It turns out one of our top candidates was rerouting votes of a 1 and changing them to a 10. Brilliant strategy, but one step behind Copulate. Ouch!!! The candidate has been fined a whopping 5000 ratings points.
Thanks to Cop for figuring it out.
This is the tenth case of voter manipulation we've found this week. 7 of them resulted in account deletions (all related to trying to hack our site internally). Most were mild, but this one was pretty big."

That candidate was Kempite.

And yes, I plan to gloat. Fasten your seatbelts.

Now, I didn't say anything when I watched Kempite's score inflate and deflate rapidly over the summer. A couple of candidates asked me about it, and I would watch for a few days here and there, on Monday he would be in the 8th position in the Top Republicans, by Thursday he was #3. At that point, he was boasting over 4000 votes, so I knew, at that point, even in June, something was going on, but I couldn't prove it, so I just bided my time.

Pull out your calculators along with me, and let's do the math. Let's say a candidate has 5000 votes, with a rating of 8.000. In order to move your total to 8.100, just a single tenth of a point, you would need 264 10's, without a single 1 (A raw score of 42640, divided by 5264 votes, equals a rating of 8.1003). And yet, there have been rumors and reports about Kempite bouncing up and down everywhere between 7.9 and 8.5. Logistically speaking, it would be impossible, when you consider Kempite never did have the squeaky clean reputation he thinks you're stupid enough to think he had all along. Look around, just on this blog, which is still the hottest item in the U4Prez world, there are a handful of candidates who would give him a 1, if they voted for him at all. With the occasional break-out of anonymous 1's coming around every so often like a reoccurring rash, it boggles the mind how a candidate with 5000 votes can gain a tenth in their rating, seemingly at whim.

At U4Prez, by the time you get to about 1000 votes, you're pretty much locked into where you're going to be in terms of a rating.

As of this writing, Kempite has 9,465 votes (to give you an idea of how much that is, I quit with 4,269 votes, from March 17 to August 8, which, in 176 days as a candidate, averages out to be 24.25 votes a day, which I think is the norm for most all of the popular candidates, and I invite you to do the math for yourself, the more popular candidates who have been around can generate about 25-30 votes a day), which, from his starting date of February 20 to September 15, means he could generate almost 46 VOTES A DAY, every day, for all 207 days of his being here.

I urge you to make the same comparisons with MejicoJohn, Copulate, Mduminiak, kt2020, and any other candidate who has been here since at least March, and you will find a gross exaggeration in Kempite's ability to produce votes, as opposed to everyone else.

At the time, I dismissed it. Kempite was one of the truly elite players this summer, I figured he had a trick up his sleeve, he had access to votes somewhere on the web which, were the rest of us able to discover, our vote totals would go through the roof as well. I had no way of proving wrong-doing, so it was something I just kept under my hat.

Until now, when I read the news from Eric Gurr himself on U4Prez.

Do you all want to know how he did it?

Copulate deserves all the credit for discovering this. I am no IT expert, so I am sure I'm going to botch it in trying to tell you how Kempite manipulated his rating, his votes, his raw score, and ultimately U4Prez itself.

Kempite was using something called an "IP rerouter". I still don't quite understand how it works, but through this, he is able to take all the 1's he received and turn them into 10's. Arch, you were wondering just last night how his score goes up when you vote him a 1, well, THIS is what he uses. Anyone with a little knowledge in the IT department, feel free to expound on this. Where certain candidates are concerned, he has been able to take those 1's you give him and turn them into 10's.

Kempite was able to manipulate these scores my merely placing an IP rerouter into the wording of his stat counter.

Some of you, I know you have enough experience with what I'm talking about, I'm hoping you will put your two-cents-worth into this, so we can openly talk about it, and we can do a better job of exposing this form of cheating the moment we see it, and not let it go unchecked for God knows how long.

That's exactly what this is. Cheating. This isn't creativity, this isn't finding a new wrinkle in the old programming. This is the real deal, folks. For those of you who are true fans of democracy, what Kempite did was manipulate the system entirely for his own advantage. He went outside of the rules.

I will be amazed and impressed if anyone presses me too hard on this issue. I defy Iron Lady to defend Kempite now. Please, Hard Right, I would love to hear you spin this one to your advantage. I've already seen BigDaddy calling out Copulate for being a whistleblower, if he could rat out Kempite, surely he must be doing it himself. That's part of why this is making me laugh so loud, because not long ago, Copulate actually WAS being accused of manipulating his scores, Kempite being one of those accusing him the loudest.

I am also wondering, just how many members of the Hard Right are using this same tactic? I do remember, within the last month, Hawk and Mduminiak each winning runoffs in which, according to the moderators, they won because of a barrage of 1's. With the ringleader being caught red-handed, I don't think it's too far a reach to think other members of the Hard Right cabal also play this game. If that's the case, I am urging those with some IT sensibilities to take a good long hard look at those two, and pretty much anyone who is close with Kempite. And if those who previously defended him to the death suddenly come up tainted, they should suffer the same fate as their master.

Some of you out there hate my guts, and that's fine, if you don't have enemies, you don't have character. But what Kempite was caught doing validates pretty much everything I've been talking about in terms of vote count transparency, corruption, favoritism, and the "fix". THIS is what I've been talking about all along. THIS is why I quit, and why I won't return until after the general election. This is also why several other candidates have quit, because this Hard Right cabal has been allowed to use U4Prez as their little 'hood, beating down anyone who speaks up against them, without fear of reprocussion from the moderators. They see a website where freepers run rampant, where all elections are frauds, and where the creator, up until now, didn't seem to care. My gripes have all been confirmed.

Call me a whore or a slut or whatever you wish. Question my morals. Call me out when you think I'm wrong. But make no mistake about it, my integrity is still intact. I still have never betrayed a PM, whereas all PM's are fair game when placed in Kempite's corrupt hands. I have never had to manipulate my score unethically to get ahead. Again, question my tactics, but everything I did, I was upfront about, direct, never hid from anything I did, never made excuses.

So yes, Anthony Pellegrino, this whore has more integrity in her middle finger than you have in your whole body.

You of all people should know better than to put yourself on a pedestal, because it's a tough fall when you get knocked off. By trying this campaign of being a "serious candidate" with the serious answers, you put yourself up there. I didn't tell you to act like a pompous dickhead. That one is on you. There is no one here who will ever take you serious again, and if they do, sometime down the road, there's a few newbies who don't know, trust me, they will. If ever they write a history book on the U4Prez world, this article will be in there.

I wonder what Tony Nasso must be thinking right now, looking down on us from heaven. Do you think he would have approved of such cheating? Do you really think he wants your name associated with his anymore? Maybe you should roll his memorial page out again, just to make sure there's anything more in that well you can suck up and use. Maybe there's one last brownie point you can leech off of Tony4Prez, what do you have to lose at this point?

Pretty much everything I've ever said on the subject of Kempite has come to fruition. He is a backstabbing bully who can't be trusted with the slightest bit of confidentiality. He will use any bloody thing at his disposal to boost his own reputation, from dead candidates to apparently the U4Prez voting system itself. He cares for nothing but the feeding of his own ego.

Everything he has worked so hard for means absolutely nothing. What good is it to solve the problems in a democratic society, when democracy itself is something you seek to defile? What good is it to talk about American principles, when the most sacred principle itself, the belief in a fair and just voting system, is just the punchline to a joke in Kempite's mind? Why bother calling yourself a "serious candidate" when you are obviously the least serious candidate here?

I take very little pleasure in this. I never wanted to be right in the "fix", in the charges of favoritism I levied against Eric Gurr. But how tragically correct is it now, the thought that, while Eric and Kempite were getting it on on some dumb little talk show, while Kempite was shaking Eric's hand with his right hand, he was sticking him in the back with a knife in the other? Was Kempite actually looking Eric in the eye and saying all was well, while at the same time manipulating the already suspect voting system to his advantage? I cried bloody murder when I saw it happening, and I was shooed away like the psychobitch many would love to portray me to be. I feel completely validated, I think many might question the methods by which I sought to continue to apply pressure to U4Prez to open its eyes to the real problems it's facing. But in the recent turn of events, I don't think many will challenge me and call me wrong.

The only tough question left is, how deep does this go? I don't want to call for a witch-hunt, but I have already said every single election in the history of U4Prez is a sham. Let me make this perfectly clear, and this goes to friend as well as for. Not a single election in U4Prez history is valid. I do not recognize a single primary winner or party leader, including myself and my own set of victories. None of it counts. I'm sorry, but that primary win you covet, apparently Kempite thought so little of you that he sought to corrupt the entire system for his own masturbatory pleasures. It's now worthless. Oh, sure, with Kempite out of the way, you might actually win President, but so what? You won your primary through a corrupt system, a system easily manipulated and apparently bastardized for months on end. Why should anyone honor your win, after how Kempite trashed the place?

If anyone else is doing the same thing, anyone else in the Hard Right who thought they could get away with it, I'm telling you now, every day you continue to try to play this game of vote manipulation, you are bringing U4Prez that much closer to its own death. Come clean. Everyone with the slightest bit of IT experience is probably all over your profiles as we speak, watching your ratings chance on a minute-to-minute basis, voting you 1's and seeing if your rating also rises. You would be doing everyone a favor in admitting it to Eric and accepting whatever punishment is warranted.

Some get kicked out of here because they flame and curse their minds away. Personally, I feel this is far worse. I will never advocate the termination of a fellow candidate, but maybe, with Kempite remaining, he can be set up as the example, as the candidate most opposite what America stands for. The perfect traitor. Someone willing to destroy the site for his own ego. When new candidates come up to me in the future and ask me for a little advice, I will tell them of Kempite, I will point to his profile, I will direct them to all his accomplishments, and then I will tell them it all turned to shit, because Kempite took the essence of democracy itself, and wiped his ass with it.

Now, more than ever, U4Prez needs a Constitution, a framework through which this kind of thing becomes harder to pull off.

Kempite wins a recent video contest because he talks about being a "serious candidate". He has a lot of fucking nerve, to accept the prize with one hand, as he stabs U4Prez in the back with the other.

Kempite didn't betray me, I knew what he was a LONG time ago. Kempite betrayed U4Prez and a whole lot of people who went to bat for him. If they continue to defend him, if Iron Lady ever defends his name when someone brings his crimes up, then they go beyond blind loyalty, they transcend blind loyalty into complete stupidity.

For something positive, I thank Eric Gurr for sending a strong message, that such games will not be tolerated. I'm sorry I had to become a raving bitch out in the wilderness for this to come to pass, but considering how he has reprimanded ten people for hacking and manipulation, it is clear, if nothing else, he is tired of the idea of U4Prez being seen as a corrupt, neglected site, where favorites get away with what they want, and the creator will let it all go. Had this happened six weeks ago, maybe things would be completely different.

BigDaddy yips ar everyone's ankles, claiming he GOT Olivia, GOT Copulate, with his usual NAH-na-NAH-NAH appeal. BigDaddy, you're not in Copulate's league. You are a homophobe trying to play GOTCHA games concerning your perceived homphobia in others, how tragic is that! We're trying to stop these harmful games, not perpetuate them. U4Prez will die if it descends to BigDaddy's level. What Kempite did hits to the core of U4Prez itself. Bagging on me because you question my motives for voting how I did in 2004, are you really going to sit there and call that a GOTCHA? If all you care about is the GOTCHA, then I declare Copulate the winner, BigDaddy, he took out the biggest name at U4Prez, but he didn't do it with gameplaying or nagging or namecalling, no; he used the truth. If this is truly a game to you, BigDaddy, Copulate's scored a touchdown, you lose, game over. For once, the good guys win.

It will be interesting to see who lands where in the Hard Right, and who will be the first to pat Kempite on the back.

As for me, Kempite, keep my name out of your fucking mouth! I told you guys over and over and OVER again, you have bigger things to worry about than how Olivia runs her campaign, how Olivia runs the Independent Party, how Olivia runs her mouth. You got caught, and if anyone else in your clique is doing it, they will be caught as well. You have no credibility left. All those who rely on you for their status will either distance themselves with you, or fall alongside with your down the crapper of mediocrity, and you will cease to ever be taken seriously ever again. Anytime you ever talk about that whore Olivia again, everyone will look at you, and say, didn't you whore yourself out to turn a few 1's into 10's?

The very first soundbite I ever put on my profile was, the difference between me and the rest in Washington is I'll tell you up front I'm a prostitute. I wonder which whore this place will appreciate more from this point on.

Never Mind the Big Boys, Let's Talk about You!

2007-09-13T17:32:00.000-07:00

Last week, the moderators put up in the News Section their desire for you to put a short video together for YouTube. They're running their debate for the Republican candidates, and they mysterious powers-that-be thought it would be cool if someone at U4Prez got their video, asking the candidates a question, used at the debate, and hence shown all over the world on cable television.

I'm awaiting the moderators to announce Kempite's video won yet again, most likely because the moderators will only support a video made by the hand-picked president himself. Hedrick, Lucky, Mejico, anyone else wanting to take a crack at this, don't even waste your time, it's Kempite, or it's no one.

I thought it would be pertinent to turn the tables on this one. Instead of acting like adoring fans, why don't we have these kind of questions asked right here, for the U4Prez candidates to answer? You all are running for President, am I right? Then maybe YOU should get the opportunity to answer such questions.

In this spirit, I pose the following question to all candidates at U4Prez:

QUESTION: There has been some talk concerning a U4Prez Constitution to be written after the general election in November. If you are elected President, what do you think your role in writing such a Constitution should be, and, as a follow up, what is one thing you would definitely want to see put into this Constitution?

Maybe I should have addressed this to Kempite personally. As much as I believe he has been, and continues to be, the largest recipient of moderator favoritism, and there is a firm base of evidence to support this and the "fix", in not wanting to crush everyone's spirit and to actually have fun with the concept, I address the question to all of U4Prez. All are invited to answer this as a comment on this blog or in an email or message to me.

As for me, let me deliver my own answer.

Ever since I brought up the idea of a U4Prez Constitution, everyone I've talked to on the subject not only thinks it's a good idea, they can't wait to get started on it. I truly hope these people are brainstorming ideas, because if and when I do return after the general election, I want to jump in with both feet and really take this on. This is important, because it will be a document letting not only the Internet on the whole where we stand as a community and how we solve the problems we face, it will also tell the moderators what we expect from U4Prez as a website.

There are problems at U4Prez, some are trivial, like being unable to delete a frikkin photo without moderator approval, and some are major, like having a reliable system for counting votes that all candidates can understand. Some of the issues that face us, we can handle ourselves; issues of conduct, harassment, and anything of that nature, I believe we can police ourselves, and we should all take a more active role in such endeavors. But there are other items we simply have no or little control over.

A Constitution would change that. It would lay down a structure through which we as candidates can solve our own problems, can make the moderators more responsive to our needs, and can make U4Prez the sort of vibrant place it was once and could be again.

I am not running for President this year, but were I to win the Presidency in November, I would oversee the creation of a Constitution Convention, much like the conventions when the Articles of Confederation and the U.S. Constitution were written in the 1780's. It would involve all party leaders, past and present, all primary winners, and any other agreed-upon candidates at the party leaders' discretion. I would say, if we got at least the thirty most involved candidates at U4Prez to take part in this, we could create such a Constitution by January 2008, should we start a week after the general election of November 2007.

The role of the President would be to PRESIDE, not to write it herself. She would be the one to set the tone, to organize, to be at the center of the tempest, to calm candidates down, to organize committees and oversee debates. She would also be the one to frame the Constitution to her making, either making it resemble the US Constitution, or to come up with something entirely different. As the Convention wore on, the President would be organizing votes on given sections, piecing these sections together, and at long last, offering a draft the Convention can vote on as a whole.

As in real life, the President does not write law. Legislation begins in committees in the House and Senate. Such committees would do the actual hard work of penning this Constitution. The President can promote some of her agenda, assist the committees, but in the end, these committees would do the nuts-and-bolts work.

One issue I would definitely want addressed in such a Constitution would be vote reform, how votes are cast, how ratings are configured, and more importantly, how votes are counted in a fair, transparent way. Such a process should be made easy to understand, so there is no more wondering how one candidate can beat another under whatever cockamamie condition. It would demand the moderators make the voting process clear to all candidates as they sign up, the moderators no longer surprise us with whimsical changes to the process, they no longer act as if they can make it up as they go, and most importantly, such a process can be challenged.

Ratings are one thing, but however ratings are created, they need to not change at the drop of a hat, with no explanation.

Vote count reform, though, would be my prime issue as President. If we can't trust elections, then what's the point in playing democracy? If no one understands the process, it can only turn to chaos, which is the status quo. If the moderators can change the system in the middle of a run-off, then you can hardly blame me for bringing up favoritism and the fix. Unless there is a designated place where the vote count system is posted, easily accessible to all and easily understood by all, it is subject to corruption and manipulation.

As you can see, such a Constitution would force the moderators to be much more open and honest in how they determine run-off leaders, instead of merely announcing winners at their convenience, producing numbers no one really understands. Such openness would promote trust in the process. A well-written Constitution would state not only how the candidates demand such votecounts to be done, but also what will happen when the moderators blow it, and how the candidates can challenge the results. With transparency, however, I would like to think almost all elections would be considered legitimate, but in cases where a vote is suspect, the Constitution would have guidelines as to what should happen in such an event, and what we demand the moderators do to rectify the situation.

In short, WE have the power to make law for U4Prez and to enforce it.

I'm not saying we should have three branches of government, a bicameral legislature, yada yada. But I am saying, we should have a system in place whereby we can solve crises ourselves, where we work with the moderators, and the President will have a role in upholding and defending this Constitution. How the President does this will go a long way to whether or not she will be re-elected next year, because such a President would have the chance to put some of their principles to practice. Hence, the President is not just someone who won a contest. The President actually will have responsibilties according to the Constitution we all write together.

But this is all speculation, my own daydreaming from my own question.

I encourage all candidates to challenge one another and ask of themselves these kind of questions, not just go around and around ober Washington politics, but the politics within the U4Prez world. How would you solve the problems U4Prez itself faces, were you to actually be elected President in this little world of ours? I offer up the question I posed for you to consider, and I hope to get some sort of feedback on what I ponied up.

And if you've thought up some questions to ask U4Prez candidates, this is the place to bring them up. Never mind the big boys and their canned responses, you know what they'll say, there's no real surprises there. But you've been at U4Prez for a while, you know it for what it is. If you were in a position to improve it, what would you do? What kind of questions would you pose to those candidates who have won a primary and are in a position to win it all? How would YOU answer these sort of questions?

Feel free to comment plentifully on this one.

Six Secrets to a World-Class Flame-Out

2007-09-10T16:34:00.000-07:00

One of my better friends got a hold of me last night just a hair too late, alerting me that The Wiz was losing control. I rushed to U4Prez as soon as I could, and there he was, really ranting about things I'll tell you about later. I wanted to chime in, give him a quick PM to tell him I was here, he needed to calm down before he got himself in real trouble.

I was just too late. When I got there, even though his crown was at the top of the comment listings, his account had been suspended. TheWiz flamed out.

I've talked to him since then, and I thought how his blaze of glory went. And in this moment of reflection, my mind came to rest on my own flame-out last month, my own resignation that was too awesome to deliver quietly. In this thought, I think I can pat myself on the back, because I flamed one of the all-time greatest flame-outs you will ever see on a message board.

TheWiz will read this, and I know GESmith reads this on occasion, and if they had to do it over again, I'm sure they would make sure they didn't just get shoved to the door as if by a half-dozen bouncers at some nightclub. Had they had it to do over again, I guarantee you they would have made sure they got EVERYTHING out that they wanted to say. That's sort of the problem with spontaneous combustion, it's... well, spontaneous. There's no time to rehearse. It happens.

I think that's why my meltdown was so frenzied and dramatic, because I had actually quit the night before. I came back, knowing it was a bad idea to do so, and it didn't take much, just the usual sarcasm from the Hard Right hooligans, to set me off. I had a night to think about what would happen if I returned, hence, to a small degree, I guess my flame-out was planned.

And I think I'm in a position to offer advice for those of you who are frustrated with U4Prez, don't know why you bother showing up anymore, and are looking to quit with a little bit of panache. Why just walk away and no one notice for a few weeks, when you can rip shit and tear ass and let EVERYONE know you're pissed off and can only be happy again if everyone else is even more pissed than you!

Here are six tips, six thoughts to consider as you feel yourself sliding into the fire, and you are dancing the forbidden dance of the flame-out.

FIRST, PICK A TARGET. There's no point in going after someone who doesn't come around but once a week, he's not going to know what you're spazzing about. If you're going to go down, go down swinging at the biggest baddest motherfucker you can find. In my case, Mduminiak was around, even as a monkeyboy he was the highest ranking member of the Hard Right around, I might as well let him have to deal with me. I think this made my flame-out better because my wrath was focused, concentrated on a single individual, and that individual had an outstanding reputation for being a gold-ribbon asshole. I didn't go after the others who were there. If the bomb was strapped to my chest, I was going to give the biggest target at the moment a big kiss as it went off.

SECOND, IGNORE THE SARCASM AT THE PERIPHERY. While I was going after Mike, you had the usual Hard Right thugs chiming in with insults and sarcasm. I think they knew I was leaving and melting down, why not give Olivia one more good kick to the solarplexus as she's getting thrown to the curb? I remember Musicman asking who pissed in my Cheerios that morning. Iron Lady and I think BigDaddy started in with the usual dysentary that runs from their vocal chords, but I don't remember what they said, I really don't. That's because I was focused on my target, and I was letting loose my inner demons for all to have to deal with. Now, had I removed my sights from Mduminiak and went after Musicman, the flame-out would have become discombobulated, out of sync, all over the place. The single stream of ranting would have become two, then three and four and more rivulets, none with the impact that original burst of angst would have if continued uninterrupted. Because I kept going forward with my attack, it was far more effective than had I went after everyone at once.

THIRD, USE EVERYTHING WITHIN REACH TO FUEL YOUR TANTRUM. It wasn't enough that I was screaming and morphing into the lunatic psychobitch some had already painted me into being. I had to do more. I went to my own profile and erased all of it. I went to the Indyleader profile and posted my resignation there for all to see. I started ripping down the Antipartisan Pledge. Everything I had a hand in, everything that had taken five months to build, I was ripping down in a few minutes. And while that was happening, I was still bellowing at my target, maintaining my focus on him. See, you can walk and chew gum at the same time, provided you keep your target eyed up. So long as every step is a forward step, your hands can go complete apeshit and rip down anything on the walls. By doing this, by ripping down your own work, you're ripping your heart out of the place, and this jagged, gaping hole will be left for everyone to patch.

FOURTH, YOU HAVE EVERYONE'S ATTENTION, SAY IT! And Lord knows I did. I called the fix, and I called Eric Gurr out on the charge of favoritism, for all to hear. And while I was being poo-poo'ed by some, I knew there was a jolt of truth in it, and it rang out through many who had confided in me over the months, the belief that this whole thing was bought and sold, that the president had already been picked, and that U4Prez was going down the crapper because Gurr wanted to play with the elite instead of reconcile the bloody voting system! Unfortunately, unless you are one of about five candidates on U4Prez, Eric Gurr really doesn't give a shit about what you think. A flame-out, however, gets his attention real quick, and if the cursing is fluid and rancid, and the ranting gets faster and faster, he will come RUNNING to your needs. And that's a real pity, that Eric really doesn't care about what the vast majority of candidates have to say, and that you have to impale yourself against the wall to get his attention. Had he shown that kind of attention in previous incarnations, perhaps the need to set yourself on fire wouldn't be so harried and consuming. Of course, the reality is he presses a button, and poof, you're gone, your profile is suspended, and hopefully that's the end of it.

FIFTH, IF YOU KNOW YOU'RE GOING DOWN, TAKE SOMEONE WITH YOU IF YOU CAN. Suspending the OliviaLLC profile wasn't enough to get me to go away. I quickly jumped onto the Indyleader profile and continued the rant. That worked for a minute or two, until Eric suspended that one as well. But it gave me a moment to see a few new faces, and it struck me, these poor saps were just starting as candidates, maybe I should save them the heartache and tell them the fix was in, and they'd go find something better to do. I was able to get my RUN FOR YOUR LIVES blast in on three of them before I was cut from that one as well. I tried it again on the Antipartisan Pledge profile, but Eric was catching on and cut me off quickly. I was strongly thinking about using the Women's Society profile, and I may have tried, but by that time I think Eric just cut my IP address altogether. I watched as I continued to fume, watched how smug some acted, how others asked what my problem was, how the argument seemed to continue without me for a few moments. It was strange. But I knew I was about to be cut, and I had enough presence of mind to warn a few newbies, as I was being drug out kicking and screaming, to not even bother, Kempite's the winner, sorry to blow the surprise for everyone, now you can do something more productive with your lives than build a tidy little campaign while the Hard Right hooligans laugh you down.

SIXTH, END THE TIRADE ON YOUR TERMS, NOT THEIRS. I think everyone has left at least one bad job in their lives, thinking to themselves, I know enough to bury this place, all I would have to do is spill my guts, and this place would be down the tubes. I think most of us, if not all, have thought that one time or another, but we never actually do it. Well, I told myself that's exactly what I will do, spill my guts, let it all hang out, tell all the little stories I'd been tucking away all these months, all the sordid details not known in the U4Prez mainstream. All of it true, all of it was on the record, it's just a matter of recording it in a way that others could make sense of it. When I wrote my first article, I truly thought this blog would last a week tops, that I would have no readers, that life would go on. I truly didn't expect Eric Gurr being demoted because of what a disgruntled former candidate had to say, and yet he was, which brought instant credibility to the points I was making as I was flaming. I also didn't expect my meltdown to become perhaps THE seminal event in U4Prez history, because I knew I had enemies before I flamed, but I had no idea how deeply obsessed they were over me. They didn't have Eric Gurr with his finger on the trigger any longer, waiting to shoot me down again should I get uppity and out of line. They no longer had the creator in their hip pockets. I had no idea every video Kempite would make thereafter would have Olivia as a tag. I had no idea Mduminiak would make MORE anti-Olivia videos. I certainly had no idea those two would make me the centerpiece of their talk shows and their history-making 67-minute couchfest. The blog I thought would last a week as the final burst of a nasty flame-out has become a five-week tour-de-force. There is definitely something to be said about leaving on your own terms.

I got Kempite and Mduminiak sending their lackeys over to my blog to write YOU'RE A WHORE and STUPID SLUT where they can. I got Kempite himself calling me a crackwhore on video, probably the stupidest thing a candidate trying to promote himself as one with answers instead of games could do. Now they have their minions coming to me, just like Osama bin Laden sends his stooges to Al-Jazeera with his latest video, begging me to debate them on their shows. Why would I do that? Since my departure, I've said what I wanted to say, without fear of a drop in ratings or suspension for vulgarity, and they've twisted themselves every which-a-way trying to deal with it all. They've put on the most savage attack campaign in U4Prez history, and for all their efforts, there's a petition being circulated for my re-instatement, with I believe more signatures than the U4Decency Petition, a petition co-authored by Kempite, a petition he long ago used as bathroom tissue. Why in the world would I suddenly give them the time of day? Sounds to me like I'm having my way with them.

I am in this position because I had a world-class flame-out last month, and U4prez is still feeling the effects of it.

I am tempted to jump onto one of these talk shows, or even start one of my own. Can you imagine, Kiss & Tell on the radio?

Trust me on this, though, candidates, there are 2500 candidates out there. The U4Prez world does not revolve around these two putzes. I've had invitations to do other shows, and I am strongly considering calling up the Johnny/John show when it gets off the ground, or perhaps take Rosty up on his invitation for the "DynamicDuo" to make an appearance. Who knows? I can tell you this, such an event will be on my own dime, not to give the Gruesome Twosome the sort of audience they've never enjoyed, but to have fun with a friend or two.

I have these options because I had the flame-out to end all flame-outs.

I'm not sure what the future will hold for Wiz. I hope we haven't seen the last of him. I hope he can rest assured, thought, that his moment of spontaneous combustion could certainly have been worse, and while I hope there won't ever be a repeat performance, in case it does so come to pass, I've offered him six points of advice for a bigger and badder flame-out.

And if you're sitting there, frustrated with U4Prez, and you have the gasoline in one hand and the lighter in the other, I encourage you to take my six points to heart. There's no point in lighting yourself on fire unless you intend on maximizing it, sucking every morsel of marrow out of that bone, making the most of your final moments in this world. Why be a fire when you can be a shooting star, streaking and screaming across the sky for all to deal with? I think you've got your work cut out for you if you insist on trying to top my effort, because, frankly speaking, when it comes to losing one's mind for all to watch, I've set the bar pretty high. Don't settle for mediocrity. Burn bright!

WEEK IN REVIEW V (Sept. 2-8, 2007)

2007-09-08T15:18:00.000-07:00

I congratulate Kempite for winning yet another video contest.

Relax, Anthony, this will only be a tangental attack on you today. I do have a couple of thoughts on the subject. It's news at U4Prez, and this is the Week in Review, hence my review and opinion of the week's events.

By tangental attack, I'm referring to the notion that was brought to my attention this week, that it seems every time Kempite puts up a new video, he tags it with the name Olivia. I was skeptical of this claim initially, surely Kempite doesn't have the same obsessive impulses concerning me that, say, Mduminiak has shown beyond a shadow of a doubt--fourteen videos directed at one person is pretty convincing stuff when trying to show obsession. Kempite is a pretty insecure fella to begin with, relying on bashing fellow homosexuals and women to make himself feel important. Such remarks are on the record for all to see, repeating them here is not the point. At least not this time around.

So I go look at YouTube, seeing if my latest video has been put on the U4Prez list yet (by the way, has anyone else experienced this problem with YouTube lately, that it takes literally days for the tags to take effect?), and I ruffle through the, at the time, 142 YouTube videos that readily come up with the U4Prez tag. Sure enough, I look down the list and see Kempite's videos. Don't have to do any digging, any in-depth research, I just have to scroll down and look at the tags.

And wouldn't you know it? EVERY SINGLE ONE HAS OLIVIA AS A TAG!

Now, to be fair, I've used Kempite's name as a tag maybe once or twice. When I made specific reference to Kempite, as I did with the Grinch video, I used his name. When I made slight reference to him and Mduminiak, I may have used their names one other time. Trust me, though, when I made videos for the Independents, or for TheWiz, or even for Kiss & Tell, I didn't use their names as tags. And there's two good reasons for it. One, THEY'RE NOT ABOUT THOSE TWO LOSERS! Believe it or not, not everything I do is with the handpicked president and his monkeyboy in mind. There are other things going on at U4Prez, believe it or not, than what those two knuckleheads do. And two, Kempite is not a popular tag. The only thing anyone on YouTube, the tens of millions who peek in, would want when they type Kempite in on the search box is Kempite himself. The Some Like It Hot video, on the other hand, included clips from Mo Rocca, Ann Coulter, Donald Trump, and Tommy Chong, among others. I included their names, hoping someone looking for them might want to take a look-see at my own work. In the past, I've used tags like sex and bush and chicks to get a few extra peeks, because they are more effective than the tag Kempite.

That's why I ever used Kempite as a tag. Do either of these reasons fit why Kempite would use the tag Olivia on every fucking video he ever makes? Let's explore.

The first reason, that not every Kempite video is about Olivia, does this hold water? While he has most definitely made videos that are either outright attacks on me or making reference to me is a slight way, there are some where he doesn't make mention of me at all. When he talks about eminent domain and a family in New Jersey losing their home, he makes not a single reference to a prostitute in Phoenix. When he jumps on a couch with Mduminiak just down the street from that house and makes a video, he talks about me for about twenty minutes. And yet, for both videos, there's my name. So it's not for the first reason, because he's constantly making videos about me, because he isn't. And yet, they all have Olivia for a tag.

The second reason is that Olivia must be a popular tag. I realize there is a current pop singer named Olivia and a children's set of books with the main character named Olivia, and even a pig named Olivia. For me, when I was looking for clips for recent videos, I looked up Olivia Newton-John, hoping to find something that works. Were I named Mary or Linda or something a little more traditional, it would make sense for those seeking Mary Tyler Moore or Linda McCartney to maybe see a new Kempite video, but alas, my blessed father and my dearly departed mother named me Olivia. I can't forsee who it would be such a popular tag.

Except in the U4Prez world, where the name Olivia, for better or for worse, has become rather popular.

In this realization, we can guess as to why Kempite is obsessed with Olivia and puts her name on all his videos. One possibility is that he knows no one will watch his videos without it. He typically will get about 30-40 viewings tops, and then that will be it. His buddies will watch them, maybe a couple others, but that's it. Olivia's been putting out fewer videos in less of a time frame, and she can rely on there bring a hundred viewings a month or more. The oldest have around 300 viewings. Compare that to the "historical" meeting of Kempiniak in a hotel room beyond the reach of their significant others, the 67-minute epic of cataclysmic proportions, the heart-stopping never-ending action of two nimrods on a couch, and I swear to you, after a month, aside from maybe the starting fragment any anything having to do with Olivia, how many hits do the others have, six? Nine? Kempite wizens up, puts Olivia as a tag, and boom, 130 hits in about two weeks AND a win in a video contest. The notion that no one will watch his videos without the Olivia tag apparently has some merit to it.

Another possibility is that he is trying to attach his videos to mine, so when someone does put "u4prez olivia" in the search box, they see his as well. Which makes sense, if you were trying to attack someone. If you use that search, I promise you, you will see a handful of negative adds against me as well. You will also see FOUR KEMPITE VIDEOS, dated from "1 week ago", in that search. FOUR VIDEOS IN A WEEK, ALL WITH OLIVIA FOR A TAG! At least one has nothing at all to do with me, maybe a passing reference no one caught. The others go at me, either subtlely or convincingly. As I said, I can see him doing it in he were on the attack, and he would want the negative videos to be intermingled with the ones I made. That would be one thing. Mduminiak made fourteen videos about me, and virtually every one has Olivia or OliviaLLC as a tag, but then again, I am the subject of those videos, and I am the obsession of his heart.

I'm not saying Kempite can't do this, or even that he shouldn't. But I do think it incredibly silly, the lengths this ghoul will go to to try to "get back" at Olivia, to think people will watch his video if it has my tag on it, whether it has anything to do with me or not. It's not illegal to do it, and hey, if he can get 137 hits on a video by putting my name as a tag, perhaps MORE of you should do it. It's just a slimy thing to do, a thing you would expect out of a weasel, not someone trying to promote himself as above petty gameplaying and prove he is not benefitting from the fix. He is proving himself to be a parasite, and using his words, he is a parasite sucking to the side of the reputation of a crackwhore.

But this is what you have come to expect from the Hard Right. There's no angle they won't try, no measure they won't explore, no tactic beneath their snake-bellied dignity. You have BigDaddy, the loudest and most obnoxious troll on U4Prez barking down the Hard Right's opposition so they can keep their hands clean, yet blocking those same opponents from responding to him. Mduminiak projects his bullshit onto me and hopes it will stick, and calling me obsessed for anything, after posting the number of videos he has about me, is ludicrous at best, disturbing at worst, but hypocritical either way. Kempite's trying to promote himself as the Idea Man, but the only great ideas he puts into practice at U4Prez are underhanded and slimy. And God Bless Iron Lady for defending each and every one of them each and every time, no matter how filthy the words are that come out of their mouth, no matter how disgusting the act.

Hell, compared to those hypocrites, asskissers, petty gameplayers, and cowards, Hawk and RogueJew look downright gentlemanly. Mere bashing of liberals and putting up false candidates so they can spew even more hate against their lefteinged foes is rather amateur compared to their Hard Right brethren. Never thought I would ever refer to someone who goes out of their way to bash a liberal a slacker, but Hawk, RogueJew, if this is all you have, if all you offer is freeper madness, you need to keep up with the rest in your clan before they think you're too weak to stick around. Dare I say, it, they might think you moderate, and with a little time and continued eroding of your thugly talents, they might end up voting for Mike Huckabee.

The horror!

I'm not going to complain about why Kempite won, except to say I think more U4Prez candidates need to start getting themselves involved in all the processes thereof. There's no reason why only about eight candidates out of 2500 should be putting out videos for a contest. Though I realize there are only about 50 active members at any given time, I guarantee you, that number would go up if they felt more involved in the process. Kempite wins these things because not enough of you are willing to get involved. The Hard Right runs amok and berates others into capitulation because not enough candidates are willing to take a stand. Pretty much anyone with a working computer, camcorder, or even a decent cellphone, can make videos. Don't spend any money on this, just realize that you probably already possess the tools to do so. That's when I started making videos, when I went, duh, I have Windows MovieMaker on my computer already! The video contest, that's one thing. I figured I would be seeing about 20 or 30 talk blog shows, and we're up to, what, eight? MejicoJohn and JohnnyMars are coming up with their own formula, and I think, by the time the general elections come, you'll see a few new faces, some with some real talent!

I've got my blog, as does Maditude and RogueJew and a few others. This works for me, using this blog as a sort of new and opinion source about u4Prez itself.

Everyone needs to find their niche, their shtick. U4Prez won't survive if all the really good ideas come from Kempite. Efferiss had a golden idea of a Debate Room and holding regulated debates, and it seemed like that might take off into being a regular thing. A bunch of us tried setting up organizations within U4Prez, some with more success than others. I've had success in my campaign, and now in my anti-campaign, because I see U4Prez differently, and I am running a very unorthodox campaign, and have from day one. Every candidate has to find something that works for them, and they need to find ways to not only improve their platforms, but to make them accessible and even understood by the rest of us. Trust me, some scoff at this, but as a reader, I truly don't read anyone's platform, top to bottom, and the longer it is, the less I read of it; I think most candidates are looking for that candidate that can be both complex and simple, the ones who take this tough job of selling yourself and making it look easy. THAT, my friends, is the definition of professionalism.

Don't be afraid. Try new things. I've said this all along, this is the perfect place to be creative and to try those same sort of dirty tricks you've seen the Big Boys try. Kempite certainly tries them, even though he now has the impossible task of trying to convince you he's above dumb little games. Some things work better than others.

But it's on YOU if you don't try them.

That's it for this week. Nope, Kempite, I'm not going to talk about how you thought it would be a grand gesture to use your space as winner of the video contest to promote your Tony4Prez memorial, potentially making some wonder if the remark Olivia makes about you using dead candidates to enhance your reputation really is true or not. Not this time, Kemp, I'll let you off the hook this once.

All My Mister Olivia's

2007-09-06T21:06:00.000-07:00

When I get in the spirit of making videos, I usually do three or four in rapid succession. This was downloaded a few moments ago onto YouTube, but like before, before the U4Prez tag takes effect and it is on the list of now 140-odd videos with such a designation, it was here first.

For my friend, TheWiz, here is "Don't Go Breaking My Heart".

I've gotten to know Wiz over the last few months. Initially he was a wisecracking Republican who seemed to have just the right mix of caustic wit and cynicism to slice anyone in half with a simple quip. His tongue was sharp, and he had no problem slicing and dicing anyone at a given moment. To a degree, he resented the bigger names at U4Prez, including me, and he had a way of putting me in my place without a bludgeon, but with the surgical elegance of a specialist's scalpel.

These days, he himself one of those bigger names at U4Prez, he was the interim Independent Leader upon my resignation, and he is the most recent Independent Primary winner.

His recent accomplishments have most likely been overshadowed by his position in this holy war the Hard Right started and Olivia is finishing. On one hand, he is the genius who has come up with a ton of Photoshop masterpieces, and I am proud to incorporate them into my videos; all I need to do is tell him I'm making a video, and he seems to read my mind and present me with nine or ten incredible works of art, literally overnight. On the other hand, because we have collaborated and become close, he has taken a LOT of heat from the very candidates who once came after me, and he has received an abundance of unfair abuse, especially from BigDaddy.

I've called BigDaddy the biggest coward around, and everytime--that's not hyperbole, EVERY FUCKING TIME--I get on U4Prez and poke around, there's BigDaddy, doing exactly what I tell you all the time he does, browbeating his perceived opponents with relentless sarcasm and insults. He'll say a few rather nasty things to you, then he'll block you so you can't respond on his comment board, which is just about the most chickenshit thing you could do on U4Prez. He'll whisper a few things, saying he's got the goods on you, hoping the mere thought of impropriety will shut you up. He'll present the dumbest items of evidence, and then put your name on his GOTCHA list, just like the notches he puts on his bedpost to keep track of all the girls he's nailed in his life.

That's nothing new. I've talked about this ad nauseum, which, for my mouthbreathing friend, is Latin for "til we puke". Why you candidates don't ignore him is beyond me, the more you let him rant, the more encouraged he gets. This is nothing you don't already know.

Going at Wiz and taking personal potshots at him breaks my heart, and when I peek in, and there's Daddy saying some rather cruel things about him, about having a few too many, I want to jump in there and rip him a new one. I can't, and I won't until after the general election. He is such a fucking coward, he knows he can't touch me, so he'll go after those close to me.

And if the point is to hurt me by browbeating those I adore, it's working, I'm not going to lie. Copulate, HAK, Wiz, they all can take care of themselves, and they put up a fight, but Daddy does not stop. At least a parent who beats his children usually stops when they start to cry, not Daddy, he does not rest until he can taste blood.

I've made it a point to never go at a candidate personally. I don't bring in what I know of them from the outside world. Everyone has a sore spot, and I don't use it against them just because I can. I bag on candidates for their words and deeds in the U4Prez world, and the line is drawn there. That is why I made it a point to never betray a PM. And that is what separates me from my adversaries. Kempite has made it clear a PM in his hands is a bomb he will eventually drop on you. Hedrick is so eager to betray your PM to him, he can't pass it on fast enough. BigDaddy, absolutely nothing is off limits. He has no heart. He cares for nothing except for the GOTCHA. He is the quintessential Hard Right thug. Scruples are mere obstacles to be brushed aside.

And unless you are indeed part of this Hard Right cabal, it's only a matter of time before he stabs you in the back and laughs as you bleed and die.

Witness MejicoJohn. Up until a couple of days ago, he and Daddy had at least a tolerance for one another. Everyone loves John, everyone should. He doesn't have anything bad to say, he's having fun watching us all take this way too seriously as he sits there in Nuevo Laredo, a beer in one hand and a cig in the other. In the great Kempite-Olivia spat, I saw him as a smiling neutral, not really caring who wins, just enjoying the heck out of watching us gouge each other's eyes out.

A couple of days ago, John started sporting a new Wiz Photoshop work of art, John and me as Bonnie and Clyde. There we were, the DynamicDuo, with another Wiz masterpiece as the avatar. I like everything Wiz does, but this one was smooth, elegant, classy. It clicked, like everything else he does.

BigDaddy saw that and started turning on MejicoJohn. Apparently my face is like a red cape to the bull that is BigDaddy. Every time he sees it, or sees anyone associated with it, he loses his mind. The same fury he's previously used against Copulate and Wiz, he's now aimed at MejicoJohn.

I've watched him really go at Copulate and HAK and Wiz, calling them Mr. Olivia, taking orders from me. Personally, I think it's nothing more than projection. Much like Mduminiak has made FOURTEEN VIDEOS about me, yet has the nerve to say I'm the one who's obsessed, BigDaddy is projecting his own flaws onto others. He makes no bones about being Kempite's bloodhound, he goes against his own beliefs to play GOTCHA games with the rest of us in the name of protecting his significant other. He has made homophobic remarks of his own all over U4Prez and even on this blog, just as Kempite has made gaybashing remarks against Bluproject, yet he has the hypocritical gall to relentlessly bludgeon Copulate as a faghater. He has made remarks promoting wifebeating, yet he has the nerve to call me, an ex-wife, a bully. He sees all these candidates enjoying my company and conversation, and he is out to get every single one of them!

I do intend on returning after the general election, and if you dare to talk to me or have my picture on your profile, watch out, BigDaddy will slit your throat and look at you as if he did you a favor. His complete concern is with me. ME ME ME ME ME ME.

Now, I am one who talks a big talk about personal integrity. I try to set a standard and then maintain it, not make excuses as to why I can't. For example, after really giving Eric Gurr the business for handpicking Kempite to be president and going on his show, I could have looked the other way when he signed the petition to get me back onto U4Prez, but no, it's still favoritism, and moderators cannot fraternize, period. That was the argument I made when I quit, and I would be a hypocrite if I made some excuse to somehow let Eric off the hook. So I ripped into him again, even if he was trying to be nice to me. THAT'S integrity, consistency, scruples, and a few other things the Hard Right ghouls will never understand.

Follow me, if Kempite were really so gung-ho about cleaning up U4Prez, if Mduminiak was really tired of the gameplaying, why don't they reel BigDaddy in? Their big beef was with me, and I haven't been a candidate for a month. Daddy is on U4Prez every day, bullying candidates left and right. I see new candidates get irked by it. I've watched those who have nothing to do with it, they ask him if that's all he's about. If they want to really clean up U4Prez like they say they do, why don't they start by taking care of one of their own?

They won't do it, because Daddy serves an important purpose for Kempiniak. With Daddy willing barking down everyone, they don't have to do the dirty work themselves. He's doing them a favor. Kempite doesn't have to directly deal with Copulate over alleged homophobic remarks, he can just tangentally insult him, knowing BigDaddy will willing beat Copulate down. They won't reel the bastard in because he is THEIR bastard!

And that renders all their talk about wanting to get back to the issues 100% horseshit. If it's Olivia and her friends, it's wrong. If it's BigDaddy and Mduminiak, it's fine. That, candidates, is called a double-standard, and I am calling them out for it.

If you are going to go after me for any alleged bullying I might have done, and not do anything about BigDaddy, then consider me looking you dead in the eye and calling you a hypocrite. Yes, Kempite, Mduminiak, I know you read this. You two are fucking hypocrites, and you better start taking care of what you and yours do around here LONG before you worry about anything I might say or do.

What you might think of me is one thing. Copulate brings a lot of heat onto himself. But why is BigDaddy going after TheWiz and now MejicoJohn with such tenacity? Since when is MejicoJohn and TheWiz the kind of communist pinko traitors Daddy used to accuse me of being? Last I checked, they were both right-leaning Independents, maybe not right-wing enough for you guys, but conservative nonetheless.

And since when does the rest of U4Prez look on and ignore it when John gets berated by ANYONE?

I know Kempite doesn't care about anyone but himself, he's said so on his show, if I were attacking anyone else, he wouldn't lift a finger to defend you. Do these hard Right hooligans really care so little about someone I thought was as generally loved as MejicoJohn that they would allow their goon BigDaddy to beat him down, and not lift a finger? Are the only ones the Hard Right looks after are the Hard Right?

If, for whatever reason, your name becomes attached to mine, you can bet your lucky stars that BigDaddy will come around to hump your shin until his eyes roll back. Do you really expect Kempite and Mduminiak to give a rat's ass about it? They talk about being above such petty gameplaying, when they were the ones who initiated it here in the first place. Do you honestly think they care about anyone but themselves? Hell, they probably told BigDaddy directly to go after you. They are probably laughing at you for it. Like Mike says, you CHOSE to have BigDaddy make love to your leg. When you leave in frustration, do you honestly expect them to care that you're gone? More likely, expect them to give each other high-five's.

I've learned that your actions at U4Prez speak louder than your platform, and your conduct is as much an indicator of your presidential abilities as is your ideology. When Mduminiak puts out two dozen attack ads against various candidates, that speaks louder than his verbal yammering about wanting to run a professional campaign. When Kempite says he is a serious candidate with all the answers, yet he laughingly calls me a crackwhore on video, exactly how serious can this poser be? And when they talk about how Olivia is such a detriment to U4Prez society, yet they pat BigDaddy on the head and give him a MilkBone for attacking those closest to me, exactly what is it they really stand for? When they say nice things to MejicoJohn, yet unleash their attack dog on him, I think them a little more vicious than their pretty words lead you on.

Your platform is more than just where you stand on given issues. It is a contract you make with the rest of the U4Prez world. It is your way of saying, this is my code of conduct, this is how you must judge me. This is what I stand for, and you have not only the right, but the responsibility, to jump my shit should I stray. I took the time to write this, it should mean something to me. So when I talk about leadership, and you catch me acting like a fool, call me out. When I talk about integrity, yet act in a way that proves my lack of it, I can't blame anyone but myself for being caught.

The first thing you see on BigDaddy's profile is a list of GOTCHA's. That should tell you right away the level of integrity this coward has and what he stands for. He doesn't believe half the crap on his profile, it's there to try to convince you otherwise. He'll turn on his own platform to GET an opponent, he's done it in the past for all to see.

He just backstabbed MejicoJohn, merely for putting my image on his avatar.

He can spin all he wants on this. Actions speak so much louder. He's sold out fellow Republicans and turned their reputations to sewage in his quest for the GOTCHA. He's now going after new meat--and rather viciously--because the sight of Olivia enrages him. He's turned on acquaintances and has done so again.

And when he comes after you, are they hypocrites who talk about being serious candidates with serious solutions going to lift a finger to stop him?

Or is Olivia going to have to jump in and call them all out on it?

As far as I am concerned, with notable exceptions, every male at U4Prez is Mr. Olivia. Are you really going to go after over two thousand Mr. Olivia's, BigDaddy? Pick your fights carefully, you never know, one day you'll wake up, and your worst nightmare will have come true. Two thousand profiles, all with Olivia on them. Are you going to fight them all, just like you're trying to fight them all now, when there are only maybe four or five "friends" of mine you attack relentlessly?

Those who call me out for my mouth, yet do nothing to stop BigDaddy, are hypocrites, plain and simple.

New Video, Same Eric Gurr

2007-09-03T11:43:00.000-07:00

While YouTube is processing my latest video, another collaboration with TheWiz, I thought it would be neat to try to beat them to the punch. Debuting right here on Kiss & Tell, here is "Some Like It Hot".

The video is to dramatize the skirmish going on between the Hard Right on one hand, and myself and my cohorts on the other. I've said it many time in many ways, but this battle is not over party or ideology, but for the direction of U4Prez. Will it turn into every other political message board on the Internet, where conservatives and liberals play their petty games with one another, and victory is measured by how annoying and catty one can be as he is getting others to quit, or will it become something vibrant, living, the kind of democracy we allegedly promote? This is just my gut feeling on this, but I think almost everyone wants to revitalize U4Prez and return it to how it was at the start of the summer, when there was hope, when you could extemporize without being ganged up on, when GOTCHA games were dismissed for what they were, when negative attacks at least had some humor to them, and when such items like vote count manipulation and favoritism weren't a strong undercurrent waiting to bubble up to the surface and erupt, as it most certainly has.

Even I am in awe with just how viciously I attacked Eric Gurr. I don't withdraw any of the harsh words I've said about him over the last month; on the contrary, I am going to add to them. I would be a hypocrite if I didn't.

My big beef with Eric is, as creator, his function cannot include buddying up and playing U4Prez with the rest of us. Instead of going onto talk blog shows and trying to get his favorites on real television, his job is to promote an equitable playing field, a stable infrastructure, and a working template for his pride and joy to take flight.

I truly appreciate Eric wanting to be an active part of the U4Prez world. I feel it too. I quit almost a month ago, and yet I am more attached to U4Prez than ever. No one happily quits this place. There are several former members that could possibly be swayed to return under certain conditions, including me.

But in all this time of me jumping on Eric's case and really sticking it to him, I would have thought he got the hint, that if he wanted his baby to continue to grow and prosper, he couldn't jump in with the kiddies. He would have to keep the place up to spec. He would have to present an appearance that was aboveboard and not susceptible to rumor and accusation. I would have thought, with how viciously I left U4Prez and started this blog, with how his corporate bosses snatched him back for him to remain behind the scenes, with how many complaints there have been concerning vote count trustworthiness and favoritism, he would have learned.

For as much as I appreciate him signing the petition to reactivate the OliviaLLC profile and let me back onto U4Prez, I have to tell him, he hasn't learned a damn thing.

I cried foul when I saw Eric jumping onto Kempite's talk show, and I laid out my case for his favoritism. We can debate the merits therein, but that is how I felt at the time, and I still do, that anyone behind the scenes should not be part of the U4Prez world, and the moderators should not be in any position where they can influence and manipulate outcomes.

Let me be clear on this. Eric Gurr signing this petition to reinstate me is the EXACT SAME THING as going on Kempite's talk show.

And I would be a complete hypocrite for not pointing this out. It would be a gross double-standard on my part to cry bloody murder when Eric befriends Kempite in one aspect, then thank him for befriending me in another.

Nobody had to point this out to me. If there were such grumblings at U4Prez, I am oblivious to them. I came to this realization when I saw his name on the petition.

I realize how shitty this all must sound. One might think, Olivia's winning her war, she's as popular as ever, she should thank her lucky stars and accept being brought back and show a little fucking appreciation. Maybe that's the way I should take it, but I can't, because I have already laid down the gauntlet of favoritism. I have stated plainly that Eric has shown it to me, he's shown it to Kempite, and I am not going to allow him to play it again with me.

Whether or not this takes some of my personal momentum away, that remains to be seen. There is a principle at stake, and I was willing to resign over it. I played the favoritism card, I accused Eric and Kempite for being in cahoots, and I simply refuse to accuse others of such a crime, yet turn a blind eye when it's to my advantage. That is called hypocrisy, and instead of trying to rationalize it by trying to say it's two separate issues, or letting something go that others may not have even caught or even care about, I have to speak up.

Where was Eric when Catbus quit? Or GESmith? Elected_Al? Where did he show any regret for these three candidates, all with a degree of gravitas attached to their nomenclatures, all having contributed to the U4Prez world? Why didn't Eric fight for them? In the same way, he should remain consistent and not try to woo me back.

See, this is why I'm not coming back today.

And this is why, if I do come back after the general election, I am going to call on the president and anyone of stature within U4Prez to draw up a Constitution. If Eric isn't going to hold to his job of impartial moderator, we need to do it for him.

If Eric decides to let me in, as the creator and moderator allowing a candidate to rejoin and to have the profile she previously used unsuspended, there is a way for it to be done. That way, however, is not to sign a petition penned by Maditude, a candidate, and designed for other candidates to sign.

Eric, you are not a candidate! I know you want to be part of this world you created, because it is a neat little place. It has its own energy and feel, it's deciding its own course, it's vibrant and alive, and right now it's going through a tough time, because you're admiring your handiwork, but forgetting the most important thing. You are the creator. You have a job to do to make U4Prez run smoothly. I've been very critical about this. Basic bodily functions still cannot be performed. You have a vote count system that swings back and forth between two concepts, and whichever one you choose for a given day, that's what you go with. You don't need to spend $25,000 for a new program. You just need to think it through, write out a system, and stick to your guns on it, no matter who ends up winning. This is why the accusation of favoritism runs rampant, because no one can trust the voting system. It is too easily manipulated. When that happens, the concepts of negligence and favoritism follow suit. No one is asking you to spend your life savings to solve the problem. All that is being asked is consistency. You cannot be consistent, though, when you try to play candidate, and then neglect these nagging demands.

I've come to realize God is a very lonely guy, having created the earth and people but can't go out for a beer with them. I'm sure he would like to shake Nelson Mandela's hand, or be backstage at a Metallica concert, or make love to the most beautiful women on earth like Zeus used to. But he can't and won't, he has the whole cosmos to control, he can't jump in with the kiddies, no matter how bad he might want to.

I'm not saying Eric Gurr is God, but I am saying, in creating something wonderful, there is a price to pay. For Eric, that is letting the candidates run their course, without him getting involved.

I truly appreciate Eric signing the petition, probably just as much or more so as when Kempite appreciated Eric coming onto his talk show.

But both were items Eric shouldn't have taken part in in the first place. After a month of Olivia being on his back about these things, he still hasn't learned.

And I would be a complete hypocrite if I didn't call him out on it.

WEEK IN REVIEW IV (Aug. 26 - Sept. 1, 2007)

2007-09-01T12:26:00.001-07:00

I've heard rumblings about Demopublic stepping down as Independent Leader, which is a shame. The Independents still can't catch a break. I think it was RSobien who said the Independents don't need a leader, they need someone who gives them the best chance of winning, who makes sure their interests are protected, and who will fight rigorously to gain them exposure and their rightful place alongside the Republicans and Democrats. Demopublic certainly was someone I deemed able to do exactly this. This isn't gladhanding, this comes from working with her, knowing of her abilites.

BigDaddy has apparently declared himself Independent and is seeking the Indyleader position. I know the Independents aren't nearly as stupid as the Hard Right, especially BigDaddy, makes them out to be. To have a candidate change parties two days before party leadership elections occur so he can run is certainly his entitlement, just as it's his entitlement to lose horribly.

My biggest complaint about Hillary Clinton is that she's a carpetbagger. She saw Patrick Moynihan seeking to retire from his Senate seat in New York, so she jumped to establish residency there, accept Moynihan's endorsement, and sail to a victory. I would have a very tough time ever voting for her because of this. She is an opportunist.

I wasn't a big Barack Obama supporter in 2004, but I was very opinionated when it came to the Republicans putting up Alan Keyes, from Maryland, to run for the US Senate seat in Illinois. Where these candidates stood, at that time, I really didn't care. The fact that the NRC thought so little of Illinois Republicans that they needed to go outside the state to find a Republican--a BLACK Republican at that, wanting to balance out Obama's skin color--was gross enough. But the audacity that they would think the voters of Illinois would vote against their local interests for the sake of party victory was basically calling them stupid. Keyes was trounced, and I was happy that Illinois said NO to carpetbagging.

The Independents will do the same, because they're not nearly as stupid as BigDaddy and the Hard Right think they are.

I don't think Independents should vote for just anyone to keep BigDaddy out. They should talk amongst themselves and come up with a degree of solidarity on this one, before the election happens. They should pick someone who has been with the "party" (it's still frustrating calling Independents a party, but that's U4Prez, what can you do?) for a good long while. I don't think anyone had a real problem with TheWiz being the interim party leader or Demopublic winning the election, they'd both come from different parties months before taking the helm. They worked with Independents. They rose through the ranks. They defined for themselves what it was to be an Independent, and they could do so because they had the experience of being so.

BigDaddy is an opportunist who hopes the loudest and most obnoxious voice will win. Never mind that he believes Independents like CoryF and Icababe and RSobien are too stupid to run a party they've been a party of since last spring. Never mind his lone reputation is to be the rabid bloodhound the Hard Right loves to unleash and tear into their opponents. Never mind that he champions the two-party system and will do so with his very last breath. Let's forget for a moment that he has no experience as an Independent in the first place, yet has the gall to think he can tell other Independents what to think and campaign on.

The real problem with BigDaddy is that he deeply trusts in the stupidity of the Independents, that he will be voted in, even though he is against everything Independents stand for.

Prove him wrong!

I get notes once in a while from candidates who want me to return to U4Prez as a candidate. They see the grayness that clouds the sky therein, they remember better days, they know there are problems at U4Prez, and they ask me if this is just a game I'm playing. Even Kempite and Mduminiak, that Gruesome Twosome, even the Hard Right and all their satellite candidates, they want me back so they can come after me with renewed zeal, to prove I was a fraud, a loser, a weakling who could talk tough but could not take the heat when it really came to it.

There is currently a petition, started by Maditude, to get me to come back to U4Prez. You can find it at http://www.petitiononline.com/mad90107/petition.html.

Let me speak on this before I answer about me coming back. I underestimated my influence on U4Prez. As I left in early August, I knew I was a contender, or at least as much of a contender that the fix would allow for. My physical pull on U4Prez was felt when I write my first two articles on this blog, leading to the demotion of Eric Gurr to moderator, lending instant credibility to the accusations of favoritism that many have thought of and confided in me, but would never say out loud. I honestly thought the blog would burn itself out, but there were more readers this week than ever. I was even counting on the Hard Right ignoring this blog altogether, believing what I was telling was just a bunch of mean-spirited lies. Quite the contrary, they still can't keep my name out of their mouths, whether it's in their talk shows, in their browbeatings they consider debate on U4Prez itself, in comments on this blog, in a growing amount of videos, or in recorded pillow talk on a couch in some hotel in Western Pennsylvania. Some like me, others dislike me, but one thing is for sure, no one can shut up about me.

This petition breaks my heart, because I don't deserve this level of respect and even love. I am a disgruntled former candidate who doesn't know enough to leave. I have waged a war with elements of what I refer to as the Hard Right since the day I came here. I've been known for my temper as much as for my ideas, for my sarcasm as much as for my humor, and for my lack of morality as much as for my abundance of enthusiasm.

The petition tells me you get it, that what I'm doing is not just me playing psychobitch, yelling my head off in the wilderness. Whether it gets five for five hundred signatures, that's not important to me. What matters to me is that you get the point.

I don't want to tell you such things are wasted.

But I need to stick to my guns on this. It's been six weeks, and you still can't delete a fucking photo? Gurr allegedly spent $25,ooo on a new votecount program, which I believe is throwing money at a problem that could have been solved with ethics instead of cash. I really don't know if the fix is still in, if Gurr as a moderator can still pull things the way he wishes to. He tried to cash his lottery ticket in way too soon, he wanted this to be a reality TV show, and who knows, it might be. But he saw this too much as his meal ticket and not enough as what it's professed to be--a microcosm of democracy. If elections here are more suspect than they are in Iraq, how in the world can anyone boast about the democracy we enjoy here? No one thinks the system for vote counts is kosher, at best I hear candidates saying it has flaws but whatever, at worst you have me screaming bloody murder.

This isn't a personal feud between me and Eric Freakin Gurr. This whole war is about what U4Prez stands for. If the candidates want to settle for mediocrity, where partisan gangs from both the right and left play their little freeper games like they do on every other message board on the Internet, where elections can't be trusted and some don't really care, you will get the U4Prez you deserve. But if you want U4Prez to return to its former glory, if you want the shadow of doubt to be removed from elections, if you want candidates to be able to prosper instead of fear the hooligans, if you want the place to grow instead of reading every other day about another popular candidate quitting, then you're going to have to fight for it.

Some say freedom isn't free, and I agree. It's priceless! And we need to return to the idea of U4Prez being a working democracy in and of itself. The vote count system needs to be transparent and consistent, not whatever the mods want to make it into. It should be deemed as the most precious and flawless jewel is the collection. It should be sacred, untainted, and on display for all to witness how it works.

I will not seek to be reinstated at U4Prez until after the general election. This election cycle has become far too polluted. The petition, though, will be very helpful in getting me back to U4Prez thereafter, and I would like to try again in 2008. If the signees can get the powers that be to agree with it, I would love to come back, most likely in December 2007, and try for the 2008 presidency.

Upon such reinstatement, I would call on President Kempite (or whoever else wins the presidency, I don't see how my argument on the fix could ever change) to call on all previous party leaders and primary winners to convene and author a U4Prez Constitution, whereby the candidates agree on the basic functions of U4Prez, instead of letting the moderators just do whatever they like. Such a move would give the candidates more power than the moderators. The candidates are what U4Prez is about, not Eric Gurr, and not the moderators. We should lay out our own voting system, and educate the moderators on how we want it implimented, not the other way around. From the general election in early November to January 1, 2008, there should be enough time to put together such a Constitution and have it ratified. Such a thing, however, cannot be discussed until we have a President. Hence, the President should be someone who can actually preside, not just the most popular, not the one who can browbeat his opponents the best or call names the best. The President will have real responsibility to U4Prez, and how he handles this responsiblity will determine if he will be re-elected. I don't recommend a detailed and broad governmental infrastructure, but I would recommend we all start thinking about what a President here really does, if he needs a Vice President or cabinet heads. All such suggestions should pertain to the functioning of U4Prez. In essence, after the general election, we should take the time to solve the problems of U4Prez OURSELVES, and not leave it to the moderators. We will establish what powers the president has and doesn't have.

But that's way down the road. Just stick that thought in your pocket for the time being. I would like to be part of such a Convention, if reinstated after the general election.

However, I will never turn down a write-in vote, and at this year's general election, if the parties produce three nominees you simply cannot stomach, I would be honored if you were to vote for me. I still hold a torch for the Independents, but there are plenty of candidates from all parties that I would love to assist and endorse. At the end of the day, however, if the process produces three nominees you cannot support, like I always say, don't vote for the lesser of two evils, or in this case, possibly three evils. I would welcome you throwing your vote away by voting for and thinking of me.

Until then, I will continue to do what I've been doing, namely, fighting the good fight against the forces of evil, and having fun doing it. I will continue to hold the moderators' feet to the fire. I will report the goings-on at U4Prez as I see them occurring, and I invite your input, critical or complimentary. Together, we can make U4Prez into whatever we want it to be. We can be limited only by our creativity, or we can be weighed down by boundaries of our own pettiness. We can fight for a sincere infrastructure, or we can be apathetic and let it continue to crumble.

And don't vote for BigDaddy, he's a carpetbagger and a jerk.

New Republican Leadership

2007-08-30T17:51:00.000-07:00

Let me make this perfectly clear. The U4Prez GOP is NOT the Hard Right, and the Hard Right is NOT the U4Prez GOP. The Hard Right is a subset of the most pugnacious, mean-spirited, thuggish elements within the U4Prez world. There are about six within the center of this cabal, along with maybe a dozen others who circulate around the center. Twelve electrons assisting their buddies in the nucleus. A neat little ionized carbon-12 atom. How quaint.

They are an element, a radioactive substance within the GOP. They are not the GOP itself.

And I think it's time we start to separate the toxic waste from the rest of the party, for the party's sake. It's time to stop thinking the Hard Right runs the Republican Party, let alone the whole of U4Prez.

For as much as the Heir-to-the-Presidency Kempite and his monkeyboy Mduminiak seem to dominate the party and do nothing for it except use it as a vehicle for their own expression, believe it or not, there are other Republicans out there. Strange, there are Republicans who are NOT part of the Hard Right, who are NOT among the satellites revolving around the Gruesome Twosome, and whose lips are NOT chapped from kissing their well-fed asses for months on end.

Yes, I said it. Iron Lady is an asskisser. Roguejew, asskisser. Hawk, asskisser. BigDaddy, BIGTIME asskisser. The entire Liberty Caucus is little more than a ten-member glory hole the Big Two use constantly to pleasure themselves, and since the ascendency of Mduminiak to party leader, they've tried to use the entire Republican Party the same way.

Is it any wonder why you had big-name Republicans shouting furiously when Mduminiak set up his version of Kempite's Liberty Caucus and called it the Steering Committee? Was it any wonder they suffered defections? Cramming 700 Republicans into one box is a risky proposition to begin with, but to have them all serve at the behest of Mduminiak, without question, I can't see there being anything BUT rebellion.

So now these two want to play clean. They waged war against Olivia, got spanked over and over, and now want to convince you all they had nothing to do with it. They would have you believe they are above the petty bullying Olivia allegedly plays, yet do nothing to reel in their own bloodhounds. On one hand, they tell you Olivia is a nobody and her blog has no merit, and yet they somehow manage to post on this blog and make videos about it. They call me obsessed, yet MDuminiak is now up to FOURTEEN videos on me, including a 67-minute diatribe on who they call a crackwhore. It's a good thing these goons are two-faced, it's tough trying to convince the public of two opposing ideas at once. Saying two different things out of the same mouth is tough.

George Orwell called that doublethink.

If you're tired of these hooligans and their satellites running the show, if you're tired of them saying one thing and then doing the opposite, if you're tired of having watched them for months berate other candidates and continue to wage war on a candidate who resigned THREE WEEKS AGO, yet come back and tell you they're squeaky clean, I must remind you, candidates at U4Prez, you have the ultimate power. It's a foregone conclusion that Kempite will be coronated in November, but you can make him a very unpopular appointee. No one is putting a gun to your head and making you talk to these thugs. No one is putting a knife to your children's throats and saying, vote for Hawk or the kid dies.

Well, maybe they are, I wouldn't put it past the Hard Right to slit a child's throat.

Believe it or not, despite their domination of the GOP, there are some very qualified candidates within the Republican Party. They are not part of the toxic waste the Hard Right offers. They are opinionated, learned candidates, who do not need to browbeat perceived opposition to get a point across. They don't get themselves involved in this grand game of GOTCHA the minions at the Hard Right play. They don't protect their buddies, come hell or high water. They are not blindly loyal. They seek broadbased support for who they are, not for what posse they roll with. They are serious, intelligent, charming individuals who deserve your attention. It is they who should be able to rise to the top of the Republican ranking, who should be up for run-off positions, and who should be the talk of the GOP. Instead of crying about what Olivia says, they remain focused. Instead of playing partisan bullshit games and engaging in liberal-bashing, they know the real merit is in perfecting their own platforms and selling them in the marketplace of ideas that U4Prez used to be.

It can be that again, folks. Kick the Hard Right to the curb. It's as simple as that.

That's all well and good, Olivia, but just who are you referring to when you talk about these alternative Republicans? Copulate and HAK? They're in your corner, of course you're going to prop them up. Anyone else?

Well, let's just think out loud.

Hedrick? He sold his soul to BigDaddy a while back, he's definitely a Hard Right satellite.

Friday? He's part of that Steering Committee, and while he does represent himself in a professional and eloquent manner, he was very defensive when the GOP was under attack when Mduminiak put the Politburo--I mean, Steering Committee--together, so I have to believe his stance is more geared for party loyalty than individual liberty, protecting the cat who gave him his elite position instead of promoting conservative ethics.

Goffdale? I really like Goffdale--and mind you, I like a lot of Republicans personally, but this article is not about who makes me giggle, it's about who in the GOP is part of the Hard Right, and who is a bona fide alternative to the Republican thugs--but he is also a member of the Steering Committee and was also defending Mduminiak, deflecting criticism instead of engaging in honest debate. Although he might be the most amiable among the SC appointees, he's still protecting his buddy instead of telling it like it is.

Smashey? I REALLY like Smashey. But he's been suckered into this little war. Probably the classiest and most diplomatic rightwinger in the Liberty Caucus, he has been in the awkward position of having to defend Kempite's practices, Hawk's crude grunts, and the LC's aura of elitism and their flawed mission statement. I feel bad for him, along with the liberal members of the LC, being just a rubberstamp, having to defend the LC and their Hard Right elements.

Mikep1990? When everything happened concerning MejicoJohn on the Fifth of July, MikeP came up to me and told me he really respected what I had done, standing up for him. He didn't engage in bickering with me while I was trying to assist John, he wasn't trying to kick my shins out from under me like Musicman and IronLady and BigDaddy were. He appreciated the effort.

Musicman? I tried for the longest time to befriend him, but in the end, I have to call it like I see it. Music is a Hard Right satellite. I don't mind conservatives talking about conservatism, that's great. He was the first to take himself off the Antipartisan Pledge, allegedly because he has a problem with my tactics. While he has a problem with my tactics, he has no problem whatsoever with his Hard Right buddies doing the very same thing. Musicman believed fighting fire with fire was wrong, and few candidates frustrated me more than him over this. I still swear it, I still swear on that Pledge, and any angry words I said were never out of partisan gameplaying. Musicman merely repeated the Hard Right talking point that because I was aggressively pointing out the partisan crap in one of his buddies' statements, I must be partisan as well. His inability to think for himself, his willingness to blindly follow whatever the Hard Right says, proves to me he is one of those satellite candidates I was talking about, not really interested in much except to protect his Hard Right buddies against the onslaught of mean ol' Olivia. For the longest time I called him a pussy because he loved to poke at me, and when I made my position clear, he'd call that badgering and run to his buddies for help.

Ghost? Musicman's shadow, and pretty much everything I said about Music can go for him.

Nickgold? A very affable fellow, I just think he's too cozy with his buddies on the Hard Right. As such, he enjoys the perks of such an association, like membership on the Steering Committee. He's not nearly as blunt as Hawk or RogueJew in terms of stating his dislike for liberals, he's a little more sly about it. He's not a Hard Right goon, as I don't see him go after anyone with real aggression, just an occasional smarmy comment about the left, and that's it.

RightWay79? This is one of those candidates who will chat with you all day, really let you develop your argument, and even feed you questions to keep you going. I adore the chats I had with him, and maybe it's because we look at a situation differently that I appreciated his disagreement. I've never seen him defend the Hard Right, never seen him jump on a grenade to defend the goons. He deserves a modicum of respect and honor, and though he is a member of the Steering Committee, he deserves being noticed.

Jimmycart? For a while, I honestly thought Jimmy was Kempite himself. I appreciate conservatism, but here was a kid who seemed to follow Kempite around, backing him up, even when attacking Olivia. While Kempite would make an insulting crack, Jimmy would play innocent and say PROSTITUTES ARE BAD, YOU'RE AN EVIL LADY. Since then, Jimmy has emerged in his own right, creating his own videos, projecting his own personna. I don't see him having the same enthusiasm Tony4Prez or CHASE have, but he is certainly intelligent enough. He's young, and I hope he takes U4Prez as a place to hone his debating skills, not merely to bash liberals. Being a satellite of the Hard Right, though, I doubt Hawk and Mduminiak are the kind of role models someone seeking something other than partisan bullshit needs.

There's ten Republicans, some I spoke well of, some negative, but all with a degree of honesty. And while I try not to finger someone as guilty by association, there is something to be said about the company a candidate keeps. I adore RightWay79, and he deserves to be in a position where he can make a difference at U4Prez, and I truly don't want to always point out his position on the Steering Committee as evidence of being part of the Hard Right, but he does keep himself in close proximity to those Hard Right elements. I encourage you to look upon these Republicans, using your own discretion.

As for who I believe would be the best President out of the U4Prez GOP, I have two in mind.

Efferiss and TyroneCarr.

Efferiss has been here awhile and has built himself a reputation for class and thoughtfulness. He loves a spirited debate, but does not engage in direct fisticuffs with others. I've heard him once or twice make an offhand remark about lefties in general, but that's about it. Even at that, it was on his talk show, not on U4Prez itself. Two items, though, that are of interest concerning Efferiss. One, he has been able to keep himself unentangled in the various alliances and groups and unmentioned alliances and groups at U4Prez. Such a feat for someone who has been around as long as he has is remarkable, and as a result, he is unsullied. He'll talk about friends, but he doesn't go out of his way to defend them, and he won't make himself look foolish when said friend says something out of line. He knows the difference between friendship and blind loyalty. And two, he is willing to learn and evolve. Unlike virtually every other candidate, he realizes there are ways he can still grow and develop, and he is willing to listen to solid arguments and even incorporate them in his platform if they sound feasible. Everyone generally has their opinion, and they will either live or die by it, or they will pound you over the head with it until you buckle. Efferiss realizes something the rest of us tend to forget, that we are human, and a wise man is wise because he will freely admit he doesn't have all the answers.

TyroneCarr is newer, and his enthusiasm and want to be the best, right from the get-go, has already won me over. We've talked a couple of times, he sounds like the kind of young candidate that wants to make a positive impact NOW, and not wait. Having said that, he does not engage in negative campaigning, he doesn't have time for it. He leans right, but he is looking to be a good leader who happens to be a conservative than the other way around. He definitely wants to build a better platform, and he does want to win, but is not going to sell himself or anyone else out to accomplish this. He will rise and fall on his own merits. He is already well-equiped in his presentation skills, and not only is his profile first rate, so are his videos. He has a vision of himself, which truly helps, and if you can picture what it is you want to get done, it will get done, one way or another. I like Tyrone a lot, and I hope you consider him when the time comes.

The point of all this analysis of the many Republicans presented here is this: you don't have to pick the Hard Right bullies. You can and probably should ignore them altogether. They're two-faced hooligans who can only fight when they've got four or five to your one. They're not interested in talking politics; they are here to chase off opposition, one way or another, and if you dare to speak up against them, they'll chase you off as well. They are talking a big game THESE DAYS about cleaning up U4Prez, which is sort of like roaches talking about cleaning up a sewer. The place will be clean only if it is made over IN THEIR IMAGE, plain and simple. And that means ultraconservative and obedient.

Such thugs deserve to be marginalized.

I urge you to reconsider the leadership within the GOP. The party is not there at the pleasure of Kempite and Mduminiak. And you did not declare yourself Republican at U4Prez just to have to take your turn servicing them at the glory hole. They are not the GOP. YOU are!

Second Verse, Same as the First?

2007-08-28T06:03:00.000-07:00

I sure hope Kempite knows what he's doing.

Lest I'm mistaken, Kempite, for reasons known only to him, has chosen to re-release the Striptease video, the video where, earlier this summer, at the height of animosities between him and me, he attempted to derail the Olivia campaign and put me in my place as the self-proclaimed whore that I am.

And lest I am still mistaken, a week later, I beat him in a run-off.

So I truly hope he has some sort of strategy in mind, because, for the life of me, I just don't see it.

The last time he pulled this movie out, he yanked it within just a couple of days. It was in direct competition with the Grinch video, my attack video on him. There they were, side by side. I got a lot of laughs out of the Grinch video. I even saw Kempite refer to himself as the Grinch for a while, even HE was amused by it. I learned a very valuable lesson concerning this episode: if you're going to attack, you will get a lot farther with humor than without it.

For someone who had relentlessly been called a whore every time I walked into the room, I was gaining a new audience. I took Kempite on, I took his best shot, and I fired back in a way that made others laugh instead of resent me. Even though all elections and vote counts are virtually worthless at this point, the fact that I beat him is no mistake. Kempite looked like the bully I was painting him to be, and Kempite took the very obvious approach and called me out on my prostitution.

Which is the biggest DUH in the history of U4Prez. It was all over my profile, just as it still is all over my MySpace profile. In fact, you can go there right now, to myspace.com/irresistibleolivia. Many a candidate has gone there, many a male candidate has ventured boldly into the blog section, where I have written some very lascivious articles. Quite a few gentlemen at U4Prez have approached me on those articles in a flirtatious manner.

These are things I not only never denied, they're an intricate part of who I am.

Hence, I always found it rather ridiculous for anyone to call me out on this. Olivia's a whore! Yeah, and...? It showed to all who were the lazy candidates, the ones who had no real ability to think. It took not one brain cell to fire to think of this one. It's out there, for all to deal with, the shiny bauble for the mouthbreathers to be fascinated with.

But, sure enough, when the argument would go sour for some dumb boy, he would play the whore card. As distasteful as my profession might have been, they had no problem making a bigger deal of it than I did. Calling me a whore was sort of like saying YO MAMA, it was their way of saying, I can't handle Olivia mentally, I'll hit below the belt and see if that works.

As all ad hominems, it failed. Every fucking time.

That's why it's so odd for Kempite to try this again. He already lost using this tactic.

I'm trying to fit myself into Kempite's skull on this one. He and his declare me such things as warped, dilusional, scatterbrained, obsolete. Why, then, if I am all these things, surely I would have worn out my welcome by now, eh? Why bother with a psychobitch hollering into the abyss? BigDaddy tells me I'm a nobody, then he comes here and twitched long and hard when I yank his string. Iron Lady, Hawk, Kempite, they comment, then say I'm not worth it, then comment again, then say they don't read. Mduminiak gets his camcorder out to tell me he's surrendering, and yet, my name is still in his mouth. I am one of those who believes actions speak louder than words; they can say I'm a nobody and try to brush me aside, but every action the Hard Right bullies take concerning Olivia proves otherwise.

So here is Kempite, looking around the U4Prez universe for signs of validation after he and his monkeyboy jilted their life partners to meet in a hotel room together one night and filmed a conversation about the same tired things they always talk about, and he sees that I was able to pin the video dead-on, without watching a single second of it. Wiz called the video--SIXTY-SEVEN MINUTES THEREOF--the gayest thing he had ever seen at U4Prez. That's not the first time he's made mention of Kempite's shenanigans in such a way, one time referring to the Kempite-Olivia war as (and I know I will screw this quote up) "a homo spending all his energy bashing a whore, which is farking illogical".

Is there anyone outside of Kempite's asskissing circle that actually gives him the pat on the back he is desperate for? For as much as he wants to try new things and present himself as someone with a shred of dignity, he sold that out a long time ago, without regret, and now he is longing for someone to tell him, hey, Anthony, that was a great idea, you got a good head on your shoulders. Has anyone other than his frothing bloodhounds ever said to him, yeah, Kempite, you really shut that whore up, you really socked it to her, this place is so much better when she shuts her slutty mouth up? I really can't envision the more classy candidates thanking him for shutting that bitch Olivia up, can you?

The sixty-seven-minute opus apparently got more ridicule than praise. What does Kempite have left in his nuclear arsenal to take on Olivia and her peashooter of a blog?

The Striptease video.

The definition of stupidity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. The last time he pulled this video out, he crippled his own campaign. Does he expect anything different?

Maybe he's going with the notion that it's two months down the road, there's a lot fo new faces, maybe this time it will work. Olivia's profile is no longer up. It will come out of nowhere. No one will read the subtitle to Kiss & Tell, "Campaign Callgirl Tells All". No one has ever seen her MySpace page--Lucky just asked me for an add, so if you want to go over there and see for yourself, I believe there are now 21 U4Prez candidates in my Top Friends, someone tell me if they can top that!

Kempite is in a very bad position. He knows I called the fix and it is a valid claim to make. He knows I have nothing to lose, and that is the worst thing to have to fight against. He tries to have it both ways, playing both the victim card and the attacker card at the same time, and he sucked at both. The Hard Right goons all claim they never read my blog, yet they always seem to pop their heads in, always leaving a comment when they just can't take it anymore. Kempite has backstabbed and lied and browbeaten himself into a corner, and he more than anyone is waiting, what the hell is Olivia going to say next?

Unless I'm just not seeing it, Kempite is proving once again that he thinks the collective candidates at U4Prez is stupid. He thinks it might actually work this time, that, for some reason, I will look at it and gasp in fright, saying to myself, Oh no, that crafty Kempite finally got me, who would have ever thought he would use the Striptease video a SECOND time? How will anyone ever give me the time of day again? I should go slit my wrists, golly, that Kempite, he surely got the best of me.

You know what I did the first--and only--time I saw this video? I pumped my fists in the air and laughed, saying to myself, is THIS the best he's got?

Is this the new strategy against Olivia, an ex-candidate who the Hard Right says with one face that she is a mean-spirited has-been who isn't worth their time, yet peeks in on her blog with the other face, occasionally posting and trying to derail her? After the hotel couch somewhere in eastern Pennsylvania, did Kemp and Mike go to a bar and chat about what their next move would be, and THIS is it?

I don't see this as anything but an incredibly bad move on his part, something I don't think he thought completely through.

Maybe this is his surrender, just like Mduminiak surrendered last week. If it is, it's awful cryptic. Maybe this is all a Fellini movie, and the Striptease video is supposed to represent the loss of innocence, the loss of ethics, hence the loss of a war. Kempite's Italian, surely he and his countryman might share a want for the abstract.

Someone help me on this one. If this was intended to shut me up, as I said, it not only didn't shut me up, first time around, it made him look horrid and vaulted me to a run-off victory over him. I didn't clam up back then, and I'm not going to clam up now.

Does THIS kind of campaign deserved to be rewarded, U4Prez candidates? Being nostalgic over failed attacks?

I encourage the U4Prez candidates to continue to distance yourselves from Kempite and his roving band of hooligans.

There's Gilligan's Island playing somewhere in the world. If the folks at U4Prez really want to watch worn-out re-runs, I'm sure they can watch Gilligan and the Skipper on Nick At Nite. Watching Gilligan get hit by the Skipper's cap when he botches another plan to get off the island has got to be smarter than any plot the Hard Right can come up with to foil Olivia and her little blog.

WEEK IN REVIEW III (Aug. 19-25, 2007)

2007-08-25T10:52:00.000-07:00

A relatively calm week at U4Prez. Many of the more pressing questions have been answered, and the last few days have been a lull before the finishing-up of the August Primary, which will occur before Labor Day. What were some of those questions? Well, let's recap. Is there favoritism? Well, since Eric Gurr got jerked back to moderator status, I guess there was, or at least his bloodless corporate masters thought so. Are the elections fixed? Considering there is STILL NO CLEARCUT VOTECOUNTING SYSTEM, I don't know how anyone could not say the moderators are at best negligent, at worst picking their buddies. Will the Independents remain in chaos? With Demopublic taking the helm, the Indies are in very capable hands. Will the Hard Right ever end their freeper madness? As much as I am rooting for them to see the error in their ways, their arrogance will never allow them to apologize for a single crime against U4Prez humanity, so the answer is No.

Will Olivia ever shut up? I think you know the answer to that one!

I do see there is a new video contest going on. Like everything else, it's sort of thrown out there without any real organization. I was thinking about putting out a video, anyway. Could someone please tell me what the deadline is? My clandestine production staff and I will definitely put our best foot forward to deliver another scorching, entertaining, deep-probing video for your perusal.

I can see the Kempuniak is out there already, trying to ruin another contest by overleading it with their own mugs. The ruin the Delete Photo function because they can't stop themselves and Eric of course would never say No to them alone, so they move onto destroying a video contest. I swear, they accused me endlessly about self-promotion, and here Kempite and Mduminiak are, posting, what was it, ten more videos for the U4Prez audience to be stuck with? I think it was ten, I didn't count. I did not watch a single second of them, so I am hoping my readers will clue me in as to just how many times my name is brought up. I put the over-under at ten, and I have a crisp twenty dollar bill in my bra, nestled against my saline-enhanced right breast, for anyone daring to take the under.

Before this, Mduminiak was up to THIRTEEN videos where he couldn't stop talking about me. How much higher will that total go? Stay tuned.

I didn't count how many videos they put up, and I didn't watch any of them. But I did roughly count how much time these videos consume. Sixty-seven minutes, give or take a few minutes! The handpicked president and his monkeyboy expect you to sit down for over an hour, while they sit on a couch, chatting over the same boring things they already do on their talk shows. Hey, if you really want to waste an hour of your day watching two grown men making sure there is enough distance between them to ensure they're not an item, talking as dryly as they do on their shows about the same three or four items, that's your prerogative. I doubt someone will watch every single one, maybe they heard one particular clip is worth watching over the rest and will tell everyone to watch it instead. Just do me a favor, if they sit there for more than 20 minutes doing little more than chatting on opposite sides of a couch, and you're still watching, would you please stick your own head under the driver's side rear tire of your neighbor's car and ask him to back up? I'm sorry, unless you are family or threatened by violence, I don't know how anyone can sit for over an HOUR, thinking, that last segment was pretty good, I wonder what those wild and zany characters are going to do in their NEXT clip.

Trust me, on your deathbed, you are going to wish you had that hour back.

Brevity is the source of wit. Kempite and Mduminiak surely could take the Bard's advice on that one.

As could I.

For the same reasons that I bag on the U4Prez audience for sitting at their desks until their tingling toes finally go numb from watching Kempuniak cuckoo crazy antics, I am going to cut this blog from a daily blog to a bi-weekly. As you can see, I have a lot to say on the news and history of U4Prez, and there should be some element of the Fourth Estate therein to give some sort of description as to what's really going on.

But as I know you have better things to do than to see if Kempuniak will go to the bathroom in that entire hour, I know you're not going to sit there every single day, reading my usual 2000 words on who pissed me off on this given occasion. Why should you?

There is a good reason why my seven videos, totalling 22 minutes, have gotten far more mileage than the thirty-odd videos Mudminiak has made, the dozen-or-so Kempite's put out there, the perhaps three hours of video they've put out there for the U4Prez world to absorb. That's because quality is more than quantity.

But then again, this is how the Hard Right thinks. If they can overwhelm you with numbers, they don't really have to think. Better to have four thugs attacking one perceived opponent than allowing one to eloquate a succinct argument. Better for BigDaddy to post the same post five or six times on you board, hoping it will irritate you enough to want to quit. It's the same tactic, done slightly differently. Ten videos in one day, you would hope there would be some substance. Nope. Just the same two jackasses saying the same jackass things over and over again.

I remember the last time Mduminiak put out ten videos in one day. That was the day he re-declared war on me, and he posted all ten of the Top Ten videos, all at once. Lest we forget, he ended up surrendering to me. I hope, since he is delcaring war with U4Prez and more-or-less promising to bore the entire population to death, he will end up surrendering to you all as well.

Unless they're kissing and groping one another, I don't know why two men on a couch would interest anyone enough to watch them for a continuous hour.

But then again, that's Kempuniak for you, hoping you are truly as stupid as they think you are.

It is that line of belief that is pulling me back from a daily to a bi-weekly. By no means am I giving this up. Au contraire, mon frere. I am counting on my readers continuing to support this blog, and last week was the biggest week in terms of readership. To continue the upward trend, so I am not boring you or forcing you to keep up with all the rants, instead of making you come here every single fucking day, I will have two articles a week, on Tuesdays and Saturdays. Trust me, they will be just as opinionated, just as caustic, just as revealing as anything else on this blog, maybe even more so.

Kempuniak thinks you have absolutely nothing else to do but watch sixty-seven minutes of Kempuniak. Maybe I should ask my ex to bring out some of my "home movies", the ones where I am, shall we say, working. If you're going to watch men on a couch, at least watch them doing SOMETHING! Knitting. Putting a puzzle together. Holding a rock. Making out. Getting lapdances and blowjobs, either with an additional pretty girl or them doing it to themselves. ANYTHING AT ALL!

To those wanting to put together a winning video, here's the one word you need to remember--LAUGH! The best videos are the ones that make you laugh at some level. If you are putting together an attack video, make sure you insert a healthy dose of humor, witness my Grinch video. If you want to make a point, don't take yourself so seriously. Allow people to see you as human, someone with a sense of humor, someone able to laugh at himself. MejicoJohn's videos make you chuckle on several levels. Faustus's videos have included warm family humor. Copulate made a funny video once upon a time. The ones that get stuck in people's heads, the ones that get replayed, they are the ones that don't pound you over the head, that don't bore you, and that don't make you wonder, why did I waste my time? Make them laugh, and they will have a reason to tell others and watch it multiple times. Odds are, if you are laughing while you are making it, your audience will laugh as well. Whatever energy you put into it, it will definitely be felt by the viewer. If it's mean and negative, they'll feel that negative energy. But if it is light and humorous, the audience will bond with it better because of the positive energy. You can make a negative or even an attacking video, but if you add humor to it, you are giving them a reason to like it.

See you on Tuesday.

Love, Olivia. XXX

DWF Seeking VP

2007-08-24T16:15:00.000-07:00

About a week before I quit U4Prez, I had another brilliant idea. I get brilliant ideas all the time, some I would ue for myself, some I would give out to others if I thought they were good, but just didn't quite fit what I was doing. The Antipartisan Pledge, in my opinion, was a good idea, and I got thirty-five candidates to sign up for it at one time or another, which I believe still makes it the most signed petition in U4Prea history. Using the Indyleader profile as a viewing screen for Independents to show their videos, I think that was a pretty good idea on my part. Using humor in my attack ads ended up being a good idea in hindsight, because I learned if I just went at a candidate without offering a few lighthearted chuckles along the way, it would backfire horribly.

Whether Demopublic wishes to use this idea or not is up to her, but at the end of the September primary, with the number of candidates set for the Convention to compete for the general election, I was going to propose to the primary winners that they come up with a short list for potential runningmates. I know that's something that was always lightly talked about, but there was never anything formally discussed on the subject. Many would playfully ask if they could be my vice-president, all in jest, I am sure. But I was going to try to talk the primary winners into picking runningmates.

My hope was to get as many Independents involved in things as possible. The way U4Prez functions, there might end up being 20 or so candidates who qualify to go onto the convention. That's less than 1% of the U4Prez population. In order to get as many Indies in the game--and hence, fewer Indies to quit in the thought that they have no chance--I was going to talk the primary winners to take on a VP who had NOT previously won a primary. I never made a single rule in terms of what the Independents should do in the course of their campaigns, but I was going to ask them in the most polite terms to consider such a running mate. By doing so, instead of, say, five Independents in the mix, there would be ten.

I was also starting to set up for the Convention. I was putting together speakers, presentations, representatives from third-parties, a keynote address, a movie marathon, all sorts of ideas. The Vice President thing was part of this, part of generating excitement among the Independents.

My departure, of course, dashed these hopes. But, had I just shut up like many wish I did, had I silently accepted the invitation as the mysterious "April winner" like Eric Gurr wanted me to, I would have had to make my own choice for my running mate.

So I started to think, who would be a good running mate for Olivia? I thought about the real world, how party nominees choose their VP's. Well, they seek to "balance the ticket", and I thought about that. How should I balance the ticket. Geographically? I am in the Southwest, surely I could think of an Independent from the East who would balance this out. Ideologically? Typically, the President and the VP are on the same page, but I started to think about who would counter me in terms of political commitment. I lean left, so of course I would consider someone who leaned right, right?

I also wanted someone who still had enthusiasm for U4Prez, who, when he or she came in, the place was automatically filled with positive energy. There are a lot of burned-out candidates these days, and I would definitely like to be working with someone who could pick me up when I needed it.

Someone who shared my zeal for promotion as well. I didn't want someone who was going to just sit there and let me do all the work. I considered candidates who I felt would show some initiative in terms of promotion, who would use his or her own abilities to make the campaign go. By the time of the convention, everyone knows everyone's platforms and the candidates themselves pretty well, I wanted someone who would work WITH me to promote us, not just rely on my own talents as if they were coattails.

Lastly, I wanted someone who agreed with my central issue, that the two-party system is corrupt to the core, that the Republocrats work together to being bad legislation to bear, and that collusion is what keeps the possibility of a third party nominee or an independent from every making a truly serious run. The sooner we vote the current crop of bastards out, the sooner we can refashion this country and have the government actually become answerable to the people who vote them into power, what a concept!

I had 700 candidates to pick from, and I thought quite a bit on this. Ultimately, I came up with two possibilities, one you can probably guess, the other you could figure out if you've been paying attention to this blog. Both are popular enough to win a primary, having been given a chance. Both have partaken in run-offs, and I truly hope, with me gone, they get a chance at another run-off before it's too late.

TheWiz is a no-brainer. Being from Cleveland and with conservative tendencies, he balances me, both geographically and politically. He is one of those few candidates--MejicoJohn is another one, but he won already, so no luck for me--who make people laugh on a consistent basis. He certainly can dish back out what he gets, and he has no problem with being outspoken. Considering his Photoshop talents and my usage of them to make at least one kickass video, he certainly would qualify as someone who shared my desire for promotion. Finally, as possibly the best-known defector from the Republican Party, TheWiz realizes there are more important things than being part of a top-down party that would prefer you tow the line instead of thinking for yourself.

Don't ever underestimate TheWiz. He has been attacked in recent weeks, especially since my departure, as being my lackey. Au contraire. For as much as I appreciate his strange position, TheWiz should never be seen as Mr. Olivia, and I thoroughly resent such beliefs from any candidate. Wiz will rise and fall on his own merits, and I truly hope he will be allowed to do so. This is not a defense, he would never accept me defending his honor. He is no punching bag, and for the Hard Right to target him because they don't have Olivia to pick on anymore is a pretty shitty thing to do. TheWiz is not to me what Mduminiak is to Kempite. Wiz is no monkeyboy. I detest any candidate who treats him as such.

The other candidate was CHASE, and I even mentioned this idea to him, that he was on my short list for VP candidates. He has everything I'm looking for in a candidate. He beings that genuine and positive energy with him wherever he goes, I rarely see him making disparaging remarks about anyone. He is a good kid who deserves someone taking notice of him and giving him a boost. He LOVES his camera and the videos he makes--I think I told you how he adored the idea of me putting his videos on the Indyleader profile, and the time he told me aobut the video he couldn't get onto YouTube, and yet I got it on the profile about five minutes after he announced his existence. That kind of spirit and want to promote were just what I was looking for.

I think he's just turned 17, he's 16 or 17, but he's already figured out this two-party system is suffocating us. There have been politicians in Washington who have been there for fifty years, and he seems wiser than they are.

That is not to say the rest of the Independents were not worthy of being my vice president. MejicoJohn and Maditude have already won primaries, both of them could make great VP's for someone. CoryF is one of the most steadfast candidates the Indies have, and I was seriously considering him as well. There are at least two more Independents who will win primaries, and I have a feeling Eric Gurr will pull the "April winner" card out of his ass again, maybe even a "May winner". Every candidate whose face I put on a video sometime in the past, the Independents, they all would make excellent presidents and VP's.

Were I still there, however, I would have picked either TheWiz or CHASE.

I am curious who others would have picked. Who would MejicoJohn, or Efferiss, or Faustus37, or Maditude, who would they want working with them as their running mate? We're starting to get down to crunch time, it's something to consider, a new wrinkle to throw in.

Accepting Mduminiak's Unconditional Surrender

2007-08-23T17:21:00.001-07:00

I was thinking about this earlier. Witness the You-Know-Who video Mduminiak put out.

And ask yourself, was that a concession speech he made?

Does that mean his petty little war against me is over?

Does that mean I won?

AGAIN?

A while back, Mduminiak alleged that I apparently broke the terms to a "cease-fire" agreement I made with him concerning my attacks on the Liberty Caucus. You remember, I told you Mike made EIGHT anti-Olivia videos in ONE FUCKING NIGHT, the same night Kempite released his Prostitute video?

Well, the next day, Mike comes up to me and wants to negotiate a truce between me and him. He was very professional in his usual creepy way, and we set the terms for a truce. Under the terms, he would remove the videos and keep his buddy Kempite dangling out on his little limb, and I would stop making the Liberty Caucus look bad.

And I always wondered about that, and others did as well. Copulate, for instance, called me a pussy because I didn't snap both his and Kempite's necks when I could have. For me, I went along with the truce, because it isolated Kempite. Mduminiak made it clear he wasn't protecting his buddy, Kempite could apparently rot in hell for all he cared. Mike was protecting the Liberty Caucus and his own arse.

What's strange is, if Mike and Hawk and Kempite kept telling you I am a nobody and a liar and a psychobitch who will say and do anything, why were they so concerned with what came out of my mouth? I refer to myself as "the little lady who brought down the Liberty Caucus", and since they release NINE ANTI-OLIVIA VIDEOS IN ONE NIGHT, I also referred to myself as the most powerful candidate on U4Prez, getting such strong candidates to jerk whenever I pulled their strings.

Again, after the melee, the Hard Right lunatics kept trying to downplay the Olivia factor, and I kept taking the entire group on at the same time. Which I still don't get, again, is, if I was a loser and a liar with no credibility, why would they even bother with sicking five of them on me at once?

A few weeks after the truce, Mike told me unflinchingly that I apparently broke the terms, and the war was back on. I sent him a one-word message: Whatever.

He put the videos back up, along with two more, and if you read them, they are the top ten reasons why you should not trust Olivia. It must be obvious, for someone to put so much effort into making TEN anti-Olivia videos, I must have been a real threat to him and the Hard Right in general.

We both won party leadership roles and took potshots at each other. I questioned the merits of creating an elite, a bureaucracy, within the GOP in the form of the Steering Committee, and he just hacked to hack. He wondered why a party leader wouldn't put together a platform, and I told him, duh, we're Independents!

Instead of promoting candidates from within the party--I mean, candidates other than himself and his buddies in the Politburo--errr, Steering Committee--he uses his talents to attack Olivia. Hence, the Olivia Party video, where he basically tells 700 Independents they are morons for following a leader who is basically doing nothing but promoting them. It takes a true twist in logic and a whole lot of gall for someone who tried to shove 700 Republicans into one tiny box of a platform to tell me, someone who never put her name on the Indyleader board except in passing, and instead used it as a billboard to promote other Independents, that I am using the office of Independent Leader for self-promotion.

I would occasionally take jabs at both parties, especially the Republicans, I won't lie. I would often come up and say, while other party leaders are turning their leadership profiles into jukeboxes, we at the Indyleader profile are promoting real Independents. While others are trying to create bureaucracies and cram 700 candidates into a box, the Independents are free to run their own campaigns without answering to party leadership. I know this rubbed him the wrong way, and his catty remarks to me on a nearly daily basis were evidence of this.

BigDaddy thinks I was part of some grand conspiracy to steal Republicans, and he cites the Hedrick incident as his proof. In all honesty, candidates from both the Reps and the Dems were indeed defecting to the Independent Party, either they liked what I was doing or they couldn't stand their previous party's leadership. Other high-profile candidates confided in me and said they would defect as well if it didn't cost them what they've worked for. For those who thought I was stealing candidates, and Mike was one, I offer the following:

1. I never had a problem with any Independent defecting. I was sad by some, but I never took it personally. Such a candidate is acting in his own self-interest, and I respect that. That is the spirit of being Independent, and I commend anyone leading his own campaign his own way.

2. If the GOP powers-that-be were concerned about me "stealing" candidates, they'd better be. They had a near mutiny on their hands. Candidates were jumping ship. Copulate and HAK were swarming all over the Steering Committee, demanding better representation. Mike can say anything he wants, no leader is going to tell the world everything sucks, vanity and pride will always make him say what his followers want to hear. I will tend to believe my own eyes, as I invite others to do the same. Instead of worrying about how Olivia runs her show, how about battening down your own hatches?

3. If the fearless leaders at the GOP were concerned that Olivia could sway Republicans at all, either they think their fellow party members were stupid, or that Olivia was really that powerful. I pick the former, Mduminiak generally thinks everyone is stupid anyway, why not his fellow Republicans? If a single PM from Olivia can shake the GOP to its foundation, they're scared shitless about something, either that their own members are so stupid as to fall for anything, or that Olivia really could take candidates at will.

Not that I made it a point to send candidates PM's asking them to defect. I still don't see anything wrong with recruitment, and if an Independent wanted to be part of the bad leadership and the tyranny Mduminiak had to offer, that was his business.

Considering how Kempite would PM candidates who signed the Antipartisan Pledge and demand they take their names off, I fail to see how approaching a Republican who seemed to be neglected from the outside looking in and could use the sort of attention I could offer is any worse. If such a thing as recruitment is a crime--and U4Prez is notorious for concocting its own sense of morality--then whatever sentence you give me, it better be fivefold for Kempite.

Up until this point, I had Mduminiak's number on everything. I was putting my party leadership role to use, and the Independents themselves seemed to enjoy it. I was taking on the Hard Right and holding my own. For every jab Mduminiak took at me, I offered a solid uppercut.

And then the Bitch video came out, and even Mduminiak was impressed to see his face superimposed on Jabba the Hutt. Slam Dunk.

After that, Mike really didn't put up much more than usual freeper nonsense. He and his would harass, but they had nothing but dimwitted logic twists and namecalling. Typical guy for you, if you reveal his lack of intelligence, he will make up for it by turning into an asshole.

Mike started his talk show, which, as I've said, when he was talking policy, sounded like the same thing you could hear all over the real radio, why pull yourself away for this? Just what the Western World needs, ANOTHER conservative talk show! Mike, you genius, you did it again.

Trust me, the idea that favoritism was rampant throughout U4Prez did not start with me, and it didn't start the day I quit. It's always been there, this underlying belief that Eric Gurr had his favorites, that he really didn't care about the rest. Letting the infrastructure at U4Prez go to pot didn't do him any favors. When I saw he was starting to do talk shows for his buddies, it clicked, the fix is on!

For all the efforts, all the battles, all the names I've been called, to realize that no matter what I did, it didn't matter, it set me off. So I left. Very loudly.

Read the above. Do you really think I quit because Mduminiak was getting the best of me?

Considering the way he can't keep my name out of his mouth, do you really think I left because he is a political genius?

Considering how he talks about me on his talk show, does that sound like he put a nobody in her place?

And considering how he alleges he doesn't read this blog, yet deposits a remark for every second or third article here, who seems the one with the obsession problem?

I consider Mduminiak's video, You-Know-Who video, the one where he is so frustrated that he can't stand himself, the one where he is telling me he's had enough, his concession to me. He was the one who declared the truce was over and resumed hostilities, and I am the one who, at every turn, got the better of him. They tried to play the game of dirty politics, in every way, shape, and form, and they lost. Beaten by a girl.

So I humbly accept Mduminiak's unconditional surrender, and from this point on, he is officially my bitch. Not like when Kempite treated Bluproject like his bitch for months. No, Mike will find I am too kindhearted for the dominatrix role. The cuckold of failure he currently wears is enough for me. Knowing he gave up, knowing he had nothing else, knowing resistance was futile, he surrendered.

I should hope he learns a little humility in this.

Mduminiak is little more than a well-organized freeper, nothing else. Don't put any more stock into him. He's done. He has shown his true colors over and over again. Telling me we were at war, as juvenile as it sounded to me even then, is evidence he isn't here to talk politics, just to bully candidates around. After blowing his wad, he gave up.

I originally thought that video was just him projecting his own sins onto me. Calling me obsessed, when everyone knows he has THIRTEEN anti-Olivia videos out there, is the typical freeper tactic of projection, attaching your own sins onto someone else and then pointing the finger at him so the finger doesn't get pointed at you. Mike must think you candidates are pretty fucking stupid.

But it came to me, it's not another attack, it's a concession speech. It took me a week to come to it, but you know, how could it be anything but a concession?

Anything that comes out of his mouth that reaches my ears will be imbued with the sweet melody of victory. Well, victory is relative, I guess. I'm sure his own words will sound to him like the music of failure. Oh well. I'll say to him at the end of this war what I said to him at the start of it: Whatever.

Blind Loyalty vs. Friendship

2007-08-22T20:27:00.000-07:00

I gotta give BigDaddy credit. When I yank his chain, he spazzes at least twice as much as his masters did. At least Kempite and Mduminiak would wait until the following day before they post. The last article wasn't up but maybe two hours, and BigDaddy was already falling all over himself to get in on the action.

I resigned two weeks ago, and I am still the single most powerful candidate at U4Prez, and this blog is still the single biggest story. Thank you for jumping when I tell you to jump, Daddy.

I know Daddy has his heart set on jumping again. Easy, Sally La La, I'll pull your string again in good time. Don't be so selfish in demanding my attention. There's plenty of other candidates for me to blab about.

Like Iron Lady.

I always tried to get close to Iron Lady--you see her typically opine on this blog with WAAAAAAAA--because that's what I do. Especially when I was first trying to put together a women's league for U4Prez. I've found that most of the female candidates are moderate to liberal, no radicals, no ultra-anything. There are a few conservatives, but they could easily be lumped in as moderate, not so far to the right that you find them quoting Republican talking points and watching Fox News. By and large, they are centrists that lean slightly to the left.

That makes Iron Lady sort of an oddity at U4Prez, an outspoken female conservative.

Wanting diversity within what became the League of Female Candidates, I approached Iron Lady on this. Now, as every female I've ever approached in this knows, by definition, merely for showing up at U4Prez everyday with a vagina, every female is in the League, and later, the Women's Society. Participation is always voluntary. I did try recruiting Iron Lady to this end, in wanting diversity within the League, in wanting to gain support for the League itself, I wanted her to feel she could contribute.

She politely turned me down. Which is fine, I don't twist arms to try to pump up active membership. Whatever's clever.

But in the grand and never-ending war between the forces of good and evil, I was alarmed to see her choosing to fight for evil. Politics made little issue on this, I have no problem with differences in political opinion. What I've always had a problem, though, is the kind of bullshit games that are played on virtually every message board in Cyberia. There were a handful of nutbars who were already starting the very kind of partisan hackery Jon Stewart begged Paul Begala and Tucker Carlson to stop on that infamous night in 2004 on Crossfire.

See, the real battle at U4Prez is not drawn along party or ideological lines. Republicans and Democrats generally get along there, and Independents would have a fighting chance if they didn't have to worry about moderator negligence as well. Mature conservatives and liberals find they can conduct themselves in an adult manner. THIS is what attracts people to U4Prez, being about to present their platforms in the marketplace of ideas, and having others talk about them and vote for them. That is the U4Prez I always fought for, one where it didn't matter where on the political spectrum you fell, if you had a million-dollar idea and could sell it, you would be thrust into the limelight. A true meritocracy.

Others have a different view. They want to take the same filth in American politics, all the backstabbing, the lewd comments, the immaturity we've seen get worse and worse every election cycle, and bring it in here. They've made no bones about it, they have no problem with dirty politics. By any means necessary, they are determined to bring U4Prez down to the level of Freeper Hell.

I've long made the argument, U4Prez is a microcosm of American politics. We can choose to either REFLECT the real world--take the good and bad we see in the current bipolar system and play the same kind of games we hear on talk radio--or we can PERFECT it, by ditching the known world and starting from scratch, a fresh start, free from corruption and cynicism.

In my travels, most choose to perfect rather than reflect. Most try to find new ways to improve their campaigns and promote them, and aside from occasional personal squabbles, they succeed. Some came in here, though, wanting to bring the worldly flotsam here, ruin this virgin territory, and let the same dirty politics and freeper gameplaying in.

Iron Lady not only chose to be on the dark side in this battle, she has become arguably the biggest asskisser the Hard Right can rely on. There is no one who will defend the Hard Right chumps as loyally, or as blindly, as she. No candidate is more willing to throw away her own personal beliefs, common sense, even fact, in the defense of her "friends".

I often refer to the Hard Right as a gang, a wolfpack, a roving tribe of thugs, looking to pick on the more innocent elements at U4Prez. Someone dares to speak up against one of them, you can be assured that four or five will gather around. Strength in numbers. What was that rule Mduminiak had--create your own goon squad. That was the Hard Right, willing to twist the logic and browbeat the candidate into quitting. Thugs like Mike call that just playing the game, and they rejoice when they get someone to quit. Tis a pity, how anyone could revel in a game where apparently the biggest asshole who can get away with it rises to the top?

Iron Lady is one of the most ardent members of the Liberty Crips. The only candidates she ever assisted were in that Hard Right cabal I refer to.

There was one night, the night when everything really went down between Kempite and myself. Iron Lady jumped right in the middle of everything, per usual. BigDaddy had just made a comment on my big mouth, and he unashamedly said that, if a man were married to me, he could see why a husband would beat his wife. I went ballistic on BigDaddy, as I think anyone should. I don't know how anyone could condone a statement supporting wifebeating.

Iron Lady chimed in, wanting me to shut up. She played stupid when I tried to explain to her what I was upset about. I begged her to look through the comment board, Daddy's statement was there for all to see. She refused, choosing to maintain her ignorance. Had she seen the evidence herself, I don't know if she could defend the goon who said it so ruthlessly. By refusing to educate herself on the situation, she maintained her self-imposed ignorance.

It's not like she had to look through some 14th-century Italian library to seek the forgotten evidence. All she had to do was scroll the comment board back a few pages. Couldn't even do that. What she COULD do is play stupid, and go after me instead of Daddy. Had anyone said to Lady what Daddy said to me, I would like to think she would have reacted with the same obnoxious zeal I sported that night.

I think what really cheeses me off about that night is, a couple of Friday nights ago, on Kempite's talk show, in that first hour completely devoted to how beautiful they think I am, Daddy repeats, with the same degree of pride, what he said to me that night to set me off, the wifebeating comment. Lady admitted that even she would find that offensive and gave him a verbal slap on the wrist. That fucking bitch! If she had done that on the night in question, perhaps I wouldn't have blurted out about Kempite's use of Tony4Prez's death for political advantage, thus launching the most explosive personal grudgematch U4Prez has ever seen.
But no! In the heat of battle, she chose blind loyalty over fact. She chose to conveniently keep her ignorance on the subject, because had she known, she would have had to actually criticize her fellow Hard Right hooligan. Heaven forbid that!

There is not a woman in the world, I don't care her political leanings, who would have not reacted exactly as I did when Daddy made his wifebeating statement. It wasn't a left-right comment, it was just a vicious thing to say to a woman. Daddy is so proud that it upset me, I have no doubt he would say it again. Had it been said to kt2020 or Think08 or Demopublic or even Iron Lady, I fail to see how they wouldn't react adversely.

Iron Lady chose ignorance over doing the right thing. She chose defending a wifebeating thug like Daddy instead of just coming up and saying, Olivia, what's your problem tonight?
But she's like that. I don't know how many times she put blind loyalty for her lovenest with the Hard Right ahead of common sense. When just a little work on her part might make her look a little less petty, she will refuse every time to do so.

When I ended up shouting out the moderators on the Fifth of July and putting myself on the line to ensure MejicoJohn got his rightful spot in the run-offs, who was one of the biggest shills trying to shut me up? I shit you not, even with me going off for over an hour, with her trying to insult me into shutting up, after the fact, she had the gall to say, well I didn't know, don't get mad at me! She would rather MejicoJohn be screwed out of the run-offs than stand up for him in a moment of real need. Pretty pathetic, if you ask me. When the moment of truth arrives, Iron Lady chooses to bag on Olivia than do the right thing.

When I realized that several of us were going after Hedrick for selling his soul to BigDaddy and giving up a PM for the VRWC to play with, I begged everyone to back off him. Copulate continued, and after trying to get him to lighten up, I finally had to shout out SHUT THE FUCK UP, COP! THAT'S when I finally did right by Iron Lady. Heaven forbid she should ever tell Mduminiak, Kempite, BigDaddy, or any other Hard Right criminal to shut up when they relentlessly attack a candidate.

She knows integrity when she sees it, which makes her lack of it even more horrific. Everything that comes out of her mouth is completely insincere. Even when she pats me on the back for having the nerve to tell one of my closest allies to shut up, I know it has more to do that it was done to her perceived enemy than any virtue I might have displayed. I did what she refused to do, tell someone, even if he is one of my best friends here, to knock it off. She didn't salute me because I did the right thing. She saluted me because it was Copulate I told off, sworn enemy of the Hard Right
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And that turns a pat on the back into catty gameplaying.

There is a distinct difference between blind loyalty and friendship, and Iron Lady has not clue number one as to what that means. To the Hard Right, friendship constitutes asskissing, nothing else. They have absolutely no use for anyone who cannot tow their line. Whoever enters their circle, unless they are kneeling and puckered, they have no value. To hell with right and wrong, loyalty trumps fact. Any vicious attack is okay if THEY do it, heaven forbid you should try to stand up for yourself against such an onslaught.

Friends tell the other when they've gone too far. They don't cheer you on, no matter how stupid you're acting. They tell you when you're acting like an asshole and pull you back to your senses.

Consider it's last call at your neighborhood pub, and your bestest buddy has had way too much. Blind loyalty, never questioning your friend, dictates that you let him drive himself home if he demands the keys, defending the action, who the hell are you to tell him he is wrong, you must be the enemy and need to be eradicated. When you see BigDaddy, or Hawk, or RogueJew being challenged for some disgusting thing they grunt, who among the Hard Right is there to pull him back, look him in the eye, and tell him they're acting like idiots, grow up already. You don't see it from them, because they value blind loyalty over real friendship. Disgusting grunts is what they live for! Of course THEY won't tell their buddies to shut up, they encourage it and want more. Instead of pulling them back for their own good, they join in and attack!

A real friend snatches the keys from her drunk friend and tells him to shut up, the booze is talking for him. And before he says something to get him in real trouble, she snatches him out of there, drives him home, and lets him pass out on her couch. A super friend will make sure he is sleeping on his side, so he doesn't choke on his vomit, but you've done enough in getting him home without him getting in a fight or saying something he can't take back, letting him puke on himself is no real crime at this point, so long as it's done safely in sanctuary.

Those I have some sort of close relationship with at U4Prez know they can call me out anytime. They have no problem telling me I need to pull back, I need to lighten up, I need to make a small change here and there. I appreciate that. I've had fun with several candidates I consider friends, or at least friends in this realm. But they don't owe me anything. They don't defend me, although at times some will try to put them in such a position. They don't kiss up to me, I wouldn't respect them if they did. When I say something I shouldn't have said, they tell me. They don't defend the practice. And I do the same fo them. Real friendship can withstand such criticism, such minor crises. A so-called friendship that relies on you turning a blind eye to their bullshit isn't a friendship at all. It crumbles with the slightest pressure. Instead of strengthening, it remains superficial if all you do is kiss ass.

Iron Lady doesn't get it and doesn't care to. I hope YOU know the difference.

Are YOU BigDaddy's Accomplice?

2007-08-21T17:46:00.000-07:00

I still peek in on U4Prez, and I usually don't have to look far to look for something to write about. Trust me, on what I know about the candidates and the games they play, I could write until Christmas and still have material. It's one thing to blog and talk about things I remember, friends I've made, secrets, battles, victories and losses, but I am not just writing to the veteran candidates, many of whom I've bled with, many of whom I've fought with and fought against. I am also writing to the new candidate, the one trying to figure this thing out, who the real players are, and who's this pretty girl with the potty mouth, I thought she quit?

Take last night. I would like to bag on BigDaddy for being a relentless little twerp, but everyone ought to know this by now. It would be easy to talk about him happily playing the role of thug for the Hard Right, letting them benefit from his constant annoyance of their key opponents, trying to bring them down to his sluglike level, taking the smallest things and trying to get you to believe he has exposed some grandiose scandal. It would be easy to bag on him for this, and more.

But BigDaddy is a known, a given. He is constant as the Northern Star.What's YOUR excuse, candidate?

I am dead serious when I ask you, the everyday candidate, this question. You know BigDaddy has nothing to offer but freeper games. You know he will dig himself into a candidate like a tick into a dog's hairy ass, and suck on it till he tastes blood. You know you are a socialist if you are the slightest bit left of his adolescent point of view. You know, above all other Hard Right hooligans, he takes the greatest pleasure in seeing a candidate quit.

But I don't blame him anymore. He is what he is, and we all know him for what he is. My big problem today is, why are YOU enabling him?

I'm not talking about those who are fighting the fight against him, usually alone. I'm not talking about Copulate or HAK, they fight back, they stand up to him, and when he summons his buddies, they continue to stand. And when he cowardly blocks those he badgers from his profile, they are still there, withstanding the bullshit.

But you, everyday candidate, you've seen this happen all too often. Why aren't YOU doing something about it? Why are YOU talking to BigDaddy at all? Why are YOU encouraging this freeper madness?

BigDaddy doesn't even pretend to be anything but a horny chihuahua looking for a leg to hump. He has no function except to pleasure himself on your shin, and leave a little gooey something to show for it. As the primary force behind the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy (V.R.W.C.), his soul purpose in life is to dig for something, ANYTHING, to be used against anyone and everyone who dares to speak up around U4Prez. He is to us what Ken Starr was to the Clinton Administration--a brown-nosing hack willing to spend all the time in the world, looking for something that will shut you up and get you to quit.

That's it. That's all he is about. He has no real stance on anything, at least nothing you can't hear on Sean Hannity's program. There is not an iota of thought behind this character, nothing even remotely similar to original. Building the better platform is not his business. Regurgitating the extreme right's party line takes no thought. I am pretty sure he just cut-and-pasted his platform straight from the Free Republic website.

But you know he doesn't stand for anything. You know full well, if you want to know what BigDaddy thinks politically, just listen to Laura Ingraham or Sean Hannity for about five minutes.If you know this, why do you bother?

In fact, even HE isn't much for his own platform, that's why it's secondary on his own profile. What's the first thing you see when you visit his profile? You see names of candidates he's played GOTCHA with. Not a personal introduction, not an anecdote, not where he stands politically. The first thing that catches your eye, like notches in a headboard, are names of those he's dryhumped. This is his pride and joy. This is why he hasn't slit his wrists yet for living such a miserable existence. This little list.

But of course, candidate, you know this already. Why do you continue to discuss anything with such a freeping adolescent?

Look at the bottom of this list, and you will find the evidence to what I've said all along concerning the Hard Right. They delight in making candidates quit. Read for yourself what he has to say about the PNV, the defunct and previously lone antiwar voice on U4Prez. He and his cohorts are tickled pink that the three most active members of the PNV--dk08, Atticus, and myself--have quit, and hence the PNV has been left to die. Let's never mind it was the sole profile on U4Prez which dared to talk about world peace, apparently world peace is something he likes to piss on. The idea of children dying in genocides and wars all over the world is more to his taking. He marvels at how the thought of peace was twisted to suit his and his fellow warmongers' selfish needs. How he chooses death over peace is beyond me, and I will never understand why he is so unashamedly delighted in the solitary candle flickering for peace at U4Prez being smothered.

And you talk amiably to THIS, candidate?

Copulate can speak for himself concerning any remarks he made concerning Kempite's sexuality. The fact that Daddy brings it up every single fucking day, over and over, that's got to annoy you. Bringing up the same thing, over and over and over, a personal issue between Cop and Kemp. I wonder, why does Kempite applaud this? I don't mean, turn a blind eye, I mean APPLAUD it, putting hands together and clapping and cheering. I have no doubt anything Daddy does is done completely to the benefit of the higher-ups on the Hard-Right totem pole. Kempite gleefully loves these games of GOTCHA. Daddy does the work so Kempite can lean back and relax, amused that his enemies are conveniently being dealt with.

Doesn't it bother you that such an extreme right goon, someone who clings to ultraconservtism like Linus clings to his blanket in the Peanuts cartoons, is suddenly AGAINST gaybashing? Doesn't the fact this alleged strain of protection for homosexuals is coming from a man just slightly left of Hermann Goerring, doesn't this strike you as odd in the least? If he truly felt this way, then surely he should be OUTRAGED by how Kempite berated Bluproject on nearly a daily basis, constantly making slurs about Blu's sexuality. If Daddy truly was out to get homophobes, then shouldn't Kempite also be on his shitlist?

Everything Daddy says on this subject is worthless, because it is a fullblown doublestandard.

But of course, you candidates, you know this already. Daddy is a pest. He is annoying. He digs for dirt on anyone who looks at him and his masters wrong. He is a hypocrite. He is a coward. He is a tool for the Hard Right. He takes more pride in playing freeper games than in actually campaigning.

And yet you continue to talk to him as if he had a single scruple in him.

Daddy is what he is, and in time I'm sure I'll talk more about how he tries to turn everyday junk into scandals, how he badgers and harasses others, how he uses candidates to get to his perceived enemies, how he annoys and pesters others, and how he has no worth except to be a sugared-up ADD child, running around the laundromat, chanting I KNOW SOMETHING YOU DON'T KNOW, when he has nothing on nobody, and does so because he likes to do his masters' bidding.

That's Daddy. Why are YOU, U4Prez candidate, knowing what you know about him, knowing the kind of games he plays, knowing how annoying he can be, knowing he lives for digging dirt, knowing he is a hypocrite and a coward, why are YOU talking to him at all? Do you think these are all good qualities? Does Daddy somehow look virtuous in your eyes? I expect the Hard Right goons to stand up for him, he's one of them, playing the game his own conniving way. That's what they stand for. They like dirty politics and backstabbing and getting candidates to quit, and the only thing they like more than all that is someone willing to do it for them so they don't have to get their hands dirty.

U4Prez candidate, why are you enabling and encouraging this by giving him the time of day? I don't blame Daddy for being Daddy, he is what he is. I blame YOU, candidate, for not putting your foot in his ass and telling him this garbage is beneath U4Prez dignity. I blame YOU, candidate, for not speaking up when he's basically spamming a candidate, repeatedly, over and over.

The only way evil stands a chance of succeeding is for good men to do nothing about it. Evil, thuggery, cowardice, hypocrisy, they all dwell in BigDaddy where he soul used to be, before he sold it to the Hard Right devils. Daddy would have gone away in boredom a long time ago had you, candidate, not encouraged his antics. G.E.Smith referred to U4Prez as a cesspool, and Daddy is one of the biggest guttersnipes, one of the biggest backstabbers, at U4Prez.

I fought my fights, and continue to do so. I'm not even a candidate and am still fighting the fights YOU need to be fighting, candidate.

If you want U4Prez to continue to slip into this cesspool, keep letting Daddy do what he does. Stay friendly with him. Refuse to question his tactics.

Do what you want, because I don't blame BigDaddy for being BigDaddy anymore.

If you don't do something about BigDaddy, I blame YOU!

Turning Blu

2007-08-20T17:35:00.000-07:00

In my humble estimation, no one has taken as much bullshit from U4Prez as Bluproject. What is said in PM stays in PM, so he need not worry about any pillow talk he and I shared, nothing specific he ever said to me will be part of this post. Unlike some readers of this blog who use PM's for political advantage--and not only do you know who you are, everyone else does--I am not a snitch. Everything in this article is already in the public domain.

I am not at all trying to downplay the suffering of others. I know kt2020's had a rough go of things all around. TheWiz has become the Hard Right's favorite whipping boy, as he is often seen to be the official U4Prez spokesman of Olivia. HAK has had to take a lot of crap, but I have always given him credit for standing up for himself, for never lowering himself to the level of those who dogpile him. Copulate gets a lot of shit, but then again, Copulate gives as good as he gets.

No one, though, has quietly dealt with more crap, has been hurt more times by the elite of U4Prez--including me--and no one has dealt with it with such a quiet demeanor has Bluproject. Someone needs to say something about him, so here goes.

Blu and I started at about the same time. We were part of a group that started on March 16th, give or take a day. Think about this list. Bluproject. OliviaLLC. Elected_Al. kt2020. Demopublic. That is a strong line-up, I don't care what anyone says, and we all started within hours of one another. Ever since then, there has been an unspoken, maybe even unrealized, bond between us all, and I think the five of us have interacted with one another with a certain closeness. Blu and kt2020 are friends in real life and both live in McHenry, Illinois, but Al is in Jersey, I'm in Arizona, and I'm not sure about Demopublic.

This is a lineup that includes at least two primary winners and three definite contenders. Everyone has U4Prez leadership experience, almost all of us have started our own groups and have been active in others. Two were in the influential Liberty Caucus. Three were or are party leaders, elected to those positions by their peers. This is a strong group.

This article, although it will include other members of this clique, is about how I see Bluproject.

He and I hit it off quickly, and he was probably the first candidate to actaully say Hi to me. We were new and trying to figure this out, and we bonded immediately. We confessed a few things to one another which are now common knowledge, him being gay, me and my bisexuality, among other things.

What I saw in him right away way his eagerness to please others. He was always excited to chat, and as we started brainstorming ideas as to how we were going to take U4Prez by storm, he really wanted to work with me. Within a month, however, he was starting up the Gay-Straight Alliance, and I was putting together the League of Female Candidates. We started putting together names for ourselves, and among us, a small but strong pool of leftwing candidates started to form. We were part of this mix. U4Prez was maybe two months old, tops. It was a blank slate. We were having fun.

I think it was in mid-April that I was starting to get too big for my britches. It would still be months before Independents would get a sniff of the primaries, so it was enigmatic at best as to who the real powerplayers were among the Indies. I was pretty popular, not only for my pretty audacious platform (which included teasing details about how a prostitute would have made a better president than the tool currently in charge), but because I was already getting a reputation for having a loud mouth and not being afraid to use it, especially against the Liberty Caucus. I was on the upswing without a way to truly gauge it.

Bluproject, being a Democrat, was already in the thick of things with the run-offs. He had proven himself to be a strong candidate, willing to create coalitions and work with others. He deserved the attention. He was one of the only pure souls at U4Prez at that time, and I would couple him with the likes of Tony4Prez and CHASE as candidates who were genuinely good guys, eager, never a harsh word to say about anyone.

I think I was the one to change that in him.

That primary cycle, Blu was pitted against Elected_Al. That was a tough call. Two up-and-coming Democrats, two positive candidates, both gaining a reputation for being coalition builders and reaching across the aisle to work with others. And here is Olivia, part of this Ides of March clique, wanting to take my popularity out for a spin and see what I could do with it.

I don't know if I was the first to publicly endorse a candidate, but in typical Olivia fashion, I was the first to make sure everyone knew I was making such an endorsement. I wrote a press release, being very cordial to both of them, talking them both up as the strong candidates they are. At that time, I felt Al might have been just a bit stronger, and the fact that Al had mentioned me in a recent video certainly stroked my ego. I endorsed Al and wished the best for both candidates.

I haven't endorsed a Democrat since. I had no idea Blu would be so hurt by what I did. At first I thought, maybe I made the right move, because Blu started to really distance himself from me quickly, rarely saying a word to me. I thought he would be disappointed, but not like this. I took his actions as immature and unprofessional, and they validated my endorsement.

I don't remember who won that primary, I think Blu won anyway. What I remember most about that event is the heartbreak he described to me. Blu wears his emotions on his sleeve, anyone who knows him at all knows this. He is fiercely loyal, and it hurts him when others do not reciprocate. Were the roles reversed, he would have endorsed me, I truly believe that, not because I am at all a better candidate than Al, but because I was his friend.

Not long after that, Blu joined the Axis of Evil, commonly known at U4Prez as the Liberty Caucus. I had already had members confide in me about the way Kempite runs his show, about how sick they were with being bullied behind closed doors, about how his buddies would browbeat the more liberal elements, how the concept of bipartisanship was for show alone, and how the token leftwingers were there to merely rubberstamp anything the leader of the Liberty Caucus--and the future handpicked President of U4Prez for 2007--wanted to accomplish. Whatever happens in the LC stays in the LC. I'm sure someone said the same thing to Lynndie England, whatever happens at Abu Ghraib stays at Abu Ghraib.

And, sure as shit, I come onto U4Prez, I'd see Blu and Kemp on at the same time, and Kemp is badgering the daylights out of him, calling him a liberal faggot and berating him right out in public. It hurt me to watch it. It happened about a dozen times, from April to early June, where I would see Kempite just slap Blu around, and Blu take it. Occasionally he would try to retaliate about Kempite being a frustrated fag, or something to that effect, but by and large, Kempite let everyone know, out in the open, that Blu was his bitch.

It broke my heart to watch this. Blu is not built for hand-to-hand combat. Blu is built for patching you up after the fact. This was the price he was paying to be with the perceived Big Boys, to be their token liberal, their rubberstamping Democrat. What the fuck are Blu and Hawk doing in the same group, people? Was I the only one thinking there was something very wrong about this?

It got worse. Not only was Kempite skullfucking Blu out in the open for all to witness, when I would get into it with Kempite, and God know I have, Blu would defend KEMPITE! Blu was fierce. There would be times, like when I talk about the Liberty Caucus, there would be Mduminiak and Iron Lady and BigDaddy and Hawk, doing their best freeper garbage, with me shoving it right back in their faces, and here would come Blu, trying to undercut me. Here I am, making the case that the Hard Right doesn't play fair and will resort to gang violence at the drop of a hat, and Blu chimes in with me having a problem with someone defending their friends, and that friendship is something I would have no idea about.

From the rest of the Hard Right, those are just words, they don't have souls, and you have to have a soul before you can start talking about concepts like friendship. Blu, though, Blu has a soul, one of the greatest souls here, and for him to say that to me, from his mouth, it hit harder than if a dozen Hard Right losers were actually making sense.

I sucked it up, thinking, I know he is still hurt, and maybe he will always be. I've learned the hard way, you can do the worst things to people right in front of them, and if you're honest about it, you can even be respected for it. But if you slight someone, and you do it out of the blue and behind their back, they will hate you for the rest of your life. I didn't think the endorsement was so serious a thing to take, but then again, I wasn't the one who was slighted. It's real easy for me to not take it so serious, I wasn't the one hurt by it. I never considered it betrayal, but for someone who was a fiercely loyal as Blu was, I guess it was. Kempite could treat Blu like his furry little bitch in broad daylight, and depending how you look at it--surely it's how Blu looked at it--that was more honest than being stabbed in the back by an endorsement forAl.

After he did that a couple of times, I pulled him off to the side, trying to be the kind of friend that actually tells someone she loves when he is acting like a complete asshole, and told him to knock it off. I had to do that a couple of times, and each time he gave me a frustrated apology. I went after another member of the LC, and sure enough, Blu would try to roll me under the bus again.

This is why I say Blu has had to deal with more crap on this board than anyone else. He is in the position of having to defend brutes like Kempite and Mduminiak and Hawk, and to let them browbeat the bejesus out of him relentlessly in public, against Olivia's solo assaults, this Olivia he loved and I know he still loved. It must have hurt him to have to call me out in front of them, knowing I knew him, knowing he was in a no-win situation. That slight with the endorsement hurt him bad. And the LC was all too willing to take advantage of it. They were willing to use that loyalty for their own gain, no matter how much it hurt Blu. They really don't give a damn about you, especially if you're left of center. Unless you are specifically there to fellate Kempite and his buddies, there is no reason for a Democrat to be on the Liberty Caucus.

I pulled him over one last time, and told him if he ever did it again, that was it. Of course, he did it again, and I told him, just like I told Eric Gurr two weeks ago, his Olivia privileges had been terminated.

I put out the Bitch video, and Blu left a comment that is still there, that I am bagging on candidates who just want to defend each other from the big bad bully, that one-woman wrecking crew, that cunt Olivia, what do I know about friendship? It didn't sting so much by then.

Within a week thereafter, Bluproject resigned from the Liberty Caucus, and I welcomed him home. THAT is what friendship is, loving someone enough to wait for him to return to his senses, and when he does, have your arms wide open for him. It's not asskissing, it's not defending the indefensible, it's not being blind to what a "friend" does and encouraging it when you know it's hurting you and violates every principle you stand for. It's waiting for him to come back around, back to himself. It's not holding grudges. It's waiting for that apology to come, the heartfelt one, the one you know he is capable of, not the hurried SORRY to get you off his back, but the real one, and accepting it without condition.

Fuck you, Kempite, for what you did to Bluproject! The most loyal soul, the fiercest brother in arms, the one most likely to take a bullet for you, and you treated him like garbage! You treat EVERYONE like garbage! And when they stop kissing your ass, and when they stop taking your shit, and when you have used them as yes-men, punching bags, rubber stamps, emotional tampons, bathroom tissue, you conveniently toss the leftover empty husk away.

And fuck you too, Olivia! You had a chance to slow real loyalty to a friend, and your vanity got in the way. One was stroking your ego a little more than the other, so you went with flattery instead of loyalty. Quite possibly, no one in the U4Prez galaxy loved you more than Bluproject, what would it have hurt to endorse HIM?

The last time we talked, it was on amiable terms. I haven't spoken to him since I left. If he is still in the know around U4Prez, he'll know how to get a private hold of me if he wishes.

Despite all my bluster and cockiness, despite me being so sure about my big mouth and believing the positions I take are correct, I do have a couple of regrets. This is one. Not that I would have acted differently, I would never rescind my endorsement of Al. Since that primary, Al and me, we've developed a deep respect for one another, and when the bullshit at U4Prez was getting to be too much for both of us, we came to be able to confide in one another. Had I to do it over again, I might not have plastered it all over every comment board all day long. I probably would have done what I see candidates do now, just say, hey Al, I voted for you, and left it at that.

No one has had to deal with more crap on U4Prez than Blu, and I should know. Although it was never my intention to do so, I hurt him and turned him to the Dark Side, where they were all too eager to use his faithfulness for their sordid pleasure.

And as long as I am in the U4Prez sphere, I will never forgive myself for this. I have a soul.

WEEK IN REVIEW II (Aug. 12-18, 2007)

2007-08-18T11:52:00.000-07:00

The biggest story of the week was the election of Demopublic as the new leader of the U4Prez Independent Party. In my experience with her, she was a vocal member of the first incarnation of the Women's League, and my desire was to make her a co-chair of what is now the Women's Society. She declined for her own reasons, which I thoroughly respected, but her absence from the Society left a gaping hole no one adequately filled. She is energetic, intelligent, and will no doubt bring the Independent Party to a new level of prosperity, doing it her own way. I strongly encourage all Independents to assist her in any way they can, and to continue to be as active as they possibly can be in the discussions and movements within U4Prez. You have a winner at the helm, if everyone gives it everything they have, the sky is the limit.

With this, the biggest mess of the upheaval of my departure is now tidied up. That's one less piece of Olivia at U4Prez. And while I truly admired the tribute TheWiz put together in my behalf, this is now your baby, guys. I'm still part of the U4Prez world, apparently able to exert a great deal of influence from where I am, but you have the hard part of rebuilding the Independent Party.

For that, I deeply apologize. The party should not have had to pick up my mess, and it did not deserve to suffer from my own dramas. I departed angrily, quickly, and without consideration as to what would happen after I left. I re-ignited this blog and went to work badgering those I felt were ruining U4Prez the most, including its creator. I left a gaping hole for you all to attend to. From my position, and from what virtually every Independent was telling me, my leadership was appreciated, even loved by some, and my style of leaving my own to be free to campaign without hindrance, of putting promotion before platforming, and of being a lightning rod for controversy and attack, for its time, worked. In my way, I felt I knew what it was to be an Independent, and by promoting without condition on one hand, and taking the heat off of everyone else by letting it heap on me on the other, I hoped other Independents could achieve a degree of success completely on their own merit. Even in my departure, I continue to pull for the Independents, not just because the leadership role was my baby, but because I truly believe in what I always say, that voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil, and it's time the good guys got a break. I just hope I was able to help a few of them get that break and make the most of it. Aside from that, I owe you all an apology. I am sorry for leaving as I did, and I am even more sorry for leaving such a mess for you to clean up.

In the move from candidate to pundit, I continue to be that lightning rod for controversy, and this blog continues to be one of the hottest topics, if not THE most talked-about item, at U4Prez. My name is still on the tip of everyone's tongue, and I resigned ten days ago. The Hard Right goons continue to tell you all they don't read this blog--by the tone of their talk shows, their videos, and the comments they leave here, trust me, they read every single fucking day. Other candidates chime in with a note for me, and I might start a Mailbag section of this blog in the future.

I am very surprised by the continuing success of this blog. I truly thought it would burn itself out after the first two tumultuous days, when Eric Gurr was being demoted from god to janitor. Holy Hell was raised by THIS BLOG. I am flattered to take some credit in this, but truly, there had been a deep undercurrent of dissatisfaction at U4Prez. If my departure and Eric's scolding makes U4Prez stronger, if the infrastructure is truly refurbished, if the vote count is transparent, then maybe it was worth it. I get to be Queen Bitch, Eric still has his lottery ticket but can't wipe his ass with it anymore, and those who benefitted the most from the favoritism are knocked down a few pegs. With the exception of the few unhappy campers who no longer have Eric to back them up--generally the ones I describe in detail in this blog--I think it's a win-win for almost everyone.

I do consider Kiss & Tell a source for "news and opinion", and when news breaks at U4Prez, I try to be the first source with the scoop. So, when Elected_Al leaves a comment on my MySpace telling me he quit, I check out his profile, sure enough, he resigned, and it's on this blog within minutes! Before it becomes a topic of conversation, it becomes a topic on Kiss & Tell. I am truly upset that there was not more notice of Al's departure. He was one of the most positive candidates here, someone who fought for decency and clean campaigning. He was also upset that it seemed more prudent to some to sully opponents than merely leave them be, and he watched with a keen eye what these Hard Right hooligans were doing. I kept telling him, he has that clean image, it's not worth getting it tainted by mixing it up with the Liberty Crips. Ultimately, he chose to keep his soul instead of selling it to get back at those who brutalize innocents. He deserves far more respect than he is getting, and I do hope I'm not the only candidate who continues to chat with him. If so, then he grossly overestimated the alliances he built here. Much more than I do, Al deserved more from U4Prez than no one noticing his absence.

The typical Iron Lady response would be WAAAAAAAH. Mduminiak, it's Al's fault completely he wouldn't get down in the mud and sling it out with him and his fellow swine; he chose to give his pearls elsewhere, and leave them to stew in their own filth. Hawk would just say Al was "typical liberal crap" and walk away with a smirk. At least I know where these heathen stand where Al's resignation is concerned, as pernicious as their stands are. Truly, he must have touched more of you than you let on. I would have loved to have seen more of it.

I did get responses for my comments on the departures of dk08 and Atticus, including from dk08 and Atticus themselves. Congratulations, warmongers, the antiwar sentiment at U4Prez is officially dead, for the three most vocal proponents of the PNV--these two and myself--are gone. I left, and everyone knows where I went. dk08 is brokenhearted. Atticus is re-upping, not because he believes the war is worthy of anything or because he is promoting democracy, but for the only reason that should matter to any father--his children. Whether he ends up in Iraq or Afghanistan or Darfur or Kosovo or wherever he is ordered to go, the children of those countries have a true hero to turn to. Atticus got it, and he would give it to you good if you tried to give him the usual patriotic bullshit your American sensibilities would tell you to give. He sees in his children what every father sees in his children around the world, and he is willing to die for THEM, not you, chickenhawks, and not me, and not some ethereal thing called democracy or America. For THEM.

Trust me, were Atticus to die, I would not glom onto his death and gain brownie points for it. If I hear from him, I will definitely write something, so those of you who love him as well can stay in the loop, and I do hope, if any of you hear from him, you talk it up. But trust me, Atticus will not be thinking of me in his moment of worldly demise, he is not going to think, please, Olivia, keep fighting the good fight. I will miss him and hope he returns safely, and if he doesn't, I will grieve in my own way. But trust me, I am no keeper of the Atticus flame, nor would he want anyone to be. This is HIS thing, and he hates people who try to glom onto such events. He knows fakes when he sees them, and he called a few of you out for being just that. A letter from Atticus from, say, the Sudan, is news at U4Prez, and whether he writes to me or anyone else, there's plenty of us who would like to be kept in the know.

I'll do what I can if you do what you can.

Next week I will continue to fight the good fight, try a few new things. If these poll things ever work correctly, I might try a new poll question. A bunch of us are wondering who the poster "Your a Whore" is, and we're all taking guesses on the subject. I still maintain it's Mduminiak, even though he says it isn't him. He also said he doesn't read this blog, yet he leaves messages here? The man has THIRTEEN VIDEOS out on me, and he has the nerve to talk about someone else being a stalker? I have always put my faith in the candidates of U4Prez, and he has always thought you all are stupid. Yesterday's video is evidence of this. He expects you to forget all the videos he's made concerning Olivia, all the time he's spent on his radio show talking about me, all the time browbeating me at U4Prez simply because we're there at the same time, and yet, somehow, it's ME who is obsessed? I've never lied to you before--embellished, maybe sensationalized, but never lied. I listened to Mike's show one day for about ten seconds, in his archives, and I moved on, because he was just another conservative on the radio. That's just what Western Civilization needs, ANOTHER CONSERVATIVE WITH A RADIO SHOW! Nothing to distance itself from any other such show. If I want to know what Mike thinks, I can just listen to Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity. If I want to know his opinion, I'll ask the people who do the thinking for him, thank you very much.

I am of the opinion that U4Prez is a perfect place to put your theories of politics to practice. You can say whatever you like in your platform, but in your conduct, in the way you campaign, and in the way you build alliances, you say more about what you really stand for than all the spindoctoring you will ever do. Take Mike, for example, Caped Conservative Crusader. Now, from what I know about the right, conservatives are supposed to loathe bureaucracy, right? After he smears his face all over the Republican leadership profile, what does he do? He creates a bureaucracy! The Steering Committee is the GOP's nanny state, where the poor Republican peasants are supposed to go to know what they are supposed to say and think and do. Conservatives allegedly loathe centralization of power, right? Here's Mduminiak, not only ruling the GOP as a tyrant, he gets his fellow goons from the LC and a few new asskissers to join this committee, people he knows will rubberstamp whatever he wants to do. Evidence of this was the loud outcry from others over what was to go into their platform. Typical tyranny, instead of providing a forum for all candidates to have a say--which they eventually had to do under pressure from within the GOP, much to the chagrin of the privileged SC members--Mike and his Politburo dictated to others what the platform would be, kiss his ass if you don't agree. Mduminiak can paint as rosy a picture he wants about conservatism, but when given a chance to put it into practice in his platform and leadership roles, he chooses tyranny. Again, it's typical, how many real-life candidates out there claim to be conservative, only to get to Washington, sign onto pork barrel spending and all their pet projects, and ignore what they promised in the first place? Such politicians use conservatism as a bumper sticker and nothing else, and when they get elected, it's wadded up and thrown away. Mike is no different, ladies and gentlemen. When given a chance to apply conservative ideals to his campaign, you know what, fuck conservatism, he'll do what he wants. Talk is cheap, and listening to the ten seconds of his show, it's VERY cheap in the Breach. Conservatism gets a vote or two, but when given a chance to use it in his campaign, it's ignored. And whoever voted for him for Leader is hosed.

Then again, according to Mike, if you get hosed because a candidate uses conservatism as a bumper sticker, then tosses it easily aside after he gains power, IT'S YOUR FAULT.

I wish Demopublic nothing but success, and if there's anything in this blog she can use or learn from, I would be deeply honored to continue to keep writing these articles, telling these stories, and posting these opinions. Be it my own experiences and mistakes, or the experiences and mistakes of others, I will most undoubtedly continue to serve the U4Prez community, whether it's to hold the moderators' feet to the fire, call a spade a spade, go toe to toe with the goons, pull the mask off of imposters, or deliver news as it happens, I'm not going anywhere.

Love, Olivia. XXX

The OTHER Five Rules

2007-08-17T15:52:00.000-07:00

I watched the Mikester’s video last night, the one with the five rules to success at U4Prez, and as I partook, I kept thinking of that Mel Brooks movie, HISTORY OF THE WORLD, PART ONE. There is a scene, the Ten Commandments, where Mel is portraying Moses as a crotchety old Brooklyn Jew, and as he stands before the people of Israel, tablets in hand, one of them drops and crashes where he stood, and as this happens, he says, “The Lord Jehovah has given you these fifteen… (drop) Oy… ten, TEN COMMANDMENTS!”

That’s what I felt when I saw Mduminiak, one of the dirtiest candidates in U4Prez history, get on video, get in your face, and tell YOU how YOU need to run YOUR campaign, so you could be just like him. The irony was oozing from my screen, was it oozing from yours? I wouldn’t call it hypocrisy, that word is bandied about all too often, usually by the Hard Right thugs he employs. It’s been used so often at U4Prez by those goons who merely seek violence, that it holds little of the real force it’s supposed to have. When Jesus calls the Pharisees hypocrites, it means something. When Hawk calls a liberal a hypocrite, people generally chuckle under their breaths.

Anyway, I watched that, not only seeing the subtextual attacks he was making, but also wondering, is this it? He doesn’t stand for ANY of this nonsense. Have fun? Of course he wasn’t having fun when his rating was going down because of his negative campaigning. The only fun I see is when the Hard Right chases off another candidate, THEN they have their fun.

So, in the spirit of wanting to help Mduminiak, here is the first draft of “rules for success” he started with, along with my interpretations on what they mean. He can thank me later.

1. FIND A VERY STRONG CANDIDATE AND BECOME HIS MONKEYBOY. You really don’t have to do much else. When was the last time RogueJew came along and did anything other than burn a liberal in effigy? That’s because, because he chose his master well, he doesn’t have to do anything but be a goon. All you have to do is find someone who has a little merit, and glom onto him. Do everything he does. He goes negative, you go negative. He uses the Liberty Caucus like a punching bag, you use the GOP in the same way when you become leader. Whatever your guru does, defend the practice to the end, watch and learn. You really don’t have to be creative. Just do what he tells you to do. Occasionally, in true mafia fashion, he might ask you to show your loyalty by running an “errand”, which might be to browbeat an antiwar candidate into submission, or run a handful of negative ads you might apologize for the very next day, but the fact that you did it will be enough. Whoever that candidate is, dig into him like a chigger, like a pit bull, like Mike Tyson on Evander Holyfield’s ear. And don’t let go, no matter what. By doing this, you will never have to think for yourself, you can coast almost the entire way, and with a little luck, if the captain of your heart is in good with the creator, you just might get to ride all the way home.

2. CREATE A DETAIL OF LOYAL GOONS TO DO THE DIRTY WORK FOR YOU. According to MDuminiak, if you have been harassed by the same four or five hooligans I keep mentioning on my blog as the notorious Hard Right, if you have been told very lewd things because you are a woman, if you have every intention on running a clean campaign only to let the sophists twists it to their own ends and then laugh as you pick up the pieces, IT’S ALL YOUR FAULT! Personally, why would you want to deal with such goons anyway? The smart thing would be to quit, because, truly, people, you have better things to do than have the same gang of trolls coming up to you every day, saying the same smarmy things you were getting on every other political message board on the Net, berating you for everything from your ideology to your gender. It’s not worth the aggravation. However, if you do decide to stay, do what MDuminiak did, and assist your master in creating your own goon force. Find the most ruthless characters on the site, befriend them, and let them do the attacking for you. It’s real easy to talk tough when you benefit from six months of violence. Don’t ever forget what Mike says, when the Hard Right is pressing on you, calling you names, twisting logic to suit their needs, and laughing at you for fighting back, YOU CHOSE TO BE A VICTIM! When a Neanderthal candidate talks to a woman about her body and what he would do with it, all that humiliation and frustration she feels, IT’S HER FAULT. Be a winner like Mike chose to be, and get your own goon squad today!

3. PLAY THE DIRTIEST POLITICS POSSIBLE, AND THEN ACT INNOCENT. This takes some doing. Kempite’s not very good at it, Mduminiak is actually a little bit better. Kempite will allow the nastiest things to come flying out of his piehole, and even with all his goons falling on the sword for him, with having Eric Gurr in his back pocket (or front pocket, depending if one or the other feels frisky), he still comes out looking worse than before. I wonder why. I think it’s because the U4Prez population isn’t as stupid as he makes them out to be. I think it’s because it takes a little more than whining after the fact, a little more than playing the victim card, a little more than blaming others, to gloss a situation over. Perhaps an apology—hint hint? Perhaps just a shred of humility? Mike is a little better on this one, and I think it’s because of all the time being second banana has taught him what his place is, in Kempite’s shadow. He has that barest minimum of humility, so he knows how to fake it. When he looks in the camera and talks about how YOU, you worthless little peasant merely trying to get off the ground, need to be positive, it’s because he has spent so much time going after HAK. Copulate. Olivia. Dk08. Dozens of others. Hey, there’s not just one attack video against Copulate, there’s FOUR! Mduminiak put up EIGHT attack videos on me IN ONE NIGHT, took them off when they were no longer politically expedient, then put them back up, along with FIVE MORE SINCE, because Olivia was calling his buddies out for the bullies they are. Truly, there is no one out there more likely to slit your throat than Kempite and Mduminiak, everyone who’s been at U4Prez for any length of time knows this. Better to be at the right hand of the devil than in his path, I guess. Truly, though, if Kempite goes after you—and if you stand up to him, he most assuredly will—he’ll just whine like a girl after the fact. Not Mduminiak. After he lynches you, he has enough sense to tie you to a boulder and throw you in the deepest part of the river, and then act like, there’s no body, you can’t prove a thing.

4. USE ANYTHING AT YOUR DISPOSAL TO GAIN BROWNIE POINTS. Some have proven, there is truly no limit to what you can use to generate not just a positive appearance, but also sympathy and pity. Kempite will use deadly diseases and dead candidates to enhance his agenda. Hedrick sold his soul to the VRWC for thirty pieces of silver, and it might have cost him his integrity and reputation, but he did get in good with the Hard Right, and he did show that mean old Olivia not to play nice with him. Iron Lady will defend her fellow criminals to the end, no matter what they say, no matter how putrid the vomit, no matter if she herself finds it repugnant, so I guess she is willing to use her integrity gleefully for the Hard Right to take turns wiping their asses on. It was Kempite himself who set this tone, that dirty politics is American politics, that anything goes. Pick a virtue and sell it for a vote.

5. EVERY CANDIDATE WHO QUITS IS A STEP UP FOR YOU. Truly, this is a game, and the faster you get someone to quit, the easier it is for you. Once a candidate gets his footing and creates a niche for himself, it’s much harder. But if you put together your goon squad, as recommended in Step #2, it’s a little easier to harass him. Smart candidates usually quit when they realize U4Prez is just another freeper’s paradise, no different than a thousand other political message boards. Never doubt this, not only have the Hard Right knuckledraggers never talked a candidate outside their tidy clique out of resigning, they celebrate when one does. Such parties have been thoroughly documented. Mduminiak can smugly talk about such candidates being weak. I gotta tell you, there is no sport in a game where the object is to be the biggest blithering asshole you can be, and get away with it. Anyone who browbeats others and then tells you you CHOSE to be victimized is downright cruel. Anyone who decides to leave because she is embarrassed and humiliated from unwanted sexual advances, apparently that’s a woman being too weak to hack it. Be that as it may, it’s still cause for the Hard Right to party like it’s 1999!

Now THAT'S a little more honest of a list! You're welcome, Mike.

Now, as a candidate who has fought the many battles on U4Prez and decided to abdicate because they were all in vain, let me give you five tips (not rules, that’s a tyrant for you, always making RULES) that might help you.

1. BE CREATIVE. You always wanted to do this, here you are, your own campaign. Let it all hang out. Try the things you see the big boys doing, or if you have your own million dollar idea, give it a whirl. You are limited only by your own imagination.

2. PICK YOUR ALLIES WISELY. The backstabbing at U4Prez is atrocious, and there is blood on hands you would never think were capable of such a thing.

3. KEEP IT SIMPLE. Don’t exhaust yourself with a separate position for every single fucking issue out there, no one reads all of it. But think of what you truly stand for, what you believe deep in your heart, and let everything you say and do revolve around that point. It’s called focus, and trust me, people will remember you far more for the one principle you hold dear above all others than how you feel about tort reform and abortion and Israel AND health care AND entitlements AND immigration AND yada yada AND…

4. PAY ATTENTION. There are opportunities for exposure all around, and if you find ways to take advantage of them, you can catapult your way to the top in no time, even in just a few days. I’ve seen candidates come in here and light the place up from the get-go, and in literally a week, everyone’s talking about them. Get involved in debates. Watch what the high-profile candidates do, and out-do them.

5. AT THE MOMENT YOU FEEL YOUR DESIRE TO WIN OUTWEIGHS YOUR MORALITY, LEAVE. Too many candidates are here who will say and do anything to bully someone, to make another look bad, to promote themselves in unethical ways. Don’t sell your soul just to get another tenth higher on your rating. Don’t throw other candidates under the bus to make yourself look good. If you find yourself saying and doing the very things you know in your heart are wrong, then you are becoming the very thing you swore you would never be. Many of the people I go after in my blog, they sold themselves out a long time ago, and they are to a point that they think they are truly doing U4Prez a service by sexually harassing the female candidates, by dogpiling on perceived opponents, by using the most twisted logic this side of Rush Limbaugh, and in general, by browbeating you into submission. They’re trying to thin the herd. They’re NeoCons, they don’t like democracy or diversity, they don’t respect differences in opinion. They think they’re doing the place a favor in getting you to quit, and they’ve talked themselves into the notion that if you quit, IT’S YOUR FAULT. Don’t buy into it. If you feel you have to constantly rumble with them, leave. You’ve done exactly what they wanted when you retaliate. You’ve lost your focus, and you are on the road to becoming what you loathe—one of them, someone who will say the meanest and dirtiest thing they can think of to get you to go home, so they can dance on the corpse of your campaign. By all means, challenge them, they’re just a bunch of bullies, you hit them in the nose hard enough, they back away. They’ll come back later, and they’ll talk shit about you behind your back, but you can get them off of you by a show of strength, for the moment. But if you feel you have to sink to their level and stay there, it’s time to go. Whatever you should be doing as you waste your time at U4Prez, it’s better to do that than seeing just how deep in the mud you are willing to go to take on these slugs. Go do it. It’s not worth the time and effort. What does it profit a man to gain the entire world, yet lose his soul?

Oy.

Eavesdropping on the Indies

2007-08-16T16:37:00.000-07:00

By Friday, the vacant Independent Party Leader position will be filled. One of the largest gaping holes left by my departure will be spackled over, and life will assume a different standard of normality, but normality nonetheless. The strange predicament TheWiz found himself in as the interim spokesman will end, and another Indy will be in the position of being ignored by the moderators, defending the Independents against the onslaught of criticism the Republicans and especially their Hard Right elements, promoting candidates who most likely will be completely on the other side of the political spectrum from him or her, while at the same time conducting his or her own campaign.

It was a challenge for me, but I will tell you, fellow Independents, and especially whoever assumes leadership, it became my favorite part of being at U4Prez.

I peek in from time to time, and I know there has been praise for my efforts from some, criticism from others, concerning my definition of Independent Party Leader. From within the party, I almost universally received positive feedback, even gratitude. I think most of U4Prez understood what I was trying to do, even my staunchest adversaries on the Hard Right knew, they were merely contrarian for its own sake. God Bless them for their consistency, even in promoting difference of expression, they never turned down a chance to stick it to Olivia.

Which might be to your advantage, leader-to-be. Without the baggage Olivia brought with her, you might have less opposition from the Hard Right thugs than I did.

So, what exactly did Olivia do as Independent Leader, anyway? I invite anyone to offer her own perspective to this question, but this is the way I perceived what I did.

When I ran for the leadership position, I already had a record of being against the two-party system. I had declared myself an Independent because I wanted to make a stand against the Republocrats and somehow make a dent in their duopoly. There is no inherent reason why there should be but two major parties in the first place, both of them trying to appeal to all, yet serving none. I felt, because these two entrenched parties had been drunk with power for so long, they no longer differentiated themselves from one another, except to try to convince the American people the other guy was bad because of the R or the D after their names. Between the truly petty partisanship, the ultranegative campaigning, the distortion of news to fit agendas, and the collusion the two parties had to keep other parties out of the loop, I simply had enough. I am an Independent because I do not wish to be associated with either party at all, because other voices are out there that deserve to be heard, and if we continue to prop up this two-party fantasy, politics will get more and more corrupt and less and less answerable to the American voting public.

As a candidate, I ran primarily on this one issue, and I had set up the Antipartisan Pledge as a way of seeing who was out there who agreed with the sentiment. There are plenty of other candidates, from all parties, who are simply tired of politics-as-usual, of petty partisan bickering, and they want to do something about it. Some want to bring that garbage to U4Prez, thinking dirty politics is all fair in love and war. Others, and I consider myself one of them, believed politics need not bring out the worst in people, and the winners need not be the one who can sling the most mud.

More or less, everyone knew why I was an Independent, so I didn't have to talk too much about myself when I ran for Indy Leader. With my record out there for all to see, I could focus on HOW I would do the job of Leader. While the Republicans and Democrats were talking about platform-building, I shucked that idea altogether, and put together my own methodology.

I made it very clear in my speech when I campaigned for the post, and I put it on the Indyleader profile, there was no way you could get, at that time, 600 Independents, going 600 different directions, to agree to a centralized platform. One of you might know how to do it, but from where I sit, I deemed it impossible, so I didn't even try. I lean left on most issues, how in the world am I going to convince a hardcore rightwing Indy like, for instance, CoryF, to go along with any platform I could come up with? Even if a committee were set up to compromise, inherently, such a central agenda is anathema to everything Independents stand for. The very idea of an Independent Party was a contradiction of terms.

That's something my detractors on the Hard Right never understood. There are reasons as to why we all went Indy. I rattled off a few reasons why I did, and chances are they reflect the same opinions of others. But Icababe's story is different from CoryF's, or MejicoJohn's, or CHASE, or Maditude, or my own. Respecting their individual cases, I never lifted a finger to try to agree on a platform. Independents are a diverse bunch, whether they promote it or not. People belong to parties so they can do the work leadership provides them, and work themselves up over the years. They don't want to lead themselves, they want to be part of something greater than themselves. While I can respect that, it's not for me, and it's not for anyone who wants to promote their own campaigns, without having to answer to party elite.

I think I had a good bead on this, and I think that is why I won with 52% of the vote, the only party leader to win with a majority. Of course, ALL elections are suspect on U4Prez, but I digress.

And, true to my word, I didn't ever bring up platforms. Outsiders, especially select Republicans, felt I was blowing my party off. To hell with them. I was going to be damned, whether I followed the traditional route of platform-building or not. If I'm going to be damned for anything, it's for acting on my own terms.

So, no platform. What, then, did I do?

My big thing was promotion. Exposure. Trying to give Independents other outlets. I get enough exposure as it is, it was time to promote them with the same zeal in which I promote myself. I defy anyone to claim I plastered my name and face all over the Indyleader profile, you would be a damn liar. I only put my name it twice, once within my usual farewell of Love, Olivia. XXX. The other was my resignation letter. You never saw my face there, and you never saw a shred of self-promotion.

One consideration I made was using the Indyleader profile itself as a billboard for individual Independents. Typically, you would see five or six videos, all from Independents, from what I could find from YouTube. It was my way of giving the more creative Independents a small boost of exposure. Any Independent could take advantage of it. I check YouTube all the time, so if they even put one up without being told, I would know it existed myself.

We will never know how effective such tactics were, but I know they were appreciated. I remember one particular night, CHASE came around, excited about his new camera. I told him previously I was using the Indyleader profile to promote videos, and I used his latest one. He couldn't believe anyone would try such a thing, and he was very gracious toward me, thanking me. Previous to that, CHASE and I would talk incredibly rarely, so the notion that someone he barely knew would take enough interest in him to promote his videos, he thought that was the greatest thing! A few weeks later, he hunted me down in mid-debate and told me he just made a new video with his new camera, but it wasn't on YouTube yet. I was able to get his video on the Indyleader profile within five minutes of his telling me of it. In other words, I got a video on the Indyleader profile before YouTube! Whether that gets CHASE any more 10's, only he knows if it helped. But he certainly did seem to enjoy the fact that someone gave enough of a damn about him and his campaign to give it a try.

What were the Democrats or Republicans doing? Think08 was on family leave, so the Dems were dead in the water. The Republicans had Mduminiak's mug smeared all over the profile, his name is big bold letters. No promotion for anyone except himself and his Steering Committee. Remember how I told you there was no way I could ever force the Independents in a box and make them like it? Mduminiak tried to strongarm the entire Republican Party the same way Kempite bullies the Liberty Caucus, and he used the Steering Committee to do so. Basically, he found about twelve yes-men, many of who knew he could count on to brown-nose him pretty good from the LC, and basically created an elite within the GOP. A couple of the more veteran Republicans, namely Copulate and HAK, raised hell over this, and it literally took a month for Mduminiak and his new gang of goons to capitulate and let others in. Back to promotion, what was Mduminiak promoting? Well, other than himself, he was putting out videos, one campaign was to insult the other parties. He basically called the Independents a bunch of sheep for following me in what he referred to as the Olivia Party, and he called the Democrats a bunch of whiners. His other campaign was to promote the history of the GOP, and in both campaigns, I found it odd, he never brought up a thing the GOP did in the last 30 years. Any accomplishment he cited as a Republican victory, it was when Lincoln or Teddy Roosevelt was president, when the party was much more progressive than it is today. Everything he cited as a Republican plus, liberals could also point to. The fact that Mduminiak asked Independents the question, why have Eisenhower, when you could have Ralph Nader, was laughable at the time, and it's more laughable as time wears on. Was there a single president from the last 20 years he could say the same? He pointed out the very reason why we became Independents, because the presidential nominees the two big parties put out over the last 20 years have been horrid! Mduminiak is probably the lamest candidate on U4Prez, and five months of tangles with me have proved it again and again and again. Not the dumbest, not the meanest, not the ugliest, just the lamest.

Every so often, when I sensed a dead spot in the current discussion, I would chime in on the Indyleader board with something snappy and snazzy, something to bring a little attention to the Indies while, at the same time, taking a poke at the other parties. I might write something like, while the other party leaders are busy turning their profiles into jukeboxes, we at the Independent Movement are finding new ways to promote our candidates. While other party leaders are trying to tell their candidates what to think and feel and do, the Independents are free to run their campaigns any old way they choose. While other party leaders are picking their buddies for committees, the Independents have no leadership to kiss up to. I know it irked Think08 and especially MDuminiak, but it did seem effective in getting the Independent message out.

It was also effective in gaining not only several defections, but it drew such a thick line between the Indies and the other two parties, that they had a clear-cut choice, not only in ideology, but in philosophies of leadership. MDuminiak proved to be a top-down kind of guy, big on organization, and if you were on the outside looking in, sucks for you. I had no structure, no organization, no platform at all. I was earning my keep by being a one-woman PR staff, using my energies in promotion alone. Candidates from any party could look at the very different tactics used, and many turned Independent, in spirit if not in actual practice, because there was such a disparity of style. Mike could never understand why I didn't put a platform together, and I know it was a mistake for him to try.

The grand virtues I had as a candidate were a big mouth and a lack of shame. I had no problem mixing it up during an argument, and every chance I get, I tried to defend Independents. That is, after all, part of leadership, right? Defending yours? MejicoJohn was screwed with TWICE in run-offs, and I made sure my opinion was heard. Someone would laugh at why we didn't have a platform--I said we do have platforms, we have 700 platforms, because we have 700 Independents. BigDaddy was playing his petty little games with me one day, trying to drive a wedge between myself and the more conservative elements of the party, asking if I kept candidates like CoryF and Icababe in the loop; I had to ask, what loop? What business? They have no one to answer to, they're Independents, you genius! They're their own boss! LuckyNum was lashing out at CoryF one day, calling him a Republican disguised as an Independent--I jumped hard on Lucky, telling him CoryF has every right to give up his autonomy and play goon for Mduminiak if he pleased, but he chose to be his own man and be an Independent, and I don't care if he's left or right, he has his reasons, and I respect them, step off. This was my baby, and as I wrote elsewhere, no one fucks with the Independents on my watch.

But that was me, and it's no longer my watch. The new leadership will have his or her own style. For instance, you might indeed think it pertinent to put together a platform, or at least a list of ideals all Independents generally agree upon. I had such a list on the Antipartisan Pledge. You might try to find those common bonds, that which repelled you from the two mammoth parties. For the right leader, it could happen.

But I am confident that our fellow Independents, the ones who supported me and gave me words of encouragement throughout my tenure, will give whoever emerges as leader their loyalty and support. That's one thing I could count on among the Independents; although they were all their own sovereign, they all knew the ties that bound us all together and respected them. Liberal or conservative, moderate or extremist, they all know why they went Independent, and that reason is their own. We are all captains of our own ships, and yet, at the same time, we're all in the same boat.

Good luck.

Love, Olivia. XXX

Atticus

2007-08-15T16:47:00.000-07:00

Today's note, a letter to the u4Prez Independent Party, can wait one more day.

I have no doubt, when each candidate learns of the departure of Atticus and his return to the military, it will fill us all with a myriad of emotion. Loss. Sadness. Patriotism. Confusion. And in that same vein, he will be remembered by each in their own unique way, some to beat their chest and rekindle the flames of war support, some to shake their heads in anguish as another beautiful American is being led to slaughter.

This is Atticus, the way I will remember him, and the way I will see him when he returns.

Atticus was a soldier in the same vein that Pat Tillman was a soldier, wanting to defend and serve, wanting the terrorists gone, and wanting America safe. By the same token, he had huge problems with this war and had no problem expressing it.

When the PNV had just begun on U4Prez, I was awed that, right next to dk08's name, when I saw the profile for the first time, I saw the name Atticus. Which is to say, Atticus was the very first to sign up for it. Atticus had been there before, had seen the worst in mankind, and the sheen of pride and patriotism had been warn off the hard way. I knew he had been in combat, and I also knew he had issues with this war. And yet, there was his name, the first to join what was then the lone antiwar voice on U4Prez.

We talked about videos, and Atticus presented his. There are currently four under the name Bacchus1975, and they all have the names INI and Atticus, names he used on U4Prez. Between all four, if they are all watched, I think you get a much better idea of the man than the myth possibly already being projected onto the U4Prez psyche.

About his videos, they are wide-ranging, and it's hard to think about them being done by the same person. On one hand, you have him printing the lyrics to a reggae song "Murderer", calling to task any leader who wages wars of choice and refuses to understand the carnage he has wrought. On the other, you have a very uplifting, light, cheerful video, done to the delightful music of Ziggy Marley, preaching the joys of love and peace, worthy of being put on any hippie's profile. Possibly the most disturbing video I've seen in the U4Prez canon, entitled "INI", starts with a tiny--and I do mean tiny--infant gruesomely suffering from the effects of depleted uranium, the weapon of choice for both Presidents Bush in their wars in Iraq. I had to turn it off when I saw the very next picture, a toddler whose eyes had exploded to the size of bloody grapefruits outside her head. Having finally stomached the rest of it, I report it as a scathing report on the farce that is the War on Terror, done Atticus style--in your face, THIS is what this war is about, look or be called a pussy!

I am sure the warmongers out there will talk about his final video, and that will be the Atticus they will conveniently remember. The same people will remember Pat Tillman as the man who gave up football riches to defend his country, never recalling that, when overlooking Baghdad from a helicopter, he is reported to have said, "This war is so fucking illegal."

Candidates, don't pick and choose the Atticus you wish to remember. Remember Atticus for what he was.

I could count on Atticus to defend his friends at the drop of a hat. There were a few times he jumped in when I was taking on a handful of Hard Right thugs, and they generally steered clear of him. I don't think they got him, here was a man, possibly more man than any two other men at U4Prez, been in combat, I am sure they wanted to embrace him as evidence the war was noble. He talked frankly about it.

And I think he appreciated my willingness to jump into the fray and take a bullet for something I believed in. On the Fifth of July, after the ruckus died down, Atticus and Mikep1990 both sent me PM's, telling me what I did was the right thing. I appreciated their sentiments, but isn't that what democracy is supposed to be about? Doing the right thing?

When the Hard Right zoomed in on dk08, and I stepped in to assist, Atticus asked me if I needed his assistance, because he was ready to defend not only us, but the PNV he was a part of. I told him the show was over, but to hang tight, things could spark up again.

When MejicoJohn got rooked A SECOND TIME, a month later, in the next run-off, losing to a candidate who hadn't had a comment on his profile since FEBRUARY, the first one to alert me to it was Atticus, who basically came up to me and said, MejicoJohn is getting screwed again, what are you going to do about it, Olivia? By that time, Atticus knew I would stand up and fight, and I think he wanted a fight, too.

The perfect Atticus video was on the PNV profile for the longest time, and you can see it on YouTube at your leisure. It's the Ziggy Marley one, the one with the hand-drawn hearts all linked together, and the words LOVE BEGETS LOVE. In the end, that's what Atticus stood for, even if he believed that's not what could ever come from this putrid war he set to music and pictures in his other videos. That was the soft soul of a soldier, the one I tried to describe to the warmongering set once upon a time, the one who stands out over the battlefield, beholds the multi-levelled carnage and the wasted and broken bodies strewn about in the dusk, thinking not of such petty things as country and courage and presidents, but of his children, how they will be protected on this day, and dear God, if there is one, let this be the LAST time we human beings ever have to fight like this, that we come to our senses and find better ways to solve our differences, for if my children have to fight as I did, this was surely done in vain.

No one else has anything better to offer than platitudes. For once, can we do away with the trite little comments, the patriotic pleasantries, the politicking, and just admire the the equally beautiful and horrific complexities of this man as he leaves the building? Just shut up and watch him go? Just this once, can we do that?

The Fifth of July

2007-08-14T15:56:00.000-07:00

I woke up on the morning of July 5th and came onto U4Prez, thinking I needed to put something together to promote the upcoming MejicoJohn-Icababe run-off. This was our very first primary, for we Independents, and as a party leader who had always tried to promote out candidates widely and wildly, I was hoping to inspire the population to vote. Maybe I would set up a couple of banners, maybe I would talk the Independent Party up. I didn't plan to spend but maybe an hour or two, getting the good word out.

What I thought would be a nice brief day on U4Prez, promoting fellow Independents and having a good time all around, turned into one of the most seminal events in U4Prez history, the sort of event I hadn't seen before and haven't seen since, and most assuredly I have never seen another candidate act in quite the same way.

Because the previous day was a holiday, the moderators--Eric--neglected to set the Independent schedule accordingly. MejicoJohn and Icababe were supposed to run off, and I was to run off against the winner. The victor of all that would be the June Independent primary winner, the very first Independent to be represented in the Conventions and general election at the end of the election cycle. It's a big deal at U4Prez, to be in these run-offs, they are your foot in the door toward moving up a level, to being a real contender for President. And as Independent Leader, I took this as our party's glorious moment to shine, to present our best and brightest, to give the more veteran Independents the chance that had been screwed out of for so long. This was going to be our coming-of-age, our grand debut, and our chance to prove ourselves every bit as legitimate as the Republicans and the Democrats.

As per usual, unless it has to do with Kempite and his pack of snarling wolves, Eric was pretty lackadaisical, and there was no moderator on that morning. There had been one earlier, if I remember correctly, one had made some sort of news announcement, and in the twilight hours there were two other faces. I come back to U4Prez, and what do I see, but MY face where John's should have been. Something was wrong, and I was not sure what was going on. My first impression is, dammit, it's our first primary, and the Independents are already getting bent over!

I had chatted with MejicoJohn over the previous couple of days. John was my first choice for the run-offs. It's still ambiguous to me exactly how much input the party leaders actually have in picking run-off candidates, some have told me I get one choice, others none at all. I submitted to Eric a list of TEN candidates I thought would be fantastic choices for our inaugural primary; all four of Eric's choices happened to be on that list, so I really don't know if I had any influence or not. I do remember the moderator telling me MejicoJohn was "my" choice, so I guess I will have to go along with it, I have no reason not to.

John was in the middle of moving him and his family from San Antonio to their current home in Nuevo Laredo, so campaigning was way down in his list of priorities. The ability to even get online, let alone stage a campaign of any strength, was minimal at best. We exchanged a few notes, and I told him his time was coming, to get ready for it if he could. He was happy to just be part of the whole thing, which I think is what every candidate truly wants at U4Prez, not necessarily to win President, but to be in the thick of things, to be active in the community here, and to feel validated for his or her contributions. He wanted to be more active and knew he couldn't be, but he was happy that he was being taken seriously at all.

I am on record in saying it would not surprise me one bit if MejicoJohn won the whole thing. His charm and sense of humor have won over a lot of people, and I think he gets a kick out of laughing at the rest of us when we take ourselves way too seriously. U4Prez is a soap opera, and I'm sure, no matter what rama was playing itself out, John was always sitting there, a Budweiser in one hand, a cigarette in the other, laughing his ass off at the rest of us.

When I saw he was getting screwed out of his position, I flipped out. John was going through his own personal turmoil, fate itself was keeping him off the site, now the moderators were going to jerk with him too? Jerk with the Independents, on our inaugural primary?

I remember talking with Republicans and Democrats about how these primaries worked. They all said that mistakes were common, that candidates had been screwed out of their places in the past, it's just part of the territiory, Olivia, deal with it.

If the way the Republocrats handle incompetence is to shrug their shoulders and let it go, that's their business. No one fucks with the Independents on my watch!

I started getting very loud, trying to wake the moderator up. I know U4Prez is a fishbowl, that someone is always looking in, and I was hoping to get someone to realize a mistake had been made, and for them to get off their duffs and correct it before too much of the day had burned away.

I think it was about 9am where I was, so I have to assume it was the middle of the business day wherever the moderator was, assuming he was in America. Who knows, the job could have been outsourced, and I would have had to be yelling for hours waiting for a moderator in India to wake up.

It started to irritate people right away when I got on a comment board and started shouting things like WAKE UP! and QUIT SCREWING WITH US! Some of the names I remember that were gathering around me when this was going on were Friday, Musicman, Iron Lady, and BigDaddy. I talked nonstop about what was going on, that MejicoJohn was getting rooked, that I had to do something to change this.

While I was being loud and boisterous in public, I was sending the moderator PM's, repeating the same thing. If they were going to ignore me, they were going to ignore me on two levels, not just one.

I truly had hoped I would have gotten a quick response, that the error would have taken a few moments to correct. But these are moderators, more times than not a trained chimp can do their job faster and with greater efficiency. To think a swift reply was possible was daydreaming on my part.

So I tried setting a fire under them, and every ten minutes for an hour, I sent a commend board message and a PM, counting down that hour, and telling them if they did not make some sort of repair to this situation, I would take matters into my own hands.

I have to be honest with you, when I started the idea of an ultimatum, it was a bluff. I truly hoped a moderator was just taking a nap on the other side of the screen. For as loud and obnoxious I was being--and I was indeed saying some pretty inflammatory things, shy of cursing--I would think, if the moderator was doing his damn job, he would see me and react. Me being loud was my way of waving my hands frantically over my head, hoping the overhead plane would see me.

I think everyone stuck around just to see what I would really do. I at least think that was Friday's position. The rest--Musicman, Iron Lady, BigDaddy--took this as a golden opportunity to try to knock me down a peg. All three of them had been rather forward in their disdain for me, and I always gave at least as good as I got, if not better. They each had an axe to grind with me, and in their own way, they took this moment, when I was desperately trying to get the mods' attention, when I was trying to restore MejicoJohn's place in the run-off, when I was trying to protect the Independent Party from the same negligence that the Republocrats had become accustomed to, to get back at me. Heaven forbid they should set their petty squabbling aside for the sake of doing the right thing. When it counted the most, these three proved that pettiness is far more important to them than maintaining democratic integrity.

I had called Musicman a pussy in recent weeks, and instead of assisting me to get MejicoJohn back to where he was promised, he made a few snide remarks. What are you going to do, Olivia, call the mods names? I was floored with just how much that man snivvels. Instead of putting personal feuds aside for the moment and assisting me in getting their attention, he's pouting about how I called him names. Whatever honor he might have built up as an alleged veteran and a so-called minister evaporated at that moment, because when the shit really hits the fan, Musicman has a record of turning into a vindictive little guttersnipe. About the only constructive thing he had to say to me that hour was, maybe the moderator was in a car accident on the way to work, lighten up. I was livid with that statement, for one, a moderator had made changes to the board just a couple of hours before, so someone was there; and for another, it was simply the lamest excuse I had ever heard.

Iron Lady was merely irritated by me, wanting me to shut up. I realize the one I was protecting wasn't one of her Hard Right gigolos, so I don't think she understood how any other candidate could possibly be worthy of being protected by someone. Instead of standing up to the moderators and shouting them down to correct their mistake, she whined to me and told me over and over again to shut up. She might very well have been one of those Republicans who simply accepts mediocrity and even defends it for no other reason, save her own GOP indentity. If she chooses apathy in her democracy, that's her business, but why insist others share in that apathy?

BigDaddy was taking the position that I was grandstanding, and he was making a few snide remarks about that. He has never bitten me higher than my ankle, but Daddy, he is as relentless a viper as they have on U4Prez. Doing the right thing is always secondary to sticking it to Olivia. When a crisis hits, you can definitely count on Musicman to cry like a girl, for Iron Lady to tell you to shut up, and for BigDaddy to try to knock your legs out from under you. You wonder why I say the Hard Right on this board isn't at all concerned with democracy and completely obsessed with personal attacks? Here's two of them and one of their flunkies, with a golden opportunity to set petty bickering aside for a moment and truly stand up for democracy, and yell out to the moderators to get off their asses and do their jobs. Instead of joining me in this, their narrowmindedness took over. Their love of democracy was overshadowed by their hate for Olivia. People were dying in Iraq for their right to vote, and here were three onU4Prez, giving democracy the middle finger the very moment it was neglected and on the brink of extinction.

At the moment of truth, they picked pettiness. I will never forgive them for it.

Well, an hour of shouting at the sleeping moderator passed, and after all the comment board messages and PM's, after the chorus in the background doing everything it could to submarine me, it was time to put up or shut up. I thought it completely ridiculous that the moderators would not respond, during a business day, within an hour. I honestly thought at that point that Eric was out to screw the Independents, and whether it was on purpose or out of negligence, it really didn't matter to me. I wasn't going to be part of this. And I was not going to allow Eric's shenanigans screw MejicoJohn out of what could have been his only shot at a run-off.

Think about it. You've been at U4Prez for months, playing the game, campaigning, hoping to get just a chance at the run-offs. You finally get that chance, and the moderator makes a mistake and takes you off the schedule. How are you going to feel? Cheated? Pissed? As if a gross mistake had been made? Brokenhearted? Who would you rather have in your corner at a moment like this, Olivia, who will shout down the heavens to get you back where you're supposed to be, or the apathetic trio I had to deal with, who just would want you to deal with it, you got hosed, so what?

After that hour, I announced that I would rescind my spot in the run-off. For U4Prez, that's sort of like giving up your chance at a million dollars. No one gives up the chance at winning a primary. No one. Spots in the run-offs are hard to come by as it is, such a spot might never come back around. This might be my sole chance to get into the general election. I rescinded it in protest, hoping the notion that one of the high-profile candidates raising such a ruckus would get someone's attention.

I also said that, if the moderators STILL had no responded by that afternoon, I would have to take even more drastic measures. I was rolling them around in my head. Maybe I would give up my party leadership position, or go on hiatus. Mduminiak chimed in, and I will give him credit on this, something he would never give me on any point. When I asked him what I could do to throw a wrench in the whole thing, he served up a brilliant method of sabotage--in changing my own party affiliation, the election would come to a screeching halt. Apparently someone previously had done the same thing by mistake. I give Mike a degree of credit, which makes it even worse, because for all his potential, he chooses to use his powers for evil instead of good. Instead of being his own person, he chooses to be Kempite's monkeyboy. For one shining moment, Mduminiak set his petty differences aside for the greater good. Why his stooges couldn't do the same, I will never know. After the calamity, Mduminiak returned to his usual smarmy, thuggish self. I don't know what's worse, someone who is ignorant because he doesn't know better, or someone who is ignorant and DOES know better. Certainly the latter brings with it an ironic sadness.

Fortunately, Eric came in with a big OOPS, and corrected the mistake, apologizing to the crowd, saying the holiday screwed the schedule up, yada yada yada. He went out of his way to thank me for making such an issue of it. BigDaddy asked if the whole thing was grandstanding, which is what he does, all motives are questioned by BigDaddy.

Eric also said it would not cost me my run-off position, to which I laid in on him big time. The only way a protest has any teeth to it is if it's followed through. It means nothing to make such a big deal if there is no sacrifice. I gave up my spot in protest, and that cannot change. I was glad MejicoJohn was back, but whoever won between him and Icababe would be the June winner, end of story.

I felt a sense of validation when MejicoJohn won. Who knows, that right there could have decided the fate of the entire election. A glitch in the primary, something the Republocrats were so accustomed to that they thought it odd anyone would dare challenge the mods when they messed up, could have had far-reaching effects. This also could have been John's only chance at the run-offs, it would have been a crying shame his only shot was marred by moderator incompetence.

As I said, no one fucks with the Independents on my watch.

I am watching earnestly these days as to who will succeed me as Independent Spokesperson. I hope they will not have to deal with the kind of dangerous incompetence I dealt with when I had to talk with the moderators, either in calm or at the point of crisis. I am sure, whoever wins out, will serve as a fine candidate.

In our lives, we all have those moments of truth, when we have to take the shitstorm on, head-on. It's moments like that that define us far more than any awards we've won, or any clubs we belong to. Democracy lived on at U4Prez to fight another day. It died a few weeks later, but for at least one more day, it lived. And when such moments occur, I then knew who would stand up and fight for what's right, and who would take the opportunity to play petty bullshit games. Musicman, Iron Lady, and BigDaddy, these three do not have a single sincere bone in any of their bodies. They saw me out on a limb, and they tried to cut it out from under me. Instead of trying to prevent another candidate from getting shanked by incompetence and negligence, they saw an opportunity to salve their wounded egos and take me on when I was fighting a much bigger fight. They were more than willing to let what could have been MejicoJohn's only shot at the run-offs fall idly by, just so they could take a shot at Olivia.

We all know Kempite will be coronated, and that is why I quit. But back then, when I still believed there was a degree of fairness, I thought about how great it would be to see MejicoJohn win. Not only to see an Independent win, or to see a friend win, or even to see the Republocrats eat crow, but to see how something I did alter the course of U4Prez's history, that would have been something. To think in November, if MejicoJohn won, how sweet it would have been. We can debate whether or not my mouth actually helped the situation or not, but most assuredly, doing nothing might not have gained anyone's attention at all, and John's place in the run-offs, let alone as President, would have fluttered away. The Fifth of July might end up being the most important day in U4Prez history, depending on who wins.

And I think that would have been a hundred times bigger a FUCK YOU than I could say to those three who hacked at me that day.

Requiem for a Candidate

2007-08-13T17:23:00.001-07:00

In the aftermath of my controversial departure, I tried to convince dk08 to stay on at U4Prez, the place needs as many positive candidates as possible. I doublechecked his profile, and I request those of you who did and did not know him to read his resignation.

News of this no doubt fills the Hard Right Brownshirts with a certain giddiness. The creator of the PNV has left, there is no one left to champion the cause of peace, they are free to roam and spread their violence and mayhem without someone standing in their way. The lone student at Tienanmen Square has been removed, the tanks can now roll in and squash a revolution before it can take place.

dk08 is as bleedinghearted a liberal as there was on U4Prez, which meant he simply had to be pummelled for having a non-warmongering opinion. He was a soft-spoken individual, rarely making waves, trying, like many, to figure out just how U4Prez works and hoping someone would throw him a bone.

When I saw he had created the PNV (Peace & Nonviolence), I thought it would be great to have at least one antiwar profile. In the want to create a community where all voices throughout the political spectrum could find voice, certainly there could be room in the marketplace of ideas for someone who promoted the beliefs of Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi, John Lennon, and any other heroes who dared to say the real choice is not between violence or nonviolence, but between nonviolence and nonexistence. Mankind must evolve past the bitter and petty level of tribal warfare, and after the bloodiest century in human history (and the first seven years of this century don't look much better), it truly is a wonder we haven't destroyed us all as of yet.

dk08 believed that the current path of American foreign policy was dangerous, that no country, let along America, had any moral right to enforce its own beliefs on another, and that every president since World War II was guilty of promoting war for his own sake, for his legacy, for the selfishness of American interestes, for the greed of the military-industrial complex, for the bloodlust of the American partisan, for the hate of the brown peoples of the world. He believed that there was only a better way, but that the current way could only end in total aanihilation.

There was nothing arrogant about this candidate. I am sure he wanted to win president, even if there were candidates more advanced than he was. He was fairly content to not only participate in an occasional debate, but to promote the PNV and make it a haven for those tired of the nonstop warfare this country has waged for sixty years, most of it unnecessary. Considering how over 70% of Americans think the war in Iraq has been fought the wrong way on one level or another, the PNV had a place at U4Prez.

I had previously tried to create a peace profile, but it flopped, for several reasons. As such, I could certainly appreciate someone trying to promote peace as the basis of his platform, and I was honored to present myself to dk08 and become a member of the PNV.

dk08 was always trying to find ways to make his profile more appealing. Though I made it clear to him I had plenty on my own plate with my own campaign, Independent Party leadership, the Antipartisan Pledge, the Women's Society, getting cats out of trees, looking the Hard Right bullies in the eye, and that the PNV would be his baby, I helped him in any way I could. Whether it was coming up with a few songs for his little jukebox (I will always adore him for finding "One Tin Soldier" and putting it there), or ideas for videos, or promoting a worldwide Peace Day coming up on September 21, or looking up great websites like peaceoneday.org, I tried to give him ideas for his profile. He always appreciated my ideas, whether he used them or not. But he was also especially heartborken that I was the only one of the PNV members who was giving him such input. There were about seven of us in the PNV for various reasons, and I surely thank anyone who promotes peace and antiwar causes as a point of conscience. I think he overestimated the sentiments of the U4Prez populace, hoping to make his little profile just a little more noticeable. He loved talking about Bono, and he was considering a tribute to Princess Diana, of whom the tenth anniversary of her death is coming this month.

That's all he wanted, a conversation of peace.

Because of my want for him to succeed, he left the Democrats and became an Independent. If for no other reason, because I validated his want for a simple dialogue over peace, he turned Indy.

Negligence frustrated him, but what really broke his heart was the very obvious resentment some at U4Prez had against such a sentiment. Wanting to eradicate every liberal from U4Prez with the same fervent zeal that the Nazis sought to remove every Jew from Poland, the Hard Right knuckledraggers were a constant source of harassment. You know the ones I'm talking about, I refer to them all the bloody time, because it seems whenever someone's getting gangraped on U4Prez, it's the usual suspects on the Hard Right who had some part in it.

I remember one time coming here, and dk08 was getting being roughed up by Mduminiak and Hawk. Heaven forbid they could have an honest conversation. Either agree or disagree, or live and let live. Oh no, not on THEIR U4Prez could they possibly have someone talking peace. That's tantamount to treason! Who is this dk08, is he a terrorist sympathizer? Why does he hate America so much? Why does he want to cut-and-run so desperately? The Republican talking points were flying at him pretty good.

I tried to jump in and deflect this tagteaming a little bit. These cowards usually made a few snide remarks when I come around, but when I find all they have to offer is hate, I let them talk themselves out. They were hitting dk08 on this point, that according to him, we should have given the terrorists flowers for what happened on September 11th. When he said there was such a thing as a necessary war--and even I said the same thing, that I never had a problem with going after the criminals who rammed planes into the World Trade Center, so long as we were focused in what we were doing and we caught the bastards--Mduminak's and Hawk's eyes lit up. Hypocrisy! So the PNV DOES promote war! And like the anklebiters that they are, they danced and flicked their tongues at us and gave the na-na-na-NAH-NAH chant, hypocrite hypocrite hypocrite!

Without caring for an explanation, these two delinquents patted themselves on the back, having thoroughly twisted logic to their own means, not caring who they hurt, so long as their appetite for liberalbashing was whetted. Convinced their sophistry to be superior over the desire for peace, they danced away like drunken fools.

I don't think dk08 ever recovered from that.

Now, I realize the Hard Right thugs are never interested in real discussion, in the swapping of ideas, in adult discord. They talk fast and hit hard. The more liberals they can slaughter and stack up like cordwood, the happier they are.

They weren't looking for a conversation, they were looking to gangrape a liberal.

So, here is the response we were trying to give. This is on the record, take it as you wish. Hawk and Mike, I realize you rapists have no real desire to hear this, but it is here, and no twisting of logic will change this.

While no one doubts that there are very obvious times when we need to defend ourselves, whether it is personal or national, it is imperative that we always look at each particular episode with sobriety, calmness, and intelligence. That does not give a person the right to go to his neighbor's house and start a fight because he looked at you wrong, neither does a country have the right to wage war, something that always brings out the very worst in human beings, at whim. Many discerning people of conscience know the difference between the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and many supported the desire to go after AlQaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. Such an act, though, does not give the Bush administration carte blanche to start wars of choice. This country has had sixty years of nonstop warfare that got us nowhere, that buried us in debt, that filled our cemetaries, that toppled democracies and installed tyrants who acted in American interest before that of their own people. What is happening in Iraq is the exact same fucking thing we did in Iran in 1953, in Guatemala in 1954, in Chile in 1973, all of which had budding democratic societies, demolished because of the shortsighted and bloody desires of the United States government. We talk ourselves into a blather over and over and OVER again to stir up one war after another after another. We haven't won a war in 60 years, and there are too many who see war as a sport and want to just win, no matter the toll in human lives. One million Iraqis are dead because Americans are on an ego trip.

Now, you can debate me on the topic all you like. Actually, I take that back, you had five months to debate me on this, but instead of wondering where I stood, and where dk08 and the PNV stood, you played your little freeper games. You had your chance to have an adult conversation on the subject, but the Hard Right hooligans thought it better to slit a throat than to hear an alternative. What you did was not honest, and you know in your hearts what you did was not honest. Whether you agreed with the PNV or not, you didn't have to bully it, did you?

dk08 wanted to quit after that, but I talked him into sticking it out. I believed U4Prez needed, and still needs, a viable antiwar voice. If nothing else, we could stick our noses up at the Hard Right skinheads and play hippie on the profile, talk about the sixties, play a few songs, and pray for peace, even if all around us are screaming holy hell for the war to get bigger and bigger. It will never stop to impress me how the most peaceful people on the planet, the ones who have truly figured out that we don't have to live in a world of war, are somehow treasonous and dangerous. I've never figured that one out, and I never want to. To basically call the teachings of Buddha, Jesus Christ, Thoreau, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King treacherous and wrong breaks my heart.

I know it broke dk08's.

He tried, and I think he welcomed when I would come around with something new for him to promote. He liked talking the talk of promoting peace, and he truly wished there was more of it.

So do I.

I contacted him the day after I left, and he said he was leaving as a result. I begged him to stay, because U4Prez needs him, just as I had said all along, U4Prez needs positivity, it needs someone to champion peace, it cannot fall into darkness without at least his candle, however vain the light was, shining on.

I truly wonder how many candidates the Hard Right Brownshirts have tried to convince to stay. Every candidate who leaves is a victory for them, never think otherwise with these goons. Every liberal who exits in frustration is another body to throw on the pile, to hurl upon their hedonistic pyre, and with every corpse they carelessly throw into the blaze, like so many Hutu nationalist thugs tossing the thousands of nameless Tutsi bodyparts in a mass grave, laughing as the blood of their fellow countrymen, the ones they referred to as vermin, soaks their fingers and pants and shoes in Rwanda during that bloody spring of 1994, Mduminiak and Hawk raise their fists in victory, another liberal has been hacked by their machetes, another voice for peace dies, another candidate gone, another victory for the Hard Right.

Were Martin Luther King and Jesus Christ candidates on U4Prez, I have no doubt they would do the same to them. Take a good look at the Hard Right militia, pick your James Earl Ray, pick your Pontius Pilate and Judas Iscariot.

I have recently referred to what's going on at U4prez as a civil war. The Hard Right is playing it like the Rwandan genocide. There are about 2000 candidates there, and nothing would make them happier than to get that number down to about 50, all of them ultraconservative Republican. Most men dream of beautiful women when they masturbate. Mduminiak, Hawk, and the others on the Hard Right, they dream of dead liberals when they touch themselves.

The thought of them pleasuring themselves at the demise of dk08 makes me shudder. All true, there were few souls at U4Prez as pure as his. If the whole of U4Prez were to die away and forget his contributions, I vow, I shall never let his work slip away. To the Hard Right, he is a nameless victim, an opposition candidate that had to be destroyed, just another vermin liberal, another one bites the dust. What Brownshirt wept when just another Jew was turned to ash? For me, I mourn my friend.

And anyone who's ever had a heart, they wouldn't have the heart to break it.

NEWSFLASH: Hard Right Dancing in the streets again!

2007-08-12T10:27:00.000-07:00

For those of you who question not only my sincerity in delivering you the news and history of the U4Prez sensation, but my motives for doing so, here is the latest breaking news.

Elected_Al, known in the real world as Albert Johnson, Democratic candidate at U4Prez, former primary winner, and all around good guy, has resigned from U4Prez in the same sort of disgust that led others to quit.

Elected_Al has been one of the truly shining lights of U4Prez since he debuted in March. His enthusiasm, his sense of humor, and especially his ability to work with others and form coalitions, made him a real contender at U4Prez. Among other accomplishments, he is the creator of the Youth Organization, a former Democratic Party Leader, and the author of the U4Decency petition (well, the one that was actually decent, comments about hookers spreading their legs sort of rescinds Kempite's co-authorship). Very few candidates at U4Prez had the sort of broad-based appeal Al had.

In time, my reflections of him will be presented in this blog.

In other news, there was a loud popping sound coming from New Jersey, as if the opening of a champagne bottle. Immediately thereafter was jubilation, music, and dancing, as the Hard Right, with their usual glee, celebrated and gloated over the frustrated resignation of another opposition candidate. Luckily, Hawk slept on his side when he passed out on Kempite's front lawn, so he wouldn't choke to death if he puked while passed out on his back. Way to go, Hard Right, you did it again!

WEEK IN REVIEW (Aug. 5-12, 2007)

2007-08-11T12:48:00.000-07:00

After the mission statement, this is article #4, and it is ALREADY the biggest story in U4Prez. Corporations shudder when Olivia speaks. Creators are knocked down to moderator status. The handpicked president himself can't keep my name out of his mouth on his own talk show, and neither can his snivveling minions. Mountains rise and fall, comets bounce one another in all their splendor, and woodland creatures are frolicking and being fruitful for all to watch in awe.

Lest we ever forget, David slew Goliath with nothing but a slingshot and a rock. If this pee-shooter can undo all the firepower of the Kempite nuclear arsenal, maybe there's something to be said about starting wars you cannot finish. That's good advice for Kempite, Mduminiak, George W. Bush, and any other thug who thinks disagreement is tantamount to assault.

What did we learn this week, candidates? We learned that, if Eric Gurr can be pulled away from his appointed rounds as Kempite's Svengali (or maybe Kempite is Eric's Svengali, hard to say which is which, but Svengali, one of them's got to be), this was never Eric's baby in the first place. Obviously Mduminiak is pathetically wrong when he calls U4Prez a private site. It's not a private site, it's a corporate site, which means Eric is a working stiff, trying to please his CEO and bootlick his way up the corporate ladder, just like anyone else would. Eric created something great, but he doesn't own it at all. Whatever nameless, bloodless corporation he works for yanked him back by the collar. U4Prez can become something big in time, but not when the creator mingles with his favorites and brushes off the common folk.

Eric is a father of three (allegedly), he must know he cannot play favorites with his kids. He cuddled a few and let the rest fend for themselves. You cannot blame the other kids--candidates--for any amount of resentment they feel. Eric is completely responsible for his own actions.

As much as I would like to think a blog like this can unhinge U4Prez, it's complete flattery and nothing else. And if the Hard Right goons--and for a second, let's name a few of them, for the sake of knowing just who we're talking about here:

Kempite: Handpicked President
MDuminiak: Kempite's monkeyboy
BigDaddy: The VRWC's mudslithering crackwhore
RogueJew: He-Man Woman-Hater
Iron Lady: Sold her integrity to play apologist for these thugs
Hawk: Knuckledragging Neanderthal who grunts when liberals talk

--if these yutzes want to blame me for Eric's demise, all it does is prove they love creating a boogeyman. Instead of holding Eric responsible for his own actions, they will scapegoat. Which is fine, if they are that childish. If they want to blame the monster in the closet for why the bed has been pissed in, that's their level, and maybe we should stop taking them so seriously and start talking to them like the children they are. When you talk to them, talk slowly, and don't use big words. You break out your collegiate vocabulary, they'll call you a socialist and blame you for their benefactor being yanked away.

There's about ten others who are their satellites, who come running whenever one is looked at wrong, and they come in force. They're sort of like those little teeny tiny dinosaurs on Jurassic Park II, one can't do much harm all by itself, it's rather mundane and is more likely to hurt itself than you, but you get three, four, five, seven, ten of them together, they become lethal. That's why the Hard Right is always travelling in packs, because individually, they are meek and even cowardly, saying something lewd and then calling YOU names because you dare to stand up to them. Within minutes, though, you will find yourself in an alley, with five of them, switchblades gleaming in the moonlight, giggling and cursing at you, waiting to cut you, for doing little more than speaking your mind or pointing out their fallacies. They do it within the walls of the Liberty Caucus, they do it to anyone daring to walk the streets of U4Prez.

The biggest thing to cripple them is that Eric isn't around to let them have their way. Whether it's beating up on some newbie who is daring to talk about peace, or pinning some female candidate against the cold brick wall and sodomizing her cruelly with a few anatomically humiliating barbs, they have had their way. And Eric turned a blind eye to it all along.

And you wonder why the list of candidates is growing who have quit? No one quits because they have better things to do. They quit because The Hard Right wants to turn U4Prez into a vast NeoCon wasteland, killing all dissention. Eric let them have their way, that's why it's the Hard Right alone who are so deeply hurt with his demise.

The fact that Eric was indeed demoted must mean I am right about a few things. These things, however, weren't concocted when I was in bed with some john, counting ceiling tiles and getting paid for it. These things have been going around for literally months. It's just that, now that someone is actually speaking up, action is finally being taken.

The fact that they sneer and gloat and dance around with such glee when a candidate is fed up with the crapola and leaves should show you the kind of people these Hard Right criminals can be. They cheered when Catbus had enough, kicking the commie to the curb as he left, fed up with the typical neoconservative freeper nonsense that is singlehandedly killing U4Prez. G.E.Smith contacted me the other day, congratulating me for leaving the "cesspool" that is U4Prez--and lest we forget, he came in here like a bright and potent ray of light, very gregarious, got after it quickly and boldly, took on all comers with focus and professionalism. Say what you want about me, but when Catbus and G.E. Smith left, they danced their little jig with the same spirit and smugness that they did when I left.

You go to any "neutral" political message board in the ether, and I guarantee you, it's overrun by these freeper goons, playing their little games, twisting logic, completely uninterested with actual political debate, and pumping their fists in victory if they can get their perceived opposition to quit.

The same way a gang of Crips declare victory by making you run for your life out of the dark alley they hang out in.

The above-mentioned clique and their sycophants, their intention is not political, their intention is violent and cruel.

Word of mouth is always the best means of advertizing. It is also the most destructive force that can ruin a business. I was telling this to Hedrick, after he collected his thirty pieces of silver from the VRWC after he took a PM I sent him to them. I told him, it takes years to build a reputation, and a second to wipe it out. For all the hard work Hedrick put into his candidacy, he is now completely untrustworthy, little more than a snitch for the VRWC. From prodigy to snitch, at the drop of a hat.

The same thing is happening to U4Prez. Favoritism and negligence are destroying it from within, not a psychobitch with an axe to grind from without. The ones who are crying foul the loudest are the ones who benefitted from the favoritism the most. Do you really think these jokers on the Hard Right could get away with sexually harassing comments in real life? They found a place where they could get away with it, and they dug their talons in. Do you really think they have enough friends to wage violence in real life? They found a place here where they could do that, and they call it home. The fact that the creator gladhands them and turns a blind eye to their violence should tell you what U4Prez is morphing into--just another political message board overrun by the worst in American politics.

You wonder why I quit, and yet I an using this blog in this way? It's because I want U4Prez to succeed in the worst way. Never doubt that for a second. I put five months of campaigning into that place. I've waged wars against the big boys and won them all. I've looked the bullies in the eye and called them out for what they are. And I did it with creativity, sincerity, intelligence, and pride. My record stands, and one can perceive it however one wishes. But the favoritism had to end some time, the negligence has to end, the harassment, the violence, it has to end, folks. Eric created something good, but instead of letting his creation run its natural course, he wanted to be part of the fun. Eric is human. Instead of setting a site in motion and letting it go, he fell in love with it. He is Pygmalion, who carved a beautiful statue of a woman, and he fell so deeply in love with her, he wanted her to be real. Eric made a big mistake in trying to promote specific candidates, including me. It is his mistake alone, and that mistake is not only costing his ability to function here, but also the reputation of U4Prez. Instead of building a functional simulated democracy, he allowed the worst elements to take hold. Whether he did so intentionally or not, there are serious problems with U4Prez, and since he can no longer play with his buddies here, he can finally fix the problems we all have been chastizing him about for months, but he poo-poo'ed away.

See you Monday. Until then, keep fighting the good fight. The carpet has been yanked out from us all this last week, it will be interesting to see where everything lands in the days to come.

Love, Olivia. XXX

Thanking Mike for a Job Well Done

2007-08-10T16:51:00.000-07:00

The blog is doing swimmingly. Allow me to continue.

I am impressed that the same set of thugs who were hanging on my every word at U4Prez, the ones whose entire lives hinge on what I have to say, have followed me here as well, and are STILL awaiting with baited breath for the next thing to fly out of my mouth. I am no longer even a candidate at U4Prez, and I STILL have them by the balls.

Apparently the Bitch video was even more prophetic than I thought. What I do outside of U4Prez is still the biggest story inU4Prez. After resigning, I am STILL the most powerful candidate on U4Prez! Again, thank you, Hard Right thugs, Liberty Crips, Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, or whatever you hooligans are being called these days, for not only coronating me long ago, but insisting I still wear this crown.

I especially have to thank Mduminiak for making this so.

There was a time when I had a modicum of respect for Mike. He was quiet, professional, polite, concise. He used to be what Smashey still is, a strong, consistent candidate who is much more likely to confront with strength of character instead of freeper nonsense, who is diplomatic instead of a blowhard, who will tell his side and leave it at that instead of use it like a sledgehammer and beat you senseless with it.

Mike changed somewhere along the way, and I think I know when it happened.

A few months ago, during the titanic collision between Kempite and myself, Mduminiak felt he had to press himself into the mix. I made comments I immediate tried to force back into my mouth, while Kempite and his fellow tribesmen continued to kick the crud out of me. Within two days, he had prostitutes on his page, I had the Grinch Video (by the way, you can see these videos on YouTube, just type in U4Prez for the search, and you can see them for yourself), and he had his anti-Olivia video. It is still arguably the fiercest skirmish in the history of U4Prez, and I think the entire population got a huge kick of seeing two of the top candidates, opposed in virtually every way, slinging the mud as fast and furious as we were. It was the apex of negative campaigning, and it reached its conclusion when the U4Prez voters voted for me over him in a run-off.

Like every other election on U4Prez, however, it's flung open to suspicion, but my stand on that is on a previous article. Moving forward.

Apparently Mike, who was Kempite's second banana at that time, and will always be one step behind him, wanted to jump in. The Grinch video says a few things about the Liberty Caucus, at least in his interpretation. Actually, it says nothing about the Liberty Caucus itself, just the way Kempite runs it like Josef Mengele ran the hospital at Auschwitz. That was Kempite's baby all along, and a few of his cronies are part of the LC to give him his daily asskissing, and a couple of token Democrats and liberals to give the appearance of bipartisanship. Reliable sources from within the Caucus have told me the lefties in the LC are little more than punching bags for Kempite and his goons, and at least FOUR members, past and present, have told me Kempite and his rightwing flunkies do little than browbeat them into submission. The same sort of antics these Hard Right jerks pull on the U4Prez community entire, it's even worse within the LC!

My bringing-up of Kempite's leadership skills was seen by Mike as an attack on the LC itself. He says he was defending the honor of the LC, as if such a thing exists. Look through the Grinch video for yourself, with the benefit of hindsight. Am I going after the Caucus itself, or just Kempite and how he runs the place like a tyrant, with a flawed mission statement and members complaining all the while?

I think Mike, always Kempite's boy, wanted to defend his guru like any good stooge would. Seemingly instantaneously, the night Kempite premiered his anti-Olivia video, Mike had FIVE anti-Olivia videos on U4Prez, and by the next morning, there were EIGHT. All of them were quick hitters, all of them very reminiscent of my own style of video-making. Further proof that Mike has nothing to offer but mere regurgitation of what others do.

At the end of that night, I went to the PR board and thanked Kempite and Mduminiak for officially making me the most powerful candidate on U4Prez. If I can make these two nutbars jump every time I say Boo, apparently I am their puppetmaster. On my own profile, I declared myself "The Little Lady who Brought Down the Liberty Caucus". While the population of U4Prez was laughing at the Grinch video, they were getting rubbed the wrong way with NINE anti-Olivia videos put up in less than 24 hours.

I was winning the war, and Mike knew it. That's why, the next morning, he took it upon himself to go behind Kempite's back and negotiate a truce with me. He was very professional about the whole thing, saying he would continue his campaign against me if I continued to talk about the LC. Ultimately, I ended up putting a hold on talking about the LC, and he took down his videos. We gave press releases, all was right with the world yet again.

But make no mistake about this. Mduminiak made it perfectly clear he was defending the LC. To hell with Kempite.

Which I find odd. Here was Mike, Kempite's stooge, throwing his best friend in the whole wide world under the bus. Just the night before, I could picture Mike and Kempite in their basement, giggling like teenagers and making videos, as if they were Beavis and Butthead, giggling at a fart joke. Yeah, Kemp, THAT'LL teach that whore to mess with us, heh heh. You said it, Mike, that bitch won't know what hit her, heh ha ha. Amid their potato chip bags and Dr. Pepper bottles and Kit Kat wrappers all around the desk, they darkly set themselves up to demolish the Olivia campaign once and for all.

Apparently they didn't realize I took it all as a compliment, that these two strong candidates would get so completely bent out of shape over a candidate they always tried convincing the population of being unimportant, unsubstantial. Nine videos in one day surely doesn't seem like I'm just a nobody.

I was very surprised that, the next day, as Kempite slept in the pile of Frito's bags and Coke cans on the floor, Mike was making a deal with Olivia to undo everything he had done. Mike isn't stupid, never said he was. He knew Kempite was failing at this, and didn't want to be associated with such a failure. I can only go by what was said, but Mduminiak made it clear that there was a difference in attacks, that Kempite's was personal, and his was to defend the Liberty Caucus.

In other words, Mike threw Kempite under the bus to save his own ass. Apparently he was tired of being Kempite's douchebag. And when he saw I was going to fight them every step of the way, he buckled.

Two on one, seems to be a fair fight to me. I beat them both, which is why they now attack FOUR to one. Whatever. Maybe by the time it's seven to one, it will be a fair fight. Seven mediocrities to one Olivia.

After backstabbing Kempite, peace was resumed. Mduminiak must have felt vindicated for rolling Kempite over when I allegedly beat him in a run-off. He got off the bus just in the nick of time.

The truce lasted a few weeks, and apparently Mike got tired of it and resumed his attacks. Whatever, I told him, and left it at that. Mike re-posted the anti-Olivia videos, which by this time numbered TEN, and included the Olivia Party video, which was his way of saying all Independents are morons for having me as their leader. I came back with the Bitch video, which put him and his back on their heels, and ever since then, up until my resignation, they've been reduced to a set of freepers, playing NeoCon message board games, rather innocuous, but somewhat annoying nonetheless.

I am glad to see Mike's comment on my blog this morning. It is further evidence that, even after resigning, Olivia is still the biggest story at U4Prez. It's not me doing it, I'm just a girl with a blog. For this to get more buzz than his and Kempite's shows combined is saying something. For someone who no longer goes to U4Prez, I sure still keep them worked up.

Mike is no longer Kempite's monkeyboy. He is ruling the Republican Party with the same sort of tyrannical clench that Kempite has on the Liberty Caucus. He installed many of his buddies from the LC onto the Politburo--errr, Steering Committee--and is dictating the actions of all other Republicans through this. Thirteen Republicans telling 700 brethren what to say, think, feel, and promote. Typical tyranny.

That makes him the perfect NeoCon, shrowded in a conservative facade, willing to say anything to that end, but when it comes to actual practice, his is a thug and a tyrant all the same.

I stand corrected. Maybe he is STILL Kempite's monkeyboy. Kempite Light. A Kempite wannabe. Always a step behind. But instead of being Kempite's Boy Friday, he is waiting for his moment to backstab him again. He is Iago to Kempite's Othello, Brutus to Kempite's Caesar. Kempite is the goldenboy, handpicked to win the whole thing. It's got to bug Mike to no end that, for all his work, all his positioning, he has to continue to be his stooge.

He backstabbed him once. He is a tyrant just like his master, at some point he'll backstab him again. That's what evil bastards do. When they grow tired of picking on the average Joe, they turn on one another.

So, thank you, Mduminiak, wherever you are. Aside from the guy who handpicks the president, I am still the most powerful person on U4Prez, and it's all because of you.

Delete This!

2007-08-09T20:44:00.000-07:00

The rock that was Olivia having been removed, look at all the insects now scurrying. I am encouraged to write again.

Last night, Jimmycart asked the question many of us have asked ourselves and the mods. No one has answered this question, so don't worry, I will do it for you.

Why is the Delete Photo function not working?

The answer is, because Eric Gurr's buddies were abusing it, and being too pussywhipped to say NO to them, he disconnected it. Instead of confronting the president-to-be and his minions, he chose to give all 2000 U4Prez candidates the middle finger, and screwed you all out of a basic bodily function.

Allow me to fill in the details.

A few weeks ago, at the end of June, U4Prez crashed for, how long was it, a day or two? It went down, and ever since then, the interactive aspects have been screwy. You will notice your text was askew, often forced into tight little columns. The pictures you dwith other U4Prez candidates, all the links were severed. And the Delete Photo function, that's gone.

As I was eludicating the other night in my consideration between just taking a break from U4Prez and leaving altogether, I asked whoever was behind the U4Prez mask for the night, hey, what's up with this? Not that this was the first time that question was uttered, I had asked at least twice before then, with no reply. I am sure I am not the only candidate who would like to remove a picture. A simple enough process, eh? Why hasn't what must be a simple function been repaired?

The moderator, who seemed to think it more important to play with the peasants instead of doing the job he is paid to do, told me on the comment board that it was removed because certain candidates were abusing it, removing a picture and immediately putting it right back on. By doing so, they were bogarting the side on the home page where the new pictures were presented to the board.

Now, let's stop there and catch up a little. Who out there do we see their names in that picture column the most? You might think I'm picking on him unfairly, but can anyone name me anyone else who had their puissant little mug on that list more than Kempite? How many times over the last month or so did we see the exact same "Profile Updated" sign Mduminiak put up there? Everytime these two took a crap in their beds, they took a picture of it, signed their names to it, and put it out there for U4Prez to deal with.

My opinion at the time, as it is now, is it's a non-issue. It is--errr, it WAS--part of the infrastructure of U4Prez. That's one thing I really liked about how U4Prez used to be, many of us pushed against the sides of the room to make it stretch. I realized the additional publicity you could get from doing it, and I too admit to putting up flashy pictures in order to generate publicity for me and the Independents. Having a bright picture there meant exposure you might not get if you weren't in the top three. It was part of the website, I really don't blame anyone for trying to make use of it.

Then again, I wasn't so selfish to just delete and re-post the same freaking pictures over and over and over again like Kempite and MDuminiak did. Like a couple of spoiled brats on Christmas, they hogged the new toy, pushed others away from it, and played with it until it broke, and screw anyone else who wanted to play with it.

Instead of telling these two self-indulgent pugs to lighten up on the Delete Photo button, the powers that be, which is Eric Gurr and his lazyass moderators, declined to stand up to them. I mean, why tell Kempite to do anything? He's the golden boy.

When Kempite tells me, "Does the hooker have her legs open all over U4Prez again," where is Eric to step in and tell Kempite he was out of line? There is a thick stack of sexually harassing comments we have saved over at the U4Prez Women's Society, and if you read them, they all were uttered either by Kempite or his fratbuddies over there on the Hard Right. Eric has never said a word to any of them to knock off the sexual harassment.

Lest we forget, sexual harassment is evidence of criminal intent and even psychosis. It diminishes she who is made to feel embarassed, humiliated, and awkward. Several female candidates confided in the Society, and I will not betray that trust, except to say it's always the same brutes, over and over again, and with rare exception, they are part of Kempite's inner circle, if not Kempite himself.

Eric has access to all comment boards. He even thought it would be cute if Kempite and I went toe-to-toe in a run-off. Whether I truly won it or not, I seriously doubt, because pretty much every election on U4Prez is suspect at this point. If it is a true result, it spoke boldly that Kempite' misogynistic, bullying, and sexually harassing tactics were loathed by the U4Prez population.

As well they should be.

Eric had access to all this, and not once did he lift a finger to put a stop to it. Female candidates came up to me from time to time, wanting to quit because they were being browbeated by sexually harassing comments. I always talked them into staying, hoping we could come up with a way to put a stop to it.

Down the road, I might name names. For now, let's just stay on task.

Eric said nothing to Kempite, when he knew he made arguable the lewdest comment in U4Prez history. Hell, I put it on the Grinch video. Everyone knows this is Kempite. Everyone knows he is a bully who will say the meanest thing he can think of, for pretty lame reasons. Why Eric is betting the U4Prez farm on this sexual deviant is beyond me. If Eric wants to turn the other way when his President-to-be is kicking women in the vagina, as Mduminiak likes to say, it's a private site, Eric can do what he wants, including letting his handpicked winner say the cruelest things he wants to, especially to women, without batting an eye.

If Eric isn't going to say NO to Kempite about something as serious as sexual harassment, do you honestly think he is going to tell him NO to quit humping the Delete Photo button? Two thousand candidates cannot remove their pictures because Eric can't say NO to Kempite.

So here's what you have to do now. You have to ask the mods to do it for you. Fathom that one. The mods don't ever answer anyone. It may take days for them to get around to it. You have to ask the mods, pretty please, I know I am just a candidate and not Kempite or of his ilk, but could you please remove this one little picture for me? What used to take a fraction of a second now takes a week.

You can thank Kempite and Mduminiak for that one. A browbeating misogynist and a goon. Way to go, Eric, you did it again!

So, Jimmycart, I hope I answered the question for you. No one else had the answer, so I am happy to provide it for you. The reason you can't delete a picture is because Eric is too pussywhipped over Kempite to say no to him and his, and as a result you now get to wait until a mod feels like getting off his lazy ass and doing his job. That might take a few days, a week, it's entirely up to him, whenever he's up to it. Until then, Jimmycart, you are shit out of luck.

Eric Gurr, Pimp

2007-08-08T20:48:00.000-07:00

No longer encumbered by the binds of candidacy, I think I will be candid.

And I will start from the very top.

Why did Eric Gurr feel it necessary to give me his phone number when I first came to U4Prez? Was it to wish me well? Was it to make me some sort of offer? Was he trying to get down my pants?

Let's think about this for a moment.

When I debuted at U4Prez, I realize I created a buzz with the way I submitted by inaugural profile. I made no bones about what I did for a living, and I was not sure as to the reception I would get. Surely, there would be a few holier-than-thou yutzes who were probably masturbating while they were telling me I shouldn't be a candidate in the first place. There would be others who would champion me for bring a street edge to the place, keepin' it real, as it were. Most would look past the first impression, get to know me as a person, and realize I have a brain.

I was pretty much spot on. Hawk looks at my chest everytime he insults me, and whether that's because he is a closet perv or he is too much of a coward to look me in the eye, I'm not quite sure. Some have hit on me, nothing too serious, a little harmless flirtation, at least they are honest about their intentions. For the most part, everyone got past that initial image and realized I have a few things to say. Whether we agreed or disagreed, most of the population of U4Prez seemed to have taken to me.

And then there's Eric Gurr.

Initially, like Kempite and several others, he questioned my identity. Kempite was more callous about it, which is typical for him, and the Democratic members of the Liberty Caucus will attest to it, if you are not Hard Right, you are nothing but fodder. Which is strange, a Gay Republican daring to talk about anyone else not fitting in. Kempite is one of those candidates who thinks everything is fair game, whether it's someone's profession, or his own alleged AIDS, he will use any tool at his disposal to prop himself up. Dead candidates, LC liberals, whatever. Millions are dying in Africa with no hope of living a few more months from what Kempite allegedly has (I haven't seen the medical records, he could be lying about it just as he lies about being able to take a PM in confidence), and while they suffer from it, Kempite uses it as a political stepping stone.

Kempite is Kempite, and in reality, he's not much different from me. We both pleasure men and like it. We both are hotheaded. The difference is, he's got Eric Gurr in his pocket, and I don't.

Eric questioned my identity as well. He felt I was some Jason Seagreaves character, apparently based on my writing. I must apologize, but with the exception of the plethera of commas MejicoJohn and Willy2000 employ in their commentary, how is anyone's writing so distinguished from anyone else's? I was there but a few days, and he got it into his head that I was Jason.When it was revealed to him I am who I am, Eric saw me as his meal ticket. Here I am, a pretty girl with a shady past, but also with a B.A. and the bulging brain to match. The prostitute with the heart of gold, the lowly street girl with a mind awaiting to be discovered.

What did Eric have before I came along? Kempite? A grouchy homo who hangs out with even more grouchy ultraconservatives? Mduminiak, the quinessential freeper with nothing to offer but obnoxious and unfortunately cliched NeoCon gameplaying? Hawk, who has absolutely nothing to offer but the occasional "typical liberal crap" to toss out?

Eric tried to use me to put forth his million-idea, U4Prez. I wasn't a candidate more than two weeks before he started setting me up for a television interview. Or at least, that's what he told me then. The fact that it fell through lends me to think in several directions. Was there an interview at all? Why me, a newbie still asking around what's going on? Why is he giving this prostitute so much attention?

Eric gave me his phone number, wanting me to call him to verify. Now, that's nothing new, several gentlemen callers at U4Prez have given me their phone numbers, and I haven't called any of them for the same reason I didn't call Eric. believe it or not, I am not at U4Prez to sell my body. I have my own means through which I do this. I make this clear to everyone who approaches me with more than a fun little flirt. I would have liked to have thought I found a place where smarts outweighed appearances. While I no doubt used images that presented me as an attractive woman (you really don't want to see a picture of me when I wake up), and while I am not so naive as to think men won't make passes at me, I would at least like to think the creator of a website has better things to do than try to pick up chicks.

When the television interview fell through, Eric called up one of his buddies, Felix, to get me to do a phone interview with him for some magazine based out of I think San Diego. Again, another guy giving out phone numbers. Why is it all men giving me their numbers? In my experiences at U4Prez, not a single female has ever given me her number. And I have to tell you guys, if you didn't have penises, I wouldn't have much use for you. If women had them, you all would be completely shit out of luck, boys!

I gave Felix a healthy Q&A write-up, but for some reason, no article was ever written. Fancy that.

When it became clear Eric wasn't going to be able to get down my pants, he stopped talking to me.

I have talked to him one time since, and that was July 5th, when I apparently had to raise Holy Hell to get the moderators to get off their lazy asses and put MejicoJohn back on the primary schedule as he was supposed to be. Eric insisted that though I gave up my primary position in protest, I would get into the general election anyway, despite my protests. Still thinking I was his meal ticket, he has tagged me as the "April winner" as his way to keep me involved all the way to the conventions in October. His reasoning was this: Even though Coberloco was an Independent before Independents had primaries, he was awarded a position in the general election as the "April winner". There is no record of this, so I thought it incredibly odd that he would try this. On the Communication Center board, he posted the primary winners and general election qualifiers as of June. There were no Independents posted, because Independents had been screwed out of their ability to compete in such primaries. When he brought this up , this mysterious position for me in the general elections, I was aghast. He was still trying to push me forward, give me things I didn't earn.

During my eloquent exit from U4Prez today, people were asking me why I would say Eric plays favorites. Eric has been trying to push me along ever since I got to U4Prez. Why is this? Has he shown other female candidates the same sort of favoritism? Surely THINK08 or kt2020 are just as thoughtful and intelligent as I might be. Why show such generosity at all to a woman in the first place? I have yet to hear of any other candidate being showed such splendid attention.

That is, until yesterday, when Kempite announced Eric would be on his talk show. At that point, I snapped, because I knew for a fact Eric plays favorites, because he had a long history of having ME as his favorite. After five months of trying to use me to perpetuate U4Prez and failing, he's settled on the only other whore on U4Prez, Kempite.

There are at least a half-dozen other such shows featured by U4Prez candidates, why Kempite? Surely those other candidate Eric gave the finger to were eager to have him.

U4Prez is Eric's million-dollar idea. It's his lottery ticket. When he couldn't get a hottie to front him, he took the frontrunner. When he couldn't somehow get a little piece off of Olivia, he got some off of Kempite. He saw me as someone he could promote, the shining example of what U4Prez could be, and here I was, a pretty face, a solid mind, a ferocious wit, just waiting to be "discovered" by a wannabe webgeek looking to get out of his parents' basement. And if he could get off by hearing my voice, so much the better.

My original soundbite was, the only difference between me and other politicians is I will tell you up front I am a whore. If Eric couldn't pimp out a real whore, he will make damn sure he'll pimp out someone who will willing kneel down and pleasure him.

You might as well hand the presidency over to Kempite. Kempite is the prostitute, and Eric is the pimp. A match made in heaven.

Raison d'Etre

2007-08-04T15:10:00.000-07:00

There have been many moments of high drama at U4Prez, and in the five months since I started my own campaign, I've seen the simulation grow from a couple hundred to several thousand candidates, from a general political message board to a creative microcosm, where we can not only state where we stand on any given issue, but also promote ourselves, campaign for ourselves, create our own platforms and agendas, in any form we with to take. I am astomished with the level of creativity many have shown, and I truly hope I have added to that legacy, through debates, or videos, or other controversies I've seen and been part of.

The hope of this blog is not only to attempt to document the shenanigans taking place at U4Prez, it is also an attempt to influence it, to promote it, and to present it through my own eyes. I hope some will see this and will want to be a part of U4Prez and run their own campaigns. Others will see this and undoubtably leave their opinions, good or bad. Regardless, I hope to present the U4Prez world as a vibrant community, filled with thoughtful candidates and characters, all with their own agendas to set forth, all bumping heads with one another, and all seeking the Presidency through their own efforts, however those efforts might bear fruit.

Anyone who has been to U4Prez knows the discussion is done in comment form. Most of the time, discussing previous conversations is a chore to try to find, considering howevery candidate and issue has a comment page, and it's a matter of researching those comment pages to paste together a running conversation. One hope of this blog is to present some of those arguments in a much more linear, readable forum. Realize, of course, this is my own point of view, and I certainly encourage other candidates to record their U4Prez experiences for themselves, either through blogs like this or at U4Prez itself.

In considering a blog as opposed to recording this at U4Prez itself, for one, the set-up at U4Prez is not conducive to easily maintaining a blog. For another, moderators do keep a close eye on language, hence, to keep my mouth from getting me into even further trouble as I whip myself into another rant, it becomes prudent to post here. One more, this becomes MY turf, something the U4Prez world has to come to, if they wish to engage me and the things I post. I don't have to worry about who is blocking me, who is erasing my comments. And, for those more nettlesome users who think browbeating and annoyance are ways to seek information, they can come here and know exactly where I stand concerning a certain event.

Between my blog here, my U4Prez profile, and my MySpace page, you should get a fairly good clue as to what I am about, where I stand on certain issues, and what I think and believe.

Trust me, this will NOT be a boring blog.

Love Always, Olivia. XXX