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

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

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

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)

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

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?

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)

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