I am introducing a new term into our public discourse. Schadensürfing: The activity of deliberately seeking out blogs, articles, and forum threads by defeated political opponents just for your own personal enjoyment (such as this, if you’re an Obama supporter.)
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I’ve done something similar after the Steelers have won big games against certain foes, checking out the recriminations and gnashing of teeth of the sports reporters in the opposing team’s city.
So your new term has applications outside the political realm. Well done!
In the immortal words of Nelson Muntz: Ha! Ha!
Sorry for the double post, but here’s a pre-election endorsement of Obama from the former publisher of the National Review.
http://www.dmagazine.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?nm=Core+Pages&type=gen&mod=Core+Pages&tier=3&gid=B33A5C6E2CF04C9596A3EF81822D9F8E
I’m not a republican or conservative, and never have been. I do wonder how a stately old conservative rag like National Review went from a reasoned viewpoint as seen in my link, to your fine example of whiny neo-con brattiness.
Oh, come now — this endless overuse of “neo-con” is an annoying case of repeated public ignorance.
Derbyshire is a disgruntled fellow, and if he’s any “sub-class” of conservative it is a paleoconservative of sorts. He ascribes to not one idea that would distinguish someone as a “neo-con” (he thinks bringing democracy to the world is insanity and nonsense, rather likes Islam, and loathes the “open borders” crowd, as he’d call them, at the Wall Street Journal).