On Wednesday morning, The Post published a poll of registered voters giving Barack Obama an eight-point lead -- largely because the voters said they trusted him more than John McCain on handling their No. 1 issue, the economy, by an astounding 19 percentage points. That noon, I had lunch with two veteran Republican operatives not working in the McCain campaign and asked them what they would recommend for the Arizona senator. "Get Alan Greenspan to run with you," said the first. "Or Warren Buffett," the second offered.[Neither of those men would ever vote for John McCain. Greenspan has made it clear that George Bush and Republicans have been economic disasters and McCain is just Bush III and Warren Buffett has already endorsed the man he knows this country needs; Barack Obama. These are smart men who know what economic policies work - It isn't hard to figure out who they will vote for.] ['done that' is checking into a last-minute report that the picture above is possibly Dagny and Fourputt, circa 1981]
Barack The Magic Negro!
Iraq Prime Minister slaps down Bush and McSame
“U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama talks about 16 months. That, we think, would be the right timeframe for a withdrawal, with the possibility of slight changes.” […] Asked if he supported Obama’s ideas more than those of John McCain, Republican presidential hopeful, Maliki said he did not want to recommend who people should vote for. Whoever is thinking about the shorter term is closer to reality. Artificially extending the stay of U.S. troops would cause problems. […] “The Americans have found it difficult to agree on a concrete timetable for the exit because it seems like an admission of defeat to them. But it isn’t,” Maliki told Der Spiegel.
[The consistently wrong blowhard phony-patriot chickenhawks on the right are losing their minds over the way Obama has been slamming foreign policy matters out of the park. They're so frustrated they'll be changing the word 'Negro', in their little jingle soon.]
Today's rapid response from the Obama campaign to Prime Minister al-Maliki's support for Senator Obama's Iraq plan ...Senator Obama welcomes Prime Minister Maliki's support for a 16 month timeline for the redeployment of U.S combat brigades. This presents an important opportunity to transition to Iraqi responsibility, while restoring our military and increasing our commitment to finish the fight in Afghanistan.[Leadership]
McCain campaigns in New York
"When I was first interrogated and really had to give some information because of the pressures, the physical pressures that were on me, I named the starting lineup -- defensive line of the New York Jets and Giants -- as my squadron mates."[Do you have 8 minutes to watch the real John McCain? 'Thirty-two' tapes of propaganda for the North Vietnamese'? Lets hear that POW story in the mainstream media!]
We deserve a leader with foresight
Obama said last year he would send two combat brigades -- about 10,000 troops -- to Afghanistan. McCain had said for months that no additional U.S. troops were needed in there.
I guess they're not all stupid
"I'm a lifelong Republican - a supply-side conservative. I worked in the Reagan White House. I was the chief economist at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for five years. In 1994, I helped write the Republican Contract with America. I served on Bob Dole's presidential campaign team and was chief economist for Jack Kemp's Empower America. This November, I'm voting for Barack Obama."
[Great piece by an intelligent man]
After all the shit he'll leave us
Officials at the Department of Elections announced today that the citizens’ initiative to rename the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant the George W. Bush Sewage Plant has qualified for the November 4th San Francisco ballot.[A nice, fitting tribute to an asshole who's full of shit.]
A vivid and sharp contrast
The 'dignity' tour
"I'm more interested in listening than doing a lot of talking, and I think it's very important to recognize that I'm going over there as a U.S. senator," Obama said. "We have one president at a time."
[Does that mean Obama's not going to take any phony photo-op shopping trips to Baghdad markets for cheap souvenirs? It's nice to see a real dignified diplomat representing our country for a change.]
Freddie Mac CEO had a great year
NEW YORK - Freddie Mac Chairman and Chief Executive Richard Syron pocketed nearly $19.8 million in compensation last year, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Friday, even though the mortgage company's stock lost half its value in 2007.
"Hotel of Doom"
The 105-storey Ryugyong Hotel splits the sky over Pyongyang, the North Korean capital. North Korea's phantom hotel is stirring back to life. Once dubbed by Esquire magazine as "the worst building in the history of mankind," the 105-storey Ryugyong Hotel is back under construction after a 16-year lull in the capital of one of the world's most reclusive and destitute countries. Didn't do a thing to those rigs
I’m aware that off the coast of Louisiana and Texas there are oil rigs, as we well know, and those rigs have survived, very successfully, the impacts of hurricanes – hurricane Katrina as far as Louisiana is concerned.Use what you have and shut up!
Here’s a map showing in gray the 229 million acres of federal land that were leased or offered for lease from 1982-2004. In the past four years, the Cheney-Bush administration has issued new leases at a faster pace than ever in the history of the program. From 1999-2007, the issuing of drilling permits rose 361%. Permits have doubled what they were in 2002. Are the oil companies actually drilling on this land? Yes. But only about 13 million of the on-shore and 10.5 million of the off-shore acres are in production, according to a report by the House Committee on Natural Resources, The Truth About America’s Energy: Big Oil Stockpiles Supplies and Pockets Profits.[Man, 'Meteor Blades' from the Daily Kos is one helluva writer! And the oil industry is sandbaggin' the American public and it's way past time for some major anti-trust legislation]
That baby's uugggly!
Some things aren’t always black and white. Then again, sometimes they are – like the twin sons born July 11 to a German couple. The first baby, Ryan, has light skin and blue eyes. His brother, Leo, is dark skinned with brown eyes. "None of us could believe it," the maternity ward's head doctor, Birgit Weber, told one news source, "Both kids have definitely the same father." Stephan Gerth is German and white. His wife, Florence Addo-Gerth, is from Ghana and has dark skin.Damn, and so are those babies!
"Reborn babies" are disconcertingly life-like baby dolls carefully crafted in vinyl, which have become swiftly popular mainly with collectors, but also with nostalgic grandparents and grieving parents. Made and collected by an online community of enthusiasts, they are painted several times to create the mottled color of newborn skin, have mohair hair and eyelashes, and are weighted to make them feel as heavy as human babies.Brother, can you spare 1/2 of mil?
"People seem to think the government has money," said former U.S. Comptroller General David Walker. "The government doesn't have any money." A rare consensus has developed across the political spectrum that the government's own fiscal affairs are precarious, with an astonishing $53 trillion in long-term liabilities, according to the Government Accountability Office. To put that number in human terms, the debt has reached $455,000 per U.S. household.
$230 million an hour
“Despite spending $230m an hour on health care, Americans live shorter lives than citizens of almost every other developed country. And while it has the second-highest income per head in the world, the United States ranks 42nd in terms of life expectancy,” a new report by Oxfam American, the Conrad Hilton Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation finds.
Only crazy jihadists censor cartoons
'McDumb as Bush'Do we really want to elect another dumb Republican? Why is it you think, that the 'smartest' and/or most qualified Republican they can ever come up with is so stupid?
Then get another job, dumbasses!
Democrats are pouncing on a Bush administration proposal that would require medical practices and hospitals that receive federal aid to certify that they will not fire or refuse to hire doctors who refuse to offer abortion services and types of birth control. ... The rule proposes to cut off money to any grant recipient or hospital that refuses to hire doctors and nurses who object to abortion.
[If you don't want to do it, go work somewhere where they don't do it. It's not hard.]
Puty, chinese food gives me gas ..
[...fuckin' stupid white boys ...]Boy, ain't that the fucking truth!
"... The Republicans should hold a press conference and apologize to the country and say they're just not going to run anyone for president."
[Hillary knows that as well as anyone - especially when she compares her old man's administration to the last eight years! In fact, after what Republicans have done to this country, they should step aside for at least one term.]
Energy Czar?
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said in an interview aired Sunday that he would be open to the idea of serving as energy czar in a Barack Obama administration.[Does Arnold really think he's some big 'sought-after' persona or something? I would hope he isn't naive enough to think Obama needs his support to win California and he's not needed in an Obama administration.]
Of course, Jesus was a marksman
An Oklahoma church canceled plans for a gun giveaway Friday at its annual youth conference, a local news station reported. The church's youth pastor, Bob Ross, said the AR-15 semi-automatic assault rifle was a means of luring young people as far away as Canada, according to Oklahoma City's KOCO Channel 5 News.
[Bunch of ignorant and phony-Christians - The Republican base.]
"We're fucked!"
The clear endorsement of Senator Barack Obama by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki Saturday morning came as a strong blow to the McCain campaign. McCain has claimed a superiority to Obama in matters of foreign policy as a major selling point to his candidacy for president, but that position is more difficult in the wake of al-Maliki's statement. After hearing of the announcement, a sometime adviser to the McCain campaign said in an email, "We're fucked," ...
[The McCain camp has had a miserable week. Many more weeks like this for Grandpappy and you can stick a fork in his stupid ass.]
What Obama needs to tell Petraeus
Not knowing for sure Obama's schedule I think he may be in Iraq today - maybe not til tomorrow. Regardless, the very first thing he should tell General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker when they do meet is they need to clear their calendars of all previous commitments for January 20-21, 2009. On January 20, they will be 'special guests' to his inauguration and then on January 21, at 0700 hours, they will be in the Oval Office getting their new orders for pulling out of Iraq and finally finishing our mission in Afghanistan/Pakistan by hunting down and killing those responsible for 9/11. No excuses -- those will be your orders!
The Limbaugh Award
Good morning ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the 72nd edition of the 'world renowned', Limbaugh Award.
This was a huge week for liars and the esteemed selection committee and I battled it out for many hours yesterday on who would be this week's winner. I wanted to go with John 'Lil' Bush' McCain again this week but the committee would not go along. And, as it turned out, for good reason.
I strongly felt that McCain's lies in Warren, Michigan this week were undeniably worthy and just more of the egregious, and fear-mongering lies that Republicans like that little asshole have adopted to rule over the pathetic weaklings from the 'right' that vote for them. But as bad as I wanted to give the award to McCain this week, I wasn't willing - not quite yet anyway - to name this 'prestigious, but infamous' award after him.
I forgot our by-laws. And a couple of the committee members promptly pointed out to me; Rule #22, Section b, Paragraph IV, which states, 'Anytime an individual has more than 10% of the total awards presented, the award for thereafter, will be named for that individual'.
McCain has already won seven Limbaugh Awards. If he won one more he'd have over 10% of the total awards. [For the mentally-challenged dumbasses who are now relegated to inspecting seat brackets, 8 is more than 10% of 72] And, as I said, I'm not ready (yet) to name the award after Mr. Straight Talk, so he cannot win again until at least week #80. If he wins the presidency I will consider naming it after him, but for now -- on to the other nominees.
The cable talking heads were very busy making shit up this week. And, it wasn't all from Fox News, either.
There was CNN's Dana Bash who stupidly stated that McCain's new flip-flop this week on sending more troops to Afghanistan was 'proof' that he "know[s] how to win wars." Come on people, pay attention. McCain has been dead-set against more troops for our real war on terror from day 1 and he is just now jumping on Obama's bandwagon. How hard is it to pay attention especially when it's your job to do so?
Then we had a couple of liars from MSNBC pop up this week. Joe Scarborough told the often repeated lie that McCain had called for Donald Rumsfeld's resignation. That is one lie that needs to be put to rest. John McCain never called for Rumsfeld's resignation!
And Andrea Mitchell [Alan Greenspan's old lady] told the laughable whopper that Barack Obama "has the least foreign policy experience of recent presidential candidates ... except Jimmy Carter" ! Hey dumbass, Barack Obama has the least amount of foreign policy experience than any other candidate since George W 'the dumbfuck' Bush in 2000! Barack not only has more foreign policy experience than Bush did, but he's not dumber than a fucking rock, either!
And to be 'fair and balanced', we also nominated Sean Hannity once again for his ridiculous, but customary for him and Fox News, lie about the statistics of the available oil with the current leases for offshore oil drilling.
But gentlemen and ladies, this week's Limbaugh Award goes to a mean, hateful, old hillbilly bitch -- who the Committee could not exactly decide if she actually told a lie or not -- but who did something so disgusting and so contemptible, even for a southern inbred Republican, that the committee unanimously selected her for this week's award.
Elizabeth 'Libby' Dole, the North Carolina Senator and Bob 'Limp Dick' Dole's wife and despicable and hate-filled tar heel winch, attempted to add the racist and obnoxious homophobe, Jesse Helms' name to a bill which provides funding to fight HIV/AIDS.That's low even by North Carolina and rightwing standards. Congratulations Stretched-Face, you're #72!
Past winners of the prestigious, but infamous,
The Limbaugh Award
Lyin' Lil' Bush - John McCain - 7/13/08
Fox Assholes & Friends - Doocey and Kilmeade -7/5/08*
Fear-Mongering Buckeye Fan - Hugh Hewitt - 6/29/08
A Terrible American - Sean Hannity - 6/22/08
Tim Russert Memorial Truce Week - 6/15/08
Fox's Toe-Sucking Ethics Expert - Dick Morris - 6/7/08*
Troop Level Idiot - John 'Lil' Bush' McCain - 6/1/08
Sub 10th Grade Debate Loser - Rush Limbaugh - 5/25/08
Scared Little Man - George W. Bush - 5/18/08
Sugar Momma Beer Queen - Cindy McCain - 5/11/08
Uncultured Wussy - Bill O'Reilly - 5/4/08
Nazi Running for Congress - Tony Zirkle, R-IN - 4/27/08
Fox's Toe-Sucking Ethics Expert - Dick Morris - 4/20/08
Lying Dickhead VP - Dick Cheney - 4/13/08
McCain's Chief Lobbyist - Charlie Black - 4/6/08
Neo-Nazi Supporter - Sean Hannity - 3/30/08
Shiite for a Brain - John McCain - 3/23/08
Client #9 - Governor Eliot Spitzer - 3/15/08*
Turd Blossom - Karl Rove - 3/9/08
Lying Redneck Rep - Jack Kingston R-GA - 3/2/08
Lying Little Twirp - Tucker Carlson - 2/24/08
Mr Straight Talk - John McCain - 2/17/08
Bye Week - 2/10/08
Mr Straight Talk - John McCain - 2/3/08
935 of them - Bush & the Gang of 7 - 1/27/08
Fox News Co-Liars - Hannity & O'Reilly - 1/20/08
Sheep's Favorite Liar - Rush Limbaugh - 1/13/08
Longtime Lobbyist - Trent Lott - 1/6/08
2007 Co-Champions - Dick Bush - 12/30/07
Lying Piece of - Mitt Romney - 12/23/07
Psycho Pervert - Michael Savage - 12/16/07
Sheepherder-in-Chief - George W. Bush - 12/9/07
Turd Blossom - Karl Rove - 12/2/07
Cowardly Welsher - T. Boone Pickens - 11/25/07
Republican Tool - Matt Drudge - 11/18/07
Their Favored Liar - Rudy Giuliani - 11/11/07
Fox News Liar - Chris Wallace - 11/4/07
Uncultured Wussy - Bill O'Reilly - 10/28/07
Phony Patriot Liar - Rush Limbaugh - 10/21/07
Old Kentucky Homo - Mitch McConnell - 10/14/07
Liar-In-Chief - George W. Bush - 10/7/07
Phony Patriot Pig - Rush Limbaugh - 9/30/07
Big Stretch 'the truth' - Bill Sammon - 9/23/07
Mr. Straight Talk - John McCain - 9/16/07
Sycophant - Gen. David Petraeus - 9/9/07
His own Idaho - Sen. Craig R-Idaho - 9/2/07
Turd Blossom - Karl Rove - 8/26/07
The Exterminator - Tom Delay - 8/19/07
Big 'Rooster' - Mitt Romney - 8/12/07
Total Suck Up - Glenn Beck - 8/5/07
General Gonzo - Alberto Gonzales - 7/29/07
Pro Liar - Tony 'Snowjob' Snow - 7/22/07 **
Bush bin Lyin - George W. Bush - 7/15/07
Freed Felon - Scooter Libby - 7/8/07
Mr. Overrated - Rudy Giuliani - 7/1/07
Crazy Lying Okie - James Inhofe - 6/24/07
Pro Liar - Tony 'Snowjob' Snow - 6/17/07 **
Mormon Moron - Mitt Romney - 6/10/07
Bye Week - 6/3/07
Commander Guy - George W. Bush - 5/27/07
Pat's Brother - Bay Buchanan - 5/20/07
Used Car Salesman - John Boehner - 5/13/07
Uncultured Wussy - Bill O'Reilly - 5/6/07
Mr. Overrated - Rudy Giuliani - 4/29/07
Turd Blossom - Karl Rove - 4/22/07
The Decider - George W. Bush - 4/15/07
Lying Chickenhawk VP - Dick Cheney - 4/8/07
Mr. Straight Talk - John McCain - 4/1/07
Attorney General - Alberto Gonzales - 3/25/07
Fox mouthpieces Sean Hannity and
Victoria Toensing - 3/18/07
Fox News guy - Brit Hume - 3/11/07
VA Secretary - Jim Nicholson - 3/4/07
Rep. Michele Bachmann - (R-MN) - 2/25/07
