Jay Bookman

By Bud Wiser

August 23, 2008 7:01 AM | Link to this

Wow, what a choice! Joe ‘Hair Boy” Biden! There’s the change you Dimwitocrats have been praying for….a guy who has actually been in the Senate over a decade longer than McCain! Even CNN was trying to spin him up this morning, saying that he had ‘connections to Pennsylvania’, and could bring home a state the Messiah lost to Hillary.

Hee ha ha ha ha ha

God, this is too good to be true! From the swing state of Delaware (3 electoral votes), we give you Cheatin’ Joe!

From Wikipedia: “In 1987, Joe Biden ran as a Democratic presidential candidate, formally declaring his candidacy at the Wilmington train station on June 9, 1987. In his speech, he challenged Americans to step beyond the materialism of the Reagan years. When the campaign began, Biden was considered a potentially strong candidate because of his moderate image, his supposed appeal to Baby Boomers, his fundraising appeal (Biden’s $1.7 million raised in the first quarter of 1987 was more than any other candidate, including the then front-runner, Gary Hart), his high profile position as chair of the Senate Judiciary committee during the Robert Bork confirmation hearings, and, perhaps above all, his soaring oratory. Biden often seemed to try to inspire the same hope and idealism associated with 1960s liberals such as Robert Kennedy, especially as related to civil rights. He received considerable attention in the summer of 1986 when he excoriated Secretary of State George Shultz at a Senate Hearing because of the Reagan administration’s support of South Africa, which continued to support a system of Apartheid. By August 1987, however, Biden’s campaign had already begun to lag behind those of Michael Dukakis and Richard Gephardt.

Then in September 1987, the campaign ran into serious trouble when he was accused of plagiarizing a speech by Neil Kinnock, then-leader of the British Labour Party. Though Biden had correctly credited the original author in all speeches but one, the one where he failed to make mention of the originator was caught on video. Within days, it was also discovered that, while a first year law student at Syracuse Law School, Biden had plagiarized a law review article in a class paper he wrote. Though the then-dean of the law school, as well as Biden’s former professor, played down the incident of plagiarism, they did find that Biden drew “chunks of heavy legal prose directly from” the article in question. Biden said the act was inadvertent due to his not knowing the proper rules of citation, and Biden was permitted to retake the course after receiving a grade of F in the course, which was subsequently dropped from his record when he retook the class. Biden also released at the same time the record of his grades as an undergraduate which were C’s and D’s with the exception of two A’s in physical education, one B in a course on English writers and an F in ROTC during his first three semesters. His grades improved later in his undergraduate career but were not exceptional.Further, when questioned by a New Hampshire resident about his grades in law school Biden had claimed falsely to have graduated in the “top half” of his class, (when he actually graduated 76th in a class of 85) that he had attended on a full scholarship, and had received three degrees. In fact he had received two majors, History and Political Science, and a single B.A., as well as a half scholarship based on financial need.

The sounds of stomping and running feet you hear is the women that supported Hillary now flocking over to the Republicans.

And I thought Bush 1 worked harder than anyone I had ever seen to not get elected? This one is going to be a rout.

By Bud Wiser

August 23, 2008 7:12 AM | Link to this

Good luck Jay, trying to break 80. Maybe if you quit after 15 holes you can do it.

Where are you playing? Alfred ‘Tup’ Holmes, Bobby Jones, or the more affluent East Lake (beautiful course, I’ve gone to the Tour Championship the last 4 years, and it is gorgeous…don’t want to play it…can’t hit it straight enough), or Atlanta CC?

You selection of golf courses is a direct connection to your social status, you know. I can say that I played Stone Mountain years back with Dale Murphy and Glenn Hubbard during their playing days; friends of theirs failed to show and the starter put us together on a crowded day.

By RW-(the original)

August 23, 2008 7:43 AM | Link to this

You’ve got to be real proud of your pick to announce it at 4:00 on a Saturday morning.

By Mrs.Godzilla

August 23, 2008 7:46 AM | Link to this

Jay keep your head down.

Mr. G, breaks 80 regularly, the secret? A steak sandwich leftover from our weekly family Friday night dinner, tucked in his golf bag and eaten at the turn. (Oh, and a couple of mini coronas!)

Biden will chew McCain a new one.

By AJC/DNC Management

August 23, 2008 7:48 AM | Link to this

The loquacious Delaware senator brings more than verbiage to Obama’s side. Biden is a foreign policy heavyweight with a decade longer in the Senate than the seasoned Republican presidential candidate, John McCain. That’s almost three more decades of experience than his new boss.

I’m counting 4 decades myself but whatever, do the libs not realize that they need to be pointing out what a dimwit Biden is, not how much “experience” he has, so that they don’t upstage Thee Most Magnificent One?

Who’s in charge of this mess, anyway?

By GodHatesTrash

August 23, 2008 7:53 AM | Link to this

Let’ face it - Obama doesn’t have much of a chance. There are plenty of white ‘males’ in this country that are extremely anxious and troubled about their sexuality, and they find black men threatening.

The GOP white male reaction to Obama is fear. Fear that he might take their wives, fear that their wives will compare them to Obama and be even more disappointed in their many failures, and - most important - fear of their own sexual attraction to black men.

This is the major dilemma for the GOP male voter - they find homosexuality disgusting, yet highly arousing. This is a link to a study from your own University of Georgia regarding homophobia in males - I’m positive that most of Mr. Bookman’s posters (I will refrain from identifying you personally, but I know you know who you are) will identify with this if they are willing to be honest with themselves

Obama’s selection of Biden - an older white gentleman - is his attempt to assuage the fears and anxieties of GOP males, but their attraction to Obama is too strong to remove them from the vicious cycle of attraction/fear/repulsion/rage.

If one looks at the underlying, often sub-conscious dynamics of the GOP white male voter’s reaction to Obama, it is no wonder they are so afraid of a man who merely asks them to be hopeful, positive, and care about other people - they see that as seduction.

Let’s put your fears in perspective, guys/ladies. Do you really think that an intelligent self-confident man is going to be sexually attracted to a whiny chickenhawk slob like you?

The real problem, of course, is your unrequited attraction for Obama, so you lash out….

As we peel away the onion and look at your twisted, mangled feelings and thoughts, I’ve offered you a glimpse into your psyches - now you need to seek professional help. Coming to grips with your true feelings may help you to give up your addictions to alcohol, meth, and CeCe’s buffet, and maybe you’ll even learn to enjoy the homosexual and deviant sex that so many of you - the Craigs, the Foleys, the Vitters, the Haggards, etc. etc. - are already having.

I expect that my remarks will stir some anger and resentment in many of you. But just take a look, my friends, before - or after - you lash out at me. I am merely the messenger, offering you the simple - but not necessarily easy - hope of “yes we can”.

Yes, you can. But it will be very hard work for some of you. You can stay mired in hate, ridicule, and fear - that comes natural to you, I see. Or you can do the hard work to begin to step around it, or over it.

By AJC/DNC Management

August 23, 2008 7:54 AM | Link to this

The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Biden is one of the most influential foreign policy voices in Congress. An internationalist and strong supporter of the United Nations, he is a leading critic of what he sees as the vague, unilateralist approach of President Bush.

Yeah he is against “vague,” “unilateralist” American victory.

Biden voted in 2002 to authorize the Iraq invasion, which Obama opposed from the start. Since then, he’s become a firm critic of the conflict and pushed through a resolution last year declaring that Bush’s troop increase—now considered a military success—was “not in the national interest.”

In other words, his judgment is sorely lacking.

~~~~~

Jay: You could pick a day to chase thee little white ball when the wind wasn’t whipping up 35 mile an hour gusts.

By Mrs.Godzilla

August 23, 2008 8:01 AM | Link to this

To start off this new day….

An AMerican Prayer

By Bud Wiser

August 23, 2008 8:02 AM | Link to this

Trash, methinks you focus a bit too often and intently on the homosexual issues. Is there something you want to share with us all?

Perhaps your self anointed blogger name is in fact representative of a subconscious regressive feeling you have toward yourself because of your proclivities.

Your almost daily reference to homosexuality in some form, whether it be Larry Craig, Barney Franks, or trying to make it a trait of Republicans, shows an inordinate amount of focus on a subject that no one but yourself seems interested in.

Are you sure you don’t have something to say to the world? It’s okay, no one will certainly think less of you than they do already…/that would be impossible.

By RW-(the original)

August 23, 2008 8:05 AM | Link to this

Biden

By GodHatesTrash

August 23, 2008 8:05 AM | Link to this

Duh, your description of our “victory” in Iraq as “vague” is unintentionally apt.

It is certainly logical that one can only at best expect vague victories in vague wars.

So - the vague War on Terror - have we won that yet, vaguely?

Your usual vague non sequitur comments are anticipated.

Never mind, pretend I did my own cut and paste, save the electrons.

By Mrs.Godzilla

August 23, 2008 8:15 AM | Link to this

Obama Biden 08: We will rock you!

By Mrs.Godzilla

August 23, 2008 8:16 AM | Link to this

One House

One Spouse

Obama 08

By Bud Wiser

August 23, 2008 8:18 AM | Link to this

Mrs G, good golf tip! I may have to try that one. Is it charcoal grilled steak, cold on a hard roll? That is one of my favorite sandwiches! May have to substitute beers though; I favor Dinkel Acker, a German beer I grew to like on business trips over there.

By GodHatesTrash

August 23, 2008 8:25 AM | Link to this

(It’s invariably a part of the process of analysis - the person being analyzed ‘projects’ his/her motivations back on the analyst - it’s called simply ‘projection’.)

So, my friend Bud is engaged. It takes courage to step in, let’s give Bud some acknowledgement, folks.

A first step. Could be the hardest one, Bud.

Call me God, my friend.

I know this process can be hard - but keep digging. This is about YOU and what YOU feel, YOUR perceptions, YOUR beliefs, not mine. I’m here for YOU Bud, my friend.

Did you reading that give you a little twinge in your stomach, Bud my friend? Talk to us about that little feeling.

Try not to lash out. We’re here for you, my friend.

(Those of you who want to follow in my footsteps, here is a classic case of ‘projection’, someone, here my friend Bud, is attributing their uncomfortable feelings to the therapist. Most people lack the self-awareness in the early part of therapy to see themselves doing it - this is usually the first challenge for the therapist - holding up the mirror, letting the patient see where the feelings and motivations really reside.)

Back to you my friend Bud. I have been posting at various AJC blogs for over 3 years on and off. Never once have I mentioned Barney Frank, or if I did it was years ago. Talk to us about your feelings for Mr. Frank, or something else, my friend.

Your turn.

By AJC/DNC Management

August 23, 2008 8:28 AM | Link to this

William Ayers, unrepentant terrorist and education professor, is once again being tied to Barack Obama in the public mind. Controversy builds over the withholding of the archives of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, an expensive failed school reform effort headed by Obama and effectively run by Ayers, held by the library of the University of Illinois Chicago. Researchers who have gained access to a few documents recording the history of the project have found strong evidence of a very important working relationship between the two men on the project, Obama’s sole claim to executive experience.

Oddly enough, even though the project produced no measurable improvement in student performance according to its own final report, educators and administrators — participants and grantees of the CAC — were reported by outside monitors to be often “ebullient” about the activities. For insiders, it was an excellent adventure. For the pupils stuck in the failing public schools of Chicago, an ongoing, unrelieved disaster.

Yeah, their little project “bombed.”

By RW-(the original)

August 23, 2008 8:29 AM | Link to this

Be sure to practice up on your Indian accent if you want to go to 7/11 or Dunkin’ Donuts with Joe

By Bud Wiser

August 23, 2008 8:30 AM | Link to this

What’s the matter Trash, having trouble picking out your clothes this morning? Or is it that time of the month?

By Mrs.Godzilla

August 23, 2008 8:35 AM | Link to this

Bud,

Mr. G lives by the rule “Real men use charcoal”.

A publix Chicago Hard roll would be a good choice but we usually hide away a couple of pieces of garlic bread.

I am not a big beer drinker…my only experience with a German beer was at the Atlanta Olympics…some Warshensteinerhummer god knows what…. I could have used it to refinish a coffee table. Very bitter.

By Taxpayer

August 23, 2008 8:44 AM | Link to this

Monk fell in love last night. He was psyched out by her charm. Too bad he lost her in the end.

The Dems pulled a slick one on the Reps with their selection of Biden. Now, both parties have their respective old white men to cancel each other out. That effectively leaves Obama up against some younger less experienced person (after all, they can’t pick someone older than McCain as his running mate, can they) yet to be determined. No matter how this plays out, history will prove that this was a brilliant strategy on the part of the Dems.

Now it’s down to McCain and the Reps. What will be their counter. McCain desperately needs someone with some youth now if he expects to have a fighting chance.

By Bud Wiser

August 23, 2008 8:46 AM | Link to this

Go try Dinkel Acker. You will not be disappointed, but if you are, use it on the grill as you grill the steaks, and let it boil off. Or, use it to add to batters for fried chicken, or grill it with the chicken on one of those devices.

By Charles

August 23, 2008 8:52 AM | Link to this

Jay,

If you want to break 80 use Bill Clinton’s rules of golf:

• You have a mulligan on each 9

• You get a mulligan on each hole

• If you hit a tremendously bad shot you get a mulligan

There’s one thing that I’ve learned about other people when they play golf: if they cheat on the links they’ll cheat you in real life.

by the way, I NEVER take a mulligan - and YES I am a Republican!

By Bud Wiser

August 23, 2008 8:52 AM | Link to this

Mrs G, just for you…

http://www.recipezaar.com/9549

By RW-(the original)

August 23, 2008 8:57 AM | Link to this

Taxpayer,

The only person happier about this Biden pick than McCain is Hillary. The only place Obama had a strong argument against McCain was that Washington was broken and McCain had been there all this time. Biden’s been there longer so now The Dunce is down to hope. Change has gone under the bus.

Hillary probably has already started designing the logo for her 2012 campaign.

By GodHatesTrash

August 23, 2008 8:59 AM | Link to this

I jotted down some notes before I began this morning’s group, and I predicted that my friend Bud would be one of the folks that would step forward early. Give my friend Bud a hand for his courage and his willingness to participate.

However, folks, I need to bring this to a close today.

I will be attending a wedding in western Massachusetts today - a former student of my wife is marrying her partner, and I am looking forward to a lovely trip down the Green Mountains into the beautiful Berkshires, and an afternoon with new acquaintances.

Some of you - all of you - will feel some sense of loss, abandonment knowing that I’m not online to be with you today. Notice that, think about that, and let’s talk about it when I come back, my friends, probably Monday.

It took decades of abuse - including self-abuse - to made you as sick as you are - we can’t resolve that all in a couple of morning posts.

I acknowledge you for trying, and starting the journey. It might - no it will - feel worse before it gets better, but the work is worth it. Another big hand for my friend Bud!

By Bud Wiser

August 23, 2008 9:06 AM | Link to this

Is it a double wedding with your life partner too, Trash? I know that the Gay and Lesbian Alliance will be so happy for you all.

By Ray

August 23, 2008 9:13 AM | Link to this

Trash,

Maybe you could take advantage of this downturn in the housing market and shop for a house in the Berkshires. That part of the country could always use another big mouthed Democrat who has all the answers.

By Taxpayer

August 23, 2008 9:21 AM | Link to this

I know, RW. That is yet another aspect of the most brilliant plan. Even Karl has to be impressed at the number of angles covered with this move. The upcoming character assaults shall definitely prove to be entertaining for both sides. Us Independents will really enjoy it. I can just see the crap cannons getting bigger and bigger after each volley.

By RW-(the original)

August 23, 2008 9:28 AM | Link to this

The Biden choice is an act of desperation borne of a summer-long catastrophe. There isn’t any other reason for Obama to choose a 35-year veteran of the Senate with as long a history of gaffes and flat-out dishonesty as his second on the campaign for Hope and Change. In fact, I can’t wait for writers to twist themselves into knots to avoid the cardinal sin of writing, plagiarism, which Biden committed more than once, as Jim Geraghty recounted in 2003:

Look at these members of the vast right wing conspiracy that wrote about Biden’s plagiarism

Update: E.J. Dionne contemporaneously covered Biden’s plagiarism in college and on the 1987 campaign trail in detail for the New York Times. Note that in lifting Neil Kinnock’s speech, he attributed to his own family the humble origins of Kinnock’s — which wasn’t true.

Update II: Maureen Dowd also covered the plagiarism of Biden’s speech in 1987 for the New York Times, and contrary to what Biden claims now, he didn’t credit Kinnock in other deliveries of the speech:.

By Bud Wiser

August 23, 2008 10:25 AM | Link to this

I have had some time now, watching various newscasts, to digest the Biden pick. I just can’t stop laughing enough to see how easy McCain has it from here!!

Change you can believe in? Ho ho ho hee hee ha ha ha ha ha ha! Sorry, lost control there.

How are you going to get those two egos in the Denver Center at the same time? Hee hee hee he ha ha ha ha

Since 1972 Biden has been an inside Washington fixture, and he is change? ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Maybe he knows a good hairplugger, I mean, hairdresser, he can recommend to Hussein Obama. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

Sorry again, I just can’t go on like this……

Mrs G, I hope you try the beered-up chicken. It is good! I am sure that many of your liberal friends may want to consider, however, drinking a case or two to try and wash away the Biden effect……ha ha ha ha ha…..sorry

By AJC/DNC Management

August 23, 2008 10:27 AM | Link to this

Republican John McCain’s camp Saturday said Barack Obama’s choice of veteran Senator Joseph Biden as his running mate was an admission by the Democrat that he was not ready to serve as president himself.

“There has been no harsher critic of Barack Obama’s lack of experience than Joe Biden,” McCain campaign spokesman Ben Porritt said in a statement.

“Biden has denounced Barack Obama’s poor foreign policy judgement and has strongly argued in his own words what Americans are quickly realizing — that Barack Obama is not ready to be president.”

Oh yeah, that:

On Aug. 1, 2007, when Obama unveiled his counterterrorism agenda, the Biden camp fired off a snarky email congratulating him for his “Johnny-come-lately position” on Afghanistan, noting that during two Foreign Relations Committee hearings on Afghanistan and other subjects, Obama didn’t ask questions about the Taliban, Al Qaeda, or Afghanistan.

“We find it a little disingenuous that Sen. Obama is hailing this as a new bold initiative when he has neglected to join his colleagues in the Senate when the opportunities have been there to redirect our forces into Afghanistan” Biden campaign manager Luis Navarro said at the time. “It’s good to see Sen. Obama has finally arrived at the right position, but this can hardly be considered bold leadership.” Ouch.

Indeed.

By Bud Wiser

August 23, 2008 10:33 AM | Link to this

Really, I have to stop trying this…..I’ll leave it in the hands of others…..really…..check this out:

http://www.famousplagiarists.com/politics.htm

By bdatlanta

August 23, 2008 10:41 AM | Link to this

Bud and Mgmt are proof that the Internet has come to Georgia’s trailer parks.

By @@

August 23, 2008 10:52 AM | Link to this

Looks like Jay ain’t all that excited about OBlahMa Biden his time till the November elections

Went to the links in pursuit of a “mulligan”, is it? What’s that……..like a “comb-over”?

I must admit! I was a little reluctant to come here and read everyone’s response to to the announcement of OBlahMa’s VP.

I LIKE JOE! I’m not sure how to say that with an indian accent though. I now see what the conservatives are talking about. THAR JOE BLOWS.

Forgiving his gaffe, I’ll go onto other potential problems for Joe.

He was a primary advocate of the bankruptcy bill that hurt normal people. He voted against limiting the interest credit card companies can charge when they’re gouging normal people.

I actually support ^^^ that kind of legislation but I’m not so sure democrats/liberals will look fondly on Joe’s past decision during today’s difficult economy.

Anyhoo, congratulations Joe! Yours will be a hard row to hoe trying to be more articulate bro.

By Mrs.Godzilla

August 23, 2008 11:03 AM | Link to this

Bud,

The kids called it “beer butt chicken” one summer we tried everything from your name sake to dr. pepper. We don’t do much cooking in or around aluminum anymore.

If I were to use it as part of the beer batter would if have to be flat?

And yes some of us toasted this morning, but with a wee bit o’ Baileys in the java.

We like Joe Biden. He’ll do just fine.

In fact, I’d go so far as to say the bench is still jam packed with talent.

Which bodes well for staffing up the Obama administration in the months to come.

No Brownies or Goodlings. No Gonzales’ or Mukaseys. No Gramms or Grahams. No Cheneys or Rumsfelds. No Shuenamans or Fiorinas.

Obama Biden 08

Obama Biden 08

By @@

August 23, 2008 11:13 AM | Link to this

Joe Biden, the Democrat’s Dick Cheney <————maybe that explains my feelings, although I’ve always found Dick Cheney’s delivery a little more eloquent than Biden’s. I’m sure Leahy would agree hee.

Just how well will Obama and Biden mesh? Has Biden been anybody’s No. 2, ever? He’s run for president TWICE for a reason (the first time Biden ran, Obama was just starting law school, by the way). Biden has an actual “boss” for the first time in his political career. Is he ready to ride shotgun? And is it a problem that Obama-Biden is a mirror image of Bush-Cheney from 2000? A charismatic, inexperienced nominee taps a more experienced, dare we say, arrogant No.2? In fact, there are a lot of Republicans who believe they can sell Obama-Biden as “the Audacity of Arrogance times two.”

OBlahMa’s Dick. Uh huh!

By Mrs.Godzilla

August 23, 2008 11:15 AM | Link to this

Oh, and plaudits to Caroline Kennedy.

I’d like to see more of her.

By RW-(the original)

August 23, 2008 11:16 AM | Link to this

Biden has accepted $5,133,072 in contributions from lawyers and lobbyists since 2003. Obama does not accept contributions from federally registered lobbyists.

And he has one other weakness that hasn’t received much attention to date. One of Biden’s sons, Hunter, is a registered Washington lobbyist in a year in which Obama has been excoriating lobbyists and the culture of corruption in Washington. The younger Biden is a name partner at the firm Oldaker, Biden & Belair and seems to have specialized in lobbying for just the kind of earmark spending by Congress that Obama has vowed to slash. Republican insiders say the party is likely to make an issue of Biden’s family lobbying ties.

Will Biden get his own bus or does Hunter have to go under Obambi’s? By the way, it’s BS that The Dunce doesn’t take money from federal lobbyists. He just claims he’s going to return their contributions every time he gets caught.

By Mrs.Godzilla

August 23, 2008 11:20 AM | Link to this

@@

I was watching CNN’s coverage this morning…you take great notes!

By Rufus

August 23, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this

Is everybody boycotting Wooten’s blog or something? What did I miss?

Regarding Biden, he deserves an enormous amount of respect (worth with me Righties). After all, he can actually go on a Sunday morning talk show hosted by the likes of George Snafulopolous and Chris Matthews (always tilted left of course) and give his opinion on issues without a script or teleprompter. The Obamania on the other hand shows his inexperience on a blind (or was that deaf??) forum and McCain gives him the beatdown. Then of course, the mindless hyperemotioned hysterical liberals that put Obamanation on the pedestal, so to speak, say that McCain cheated and listened in to the questions that were going to be asked.

Uh, no.

It’s called experience and leadership, idiots.

Joe Biden.

Hehehehe.

Thank you, Democrats.

By @@

August 23, 2008 11:30 AM | Link to this

Mrs. G:

I was watching CNN’s coverage this morning…you take great notes!

Normally my T.V. doesn’t go on until 10 P.M. and only so I can fall asleep to the noise.

It hasn’t been on this morning at all.

By Rufus

August 23, 2008 11:33 AM | Link to this

I wonder, are the same mindless hysterical moonbat liberals who call McCain an “old white haired white man with a cane” say the same about Biden? They are only six years apart ya know. Hell, Pelosi is only four years younger than McCain, and you never hear the mindless hysterics on the left scream about her age.

It doesn’t take much effort to be a liberal, does it?

By Taxpayer

August 23, 2008 11:33 AM | Link to this

@@, Here is some more info for you on that topic of getting dumped on. Let me know what you think after reading it. Don’t forget to pull up the lawsuit and read it as well.

Pleasant reading.

By Bud Wiser

August 23, 2008 11:35 AM | Link to this

Mrs G, there’s a device sold at stores with grilling supplies (Lowe’s, Home Depot come to mind) whereby the can does not have to touch the chicken. You’ll know it when you see it, I wish I could find a pic to have you Google but I cannot.

As for your friends and you toasting this morning, how long did the conversation go before you guys just went straight for the Bailey’s, sans the coffee?

By @@

August 23, 2008 11:35 AM | Link to this

Following up on my Biden/Cheney comparison, here’s an interesting headline.

Obama Biden Bound as in restricted in HIS movements.

By @@

August 23, 2008 11:39 AM | Link to this

Taxpayer:

Maybe when I have time. I’m engaging at the moment.

Sometimes I get the impression that you’re trying to re-direct my attention.

By RW-(the original)

August 23, 2008 11:40 AM | Link to this

I guess they feel like they can scrub the files clean in three more days.

The records of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, an organization that Obama chaired and that Ayers co-founded, will be made available to the public Tuesday, UIC said in a statement.

By Rufus

August 23, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this

“Further, when questioned by a New Hampshire resident about his grades in law school Biden had claimed falsely to have graduated in the “top half” of his class, (when he actually graduated 76th in a class of 85)”

Hey Bud dude, have you EVER heard of a liberal RAT politician who wasn’t a lawyer?

By Taxpayer

August 23, 2008 11:45 AM | Link to this

Well, I keep waiting to see who McCain’s limping mate will be. Will he (she) be able to limp along slow enough to make it look like McCain is the leader. At least Obama knew that he had to pick a running mate. McCain, on the other hand, said he was already on his second mate, why would he be looking for a third before this one has even run out of money.

By RW-(the original)

August 23, 2008 11:50 AM | Link to this

Here’s the foreign policy “expert” on how we should respond to 9/11.

At the Tuesday-morning meeting with committee staffers, Biden launches into a stream-of-consciousness monologue about what his committee should be doing, before he finally admits the obvious: “I’m groping here.” Then he hits on an idea: America needs to show the Arab world that we’re not bent on its destruction. “Seems to me this would be a good time to send, no strings attached, a check for $200 million to Iran,” Biden declares. He surveys the table with raised eyebrows, a How do ya like that? look on his face.

The staffers sit in silence. Finally somebody ventures a response: “I think they’d send it back.” Then another aide speaks up delicately: “The thing I would worry about is that it would almost look like a publicity stunt.” Still another reminds Biden that an Iranian delegation is in Moscow that very day to discuss a $300 million arms deal with Vladimir Putin that the United States has strongly condemned. But Joe Biden is barely listening anymore. He’s already moved on to something else.

First, Iranians aren’t Arabs. They’re Persians, as both Arabs and Iranians would quickly point out to anyone ignorant of the distinction. They have no relation linguistically or culturally, except that both are predominantly Islamic. One would expect a foreign-policy expert to know at least that much. Team Obama ridiculed John McCain when he inadvertently mixed up Sunnis and Shi’ites, but this is much more fundamental.

By RW-(the original)

August 23, 2008 11:56 AM | Link to this

Rufus,

Welcome! One thing you might want to know is that Jay isn’t nearly as tolerant of colorful language exchanges over here, although he seems to be fine with a hearty debate when it’s kept reasonably clean. in a word or three, this ain’t Wooten’s.

By @@

August 23, 2008 12:06 PM | Link to this

Obama would have been better served by emphasising his change message. He could have done this by picking a Republican like Chuck Hagel, a non-partisan figure, or another ‘new’ politician—Mark Warner who is keynoting the Democratic convention would have been a good choice. He should have sought—as Clinton did in 1992—to emphasise his message rather than trying to correct a weakness.

Perhaps, the most interesting thing about the Biden pick is the question of whether the Obama campaign is now acting out of nerves or fear—most of the political class don’t think Obama would have picked Biden if the polls weren’t so close or if national security hadn’t so dominated the debate in the past few weeks. When a campaign starts chasing its tails as the Kerry and Gore ones ended up doing, it is in big trouble.

One other thing worth noting is that Obama picking Biden, strengthens the case for McCain picking someone with executive experience—something that neither Obama nor Biden have—and someone from outside the beltway. The McCain camp will also be relieved that Biden does not make them play defence in a red state in the way that Evan Bayh or Tim Kaine would have done.

I don’t think executive experience can be found in “community organizing” or a legal practice. OBlahMa’s got a big zerO there.

As much as I like Joe, he went into public service at 29 years of age. Didn’t give him much time to get the executive experience he needed, now did it?

There’s the missing link!!! Working Americans prefer working Americans, to career politicians.

By Taxpayer

August 23, 2008 12:06 PM | Link to this

Well, there’s Iran and Iraq. There’s Syria and Turkey. No Persia. Hey, where’s Persia. McCain needs to know what it borders with. Someone needs to relay it to him with the morse code. He’s such an antique. Why, just yesterday he was pacing back and forth mumbling dih dih dit — dah dah dah — dih dih dit. He just kept saying it over and over and over.

By Rufus

August 23, 2008 12:07 PM | Link to this

Hmmm. Do we have a little censorship going on here? Is it link driven? Let’s see if this works:

“Previous DailyTech stories have detailed recent cooling experienced by the planet, and highlighted some of the scientists currently predicting extended global cooling. Even the UN IPCC has stated that world temperatures may continue to decline, if only briefly.”

“Now, an expert in geophysics at the National Autonomous University of Mexico has added his voice to the fray. Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera, a researcher at UNAM’s Institute of Geophysics, has predicted an imminent period of cooling intense enough to be called a small ice age.”

By @@

August 23, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this

Keep talking RW.

I had no idea!!!!!!!

Please try and remember, I’m coming off my years of being a dumbas-s liberal. (ISH)

By Rufus

August 23, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this

Now it’s getting good. Listen to The Appointed One whine about a book’s coverage on Fox News (uhm, that’s Faux News to you mindless hysterical liberal moonbat Democrats in Virginia Highlands):

LYNCHBURG, Va. — Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) personally went on the attack Wednesday on a best-selling new book that falsely describes him as a closet Muslim. Talking about “The Obama Nation,” Obama said author Jerome Corsi was just making “stuff up.” “But it gets a lot of play on Fox News,” he said to loud boos.

Now that’s pretty funny. You think Dumbo would say and whine the same on the multiple simultaneous orgasmic climaxes of CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, MNSBC, NPR, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Miami Herald, the Orlando Sentinel, the Chicago Tribune, and last but not least, the Atlanta Journal Constitution time spent on books that have been written (negatively I might add) about the Bush Administration? Or conversely to be positive, books written by Democrats like both Clintons?

Man please.

By RW-(the original)

August 23, 2008 12:31 PM | Link to this

Rufus,

The Dunce put out a paper to refute points in Corsi’s book. On the Muslim thing they called it a lie that Corsi said Obama was registered as a Muslim at his Indonesian school. To set the record straight they said Obama was registered as a Muslim at his Indonesian school.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

It’s a bright early October morning on Capitol Hill. Joe Biden is bounding up the steps of the Russell Senate Office Building, wearing his trademark grin. As he makes for the door, he is met by a group of airline pilots and flight attendants looking vaguely heroic in their navy-blue uniforms and wing-shaped pins. A blandly handsome man in a pilot’s cap steps forward and asks Biden to help pass emergency benefits for laid-off airline workers. Biden nods as the men and women cluster around him with fawning smiles. Then he speaks. “I hope you will support my work on Amtrak as much as I have supported you,” he begins. (Biden rides Amtrak to work every day and is obsessed with the railroad.) “If not, I will screw you badly.”

A dozen faces fall in unison as Biden lectures on. “You’ve not been good to me. You’re also damn selfish. You better listen to me…” It goes on like this for a couple of minutes. Strangely, Biden keeps grinning—even fraternally slapping the stunned man’s shoulder a couple of times. When we finally head into the building, Biden’s communications director, Norm Kurz, turns to me. “What you just witnessed is classic Senator Biden.”

By Rufus

August 23, 2008 12:32 PM | Link to this

Heeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrre’s Chuckie!

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - California’s attorney general is reviewing a request by former employees of IndyMac Bancorp Inc to investigate whether a New York senator triggered the bank’s collapse by releasing confidential information.

At issue is a much-publicized letter that Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, sent in June to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) and Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) questioning the company’s ability to survive.

Now let’s just sit back and watch how our “fair and balanced” main stream media (remember boys and girls, only Faux News is biased - and it’s only biased towards the Right - a liberal biased media is a neocon myth) chooses to investigate and report this.

By Taxpayer

August 23, 2008 12:33 PM | Link to this

@@, you are not really a liberal that has converted to new age Republicanism, are you. That’s really sad. You should have gone Independent. It’s a much better life — no constraints.

By RW-(the original)

August 23, 2008 12:48 PM | Link to this

Taxpayer,

I don’t know if you’re familiar with Georgia voting law, but we’re all Independents here.

By getalife

August 23, 2008 12:48 PM | Link to this

Joe Biden? Joe (D-MBNA) Biden? The architect of the bankruptcy “reform?”

Unbelievable.

Change?

Please.

Clinton/Clark 12.

By Rufus

August 23, 2008 12:52 PM | Link to this

”@@, you are not really a liberal that has converted to new age Republicanism, are you. That’s really sad. You should have gone Independent. It’s a much better life — no constraints.” - Taxpayer

Two points on that: 1), as real thinking people get older, they get wiser, hence Conservative leanings - and this goes towards everything from driving fast and taking risks like that idiot kite surfing in TS Fay in FL (who got body slammed across a street into a garage) to financial decisions. 2), Being an Independent with “no constraints” is the cowardly way to go through life - letting others make your decisions for you.

I pretty much know what I stand for, and it sure as heck isn’t socialist liberalism brought to us by the modern Democrat[ic] left.

What’s that old saying again? Oh yeah: those who stand in the middle of the road…

By @@

August 23, 2008 12:55 PM | Link to this

Taxpayer:

I’ve never been registered with any political party. The other day a pollster called me asking if blah blah blah.

I told them that I’ve voted both dem and rep — that I’m not registered as either/or. I asked them “what does that make me?”

“An independent” was their response. Voila…..I’m an independent with traditional values. So you can call me Independently Traditional.

I’ll add this…….

I see more logic in the conservatives’ way of thinking. I see a lot of pent-up emotional driving democrats. Pent-up emotion that politicians can use to their advantage, not The PentO Beanie Weenies.

By Mrs.Godzilla

August 23, 2008 12:59 PM | Link to this

@@

Are you sure you’re not a pro?

Your post was nearly word for word what right leaning political analysts were saying at 6:30 this morning.

Amazing!

By Taxpayer

August 23, 2008 1:01 PM | Link to this

RW, to hear some people talk, you would think that they signed on in blood. Besides, there are restrictions on the primaries as I recall so it’s not 100% Independent. What if, for example, I have two people identified, for a position, that I prefer — one Republican and one Democrat. I vote in the Republican primary and my 1st choice loses but my 2nd choice is still in the running in a runoff in the Democrat primary. Then, I can’t vote in that primary runoff. This is an absolute outrage. Why, if I were governor, this would change. Who’s with me on this. Vote for me. Vote for change. I’ll bet that if my 2nd choice were in a Republican primary runoff, I could call up a good old boy and bend those rules or just blow those rules out of existence or even ignore those rules — those nasty rules of law.

By RW-(the original)

August 23, 2008 1:04 PM | Link to this

Do you suppose this works both ways at the Times now?

You know the old software programmer’s excuse: “that’s not a bug. That’s a feature!” John Harwood of CNBC/NYT came up with a political variation on the theme this morning to buff up Joe Biden. Biden’s gaffes, including the racially-insensitive ones, are actually … “a strength.”

By Mrs.Godzilla

August 23, 2008 1:07 PM | Link to this

CNN also said this morning that they expected it to be a small gathering in Springfield maybe 200 people.

They are reporting over 10,000 now and there still arriving.

I suggest a vist to Springfield IL - the Illinois State Fair was always great. Home fries and Lemon Shake ‘em Ups!

Fired Up!

Ready to go!

Obama Biden 08

By @@

August 23, 2008 1:11 PM | Link to this

Oh yeah: those who stand in the middle of the road…

I know Rufus. I’ve been able to dodge “the recklessly driving liberals” for several years at these blogs.

My greatest fear is of a socialist government providing anything that goes above and beyond that which was promised at our founding or foundation if you will.

Have patience with me! My exposure here, to what passes as liberally progressive has me parked in the conservative lot for many elections to come.

I’m forced to vote Democrat down here in Clayton County. Even if we did have the opportunity to vote for a Republican I’d have to look really close to make sure I wasn’t being hoodwinked. It’s a give and take down my way.

By Dusty

August 23, 2008 1:12 PM | Link to this

Well, I’m back from the beach and lotsa fun going on here.(The beach was a real blow out!! No power on the island when we left.) Obama,man of inexperience, decides on the “man of age and faulty experience” to stand beside him.

The Obama “camp” claims that the man of EXPERIENCE McCain can’t govern because he is too old. But older Biden is “fit” to be vice president?? Do libs ever say one thing and mean it?

We do not need a “President in training” such as Obama. Nor do we need a man behind him who has more smudges and flipflops in his experience than the”president in training”Obama (and more showing up every day now.) Thanks, RW.

This autumn is bound to be muddier than a country pigpen. I wish it were not that way. Politics seem to take the low road instead of heading for higher ground. Nothing new about that though. Unfortunately!!

By Mrs.Godzilla

August 23, 2008 1:13 PM | Link to this

Taxpayer,

Look at instant run off voting.

By Bud Wiser

August 23, 2008 1:14 PM | Link to this

I wonder who the Obamaniac Brainiac was that came up with the 3am announcement thing? Of course, 3am here is somewhere around noon in Indonesia, one of the most heavily Muslim populated countries in the world. Just in time for Al Jazeera afternoon paper.

3am here is also 3pm in Beijing, just in time for the Commie News Network evening news broadcast. The timing works well for most of Europe too. Seems the Messiah wants everyone else to know first, America last. At least we know where we are in His pecking order.

Maybe somebody will relay it camelback to his destitute half brother in Africa. Might hear about it next month there. Of course, the news travels faster than the money Obama sends to keep his half brother from starving to death. Oh wait. That’s right. He doesn’t send any. He claims to be more sensitive to the needs of the poor and homeless here, than his own family there. Okay, now they know where they stand in His pecking order.

Maybe Hairless Joe will have the ‘foreign policy experience’ to sort things out for the Messiah. He’ll try to make Hussein proud, for sure. And speaking of proud, I wonder how proud Michelle O is now of hubby ignoring his family in Africa? I know this pride thing, at least pride in her country, has only come since her hubby got the bid, so maybe she’s having a hard time adjusting. But one thing for sure, Michelle now knows where Barry Hussein puts his family in the pecking order, so she better start working on her own finances. She can call Hillary for help on that, how to turn 10,000 into 100,000 overnight. White Water. You know.

Hairless Joe has all the answers that aren’t on the teleprompter. Just ask him. Give him a few hours though to spin up all the crap and diss he put on Obama in the early primaries, before he got, you know, dumped again. I keep hearing Hank Williams in the background singing “Your Cheatin’ Heart’……….I don’t know why.

I wish I had the alcohol concession outside the DNC convention next week, with these tow losers. For sure I wouldn’t stick my nose inside, couldn’t stand the smell. Besides, the DNC already trashed all Southerners when they proudly declared they were not going to serve any fried foods whatsoever at their party. That’s going to make a certain contingent of Democrats very unhappy for sure.

I feel sorry for you libs now, I really do. You know, and I know, that all John McCain has to do now is bring along someone, anyone, for the ride, and it’s off to the White House next January! Your party has destroyed your hopes again. When are you going to wise up and at least go Independent if Republican is not to your liking? The elite ultra-left has commandeered your party, and it’s become their own little private toy now, general public not admitted (except for your lockstep, non-thinking votes).

I will close this out for the weekend from me, to you, a little song Hussein Obama sings to his kids every night (rumored):

“Upwards on the horizon rises the Eastern Sun,

The sight of the true Religion,

Bahman - the brilliance of our Faith.

Your message, O Imam, of independence and freedom, Is imprinted on our souls.

O Martyrs! The time of your cries of pain rings in our ears, Enduring, continuing, eternal,

The Islamic Republic of Iran.

By Mr. Godrilla

August 23, 2008 1:15 PM | Link to this

Mrs. G - stop drinking your lunch (or better yet, your MoveOn.org KoolAid) and make me some dinner!

By Taxpayer

August 23, 2008 1:16 PM | Link to this

@@, Your post (below) had me concerned. I’m glad to hear that you stopped in the middle of the road as well.

“By @@ August 23, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this Keep talking RW. I had no idea!!!!!!! Please try and remember, I’m coming off my years of being a dumbas-s liberal. (ISH)”

By @@

August 23, 2008 1:19 PM | Link to this

Mrs. G:

The italicized text in my 11:13 was from the L.A.Times.

I get tired of following the linking format over here. I have to squeeze in a —->)<—- at the end. The cursor has to be placed just right, then hit the enter to proceed. It’s a big pain in the back end of formatting.

I would have thought the italics would clearly indicate they weren’t my words.

I will try and remember to attribute in the future.

By Dusty

August 23, 2008 1:20 PM | Link to this

Is it true that Mrs. Godzie does nothing but read and copy liberal political news wll day while EATING? She used to be IN THE NEWS but now she tries to “outdo” Paula Dean.

Meanwhile poor Mr. Godzie eats cold leftover sandwiches on the golf course. It’s a hard life but somebody’s got to do it.

By RW-(the original)

August 23, 2008 1:22 PM | Link to this

Taxpayer,

I think you’d have way too much hanky panky if you allowed party crossing for a runoff by people that had selected a ballot in the general. Frankly you should be able to foresee that scenario and choose accordingly. You can also select an issues only ballot for the primary and then if there is a runoff that interests you can take either party.

I would go to instant runoffs where you pick your second choice when you first vote in the primary which would make actual runoff voting rare.

By Rufus

August 23, 2008 1:25 PM | Link to this

“I’m forced to vote Democrat down here in Clayton County.”

@@, you have my condolences. I just hope you don’t have any kids or grandkids going to a public school there.

In the old days, circa 1800s, people would move to areas that provide better opportunities for themselves. But, today, thinking like that is being selfish. We are all supposed to be a part of some “village” like herded sheep according to Shrillary.

You are still the bomb on these blogs, however - and take comfort in knowing that you rile up liberals like nobody’s business.

By Mrs.Godzilla

August 23, 2008 1:26 PM | Link to this

We got a funny kid here today.

If you are going to play with the name do it right…..it’s God-zee-ra!

Ever bother to read the ingredients in Kool Aid? I wouldn’t serve it to a blog troll!

Make your own damn dinner, dust those ceiling fans, shovel Joe poop and then go sit quietly watching ESPN.

Tomorrow, do something about the garage and get the oil changed.

Good Boy!

John McCain remains wedded to the Bush Administration’s myopic view of a world defined by terrorism. … He would continue to allow a tiny minority to set the agenda for the overwhelming majority. It is time for a total change in Washington’s world view

Fired Up!

Ready to Go!

Obama Biden 08!

By Rufus

August 23, 2008 1:37 PM | Link to this

Sorta off topic, but not really when dealing with liberals and telling us, no, using government to tell us how to live our lives:

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Alabama, pushed to second in national obesity rankings by deep-fried Southern favorites, is cracking down on state workers who are too fat.

The state has given its 37,527 employees a year to start getting fit — or they’ll pay $25 a month for insurance that otherwise is free. Alabama will be the first state to charge overweight state workers who don’t work on slimming down, while a handful of other states reward employees who adopt healthy behaviors.

How long before that liberal hack institution known as the ACLU goes down there to claim discrimination against the gravity challenged? (Remember, in the twinkletoed world of liberalism, everyone has a challenge of some sort… except straight white Conservative Christian males).

By @@

August 23, 2008 1:38 PM | Link to this

Taxpayer:

Tell me something…….what have you done to extricate MoveOn.org from the dem party? My gawd, Howard Dean is your party chairman and Nancy Pelosi is your Speaker of the House. The recently elected Blue Dogs are suffering from a chronic case of blue balls.

My conversion back will be a long time in coming if ever.

My husband is as far to the right as they come. My voting age daughter resists his views but welcomes mine. She votes conservative. I make her comfortable in doing so. I have successfully flipped a couple of die-hard Democrats as has my husband and daughter.

It’s all in the approach — mine and my daughters is a little more on the subtle side. My husband has been working on a couple who are die-hard dems at church. They’ve come to accept his views but are too proud to admit it. I asked them if they were enjoying the campaign, the candidates? She told me that this will be the first time they’ve ever voted Republican. The clincher?

OBlahMa’s BAIPA vote in the Illinois State Senate.

Neither of them had any idea what late-term abortions were until I explained it to them.

By Rufus

August 23, 2008 1:46 PM | Link to this

Can somebody help me out here, please? My weather station is showing 79.7 degrees. Now one of two things must be wrong here: my monitoring station is in the wrong location or this is not really August - in the South - in Georgia - at 1:45PM.

Now, we are supposed to enslave this economy (not that it needs any help) with draconian Algore-inspired legislation because Mrs. Smith’s SUV and my back yard Green Egg are causing polar bears to be stranded on ice burgs? Yeah ok, whatever.

Like I said, it doesn’t take much effort to be a liberal.

By Mrs.Godzilla

August 23, 2008 1:47 PM | Link to this

Dusty!

As always, all sweetness and light.

I wouldn’t think of letting Mr. G eat that nonsense that poses as food at the snack shop. (nuked hot dogs, cardboard nachos,Ick.)

Now the egg salad at Augusta is a different matter. That’s tradition.

By Mr. Godrilla

August 23, 2008 1:48 PM | Link to this

Damn, Mrs. G! I told you to stop watchin’ the Clinton News Network! It’s poisoning your mind, woman!

And git off your fat behind! If you spent more time cleanin’ the house instead of beating that keyboard we might be able to sell this old trailer and git us the double-wide you been wanting!

By @@

August 23, 2008 1:51 PM | Link to this

But, today, thinking like that is being selfish.

Really? And to think, my dream has always been to buy a helicopter, get a license to fly it, allowing me to live at the bottom of the Grandest of Canyons.

Dang! I am selfish….

By Mrs.Godzilla

August 23, 2008 1:52 PM | Link to this

Rufus,

You are right.

It doesn’t take much effort to be a liberal.

It’s easy.

Like breathing. Eating. It’s natural. It’s normal.

It comes from a concern for others above self.

For good folks, that ain’t hard!

Fired up!

Ready to go!

Obama Biden 08

By Rufus

August 23, 2008 1:55 PM | Link to this

BEIJING (Reuters) - At least eight American blogger-activists and several other foreigners have been detained in Beijing as the government intensifies a crackdown on pro-Tibetan protests in the home stretch of the Olympics, rights groups said on Wednesday.

Students for a Free Tibet earlier said authorities detained five self-styled “citizen journalists” who were in Beijing to promote Tibetan freedom on Tuesday. The New York-based group said activist-artist James Powderly had also been nabbed.

Now why, praytell, have we not heard more about this while watching Olympic coverage in our “fair and balanced” mainstream media? Another thing: why do generation after generation of liberal “activists” and “students” feel that they are going to change the “world” that they truly do not own nor control?

By RW-(the original)

August 23, 2008 1:56 PM | Link to this

Rufas,

When the effects of Biden’s two 5 SUV motorcades, his private jet dash off to Illinois to meet up with Obambi’s two 10 SUV motorcades are felt you might get to 79.71, but once that gasbag VP nominee talks for a few hours you should be nearing 85.

By Mrs.Godzilla

August 23, 2008 1:56 PM | Link to this

Damn 1:48

Enjoying your satire.

Especially as it reminds of how nice the real Mr. G is.

Thanks, dude.

By Rufus

August 23, 2008 2:05 PM | Link to this

Ready to go! Obama Biden 08

Mrs. Godzilla: exactly what are you mindless hysterical huffpuff liberals going to do if McCain wins? Ever thought about that?

I know one thing. I’ve thought about the Obamanation and Dems winning a veto-proof congress. Ya know what kiddo? I really wouldn’t care. Wanna know why? Because I don’t let our elected hacks in Washington make my decisions. There is not ONE Democrat House or Senate bill dreamed up, drawn up, and passed that has made my life “better.”

And deep down sister, I know that’s what you mindless liberal hysterics on the left want - with my money of course - go figure.

Thanks, but no thanks. Go the way of the dinosaurs, sister.

By Dusty

August 23, 2008 2:08 PM | Link to this

To make Bookman happy I have been trying to think of *hairplug jokes”. It aint easy!!

They’re all a little “thin”. (Joke?)

Biden’s beauty advisor thought he said “fireplugs” for hairplugs so now Biden is a redhead. (Very bad!!)

Biden’s head was so glare-y he decided to be “hairy”, (dull!)

You can’t win with “thin” so Joe plugged the “rug”.( well…..)

It has been said that Biden’s hairplugs caused cranial consternation and plagiarism. (That’s a joke!!)

From the liberals’ main news source The National Inquirer: Biden’s hairplugs contained Einstein brain cells. By mistake, those cells were from Larry, Curly and Moe. (nope, no winner…)

Biden says”Better to plug away than be a dud any day.” (Noooo he didn’t.)

Obama says”I love hairplugs for a CHANGE!” (Nooooo he didn’t.)

Obama also said “If JOE can get hairplugs every man, woman and child should be able to get hairplugs. I will see that every American can share in that privilege. We are equal. I will tax the rich to pay for it. I will also tax all taxpayers for this plug. Apply at your local “community organizer’s” penthouse office to sign for YOUR privilege. (Nooooooo he didn’t but mighta!)

I give up. Anybody else want to try??

By Rufus

August 23, 2008 2:13 PM | Link to this

Really? And to think, my dream has always been to buy a helicopter, get a license to fly it, allowing me to live at the bottom of the Grandest of Canyons.

@@, take it from someone who knows a little about that: learn how to balance on top of a ball first with two ski polls - you’ll get an idea of what it’s like to fly a whirlybird.

By @@

August 23, 2008 2:23 PM | Link to this

It doesn’t take much effort to be a liberal.

It’s easy.

Like breathing. Eating. It’s natural. It’s normal.

It comes from a concern for others above self.

That’s interesting Mrs. G.

Now……….say that as though you were an innocent — yet to be born infant.

By @@

August 23, 2008 2:29 PM | Link to this

Joe would be better served if his hair plugs were taken orally?

Man, that ^^^ was difficult.

I LIKE JOE as a person, plugged or unplugged.

By Taxpayer

August 23, 2008 2:31 PM | Link to this

@@,

“I’m forced to vote Democrat down here in Clayton County. Even if we did have the opportunity to vote for a Republican I’d have to look really close to make sure I wasn’t being hoodwinked.”

I have this image of Mr. Wrestling No.1 holding your finger to the touch screen while he has you in a sleeper hold. By the way, up here in my little old county, the last two Democrat holdouts switched over to the Republican ticket this year because they were told to switch parties or face a Republican in the election. “Democrat” and “Republican” have no meaning in politics. They’re just placeholders on a ballot to give voters something to cling to or ridicule as the case may be. You have to study each person and pick the one that is best aligned with your beliefs — as best you can, that is.

As for the links, try typing () first as placeholders and finish the text, then all you have to do is place the cursor between the parentheses and paste the link.

By @@

August 23, 2008 2:43 PM | Link to this

I have this image of Mr. Wrestling No.1 holding your finger to the touch screen while he has you in a sleeper hold.

Absolutely not Taxpayer. I was more than happy to vote for some of the dems down here, limited as we are. Locally, I want to know what a representative is going to do for my county — the one in which I live. I want to know that his service will be for ALL of Clayton County, not a select group.

I’m among the minority down here. He/she better prove to me that race is of no issue in the decisions they make. I was proud to vote for Eldrin Bell, a proven leader.

A political warrior.

A shady, colorful character.

By Taxpayer

August 23, 2008 2:45 PM | Link to this

I still can’t get over some of these Republicans who think that when they vote for McCain, they are voting conservative. For that matter, some of them think that when they vote Republican, it means they are voting conservative. There’s no guarantee posted with that party label and George Bush is proof of that. That prescription drug program and the stimulus checks are proof of that and that’s just for openers. Is that what he means by compassionate conservative.

By Rufus

August 23, 2008 2:51 PM | Link to this

“Democrat” and “Republican” have no meaning in politics.

Taxpayer, while that may be true in local elections, it is far from the truth in national elections, specifically with congress and the president. You are truly delusional if you think otherwise.

Oh, speaking of congress and Democrats, let’s see how The Nanny’s book, “Know Your Power: A Message to America’s Daughters” is doing on Amazon.com, shall we?

It’s now ranking at #11,539 and continuing to fall. It’s been out for over three weeks and this is the best The Nanny can do?

Well, don’t feel bad for her, her book is only mimicking that of her congress’s approval ratings.

It’s a great year for politics and watching liberal Democrats self destruct.

By Rufus

August 23, 2008 2:57 PM | Link to this

“I still can’t get over some of these Republicans who think that when they vote for McCain, they are voting conservative. “

Hey Taxpayer, have you EVER heard of someone saying that on these blogs, or elsewhere? If so, put up to shut up.

“That prescription drug program and the stimulus checks are proof of that and that’s just for openers.”

Do I sense a little bit of contradiction here? Wasn’t it you idiot liberal Democrats who said that OUR money shouldn’t be refunded 6 years ago when Bush FIRST proposed a stimulus check?

Now look at what your Pelosicrats are pondering: another stimulus check let alone almost FULLY backing Bush’s second one which is TOTALLY not liberal like. Sounds to me like it’s a case off pot, meet kettle.

You liberals don’t think too much, do you?

By Dusty

August 23, 2008 2:59 PM | Link to this

Dear @@,

Joe is OK. I mean, kinda nice, kinda funny, kinda ‘everyman’, all that stuff. I cannot see any great presidential power within him, not to mention the quirks. I think Obama plans to use him as an offset backdrop for his own failings which Biden could not strongly counteract. Now would Joe even try as he likes the “honor” of being chosen.

Obama will be the socialistic communistic man of self centered power. Joe Biden has no potential to offset that. He will only be back ground scenery. That is why he was chosen. Simply old timer background man to acquire moderate voters.

By Taxpayer

August 23, 2008 2:59 PM | Link to this

Saxby Chambliss and George Bush are not conservatives. They are Republicans. John McCain is not a conservative . He is a Republican. Perdue switched parties as have many others. There are no limits — only those limited in thought, the thoughtful, and the thoughtless. Sort of like the good, bad, and the ugly.

By Taxpayer

August 23, 2008 3:03 PM | Link to this

Would some “liberal idiot” please talk to Rufus.

By AJC/DNC Management

August 23, 2008 3:04 PM | Link to this

So how long before we get the “this is not the Hairplugs Biden that I knew” speech and subsequent placing of the VP candidate under the bus?

Monday- Tuesdayish?

Will Biden become the “typical white dimwitocrat?”

Thee possibilities.

By Rufus

August 23, 2008 3:04 PM | Link to this

Is it just me or are our resident blog liberals not slapping each other on the backs (or butts - whatever floats you libs’ boats) over the latest Obamanews?

Sure is quiet out there in liberal la-la land. Gee, I wonder why?

Hehehe.

Well, there are a few delusional hard line bridge trolls, but for the most part, someone gave them a mouthful of salty vinegar - I’ve never seen such puckered pusses.

By RW-(the original)

August 23, 2008 3:07 PM | Link to this

I think I may just pass out in shock. A Democrat event scheduled for 3:00 is actually starting at 3:00.

By @@

August 23, 2008 3:09 PM | Link to this

Dusty:

Obama will be the socialistic communistic man of self centered power. Joe Biden has no potential to offset that.

I knooooooooooooooooooooooow Dusty…..

I Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo said @@ with her head hanging looooooooowwww. (IFH)

By Taxpayer

August 23, 2008 3:11 PM | Link to this

@@,

I don’t know anything about Eldrin Bell. I’d have to call up some of my relatives down that way and ask them what they think about him.

As for your earlier comments about moveon.org, I’ve never given them a minute’s worth of attention but if someone were to recommend something from them for reading, then I would oblige them. You have done the same for me when I asked you to read articles and I respect that in a person. However, that does not mean necessarily that we’ll ever agree, disagree or even agree to disagree on any given topic. After all, it’s all just food for thought.

By Pee'er Pressure

August 23, 2008 3:33 PM | Link to this

Bookman reveals how little he knows American culture. There are no hairplug jokes. We dont even care about hairplugs.

And the Veep choice here is so bad, nobody wants to hear any jokes.

Putt, Bookman, putt.

hairplug jokes.

brother.

By Rufus

August 23, 2008 3:37 PM | Link to this

“Rufus, You are right. It [liberalism] doesn’t take much effort to be a liberal. It’s easy. Like breathing. Eating. It’s natural. It’s normal.” - Mrs. Godzilla

Sorry I just couldn’t resist this: even cockroaches find reactionary emotionalism without thinking [liberalism] easy when the kitchen light turns on.

By Dusty

August 23, 2008 3:43 PM | Link to this

Now now @@ 3:09

Chin up!! You can vote for McCain and be happy!! You can still smile for Joe when Obama let’s him speak. Check Joe’s ankle when he gets to say something at the Convention. There will be a leash on his ankle, but he will be smiling all the way up to his hairplugs.

By the way, I always liked Eldrin Bell, even when he was running the Red Dogs or whatever the name was. HIs choice of uniforms was always a delight. He could have been an admiral or general in those outfits. Unbelievable gold and stars. But he got rid of your little Napoleon sheriff, didn’t he? I’m not in your county but that sheriff needed running off for sure.

Now smile. Obama is NOT Joe. McCain 2008.

By Dusty

August 23, 2008 3:59 PM | Link to this

Pee’r Pressure 3:33

YOU DID NOT LIKE MY HAIRPLUG JOKES????

Well, I am crushed. And…I am seeped in the American culture of hair pluggery by the astute advertisements of hairplug fame as Dr. O on TV has mentioned so often as necessity.

Hmmmm…I think you did not read my “JOKES”. And I think that YOU are a bit “funny”. In fact, I think you may be bald. So there..take that.

By Rufus

August 23, 2008 3:59 PM | Link to this

You really know it’s getting good when the New York Slimes gets slammed by Media Splatters. A little background: the Slimes ran an OpEd about Dumbo reversing his stance on Socialist Security. A snippet of that since this blog is link unfriendly:

On Thursday, for example, Mr. Obama’s chief economic adviser, Jason Furman, said that the payroll tax increase Mr. Obama favors would only go into effect in a decade, after Mr. Obama had left office (were he to be elected and serve two terms). “This is a pretty standard way to do tax reforms in Social Security,” Mr. Furman said in an interview Friday.

In its original form, though, Mr. Obama’s plan was far more ambitious. “If we kept the payroll tax exactly the same but applied it to all earnings and not just the first $97,500, we could virtually eliminate the entire Social Security shortfall,” he wrote in an op-ed piece that appeared in the Quad City Times, an Iowa daily newspaper, in September 2007.

Members of Mr. Obama’s staff now say he was not making a specific commitment to a specific plan. He later modified the proposal by exempting wages from $102,000 a year, the current ceiling for contributions, to $250,000 from the payroll tax, a concept that has been nicknamed the “doughnut hole.”

Now for that great bastion of liberalism, Media (Matters) Splatters’ retort:

But that is not what Obama wrote in the op-ed. Obama did not present removing the payroll tax income cap as his “plan”; rather, he simply wrote that doing so was “[o]ne possible option”

Bbbbut bbut but but but but but….

Uh huh. Well, a RAT is still a RAT no matter how you dress it up, libs.

By Rufus

August 23, 2008 4:04 PM | Link to this

Ever notice how those same liberal Democrats who scream bloody murder at the sight of a Bible or any reference of Christianity in a public place (unless you are Bill Clinton with “wife” in arm coming out of a church in 1997 clutching a Bible in the other hand) are now saying that Obama was given to them by God? Amazing how the moonbats suddenly find religion, be it man-made global warming junk science or a dimwit named Obama.

What? You think I’m making this up?

By RW-(the original)

August 23, 2008 4:09 PM | Link to this

Did they ever let hairplugs speak?

I was in the car listening to The Dunce babble on about how everything in America was effed up to the hilt and then tell me how Biden had been in Washington fixing everything for decades. After that head scratcher of a contradiction it sounded like The Teleprompter was breaking down and knowing that would be all over you tube I ran into Target to get a very few items. When I came out it was over. Hairplugs can’t even clear his throat in that amount of time.

By @@

August 23, 2008 4:10 PM | Link to this

Dusty:

You’ve got me laughin’ here.

OBlahMa is not Joe. You’re right!

I just watched their speeches. I think OBlahMa made a slip when he said……..”I give you the next President (pause)…..the next VICE PRESIDENT of the U.S.

Then Joe mistakenly said “Barack America” after having flubbed his name a couple of times. To which the crowd began chanting “O-Blah-Ma……O-Blah-Ma”.

Hilarious!

Not only that, but when I found out OBlahMa had picked Biden, I asked myself what were his reasons? I knew the foreign policy thing was front and center but I wondered if he would use Joe’s tragic personal loss.

Yup!!!!! He sure did……couldn’t run against an opposing candidate who had one without getting one of their own.

OBlahMa the opportunist at the expense of others.

It’s McCain ‘08 Dusty.

Rest assured.

By AJC/DNC Management

August 23, 2008 4:12 PM | Link to this

Naturally, this can only take him so far with security-conscious wavering voters. Though Mr Hair Plugs voted for the invasion of Iraq (unlike Mr Chief Dimwit), he has more recently led the effort to force American troops to quit that country, even though this would have been seen by many as a defeat for America. He led Senate efforts to cut off funding to the troops, and to block George Bush’s recent surge.

In other words, Biden has guessed wrong on everything since he voted to invade.

Some “expert.”

We want to win wars, you morons.

Duh.

By @@

August 23, 2008 4:13 PM | Link to this

Oh, and another thing Dusty!

Joe is not gonna be able to do the teleprompter thingy.

He WILL go off script, and………

THAR JOE BLOWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By @@

August 23, 2008 4:28 PM | Link to this

When I stop and think about it, Joe might have slipped up and said “Barack Omerica” which would indicate a subconscious tearing of his soul.

It’s going to be interesting to watch. Honestly…..Joe just isn’t that into OBlahma.

Just my personal observation.

By RW-(the original)

August 23, 2008 4:55 PM | Link to this

@@,

I haven’t found Joe’s gaff yet, but here’s him being introduced as President by The Dunce

At least now when Obumbler goes into his Messianic We are the Ones routine there’ll be somebody else there.

By AJC/DNC Management

August 23, 2008 4:55 PM | Link to this

So how’s that no rain from thee hurricane prediction working out for you, Urinal?

By @@

August 23, 2008 4:57 PM | Link to this

Evangelical Backs Out of Giving Opening Prayer

The relationship Democrats are trying to forge with the religious community at their nominating convention next week took a hit when a popular young evangelical backed out of their Monday night program.

Cameron Strang, the 30-something editor of Relevant, a magazine about faith and culture, said on his blog that he has changed his mind about delivering the opening night convention prayer because he does not want to be seen as endorsing Sen. Barack Obama.

The OBlahMa campaign has already invited and then disinvited one interfaith evangelical because he didn’t quite measure up. What…..he didn’t look Christian enough? He was of hispanic descent.

What is it with dems and evangelicals?

By @@

August 23, 2008 5:21 PM | Link to this

RW:

To verify that I wasn’t hearing things I googled the question “Did Biden say Barack America?”

It took me to Michelle Malkin’s site. Maybe she’s got something over there. I didn’t read through.

By RW-(the original)

August 23, 2008 5:30 PM | Link to this

Oh my! This convention is shaping up to be much fun.

Awesomely awesome: Top Clinton advisors tell CNN they’re outraged by how she was treated

A top Clinton advisor also told CNN they were “outraged,” over how the process was conducted.

“You can’t put [Obama VP vetters] Eric Holder and Carolyn Kennedy on an hour plane ride to Chappaqua just to check the box? They should have done it just for the optics,” this person said. “Barack never even said to her, ‘Here’s how I envision the job’– not one discussion with her about [the position].”

“They thought her supporters were mad before? They are really mad now,” this person also said. We knew it was never going to happen but you would have thought they might at least make a show of it.”

By FrankLeeDarling

August 23, 2008 5:43 PM | Link to this

STINKS LIKE NEOCON IN HERE

By FrankLeeDarling

August 23, 2008 5:43 PM | Link to this

STINKS LIKE NEOCON IN HERE

By RW-(the original)

August 23, 2008 5:47 PM | Link to this

@@,

The story at Michelle’s doesn’t say anything about Biden’s gaffe. The post has both the words Barack and America in it though. it’ll show up somewhere soon.

By RW-(the original)

August 23, 2008 5:52 PM | Link to this

@@,

I take back the 5:47. i just read the comments on the section and I guess he called The Dunce Barack America so the crowd started chanting like you said at 4:10.

By Rufus

August 23, 2008 6:00 PM | Link to this

STINKS: get the F over it, neo-Marxist liberal. You neoliberals have been stinking up Wooten’s blog for years. Payback time.

By Rufus

August 23, 2008 6:07 PM | Link to this

Here’s an easy one for Biden that the liberal mainstream media won’t ask him: Were you for or against the surge in Iraq and weren’t you for withdrawal two years ago?

Hmmmm. Well, leave it to CB.S., who has an honorary doctorate degree in falsified documentation, to actually bring that subject up. Will wonders never cease!

(SEDONA, ARIZ.) – One of John McCain’s favorite lines of attack against Barack Obama is that he maintains Obama still hasn’t admitted that the surge in Iraq was a success. Now that Joe Biden has been selected as Obama’s VP at least partially because of his foreign policy experience, you can bet you’ll be hearing a lot about Biden’s low opinion of the surge strategy, which he called “doomed” and “a fantasy.”

By Midori

August 23, 2008 6:16 PM | Link to this

How Bush Destroyed the Republican Party

A president driven by ideology. A Congress rife with corruption. A political party hellbent on a “permanent majority.” A leading scholar examines the radicals who hijacked the GOP — and wrecked the longest conservative ascendancy in American history

By @@

August 23, 2008 6:16 PM | Link to this

GRAB BAG!!!

I’ve got mine:

Obama “has lost my vote, my family’s vote, and I believe a large percent of Hillary supporters,” said Jerry Rothwell of Mudrow, Oklahoma.

It “could have been an easy win for the Democratic ticket. I thought Obama was smarter than that. I guess I was wrong,” Rothwell said.

Margaret Odgers of Paris, Kentucky, believes that Obama “failed to do something historic” by not choosing Clinton. “No wonder Obama revealed his choice in the dead of the night — and buried this over the weekend,” she said.

• Rick Seno of Dallas, Texas, said he was hoping for Clinton or former Gen. Wesley Clark to be on the Democratic ticket, so when he received word that it was Biden, he “lost faith” in the presidential hopeful.*

“Biden is not change. Biden is status quo,” Seno said. Now, with Biden on the ballot, Seno said, his vote will go to Green Party candidate Cynthia McKinney instead.

O-:MG! Cynthia McKinney? He is pithed.

Amy Quillen: “While I have nothing against Joe Biden, I am disgusted, and for the first time ever, I have no clue who to vote for. I know [Obama’s] big message is change, so he picks a running mate that has been in DC longer than I have been old enough to vote? He picked Biden because of his experience, which sounds logical, but how is he going to change with a certified member of old Washington on the ticket?”

Roger Misso: “The greatest charge against John McCain has been that he has been in Washington too long to make a difference in the White House. With the addition of Sen. Joe Biden, the Obama campaign can no longer make this charge. Perhaps the greatest problem with his vice presidential selection is that we all know Joe Biden, and we’ve written him off after several failed attempts at the presidency. All that Obama has managed to do with this pick is alert the world that John McCain is right: He does have a glaring weakness in foreign policy.”

I’ll just add this little tidbit. I’m watching Greta Van Susteren talking to Frank Luntz last night (I think it was Frank? anyhoo) Greta says her e-mail box was inundated with angry Hillary supporters who are planning on voting for McCain. She said it would be smokin’ hot if OBlahMa didn’t choose Hillary. Now they find out he never even considered her after telling them she WAS on his shortlist.

Then I read another article which said that OBlahMa did her a favor because he knew Bill’s financial dealings were murky.

So here’s my question assuming Hillary will return to her senate seat and continue to sit on various committees — and if OBlahMa wins the election (he won’t, but if…) will he begin his reign standing in the murkiness of Old Washington. Looks like he’s already volunteered to do just that.

Hope & Change

Change & Hope

La La La

La La La

Blah Blah Blah OBlahMa!

By Midori

August 23, 2008 6:18 PM | Link to this

The failure of the administration of George W. Bush — and the accompanying crisis of the Republican Party — has caused a political meltdown of historic proportions. In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11th, Bush enjoyed the greatest popularity ever recorded for a modern American president.

Republicans on Capitol Hill, under the iron rule of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, fattened their coffers through a fearsome operation overseen by corporate lobbyists and GOP henchmen that functioned more like an empire than an old-fashioned political machine. “Republican hegemony,” the prominent conservative commentator Fred Barnes rejoiced in 2004, “is now expected to last for years, maybe decades.”

By Midori

August 23, 2008 6:21 PM | Link to this

Now, only four years later, Bush is leaving office with the longest sustained period of public disapproval ever recorded. No president, at least in modern times — and certainly no two-term president — has risen so high only to fall so low. Indeed, Bush’s standings in the polls describe one of the most spectacular flameouts in the history of the American presidency — second only, perhaps, to that of Richard Nixon, the only president ever forced to resign from office.

And in Congress, the indictment and downfall of DeLay and a host of associated scandals involving, among others, the Republican superlobbyist Jack Abramoff, have badly damaged the party’s image. The supremacy of the GOP, once envisioned by party operatives as a “permanent majority,” may be gone for a very long time to come.

By Midori

August 23, 2008 6:23 PM | Link to this

At first glance, the collapse of the Republican Party seems rapid and unexpected. When viewed within the larger context of American history, however, the party’s breakdown looks familiar, even predictable.

As in earlier party crackups — 1854, 1932, 1968 — the demise has involved not a single, sudden explosion but a gradual unraveling followed by a sharp and rapid deterioration amid major national calamities.

If Bush and the Republican majority in Congress accelerated the demise of Ronald Reagan’s political era with their assault on traditional American values and institutions — including the rule of law itself — it is a decline that began two decades ago.

By Midori

August 23, 2008 6:26 PM | Link to this

A few examples serve to place recent events in historical perspective. In 1848, the Whig Party, which had emerged more than a decade earlier to oppose the Democrats of Andrew Jackson, captured the presidency for the second time in its history and consolidated what looked like a formidable, nationwide political base.

Yet differences over slavery and territorial expansion had always hampered party unity, and in 1854, amid the sectional warfare caused by the Kansas-Nebraska bill, the Whigs ceased to be a national force, replaced by the anti-slavery Republican Party as the nation lurched toward the Civil War.

By Midori

August 23, 2008 6:28 PM | Link to this

Three generations later, in 1928, the Republicans, although the dominant party, were battered by scandals and old battles between conservative party regulars and self-styled progressives.

GOP power brokers wisely chose as their presidential nominee Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, whose engineering projects and disaster-relief efforts had earned admiration across party lines.

Hoover crushed his Democratic opponent, Al Smith, in what looked like the culmination of the party’s growth since the Civil War. Four years later, though, following the stock-market crash of October 1929 and the onset of the Great Depression, the Republicans went to pieces — and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, after burying Hoover in a landslide, inaugurated the New Deal.

By RW-(the original)

August 23, 2008 6:28 PM | Link to this

Who wants to go see where Midori is plagiarizing from?

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

And to think, I once said we wouldn’t get much mileage out of this clip. Here’s Greasy Joe at his best: Contemptuous, self-aggrandizing, and willing to hurt his own side in the interests of, ahem, straight-shooting. Listen to the audience murmur nervously when he says, “I don’t know that he’s mentally qualified to own that gun.”

This, of course, came during the same debate in which The One extended his holy hand to Iran and Hugo Chavez.

By @@

August 23, 2008 6:29 PM | Link to this

Hey RW:

Let’s talk sports.———————->

or

<——————————-

I have a lousy sense of direction.

By Midori

August 23, 2008 6:31 PM | Link to this

In 1964, the Texas liberal Democrat Lyndon Johnson wiped out the right-wing hero Barry Goldwater and ushered in a true working majority of Democratic reformers in Congress. Political commentators hailed a second birth of New Deal liberalism, and some experts even wondered if the Republicans would soon go the way of the Whigs.

Yet the Democrats had long been battling among themselves over civil rights issues, and Johnson’s signing of the Civil Rights Act in 1964 triggered the defection of the once solidly Democratic South. A mere four years after Johnson’s outsize triumph, Democratic infighting over his escalation of the war in Vietnam, as well as over racial turmoil in the nation’s cities, paved the way for Richard Nixon’s election.

The breakdown of the Democrats, coupled with Nixon’s downfall in 1974 in the Watergate scandal, blew the ideological center out of American politics and cleared the way for the conservative age of Ronald Reagan — the age only now beginning to come to an end.

By Midori

August 23, 2008 6:34 PM | Link to this

The decay of Reagan Republicanism dates to 1988, Reagan’s final year in office. With no clear-cut successor from the right on the horizon, the party chose Reagan’s dutiful vice president, George H.W. Bush.

A scion of the old GOP establishment, the son of a U.S. senator from Connecticut who was a Wall Street banker and golfing partner of President Dwight Eisenhower, Bush had shifted both rightward and southwesterly over the years. Although he was never able to forge a convincing political identity as a Connecticut Yankee in Texas, as president he dealt with the enormous federal deficits left over from Reagan’s “supply-side” stewardship. In 1990, he finally broke his “no new taxes” vow — thereby earning the enduring contempt of the Republican right.

The quirky but effective third-party candidacy of Ross Perot in 1992 was a sure sign that Bush had lost touch with the GOP’s anti-government base, and his inability to cope with a recession tolled his end.

By @@

August 23, 2008 6:34 PM | Link to this

How’s it goin’ Midori?

Are you enjoying this cool August weather?

By AJC/DNC Management

August 23, 2008 6:35 PM | Link to this

RW: It’s Rolling Stone magazine.

Say, I r o Dim, what’s next, Teen?

By Midori

August 23, 2008 6:37 PM | Link to this

Bill Clinton’s victory over both Bush and Perot seemed to spell a revival of center-left liberalism in a new form. But during his first two years in office, Clinton’s missteps and defeats, coupled with the self-destructive fracturing of the Democratic Congress, handed the Republicans an opportunity to regroup. Their recapture of the House for the first time in 40 years — by forging their “Contract With America” during the midterm elections in 1994 — seemed to portend that Clinton, like his predecessor, would be a one-term president.

Yet the brash ideological leadership of the new House speaker, Newt Gingrich, foreshadowed the GOP’s turn to the far right and further hastened the unraveling of the conservative ascendancy. Clinton outfoxed Gingrich in battles over the federal budget and held the line against GOP demands to slash Medicare and cut taxes, and most of the public blamed Congress for the partisan bickering in Washington.

In 1996, only two years after Democrats had been repudiated at the polls, Clinton won re-election with an increased plurality, marking the first time a Democrat had won two presidential terms since Franklin Roosevelt in 1936.

By Midori

August 23, 2008 6:39 PM | Link to this

The outcome incited congressional Republicans to a fury, and conservative leaders even more doctrinaire than Gingrich — including House Majority Leader Dick Armey and Majority Whip Tom DeLay — took advantage of the anger to hijack the party.

In 1998, after a network of right-wing operatives discovered Clinton’s sexual trysts with the young White House intern Monica Lewinsky, the congressional right-wingers forced Clinton’s impeachment. But public backlash over the impeachment drive contributed to Gingrich’s downfall as speaker and Clinton’s acquittal in the Senate. With Clinton’s popularity soaring and his troubles behind him amid peace and prosperity, it looked as if 2000 would bring a solid Democratic victory.

But nothing went right for the Democrats. Their nominee, Vice President Al Gore, believed that the Lewinsky scandal had made Clinton a liability and distanced himself from the very administration he had served so ably. Rather than building on the legacy of the previous eight years, Gore embraced the bogus idea of “Clinton fatigue,” signaled by his naming Joe Lieberman, the sanctimonious Clinton critic, as his running mate.

The left wing of the party backed the protest candidacy of Ralph Nader, and the Republican candidate, George W. Bush, ran as a “compassionate conservative” who would uphold the kinder, gentler mode of his father as a kind of Clinton-lite. The press, following its dismal performance as mouthpiece for impeachment prosecutor Ken Starr, gave credence to a string of pseudoscandals about Gore, tarnishing his integrity and casting him as a privileged, self-regarding dissembler.

Nader’s nihilistic campaign to destroy Gore won him enough votes to throw New Hampshire to Bush, and the election ultimately turned on the razor-thin margin in Florida. The conservative majority on the Supreme Court, including four Reagan-era appointees (and the man Ronald Reagan had named chief justice, William Rehnquist), finally intervened, stopping the recount ordered by the Florida Supreme Court, and made Bush president.

By Midori

August 23, 2008 6:42 PM | Link to this

Clinton’s precarious center-left alliance did not hold. With Bush’s court-engineered victory, the conservative ascendancy entered a new and even more radical phase. But that phase would prove to be its last.

George w. Bush was easily underestimated by the press and his Democratic opponent. When he entered the White House, he looked like the luckiest political leader on the face of the earth. A man whose early efforts in business and politics had failed, Bush had persevered thanks to well-connected family and friends who repeatedly saved him from his failures and gave him his chance to make a fortune when he sold his financial interest in the Texas Rangers baseball team.

In 1994, Bush won his first of two terms as governor of Texas — a high-profile job with, as stipulated in the state’s constitution, undemanding day-to-day authority. Having learned the nastier arts of politics while helping out in his father’s national campaigns and apprenticing with the ferocious

Republican operative Lee Atwater, Bush formed an alliance with one of the greatest political tacticians in the country — Karl Rove, another Atwater disciple. After Sen. Robert Dole lost his presidential bid in 1996 — and with Rove pulling strings in the background — Bush emerged as a top candidate for the 2000 nomination.

By Midori

August 23, 2008 6:44 PM | Link to this

Bush’s family connections, once again, proved invaluable. For nearly half a century, from 1952 to 1996 — except for 1964, the year of Barry Goldwater — the Republican Party’s national ticket included a Nixon, a Bush or a Dole. Through thick and thin, the party’s top leadership had retained a coherence that was familial as well as political.

And when Ronald Reagan transformed the party in 1980, he wisely did not uproot its establishment, as the Goldwaterites had tried to do in 1964, but rather absorbed it into his grand new coalition by naming George H.W. Bush as his running mate. Twenty years later, another Bush was waiting in the wings.

Although born in Connecticut and schooled at Yale and Harvard Business, the younger Bush had successfully assimilated himself to Texas business and political culture as his father had never managed. The black sheep of the family, Bush also, at the age of 40, took Jesus Christ as his personal savior. That conversion, he said, freed him from a well-documented addiction to drink.

It also brought him into much closer connection with the right-wing evangelical base that Reagan had brought into the Republican Party and with which Bush senior never forged a convincing bond.

By @@

August 23, 2008 6:45 PM | Link to this

Hey Midori!

The same Sean Wilentz who wrote the Rolling Stone piece wrote this:

Race Man by Sean Wilentz

Cool huh?

By Midori

August 23, 2008 6:47 PM | Link to this

Bush’s family connections, once again, proved invaluable. For nearly half a century, from 1952 to 1996 — except for 1964, the year of Barry Goldwater — the Republican Party’s national ticket included a Nixon, a Bush or a Dole. Through thick and thin, the party’s top leadership had retained a coherence that was familial as well as political. And when Ronald Reagan transformed the party in 1980, he wisely did not uproot its establishment, as the Goldwaterites had tried to do in 1964, but rather absorbed it into his grand new coalition by naming George H.W. Bush as his running mate. Twenty years later, another Bush was waiting in the wings.

Although born in Connecticut and schooled at Yale and Harvard Business, the younger Bush had successfully assimilated himself to Texas business and political culture as his father had never managed. The black sheep of the family, Bush also, at the age of 40, took Jesus Christ as his personal savior. That conversion, he said, freed him from a well-documented addiction to drink.

It also brought him into much closer connection with the right-wing evangelical base that Reagan had brought into the Republican Party and with which Bush senior never forged a convincing bond.

By RW-(the original)

August 23, 2008 6:50 PM | Link to this

@@,

It’s hard to tell with all the mindless spam but I went out to the right to catch your pass.

AJC/DNC-M,

I see she finally got around to linking it. If I was trying to run a civil blog I think spam would be a good reason to break out the banning stick. Let’s just hope she doesn’t start with the Kos stuff. Again.

By Midori

August 23, 2008 6:53 PM | Link to this

The younger Bush perfectly embodied a new melding of the Republican right and the GOP establishment, a process essential to the success of the conservative ascendancy since 1980.

The only other serious challenger for the nomination was neither a son of the party establishment nor a Reaganite ideologue: Sen. John McCain. A hero of the Vietnam War (a conflict from which Bush had escaped by serving in the Texas Air National Guard), McCain married a wealthy second wife and made his political home in Arizona, where being a conservative and a maverick fit the Goldwater tradition. His independent stands on campaign-finance reform, regulation of the tobacco industry and health care irked the party’s leadership but gained him favor inside the news media.

Read the entire story in the new issue of Rolling Stone, on stands August 22, 2008.

Just giving you morons something else to read and ridicule.

Your thanks are appreciated.

LOL - What fools you appear to be. Nothing better to do with your Saturdays? Well, I do. You bore me. My flower garden beckons.

Your’e all worthless idiots. And where did you loons did up this “Rufus” character? Another alter-ego?

ROFL!!!!

By Midori

August 23, 2008 6:55 PM | Link to this

and before I go, one last post for you to chew on

hahahahahahaha!!!

By @@

August 23, 2008 7:06 PM | Link to this

Your’e all worthless idiots. And where did you loons ?!?did?!? up this “Rufus” character?

Midori:

I’ve heard tell gardening is a wonderful therapy for those in the loony toombs.

Happy diding!

By Taxpayer

August 23, 2008 7:08 PM | Link to this

Hi Midori. Given so many chances, you would think that the Republicans could have actually managed to reduce government instead of making it bigger and more indebted — to China mostly, a communist nation no less. Even Perdue could not resist sucking up to them for a buck.

By Rufus

August 23, 2008 7:26 PM | Link to this

LOL I still can’t stop with Mrs. G’s 1:52:

“It [liberalism] comes from a concern for others above self.”

Bull puck. The only thing you mindless hysterical emotion-driven liberals “care” about is stealing other people’s money for your causes.

It will be a MIRACLE if I EVER see one of you hysterics on this blog or elsewhere using your OWN money and your OWN sweat and your OWN blood to have “more concern for others over self.”

By Rufus

August 23, 2008 7:31 PM | Link to this

“How Bush Destroyed the Republican Party”- Midori

Hey Midol brain - considering your wonderboy is neck and neck with McCain with ALL of the media behind Him The Messiah, I think your mindless words of liberalism need a recheck - like your unused head.

By Rufus

August 23, 2008 7:35 PM | Link to this

“The failure of the administration of George W. Bush…” - Midoli

Would someone please ‘splain to that mindless hysteric liberal pms Midol head that Bush ain’t running for a 3rd term already???

Sheesh.

By Rufus

August 23, 2008 7:52 PM | Link to this

Is that mindless liberal hysteric Midol done spamming with other people’s thoughts yet? GEEEZE! I only captured this amongst that cut-n-paste liberal claptrap and just had to address it:

Bill Clinton’s victory over both Bush and Perot seemed to spell a revival of center-left liberalism in a new form.

Only in the diseased mind of a liberal did Bill Clinton’s “victory” spell revival of “center-left liberalism” in a new form. First and foremost, 58% of American voters in 1992 did NOT vote for Bill Clinton (and for you mindless numbnut liberals in Little Five Points who grew up being taught by liberal NEA teachers, that means he won the US presidency with 42% of the vote). Second, just two years later Republicans ala Newt gave the Democrats in Congress the smackdown. Yeah, Republicans/Cons are a dying breed, blah blah blah spit spit spit. You libs had better start breeding, ‘cause we are out breeding you.

Do the mindless hysterics of the hyperemotion driven left ever really think, let alone listen to themselves?

Oh yeah… it goes back to cockroaches and the kitchen light point again I already mentioned. LOL.

By Rufus

August 23, 2008 7:59 PM | Link to this

When I mindless liberal moonbat like Midol brain spams this blog up for 30 minutes of cut-n-paste of other people’s thoughts via articles, is that the definition of a liberal hissyfit? Inquiring minds wanna know.

What a basket case.

By Rufus

August 23, 2008 8:05 PM | Link to this

“Your’e all worthless idiots. And where did you loons did up this “Rufus” character? Another alter-ego?”

I see you didn’t counter any of my posts, Midol brain. You mindess hysterical liberals are just. so. useless.

By @@

August 23, 2008 8:07 PM | Link to this

I don’t know much about Delaware, but Ralph Nader seems to:

“The Nation” — “Coming from Delaware, Senator Biden knows full well the weak Delaware State chartering for large corporations that have, for 100 years, chosen Delaware as a most permissive jurisdiction for the concentrated powers of corporate officers and directors over all the corporate stakeholders, including shareholders and workers.”

Corporate America loves Joe Biden?

That could be a problem for OBlahMa II or is he OBlahMa One.

I’m startin’ to get cornfused.

By Hillbilly Deluxe

August 23, 2008 8:08 PM | Link to this

If memory serves, didn’t Mr. Wrestling #1 get a finger bitten off by a spectator? Seems like it was in Macon.

By RW-(the original)

August 23, 2008 8:13 PM | Link to this

@@,

If you heard The Dunce today telling us how Biden had raised his kids with American values and the usual blather he said like (name) who is the Attorney General and is getting ready to do a tour in Iraq and then he moved on never mentioning the other son who is a federal lobbyist.

I figure it’s safe to move this up one and I linked the Barack America video up there. Great video of Hairplugs pre-hairplugs too.

By Rufus

August 23, 2008 8:49 PM | Link to this

Liberals. First Denver tried to buy off the homeless with tickets to movies and museums or whatnot. Well, as expected like most mindless liberal brainiac ideas, that flew like a plane made out of lead.

So, what next? How about just hosing them off and cleaning them up and making them look presentable? First up, free haircuts! From the LA Slimes:

Last month The Ticket wrote that officials in Denver, worried about the impression that 50,000 visitors to the Democratic National Convention would get next week, were planning to hide the estimated 4,000 homeless people who hang around the city’s downtown area.

They arranged for free movie passes and bingo games to get them off the street, as well as temporary housing and free tickets to the zoo and Museum of Nature and Science. Downtown Denver awaits the Democrats. Do you see any homeless?

Now, with a Hat Tip to our pal Jeralyn over at TalkLeft, comes word that Denver is even spiffing up the coiffures of its homeless. They’re giving free haircuts to the homeless this week in preparation for the visiting crowds who’ll arrive this weekend.

No, really.

Denver is well on it’s way to being the next mindless liberal San Freaksisco (that’s Pelosi territory for those with a brain keeping up). I have long said this: for a barometer of the future of America, just look at present California regions like San Freaksisco. Canary in a coal mine, if you will. It’s not too late America. You can reverse the disease of liberalism.

By Taxpayer

August 23, 2008 8:50 PM | Link to this

Biden didn’t waste any time getting down to business. He is going to be all over McCain between now and the election. Rove better get out there and hire some more helpers. He’s gonna need all the help he can get. Roll out the crap cannons and let the volleys begin.

By Dusty

August 23, 2008 8:55 PM | Link to this

My goodness,

Even Mrs. Godzi was never as boring as Midori, even in Godzi’s IN THE NEWS days.

Naybe Midori has had hairplugs. They surely did make Joe Biden talkative. And now comes Midori bubbling over with retro info. I tell you it is obvious. Not to mention hergrowing things in her “garden”, uh huh. Oh, the wonders of “science”. You can’t tell what’s what these days.

By AJC/DNC Management

August 23, 2008 9:17 PM | Link to this

Ummm, let’s see here, McBushie is so freaking rich he has no idea how many houses he owns, while Biden is so poor he knows exactly how little he is worth.

Now, do tell us, which one of the two would you want running the U.S. economy?

By FrankLeeDarling

August 24, 2008 12:19 PM | Link to this

BIDEN RULES!

cant wait to see him take some neoon heads off

By Rufus

August 24, 2008 12:36 PM | Link to this

“cant wait to see him take some neoon heads off”

Darling liberal, you don’t have to worry about that. Biden the snake will be seen as a hater and turn off the independents.

We couldn’t have been handed a better veep candidate from you pathetic cretins on the neo-Marxist liberal socialist left.

By FrankLeeDarling

August 24, 2008 12:55 PM | Link to this

Dream on rufus