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Attack mode

By Mike Luckovich | Wednesday, October 31, 2007, 09:00 PM

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By Anonymous

November 1, 2007 8:11 AM | Link to this

This one’s confusing… Is Mike saying that Obama didn’t come out against Hillary strongly enough, or that he CAN’T attack strongly?

By Luckoduh

November 1, 2007 8:15 AM | Link to this

{{{{Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (D-N.Y.) top advisers, doing damage control after the candidate’s debate performance Tuesday, told supporters on a conference call Wednesday that the campaign needed more money to fight back.}}}}

More money?

Hahahahaha, yeah, that should cure Pig “Woman’s” stupidity.

Geez.

~~~~~~

{{{{Those doubts were heightened late last month in a poll of 9,718 likely general election voters across the country by independent pollster John Zogby, who found 50 percent of them would never vote for Mrs. Clinton under any circumstances.}}}}

I have no “doubts,” hehehehe.

This is going to be easy.

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You liberals are so much fun:

{{{{Wednesday 10/31: Taliban masses near Kandahar- Several hundred Taliban fighters have moved into a strategic area just outside Kandahar, southern Afghanistan’s largest city, in recent days and clashed with Afghan and NATO forces, according to Canadian and Afghan officials. The fighting marked the first time large numbers of Taliban fighters have been able to enter the area just north of the city since 2001.-Urinal}}}}

Sound the trumpets, the lions of the Blessed Taliban are massed for their final glorious assault on the weak and decadent infidel Americans, may god be willing!!

{{{{Thursday 11/1: Troops encircle Taliban in 2 towns Afghan civilians piled belongings onto trucks and fled two villages infiltrated by hundreds of Taliban militants outside Afghanistan’s second-largest city, Kandahar. U.S., Canadian and Afghan troops had about 250 of the insurgents surrounded. The troops killed 50 militants in three days of fighting 15 miles north of the city. Three policemen and one Afghan soldier also died.}}}}

Uh, hey brother, you got some extra room in that cave?

By Sal

November 1, 2007 8:18 AM | Link to this

No, anon, he’s saying that Hillary is a MILF. That’s not Tigger’s Tail.

By Sal

November 1, 2007 8:22 AM | Link to this

The Bigfoot photo: Ugly Yeti….

…or Rosie Odonnel…or, better yet, if that mangy-looking thing was in a limo, you’d think it was a Brittany Spears photo op!

By Goldie

November 1, 2007 8:23 AM | Link to this

HA— love this toon, Lucko! Obama is too much like Tigger to attack his own friend Hillary… he consistently shows composure and good judgment, and does not try to be someone he is not.

By Goldie

November 1, 2007 8:27 AM | Link to this

OK right-wingnuts— it’s time to pay up for your homophobia:

BALTIMORE - A grieving father won a nearly $11 million verdict against a fundamentalist church that pickets military funerals out of a belief that the war in Iraq is a punishment for America’s tolerance of homosexuality.

And dontcha just love how their “family values” teaches their kids to stand on street corners, waving their hate-filled signs???

By Shawny

November 1, 2007 8:30 AM | Link to this

Quit censoring me! 3rd post!

FAKE Hillary alert! The result is that it’s impossible to know what she believes about anything.

and

It was not just that her answer about whether illegal immigrants should be issued driver’s licenses was at best incomprehensible and at worst misleading. .

Phony! FAKE! LIAR! “But Bush should have done something about immigration…” nice answer as to her position.

By Goldie

November 1, 2007 8:37 AM | Link to this

Another “family values-I am not gay-I was tricked into having gay sex- GOP leader” goes down… why don’t the Repugs just pick a day like today and have their coming “out” party all at the same time, and just be done with their self-hating hypocrisy???

OLYMPIA, Wash. - A Republican state legislator who repeatedly voted against gay rights measures resigned his seat Wednesday amid allegations he had sex with a man he met at an erotic video store while in Spokane on a GOP retreat.

By Buy Danish

November 1, 2007 8:44 AM | Link to this

GoldieDummie,

Once again we have to remind you that the “Reverend” Phelps is a DEMOCRAT.

Phelps has run in various Kansas Democratic Party primaries five times, but has never won… Phelps supported Al Gore in the 1988 Democratic Party primary election…According to Phelps, members of the Westboro Baptist Church helped run Gore’s 1988 campaign in Kansas. Phelps’ son, Fred Phelps Jr., hosted a Gore fundraiser, which Al and Tipper Gore attended, at his home in Topeka.

Moreover his phony “church” is comprised of his Democrat family members.

I don’t know how many times we have told you that but I guess when you’re a brainless wind up parrot it’s impossible to assimilate information.

By Buy Danish

November 1, 2007 8:56 AM | Link to this

Hillary finally gets asked some tough questions and what happens?

{{{One caller from Oklahoma City said that “the questions … were designed to incite a brawl,” and that Russert’s and Brian Williams’s moderating was “an abdication of journalistic responsibility.”}}

BOO FREAKING HOO!

Another said Russert “should be shot,” before quickly adding that she shouldn’t say that on a conference call.

No comment.

Although I do look forward to Russert’s reaction to all of this, which, unless they threaten to smear him with tabloid dirt, will probably not enhance Shrillary’s popularity.

By John in Tampa, FLA

November 1, 2007 8:59 AM | Link to this

Originally I thought IRAQ was Arabic for Viet Nam but now I see it is actually Arabic for clusterf*ck.

Didn’t think much of the toon today. Didn’t even make me crack a smile.

By Sal

November 1, 2007 9:01 AM | Link to this

Hillary looked vulnerable because she participated in a real news event. A real debate with real reporters, a real audience, and real candidates.

Contrast that with Bush’s handpicked phony audiences and FEMA’s phony news conference. I wonder if FEMA practices in front of a mirror.

FEMA went to a halloween party as FOX NEWS. It looked so real.

By Buy Danish

November 1, 2007 9:02 AM | Link to this

How pathetic is this?

The Clinton campaign released a video Wednesday, entitled “The Politics of Pile On,” showing clips of the senator’s rivals going after her by name during the debate.

How dare they use her name!!! Is nothing sacred?

And this whiny complaint comes after Shrillary mentioned Bush’s name too many times to count, but he’s not running for anything.

This was a good line from Obama’s camp:

“The ‘politics of hope’ doesn’t mean hoping you don’t have to answer tough questions.”

By reebok

November 1, 2007 9:03 AM | Link to this

Very funny cartoon…Obama is a really nice guy. Probably too nice for presidential politics. He’s going to need the Vice-Presidency as a stepping stone if he’s ever going to make it to Commander-in-Chief. Wonder who Hillary will tap for Veep after she secures the nomination?

By Georgia 74

November 1, 2007 9:15 AM | Link to this

Another Repug caught in a bathroom, are there any straight wingnuts?

By Sal

November 1, 2007 9:21 AM | Link to this

Ga. 74, Why do you think they’re called “Repudlickans”?

By Bosch

November 1, 2007 9:21 AM | Link to this

Tigger is cute, but annoying, not to mention completely stupid, even Pooh gets annoyed with him.

Goldie and Buy Danish,

I don’t care what Phelps calls himself, he’s insane and I’m glad somebody finally sued him and that he lost. I’m really surprised that no one hasn’t lost it at those funerals he’s protested and shot someone. He’ll probably appeal it to the Supreme Court though, but let him, I hope he goes bankrupt in the process.

Anywho, I hope you all had a Happy Halloween.

Happy All Saints Day! Who is your favorite saint?

By John in Tampa, FLA

November 1, 2007 9:21 AM | Link to this

I wonder if Sen Larry Craig is going to be able to tap dance himself out of his mess.

Me thinks it is taps for tap tap.

By Goldie

November 1, 2007 9:28 AM | Link to this

Bosch @ 9:21 — calling someone a “Democrat” because they voted that way in the 80’s is not necessarily the same bag today, a la Zell “Duel-man” Miller… we’ve had plenty of old Dems convert to the very extremist side of the Repugnant Party since the Clinton era of the 90’s.

By John in Tampa, FLA

November 1, 2007 9:34 AM | Link to this

Bosche and Goldie:

If you two kids can’t play together nicely I am going to make you take time outs!!!!!

By John in Tampa, FLA

November 1, 2007 9:35 AM | Link to this

sorry about the e Bosch. It is still early down here in Tampa.

By Luckoduh

November 1, 2007 9:39 AM | Link to this

{{{{Such existential questions seemed to be in the past. But with another Clinton running as if she’s all but a sure thing for the White House, Clintonesque is once again becoming a politically relevant adjective. In Tuesday night’s Democratic Presidential debate, the moderators and Hillary Clinton’s fellow panelists took pains to pin her down on one question after another, without notable success. The junior Senator from New York seems increasingly to have adopted her husband’s political methods, minus the savoir-faire. The result is that it’s impossible to know what she believes about anything.}}}}

{{{{The political strategy is clear enough. Mrs. Clinton wants to roll to her party’s nomination on a tide of “inevitability” while disguising her real agenda as much as possible. But Democratic voters ought to consider whether they want to put all their hopes for retaking the White House on Mrs. Clinton’s ability to obfuscate like her husband without his preternatural talent for it. Aside from lacking her husband’s political gifts, Hillary’s challenge is that we’ve all seen this movie before. And performances like Tuesday’s might be enough to convince voters to opt for a candidate who is his own man.}}}}

Plus, she’s a dumbas-s.

This is going to be easy.

By RB from Gwinnett

November 1, 2007 9:40 AM | Link to this

By Goldie 8:27 AM Don’t try to hang that nut job on the R’s or Christians. What he and his so called church did is dispicable by any measure of both groups. I think you’ll find R’s and C’s are glad the family sued him and believe the verdict was accurate. I don’t think the amount of the verdict was appropriate, but the verdict was correct.

Good to see he’s a Democrat anyway.

Hillary for Team Mom in ‘08!!!

By RB from Gwinnett

November 1, 2007 9:43 AM | Link to this

By Goldie 8:27 AM Don’t try to hang that nut job on the R’s or Christians. What he and his so called church did is dispicable by any measure of both groups. I think you’ll find R’s and C’s are glad the family sued him and believe the verdict was accurate. I don’t think the amount of the verdict was appropriate, but the verdict was correct.

Good to see he’s a Democrat anyway.

Hillary for Team Mom in ‘08!!!

By Goldie

November 1, 2007 9:46 AM | Link to this

{{Happy All Saints Day! Who is your favorite saint?}}

Didn’t the Atlanta Falcons acquire Joe Horn from the Saints? If so, I believe he would be my favorite Saint!

By Goldie

November 1, 2007 9:50 AM | Link to this

{{Don’t try to hang that nut job on the R’s or Christians. What he and his so called church did is dispicable by any measure of both groups.}}

Yes, homophobia is a terrible mental illness.

By Big Business Republicans Make Big Government Bigger

November 1, 2007 9:54 AM | Link to this

WASHINGTON - The demands of supplying soldiers in combat require an additional 1,400 military and civilian personnel with the authority to sign contracts, a new report finds.

King George is sending out so many of those big, Big, BIG war bucks corporate welfare payments to his buddies in big, Big, BIG business that he is gonna have to hire some more rubber stampers just to sign the checks.

big, Big, BIG business REPUBLICAN politicians yield big, Big, BIG GOVERNMENT. What a surprise, Surprise, SURPRISE!!!

By IN THE NEWS

November 1, 2007 9:55 AM | Link to this

Saint Thomas a Becket

By Paul

November 1, 2007 9:58 AM | Link to this

Bosch

Which Saint? The Christmas dude - jolly old Saint Nicholas! (based upon a real guy by the way, as a good Episcopalian-attender would know - but that’s a different story).

Mixed feelings about the Phelps story. Suffice it to say my feelings about the man are such that I won’t type the words that describe those feelings. Courts have, I believe, imposed controls on his protests - stay N feet away, for example. The funerals are private affairs, yet they take place on public land. They are terribly offensive to the grieving families. The group is making a statement against the nation and groups citizens.

Right next to an article about that I read about a young man in high school lit class - topic was an examination of Huck Finn - course done by a group of the district teachers and a consultant - to show the racial, social, etc themes of the time, how they compare to today, etc. One student - the lone black student - found spelling out words that are now hyphenated - offensive and asked that the hyphenated version be used. The school complied and the teacher apologized.

So: words used in a social context can be, by popular agreement, not used. Even if used in a political context. I’m frankly not sure if such prohibitions have been challenged in court. Other words, entirely political, wholly offensive, are generally permitted (the Phelps verdict has, I think, a good chance of being overturned on appeal).

The point of the comparison was not to say one is okay, the other isn’t, or that somehow one justifies the other. It is the difficulty of free speech viewed in a blanket manner. The controlling phrase is absolute “Congress shall make no law…” yet there are limits “your right to free expression ends at the tip of my nose” or the fire in the theater example.

That’s the problem with free speech. It’s offensive. And it’s different from vulgar speech, threatening speech, personal speech, etc.

Talk to you this afternoon -

PS - I watched an audience reaction to the Dem debate - realtime tracking - again showed negatives when candidates were seen to criticize one another (I wonder what kind of parents these people make? Never criticize your kids?) - yet when Obama couched his criticism of Hillary’s refusal - or waffling - to release records from their library regarding her time as First Lady - as an

By Jesus

November 1, 2007 10:00 AM | Link to this

IMPEACH BUSH NOW!!!

By GOPher Think

November 1, 2007 10:04 AM | Link to this

HOUSTON - The military has punished nine Marine Corps recruiters who arranged for stand-ins to take Armed Services entrance exams for new enlistees.

This is not the fault of our brave and honorable Marines. It is what happens when big business war profiteers make unrealistic and irrespnsible demands that no military force can satisfy.

big, Big, BIG government REPUBLICANS continue to pervert the honor and integrity of our brave troops by continuing to ignore the realities of what they ask of them.

By Paul

November 1, 2007 10:07 AM | Link to this

Bosch con’t

yet when Obama couched his criticism of Hillary’s refusal - or waffling - to release records from their library regarding her time as First Lady - as an extension of the Bush years of secrecy - and implied (in my mind, vote for Hillary, get more of the things you don’t like about Bush - secrecy, going to war (her “sometimes the Pres has to do that, absent UN or Congressional approval) - audience approval rose.

Hillary seems to be running against Pres Bush. Dem candidates are running against each other. I think Obama’s found a way to criticize Hillary - criticize her by tying her to Bush policies - and not get negative reaction. Clever. Serendipitous, but clever nonetheless.

By AmVet

November 1, 2007 10:11 AM | Link to this

ITN, thanks for that link. Here’s part of Hagel’s letter to Bush:

I am increasingly concerned, however, that this diplomatic strategy is stalling. There are growing differences with our international partners. Concerns remain that the United States’ actual objectives is regime change in Iran, not a change in Iran’s behavior. Prospects for further action in the UN Security Council have grown dim, and we appear increasingly reliant on a single-track effort to expand financial pressure on Iran outside of the UN Security Council. Iran’s actions, both on its nuclear program and in Iraq, are unchanged. Iran’s leaders appear increasingly confident.

Unless there is a strategic shift, I believe we will find ourselves in a dangerous and increasingly isolated position in the coming months. I do not see how the collective actions that we are now taking will produce the results that we seek. If this continues, our ability to sustain a united international front will weaken as countries grow uncertain over our motives and unwilling to risk open confrontation with Iran, and we are left with fewer and fewer policy options.

Now is the time for the US to consider when and how to offer direct, unconditional, and comprehensive talks with Iran. The offer should be made even as we continue to work with our allies on financial pressure, in the UN Security Council on a third sanctions resolution, and in the region to support those Middle East countries who share our concerns with Iran. The November report by IAEA Director General ElBaradei to the IAEA Board of Governors could provide an opportunity to advance the offer of bilateral talks.

An approach such as this would strengthen our ability across the board to deal with Iran. Our friends and allies would be more confident to stand with us if we seek to increase pressure, including tougher sanctions on Iran. It could create a historic new dynamic in US-Iran relations, in part forcing the Iranians to react to the possibility of better relations with the West. We should be prepared that any dialogue process with Iran will take time, and we should continue all efforts, as you have, to engage Iran from a position of strength.

We should not wait to consider the option of bilateral talks until all other diplomatic options are exhausted. At that point, it could well be too late.

I urge you to consider pursing direct, unconditional and comprehensive ta

By AmVet

November 1, 2007 10:21 AM | Link to this

I urge you to consider pursuing direct, unconditional and comprehensive talks with the Government of Iran.

From Hagel’s letter benchmarking the views of one of the most grounded, foreign policy savvy, common sense thinkers about the eroding state of America’s military and national security portfolio. And he’s a Midwestern American Republican who served in the United States Military.

Let’s summarize - from one of the Senate’s most stalwart classic conservatives and a foreign policy savvy, common sense Republican who is interested in RESULTS rather than the current neo-con policy.

Had this guy chosen to run, he would have wiped the floor with the posers on the current GOP slate and might have mitigated the ongoing Republican blood letting.

And my guess is he knew this, but has given up on the incompetents in his party.

By Bush the Barbarian

November 1, 2007 10:23 AM | Link to this

KABUL, Afghanistan - A nighttime raid in eastern Afghanistan by U.S. and Afghan troops sparked a gunbattle that killed three people, including two children, and the military said Thursday it is investigating the deaths.

In a sectarian civil war you can’t easily tell good guys from bad. Kids get killed, so do innocent women and the elderly.

THAT is just one of the myriad reasons why the USA should NEVER have been engaged in a foreign civil war.

REPUBLICAN war profiteers continue to rake in those mountains of war bucks, while they win the ‘hearts and minds’ of the Arab world ‘one child at a time’!!!

By AmVet

November 1, 2007 10:23 AM | Link to this

It might take as long as half a century before U.S. troops can leave the volatile Middle East, according to retired Army Gen. John Abizaid.

“Over time, we will have to shift the burden of the military fight from our forces directly to regional forces, and we will have to play an indirect role, but we shouldn’t assume for even a minute that in the next 25 to 50 years the American military might be able to come home, relax and take it easy, because the strategic situation in the region doesn’t seem to show that as being possible,” Abizaid said Wednesday at Carnegie Mellon University.

Abizaid, the former commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, stepped down in March as the longest-serving commander of U.S. Central Command. He retired from the Army in May and now is at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

The rise of Sunni extremism, burgeoning Shiite extremism, the Arab-Israeli conflict and the world economy’s dependency on Mideast oil will keep Americans in the Middle East for a long time, he said.

“I’m not saying this is a war for oil, but I am saying that oil fuels an awful lot of geopolitical moves that political powers may have there,” Abizaid said. “And it is absolutely essential that we in the United States of America figure out how, in the long run, to lessen our dependency on foreign energy.”

He reiterated comments made in September that the U.S. needs to do a better job of coordinating economic, political and diplomatic means so the conflict can move from a military to a political issue.

“I would characterize what we’re doing now as 80 percent military, 20 percent diplomatic, economic, political, educational, informational, intelligence, etc.,” Abizaid said. “You’ve got to take that equation and change it. Make it 80 percent those other things.”

Abizaid, who has dubbed the current conflict “The Long War,” told The Associated Press in September it will take three to five years before Iraq’s government is stable enough to operate on its own.

Despite the strain on the armed forces, Abizaid said Wednesday it is important to maintain a professional military without re-establishing a draft.

By Sal

November 1, 2007 10:30 AM | Link to this

Could that thing in the photo be a bear? Longest, thinest legs I’ve ever seen on a bear, if it is.

By IN THE NEWS

November 1, 2007 10:45 AM | Link to this

stock market down 236 in first hour of trading

By IN THE NEWS

November 1, 2007 10:48 AM | Link to this

Be honest about gas gouging

By Georgia 74

November 1, 2007 11:02 AM | Link to this

News Flash 08’election from San Francisco, “Republicans carry Castro District.”

By Luckoduh

November 1, 2007 11:13 AM | Link to this

Geez, now even “lazy” Fred is hammering on it:

{{{{When I asked him how politics had changed since he chaired the 1997 Senate Government Affairs Committee hearings that investigated fund-raising abuses by the Clinton White House and GOP operatives, he said that “many people took the Fifth Amendment, many people fled the country, several people were convicted.”}}}}

{{{{When he sees the “bundling of large sums of money from mysterious sources” for the Hillary Clinton campaign — no doubt Thompson was referring to a Los Angeles Times story about immigrant Chinatown dishwashers and service workers who wrote $1,000 and 2,000 checks for Clinton’s campaign — he added that it brings back “some very unfond memories.”}}}}

This is going to be easy.

By getalife

November 1, 2007 11:22 AM | Link to this

“Married to the Mob:

According to the Times, or at least sources the Times reporters spoke to, Rudy Crony Bernie Kerik has a legal defense trust set up to help him defray his weighty legal bills. Considering that Giuliani’s candidacy can probably only survive if Kerik’s keeps quiet, it’d be very interesting to know who’s contributing to that fund. People who were just fans of his public service?

Of course, even if Kerik does keep quiet a Rudy nomination would have to force a lot of questions about why Rudy put a mobbed-up, crooked cop in charge of the NYPD and tried to get him installed as the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.”

I found your so called mafia.

Geez, lazy fred will drop out soon.

Too much work for the old coot.

By Monica Blewbillski

November 1, 2007 11:26 AM | Link to this

I think Bill and Hillary want me to lose some weight. They keep telling me to take a hike.

By getalife

November 1, 2007 11:30 AM | Link to this

Petraeus Personally Introduces Disgraced Ahmed Chalabi To U.S. Troops In Iraq

Move on was dead right about betrayus.

By getalife

November 1, 2007 11:43 AM | Link to this

“Why Mukasey can’t answer the “Waterboarding” question:

He’d have to prosecute those that hired him…”

You know, we have been posting disaster after disaster in w’s disaster.

Has there been any good news w has done?

Has he done anything good for the people?

I can’t find any good news and the wingnuts continue to support this disaster and will vote gop to stay the course in this disaster.

Geez.

By AmItheonlyoneoffended?

November 1, 2007 11:51 AM | Link to this

The racial (and racist) implication by the self-righteous liberal hypocrite Luckovich is not lost on me. Tigger as Obama?! Give me a break!

By getalife

November 1, 2007 11:53 AM | Link to this

Post some good news duh.

Chrysler laid off another 12,000 and the market is crashing.

$100 dollar oil around the corner. No more fed rate cuts.

The economy is the last to fall in this disaster.

Anybody got some good news?

Geez.

By AmVet

November 1, 2007 11:53 AM | Link to this

One of the MANY failures of this President is the well documented aspect of how he intentionally surrounded himself with such inept advisors and cabinet members.

Loyal sycophants? Yes, almost to the man.

But men and women of vision, courage, and competence? Hardly.

ITN’s link regarding Rumsfeld’s “snowflakes” and bumper sticker mentality reveal an extremely flawed character, who may rightly go down in history as one of America’s worst Defense Secretaries ever.

Even McNamara shines in comparison to this neo-con screw up.

What an unholy trinity. Or perhaps a decidedly unfunny and dangerous caricature of the three stooges - Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld.

By Luckoduh

November 1, 2007 12:28 PM | Link to this

Here’s some good news for you, al-Gitmo:

{{{{While one supporter voiced his concern that the Clinton campaign is not devoting enough money and staff to Iowa, lagging behind Obama, most supporters who commented on the call expressed their displeasure with what they saw as the moderators’ focus on Clinton.}}}}

{{{{One caller from Oklahoma City said that “the questions … were designed to incite a brawl,” and that Russert’s and Brian Williams’s moderating was “an abdication of journalistic responsibility.”}}}}

{{{{Another said Russert “should be shot,” before quickly adding that she shouldn’t say that on a conference call.}}}}

If I were Russert, I would take that threat seriously, see Vince Foster.

And listen to the little Klintoons whine, oh, how sad, their candidate got asked a few questions, isn’t it just horrible!

No doubt that it was a “an abdication of journalistic responsibility,” it is the responsibility of the drive by media to kiss SHrillary’s as-s and throw cream puff questions at “her.”

Kowards.

This is going to be easy.

By rusty

November 1, 2007 12:44 PM | Link to this

Obama mode.

You missed the Clintonia stonewall, cordially known as “depends on whsa “is”, is.

Rusty

By N-GA

November 1, 2007 12:47 PM | Link to this

Getalife,

Good news is gold is nearly $800/oz.

Good news is we only have 446 more days of this insanity….

By Georgia 74

November 1, 2007 12:47 PM | Link to this

Hillary 08’

By getalife

November 1, 2007 12:52 PM | Link to this

duh,

That is just more hate.

Thanks N-GA,

That is really good news.

By getalife

November 1, 2007 1:10 PM | Link to this

w is spwing more hate and fear today like duh.

The idiots at the heritage foundation are cheering on this pathetic spectacle.

Geez.

By Actuary

November 1, 2007 1:15 PM | Link to this

Oh WingNuts: The stock market is taking a big hit, the dollar is taking a bigger hit, and oil is waaay up today. Soon you will be asking to join the liberal party: we plan a background check on new converts, and you previous posts will be counted against you. Ta ta

By IN THE NEWS

November 1, 2007 1:19 PM | Link to this

Clinton would cream Giuliani, poll finds

By Bosch

November 1, 2007 1:35 PM | Link to this

ITN,

Just read your “10 easy steps” article. What do you want to bet Naomi Wolf is on “the list?”

By IN THE NEWS

November 1, 2007 1:39 PM | Link to this

Bosch,

I suspect being on “the list” will eventually have the same cache as being on Nixon’s enemies list.

By Bosch

November 1, 2007 1:48 PM | Link to this

ITN,

True, true.

I wonder where all the wingnuts are today? Probably plotting to take over the world, or at a ” 50 New Ways to Hate Liberals” Convention.

So, Becket is your favorite saint, huh? Canterbury Cathedral is very beautiful, his murder spot is kind of blase’, or at least it was 20 years ago. I remember thinking, Oh, that’s it? I guess I was expecting a little more, but then again, it is the scene of a gruesome murder.

By Gonna Love 08

November 1, 2007 1:55 PM | Link to this

I was watching the Ken Burns The War on PBS and the title of that episode not only describes todays war but this country under Dubya. It was called

FUBAR

If you have watched Saving Private Ryan or served in the military you know what it means, maybe this is one of the bumper sticker slogans Rummy wanted to use….

By IN THE NEWS

November 1, 2007 2:02 PM | Link to this

I’ve never had the opportunity to get to the UK. (Semi-planned for next year)

Your Favorite saint?

By Bosch

November 1, 2007 2:02 PM | Link to this

Fed Cut Could Spell Doom for Europe

Yeap, the economy is going just swimmingly over here.

By RE

November 1, 2007 2:05 PM | Link to this

Favorite saint:

St Pauli

By IN THE NEWS

November 1, 2007 2:09 PM | Link to this

RE

isn’t the old troll legend that you are me?

or is it i am you?

Must admit your saint is more “refreshing” than mine.

By getalife

November 1, 2007 2:11 PM | Link to this

The War should be shown in all High Schools to show how great the greatest generation are and how when we are united, we prevail.

Compare it to the “me” generation’s sacrifice of using the same troops to the breaking point, robbing of the treasury and blackwater socialized slaughter to show the Iraq disaster.

This is a great history lesson.

By Bosch

November 1, 2007 2:12 PM | Link to this

St. Francis - Old crazy guy, preaching to animals - yeah, he’s my favorite.

Well, I hope you get to go to the UK. Those Britons are a funny bunch of folks! And, plese, for me, go see a football game if you can.

By Bosch

November 1, 2007 2:15 PM | Link to this

AWWW RE,

Good one. :-)

By RE

November 1, 2007 2:17 PM | Link to this

Yeah, I keep hearing that as well. That game gets played often, who is posting as who, it’s just silly. There are a certain group who post under the same name all the time, and then there are one or two people who change names several times a day.

As for me, I never post under any other names, why bother.

By RB from Gwinnett

November 1, 2007 2:25 PM | Link to this

We’re all still here. We’re just having difficulty typing today because we’re laughing so hard at the uproar you libs are raising over Queen Hitlery being asked a couple of reasonable questions she refuses to answer.

Bash Bush all you want to, but if you can’t see Hitlery for the deceitful opportunist she really is, you’re a fool.

Hillary for Team Mom in ‘08!!!!

By RE

November 1, 2007 2:26 PM | Link to this

Bosch,

Interesting article on the dollar fluctuation, or rather it’s plummet.

Going out on a limb here, but I think the big winner in the next few years with the currency shake up is going to be China. The Yuan is pegged to the dollar, so the chinese currency falls as the dollar does, it makes chinese exports more attractive to european markets. Chinese economic growth will skyrocket as the US and europe slow down, soon all we will be able to afford are chinese goods.

The chinese are smart and they are fairly ruthless about economic issues, they no longer adhere to political dogma to shape economic policy, even as they enforce it culturally on thier own people. What it comes down to is that US economic policy is geared towards pleasing the populace, even if it is at the expense of the nations properity, in china the economic policy is geared towards national strength first, and the populace gets the crumbs.

By getalife

November 1, 2007 2:26 PM | Link to this

Press conference on your water problem coming up shortly.

I see NBC has gone green and think it is time for the “me” generation to step up and start conserving water and oil for your kids and their kids.

By RB from Gwinnett

November 1, 2007 2:28 PM | Link to this

We’re all still here. We’re just having difficulty typing today because we’re laughing so hard at the uproar you libs are raising over Queen Hitlery being asked a couple of reasonable questions she refuses to answer.

Bash Bush all you want to, but if you can’t see Hitlery for the deceitful opportunist she really is, you’re a fool.

Hillary for Team Mom in ‘08!!!!

By Bosch

November 1, 2007 2:35 PM | Link to this

RE,

I don’t think that’s going out on a limb, I think that’s dead on.

RB,

Deceitful opportunistic or not,

repeat after me because you may as well get used to saying it:

“Madame President”

By Georgia 74

November 1, 2007 2:41 PM | Link to this

Repudlickin Party, now that is funny.

By RE

November 1, 2007 2:44 PM | Link to this

RB

I agree with you on that, the clinton response was weak and inconclusive. She would not be my first choice to be president, but unfortunately candidates are in the end rewarded for not taking a stand on an issue more than they are punished. Direct question, she couldn’t answer.

Speaking of direct questions going unanswered, what is going on with mukasey. What is so hard about saying either waterboarding is torture, or it is not torture.

By AmVet

November 1, 2007 2:44 PM | Link to this

It never ceases to amaze me that some of the more inane here have the chutzpah to say (apparently with a straight face) that only the Republicans can be trusted with national security or a protracted war.

NEWS FLASH! Most Americans, at least those not vested in putting the imploding GOP before the nation, agree that this arguably worst ever administration has created a debacle of Viet Nam like proportions and has saddled America with a disaster that will require a future, and more rational, President to resolve.

How, in the name of (your favorite mythology here) can one expect these Bush apologists to have ANY credibility when they blindly and stupidly support an administration and utterly failed neo-conservative agenda that is defined by such a long series of strategic blunders, childish miscalculations, utter ineptitude in prosecuting a military campaign and an appalling lack of long range vision?

The only silver lining I can see from this is that these incredibly arrogant neo-cons are almost certainly looking at a second straight electoral bloodbath, which hopefully for the nation, will be their final hurray.

By Rovespierre

November 1, 2007 3:02 PM | Link to this

Officer Tibbets, the man who dropped the Plutonium Bomb which turned Hiroshima into Magma, died today.

His family requested that in lieu of flowers, send mushrooms. At 5PM, the exact time in the USA when the Hiroshima bomb was dropped, everyone in the United States is expected to don sunglasses and stare at the sun for one minute.

Then everyone go to your local tanning salons. Feel the burn.

By Monica Blewbillski

November 1, 2007 3:07 PM | Link to this

What I wouldn’t give for a stiff one right now.

Drink, I mean.

By getalife

November 1, 2007 3:10 PM | Link to this

Monica,

What I wouldn’t give for a stiff one right now.

I’m not talking about a drink.

By Monica Blewbillski

November 1, 2007 3:17 PM | Link to this

gosh getalife, if u aren’t talking about a drink, what else is left???

By John in Tampa, FLA

November 1, 2007 3:21 PM | Link to this

wanna play carnival getalife???

By getalife

November 1, 2007 3:23 PM | Link to this

Monica,

Oh, I can think of something.

You should be able to relate.

We both enjoy doing the same thing.

Mmm.Mmm. Good.

By getalife

November 1, 2007 3:26 PM | Link to this

John in Tampa,Fl,

I’ll bet you say that to all the guys.

I’m not just a piece of meat.

Geez.

By getalife Æ

November 1, 2007 3:27 PM | Link to this

Stop wanking PF.

Geez,

By rosie odonnell

November 1, 2007 3:30 PM | Link to this

ain’t nothin stiffer than hillary’s upper lip. nothin.

By getalife Æ

November 1, 2007 3:30 PM | Link to this

Stop wanking PF.

Geez.

By getalife

November 1, 2007 3:33 PM | Link to this

rosie,

I know something that’s stiffer. Ask RE.

Geez,

By John in Tampa, FLA

November 1, 2007 3:33 PM | Link to this

tee hee

By getalife

November 1, 2007 3:37 PM | Link to this

“Its fun to stay at the Y.M.C.A.”

“Its fun to stay at the “Y.M.C.A.”

“You can hang out with all the boys”.

By rosie odonnell

November 1, 2007 3:38 PM | Link to this

RE, you got a diamond up yer arse?

By John in Tampa, FLA

November 1, 2007 3:39 PM | Link to this

You know, if I had to do Hillary I think I would have to throw a flag over her face and say I did it for old glory.

MILF, I think not

By shark sammich

November 1, 2007 3:42 PM | Link to this

Mike, I sometimes check in now and again to mention that you get the very stupidest right-wing trolls on the Intertubes.

I should add that you also get some of the most misogynistic ones as well.

I’m not a huge Hillary fan, but boy howdy, will I enjoy watching the wingnuts deal with their castration anxieties en masse if she should be the nominee. Of course, if she’s the nominee, she’ll win. As will any Democrat. There isn’t a single electable Gooper running.

And every damn wingnut posting here knows it, and ain’t a damn thing they can do to stop it, either.