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By Mike Luckovich | Wednesday, January 16, 2008, 08:18 PM

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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By Luckoduh

January 17, 2008 8:03 AM | Link to this

“Every” primary is four of them?

mikey, you do realize there are 50 states, don’t you?

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Look at the Whiny Times, reporting as news something they want to happen more than anything in the world:

{{{{“There is talk that the Reagan era is dead,” said Miller, chairman of the Forsyth County Republican Party.-Urinal}}}}

Last time I looked, the Reagan era ended in 1988.

Conservatism, as defined and carried out by Ronald “God Bless His Soul” Reagan, is alive and well.

You Ku Klux Klintoons will find that out soon enough.

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Yeah, I didn’t think the professional race baiters would let this one stand for very long:

{{{{Ku Klux Klintoon gets proxy to play race card- BET founder now doing her bidding against Obama…As the owner of BET, Johnson led the way in promoting round-the-clock TV programs and videos —->that denigrate women<—- and celebrate gangsterism and all manner of black pathology.-Urinal}}}}

It figures that Bill would be buddies with some smut purveyor.

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{{{{Thompson’s campaign, meanwhile, has been the most specific and solidly conservative in its issue stances, with thoughtful and brave position papers on saving Social Security, cutting taxes, strengthening the military, and cutting spending. What George Will wrote of longshot presidential candidate Pete DuPont in 1988 applies to Thompson today: Of all the candidates in the race, he has shown “the highest substance-to-blather ratio.”}}}}

Bwa.

By Goldie

January 17, 2008 8:07 AM | Link to this

LMAO— the Rudy “strategy” is toast! What a Bush-kissing loser…

By Mrs. Godzilla

January 17, 2008 8:09 AM | Link to this

“noun plus verb plus nine eleven”

Useless.

By Copyleft

January 17, 2008 8:11 AM | Link to this

As silly as it sounds, this approach for Giuliani is perfectly viable.

People aren’t generally aware (and for good reason) that primaries and their outcomes really don’t matter. The party leadership selects the candidate, and they’re perfectly willing to ignore the primary results in doing so. Heck, McCain has personal experience with that outcome.

By IN THE NEWS

January 17, 2008 8:27 AM | Link to this

TOO FUNNY: PREDICTIONS FOR THE UPCOMING ELECTION

By Bosch

January 17, 2008 8:37 AM | Link to this

Mrs. G.,

Don’t mean to copy you on this, but the first thing I thought of when I saw this cartoon:

Rudy who?

By Mrs. Godzilla

January 17, 2008 8:42 AM | Link to this

Mornin’ Bosch

I’m with you. Rudy who!

I got a couple of big hits in with snowballs last night. Mr. G is still shaking snow out of his ear! Course I ended up worse off, but it’s all good clean fun.

By Luckoduh

January 17, 2008 8:42 AM | Link to this

{{{{But the very failings she and Obama acknowledged earlier in the debate, when apologizing for the words and actions of their supporters that had inflamed racial tensions in the campaign, showed the difference between discussing leadership and practicing it.-Broder, WaPo}}}}

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{{{{To cross that final frontier — to become the first woman or the first African-American to be nominated for president — each has to artfully tear down something of what their party has built up. Unavoidably, the white has to go after the black; the man has to attack the woman.}}}}

{{{{We can be certain that Obama’s surrogates will milk that mistake even as he and Clinton declare a public truce. And Clinton will continue to insist that she’s not interested in defining her campaign as a gender issue even as she continues to invoke the glass ceiling, as she did yet again Sunday on “Meet the Press.”}}}}

{{{{In the end, the Democratic Party may be hostage to its own noble intentions. By co-opting equality as their party’s identity and making victimhood their rallying cry, the battle for race and gender necessarily has become a fight between race and gender.}}}}

By Copyleft

January 17, 2008 8:47 AM | Link to this

More wishful thinking from the Duh crowd, I see…

By Bosch

January 17, 2008 8:52 AM | Link to this

Yeah, the three Boschkins were pretty upset this morning when they trudged off to school, heads hung low, grumbling about something not being fair.

By John in Tampa, FLA

January 17, 2008 8:52 AM | Link to this

To any Allstate Insurance policy holders who are interested. Florida yesterday cancelled Allstate’s license to sell insurance down here after they asked for a 42% rate increase but would not answer questions from the state insurance commissioner to back up their numbers. They are the number 2 seller of insurance here.

Cute toon Mikey. Maybe Rudy’s just playing possum.

By Bosch

January 17, 2008 9:08 AM | Link to this

John,

“Maybe Rudy’s just playing possum”

I’m thinking more like dead, squished possum on the side of the road!

Poor 9/11, oh, I mean Rudy.

By Luckoduh

January 17, 2008 9:15 AM | Link to this

{{{{That estimate is borne out by University of Pennsylvania political scientist John DiIulio, who notes on the Weekly Standard’s Web site that 749,932 veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan had been discharged by the end of 2007. Apply that to the 121 killings cited by the Times, and the homicide rate works out to 16.1 per 100,000 - over the entire six-year period.}}}}

{{{{By way of imperfect comparison, the US Bureau of Justice Statistics’ most recent numbers demonstrate that the same rate among males ages 18-24 was 26.5 - 65 percent higher - for a single year, 2005.}}}}

{{{{It’s not necessary to extrapolate that stat to understand that the Times has slandered some fine young Americans.}}}}

The New York Times and the POS Code Pinkos that work for it CREATE negative stories about our troops that HAVE NO FACTUAL EVIDENCE and in this case have been proven to be the total opposite of what the Treason Times reported.

Why?

By John in Tampa, FLA

January 17, 2008 9:17 AM | Link to this

These could be interesting political conventions this year if we go into them with no clear-cut winners, and that could happen. So far there have been no political commercials down here for either side, but the Dems votes don’t count, so they say.

If Rudy can get his ex-wives to vote for him, he just might have a chance.

Personally, I think if you melted down all the brains of all the candidates (both sides), there wouldn’t be enough to fuel a P!SSANT’S motorcycle. Oh well, that’s just me.

By Goldie

January 17, 2008 9:26 AM | Link to this

ITN @ 8:57 — I heard some news commentators last night (mainly Chris Matthews) who spoke of being “bored” by how civilized and polite the Dems’ debate in Nevada was! He’s really an annoying jerk — and not very different from some of the trolls who post here daily.

By Just Askin'

January 17, 2008 9:30 AM | Link to this

Anybody have any idea what 9:15 is about?

By IN THE NEWS

January 17, 2008 9:38 AM | Link to this

Goldie,

Have you seen this?

Explains a lot.

By John in Tampa, FLA

January 17, 2008 9:47 AM | Link to this

Would you guys up there please tell Sonny to stop praying. Enough with the rain already…it rained all night here. Tell him to pray for jobs instead. Maybe he should pray for votes for Rudy.

Gosh, who would Jesus vote for???

By Say It Ain't So

January 17, 2008 9:49 AM | Link to this

ITN (9:38), I guess the truth hurts.

You’re going to hate 08 libs!

By Just Sayin'

January 17, 2008 9:53 AM | Link to this

It’s its new tactic.

Post gibberish then it can’t be debunked!

By mm

January 17, 2008 9:55 AM | Link to this

Just Askin’,

Duh is in his own little world. Just scroll past his posts like everyone else so that you don’t injure yourself trying to figure out what the h*ll he is ranting about.

He never uses links but instead cuts and pastes cherry picked sentences from articles in order to try to back up his claims.

By Mrs. Godzilla

January 17, 2008 9:57 AM | Link to this

It didn’t take too much time for Muke Huckabee to have to start backpedaling on his change the constitution remark!

Huckabee tries to laugh off Theocon remarks!

By John in Tampa, FLA

January 17, 2008 10:01 AM | Link to this

Hello Mrs. G. Huckabee scares the crap out of me. Unfortuneately, alot of people will play right into his hand, and that scares me even more.

Brrrrrrrrrr. It is only 70 here.

By Truthman

January 17, 2008 10:04 AM | Link to this

More Bushit!!

As the last paragraph states, “Could you imagine Hillary as president and all this crap happening? The Repubs would be storming the Bastille.”

I mean, look how crazy they got when Bill lied about sex (even while Newt was conoodling with his girlfriend while married).

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Housepreparestofilecontemptcharges0116.html

Read ‘em and weep, Luck-o-less!!

By getalife

January 17, 2008 10:13 AM | Link to this

Gomer got the wingnut vote for that insanity and will win SC and the South.

Another gov. with no foreign policy experience but the wingnuts do not care.

Gates outraged our allies in Afghanistan.

w is trying to figure out what to do with the recession and is leaning towards an economic stimulus package for the wealthy. Probably more tax cuts.

By getalife

January 17, 2008 10:23 AM | Link to this

“I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not”

Which candidate spewed this?

Obama.

Geez.

By Luckoduh

January 17, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this

{{{{On immigration, Thompson offers a comprehensive proposal eschewing amnesty and dares to ask Mexico, “What does it say about the leadership of a country when that country’s economy and politics are dependent upon the exportation of its own citizens? “}}}}

Uh, bingo.

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{{{{On Disko Bay in western Greenland, where a number of prominent world leaders have visited in recent years to get a first-hand impression of climate change, temperatures have dropped so drastically that the water has frozen over for the first time in a decade.}}}}

{{{{Matthiesen suggested the cold weather marked a return to the frigid temperatures common a decade ago.}}}}

{{{{Temperatures plunged to -25°C earlier this month, clogging the bay with ice and making shipping impossible for small crafts, according to Anthon Frederiksen, the mayor of the town of Ilulissat, where Disko Bay is located.}}}}

{{{{‘We Greenlanders have acclimated to changing conditions over the past 1100 years,’ said Frederiksen. ‘Temperatures change at regular intervals.’}}}}

Bwa.

~~~~~

{{{{The meeting, held at an office on K Street, was attended by around 20 representatives of influential anti-war groups, including MoveOn.org and Americans Against Escalation in Iraq, which spent $12 million last year opposing the war.}}}}

{{{{In recognition of hard political reality, the groups instead will lower their sights and push for legislation to prevent President Bush from entering into a long-term agreement with the Iraqi government that could keep significant numbers of troops in Iraq for years to come.}}}}

They abandoned South Vietnam now they want to abandon Iraq.

Wouldn’t it be better just to “abandon” the democrats?

By John in Tampa, FLA

January 17, 2008 10:37 AM | Link to this

I am curious, what happens to all the Iraqis who supported our efforts there once we leave. Are we going to let them immigrate to the U.S. or are we going to leave them there to die? And surely you know they will be identified, tracked down and executed. Probably their families too.

By Paul

January 17, 2008 10:39 AM | Link to this

In The News 8:15

Pat Buchanan is an historian?!!? Possibly an amateur historian. I find that nearly as rich as how he describes himself as a Washington Outsider (let’s see… born in Washington DC. Attended university in Washington DC. Career spent in Washington DC). You get the idea.

Luckoduh 8:03

Time to change gears on those who have the intellectual honesty to make a positive observation on Reagan?

Link: [Obama draws analogy of his candidacy with Reagan]*(http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0108/TransformationlikeReagan.html)

At least it should give pause to those who disparage anything Reagan… it should… really…

Goldie 8:10

A two-decades out of office Congressman is the Republican Party? From the tone of your link, I suppose leading Democratic leaders will actively call for, and join hands with the Bush Justice Dept, in leading investigations and actions against US Muslim charities? After all, that’s how this person allegedly funneled money to terrorists.

ITN 8:23

The hotel/porn story was big a few years back. But you’ll really have to go into the contract with the cable providers (I believe it was Time-Warner, and you’ll want to be careful about painting anyone associated with them as porn purveyors) and the makeup of the board - in other words, who had ultimate say in business matters.

Goldie 9:26

Chris Mathews got his start as Tip O’Neil’s chief of staff. That’s a school of politics not known for Marquess of Queensberry rules. I believe MSNBC refers to his show as a news show (not positive on that - think I saw it on a commercial) instead of a political comment show. This blurring of news as fact and comment/opinion is also a bit of a problem.

My earlier Obama comment - the guy is intelligent and thoughtful. Some have criticized him for not answering in a nanosecond when questioned - I suppose that’s true if one is used to sound-bite responses. His Reagan analogy and comment on the US populace was, I think, spot-on.

G’morning, John in Tampa,

“only 7)”?

Thpppbbbbt.

Out for a while -

By Paul

January 17, 2008 10:54 AM | Link to this

Luckoduh

Sorry about that. One more time without the asterisk:

Link: Obama’s Reagan Analogy

By getalife

January 17, 2008 11:01 AM | Link to this

John,

That is not happening in the South after the Brits withdrawed.

There is peace.

By John in Tampa, FLA

January 17, 2008 11:03 AM | Link to this

Getalife, PEACE, what a great word.

By getalife

January 17, 2008 11:21 AM | Link to this

RW,

Hell, when w speaks he is lying but that is okay with you.

I know when duh praised Obama, he is a bad candidate.

Geez.

By RW-(the original)

January 17, 2008 11:24 AM | Link to this

Goldie,

That two term Congressman from back in the 80’s that you claim is representative of the Republican Party has lost two elections in his career and both were Republican primaries.

By getalife

January 17, 2008 11:29 AM | Link to this

RW,

Was he appointed to the UN by……..

wait for it……..

……

Reagan?

By RW-(the original)

January 17, 2008 11:31 AM | Link to this

getalife,

Your BDS is showing, care to give examples?

By the way the archives are chock full of you slobbering all over Obama right after Iowa.

By RW-(the original)

January 17, 2008 11:40 AM | Link to this

getalife,

He was appointed as an alternate delegate to the UN by Reagan in 1987.

Relevance?

By getalife

January 17, 2008 11:42 AM | Link to this

RW,

Yes, I bought into the corporate media crap of the big mo and thought he would win NH.

Then I see dem Senators endorsing him and will use his argument of unity to vote with the gop. Leahy endorsed today and watch him cave on FISA.

Then he praised Reagan.

Then duh praised Obama.

No thanks on Obama. I know duh is always wrong.

By RW-(the original)

January 17, 2008 11:52 AM | Link to this

getalife,

Why aren’t you for Edwards?

By getalife

January 17, 2008 11:55 AM | Link to this

RW,

Check the archives and I have picked the gop winners right. Dems wrong on both States.

As far as w’s lies, you will spin them so what is the point?

By getalife

January 17, 2008 12:01 PM | Link to this

RW,

Here are my choices:

Clinton

Edwards.

Obama.

Just vote Dem.

By RE

January 17, 2008 12:02 PM | Link to this

watching Bernanke on CNBC right now. The dems are trying to get him to say extending Bush’s tax cuts are not part of short term stimulus. Republicans are trying to get him to say the extention is needed for short term stimulus. He is staying in the middle repeating over and over that the budget needs to be balanced.

I bet neither side hears that part of it, imagine a balanced budget, or even paying down the national debt. Over and over that is what he is talking about, and they keep trying to put words in his mouth, disgusting.

By RW-(the original)

January 17, 2008 12:06 PM | Link to this

Goldielox,

Since when is Perot a Republican? He’s the only reason the name Clinton isn’t just an historical footnote.

getalife,

If you had the truth on your side it couldn’t be spun.

By RW-(the original)

January 17, 2008 12:11 PM | Link to this

getalife,

So your choices are CEO and yet you rail away against the corporate world. Kind of ironic.

By Paul

January 17, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this

Goldie

I don’t think it’s hatred for vets from Rep Party. This strikes me more as Perot carrying a grudge for many, many years.

“Current” wife - it’s been about 28 years. Not bad. Many, many POW marriages had trouble and ended badly. Many men go thru a stupid period when they hit 40. McCain experienced both - but admitted it. I understand he and his first wife are on good terms - that isn’t always the case between first wives and first husbands.

But on the broader issue, yeah, it’s gonna get uglier and uglier. On both sides. Hillary’s organization has a history - they’ve learned from the kindergarten/Obama episode - and I think the ugliness will get more sophisticated there. Rep side - it’ll get more bare-knuckles and bloody. But surrogates on both sides.

McCain already went thru this once - with the Bush campaign in the SC primary. (I still think that’s the episode that drove him towards campaign finance reform). He’ll weather this. It may just play better for Obama and McCain among the nonpartisans as it illustrates “old politics” vs new.

By getalife

January 17, 2008 12:41 PM | Link to this

RW,

willard is the flip flopper CEO trying to buy this election.

“President Bush is over in the Gulf now begging the Saudis and others to drop the price of oil,” Clinton said. “How pathetic.”

By David

January 17, 2008 12:43 PM | Link to this

Come on Mike. Rudy reminds me of Count Orlok from the German movie Nosferatu (see Google)… you need to capture that image, pal. Love your toons.

David

By Luckoduh

January 17, 2008 1:11 PM | Link to this

al-Gitmo: Pointing out the obvious racist hatred of the Ku Klux Klintoons is not a endorsement of Obama.

Don’t worry, I’m saving the ammo on him for next summer.

Let’s get rid of the Pig first.

{{{{“We need a president who can reintroduce America to the world — and actually reintroduce America to ourselves,” Leahy said in the conference call, saying Obama carried the “hope” to end the war in Iraq and to bring “health care for all.”}}}}

{{{{He also compared the decision to support Obama to supporting John F. Kennedy for president.}}}}

Gosh, one can only imagine what red faced spewing this will bring from Ku Klux.

I’m kinda looking forward to seeing it.

By IN THE NEWS

January 17, 2008 1:11 PM | Link to this

GOP’s combined failings reaching “maximum toxicity”

Ipacac anyone?

By getalife

January 17, 2008 1:22 PM | Link to this

duh,

Spewing the Clintons are the klan makes you pathetic like rove.

Does anybody know if it is legal to caucus where there is booze and gambling like they are trying to do in Vegas?

Casino caucus? Hell, are they going to have a brothel caucus next?

Geez.

By Luckoduh

January 17, 2008 1:25 PM | Link to this

{{{{The egotism is only tag-teamed by narcissistic Bill’s serial temper tantrums, finger-pointing, and revisionism. If the two keep it up, at some point I think we will see a steady surge for Obama, mostly as a cry of the collective heart to be free once and for all of these people.}}}}

{{{{I once thought it was suicidal of Obama to simply smile, talk inanely of “change,” offer no concrete proposals, and play rope-a-dope deflection to nonstop Clinton innuendo and rumor-mongering. But he may have far more insight that most of us: The more Ku Klux talks, attacks, cries, pontificates, and rewrites history, the more he appears sympathetic and above her petty fray as she punches herself out.}}}}

By mm

January 17, 2008 1:38 PM | Link to this

Reveling in the GOP’s Beatiful Chaos

By mm

January 17, 2008 1:47 PM | Link to this

Inflation hits 17 year high

By Apocalypse

January 17, 2008 1:50 PM | Link to this

Jan 17, 2008 1:42 PM Subject: Jack Carter endorses Obama! Body: Former President Jimmy Carters Son, Jack Carter, has endorsed Obama!

Uncommitted’s small victory, and a Carter son moves for Obama

Wednesday, January 16, 2008, 11:02 AM

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

There’s been some talk about how, in the Democratic race, Hillary Clinton has become the candidate of high school graduates and Barack Obama has pulled the more educated voters.

There may be some truth in this. A reader has pointed out that in Michigan last night, Clinton carried all but two of the state’s 83 counties. One was way up north, at the tip of the mitten. Don’t know much about that.

Washtenaw County was the other won by Uncommitted last night. It’s home to Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan.

The race now moves to Nevada, where Obama’s people are trumpeting their endorsement by Jack Carter, oldest son of former President Jimmy Carter. As we recall, Jack Carter was originally a Joe Biden man.

By RW-(the original)

January 17, 2008 1:53 PM | Link to this

Abortions drop to 31 year low

By Apocalypse

January 17, 2008 1:54 PM | Link to this

Jan 17, 2008 11:44 AM Subject: Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) Endorsed Senator Obama Today!!! Body: The Endorsements Just Keep Coming! Thank you Senator Leahy for your support!

Taken from Huffington Post:

“Leahy, a veteran Senate Democrat and chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told reporters on a morning conference call:

“We are a good and a great nation. I think we can restore that respect but we need a president who could reintroduce America to the world and reintroduce America to ourselves. I believe Barack Obama is the best person to do that.”

Leahy is regarded as one of the leading progressive Democrats on judiciary issues. He was one of ten senators to vote against the reauthorization of the Patriot Act, legislation that Obama supported. The two, however, did agree in their opposition to the nomination of current Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. And both Leahy and Obama opposed the Iraq war, though Obama was not in the Senate at the time.

Asked why he did not offer up his support to Sen. Clinton, with whom he has worked for more than seven years, Leahy skirted around the question. “My endorsement is not in opposition to Sen. Clinton or Sen. Edwards both of whom I know and admire. My endorsement is about who can do this best…””

By John in Tampa, FLA

January 17, 2008 2:10 PM | Link to this

Does anyone here think Rudy has a chance?

By Apocalypse

January 17, 2008 2:22 PM | Link to this

John in Tampa,

I think Mike’s cartoon says it all.

Not sure if Rudy has established much of an identity as well. Other than 9/11 man of course.

By Bosch

January 17, 2008 2:27 PM | Link to this

John in Tampa,

GWB won twice - anything is possible.

By getalife

January 17, 2008 2:32 PM | Link to this

RW,

Did you factor in the millions aborted in Iraq.

Pro life?

Geez.

By getalife

January 17, 2008 2:36 PM | Link to this

Bingo Bosch and the wingnuts will vote for Gomer.

By Apocalypse

January 17, 2008 2:41 PM | Link to this

“Millions” were killed in Iraq?

By getalife

January 17, 2008 2:48 PM | Link to this

Wow, I guess it is legal to caucus in a casino.

Score one for Obama.

By Apocalypse

January 17, 2008 2:50 PM | Link to this

A win for Obama will be a win for Hillary.

By John in Tampa, FLA

January 17, 2008 2:51 PM | Link to this

How dare you Bosch. Why W is a legend in his own mind!!!

Like George Bush Sr. said, “having children is God’s way of making your own death seem more bearable.”

By Apocalypse

January 17, 2008 2:54 PM | Link to this

A federal judge on Thursday denied an attempt to cancel at-large Nevada caucus sites.

Judge James Mahan washed his hands of the case, saying that existing election law allows for the Democratic Party to resolve the differences internally and it’s not the place of the federal court to adjudicate how the party conducts its caucuses.

Mahan encouraged the two parties to work out its differences. The locations were designed to make it easier for those workers in the state’s biggest industry to caucus midday, but six Democrats and the Nevada State Teachers Union sued to shut down the sites.

By Paul

January 17, 2008 3:01 PM | Link to this

Apocaplyse 2:50

Sure! If you start from Darius the Great, son of Hystaspes.

getalife 2:48

Something Bill isn’t too happy about.

Does this mean you’ll vote for Obama?

Maybe La poll stations’ll start serving drinks to compete?

John 2:10

This is America. Anything’s possible. Let’s see what happens with the primaries in which he’s invested considerable resources. The guy may alienate many social-issue Reps, but that may make him palatable to some Dems if Hillary wins the nomination. Maybe some cons Reps’ll overlook the personal life stuff when they realize he took over in a city that was a fiscal mess and turned it around. I will predict, though, that if he strengthens and appears headed for the nomination, or wins the nomination, that much of the protest against him because of his social stands or personal life will come from…. Progressive Democrats!

You can place your bet after you’ve voted a the casino. And had three drinks, of course.

By Apocalypse

January 17, 2008 3:06 PM | Link to this

Paul,

Please speak english sir.

By Paul

January 17, 2008 3:06 PM | Link to this

Apocalypse 2:54

I guess the Dems still haven’t learned from ‘00 - if you’re gonna sue your opponent, make sure you have better lawyers. And a better argument. Having a clue what the law actually says isn’t a bad idea, either.

Enough fun. Back to work.

By getalife

January 17, 2008 3:10 PM | Link to this

Paul,

Only in Vegas, my hometown, I am so proud.

I guess they will have them down here in the casinos too.

Crazy.

By Apocalypse

January 17, 2008 3:13 PM | Link to this

Paul,

What are you talking about? The Dems, in particular Obama, won the lawsuit.

By Paul

January 17, 2008 3:15 PM | Link to this

getalife

Have a drink. Vote. Place a bet.

Sounds good to me -

By RW-(the original)

January 17, 2008 3:19 PM | Link to this

getalife,

Where did you get that number from. Even George Soros’ phony Lancet study only came up with 650,000 and it’s about ten times higher than anybody else.

By getalife

January 17, 2008 3:21 PM | Link to this

“I think that Obama and Clinton and Edwards are actually identifying what needs to be changed in three really different ways. I think Hillary Clinton is saying the Republicans and Bush need to be out and Democrats need to be in. I think John Edwards is saying the special interests and the lobbyists need to be out and the people need to be in, in the populist way. And I think that Barack Obama is saying that he needs to be in because he can transcend the differences across the political divide right now”

The gop will stay the course and govern for the corporate elites.

And Obama will get rush, hannity, fixed noise, etc… to unite with the libs. He will take down this dividing industry.

Geez, give me a break.

By Paul

January 17, 2008 3:24 PM | Link to this

Apocalypse

His Dem-(allied) opponents who brought the lawsuit. Although it wasn’t Hillary’s campaign - but the teacher’s union who’d endorsed her - the principle’s the same.

By Jesus

January 17, 2008 3:28 PM | Link to this

IMPEACH BUSH NOW!!!

By getalife

January 17, 2008 3:28 PM | Link to this

Paul,

And they can bet on the outcome, pull together and get paid.

Crazy.

By getalife

January 17, 2008 3:31 PM | Link to this

RW,

I factored in your pro life folks aborting some Iranians like you desperately want to do.

By Rudy Yarbrough

January 17, 2008 3:31 PM | Link to this

It looks like the thumb sucking Lukuvich has run out of things to ridicule. His career will be over if the dims win in ‘08 because we know that dims and libs are off limits. Look at all of the juicy tidbits oming out of the dim’s primaries and how little of it make the paper. What a balanced news paper!

By RW-(the original)

January 17, 2008 3:31 PM | Link to this

getalife,

Here’s your candidate

By Apocalypse

January 17, 2008 3:32 PM | Link to this

getalife,

I think that quote and others like it is referring to Politicians not pundits. Pundits go where the wind blows.

It is amazing that you exude so much criticism and hostility toward this one particular democrat. The others can do no wrong, Obama can’t do anything according to you.

Wonder what is so special and unique about him that you hate him so much.

By Bosch

January 17, 2008 3:33 PM | Link to this

OH — MY — GOD:

Spiderman and Mary Jane are getting a divorce.

Is there nothing sacred anymore?

By Paul

January 17, 2008 3:33 PM | Link to this

Apocalypse 3:06

Sorry ‘bout that. One can come up with a million deaths in Iraq. If one cares to go back a couple thousand years and start counting.

getalife 3:21

Seriously, I think there is more debate going on over policy and specifics with the Rep candidates than with the Dems. More real choice. (Reps - the party of choice. There we go again - ). Look at nearly any issue. Illegals (Dems ignore - counting on Hispanic vote). Taxes (Huckabee’s proposing a new tax system. Dems just say how much to raise). Iraq (gets confusing. Edwards says “out.” Others say “define out.”). Foreign policy - little closer here, but the Dems are all about invading other Arab countries. Reps’ll probably want to join them. There you have it - an issue both parties agree on!

By Apocalypse

January 17, 2008 3:34 PM | Link to this

Translation of getalife’s 3:28:

Obama is going to kick a$$ in Nevada.

By getalife

January 17, 2008 3:39 PM | Link to this

cyclops,

If Clinton is even money, Obama 2 to 1, yes Obama will win.

If Clinton is 5 to 1, you are in trouble.

Depends on the odds.

By John in Tampa, FLA

January 17, 2008 3:41 PM | Link to this

You know Bosch, if spidey had eight tongues instead of eight legs, I bet she would stay around. Just a thought.

By getalife

January 17, 2008 3:42 PM | Link to this

Oh and Obama gives good speeches.

There ya go.

By IN THE NEWS

January 17, 2008 3:42 PM | Link to this

Amid troubling reports on election integrity, Dem introduces paper-ballot legislation

John in Tampa - Rudy has no chance in hell. Neither does Thompson or Huckabee.

By Apocalypse

January 17, 2008 3:46 PM | Link to this

Paul,

My “million” comment was directed at getalife. He was responding to RW’s post about abortions being down insinuating that the deaths in Iraq and RW’s support of the war contradict RW’s pro life stance.

By John in Tampa, FLA

January 17, 2008 3:49 PM | Link to this

IN THE NEWS: I think you are mistaken about Thompson. Luckoduh likes Fred and Duh is never wrong…is he?

I hope you are right about Huckabee. He scares me.

By Apocalypse

January 17, 2008 3:51 PM | Link to this

getalife,

You and I are going to have to call a truce between now and November.

By Paul

January 17, 2008 3:52 PM | Link to this

Apocalypse

Didn’t mean to intrude - nothing personal. I saw getalife’s 2:32 “millions” directed towards RW, then your 2:41 “millions” which I took as a general question, not specifically directed - with the possibility for a wisecrack too tempting to pass up!

By The Peoples for a Nuked Amerika' Century~!

January 17, 2008 3:55 PM | Link to this

-=-

Yes Dubya wants tax breaks for the wealthy to be permanent— and promises no new taxes (until he’s out of office and the Dem’s are in office).

And of course what is getting raised over the next 5 years?

What else - ]The Federal Gas Tax!

Note that the board’s majority is Republican….

Tax the poor! —- until they bleed!…

Cheer’s

By RW-(the original)

January 17, 2008 4:02 PM | Link to this

The latest polls, for whatever that’s worth, show Fred within 3 points of second and 9% still undecided.

Since Fred’s making the biggest gains lately I would expect most of that 9% to go his way and since McCain’s numbers are always inflated you could make a case that Fred stands a good chance of taking South Carolina.

By RW-(the original)

January 17, 2008 4:09 PM | Link to this

God tells Pat Robertson that Rudy’s going to lose

Maybe God’s talking to the scribbler too.

By IN THE NEWS

January 17, 2008 4:16 PM | Link to this

George Will: Numbers say no chance for GOP

By getalife

January 17, 2008 4:23 PM | Link to this

IN THE NEWS,

Tell me you love me.

Haven’t heard it in a long time.

You love posting releases more than you love me.

By RW-(the original)

January 17, 2008 4:25 PM | Link to this

Look what you find when you read the article where ITFS is trying to smear General Franks.

{{{{{Congressman Waxman said Gen. Franks had since disassociated himself from Chapin’s charities and asked that his name be removed from the solicitation.}}}}}

{{{{{“General Franks was paid $100,000 to lend his name. We understand he developed misgivings and asked that his name be taken off,” Congressman Waxman said.}}}}}

Why do you suppose ITFS wants to imply that Franks is complicit in this?

By Paul

January 17, 2008 4:32 PM | Link to this

ITN

“Another”?

And who would those “others” be?

By F. LegHorn Luckaduh, Jr.

January 17, 2008 4:36 PM | Link to this

Boy,,,,ahem

I said Boy.

I SAID BOY.

YES. YOU BOY.

You NameJacking again?

I see I’m gonna have to straighten that boy out!

By John in Tampa, FLA

January 17, 2008 4:38 PM | Link to this

RW: you know Pat Robertson’s hearing is bad. What God really said was: Pat Robertson, you’re a loser.”

By Luckoduh

January 17, 2008 4:40 PM | Link to this

{{{{By The Peoples for a Nuked Amerika’ Century~! January 17, 2008 3:55 PM And of course what is getting raised over the next 5 years? What else - ]The Federal Gas Tax!}}}}

A lib against taxes, eh.

That’s awful convenient.

Sir Dullard of GasBaghdad: Say, I know you are all world, or something like that, but since when are the recommendations of some obscure transportation board considered to be law?

You have heard about the U.S. Congress, haven’t you?

Besides which, your own article sums up the Republican Congressional reaction to the idea quite well:

{{{{U.S. Rep. John Mica, the ranking Republican on the House transportation committee, said big gas-tax increases are a bad idea.}}}}

Back to my original point: You are a pinko that is against higher taxes???

Or are you inflicted with Bushie Syndrome?

By F. LegHorn Luckaduh, Jr.

January 17, 2008 4:42 PM | Link to this

I say there BOY.

Boy!

Did Franks give the money back?

Ahem.

By F. LegHorn Luckaduh, Jr.

January 17, 2008 4:43 PM | Link to this

BOY!

I said BOY!

Listen to me BOY!

Did my son F. Leghorn Luckoduh III teach you how to do this?

{{{{

}}}}

Like nailing jello to the wall?

By RW-(the original)

January 17, 2008 4:49 PM | Link to this

There are some interesting stories over at ABC.

Villanueva, a three-time convicted felon, is prohibited from possessing a gun. The video, according to the criminal complaint, was made by Villanueva’s girlfriend.

Nothing like getting your girlfriend to film the evidence that’s going to convict you.

By The Honorable Rudy Giuliani

January 17, 2008 4:51 PM | Link to this

What?…me worry?

By @@

January 17, 2008 5:00 PM | Link to this

I love strategies ml. Noone has convinced me that Rudy’s won’t work. It’s funny—my husband calls me a bleeding heart liberal. Your liberal posters call me a right-wing evangelical. Leftists call Rudy a RINO.

I listened to a political pundit describe the GOP candidates…

Huckabee - A social conservative

Romney - A fiscal conservative

Thompson - A true conservative

Rudy & McCain - Moderate conservatives.

Heck…that’s what I’ve always thought I was. Nice to know I’m in line with my choice of candidate.

The difference between Rudy and McCain is Rudy is an enthusiastic optimist like me. McCain is an old sourpuss.

Rudy (08)

By Paul

January 17, 2008 5:00 PM | Link to this

RW-(the original) 4:49

To repeat: what’s really scary is…

they reproduce…

and vote.

By RW-(the original)

January 17, 2008 5:07 PM | Link to this

Paul,

At least one of them won’t be voting any time soon.

By RW-(the original)

January 17, 2008 5:11 PM | Link to this

ITFS,

Did you start using all these other names so that when little IN THE COMICS came over here to admire Daddy’s linking skills, she wouldn’t see what a blithering idiot he was when he used his own words? Trust me, she already knows.

By Luckoduh

January 17, 2008 5:29 PM | Link to this

Ahhhh, the love for your fellow man in the democrat party flows so….thickly:

{{{{The packed house at Trinity United - some 3,000 in all - had been in the pews for almost two hours, energized by a 200-voice choir and a rousing dance performance Sunday, when the Rev. Jeremiah Wright stepped up to speak.}}}}

{{{{Some argue that blacks should vote for Ku Klux “because her husband was good to us,” he continued.}}}}

{{{{“That’s not true,” he thundered. “He did the same thing to us that he did to Monica Lewinsky.”}}}}

Now, isn’t that special?

{{{{Dwight Hopkins, a professor in the divinity school at the University of Chicago who is a member of Trinity United, was not surprised by Wright’s comments about the Ku Klux Klinton administration on Sunday.}}}}

{{{{Bill Klux, he said, may have been from the South and appointed blacks to his Cabinet and opened an office later in Harlem, “but if you really look at the policies he backed, many were worse for blacks than those of the pre-civil rights days.”}}}}

ZZzzzzzziiiinnnngggggg!!!

Now, let us harken back to the many sermon that were forced upon us by the self aggrandizing “righteous,” how many times have the libs told us Cons to be more like, uh, Jesus?

Hahaha.

Isn’t it so inspiring and wonderful to see them tearing at each others throats?

At least we know now that they WILL fight, albeit not the terrorists.

Tis entertaining though.

By RE

January 17, 2008 5:36 PM | Link to this

You guys are too funny with who you are supporting for the GOP.

Rudy; would you trust this guy with the national economy if his campaign staff already isn’t getting paid. Apparently, you cannot deficit spend in the primaries

Thompson; This guy has no support anywhere, just leave him alone and let him nap.

Romney; Damien himself, the demon seed. He will say anything to get a vote. Next year look for him as the new host on deal or no deal.

Huckabee; I liked him myself, right up until he said the constitution should be changed to fit his understanding of the bible. You know, when was the last time we had a good stoning for adultry in this country, lets get back to the good old days.

McCain; he’s 71. All I am saying is, make sure you like his vice president before you cast a vote for him.

By John in Tampa, FLA

January 17, 2008 5:40 PM | Link to this

Well folks, it’s been real, and it’s been nice, but it ain’t been real nice. Nite all

By RW-(the original)

January 17, 2008 5:42 PM | Link to this

Ten years ago today this little item hit the Drudge Report. Do you think the Clinton campaign will have an anniversary party?

{{{{{The DRUDGE REPORT has learned that reporter Michael Isikoff developed the story of his career, only to have it spiked by top NEWSWEEK suits hours before publication. A young woman, 23, sexually involved with the love of her life, the President of the United States, since she was a 21-year-old intern at the White House. She was a frequent visitor to a small study just off the Oval Office where she claims to have indulged the president’s sexual preference. Reports of the relationship spread in White House quarters and she was moved to a job at the Pentagon, where she worked until last month. }}}}}

By Paul

January 17, 2008 5:50 PM | Link to this

RE

Any specific objections to Guiliani’s fiscal record?

Link:White Paper - Guiliani

Sure, the folks who wrote it have an agenda. But I’m referring to specific actions.

McCain: after the last 16 years, couldn’t one make a case for a single-term Pres? Besides which, Chinese leadership may not take kindly to your implications -

By RE

January 17, 2008 6:02 PM | Link to this

Hu Jintao is 66. Really, I mean can’t we have a younger leader than the chinese?

and about Rudy on the economy, his campagin is about bankrupt already and feb 5th is 20 days away. no very good budget and planning skills.

By @@

January 17, 2008 6:05 PM | Link to this

(((Rudy; would you trust this guy with the national economy if his campaign staff already isn’t getting paid.)))

RE:

I don’t know whether Rudy’s campaign staff has chose to or not, but I’ve temporarily forfeited my salary in the interest of our school on two separate occasions. Granted, not all the teachers were able to do it, but some did. When the cause is worthy and all that stuff…’ya know?

*“You are the most successful tax cutter in modern New York history and, on balance, the most successful tax cutter in the Republican field today,” Americans for Tax Reform’s Grover Norquist wrote former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani December 3.

Heck, everybody is screaming for a moderate leader—no extremes.

When I consider the Florida voters, they’re older citizens who learned through wisdom not to answer to anyone, and Cubans? they know all about revolution.

If I were a Florida voter I’d vote for my favorite candidate regardless of who the polls were telling me could win.

I’m enjoying this campaign. While conservatives are looking diverse in contemplating what matters most, Democrats are looking well….stagnant and stuck with, progression is it?

By Luckoduh

January 17, 2008 6:05 PM | Link to this

Say, it might be too late, but we should run Osama Bin Laden in the democrat party primaries, the Ku Klux Klintooners would have the Global War on Terror won by the time Super Tuesday rolled around.

Damn, why do I always think of these things after the fact?

It’s worth trying, do any of you pinkos have the New York Times telephone number?

I’m sure they got the cave on speed dial.

By RE

January 17, 2008 6:09 PM | Link to this

By the way, Anyone who the club for growth supports, I am against. This trinkle down theory has to be put to rest. 2003 to present, trickle down, pro growth, friedman type policy has been tried and has failed horribly. Why republicans still support this simplyfied view of economics is beyond me.

By Paul

January 17, 2008 6:11 PM | Link to this

RE

71 is what, the new 51? Come to think of it, he could probably take on a lot of the fifty-somethings I see every day.

I’d say running a campaign with erratic revenue is a bit different than running a city - one with a larger population than some of these early primary states. Than most states, in fact. With a heckuva lot more diverse population, too. With what’s been described as a city power structure more like a Dem Congress.

Sounds like he may have the skills to do something good -

By RE

January 17, 2008 6:17 PM | Link to this

Again, grover norquist supports it I am against it.

Please understand, there is more to economics than tax cuts. Honest. If you don’t believe me check your 401k over the last 7 years vs. inflation. And the CPI is rigged to look low as well.

Listen to Bernanke today, the guy is pleading with reps to balance the budget. But they came away only hearing what they wanted to. Tax rate is not as important to the health of the economy as the budget and trade deficit.

By Paul

January 17, 2008 6:20 PM | Link to this

RE 6:09

Which is why I said ignore the source and their interpretations and focus on the facts of his record.

Rejecting a candidate just because some group we don’t care for said some good things about his/her record - heck we wouldn’t have anyone to vote for.

By RW-(the original)

January 17, 2008 6:20 PM | Link to this

Back in 2004 Howard Dean continuously told us Republicans couldn’t manage money and had he stopped there he might have had a point, but he then went on to tell us he was the one to turn to.

After he came in third in Iowa and it was discovered he had spent over $40 million in Iowa to garner that third place finish and was now broke he said he took a gamble. Then he told us Republicans couldn’t manage money.

By RE

January 17, 2008 6:22 PM | Link to this

Paul,

I would admit, his campaign running out of money so soon is more of a jab at him. My real concern is his foriegn policy advisors he has surrounded himself with. The guys who were too belligerent and idealistic for Bush have found a home with Rudy. Not sure what army or what country would pay for it, but I would think there will be a much greater war in the middle east with Rudy in charge.

By RE

January 17, 2008 6:25 PM | Link to this

I would say dean has been proven correct about republican money management skills.

By RE

January 17, 2008 6:25 PM | Link to this

I would say dean has been proven correct about republican money management skills.

By RW-(the original)

January 17, 2008 6:25 PM | Link to this

Ronald Reagan would say that they endorsed him, he didn’t endorse them.

Can anybody believe that John Edwards went after Obama today by saying that nobody could possibly point to Reagan as an agent of change? Whether you like Reagan or not he certainly changed things.

By RW-(the original)

January 17, 2008 6:29 PM | Link to this

RE,

I know you’re pretty much a dunce but I would have thought even you could’ve ferreted out the point of my Dean post.

P.S. You also might have noticed that I also said he would have been right if he had stopped with that statement.

By getalife

January 17, 2008 6:32 PM | Link to this

“Democrats are expected to propose rebates to individuals, they do not want permanent extension of tax cuts— republicans not only want rebates but perhaps they’re interested in lower tax rates for businesses and we are told that lobbyists are working overdrive in Washington trying to make sure that their cash cows are not effected by any economic stimulus plan but no matter what the FED chairman was saying today, the fact is the DOW industrial and the market in general have recorded the sixth sell off in the first twelve trading days.”

w to the rescue.

By getalife

January 17, 2008 6:35 PM | Link to this

Yes I can RW.

Obama made a mistake and he will make more because he is a rookie.

gop losers praise Reagan.

By Paul

January 17, 2008 6:37 PM | Link to this

RE

Well, I have said early on it’s important to look at the advisors they’d pick (Obama already told Hillary she could be an advisor - okay - that was a jab, too). And some of those names did give me pause.

Kind of a murky segue to Obama - I’ve listened to a lot of comment about his lack of “experience.” Many have noted those with experience haven’t fared all that well. There’ve been the Kennedy comparisons - who had more gov’t experience. But a case can be made that if he’d listened to his experienced advisors - particularly the military and career civilians - we’d still have high radiation levels across the country.

But he had judgement and backbone and that was avoided.

Then again, I’ve wondered why we have this need to pick those with gov’t experience and possibly someone with successful private experience might not be worthwhile.

And what, specifically, is meant by “experience” in foreign policy, anywhow? Committee hearings? Congressional junkets? Shaking hands and having trade talks? I think some people on this blog have more practical knowledge from paying attention to a variety of sources than some rather cloistered politicians.

By Luckoduh

January 17, 2008 6:39 PM | Link to this

Like we didn’t have enough hate in America, now Ku Klux Klintoon is marauding against the Hispanics:

{{{{Hillary Clinton does not respect our people. Hillary Clinton supporters went to court to prevent working people to vote this Saturday — that is an embarrassment.}}}}

{{{{Hillary Clinton supporters want to prevent people from voting in their workplace on Saturday. This is unforgivable. Hillary Clinton is shameless. Hillary Clinton should not allow her friends to attack our people’s right to vote this Saturday. This is unforgivable; there’s no respect}}}}

{{{{Sen. Obama is defending our right to vote. Sen. Obama wants our votes. He respects our votes, our community, and our people.}}}}

{{{{Sen. Obama’s campaign slogan is “Si Se Puede” (“Yes We Can”). Vote for a president that respects us, and that respects our right to vote. Obama for president, “Si Se Puede” (“Yes We Can”).}}}}

Yeah, that puta.

~~~~~

{{{{By RE January 17, 2008 6:17 PM Tax rate is not as important to the health of the economy as the budget and trade deficit.}}}}

The budget is at a historical low when compared to the GDP and the devalued dollar helps the trade deficit.

Are you saying government should spend more?

Ku Klux is really your candidate then.

And answer this, Kennedy, Reagan and Bushie all cut taxes and each time it was followed by long periods of economic growth.

Why was that?

By RW-(the original)

January 17, 2008 6:39 PM | Link to this

getalife,

Are you, like Edwards, saying Reagan didn’t change anything? If that’s the case why do you moonbat(ic)s® hate him so much?

By Paul

January 17, 2008 6:43 PM | Link to this

RW-the original 6:25

There are, evidently, lots of people who accept anything Edwards says. I think he does know better - but he strikes me as the true “what do I need to say to get elected” type.

Dick Morris had a good column today - said Edwards has no realistic chance (key word: realistic) to win the nomination and the longer he stays in the race the more he plays to Hillary’s advantage.

By getalife

January 17, 2008 6:46 PM | Link to this

Meanwhile, Gomer the squirrel in the popcorn popper eater, is spewing about a sectarian, taliban Constitution, wants to shove a poll about the Confederate flag and spewing drivel about bestiality.

They say Ron Paul is a kook.

Geez.

By @@

January 17, 2008 6:47 PM | Link to this

I visited some of the left-wing sites today after hearing Obama’s Reagan analogy.

It offended some leftists—they hated Reagan.

I don’t buy into this HOPE and CHANGE Obama is attempting to sell. I sure wish there were more speech writers like his though.

Manipulation by Planned Parenthood while he served in the Illinois State Senate???

His “present only” votes during that same period???

His claiming to be against the war before he had even set foot in Washington???

and then there’s his Grandma. He used her to make a political point??? That may be a small point to some, but it was a BIG POINT at him in my opinion.

He leaves me with a lot of questions to which I have not received clear and concise explanations.

By RE

January 17, 2008 6:54 PM | Link to this

Andy,

Listen, you are highly opinionated, bat sh!t crazy, and stunningly ignorant, I just don’t have time to debate economics with you now. By the way, how are your stocks doing?

Paul,

I am with you on the experience question and foriegn policy, I do not think it matters as much as good judgement does. I am waiting for the Hillary attack on her judgement. Over her lifetime, she has never had good judgement when it comes to men lying to her, not with Bush and the war, and certainly not with her husband. I mean, any guy can stray on a business trip or something, but to be repetatively lied to and not realize it shows a lack of judgement.

By RW-(the original)

January 17, 2008 6:54 PM | Link to this

getalife,

I wouldn’t think anybody in Louisiana would diss a man for finding a creative way to fry a squirrel.

Paul,

You may have missed my likening the three Democrat finalists to last year’s final three on American Idol, but basically it says that if the beatboxer guy (Hillary) doesn’t win soon she’ll be in a situation where the support of the two girls remaining (Obama & Edwards) that sing just alike will get the other one’s support as soon as one of them is gone leaving Hillary (the beatboxer) as the odd man out.

Bet you’ve never gotten that kind of analysis from Dick Morris!

By Paul

January 17, 2008 6:56 PM | Link to this

@@

If your speakers were turned up, could you hear the choking and gasping?

I find Obama interesting. More interesting than the other Dem candidates. Plus I like the way he thinks things through. Stephanolous said Pres Clinton would drive his staff nuts (particularly those who were looking for the “right” answer or who wanted to parrot the one the boss wanted) because he could discuss eight sides of an issue.

But that’s why we have primaries. And a general election. To sort through all this.

I rather like the hope and change theme. Guess I just kinda hope things will change!

By Glenn

January 17, 2008 6:56 PM | Link to this

Man, what a rube Mike Luckovich is. What a political tin ear. What high-school-newspaper-Off-Broadway-Letterman-snidery he thinks passing for political wisdom and wit.

I’m disgusted with myself for having taken so long to realize that Luckovich wasn’t even paying attention in his Seventh Grade Civics class. I bet he’s one of those idiot Democrats, of the sort we’ve seen too much of since the passing of the era of HumphreyJacksonUdallMcGovernChisolmO’NeillMoynihanShriver, who was outraged upon discovering, in Y2K, that our Presidents are chosen by Electors.

God knows what surreal nonsense he must make of something truly complicated, such as Iraq, or Stem Cell research, or education reform. Here I was just settling into the knowledge that Jim Wooten is the DNC-AJC’s token Republican, and now I have to confront the fact that Mike Luckovich is its token fool.

By RE

January 17, 2008 6:57 PM | Link to this

obama’s grandmama?

By RE

January 17, 2008 7:00 PM | Link to this

“I wouldn’t think anybody in Louisiana would diss a man for finding a creative way to fry a squirrel.”

RW, In all seriousness, the best quote I have heard in a long time, I hope you don’t mind if I use it.

By Paul

January 17, 2008 7:00 PM | Link to this

RW-the original

No I haven’t! And none of Dick Morris’s analyses have made me laugh like that, either!

By Paul

January 17, 2008 7:03 PM | Link to this

My apologies to George Stephanopoulos for butchering his name.

Won’t be the last time.

By getalife

January 17, 2008 7:05 PM | Link to this

His grandma is in Kenya.

I do like that gator tail, skewed and blackened on the grill.

Good stuff.

By @@

January 17, 2008 7:05 PM | Link to this

Our media reported this just a tad differently. From Stratfor:

Media reports give the impression that these events involve militants wresting control of territory from the Pakistani army, with troops abandoning their posts in the face of jihadist attacks. However, the ground reality of the facilities, the areas in which they are located and the geopolitical context suggest otherwise. For starters, the outposts in question do not belong to the army. These are outposts of the paramilitary force — the Frontier Constabulary (not to be confused with the more robust but still paramilitary Frontier Corps).

The use of the term “fort” is also misleading in that it connotes a well-guarded facility when, in fact, these are British-era compounds that are not heavily barricaded and are located in desolate terrain. Those manning these posts are paramilitary personnel — locals who are neither decently armed nor well trained, and certainly are not up to the task of counterinsurgency operations.

By @@

January 17, 2008 7:09 PM | Link to this

Paul:

Words are cheap. Actions speak!

Rudy (08)

By Paul

January 17, 2008 7:10 PM | Link to this

@@

The professional American media gave an inaccurate impression? Or got something flat wrong?

Could it be an accident? An agenda? Or incompetence?

I’m appalled.

By RW-(the original)

January 17, 2008 7:11 PM | Link to this

RE,

It’s all yours.

Paul,

I’m not sure if you read Best of the Web, but they have a great line ending today’s column.

The judge gave Gregory Reyes a lenient sentence since he showed remorse in a stock options fraud case.

Here’s what Reyes said.

{{{{“I’m sorry,” Reyes said. “There is much that I regret. If I could turn back the clock, I would.”}}}}}

As BOTW pointed out, wasn’t it backdating that got him trouble to begin with?

By Luckoduh

January 17, 2008 7:13 PM | Link to this

{{{{By RE January 17, 2008 6:54 PM Andy, Listen, you are highly opinionated, bat sh!t crazy, and stunningly ignorant, I just don’t have time to debate economics with you now.}}}}

I know, I totally devastated your whiny little rant, didn’t I?

I don’t blame you for running away.

{{{{By the way, how are your stocks doing?}}}}

The proper way to say it is “how are your OIL stocks doing?”

Very well, thank you.

As long as the democrats in the United States are too stupid to drill for our own oil and lower energy costs, which is the real reason for this economic downturn, I make money hand over fist.

Bwa.

P.S. Go to any gas station, watch how many apparently successful people are putting 5 gallons into their cars at a time.

It is killing us.

It is affecting the shipping industry, food, construction, raising prices on EVERYTHING.

Drill, you stupid mofos.

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