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By Mike Luckovich | Thursday, February 21, 2008, 07:29 AM

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By lil Ole IN THE NEWS, With rWdUH@@glENN Living Inside My Head

February 21, 2008 8:03 AM | Link to this

Hey, why did the short pinko put the shirt he’s usually wearing on the lamp?

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Notice how the libs have to leave this headline open for interpretation:

{{{{Michelle Obama clarifies her ‘proud of my country’ remark-Urinal}}}}

If you are an American and love your country, you have to read the story to find out this is the first time Michelle Obama has felt pride in her country, ever.

But if you are a pinko, you are probably thinking what do you mean she’s “proud of her country,” and then you see that she “clarified her remarks” and for a lib that means she still hates America for the most part, the tinge of pride was accidental, it won’t happen again.

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The libs are trashing a war hero????

{{{{Mr. McCain promised, for example, never to fly directly from Washington to Phoenix, his hometown, to avoid the impression of self-interest because he sponsored a law that opened the route nearly a decade ago. But like other lawmakers, he often flew on the corporate jets of business executives seeking his support, including the media moguls Rupert Murdoch, Michael R. Bloomberg and Lowell W. Paxson, Ms. Iseman’s client. (Last year he voted to end the practice.)}}}}

Oh yeah, I’m so sure Ku Klux Rodham has never been on a corporate jet.

So what’s up, pinko media, I thought the only candidates qualified to lead our military were those who have served?

And that their policies were beyond reproach?

Has that all changed now that you libs have two, uh, Draft Dodgers running for your nomination?

Bwa.

By lil Ole IN THE NEWS, With rWdUH@@glENN Living Inside My Head

February 21, 2008 8:05 AM | Link to this

What do you know, me and Jay Kookman are on the same page for the first time ever:

{{{{Thanks to substantial defeats in Wisconsin and Hawaii —- giving her a losing streak of 10 in a row —- Ku Klux Rodham has now fallen behind Barack Obama by more than 140 pledged delegates. With 981 delegates still to be elected between now and early June, it might at first glance seem possible to overcome that gap. But it’s just not so.-Urinal}}}}

Bwa.

{{{{The explanation for Hillary’s collapse as a frontrunner with a 25% to 35% (chose your poll) lead over Senator Barack Obama is that a small cloud far back in the memories of many Democrats has come forward in their minds with every one of her campaign’s blunders. After the early bullying of Obama, the arrival of shady Asian money, the planted questions at Obama rallies, implausible complaints over Obama’s kindergarten essays, the racist rhetoric in South Carolina, and now evidence of voting fraud in the New York primary those little clouds have become thunder clouds. Hundreds of thousands of Democrats do not want to go back to the 1990s.}}}}

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{{{{The Iraqi Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has threatened to end a six-month ceasefire by his private militia due to US-Iraqi raids in the south of the country.}}}}

Please do, Mookie.

It sure would be nice to have the opportunity to wipe your army from the face of the Earth before we leave Iraq.

Plus, your fighters would get to meet allah and we would be rid of you, everybody would be happy!

~~~~~

Ronald Reagan’s legacy:

{{{{A missile launched from a Navy cruiser soared 130 miles above the Pacific and smashed a dying and potentially deadly U.S. spy satellite Wednesday, the Pentagon said. Several defense officials said it apparently achieved the main aim of destroying an onboard tank of toxic fuel.}}}}

“Star Wars,” eh, Swimmer?

By Luckoduh

February 21, 2008 8:09 AM | Link to this

My nayme is Andy. See me and feer for your self. Heer me now and understand me later.

I have probwems.

I post wit many different names, like lil Ole IN THE NEWS, With rWdUH@@glENN Living Inside My Head, Luckoduh, and others. I am legion for we are many.

If yew have dowts abowt my sanity, just rememmber its 2008 and I still use teh word PINKO!!!

By IN THE NEWS

February 21, 2008 8:14 AM | Link to this

A note to my fellow bloggers.

As you have noticed there has been a rash of namejacking incidents lately. That rash Caused Duh/RW so much itching , he contacted the AJC to complain. Funny thing, turns out it wasn’t me. Of course, in typical Republispeak mode RW/DUH said last night:

By RW-(the original) February 20, 2008 7:30 PM | Link to this ITFS, You’re insane and your obsession with me is really unhealthy for you. You and your friends can namejack all day long for all I care, but all you do is ruin any chance for a free exchange of ideas. I suspect that’s what your ilk wants anyway since you have no ideas. Glad to see you think you’re exonerated of something, but like I told you the other day I didn’t it was you anyway. You’re just really fun to push over the edge. The spit bucket handler from Athens has been dropping hints all week that it was him. He knew it wasn’t me but continued his attack as “By IN THE NEWS Is A Name Jacking Coward”. That’s why it is important to know that RW is DUH (and others here).

Now, during all this I was sure it was RW/DUH doing it, and although I have seen no proof otherwise, I will accept that it is “POLLY” for the time being.

RW/DUH uses the word obsession as if it were a magic shield to protect him from His slimey behavior. No such luck RW/DUH. You have been compromised. You have been outed. Learn to live with it!

By Goldie

February 21, 2008 8:18 AM | Link to this

The Repugs don’t stand a chance in November with the Old Geezer as their nominee — for one, just look at the contrast between the “100 years in Iraq” and “support our troops — bring ‘em home!” messages.

We all know which one will win with the American people!

By Goldie

February 21, 2008 8:21 AM | Link to this

Another contrasting message between the Old Geezer vs. Obama: which one has been saying “No, You Can’t!” to the American people???

BAWAAAAAAA!

By lil Ole IN THE NEWS, With rWdUH@@glENN Living Inside My Head

February 21, 2008 8:26 AM | Link to this

HI, IT’S ME IN THE NEWS!

I AM IN THE MIDST OF A MAJOR MALFUNCTION, SO PROCEED WITH YOUR COMMENTS CAREFULLY ON MY BLOG.

THAT’S RIGHT, THIS IS MY BLOG, I HAVE TAKEN CONTROL OF IT, I HAVE PLANTED MY FLAG HERE, AND IF I DON’T LIKE WHAT YOU SAY, I WILL JACK YOUR NAME AND APPLY MY VAST BRILLIANCE TO IT.

{{{{By Luckoduh February 21, 2008 8:09 AM I have probwems. If yew have dowts abowt my sanity, just rememmber its 2008 and I still use teh word PINKO!!!}}}}

AREN’T I A GENIUS?

SO EVEYBODY ELSE JUST SHUT UP AND LISTEN TO ME!

P.S: rWdUH@@glENN, I HEAR YOU KNOCKING ON MY HEAD BUT YOU CAN’T COME IN!

BWA.

By Luckoduh

February 21, 2008 8:32 AM | Link to this

As you have noticed there has been a rash of namejacking incidents lately. That rash Caused IN THE NEWS so much itching , he contacted the AJC to complain. Funny thing, turns out it wasn’t me.

By w00t

February 21, 2008 8:32 AM | Link to this

Andy usually starts namejacking when he knows he losing the fight. This isn’t the first time he’s done it, and probably won’t be the last. He’ll get banned for it for a few weeks then it all starts back up again.

The thing is, he thinks he’s some sort of Republican Internet warrior. That somehow, he is going to sway the outcome of the election with the use of his foul mouth and playground bullying tactics. I guess a little bit of blind faith in the republican machine keeps him going too.

However, logic and reason are his kryptonite. Once, overwhelmed with such damning evidence against his republican fascist fantasy it causes his head to explode and for him to go off the deep end. You know, Highjacking names, beating his mother, etc.

By getalife

February 21, 2008 8:33 AM | Link to this

Today, we hear McLover say, “I did not pork that lobbyist”

I told you the karma is beautiful.

Bwahahahahahahaha.

By IN THE NEWS

February 21, 2008 8:36 AM | Link to this

Is John McCain Broke?

By J'accuse!

February 21, 2008 8:39 AM | Link to this

Mike Luckovich is a cartoonicidal maniac! He murdered Charlie Brown, and made him into a lamp! Luckovich is a Nazi!

By IN THE NEWS

February 21, 2008 8:41 AM | Link to this

FROM CNN’s Jack Cafferty:

Barack Obama has apparently already struck fear into the hearts of the Republican power structure. He doesn’t quite have the nomination yet, although it’s a pretty good bet he’s going to get it.

But John McCain couldn’t wait for that formality. Apparently if you’re John McCain, it’s never too early to start calling people names. Last night while celebrating his victory in Wisconsin, McCain could have chosen to use the free air time he was given on all three cable news networks for advancing some of his ideas of how he thinks he can make the country better.

But instead, he chose to call Barack Obama names, referring to the Democrat’s call for change as “eloquent but empty.” This is school yard stuff and you’d think a 71-year-old member of the United States Senate would know better. The reason Obama has captured the imagination of the people in this country is because he has a long list of ideas on how to improve things. And in case you haven’t noticed, we could use a little improvement around here.

Barack Obama was expected to draw a crowd of 20,000 people to a campaign event in Dallas, Texas, today. I wonder how many people showed up at McCain’s last appearance.

Partisanship, name calling and gridlock are turning people’s stomachs. Barack Obama has arrived on the scene like a breath of fresh air and if John McCain doesn’t understand the significance of that, he has no more chance of becoming president than I do.

By @@

February 21, 2008 8:44 AM | Link to this

Finally you get it ml!!!

Bush is out! so why do the dems continue to run against him?

After all these years of looking at your Mr. and Mrs. Dem, I just noticed that they have no eyes.

By getalife

February 21, 2008 8:56 AM | Link to this

@@,

w is @ 19% but the question is why do you still support him?

Admit he is a pathetic failure and you just might have a tiny bit of credibilty.

BTW, they are wearing glasses.

By lil Ole IN THE NEWS, With rWdUH@@glENN Living Inside My Head

February 21, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this

Well if it isn’t the old “bumper sticker,” back to it’s old tricks:

{{{{About 7:30 a.m. Sunday, airport security ran Benjamin Baines Jr.’s backpack through an X-ray machine and saw the image of a box cutter, according to a report from the Transportation Security Administration., Officers found books in the backpack titled “Muhammad in the Bible,” “The Prophet’s Prayer” and “The Noble Qur’an.” He also had a copy of the Quran.}}}}

Only for the vigilance of the Bushie Administration was another tragedy averted.

Thanks, George!

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{{{{The truth is that Mr. Obama is unwilling to challenge special interests if they represent the financial and political muscle of the Democratic left. He says yes to the lobbyists of the AFL-CIO when they demand card-check legislation to take away the right of workers to have a secret ballot in unionization efforts, or when they oppose trade deals. He won’t break with trial lawyers, even when they demand the ability to sue telecom companies that make it possible for intelligence agencies to intercept communications between terrorists abroad. And he is now going out of his way to proclaim fidelity to the educational unions. This is a disappointment since he’d earlier indicated an openness to education reform. Mr. Obama backs their agenda down the line, even calling for an end to testing, which is the only way parents can know with confidence whether their children are learning and their schools working.}}}}

{{{{Unlike Bill Clinton in 1992, Mr. Obama is completely unwilling to confront the left wing of the Democratic Party, no matter how outrageous its demands, no matter how out of touch it might be with the American people. And Tuesday night, in a key moment in this race, he dropped the pretense that his was a centrist agenda. His agenda is the agenda of the Democratic left.- The Rove Monster}}}}

By getalife

February 21, 2008 9:04 AM | Link to this

Sir, did you pork that lobbyist?

No.

McClenis is lying.

By @@

February 21, 2008 9:04 AM | Link to this

Wanna know why oil prices have risen? From Stratfor:

(((Oil prices fell to $97.70 a barrel Feb. 20 after climbing above $100 a barrel Feb. 19. The price spike was caused by threats from Nigerian militants against oil infrastructure, concerns that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries could cut output in early March and uncertainty about Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s course of action after a legal spat with U.S. energy supermajor ExxonMobil. However, larger geopolitical factors that caused oil prices to escalate in 2007 are fading.)))

(((Uncertainty surrounding possible reprisals against the United States by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez after a spat with U.S. energy supermajor ExxonMobil Corp. also contributed to the price hike, and that uncertainty is expected to continue for months.)))

(((Chavez can do little to take revenge on the supermajor, but ——>he views Exxon and Washington as one and the same,<—— and the idea that Chavez could make Washington a proxy at which he can hurl his anger against Exxon is not far-fetched.)))

I wonder where Hugo got ^^^ that idea? They don’t call him a buffoon without good reason. He’s a leftist afterall.

Thanks to you liberals, our gas prices went up.

By Ray

February 21, 2008 9:11 AM | Link to this

Many times when a black journalist, sports figure, neighbor, political candidate, politician, etc. finds themselves in a compromising position regarding a stand on an issue, the race card comes out. Black America is expecting the electorate to handle both Obamas with kid gloves so as not to “offend” them and to treat them differently than a candidate from another ethnic group. Politics is not a gentle endeavor and if the race card comes out during a term in the white house, the racial divide will grow wider than ever in this country. We would hope that Obama is up to the task of running the country for EVERY American. His wife will hurt his candidacy by relating to America that running for president of this country is part of a racial struggle. It rises above all of that. Obama will get more black votes by this rhetoric but the rest of America will not identify with this. Being president of this country means that you drop your ethnic identity at the front door of the White House. We won’t have an African-American president, just an American president.

By Obama is scared

February 21, 2008 9:12 AM | Link to this

Hey In the News you must have missed this: New York Times is reporting a story that John Mccain had an affair with a lobbyist, whos scared????? They are already attacking as usual but you left wing nut jobs always have an excuse for your party. Obama is full of empty promises, his state is one of the worst in the country. There has been not one voter who can say a valid reason why he qualifies for president. P.S. Skin color or speeches do not qualify.

By lil Ole IN THE NEWS, With rWdUH@@glENN Living Inside My Head

February 21, 2008 9:13 AM | Link to this

Like I was saying:

{{{{Pakistan’s election has been portrayed by the Western media as a defeat for President Pervez Musharraf. The real losers were the Islamist parties.}}}}

{{{{The latest analysis of the results shows that the parties linked, or at least sympathetic, to the Taliban and al Qaeda saw their share of the votes slashed to about 3% from almost 11% in the last general election a few years ago. The largest coalition of the Islamist parties, the United Assembly for Action (MMA), lost control of the Northwest Frontier Province — the only one of Pakistan’s four provinces it governed. The winner in the province is the avowedly secularist National Awami Party.}}}}

Bwa.

By @@

February 21, 2008 9:16 AM | Link to this

Getalife:

Last post then I’m off.

(((why do you still support him?)))

(((Admit he is a pathetic failure and you just might have a tiny bit of credibilty.)))

Pay attention! Bush isn’t running for office so what would I be supporting?

Your second comment—Isn’t that what the terrorists proclaim? My question to you is “Why do you support them (the terrorists)?

Check ‘ya later Getalife.

By RE

February 21, 2008 9:20 AM | Link to this

@@,

The US and UK froze 12 billion of Venezula’s assets due to lobbying and a court decision in favor of Exxon Mobil after Chavez nationalized oil fields. The US and UK did side with Exxon against his country’s national interests and has basically stolen 12 billion in the process. Chavez can sell oil to whomever he wants. Just a question for you, if the courts ruled in favor of chavez and had not frozen his country’s assets, what would your opinon be

By Goldie

February 21, 2008 9:20 AM | Link to this

{{There has been not one voter who can say a valid reason why he qualifies for president. P.S. Skin color or speeches do not qualify.}}

Scared @ 9:12 — and specifically what are the rules as to who “qualifies for president”? I mean, other than one’s age and being a natural-born citizen of America… please do reveal to everyone where your list of “qualifications” can be found. Thank you.

By Chef Paul

February 21, 2008 9:20 AM | Link to this

How d’ya like that, @@? Even when it comes in cartoon form from a trusted high priest of Leftism, still getalife doesn’t get it!

By IN THE NEWS

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

Obama is scared:

See my post today 8:14 from the Drudge Report, McCain begging NYT to hold this story in December of last year.

Also:

list of accomplishments

Now, regarding McCain’s accomplishments would be what?

(Keating 5 participation does not count!)

Obama 08 Are you really ready for change?

By MomCat

February 21, 2008 9:24 AM | Link to this

By @@ February 21, 2008 8:44 AM Finally you get it ml!!! Bush is out! so why do the dems continue to run against him?

Probably because everyone needs a constant reminder that 4 more years of the same will be a disaster. As if we are not already in disaster mode! Oh well, Lord help your kids and grandkids. On second thought, why not constipate about Clinton’s lie about a little ?????

By Hey Goldie

February 21, 2008 9:34 AM | Link to this

Hey Goldie, if being a citizen is qualification for president, then you have the perfect candidate Obama. Get real and stop using that lamo excuse. This is a perfect example of a nut job wanting someone to run this country who has no qualifications, but gives darn good speeches though.

By Paul

February 21, 2008 9:34 AM | Link to this

In The News 8:14

Those are two great links to start the day. Mostly because they illustrate the convoluted attempts to explain an inconsistency by the Democratic heir-apparent (when the Reps do that I believe it’s called “spin”).

The link on “Why doesn’t McCain want to go after al Qaeda Terrorists” is misleading. It asserts Obama doesn’t want to “invade” Pakistan, only “stike” high-value targets.

That’s too funny, given the rhetoric with which Dems have accused Pres Bush of “invasion” or “war” in the past. So an air strike to kill people within a sovereign country is not an invasion? Turning loose ground soldiers in a country is not an invasion? We’re going to have to watch out for Obama, I think.

BTW - the Washington Post reported Aug 7 2007 that Obama would “order U.S. troops into that country unilaterally if it failed to act on its own against Islamic extremists.”

He also said “”The first step must be to get off the wrong battlefield in Iraq and take the fight to the terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan.”

Ummm, we are in Afghanistan. So now Obama wants to create battlefields in Pakistan. Send in American ground forces just when the Pakistani people rejected Islamists in the northwest provinces. Oh, joy.

The second link - Bush endorsed Obama’s position in ‘06 - as Pres Bush was first off with the concept, shouldn’t it read “Obama endorses Bush Position on Pakistan?”

Soooo, who’s the guy who will continue the Bush policies?

By RW-(the original)

February 21, 2008 9:38 AM | Link to this

ITFS,

Every time someone mentions Obama’s lack of accomplishments you link to that DUmmie post. Have you bothered to look at it? It’s basically a list of votes. Yes, no, and the ever popular, with Obama, Present, but no accomplishments.

I know you don’t mind looking like a fool, but you really should try a different link. Perhaps you should look up the word “accomplishment” and while you’re at it you really need to take my advice and study “obsession.”

In case you don’t have a dictionary, here’s a link to all of them.

By Paul

February 21, 2008 9:39 AM | Link to this

Goldie 8:18

It appears Obama wants to bring the troops home from Iran ‘cause he’ll need’em for Pakistan. So much for hoping for change….

(written tongue in cheek - his campaign needs to get more indepth with fleshing out these policy issues and updating based upon recent developments - NOW - but I’m not sure his current advisors in those areas are up to the task)

By Hey Goldie

February 21, 2008 9:44 AM | Link to this

Hey Goldie, if being a citizen is qualification for president, then you have the perfect candidate Obama. Get real and stop using that lamo excuse. This is a perfect example of a nut job wanting someone to run this country who has no qualifications, but gives darn good speeches though.

By IN THE NEWS

February 21, 2008 9:45 AM | Link to this

DUH at 9:38

I thought you never opened my links?

Or did you say you never opened my links before you actually always opened my links?

Damn, I’m tired of Republispeak.

Paul been expecting you. Glad you can quote the Post. Now find the Obama quote.

By MomCat

February 21, 2008 9:45 AM | Link to this

By Hey Goldie February 21, 2008 9:34 AM | Link to this This is a perfect example of a nut job wanting someone to run this country who has no qualifications, but gives darn good speeches though.

Well Hello Hey! We have had a nutjob with no qualifications running the country. My dog can think on his feet quicker than this (Bush) nutjob. We don’t need another 4 years of the same.

By Great response Momcat

February 21, 2008 9:50 AM | Link to this

Thats a great reason to vote for Obama, you do not like this president, so vote for another wih no qualifications. Great Response. You guys have all the answers. Did I say I like Bush, when was that brought up? Seems to me like you have some hidden anger towards Bush, don’t worry he is gone soon. So then you can vent your life problems on someone else and hat them for it.

By Great response Momcat

February 21, 2008 9:50 AM | Link to this

Thats a great reason to vote for Obama, you do not like this president, so vote for another wih no qualifications. Great Response. You guys have all the answers. Did I say I like Bush, when was that brought up? Seems to me like you have some hidden anger towards Bush, don’t worry he is gone soon. So then you can vent your life problems on someone else and hate them for it.

By RW-(the original)

February 21, 2008 9:52 AM | Link to this

ITFS,

You couldn’t even get that dunce Midori on board with your theory that we’re all the same person. I’ve always told you that I open a link of yours from time to time. So far I’ve never opened one that factually backed up the assertion you were using it for though.

By Paul

February 21, 2008 9:54 AM | Link to this

In The News 8:41

From that, are we supposed to think of CNN as an unbiased news source?

Goldie 9:20

Good point. I believe the only “qualifications” are to be at least 35 and a natural-born citizen. Anything else is personal preference. Or something for an opponent to exploit.

By Dancing on Hitlery KKKlinton's Political Grave while Michelle Osama Hates The USA! (Mad As Zell)

February 21, 2008 9:54 AM | Link to this

Michelle Osama had never been proud of her own country until she saw that her Islamafacist Black Supremacist husband had an “illegitimate” shot at tricking the good American People into electing him President so that he could pave the way for Al-Qadea and other Islamic militants to take over the U.S. of A. for Daddy bin Laden and Company… Speaking of “illegitimate”… Since when did it suddenly become acceptable for an illegitimate foreign-born child with a foreigner muslim father like Borak Osama to have a “legitimate” shot at becoming an AMERICAN President? Only when the far left-wing Castro-loving liberal media rats and maggots stopped taking their meds and went all “Virginia Tech” on the American People and American Tradition by forcing an Islamafacist Black Panther down the throats of the American People, or in the case of the liberal heathens and deviants, forcing un-American candidates like Osama and KKKlinton “IN THE BOWELS” of the American People, San FranSICKO, CaliFORNICATEia-style. Sick Commie Bast-ards. Deviant Socialist Punks! America and Americans hate you left-wing psycho-sicko scum buckets. Eat sht and De slow all of you. Liberal are the death of America.

By RE

February 21, 2008 10:02 AM | Link to this

Zell,

Thank you for an unbiased well reasoned commentery on the state of political affairs in the country. Surely with your insightful leadership we will be able to bring america together.

By lil Ole IN THE NEWS, With rWdUH@@glENN Living Inside My Head

February 21, 2008 10:03 AM | Link to this

I guess some people are just too dull and goony to understand the significance of the election results in Pakistan.

The terrorists lost, big time, duh.

What does Bushie have to do with it now?

Geez, what slobbering morons.

By getalife

February 21, 2008 10:05 AM | Link to this

Nevermind @@.

Geez.

Why has Obama not responded to BO’s lynching comment about his wife?

Is he that weak and going to let them run over him?

Clinton would have him suspended like Shuster.

She is a fighter for her family and the people.

Lets hope the voters in Texas and Ohio see she is fighter and not weak like Obama.

By MomCat

February 21, 2008 10:06 AM | Link to this

By Paul February 21, 2008 9:34 AM The second link - Bush endorsed Obama’s position in ‘06 - as Pres Bush was first off with the concept, shouldn’t it read “Obama endorses Bush Position on Pakistan?” Soooo, who’s the guy who will continue the Bush policies?

Paul, I agree that Obama must get down to specifics! We need more than talk!

By IN THE NEWS

February 21, 2008 10:07 AM | Link to this

Why John McCain Owes The New York Times a Thank You Card

By IN THE NEWS

February 21, 2008 10:09 AM | Link to this

{{{Ann Coulter suffered a serious embarrassment over the weekend when her credit card was declined in Palm Beach. According to our spy, the nutty arch-conservative was caught at 9:45 p.m. Saturday night in the 10 Items or Less line at the local Publix when her card was rejected.}}}

By Glenn

February 21, 2008 10:10 AM | Link to this

getalife & MomCat:

That’s it. That’s right. Keep your eyes on the ball. The ball used to make the plays that lost you the pennant, twice. The ball in your Hall of Infamy. The ball belonging to the Houston Astros. The ball behind the glass. The ball on the wall.

Keep your eye on THAT ball.

Sometimes even young dogs, and MomCats, can’t learn new tricks.

By IN THE NEWS

February 21, 2008 10:10 AM | Link to this

CBS 60 Minutes to run Siegelman story on Sunday. On Sunday, CBS’s 60 Minutes will air its long-awaited report on Alabama’s incarcerated former governor Don Siegelman, reportedly one of its “best pieces of domestic exposé journalism.” Justice Department prosecutors opposed the Siegelman investigation, in which Bush administration political operatives — including Karl Rove — allegedly interfered.

By Goldie

February 21, 2008 10:17 AM | Link to this

It seems to me that if we want to cut Al-Qaida off at the head, then Pakistan is the place to get that done… what tactics should be used to do that is another decision to be made by our next president.

Too bad Dubya and Cheney decided not to devote resources to getting that done back in ‘02, and America would not have wasted so many lives and BILLIONS OF $$$ in Iraq instead!

By Goldie

February 21, 2008 10:19 AM | Link to this

I guess you Repug trolls are now going to proclaim that “30 years in the US Senate” is what “qualifies” your grumpy old white guy to be our next Prez?

HA HA HA HA HA HA!

By Namejackers shouldn't make volatile NRA members angry who dance on Hitlery KKKlinton's Political Gra

February 21, 2008 10:20 AM | Link to this

First Mondale, then Michael “Willie Horton” Dukakis, then Al “Lockbox” Bore (now known as Mr. GLOWBALL-Worming), then John “France” Kerry, then John “$400-haircut” Edwards, then Hitlery RATham KKKlinton, now BoRAT Saddam Hussein Osama bin Laden…what do all these names have in common? Their all a bunch of marxist wh•res who are history’s biggest losers in the General Elections for the DemoncRATS. America was the biggest loser when Jimmy “Peanut brain” Carter won in ‘76 and Sick Willie won in ‘92 and ‘96. The entire pathetic party of marxist commie losers needs to get off the Greyhound bus and do America a huge favor by standing in front of it!

By Truthman

February 21, 2008 10:22 AM | Link to this

Mistress McCain!!!

Oh my!! I just wonder what a 20-something hottie was doing with an at-the-time 63-year-old grampa figure?

Those Republicans! They’re so kinky!!

I think this one is worse than MonicaGate!!!

Thanks, NYT!! The Old Gray Lady rules again!!

By Bosch

February 21, 2008 10:23 AM | Link to this

Good morning!

Paul,

Funny how some of the wingnuts are starting in on Goldie’s response of qualifications for President as lame. I’ve posted that several times, and met with the same response. Actually, I believe that I must credit RW for pointing that out to me once (if it wasn’t you RW, sorry).

Yes, the circle of life.

Glad you mentioned that anything else is just an excuse for exploitation. So true, so true.

getalife,

BO speaks for himself - sometimes it’s not necessary to respond to absurdity - shows that he’s a bigger man. It’s like arguing with some of the bigger wingnuts here like Luckoduh, RB, and Mr. Headcase. Why bother?

By mm

February 21, 2008 10:26 AM | Link to this

Another day in wingnut lala land. The demented rants of the insignificant. Check out these humorous posts from the lunatic fringe:

Duh - Still obsessed with Hillary. Doesn’t believe the al-Sadr army ceasefire was the reason for the decline in violence in Iraq, instead credits the “surge”. Still got his lips attached to Reagan’s @ss.

@@ - Blames liberals for gas prices (nevermind the Iraq war). Can’t admit Bush is a screw up. Says liberals support terrorists.

Paul - Saying Obama will continue Bush’s Iraq policy.

RW - Always demanding a list of Obama accomplishments. Can’t provide a list of Bush accomplishments.

Americans have grown tired of this Rove type spin and blatant stupidity.

November will be brutal for the GOP.

By Goldie

February 21, 2008 10:29 AM | Link to this

Bosch @ 10:23 — I believe that Mrs. Obama speaks for herself as well, and doesn’t necessarily have to get her hubby involved in trying to get Bill-O fired… she probably realizes that he’s just another loony blow-hard over @ FOX — and you’re right, why bother???

Now, Hillary stating that she feels she’s treated more “fairly” by FOX Noise compared to MSNBC is another topic we can pursue — I wonder why she would feel that way???

By BFF

February 21, 2008 10:31 AM | Link to this

BAGHDAD - Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr will have a statement read in mosques at Friday prayer services addressing whether his Mahdi Army will extend a six-month cease-fire that’s helped reduce violence throughout Iraq, a Shiite lawmaker said.

So the Republicans were LYING to us once again when they claimed VICTORY because of the troop surge. Hell, the GOPhers done gone and got us another MISION ACCOMPLISHED.

Now we see the real reason for the recent decline in violence and it wasn’t because of the surge, afterall. Republican dimwits still think THEY are in charge in Iraq when it was really al-Sadr all along.

There is some truth in their LIES, however. Republicans have been the greatest recruitment tool for Islamic terrorists since the crusades. Since Republicans have been al-Sadrs greatest ally and BFF (best friend forever), they may as well claim the credit, too.

By Bosch

February 21, 2008 10:32 AM | Link to this

Here’s a question for anyone who can answer it:

I think this “Obama has no substance” is pure bullsh!t. Have any of the candidates given specific, concrete examples of what they are planning to do different?

McCain? Clinton?

In the speeches I’ve heard from all the candidates, they pretty much all sound like fluff to me. No specifics from anyone. But, then again, I haven’t heard ALL the speeches, so I’m open for discussion here.

It seems like everyone is so desperate to stop the Obama train - they have so little to go on.

It really shows the desperation from the competition.

By MomCat

February 21, 2008 10:33 AM | Link to this

By getalife February 21, 2008 10:05 AM | Clinton would have him suspended like Shuster. She is a fighter for her family and the people. Lets hope the voters in Texas and Ohio see she is fighte

Getalife, I’ve said it before and will not say it again (not here anyway). Obama will win the nomination, but he will not win the big one in November. IMHO, too many democrats are afraid of him. So much will be brought up, his background, and the church he attends for one thing. He may be the best that could happen to the USA, but so much will be expounded upon. The gloves come off during a presidential election, and he’s never really had his ‘feet to the fire’ so to speak. I dare anyone to spew out that I’m being racist! We needed Harold Ford from Tennessee!! Hillary could beat McCain and the Repubs, and the United Corporations of America know it. That’s why the media has promoted Obama and slaughtered Hillary. Anyway, I’m outta here and on to Jekyll Island until March 1.

By IN THE NEWS

February 21, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this

Liberal Manifesto

Liberals believe in clean air, diplomacy, stem cells, living wages, body armor for our troops, government accountability, and that exercising the right to dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

Liberals believe in reading actual books, going to war as a last resort, separating church and hate, and doing what Jesus would actually do, instead of lobbying for upper-class tax cuts and fantasizing about the apocalypse.

Liberals believe in civil rights, the right to privacy, and that evolution and global warming aren’t just theories but incontrovertible scientific facts.

Liberals believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment that (1) prohibits another Bush from ever occupying the White House, and (2) prevents George W. Bush from ever becoming baseball commissioner before he does to our national pastime what he did for America.

Liberals believe in rescuing people from flooded streets and rooftops, even if they’re too poor to vote Republican.

Liberals believe that supporting our troops means treating our wounded vets like the heroes they are, and not leaving them to languish in rat-infested military hospitals under the outsourced management of incompetent cronies who think they’re running a Taco Bell franchise.

Liberals believe in pheromones, sex ed, solar panels, voting paper trails, the common good, and that, no matter how fascinating a story it may be, a president should never sit around in a state of total paralysis reading “My Pet Goat” while America is under attack.

And above all, liberals believe that it’s time to come together as a country and put a collective boot in the a* of shameless conservative fearmongers, hate merchants, and scapegoaters who are sucking the freedom out of all our souls.

Dan Kurtzman, who keeps the political snark fires burning over at About.com, wrote a terrific piece for his recent book, How to Win a Fight with a Conservative.

DAMN PROUD TO BE A LIBERAL

By Bosch

February 21, 2008 10:37 AM | Link to this

Goldie,

Yes, indeed. When Elizabeth Edwards took on Coulter, what did we hear?

Oh, John Edwards is a wimp! When Bill has taken up for Hillary, same thing.

It’s a damned if you do and damned if you don’t - doesn’t matter what gender. The Obamas have seen very tangible examples of this kind of BS, and since it’s O’Reilly saying them, who cares? Elizabeth Edwards should have left Coulter alone - she speaks for herself too and like, BO, everybody knows they’re kooks so why should they bother responding to the absurd?

By AmVet

February 21, 2008 10:46 AM | Link to this

Though it is still very early this is hands down the line of the day: “November will be brutal for the GOP.”

A huge number in that once grand old party will simply cut and run rather than face the embarrassment of a crushing defeat in an election. Many others will try coyly to avoid any references or connections to you-know-who and you-know-what. (What a strategy!)

And a tiny, tiny handful may actually have the nads to say forcefully and genuinely that the Reagan/Gingrich/Bush agenda has been a miserable failure for America and it should be dropped quicker than a bad habit.

They alone will probably stand a decent chance to lead for the next few years anywhere outside of the Great Southern Moron Belt and assorted other cultural and intellectual wastelands and outposts like Utah and Oklahoma.

By Goldie

February 21, 2008 10:46 AM | Link to this

{{So much will be brought up, his background, and the church he attends for one thing.”

MomCat— I’m very interested in what you’ve heard about “the church he attends”… is it not Christian enough for some Hillary supporters?

By Bosch

February 21, 2008 10:48 AM | Link to this

Momcat,

If ANYONE had ANYTHING on Obama, dont you think they’d be using it by now?

The church he goes to? What’s wrong with his church?

By NotInsane

February 21, 2008 10:51 AM | Link to this

Geez, a “Several Flew Over the Cookoo’s Nest” weekly publication must have been excerpted here by mistake!

I’ll guarantee you: If Osama is elected President, he won’t be the “First Black American” elected; he will surely -and forever - be known as the “FAA”* President elected. He and Michele both are African First, American(?) second. [*First African-American]

This will never end, not in our lifetimes.

By Bosch

February 21, 2008 10:53 AM | Link to this

Goldie,

GASP! Obama attends a church where gay people can attend and say it’s okay for gay people to marry, they are concerned over social justice issues like women/child abuse and celebrate their blackness! Oh my goodness! That’s it, it’s over (as I roll my eyes) :-)

By HELL HATH NO FURY LIKE A BLOGGER SCORNED! (Mad As Zell)

February 21, 2008 10:54 AM | Link to this

LuckoVICK (and IN THE BOWELS and the Ache-J-C) you lyin’ rat(s), if Bush’s approval rating is down to John McCain, then what is Congress approval rating down to? (Multiple choice)…A) The punch-drunk Harry Reid…B) The clueless marxist numb-faced botoxicated publicity-wh?re Nancy Pelosi…C) The hapless Drunken-driving Communist baby-killer, Ted Kennedy…D) The Iron-fisted, power-hungry, promisculous lesbian shrill, Hitlery KKKlinton (and her STD-spreading, serial-rapist, sex-addict husband, Bill “Sick Willie” KKKlinton…E) The Black Supremist Islamafacist who just happens to be able to speak in complete sentences (that happen to be “completely” plagarized), Bare-Rock Saddam HUSSEIN Osama…or D) All of the above…If you said D), all of the above, you are absolutely 110% percent correct, but if you refused to answer the question then you ARE a lying liberal left-wing SOS (sack of sh!t) who hates everything good that America stands for and immediately needs to be rounded up, convicted of Treason and sent to Guantamino Bay to be waterboarded and shot like the rest of your America-hating butt-buddies. SOS TRAITORS

By IN THE NEWS

February 21, 2008 10:56 AM | Link to this

[Sliming Obama January 10, 2008 Dueling chain e-mails claim he’s a radical Muslim or a ‘racist’ Christian. Both can’t be right. We find both are false.] (http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/sliming_obama.html)

Also:

[Snopes on Obama’s Church] (http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/church.asp)

By getalife

February 21, 2008 10:59 AM | Link to this

In the debate tonight, Clinton should attack Obama for being weak because they are running all over him.

We need a fighter like Clinton.

The people in Texas and Ohio like fighters not weak men that can’t take up for their wife.

By IN THE NEWS

February 21, 2008 11:00 AM | Link to this

RW @ 10:54

Please don’t pop a vein.

By RW-(the original)

February 21, 2008 11:03 AM | Link to this

(m)ental (m)idget,

Could you please show me where I demanded, or even asked for, a list of Obama’s accomplishments?

By IN THE NEWS

February 21, 2008 11:09 AM | Link to this

Obama: Actually, I Think We Can

There he was, working for nuclear non-proliferation and securing loose stockpiles of conventional weapons, like shoulder-fired missiles.

There he was again, passing what the Washington Post called “the strongest ethics legislation to emerge from Congress yet” — though not as strong as Obama would have liked

Look — he’s over there, passing a bill that created a searchable database of recipients of federal contracts and grants,

proposing legislation on avian flu back when most people hadn’t even heard of it,

working to make sure that soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan were screened for traumatic brain injury and to prevent homelessness among veterans,

successfully fighting a proposal by the VA to reexamine all PTSD cases in which full benefits had been awarded

working to ban no-bid contracts in Katrina reconstruction,

introducing legislation to criminalize deceptive political tactics and voter intimidation.

LOTS AND LOTS OF LINKS IN THIS PIECE

By mm

February 21, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this

RW,

I’m not going to waste much time on your antics today. You challenged ITN to list accomplishments.

Your bate and switch routine has gotten old.

You should have been the Whitehouse spokesman for Bush. Spin, lie, deny, repeat as necessary.

By Goldie

February 21, 2008 11:15 AM | Link to this

I predict Hillary will implode and resort to her crocodile tears during tonight’s debate…

By RW-(the original)

February 21, 2008 11:18 AM | Link to this

(m)ental (m)idget,

No I didn’t. Somebody else did and he gave them the same link that doesn’t list any accomplishments. I merely told him he should find a better link.

By Paul

February 21, 2008 11:25 AM | Link to this

Bosch

Hello again. I wonder if Romney were still a contender, the variation would be “what’s his foreign policy experience?”

Getting elected to a state legislature, amassing a record good enough to run on and win a US Senate position, seems pretty fair.

We’ve seen enough of what you’ve said or done in the past is no guarantee of future performance - so I’m more of the “tell me what you want to do” camp.

BTW - at Obama’s Dallas rally - they opened with a prayer. Concluding with the line “Barak Obama, in Jesus’ name, yes we can.”

Obama’s going after Huckabee supporters?!!?

mm – please reread. Not saying Obama will continue current policies in Iraq – just pointing out the similarities regarding Pakistan. I know, makes some uncomfortable. Or confused. Or both. But questioning one’s assumptions is a good thing.

Goldie 10:29

Glad you brought that up. Stereotypes continue to shatter.

I wonder when Chris Mathews’ll become a paid advisor for Hillary?

By IN THE NEWS

February 21, 2008 11:25 AM | Link to this

WASHINGTON - Barack Obama won the Democrats Abroad global primary in results announced Thursday, giving him 11 straight victories in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.

By IN THE BOWELS is really a HARDCORE IRON-FISTED TOTALITARIAN MARXIST who tries to a play a bleeding-u

February 21, 2008 11:34 AM | Link to this

IN THE BOWELS, you POS, your not the innocent bleeding-heart liberal you claim to be on this blog. You’re really a HARDCORE bomb-throwing marxist totalitarian left-wing lunatic Stalin-wannabe fringe Castro-loving zealot who, if given the opportunity, who do to her opponents what a Saddam Hussein or a Joseph Stalin (two of IN THE BOWELS favorite all-time heroes) did to theirs. You murderous left-wing godless atheists scum. You only want one thing: to murder whoever stands in your way of your imaginary world domination, hence the candidacy of HITLERY RATham KKKlinton and Borak HUSSEIN OSAMA…You left-wing, liberal psychos are fooling no one. Every dog has its day…

IN THE BOWELS, PROUD TO BE AN AMERICA-HATING, GODLESS, MARXIST-LENINIST-STALINIST, CASTRO-LOVING, ATHEIST, BABY-KILLIN’ LIBERAL (Just like Hitlery KKKlinton and Borak Hussein Osama)

By Bosch

February 21, 2008 11:40 AM | Link to this

Paul,

I think most people with some kind of political savy (?sp) or brain want to see concrete examples of what politicians plan to DO, the actual nuts and bolts of the plan, and Obama has put forth some of that plan, just as much as the other candidates have. To simply dismiss it is simply absurd.

If Romeny were in the running still? Well they have more to b!tch and complain about with Romney, so, no, I don’t think his lack of foreign policy experience would be brought up.

The sexy new thing to say now against Obama is “What’s his plan, where’s his substance?”

Well hell, where are Clinton, McCain and Huckabee’s?

In my opinion, the primaries are a dog and pony show. They are the beauty contests. The real nuts and bolts come in the general - that’s when the nitty gritty is decided.

Also,

“they opened with a prayer. Concluding with the line “Barak Obama, in Jesus’ name, yes we can.”

It’s Texas, Paul, are you surprised? The first thing you learn in Speech 101 is to know your audience :-)

By getalife

February 21, 2008 12:13 PM | Link to this

The Times have ruined Rove’s plan

The gop never hated McLover. Rove was punking you like Obama is punking you.

Damn, America is gillible. Never, ever trust a politician. When will you learn?

Geez.

By Ace Mulholland

February 21, 2008 12:23 PM | Link to this

Just be patient. There’s lots to come on Junior Senator. Like his card-carrying Communist mentor. And his running in college with the Communist Pan-Africanists. And his trillion dollars in proposed redistribution of American treasure. And his “hope” for “The Struggle”.

By N THE BOWELS is really a HARDCORE IRON-FISTED TOTALITARIAN MARXIST who tries to a play a bleeding-u

February 21, 2008 12:26 PM | Link to this

Libs are dirt.
Libs are slime.
Libs are gonna win this time!
I mean LOSE!!

Cause you are LOSERS!!!!! You dont love AMERICA! You love AMERIKKA!!

If you loved this country as much as I do you’d copy and paste crap from web sites all day long just to make a point.

That what makes me so SHARP because I have POINTS to make. There’s not enough time in the day to think, so you have to be quick on the draw, go through all your right wing news outlets and spin, spin, spin!!!

That’s the only way we’ll win!

We gotta spin to win!!!

Like Vanna White!!!

Aren’t you listening to me!!???

I have to go to the bathroom, where’s my bucket? No time to go to the toilet, might miss a chance to post!!!

By IN THE NEWS

February 21, 2008 12:27 PM | Link to this

I bet RW/DUH really regrets teaching me to “link” when I first started here a couple years ago…..

You know what they say.

You teach a person to link and they’ll fight the GOP and right wing madness forever.

By {{{{Sickoduh}}}}

February 21, 2008 12:27 PM | Link to this

IN THE NEWS, I understand your position on liberalism. Just like you’re proud to be a liberal, I’m just as proud to be a conservative…A CONSERVATIVE PIN CUSHION, that is because as everybody knows, if you’ve seen one GOP pr!ck, you’ve seen them all and believe me, honey, I’ve seen them ALL and they are not that impressive. I see why the Right is always so angry!!! G.O.P. definately does NOT stand for Gigantic Ol’ Pen!s, that’s for sure!!! More like (G)rand (O)ld (P)r!cks, that’s right dusty and small! Why else do you think that I stay locked up in my mother’s basement all day pretending to defend the honor of these lil’ we-we, peabrained morons on a computer? I can’t pleasure a woman with my micropen!s, so with my low, almost non-existent self esteem, I had no choice but to turn to pleasuring these hateful old pedaphiles and hypocrites. Foley, Haggard and Craig were only the tip of the (G)ay (O)ld (P)arty iceberg, honey.

P.S.: those shoes do not match that outfit, sweetie! Call the fashion police! Now!

Andie ZELLDUH, proud RepubLICKan and possessor of the world most political micropen!s. Sure does feel good to PAYLESS! What? Star is NOT on “The View” anymore!

By The libs are trashing a war hero????

February 21, 2008 12:37 PM | Link to this

No— libs can’t trash war heroes near as well as the neocons can. The GOP are the ones who attacked McCain first, but before him it was Max Cleland, Murtha, Scott Ritter, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Towing the party line is more importance than integrity in politics.

By Copyleft

February 21, 2008 12:39 PM | Link to this

If only Obama were Asian… then they could call him “inscrutable” too.

Geez, these right-wingers are really living in the 50s, aren’t they? It’s kinda fun to see their desperation tactics fail in such a spectacularly embarrassing manner.

America has MovedOn, right-wing loons… and the days of your relevance are over. Wheeee!

By {{{{Sickoduh}}}}

February 21, 2008 12:42 PM | Link to this

I admit it. I, Andy ZELLDUH, am the namejacker, because I JUST LOVE anything that has to do with JACKING, as long as I can use my hands…and my mouth…and my “personal” rear-end pin-cushion!

P.S.: Andy ZELLDUH’s personal rear-end pin cushion is for RepubLICKKKan use ONLY and for sale only to the highest (or lowest!) RepubLICKKKan bidder.

By IN THE NEWS

February 21, 2008 12:43 PM | Link to this

A Primer for Viewing the Democratic Presidential Debate

By @@

February 21, 2008 12:44 PM | Link to this

Of course, we were warned years ago about dependence on foreign oil, but you know how deaf we Repugnicants are to common sense.

By lil Ole IN THE NEWS, With rWdUH@@glENN Living Inside My Head

February 21, 2008 12:47 PM | Link to this

HI, I’M IN THE NEWS:

MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT IT, I HATE GAYS:

{{{{By {{{{Sickoduh}}}} February 21, 2008 12:27 PM I can’t pleasure a woman with my micropen!s, so with my low, almost non-existent self esteem, I had no choice but to turn to pleasuring these hateful old pedaphiles and hypocrites. Foley, Haggard and Craig were only the tip of the (G)ay (O)ld (P)arty iceberg, honey.}}}}

THOSE ICKY, NASTY REPUBLIDICKINS ARE ALL QUEERS AND WE LIBERALS HATE QUEERS.

HATE, HATE, HATE THEM.

THEY ARE SO SICKENING!

rWdUH@@glENN ARE ALL QUEERS!

ALL YOU CONSERVATIVES ARE FA-GS!

DID I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR ENOUGH?

NOW SHUT UP AND LISTEN TO ME!

By Dubya

February 21, 2008 12:49 PM | Link to this

It doth seem like only yesterday that news of Bill Clinton’s dalliances had Repunks viciously shrieking “decency” & “family values” & “Jesuss.” Now see them squeal as one of their own is similarly accused. Mister McCain. As Repug potential diminishes, all is NOT lost! Another Repug hero waits in the wings - ready for instant action: DAN QUAYLE lives! God Bluss Murka. Allah Akbar!

By NoShame

February 21, 2008 12:50 PM | Link to this

Copyleft, you’re right on, except that they don’t know enough to be embarrassed.

They think they are really complementing any minority person when they say, “He’s so well-spoken!”

Pathetic dinosaurs.

By IN THE NEWS

February 21, 2008 12:54 PM | Link to this

HuffPost Exclusive: More Lobbyists On McCain Staff Than Any Other 08 Candidate

No pun intended.

By IN THE NEWS

February 21, 2008 12:55 PM | Link to this

RW @ 12:47

Please! Think of your blood pressure!

By Artie O'Bamma

February 21, 2008 12:58 PM | Link to this

Copyleft, our guy is Asian. That’s why his campaign song goes, “Secret Asian man, secret Asian man, they’ve given you poll numbers that blow away the dame.”

By lil Ole IN THE NEWS, With rWdUH@@glENN Living Inside My Head

February 21, 2008 1:08 PM | Link to this

I’m a little teapot Short and stout

Here is my handle Here is my spout When I get all steamed up I just shout Please don’t ignore me and hear me out!

By Dick Tuck

February 21, 2008 1:09 PM | Link to this

‘Tweren’t the news of allegations of Clinton’s sexual harassment and adultery and perjury that Repugniblicans shrieking. Was news that he’d actually done it that had the country shrieking.

Can the NYT produce a blue dress with McCain’s DNA? Recordings of telephone conversations? Proof that Senator McCain has perjured himself?

By Cindi

February 21, 2008 1:10 PM | Link to this

Andy, you’re adorable as a chihuahua!!

By Luckoduh

February 21, 2008 1:11 PM | Link to this

Bawarrrghhh, spittle, spittle, bawarrrghhhh!!!

By {{{{Sickoduh}}}}

February 21, 2008 1:11 PM | Link to this

A Typical “Namejacking” Session With Andy ZellDuh (using both hands)…

Oh, yeah. Ann Coulter is 100% ALL WOMAN! Oh, yeah. Sean Hannity is a hot piece of hunky man meat, Republican Beefcase ALL THE WAY! Oh, yeah. Fox News is so Fair and Balanced! Oh, yeah, give it to me! Bill O’Really’s lookin’ out for me. No spin! No Spin! No spin damnit! Oh! Oh! Calm down. Too much excitement. Oh, yeah. Rush Limbaugh, a true American Patriot! Oh that grubby, piggish voice, it just turns me on! Oh, yeah! Oliver North, A Real American Hero! Oh, yeah! The Nixon Resignation, A Proud Moment In American History! Oh, yeah! Ronald W. Reagan, Budget cuts, Star Wars! Oh, Yeah! Jerry Falwell! Pat Robertson! Oh YEAH! George W. Bush, The Greatest President Ever! OH, YEAH!! DICK CHENEY, THE GREATEST, MOST POWERFUL, MOST HONEST VICE PRESIDENT EVER!!! VALERIE PLUME IS LIAR!!! ANN COULTER, ALL woMAN!!!! KARL ROVE, GREATEST POLITICAL GENIUS EVER!!!! I CAN’T TAKE IT, I GOING TO EXPLOOOODE!!!!!!!!!!! Oh yes! Oh yes!

By lil Ole IN THE NEWS, With rWdUH@@glENN Living Inside My Head

February 21, 2008 1:13 PM | Link to this

BUT IT’S O.K. IF YOU QUEERS WANT TO VOTE FOR US DEMOKRATS.

NOW EVERYBODY SHUT UP!

By Heather

February 21, 2008 1:14 PM | Link to this

I prefer Andy as a little teapot! LOL, that’s the funniest thing I’ve ever seen!!! He probably does have a little spout.

By Goldie

February 21, 2008 1:14 PM | Link to this

{{No time to go to the toilet, might miss a chance to post!!!}}

LMAO— I’m spitting out my Chardonnay all over myself this morning!

By Mack

February 21, 2008 1:16 PM | Link to this

Looks like that Navy Missile missed the satellite and hit McCain’s Campaign.

By Carol

February 21, 2008 1:16 PM | Link to this

Andy, when you’re tired of your dog, call me! I love boys with teensy-weensy endowments!

By Phil

February 21, 2008 1:18 PM | Link to this

No girls, back off! She’s mine!! Andy, you haven’t called in days. Please get off the computer. It’s an addiction, girlfriend!!!

By @@

February 21, 2008 1:27 PM | Link to this

@@(Not the original) and not RW either @ 12:44:

(((Of course, we were warned years ago about dependence on foreign oil, but you know how deaf we Repugnicants are to common sense.)))

Agree with you on the warning. Heck the warnings go as far back as JFK. Among some of Carter’s policies, I could have been on board with his promotion of nuclear energy had I been of age to vote but alas, it was Paul Volcker, one of the many Trilateral Commission agents in the Carter team, who dashed the attempts to go nuclear.

Volcker has endorsed who for president? Oh yea….Barack Obama.

It’s those damn capitalist oil companies. They’ve got big bucks and Obama and Volcker want their profits. To hell with nuclear energy—ain’t no money to be made in that.

By Ronald Reagan

February 21, 2008 1:30 PM | Link to this

Andy, dear son. Give it a rest, why don’t you? You’ve got me and Bonzo spinning in our graves! You give Republicans a bad name! You need to cancel those disability claims and get back to work!

By Mack

February 21, 2008 1:31 PM | Link to this

Question to ask yourself, america: “Is my country trapped deeper in a quagmire than it was four years ago?”

Vote Obama. He’ll change that.

By Sideline Reporters

February 21, 2008 1:32 PM | Link to this

Reporter #1: It seems that Andy ZellDuh’s days of “dishing it out” are coming to a rude and abrupt end. Abrupt rudeness-pretty much the way Andy ZellDuh has shamelessly mistreated the other bloggers on this blog over the years.

Reporter #2: You know what they say-“If you can dish it, then YOU SURE AS HELL ARE GOING TO TAKE it!

Reporter #1: “What comes around, goes around” and Mr. ZELLDUH is in for ONE HELL of a RUDE awakening.

Roasted wingnuts anyone?

Andy ZellDuh and the GOP’s RUDE awakening will start in November, right after this brutal General Election Season. Brutal for RepubLICKKKans, that is!

By Say It Ain't So

February 21, 2008 1:36 PM | Link to this

I guess if an ‘R’ candidate is reported to have had an affair 8-10 years ago, it is front page news and reason enough to hang said ‘R’.

However, when a ‘D’ candidate is reported to currently having a same-sex affair it does not even make the back page and is nothing to be concerned with.

By mm

February 21, 2008 1:37 PM | Link to this

McCain loan raises REC questions

The GOP joke continues. Can’t they do anything right?

Primary qualifying issue. Hanky panky lobbyist. Out of money. Campaign loan snag.

Not a good day for McCain.

By Say It Ain't So

February 21, 2008 1:47 PM | Link to this

Moron, don’t you know when any candidate is in the news with sex, it’s always front page. What goes to the back is soldiers’ deaths.

By Andy's Mom

February 21, 2008 1:48 PM | Link to this

Now you leave my poor little Andy alone!!! His life is hard enough, uh, wrong choice of words, sorry. It’s difficult enough for Andy to have to go through life with a small we-we!!! Now he has to deal with the neighborhood children picking on him while his days as a GOP strategist and loyal knee-pad soldier, ummm, I mean foot soldier, catch up with him. Because of you all, the lock can’t even be off of the basement door unless he is heavily medicated!

By lil Ole IN THE NEWS, With rWdUH@@glENN Living Inside My Head

February 21, 2008 1:53 PM | Link to this

{{{{By Sideline Reporters February 21, 2008 1:32 PM Reporter #1: It seems that Andy ZellDuh’s days of “dishing it out” are coming to a rude and abrupt end.}}}}

What about Polly Thumbsuckers days of “dishing it out?”

What about Amvet’s days of “dishing it out?”

What about the “pope’s” days of “dishing it out?”

What about IN THE NEWS and it’s incessant blog stalking?

Spineless sputtering kowards, you can’t take what you started a long, long time ago.

Behold the archives, sissy, whiny little pantie waist.

Weaklings.

GFY.

By Copyleft

February 21, 2008 1:55 PM | Link to this

Say It Ain’t So (quote) However, when a ‘D’ candidate is reported to currently having a same-sex affair it does not even make the back page and is nothing to be concerned with.

Yep… because Democrats aren’t as obsessed with sexual puritanism as the Repugnants are, so they can’t fall into the hypocrisy trap like their GOP counterparts.

Isn’t it great, being more evolved than the right? Of course, that’s not saying much, but still…!

(snicker)

By N-GA

February 21, 2008 1:55 PM | Link to this

Paul,

I don’t believe that Obama’s statements about going after OBL in Pakistan can be compared to Bush pre-emptively invading Iraq. Obama supported US action against the Taliban to get OBL. He did not support going into Iraq.

So let’s not get bogged down in suggesting that there is not all that much difference in what Obama would do and what our current occupant in the White House is/has/would doing/done/do.

I would also suggest that the “evidence” needs to be re-examined. The “evidence” that this administration wanted to depose Saddam Hussein from day 1 is, I believe, far more compelling than the “evidence” used to invade Iraq.

Too many people equate Iraq with the “War on Terror”. They declare that leaving Iraq is a retreat in the “War on Terror”. So let me be the first to re-name the War in Iraq. It shall now and henceforth be known as “The Mother of All Bush Screw-ups”.

By getalife

February 21, 2008 1:56 PM | Link to this

Rove’s plan was very good. Now, all the cons who spewed their outrage about MCain are rallying around him.

Why is that?

Could they have been punking you?

Of course, America is very gullible.

Rule # 1 in politics:

Never, ever trust a politician.

Especially, the gop and rove.

Obama is punking you too but rove has been sucessful on eliminating Clinton so far.

They do not want the karma of Clinton because she is a fighter.

By Harry Jaffa

February 21, 2008 1:59 PM | Link to this

Don’t buy that stuff from “Ronald Reagan”, Andy. Mr. Reagan is deceased. Trust me on this; I attended his funeral.

Keep the faith.

By Say It Ain't So

February 21, 2008 2:02 PM | Link to this

Sorry, copyleft, it IS the left that is making a big deal about an 8-10 year old story. But again, you seem to miss the obvious point.

By Political Foreskin

February 21, 2008 2:11 PM | Link to this

Pay attention to ME! Pay attention to ME! Pay attention to ME! Pay attention to ME! Pay attention to ME! Pay attention to ME! Attention to ME! To ME! To ME! To ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME ME ME ME ME ME ME!

By lil Ole IN THE NEWS, With rWdUH@@glENN Living Inside My Head

February 21, 2008 2:13 PM | Link to this

I’M IN THE NEWS!

THIS IS MY BLOG, ALL YOU OTHER PEOPLE CAN STFU.

I DO NOT LIKE TO HEAR YOUR OPINION, ALL THOSE BIG WORDS THAT I DO NOT UNDERSTAND, IT MAKES MY HEAD HURT.

SO ALL I CAN DO IS ATTACK YOUR FAMILY:

{{{{By Andy’s Mom February 21, 2008 1:48 PM Now you leave my poor little Andy alone!!!}}}}

AREN’T I A GENIUS?

REMEMBER, WE ARE WEAK AND STUPID SO ALL WE CAN DO IS CALL YOU A F-AG AND ATTACK YOUR FAMILY.

IF WE WEREN’T SUCH COWARDS WE WOULD SUICIDE BOMB YOU.

WE TAKE THIS SILLY POLITICAL BLOG DISCUSSION SERIOUSLY, IT IS OUR ONLY LIVES AND YOU DEEPLY OFFEND US BY BARGING IN TO OUR BLOG.

WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO TALK BAD ABOUT AMERICA, COMMIT TREASON AGAINST THE BRAVE SOLDIERS OF THE UNITED STATES AND LOVE ON AL QAEDA, BUT NO, YOU HAVE TO OPEN YOUR MOUTHS AND FRIGHTEN US.

SO STFU OR ELSE!

By ZELLDUH LOSES IT!!!!!!

February 21, 2008 2:16 PM | Link to this

“Head of Middle-Aged Republican Man With World’s Smallest Penis Explodes All Over Keyboard In Mother’s Basement!!

Man’s? Mother Says Tragedy Heightened Because Victim Had Just Won A “Hot Date” With Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly and Ann Coulter and had been Promised Group sex afterwards!

By mm

February 21, 2008 2:18 PM | Link to this

SIAS,

How is the left making a big deal of this? I didn’t know the NYT was running for public office as a democrat.

I doubt Obama will bring up this subject because he is above such sleaziness. But if it were the other way around McCain and his swiftboating campaign would attack like a bulldog.

By Bosch

February 21, 2008 2:18 PM | Link to this

N-GA -

I second your suggestion at re-naming the Iraq War.

By Paul

February 21, 2008 2:24 PM | Link to this

N-GA 1:55

Hello. Let’s see if this goes through. I gave up a couple hours ago - have had one waiting for ITN with CNN and NYT links on this topic.

As I said to mm, I was not drawing a comparison between Bush/Iraq and Obama/Pakistan. Not at all. Two separate theaters of operations. I was pointing out the similarities between Obama’s Pakistan comments and proposed actions and Bush’s Pakistan comments and actions. Hence my “did Bush endorse Obama’s Pakistan comments” or “did Obama endorse Bush’s Pakistan comments” to ITN. BTW - I don’t think you can endorse something that hasn’t happened, so it must be Obama endorsed Bush.

And if that’s a bit much, then I’ll posit their positions on the topic of Pakistan aren’t all that dissimilar. Which I find eminently interesting. Especially given that to point such out can cause a bit of consternation.

That’s a fair comment on the War on Terror. Never did like that term, as I’ve written. Naming a war after a tactic is akin to renaming WWII the “War on Blitzkreig” or “War on Island Hopping.” ‘Course, it took us, what, two years for this administration to discuss Islamic fundamentalists/jihadists as the source?

On a related topic, one I’d love to see addressed in the general election. Kosovo and Iran. Looking for consistency from Obama.

US went into Kosovo without UN approval. Some argue against UN opposition for invasion. Sound familiar? We’ve been there nearly ten years. Main argument some make is to withdraw would be to invite a bloodbath. So we stay. Sound familiar?

So, for Sen Obama, the question is: will he treat Kosovo the same as he wants to treat Iraq? Please don’t say as long as we aren’t taking casualties we should leave troops there forever - or even for 100 years. Or that the scale of operations is different. I’m looking at the practical, bottom-line logic of taking one action where we initiated military action on our own and now have troops there in perpetuity, and in a remarkably similar situation, doing the same as what in the other theater engenders criticism.

I’ll go along with “politics” as the most palatable answer.

By Say It Ain't So

February 21, 2008 2:27 PM | Link to this

Bosch 10:32. That’s twice this year that I’ve had to agree with you.

“Have any of the candidates given specific, concrete examples of what they are planning to do different? McCain? Clinton? No specifics from anyone”

It is a sad day for the country when this is the best either side can produce.

By Candy

February 21, 2008 2:29 PM | Link to this

Andie.

Andy.

Andie.

Andrea.

Andy, Ted Haggart and Larry Craig sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G!!!

By Bosch

February 21, 2008 2:29 PM | Link to this

Hmmmm, Say It Ain’t So,

I wonder, let’s just say, hypothetically, that the same story came out - broken by Fox News (which, of course, is completely hypothetical because they don’t actually do any research or use any sources), and the name was Barack Obama instead of John McCain and it was about an indiscretion 8-10 years ago ——

hmmmm………I wonder what you’d be saying right now about that.

By Say It Ain't So

February 21, 2008 2:33 PM | Link to this

Let’s translate ITN’s 10:36 post shall we.

Liberal Manifesto:

1- Libs believe in stopping development and growth, murdering unborn children, not responding to attacks until they are sure that everything is perfect and supporting our enemies over our own government is the highest form of patriotism.

2- Libs believe in watching a fictitious movie and touting it as a factual documentary, denouncing Jesus as a myth and crutch for the weak, not understanding simple math and supporting income redistribution.

3- Libs believe in civil rights as long as it’s someone else’s problem and does not affect them and that junk science is to be taken as facts and not to be doubted or challenged.

4- Libs believe that if they do not like you or what you stand for then they have every right to discriminate against said person and prevent said person from holding a job.

5- Libs believe that the government is responsible for everything and that personal accountability is not necessary.

6- Libs believe that they know what is best for our troops and not the medical folks who are trained to deal with the issues.

7- Libs believe that there way is the only way, that what is good for ‘the people’ is what is good for everyone. That a president should show panic in front of young children and overreact before he collects the needed information.

8- And above all, Libs believe in the collective power and not in the individual.

Proud Not to be a Socialist Liberal!

By GreenJeans

February 21, 2008 2:36 PM | Link to this

Momcat at 10:33:

You’ve said a mouthful. Obamaphoria is no match for the Republicans’ marksmanship.

In Rove’s own words, their strategy has been/will be to hit hard and pile on, every day at every opportunity.

My concern is that there isn’t enough substance to BO to withstand that kind of assault, while holding his own AND launching HopeDreamYesWeCan version 2.4.

By Say It Ain't So

February 21, 2008 2:40 PM | Link to this

Bosch, I would not be saying much about the story. A person’s sexual adventures do not interest me unless I’m involved in them. Lying to the American people about anything is a problem.

By N-GA

February 21, 2008 2:44 PM | Link to this

Paul,

I agree, and would also like to know his (Obama’s) position on Kosovo.

All too often our leaders are quick to condemn (the United Nations), yet are willing to use them for their own ends (UN resolution used as an excuse to invade Iraq). Talk about flip-flopping (or would this be a case of Hypocrisy?)! And this quality is certainly “bi-partisan”.

I disagree with using one international body’s “authority” to conduct war in one instance because their position happens to agree with ours.

By Bosch

February 21, 2008 2:51 PM | Link to this

And Say It Ain’t So,

GASP!!! You agreed with me? What was the other time?

“A person’s sexual adventures do not interest me unless I’m involved in them.”

I can also agree with you on that!

I also agree on the lying comment too.

My point earlier about if the tables were turned, wasn’t so much directed at you, but you know if a story like that came out about Obama - Fox News would be all over it - singing from the highest rooftops!

I personally don’t care about McCain’s sex life or lack there of!

By Proof that McCain is really a Democrat

February 21, 2008 2:56 PM | Link to this

He likes women!

By Paul

February 21, 2008 2:58 PM | Link to this

N-GA

Was it you or RE - I think RE - who offered a hard-nosed realistic answer to a similar line of questioning about invading Sudan?

“Because we can.”

Many object to that as the arrogant assertion of power. So be it. But at times it fits.

Pursuit of national interests - or application of will even when there doesn’t seem to be a national interest - can be inconsistent, arrogant and heavy-handed. But that’s just the way it is. That’s why we see some like Biden continuing to beat the drum for Sudan intervention. Because we can, and as he thinks, because we should (and the “not worth one American life” argument should be forever relegated to the soundbite trash can).

BTW - last year SecDef Gates told NATO that if they didn’t meet their Afghanistan commitments he’d pull troops out of Kosovo. We have around 1600 there, I think. Afghanistan’s largely a NATO operation - they do the things US forces in Iraq have been doing under the surge (I just love these parallels). CENTOM directs the US forces primarily engaged in hunting down insurgents.

I still think we should consider paying the farmers for their poppies, there. Cut the drug-dealing warlords off at the knees. Destroy the heroin supply. The villagers’d love us.

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February 21, 2008 3:01 PM | Link to this

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By Luckoduh is Bush's Boy

February 21, 2008 3:05 PM | Link to this

His bum boy, that is.

By Paul

February 21, 2008 3:05 PM | Link to this

Bosch

I generally distinguish between Fox News (on or two shows on the network) and the entertainers on Fox News.

I’m rather confident some (such as Hannity) would run with it in one form or another. But others - I listened to O’Reilly take the NYT to task for the “story” - because it was based upon two anonymous sources hostile to McCain, was full of innuendo with no fact to back it up.

BTW - Hillary said a couple days ago she was treated better by Fox News than by NBC or MSNBC. It’s a strange political world…

By Apocalypse

February 21, 2008 3:05 PM | Link to this

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By Why Conservative Men Can't Stand McCain

February 21, 2008 3:10 PM | Link to this

McCain likes sex with women.

They can’t stand it.

By Apocalypse

February 21, 2008 3:16 PM | Link to this

Obama Wins Democrats Abroad by Landslide Margin
Posted: 09:12 AM ET

(CNN) — Barack Obama has won the Democrats Abroad Global Primary, according to the International Chair for the Democrats Abroad, Christine Marques.

Marques tells CNN the results of the week-long vote were:

Barack Obama – 65 percent, Hillary Clinton – 32 percent, with the rest of the candidates pulling in less than 1 percent of the vote each.

Democrats Abroad will send 22 delegates to the Democratic Convention, with half a vote each, carrying a total of 11 votes.

According to Democrats Abroad UK Chairman Bill Barnard, eight of the 22 will be superdelegates: two of those have said they will support Clinton, two have said they will support Obama, and four are undecided. Fourteen of the 22 will be pledged delegates.

Voting in the Democrats Abroad Global Primary began on Super Tuesday, February 5 and continued through February 12. Voting centers were set up in 33 countries, including the UK, France, Germany, Mexico, Canada, Italy, Japan, Hong Kong and new chapters in Istanbul, Ukraine, Russia and Indonesia — the highest number of voting centers in the primary’s history.

This was the first cycle that Democrats Abroad enabled those who live in countries without voting centers to vote by mail, fax or Internet.

Democrats Abroad will not release its membership numbers, but the largest communities of U.S. expatriates live in Canada, Mexico and the United Kingdom.

–CNN’s Jonathan Wald

By Mel

February 21, 2008 3:16 PM | Link to this

Dubya (12:49). As always you are correct. Whether or not the McCain thing pans out, it is pleasant to see the rancid Republiscum masses wretching about and adding still more hatred to their already hate-filled existences. Viva Quayle and the Bush who brought him!

By N-GA

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

It wasn’t I who said “…because we can”, but I’m unwilling to go on to say it was RE.

Now then, “Pursuit of National Interests”….hmmmmmmmm. Could some President interpret that to mean that oil is a strategic need, and the US needs to get it before the PRC does, so let’s invade. I’m not suggesting for a moment that ever happened. lol

But the problem is in the interpretation. Going into the Sudan may be defended as a moral responsibility, but is it in the Pursuit of our national interests?

The Korean Conflict ended in a stalemate. There was “peace” for 50 years, then….? And the US paid a great deal of money to keep forces there. Was the stalemate worth it? Should we have continued the war to a decisive end? What about the occupying costs in Germany and Japan? That was a war with a decisive end, yet those countries have not had to sustain large military budgets in the intervening years…they plowed that money back into their economies. So Kosovo is another stalemate…and we will continue to pay for the occupation there, as well.

The irony of all this can be expressed thusly:

For decades the US has maintained military bases all over the world. In the Phillipines, Spain, Italy, Turkey, etc. we support tens of thousands of military personnel and their families. In order to provide this “protection”, we pay these governments billions of dollars every year to “lease” these facilities. And we are required to employ many thousands of local people on these bases. And we must leave these bases virtually intact when we leave…We pay THEM!!!!!!!

Duh!!!!

By Paul

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

Why 3:10

RW said he’d sit out the election because McCain’s the nominee. I think getalife said the same if Obama’s the nominee. But I think, given getalife’s past posts, that he’ll vote for McCain just to have Cindy McCain in the White House.

McCain’s gonna take it. And Obama never saw it coming -

By Apocalypse

February 21, 2008 3:23 PM | Link to this

Youngest Superdelegate Endorses Obama
February 21, 2008 Superdelegate schmoozed by Chelsea backs Obama Posted: 10:15 AM ET

(CNN) – A few weeks ago, 21-year-old Wisconsin superdelegate Jason Rae was taken out to breakfast by Chelsea Clinton in the runup to that state’s Democratic primary.

Two days after the vote, the college junior – who will be the youngest superdelegate at this year’s Democratic National Convention — is undecided no longer: he’s backing Barack Obama.

“The Democratic Party is fortunate to have two very talented individuals running for President this election,” said Rae in a statement released by the Obama campaign Thursday. “It is a difficult choice for anyone, but in the end, the choice for me has become clear. I am proudly supporting Senator Barack Obama.”

He cited Obama’s support from an overwhelming majority of young voters as the major reason for his decision.

The Democratic Party’s roughly 800 superdelegates – who can cast their votes for any candidate they choose, regardless of their state’s primary or caucus results – have been at the center of a fierce lobbying effort by the campaigns of both Barack Obama and Chelsea Clinton’s mother, Hillary Clinton.

Rae, a Marquette University history and political science major, talked political strategy and electability over a half-hour breakfast with the former First Daughter a little more than a week before his state’s February 19 primary.

He said then he had also been called by former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who tried to convince him to vote for Clinton, and by Sen. John Kerry, who urged him to back Obama. He also spoke with Barack Obama’s wife, Michelle Obama.

–CNN Associate Political Editor Rebecca Sinderbrand

By Bosch

February 21, 2008 3:23 PM | Link to this

Paul,

Yes, it is a strange political world, but you are fooling yourself if you think for ONE minute the Rush/Hannity/Coulter/O’Reillys in this country would be all over this like a duck on a junebug.

No fact to back it up? Please. I know the Times is a liberal paper, but they are credible, much more so than any of the “news” outlets those right wing kooks work for.

BTW,

“I still think we should consider paying the farmers for their poppies, there. Cut the drug-dealing warlords off at the knees. Destroy the heroin supply. The villagers’d love us.”

I like that. If we do that, can we get the opium sent to us directly? Cool! I like opium (just kidding :-) although codeine IS an opiate — hmmmm, I’ll have to give this more thought)

“Because we can” [invade Sudan]?

Yeah, I think we could take those thugs armed with axes and machetes. Like the Indiana Jones scene where the knife-wielding bad guy is doing all this fancy sh!t with his knives and Jones takes out his gun and shoots him. Classic.

Should we? Yes.

By ourselves? Nope. Never unilaterally. If things go wrong, like in Iraq? Who are we going to blame? Certainly, the US can’t EVER do anything wrong!

By Luckoduh is Crazy About Dick Cheney

February 21, 2008 3:24 PM | Link to this

With or without the Cheney.

By Paul

February 21, 2008 3:25 PM | Link to this

N-GA

On this subject, we’re both playing from the same sheet of music.

One of my favorite examples - withdrawal of significant forces from S Korea - was criticized by… Sen Kerry. Because the Bush Administration did it. As I’ve noted - no candidate - from either party - has the nerve to say “we need to cut the defense budget and here’s how.”

Geez. I’m really sounding like a neocon, now…

By GreenJeans

February 21, 2008 3:26 PM | Link to this

Getalife, interesting food for thought at 12:13. I’ve got one foot in Texas, one foot in Colorado, and don’t see/hear (other than in the media) disproportionate hoopla for BO.

Here in CO, our local caucus was split 50/50.

Carpetbagging Republicans, and that behind-the-scene look at the MSM have given me an “aha” moment that rings true.

By GOPers Hate Sodomy

February 21, 2008 3:31 PM | Link to this

… only if it is heterosexual.

By Apocalypse

February 21, 2008 3:32 PM | Link to this

Cleveland Mayor Endorses Obama

Sen. Barack Obama received the endorsement of Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson on Thursday, at an event with Obama’s wife Michelle at Cleveland State.

Obama now has the backing of the mayors of Ohio’s top two cities: Columbus — whose mayor Michale Coleman announced his support in October — and Cleveland.

Both Jackson and Coleman’s support should play a helpful role for Obama in the state’s upcoming March 4 primary. Sen. Hillary Clinton deemed Ohio (and Texas) as her campaign’s firewall. And while the New York Democrat holds a relatively substantial lead in recent polls, Obama has recently gained steam, aided in part by his 11 straight primary wins.

Jackson, the first African-American Italian mayor of the city, won election in November 2005 with 55 percent of the vote. His brief tenure has, for the most part, been a positive one, as he has pushed for changes in the city’s police force and a joint-tax sharing venture between Cleveland and its suburbs. Recently, he snubbed his local congressman and former presidential candidate Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D-Ohio), by endorsing Cleveland City Councilman Joe Cimperman to take his seat.

By raisedanidiot

February 21, 2008 3:38 PM | Link to this

does it bother anyone else here to have to read campaign fund-raising pitches? hello all…good to read everybody again. What the hell have you guys been feeding duh? He appears to be busting a major organ today…all the world’s a stage these days dont you agree? 08 is gonna be more fun than cheese grits…I’m not mcworried at all, mccain is soooooo mcbeatable its not even mcfunny. so do you guys see a mccain/mchuckabee ticket pandering to the religious self-righteous in our near future? Its an ugly yet funny visual…sort of like watching somebody butt-picking.

By Bosch

February 21, 2008 3:38 PM | Link to this

Dang! Speaking of Kosovo - those damn Serbians are p!ssed!

By Bosch

February 21, 2008 3:43 PM | Link to this

Hey raisedanidiot! What’s up! Missed seeing you around here -

Mmmmm, mmmmmm, cheese grits, you know that’s one of my favorites - throw some shrimp in and that’s some good eatin’ right there!

Oh my God what’s happened to me? I had pinto beans, corn bread, and steamed cabbage last night for dinner and all that Southern soul food has turned me into a redneck!

Help!

By Truthman

February 21, 2008 3:46 PM | Link to this

I’m just glad McCain was trying to boink a woman.

Seems most male repugs are trying to make a sequel to “Brokeback Mountain.”

Bwahahahahaha!!!

Icemengate…ICEMENGATE…ICEMANGATE!!! Say it with me, now!!!

By Truthman

February 21, 2008 3:52 PM | Link to this

Obama campaign slogan:

“Once you go Barack, you never go back!!”

Copyright 2008 by TM

By Apocalypse

February 21, 2008 3:53 PM | Link to this

This is for that Representative that got stumped by Chris Matthews on MSNBC:

Obama’s Legislative Accomplishments:

Obama served 8 years of elected service in Illinois legislature Obama sponsored over 820 bills introducing:

233 regarding healthcare reform, 125 on poverty and public assistance, 112 crime fighting bills, 97 economic bills, 60 human rights and anti-discrimination bills, 21 ethics reform bills, 15 gun control bills, 6 veterans affairs bills and many others.

His first year in the U.S. Senate, he authored 152 bills and co-sponsored another 427. These include:

The Coburn-Obama Government Transparency Act of 2006 became law The Lugar-Obama Nuclear Non-proliferation and Conventional Weapons Threat Reduction Act became law The Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act, passed Senate, The 2007 Government Ethics Bill became law, The Protection Against Excessive Executive Compensation Bill, In committee Barack Obama is responsible for web site that let’s you check government spending: http://www.USASpending.Gov

You can get the full list from: http://thomas.loc.gov/

By Paul

February 21, 2008 4:04 PM | Link to this

Apocalypse

Many mistakenly thought that since an Obama supporter being interviewed could not name an “accomplishment” that Obama didn’t have any.

Not so. All it meant was the supporter didn’t do his homework.

By HorridTard

February 21, 2008 4:06 PM | Link to this

raiseanidiot,

Sorry, ITN and I have been punishing DUH the punisher, giving her a taste of her own medicine, so to speak.

At first I wasn’t entirely sure it was the right thing to do, but then, it was like opening a bag of tostitos with a hot bowl of queso, and I just couldn’t help myself.

I’d like to thank Mack for my new name of the moment.

By Apocalypse

February 21, 2008 4:08 PM | Link to this

That’s right Paul.

Are you too ready to join the ObamaNation?

By Paul

February 21, 2008 4:13 PM | Link to this

Bosch

Okay, you’ve changed my dinner plans.
Had some shrimp left over - wife getting over flu so last night I made her some pasta-shrimp-olive oil- capers-lemon comfort food. I was planning on stuffed bell peppers - but it’s gonna be cheese grits. Saw this recipe from Alton Brown. Looks good. Gotta find some white wine. N-GA - they’re cheese grits, so I assume the protocol for wine pairing is - white. So if anybody asks what kind, I say “white.” Like Bosch said, gotta analyze the audience -

Link: Alton Brown’s Shrimp and Hot Sauce Cheese Grits

By Paul

February 21, 2008 4:19 PM | Link to this

Bosch -

Sorry - that wasn’t Brown’s - it was from a link.

Link: {Alton Brown’s cheese grits](http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,,FOOD993629048,00.html)

Just tryin’ to be accurate -

Apocalypse

Still assessing. With an open mind. Not much for labels.

By **shudder**

February 21, 2008 4:20 PM | Link to this

“Are you too ready to join the ObamaNation?”

Holy crap, that’s just one lock-step away from “for us or against us.”

EEEeeek!

By Associated Press

February 21, 2008 4:21 PM | Link to this

New York City (AP) — The Clinton campaign announced today that it has petitioned the Democratic National Committee to allocate Party delegates based on a Time/CNN poll taken five weeks ago. The poll, taken of some 5,400 registered Democrats, showed that Democrats prefer Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) over Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) for the Democratic presidential nomination by a margin of 11 points.

Terry McCauliffe, spokesman for the Clinton campaign, said that “it’s only fair” that the wishes of “thousands of loyal Democrats” be counted in the run-up to the Democratic National Convention in August. “To do otherwise would be reminiscent of a dark past of political disenfranchisement in this country,” said McCauliffe.

Contacted for a response, Sen. Obama was unavailable for comment Thursday.

The poll showed 47 percent of those questioned favoring Hillary Clinton, compared with only 36 percent for Barack Obama, with the remainder of respondents supporting Bill Clinton for President. The margin of error was 5 percent.

By Apocalypse

February 21, 2008 4:24 PM | Link to this

Paul,

Cool beans man.

By Bosch

February 21, 2008 4:25 PM | Link to this

Paul,

Hope your wife gets better - I’ve still got some killer cough medicine with codeine if she needs it!

Alton Brown is great - I love his show. I watch it almost every night, but I’ve got to get caught up with Lost tonight. Do you watch that show?

Just remember though, white wine and cough medicine don’t mix!

By lil Ole IN THE NEWS, With rWdUH@@glENN Living Inside My Head

February 21, 2008 4:29 PM | Link to this

{{{{According to the reports, Clinton raised about $20 million in January, including her loan. She spent nearly $29 million during the month…spending $3.8 million on messaging guru Mark Penn and $1,300 at Dunkin’ Donuts, just to name a few expenditures.}}}}

Boy, what a dedicated employee that Mark Penn is, committed heart and soul to the KKKlintons, practically working for free at $3.8 million.

Hahaha, and what bang they got for that buck, “say Bill, go out and call him another Jesse Jackson, and on your way back get another box of dunkin donuts for your fat “wife.”

Gosh, I’m so in awe of that vast liberal intelligence.

Now go ahead IN THE NEWS, call me a f-ag.

By @@

February 21, 2008 4:30 PM | Link to this

Obama has responded to Kosovo’s independence.

(((In his comments on Kosovo’s declaration of independence, Barack Obama said: “Kosovo’s independence is a unique situation resulting from the irreparable rupture Slobodan Milosevic’s actions caused; it is in no way a precedent for anyone else in the region or around the world.”)))

Well, actually it has set a precedent. I’m reading where several countries are looking at Kosovo and saying if they can do it why can’t we? Even Palestine.

(((“Nobody is suffering more than the Palestinian people,” Obama told voters in Iowa on Sunday.)))

(((In the past, Obama has spoken highly of the Palestinian people and the calamities they’ve faced.)))

I think he blamed it on Hamas. I think Obama said Hamas needs to let their people go. I think he said that Hamas needs to settle their differences with Israel

(((There are a lot of memories, there’s a lot of history, there are a lot of grudges and bitterness and in some ways it reminds us of how lucky we are as Americans that ironically we don’t have this kind of history. It’s easier for us to forget and move on. It’s much harder for people here (Palestine) who are seeing everyday the roots of their own people and the conflicts that go back generation after generation.)))

If we’re so darn lucky then why does he keep recalling “memories” of the Bush administration, the political “grudges” and “bitterness” between the parties in all of his campaign speeches?

What I want to know is how will “the policies” he promotes bring us together when our perspectives of what will improve our country and serve our vital interests are so very different?

They won’t. His policies will be “forced” upon him by other countries whose self-interest is paramount.

Come out of your bubble Obama. There’s difficult work ahead and not everybody will be happy with your policies given the circumstances of today’s global world. Your policies may even prove to be detrimental to your legacy (if you are unfortunate enough to have one) and the United States.

We can always dream though.

Now ^^^ there’s something I can believe in. Shute, I can’t even control what I’ll be dreaming about when I go to sleep. Sometimes they turn out t

By Apocalypse

February 21, 2008 4:30 PM | Link to this

Bosch,

The Apocalypse is glad you and Paul are here.

I was beginning to think that I was the only earthling here.

By Goldie

February 21, 2008 4:32 PM | Link to this

So, exactly how does McCan’ts “ethics reform” persona square around having an “inappropriate” relationship with a Washington LOBBYIST?

“For McCain, Self-Confidence on Ethics Poses Its Own Risk”

A female lobbyist had been turning up with him at fund-raisers, visiting his offices and accompanying him on a client’s corporate jet. Convinced the relationship had become romantic, some of his top advisers intervened to protect the candidate from himself — instructing staff members to block the woman’s access, privately warning her away and repeatedly confronting him, several people involved in the campaign said on the condition of anonymity.

WOW— Is this just more of the Sex-Talk Express coming thru for McCan’t?

By N-GA

February 21, 2008 4:34 PM | Link to this

Paul,

I love cheese grits, but have never paired a wine with it (them?). Considering the shrimp with the cheese grits and assuming they are similar to polenta, you can go with Pinot Grigio or a Spanish Albarino.

BTW, if the interest in the primaries carries over into November, then Obama gets the brass ring. If the young voters don’t show up, McCain will likely eke out a win.

By Glenn

February 21, 2008 4:35 PM | Link to this

Hey Bosch and Paul,

I just learned that Alton Brown lives here, and is a member of my church. Wonder where he (obviously) studied Food Science.

Brown in a TV kitchen reminds me of myself at Age 7, with my first chemistry set. Bet he never turned on the light in the darkroom at Age 11, though, or nearly blew up a physics lab when he was 18.

Besides, I’m pretty sure his crab cakes are better.

Bosch is so right, though, Paul. Not white wine. Brandy. Try a Tea & Sypathy: One shot of Brandy, followed by a serving of tea; then slurry of honey cut with Brandy, to taste; add lemon juice and garnish with the Brandy.

Your wife will feel better. I promise.

By @@

February 21, 2008 4:42 PM | Link to this

Now I can give a C-Average idiot like Bush a chance at the White House, but someone who graduated from Harvard with honors…I don’t know if I can trust them. They might be too educated, if you get my drift.

By @@

February 21, 2008 4:48 PM | Link to this

Whoops! over ml’s dictated limit.

(((Sometimes they turn out to be nightmares.)))

By raisedanidiot

February 21, 2008 4:49 PM | Link to this

hey bosch! you cool cheese grit eatn dude! things are wet down here in the deep south today…i did my part for my girl Hillary, we’ll see if my vote will actually count for once…I’m not holding my breath…I’m cool with Obama too though. just staying busy working for the man…smoke em if ya got em…these customers wont let me blog, man…the nerve.

By Paul

February 21, 2008 4:51 PM | Link to this

@@

I trust you read Stratfor’s latest - argues many, many countries don’t want to see this as precedent because of their own internal problems.

“One of the principles of a stable Europe has been the inviolability of borders from outside interference, as well as the principle that borders cannot be redefined except with mutual agreement. This principle repeatedly was reinforced by international consensus, most notably at Yalta in 1945 and Helsinki in 1973.

Thus, the Czech Republic and Slovakia could agree to separate, and the Soviet Union could dissolve itself into its component republics, but the Germans cannot demand the return of Silesia from Poland; outsiders cannot demand a British withdrawal from Northern Ireland; and the Russians cannot be forced to give up Chechnya. The principle that outside powers can’t redefine boundaries, and that secessionist movements can’t create new nations unilaterally, has been a pillar of European stability.”

Apocalypse 4:30

Guess again….

Goldie 4:32

Again, allegations by anonymous sources does not a fact make. I’m saying I don’t know what he did (and as with a past Pres, I really do not care) - and the NYT furthered speculation and innuendo.

This sort of stuff just detracts from the real issues that could cause voters to split for him or for Obama. I don’t think this is one of those critical issues.

N-GA

Pinot Gris it is.

It’ll be similar to polenta. Corn meal, cut/ground to various degrees, goes under several names. Grits/polenta - cooked cornmeal - similar like whole milk and two percent are similar.

I like the grits/polenta refrigerated in a loaf pan, then fried and served with maple syrup for breakfast.

Without the Pinot Grigio -

By N-GA

February 21, 2008 4:55 PM | Link to this

Gold is sitting at $945/oz. It’s the perfect storm:

Iraq War + dollar devaluation + oil prices = Bull Gold Market

By Paul

February 21, 2008 4:58 PM | Link to this

Glenn

Culinary Institute of America. Was remembered by the instructors for writing down everything and wanting to know “why” what happened happened when he cooked, combined ingredients, etc.

And thanks for the remedy. I think I may try it. And I’m not even sick. Physically, anyways…

By Dusty

February 21, 2008 5:02 PM | Link to this

Dear Paul, @@ and Glenn,

Just came over from Wooten’s to see what’s for dinner tonight. Sounds like cheese grits. Last night’s crab cakes were delightful. We called them deviled crab at home. Baked them in the shell not long after we pulled them out the river.

I like cheese grits but have too many leftovers tonight. (Thou must not waste!) Any ideas for yesterday’s steak and boiled potatoes? We are tired of beef stew.

By @@

February 21, 2008 5:02 PM | Link to this

The Other @@:

I’ve got a nephew who teaches economics at Georgia Tech. All during his life he tested in the 0.13% of the population listed as exceptionally gifted.

Outside the classroom he can’t distinguish his you-know-what from a hole in the ground. His teaching position at Georgia Tech is the only job he’s ever held. Nary a one before that.

But I love him still.

Paul:

I’ve had limited time to go to Stratfor and now I’m out to help a friend in preparation for a Saturday wedding. What a waste of money.

By lil Ole IN THE NEWS, With rWdUH@@glENN Living Inside My Head

February 21, 2008 5:04 PM | Link to this

So if McCain is dusting off female lobbyists, why would we be worried about his age?

Go ahead, IN THE NEWS, call me a f-ag.

By @@

February 21, 2008 5:15 PM | Link to this

Before I go two posts:

Asparagus Polenta Gratin

Ingredients 2 tablespoons flour 1 teaspoon seasoned salt large zip-top bag 1 pound fresh asparagus spears (rinsed) 1 (17-ounce) tube prepared polenta (plain or flavored) 2 tablespoons herb garlic butter 1 cup half-and-half aluminum foil 1/2 cup shredded Swiss cheese

Steps

Preheat oven to 450°F. Place flour and seasoned salt in zip-top bag; shake to mix. Cut 1 inch from tough root end of each asparagus spear and discard. To do this quickly, group half the spears together, align ends, and slice with sharp knife. Cut into 2-inch pieces; add to bag. Cut tube of polenta in half (this allows wrapper to be easily removed); discard packaging. Cut into bite-size pieces and add to bag; seal tightly and gently shake to coat.

By raisedanidiot

February 21, 2008 5:15 PM | Link to this

o.k., I can’t resist…duuuh…the only thing mccain is dusting off is his dandruff…dude’s not even tall enough to be pres….no way is the physically obsessed american public voting in that little white rat!

By Paul

February 21, 2008 5:16 PM | Link to this

Dusty

Sounds like the beginning of a great hash. With poached eggs, maybe? Not classic dinner but is good on occasion. Or use the steak for a Thai beef salad (yum nuea) and save the potatoes for hash browns. Maybe an open-face roast beef sandwich? If you have some good stock substitutes for the gravy, that is. Or reheat it gently so as not to dry out and use in a stroganoff. Kinda tricky but you can pull it off.

@@

A waste of money for her. For you, enjoy what she’s spending it on! (the wine and food, not her fiancee…)

By @@

February 21, 2008 5:17 PM | Link to this

Place butter in small microwave-safe bowl (or into baking dish, if microwave-safe); microwave on HIGH 15–20 seconds or until butter melts. Pour into 2-quart baking dish; swirl to coat. Add asparagus mixture; then pour half-and-half evenly over mixture. Cover dish tightly with foil; bake 30 minutes. Remove foil. Sprinkle cheese over top; bake 5–7 more minutes (uncovered) or until cheese melts and begins to brown. Let stand 10 minutes before serving.

I never thought such a simple dish could taste so good. You can also do this in the oven. I don’t use a microwave.

Tasty….tasty….mmmmm mmmmm mmmmm!

By lil Ole IN THE NEWS, With rWdUH@@glENN Living Inside My Head

February 21, 2008 5:31 PM | Link to this

{{{{Helicopters carrying three senior U.S. senators made emergency landings Thursday in the mountains of Afghanistan because of a snowstorm.}}}}

{{{{“After several hours, the senators were evacuated by American troops and returned overland to Bagram Air Base, and left for their next scheduled stop in Ankara, Turkey,” the Kerry statement said. “Sen. Kerry thanks the American troops, who were terrific as always and who continue to do an incredible job in Afghanistan.”}}}}

What, those troops didn’t rape, cut off feet, cut off ears, attach telephone wires to Kerry’s diaper ensconced ball sack and turn up the power?

That sucks.

They should have did something to that little bit-ch.

Maybe they did and the Senator’s just too embarrassed to speak of it?

Go ahead, IN THE NEWS, call me a f-ag.

By Abomi Nation

February 21, 2008 5:33 PM | Link to this

Recipe for Mad Cow Republican

Get one of them Mad Cow forklifts to prop up McCain so he can get to the finish line this November. The guy is old and diseased, handle with care.

By Glenn

February 21, 2008 5:39 PM | Link to this

Paul, cheers. The CIA is really rigorous—-like a grad school of Cornell, say. Daunting.

That man’s a born didact. Not to say pedant; on the contrary, he knows the value of playing the fool, and is committed enough to do it. Lovely family too.

Dunno about all that Brillat-Savarin techie stuff, though. Seems like dissecting the butterfly.

When I was a bachelor I used to go up to Exec chefs at the end of a cooking day and offer to prep for them for four hours—-with my own blades—-if they’d teach me any one thing of their choosing. Man, that was good, exhausting fun.

Here’s a trick I learned from an American CIA grad named Giovanni, who’s now Exec in a fancy place in Milan. Trick a la “Geo”: instead of adding shredded or minced ginger directly to a dish, coarse-grate fresh ginger, then gather the gratings in your fist and squeeze the pure juices for use, discarding the fibrous pulp. No need for peeling or knife work.

There. A genuine CIA SECRET! And you didn’t even have to make mirepoix for four hours.

By Dusty

February 21, 2008 5:40 PM | Link to this

Oh Thanks, Paul, what good ideas!

Right now I am going for the hash and poached eggs. Sounds about my speed in the kitchen. (I have no savoir faire in the cooking place. You probably guessed since my love of Manichevitz shows what a connoisseur I am.)

Now, off to rattle some pots and pans. I shall give you credit if I don’t burn it. Thanks again.

By Paul

February 21, 2008 5:55 PM | Link to this

Glenn

The guy loves details. And the rostrum. But he really comes across as an excited kid who just can’t wait to share.

BTW - first time I tried his crab cakes they rather exploded. That’s when I switched to a gentle heat in a nonstick pan. Adapt - improvise - overcome.

“Brillat-Savarin” “Tell me what you eat and I’ll tell you what you are” - the opening scene from Iron Chef? Where technical ability fuses with unbridled creativity? Love it.

Link: Iron Chef opening

Thanks for the ginger tip. I find it easy to grate with a microplane grater. Oh, and if you have leftover ginger root - cover it in vodka (or sherry) and stick it in the fridge. Keeps forever. Then you can sip the ginger vodka while cooking.

Off to make some cheesy grits. Pleasant evening, all -

By Luckoduh Loves Glenn

February 21, 2008 6:04 PM | Link to this

Especially his recipe for trouser trout - a very tasty sauce!

Yum!

By getalife

February 21, 2008 6:11 PM | Link to this

My goodmess, politics is as crazy as Andy and pf today.

No wonder they are eating meds like candy.

And this blog is sharing recipes.

Take it to the food blog.

Geez.

By lil Ole IN THE NEWS, With rWdUH@@glENN Living Inside My Head

February 21, 2008 6:15 PM | Link to this

Like I was saying:

{{{{Terror cells may be spreading, but their ideology, such as it is, keeps dying every time it is exposed to the open air. ——->Even in the tribal regions of Pakistan, safe haven to the newly regrouped Taliban and Al Qaeda, voters last week turned out radical religious parties<——— because of their ineffectiveness. Al Qaeda and related terror groups are hardly the “heirs” to communism and totalitarianism.}}}}

Thanks to Bushie for wearing their as-ses out.

Go ahead, IN THE NEWS, call me a f-ag.

By Bosch

February 21, 2008 6:17 PM | Link to this

I went away for a bit and now I come back to recipes. All sounds good. Cheese grits - mmmmmmm, mmmmmmmm.

Well, tomorrow is a big day for me - my 40th birthday. I hope it doesn’t hurt too bad. Maybe I’ll make some cheese grits to help with the pain.

Paul and Glenn if your still here -

Jack Daniels, honey and lemon - best cold cure ever!

By Glenn

February 21, 2008 6:22 PM | Link to this

get,

What’s with Rumpled Foreskin’s fascination with what other people do with their privates?

By Bosch

February 21, 2008 6:31 PM | Link to this

Glenn,

Polly’s fascination? Maybe not enough good eats!

I’ve been wanting to get Alton’s book on his crazy kitchen gadgets.

By getalife

February 21, 2008 6:37 PM | Link to this

Ask his shrink.

Funny how the RW is spinning the Times is the issue.

Same ole crap and the corporate media are helping as usual.

McLover is the issue.

Pathetic.

By Bosch

February 21, 2008 6:41 PM | Link to this

getalife,

What fun would we have if McCain’s name didn’t start with “Mc” - it’s like an open invitation to “insert name here.”

Are you going to watch the debate? Do you think Hillary will attack?

By Luckoduh Looks Like Vicky Iseman

February 21, 2008 6:47 PM | Link to this

I look exactly like her - give or take a hundred pounds.

By Glenn

February 21, 2008 6:48 PM | Link to this

I’d like to meet the guy, Bosch. He and his wife attend an earlier service than my usual one at First Church, Bromidical. I’ll let you know when I make contact. With luck, I’ll be wearing a funny hat that day.

As for PoFo and good eats, he recently dashed off a great line: “Everything tastes good when you stay hungry.” Maybe he’s been staying a little too hungry lately.

There is a most astonishing sorta Dickensian curiosity shoppe in San Francisco [excuse me…SAN FRANCISCO!] filled to the rafters with used kitchen gadgets. I bet Mr. Brown knows it well. It used to be a favorite source for “food stylists” and cookbook photogs from the Bay Area publishing houses, several of which specialize in fancy cooking titles. They’d rent the stuff as props. Ethnic gadgets, regional gadgets, new and antique gadgets. Then the hyperactively tax-obsessed Board of Supervisors figured out how to tax operations like that, and stifled the practice.

But the shops still there, as odd as ever and lacking only a geriatric Tabby for the shelf in the Bay window on Divisadero Street.

By lil Ole IN THE NEWS, With rWdUH@@glENN Living Inside My Head

February 21, 2008 6:51 PM | Link to this

Andy, does your mother mind you wearing her panties and other unmentionables while you’re haunting the keyboard in the basement?

By IN THE NEWS

February 21, 2008 6:52 PM | Link to this

In related news, the Feds are investigating whether former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott knowingly played a role in the alleged conspiracy involving a Mississippi judge, Bobby Delaughter.

Seems there are still Ghosts in Mississippi.

So why exactly did Trent Lott (R-MS) resign his seat? Wasn’t early?

By getalife

February 21, 2008 6:53 PM | Link to this

Bosch,

Yes, I doubt she will attack but will point out she is a fighter with experience and will not need on the job training.

She attacks, the corporate media attack her. They are starting to turn on Obama and he did not respond to take up for his wife on BO’s lynching comment.

They will run him over. McLover has the cons united, the corporate media and a weak Obama so he will win.

By George Jones

February 21, 2008 6:57 PM | Link to this

Missing lyric:

“Just because I wear a pair of her old under-whear… She Thinks I Still care!”

By Bosch

February 21, 2008 6:57 PM | Link to this

Glenn,

Sounds like a fun shop. I’ve never been to California, one of the few states I’ve never been to, and one I think everyone should see.

I have some friends who saw Alton in Harry’s in Marietta/Smyrna, the one near the Big Chicken. They said they stalked him the whole time they were there trying to get up enough nerve to talk to him.

He seems the type of guy who would talk to anyone about food.

If you do meet him, let us know. There are alot of good food junkies on this board - most of us know our way around in the kitchen too!

Food can be the universal language, even for those totally on the opposite ends of the political spectrum. Start talking about food and all unpleasantries end!

Good evening!

By Luckoduh

February 21, 2008 7:00 PM | Link to this

{{{{By lil Ole IN THE NEWS, With rWdUH@@glENN Living Inside My Head February 21, 2008 6:51 PM Andy, does your mother mind you wearing her panties}}}}

Those are your mother’s panties I’m wearing, dumbas-s.

By the way, I don’t think she’ll be coming home tonite.

She says fix your own oatmeal, wanker.

Go ahead, IN THE NEWS, call me a f-ag.

By Bosch

February 21, 2008 7:02 PM | Link to this

Okay, not good evening yet!

Glenn,

Forgot - what is Bromidical? Is that a town? I’ve never heard of it.

getalife,

Like I said earlier, maybe Obama knows that the lynching comment (I haven’t heard about it except from you) speaks for itself - especially the kook who said it.

I think most candidates have seen what happens when you try and take up for your spouse. While, yes, Obama should jack up O’Reilly, it’s pretty pointless and leaves himself open for exploitation.

We’ll see - just for fun, one of the reasons I’m supporting Obama - is just to see he and McCain in a debate. What a comedy show that will be!

Good evening again!

By Luckoduh Is Bush's Boy

February 21, 2008 7:07 PM | Link to this

Yes, that’s right - I’m Bush’s boy. His bum boy.

Go ahead - call me a f-ag.

I’m proud of it.

Hell, it’s the only thing I’ve ever been good at.

By Bosch

February 21, 2008 7:08 PM | Link to this

Also, and then I’m leaving - I’m glad the grown ups came back to the blog. It’s been weird here this week!

By IN THE NEWS

February 21, 2008 7:14 PM | Link to this

Are you really reaqdy for change?

Night y’all.

By Polly's Mom

February 21, 2008 7:22 PM | Link to this

You’ll have to excuse my boy Polly, he’s fascinated with other men’s c@cks, it’s all he can talk about.

Morning, noon and nite, he guards the Luckovich blog, never interjecting anything of interest, just forcing his pen-is envy on everyone else.

Just like he does at home.

That’s why I’m over at Luckoduh’s tonite, so I can be with a real man.

Not with some name jacking prickless little troll.

By getalife

February 21, 2008 7:32 PM | Link to this

She had Shuster suspended and fights for family because she is a fighter.

I think the expectations of Obama are way too high and people forget, he is a politician.

My # 1 rule in politics is never ever trust a politician and that includes Clinton.

She is a fighter to fight the RW and corporate media. Obama is weak and thinks he can unite them. Oh, they will unite, to run him over.

By Polly's Mom

February 22, 2008 8:08 AM | Link to this

Well, I had the most wonderful time as chaperone to Andy’s tea party last night. He, I mean she, Andy likes to be a girl, wanted to wear a nighty with depends, so I said that’s fine, as long as it’s covered up.

She and all the other girls stayed up to watch Auntie Mame and then played mahjong until 11, then they fell asleep on the bean bags in the basement. I had to unplug the PC though, because Andy kept getting up to check some Comment board. She was all jittery, and wet her bed three times.

Never again!

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