Mike Luckovich

By {{{{Sickoduh}}}}

February 26, 2008 7:44 AM | Link to this

Andie R.W. Sickozellduh loves it when Dick Cheney shoots him in the face…especially without the Cheney.

Andrea R.W. Sickozellduh, reformed wing “nut” and GOP plaything

By AJC Management

February 26, 2008 8:04 AM | Link to this

Yeah, all environmentalist advocates are whackos, aren’t they?

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{{{{CALLER: Rush, I’ve been in business for 30 years. I’ve been successful. I have been delivering food to the state of Delaware economically, spectacularly, winning awards. My credentials are impeccable. I can’t bring the food any more to the table at the price I’m bringing it because of Delmarva Power & Light, which is really not their fault, it’s our governor. It’s Joe Biden. These people are out of their minds, Rush. We don’t need free health care. That is not the problem in this country. We’re being crippled with energy. We can’t bring oil out of ANWR, we can’t drill off your estate at Palm Beach. No one wants to look at a derrick.}}}}

{{{{CALLER: I know you wouldn’t mind. But there’s something crazy taking place. The price of my kilowatt is a dime because they want to take the CO2 and put it into a cave and save it. They can deliver it at three cents. American Electric Power has been in business for a hundred years. They know what to do. Governors telling them what to do, how to build the plant, not to use coal, demonizing oil, a woman named Jane Fonda sits on a cannon and stops an entire world from delivering nuclear power with this movie she made —}}}}

{{{{CALLER: How do intelligent Americans allow — why can’t we build nuclear? We can create 40,000 jobs by bringing oil in from ANWR. We bring it by a pipeline, not with a tanker, no spill, no Exxon Valdez. What is going on, Rush?}}}}

Continued-

By AJC Management

February 26, 2008 8:05 AM | Link to this

Continued-

{{{{CALLER: I wouldn’t put my grandchildren in no little mini-boxes. But I’m not talking about me, and I’m not talking about you. I’m talking about working America. They think they need free health care? They need two dollar a gallon gas, this country will explode. They’re heating their houses. You think there’s a subprime crisis, Rush? Yes, there’s a subprime crisis. That’s not the problem. People bought a house they thought their energy was going to be $250. They get a bill, it’s $385. They go to the gas station, they spend another $40, so they stop coming out to my restaurant. They stop buying 24/7. They don’t buy a newsletter. Rush, there is a domino effect taking place. It’s energy. We bring down the price of a plasma television set. I bought one for $10,000, a Fujitsu. It’s now $1,100.}}}}

{{{{CALLER: We bring down the price of phones. We bring down the price of computers. Why do we bring up the price of energy? Why do you allow the Sierra Club to run this country? What is going on? These people are walking through the country and telling us to go on a bicycle? I need Larry David to drive around for four years in Curb Your Enthusiasm with a Prius? What is going on, Rush? We’re out of our mind. People are calling up and saying he’s liberal, he’s conservative, he’s this, he’s that. They’re driving themselves into a barrel. They’re not going to get out, the Bo Snerdleys of the world. I’m talking about young couples. I’ve got two boys. They’re trying to bring children up. They’re getting energy bills that are knocking their homes out of sight. Nothing, nothing is more important than to bring — energy is what makes this world tick. We’re beholden to Chavezes and Castros and Putins; we want to go dig here, dig there. Can you dig in Alaska? Oh, no, we’re going to kill a caribou. This is nonsense. This doesn’t make any sense. How do we allow these idiots to get on television and talk about foreign oil?}}}}

Continued-

By AJC Management

February 26, 2008 8:09 AM | Link to this

Continued-

{{{{CALLER: Rush, if this man gets in, he will not help the American family. If Obama gets in, there will be no American family. Rush, the point is energy. You’ve gotta get the bureaucrats out of the energy business. I know American Electric Power. I knew in 1980 that this country would never drill for oil again. I went out and bought Esso before it was Exxon. I bought the stock. I get my gasoline for free. I get dividends from ExxonMobil. They’re a spectacular corporation. Rush, they have 27 energy projects going in the world today, zero in North America.}}}}

{{{{CALLER: Why? Why is this allowed? How do we stay captured by a moron who wants to save an owl, a fish, a bird, a dog, a snake, a rat? What about my grandkids? What is going on Rush?}}}}

{{{{RUSH: Well, Larry David is a willing idiot. He’s a dupe. Most of the people that are running around spouting all this stuff are willing, useful idiots who want meaning in their lives, they want to matter, they want to think that what they’re doing is helping somebody or something. They have been gotten to by their guilt. People are running around with the guilt of prosperity or the guilt of whatever. They’ve successfully made the energy movement a religious movement.

Ditto.

By Luckoduh Loves Dick Cheney

February 26, 2008 8:14 AM | Link to this

With or without the Cheney.

I like to sit on his cannon.

By AJC Management

February 26, 2008 8:19 AM | Link to this

So what does everyone think of the new advertising campaign that we have adopted here at the AJC?:

{{{{By {{{{Sickoduh}}}} February 26, 2008 7:44 AM Andie R.W. Sickozellduh loves it when Dick Cheney shoots him in the face…especially without the Cheney.}}}}

We think this is a great addition to our family newspaper, to allow the trolls of our blogs to openly discuss sex acts, the more gross the better!

We believe this will bring in a new type of readership into our ranks, we want the sick, depraved mindless degenerates to make us their choice for news, information and entertainment.

And if your children should happen to be exposed to this type of commentary and behavior, that’s just too bad, ain’t it?

Free trial subscription?

By @@

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

Somehow I just knew Ralph wore tighty whiteys - three to a pack.

So what criteria should Ralph seek in his running mate? A nice dresser cause Ralph always looked a little rumpled.

AmVet will have to refrain from using the phrase “Nadering Nabob” from now until the elections or he’ll have us all suffering from the same confusion he does.

By >>>

February 26, 2008 8:25 AM | Link to this

Speaking of “takin it” in the face, (G)ay (O)ld (P)arty-style…as we all know, Andie must be first to post on this blog everyday to have a fighting chance to defeat the evil left-wing forces of anti-American liberalism. To do her part to advance the ideas of Barry Goldwater/ Ronald Reagan/ George W. Bush-style conservatism, Andie has made a Republican-style documentary profiling the hopes and aspirations of the American Conservative Movement…

Andrea R.W. Sickozellduh in cooperation with Right-Wing Talk Radio and the Fox News Network presents an RNC (Republican National Committee) Production…

“WingNUTS XXX Vol.1.” A highly titilating and exxxtremely stimulating adult film production starring…Rush Limbaugh and the EIB as the elder loud-mouthed prescription drugged-out fat pig, Sean Hannity as a pompous right-wing beefcake hunk of a political hack who’s highly obsessed with his hair, Bill O’Reilly as a conceited loud-mouthed Limbaugh and Hannity wannabe who wants to wipe-down nude female staffers with “falafels” while they shower, Ann Coulter an escaped transsexual mental hospital patient who found her calling as a shameless antisocial right-wing political hack who will say or do ANYTHING to get attention and last, and certainly, definitely, absolutely least, Andie Suckozellduh as their right-wingNUT sex slave who submits to their psychosexual need and whim as the totally submissive hate radio (R)epublican (W)hore ideologue that she is. Rated XXX for merciless and abusive use of whips, chains, spikes, ropes, handcuffs, mind control through use of force and total sexual domination. Also includes bloodplay and sexual torture as foreplay starring Andie Suckozellduh as the world’s #1 GOP-dominated b-itch and bum-boy for Rush, Sean, Billo, Ann and the boys! Enjoy!!!

“WingNUTS XXX Vol.1”

By luckovichisaheadcase

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

There must be a LOT of people this morning who are disappointed that Luckovich is not as respectful as he should be (as a good radical leftist) vis-a-vis Ralph Nader. This cartoon is indeed crude and rather trashy, but it does portray Nader as the low-class, irrelevant twit that he really is. I would remind these same liberal sychophants who blame Nader for DumGore’s loss in 2000 that you delighted in Ross Perot’s runs in 1992 and 1996 which handed the White House to a lying, cheating, womanizing felonious pair of trashy politicians from a politically insignificant state. Turn about is fair play, so don’t complain. This cartoon is not only out of bounds because of the crudeness of it, but for the hypocrisy as well!!!

By Luckoduh, of course

February 26, 2008 8:28 AM | Link to this

(We believe this will bring in a new type of readership into our ranks, we want the sick, depraved mindless degenerates to make us their choice for news, information and entertainment.)

I read this column every day, morning noon and night. Looks like it’s working! Sick depraved mindless degenerate, that would be me…

Duh!

By ((((Psychoduh))))

February 26, 2008 8:40 AM | Link to this

{{{{Sick, depraved, mindless degenerates}}}} Sounds like my dear old Andy, now known as Andrea R.W. Suckozellduh after the incomplete sex change operation!!!

In Andie’s case, headcase is right, TURN ABOUT IS FAIR PLAY!!!

By Loblolly

February 26, 2008 8:48 AM | Link to this

Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has accepted $54,350 from members of a law firm that in 2006 lobbied him to introduce a tax provision for a Japanese drug company with operations in Illinois, according to public records and interviews. The government estimates the provision, which became law in December 2006, will cost the treasury $800,000.

Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has accepted $54,350 from members of a law firm that in 2006 lobbied him to introduce a tax provision for a Japanese drug company with operations in Illinois, according to public records and interviews. The government estimates the provision, which became law in December 2006, will cost the treasury $800,000.

In 2002, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton introduced legislation at the request of Rienzi & Sons, a Queens, N.Y., food importer, according to company president Michael Rienzi. The provision, which became law in December 2004, required the government to refund tens of thousands of dollars in duty charged on imported tomato products, Rienzi told USA TODAY.

Rienzi gave $110,000 to committees set up to support Clinton’s 2000 Senate race, records show. Rienzi family members contributed an additional $52,800 to her campaigns since 2000. Michael Rienzi also said he donated to Bill Clinton’s presidential foundation, but he declined to say how much.

Obama touts his refusal to take donations from Washington lobbyists though he accepts money from their co-workers who are not registered to lobby. Speaking after the Feb. 12 primary, he decried a “Washington game” where “lobbyists write check after check and Exxon makes record profits.”

Obama declined to be interviewed for this story. His campaign said in a statement that Obama “introduced these bills to help Illinois companies get products they need that aren’t available in the U.S. so they can lower costs for customers and create jobs.”

John McCain, the likely Republican nominee, does not introduce tariff suspension bills under “a longstanding policy — no private relief bills or any bills for one person,” spokeswoman Jill Hazelbaker said in an e-mail.

By Bosch

February 26, 2008 8:49 AM | Link to this

I think Nader will be as significant as Perot in 1996 - in other words, not very. He’ll get some publicity here and there, but in a few weeks, he’ll be forgotten.

I respect Ralph Nader for what he does, I think we need a viable third party in this country, but this isn’t the way, in my opinion.

Obama has so much cash, unlike the other candidates, that even if he does not pull off the Democratic nomination, he could pull a Lieberman and run as an Independent - and most likely win.

By Open Season on Andie Sickozellduh

February 26, 2008 8:50 AM | Link to this

Look! Its Andie and he’s running down the middle of the street completely naked!!!! Looks like he just escaped from Fox News Studios after another brutal taping of his critically unacclaimed adult right-wing documentary, “WingNUTS”. It really is true, Andie is high on right wing-spiked kool-aid…and he has a small we-we! That’s rough!

Payback is a b-itch, eh, Andie?

By AmVet

February 26, 2008 8:50 AM | Link to this

Though two of the regular “conservatives” are clearly completely obsessed with my opinions, I actually agreed with one of them on something recently.

One chided Obama the other day for his comments about Nader, notwithstanding that he admitted the man has done much for American consumers.

Otherwise, just more of the same old (fill in the blank) envy and drivel…

By AJC Management

February 26, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this

Yyaaaawwwwwnnnnnnnn.

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Gee, I wonder where IN THE NEWS is this morning?

Is that you Pyscho?

It’s great to see you so agitated, troll.

By AJC Management

February 26, 2008 9:02 AM | Link to this

My name is Andrea R.W. SUCKOZELLDUH! Get it right, please? Only Ted, Larry and Mark are allowed to call me Andie!!! How rude, crass and inappropriate!

By Luckoduh Loves Rush

February 26, 2008 9:02 AM | Link to this

With or without the Limbaugh.

Do me Rush baby. Pretend I’m one of those Haitian schoolboys you bought all that Viagra for.

I’m like you Rush - that guy gets free gas from Exxon - you and me get free foodstamps from Uncle Sam!

By SLIPITS

February 26, 2008 9:03 AM | Link to this

ASSESSING THE OPPOSITION

Democratic Governors See McCain As Formidable

By ((((Psychoduh))))

February 26, 2008 9:10 AM | Link to this

Dick Cheney>>>Andie<<

Now that’s what I call a conservative man sandwich…a p-rick between two blogs of ugly fat!

Where’s the BEEF?

By Dick Cheney

February 26, 2008 9:19 AM | Link to this

Hey Andy, is that a needle in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

By Obama can't take the heat

February 26, 2008 9:22 AM | Link to this

Obama stiffs, stifles national press

He poked his head out from behind a blue curtain at the visitors center at the University of Texas-Pan American campus. Reporters, hunched over their laptops, looked startled at the sight of the candidate. They hadn’t interacted with him in five days.

“Words matter. Don’t listen to Hillary,” Obama yelled to the four dozen media, beaming a mischievous smile. “That’s a joke.”

One reporter, sensing the rare opportunity to fire off a question, asked Obama about McCain’s criticism of his pledge to talk with Cuban president Raul Castro.

“I didn’t hear John McCain,” Obama said, even though his campaign put out a statement on that very topic 30 minutes earlier.

A second later, the Illinois senator disappeared behind the curtain - off to do an interview with US Weekly, the entertainment news magazine.

By luckovichisaheadcase

February 26, 2008 9:24 AM | Link to this

AmVet - I assure you that neither I nor any conservative that I know envies you liberals anything. We do NOT WANT your government handouts and we do NOT WANT to surrender our sovereignty to corrupt international organizations. We do NOT WANT to surrender to the Islamic terrorists or stand by and watch the crazy Russian leader reconstitute the Soviet Bloc through intimidation. We do NOT ENVY your constant living in fear of the sky falling and your penchant for falling for the cause du jour and then just forgetting it when it is proven to be all smoke and mirrors. WE ARE NOT A BUCH OF CHICKEN LITTLES. You folks on the other hand can only be happy if the world is falling apart and you have someone to blame rather than finding a real and workable solution that is based on the dignity of self-reliance and true compassion. You only want solutions that enslave the masses and rob us of our true freedom to do for others. It is really easy to just say the government should take from the rich and redistribute income rather than going out and taking care of the problem yourself.

And By>>> You are a huge hypocrite with the G(ay) Old Party slur. You libs are the first to scream ‘queer’ or ‘f*’ when you wish to slander someone. Where is all of that open-mindedness you hypocites like to brag about? The fact is you would be the first people to put on your brown or black shirts and run into the street beating those who disagree with you if given the opportunity - yelling the English equivalent of ‘Sieg Heil!’

By ((((Psychoduh))))

February 26, 2008 9:29 AM | Link to this

“Coming” this summer…

Andrea R.W. Suckozellduh’s highly unacclaimed “WingNUTS XXX Vol. 2”

For poor little Andy, the “hits” to the face and the bum just keep on coming!

By Apocalypse

February 26, 2008 9:34 AM | Link to this

Chris Dodd To Endorse Obama

CLEVELAND, Ohio (Reuters) - Former Democratic presidential hopeful Chris Dodd will endorse Barack Obama in his bid for the White House on Tuesday, a source close to the Obama campaign said.

Dodd, a U.S. senator from Connecticut, dropped out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination in early January after placing sixth in the Iowa caucuses, the first nominating contest in the nation.

Obama, a senator from Illinois, and rival Hillary Clinton, a senator from New York and former first lady, are now battling for the nomination.

They face off in a crucial televised debate later on Tuesday ahead of contests in Texas and Ohio next week.

Dodd was first elected to the U.S. Congress in 1974.

(Reporting by Jeff Mason, editing by Todd Eastham)

By Apocalypse

February 26, 2008 9:37 AM | Link to this

Undecided voter researches both candidates…

And is no longer undecided!

Check out the following link. It’s an account from one woman who didn’t want to buy into all the hype but with an apparent healthy skepticism did a good deal of research on the Library of Congress website to find out what Obama has actually done and whether there is ACTION behind his words. She also looked into his opponent and made a list of the various bills.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/2/20/201332/807/36/458633

After she was done she donated $100 to Obama¹s campaign. Even though she argues against HYPE, I have to say after reading this I felt more FIRED UP than ever before!

Everyone keep doing what your doing, March 4th is closing in fast!

YES WE CAN!

By Apocalypse

February 26, 2008 9:42 AM | Link to this

Biden Supports Obamas Foreign Policy Stance

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4336145

By Luckoduh Is a Head Case

February 26, 2008 9:42 AM | Link to this

you know what I’m sayin’. ;>

Head.

Oh yeah…

Bring it on!

By Apocalypse

February 26, 2008 9:48 AM | Link to this

330,000 Calls and Counting; Let’s Hit Our Goal of 1,000,000 Body: We are less than 20,000 people away from hitting our goal of one million donors — a goal no one ever thought would be possible to meet. If you haven’t already done so, please give what you can to make our goal of a million and make history in the process…

We’ve also been steadily working our way towards our other goal of making one million calls by March 4th…

As of today, we’re nearly a third of the way there…

My.BarackObama.com/call

These calls will make a big difference in the days ahead. While Barack is undoubtedly building momentum across the country, Hillary Clinton continues to launch attack after desperate attack against him and the movement behind this campaign.

While Clinton and her campaign go on the attack, let’s respond with positive action. Let’s echo Barack’s message of forward-thinking solutions for America and share the hope that Barack has inspired in us with people across this country.

Pick up the phone and make some calls today. Set a personal goal for how many calls you’ll make by March 4th. Consider throwing a house party with friends and family to make calls together.

Barack can’t win this thing alone. Barack won’t change the country by himself — the country will change because of us. If all of us get involved, we can overcome the petty attacks and divisive distractions that have torn apart our country for far too long. We don’t have to settle for the world as it is — together, we can build the world as we envision it.

My.BarackObama.com/call

Pick up the phone and let’s get to work. We can make one million calls by March 4th.

Yes. We. Can.

By mm

February 26, 2008 9:50 AM | Link to this

Duh,

Thanks for reminding us why only brainless, spineless cretons listen to Rush.

By Ray

February 26, 2008 9:53 AM | Link to this

Just wait until Obama plays the race card in the White House. Talk about widening the racial gap in this country!! We have enough problems in this country without trying to tip-toe around a politically correct politician whose wife is questionably proud to be an American. Wake up, electorate.

By Apocalypse

February 26, 2008 9:58 AM | Link to this

Ray,

Barack Obama does not play the race card. That’s kind of why he’s winning.

Barack Obama is narrowing the racial gap. That’s kind of why his winning.

By Wassup wit dem?

February 26, 2008 10:04 AM | Link to this

State Senator Michael Machado, a Democrat who is chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Finance and Insurance, is from Stockton, where the foreclosure rate increased 271 percent in 2007.

“If they got into a situation that got bad for them, they need to live through that and they shouldn’t expect government to bail them out,” he said, summarizing what he says is a commonly held view. “And when you’re dealing with a $14.5 billion deficit like we are here in California, it’s difficult to do that anyway.”

Late to the party.

By Ray

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

Sure he is. Ask Bill Clinton how important it is not to criticize Obama about anything prior to South Carolina. Unless he leaves his racial identity at the front door of the White House, he will not be the President for all of America. I don’t give a tinker’s damn about his “racial struggle”. I want a president who will fix some of the problems in this country. If he is the one, so be it, but I seriously doubt that he will have the support of the American people if he strongly identifies with the black community. We are not ready for this yet.

By A Flippant Barry(B)

February 26, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this

SAN ANTONIO — As Barack Obama’s town hall meeting stretched into its second hour, it was clear the candidate wasn’t anywhere close to finishing.

Obama had given an eight-minute answer to a question on health care, after which a few dozen people began leaving the outdoor plaza.

“Just relax,” Obama told the remaining audience members. “Take your time.”

For a speaker who is best known for his lofty and airy rhetoric, it’s an ironic reality that Obama’s public appearances very often turn into drawn-out dissertations.

By Apocalypse

February 26, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this

Ray,

And you can ask Sen.Kennedy what turned him off to Clinton in SC and made him endorse Obama.

Your assessments are correct, but you are blaming the wrong person for them. “Jesse Jackson ran a good campaign here too.” said by Bill Clinton in an attempt to connect Obama with the black community and separate him from the white community.

Who do you think released this latest photo of Obama wearing Islamic garb? It aint the Obama campaign.

By GoodbyeGOP

February 26, 2008 10:22 AM | Link to this

Ah, the smell of war in the morning, and Republican defeat in November.

It’s grand, ain’t it?

Goodbye to the party of crime, greed, and false piety. Hello, party of humanity.

By Daily Obama

February 26, 2008 10:24 AM | Link to this

Well, half of America voted for the fighter Clinton and half voted for the weak, lying, hope for unity.

Half is wrong one way or another.

I think w will declare combat missions in Iraq are over to take Iraq out of the election.

The gop are not going to hand over all the power they stole without pulling out all their dirty tricks.

Obama will not fight back, Clinton will.

It is as simple as that.

By Daily Clinton

February 26, 2008 10:28 AM | Link to this

Half will judge a man for nothing he’s done, and the other half is blind to a power-hungry woman who will do anything for the Presidency.

By Apocalypse

February 26, 2008 10:29 AM | Link to this

Daily Obama,

It must be fun being a psychic.

Do you charge by the hour or minute?

By Carbon Footprint

February 26, 2008 10:31 AM | Link to this

Tonite, Obama, when introduced should respond thusly:

Moderator: “Welcome Mr. Obama.”

Obama: “It’s an honor”. (then roll his eyes at Hillary. That will set her off and induce a spontaneous PMS episode and the debate will have to be called on account of beeyayatch)

By AJC Management

February 26, 2008 10:37 AM | Link to this

Look at the wingnuts headed to the polls in Texas, voting to be rid of this POS Rodham, once and for all:

{{{{In Dallas County, for instance, 49,485 people had voted in the Democratic primary by Sunday evening – nearly 10 times as many as at a similar point four years ago. About 14,000 had voted in the Republican primary in Dallas County.}}}}

Can you say massacre?

By Ray

February 26, 2008 10:45 AM | Link to this

Apocalypse,

We have already been blessed with a president who had style, charisma, good looks, band wagon appeal and money but he was one of the most ineffective leaders we have ever had. JFK packed his cabinet with yes people, family and anyone who would agree with him. He could talk the socks off a rooster just like Obama. His Camelot persona, good looking wife, etc served to get him into the White House but did little to solve the problems of this country. Most of his foreign policy was a disaster, with the exception of Berlin.
Fast forward to one of the most effective, stalwart, responsible persons ever to be elected who had a frumpy wife and daughter, modest beginnings, a zero personality and was forever on a budget. But he did more for the future of this country and the world than any president in the last century, Harry Truman. Give me a Harry Truman any day and I will sleep better at night.

By Shawny

February 26, 2008 10:50 AM | Link to this

Yes, we can.

Be careful what you wish for. With big O, we really don’t know what all the hype is about, but there are a lot of suckers buying into it.

By Daily Obama

February 26, 2008 10:51 AM | Link to this

Obama’s first lie was after he won the Senate. He spewed he would not run for President until he had enough experience. He lied and ran anyway with no experience.

Half of America bought into a lying, weak, politician with no experience.

Half of America got punked.

By Carbon Footprint

February 26, 2008 10:55 AM | Link to this

Truman? Two words: No Gun Ri

JFK? Two words. I am a jellyroll.

Obama? Two words: I’m honored.

Hillary? Two words: You blew in ‘93 when you had to act so arrogant about the healthcare issue you fool, and you blew your chance, you’re not a good politician, but a shrew who belongs in a bordello for fat aging baby boomers with only 15 bucks for a bj. )

By mm

February 26, 2008 11:00 AM | Link to this

You wingnuts take the cake. You are chastizing Obama for what you believe he has not done.

Yet you voted for a moron twice who never accomplished anything.

And you still support him even after he has practically destroyed our country.

Brilliant!!!!

By Daily Clinton

February 26, 2008 11:02 AM | Link to this

Changing your mind about running is not lying. It’s called changing your mind about running.

Clinton not only changes her mind, but her stances on everything from the Iraq war to ethanol to torture to nuclear weapon, and so on, and so on, and so on. Her views change depending on which state she’s campaigning in or what audience she’s addressing.

By Daily Clinton

February 26, 2008 11:02 AM | Link to this

Changing your mind about running is not lying. It’s called changing your mind about running.

Clinton not only changes her mind, but her stances on everything from the Iraq war to ethanol to torture to nuclear weapons, and so on, and so on, and so on. Her views change depending on which state she’s campaigning in or what audience she’s addressing.

By Bosch

February 26, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this

Ray,

“We have already been blessed with a president who had style, charisma, good looks, band wagon appeal and money but he was one of the most ineffective leaders we have ever had. JFK packed his cabinet with yes people, family and anyone who would agree with him. He could talk the socks off a rooster just like Obama.”

“Most of his foreign policy was a disaster”

Very well written - of course, replace JFK with Bush, and bingo! You’ve got it!

By IN THE NEWS

February 26, 2008 11:18 AM | Link to this

The Defense Department’s longest-serving general counsel, who has been criticized for his role in crafting Bush administration policies for detaining and trying suspected terrorists, is resigning to return to private life next month, the Pentagon said Monday. A group of retired military officers opposing Bush’s position on the treatment of detainees had urged lawmakers to block Haynes’ appointment to the court. They contended that his role in establishing detention and interrogation policies led to abuses at the detention facility at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and called into question the military’s commitment to the rule of law.The degree to which Haynes’ service had become scandalous became even more apparent just last week.

By IN THE NEWS

February 26, 2008 11:21 AM | Link to this

Fears that immigration leads to rising crime rates are unjustified, says a California study released Monday. The report by the Public Policy Institute of California, a nonpartisan research group, asked the question: Are the foreign-born more likely than the U.S.-born to commit crimes?

By IN THE NEWS

February 26, 2008 11:25 AM | Link to this

A LITTLE MORE ON McCAINS OTHER LOBBYIST PROBLEM…..On the stump, Sen. John McCain often cites his work tackling the excesses of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff as evidence of his sturdy ethical compass. A little-known document, however, shows that McCain may have taken steps to protect his Republican colleagues from the scope of his investigation.

By IN THE NEWS

February 26, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this

The prevailing doomsday scenario suggests that an American departure would lead to genocide and mayhem. But is that true? Iraq today belongs to Iraqis; it is an ancient civilization with its own norms and tendencies. It is entirely possible that in the absence of a cumbersome and clumsy American occupation, Iraqis will make their own bargains and compacts, heading off the genocide that many seem to anticipate.

By Luckoduh Loves Shawny

February 26, 2008 11:28 AM | Link to this

She punked me.

Then I punked her.

It was fun fun fun…

By IN THE NEWS

February 26, 2008 11:29 AM | Link to this

It’s a free country, damn it, and the FEC ought to quit hasslin’ John McCain.

By IN THE NEWS

February 26, 2008 11:35 AM | Link to this

WASHINGTON — When the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey needed to find an outside lawyer to monitor a large corporation willing to settle criminal charges out of court last fall, he turned to former Attorney General John Ashcroft, his onetime boss. With no public notice and no bidding, the company awarded Mr. Ashcroft an 18-month contract worth $28 million to $52 million. That contract, which Justice Department officials in Washington learned about only several weeks ago, has prompted an internal inquiry into the department’s procedures for selecting outside monitors to police settlements with large companies.

By IN THE NEWS

February 26, 2008 11:37 AM | Link to this

THIS MAN IS NOT PATRIOTIC

By IN THE NEWS

February 26, 2008 11:39 AM | Link to this

Meet the Attack Lads

By IN THE NEWS

February 26, 2008 11:42 AM | Link to this

McCain’s Connection to the Siegelman Case

By IN THE NEWS

February 26, 2008 11:50 AM | Link to this

Where the hell is that damn flag pin?

By IN THE NEWS

February 26, 2008 11:53 AM | Link to this

OOOPS HERE IS THAT DAMN FLAG PIN!!!

By Carbon Footprint

February 26, 2008 11:58 AM | Link to this

Liked the bunny slippers.

By GOPher Crucifixion

February 26, 2008 11:59 AM | Link to this

A senator’s investigation into spending and oversight at six “prosperity gospel” ministries has hit a roadblock with a minister intensifying his efforts to fight the inquiry, but made progress on Monday when another turned over documents.

Grassley, the ranking Republican on the finance committee, sent the inquiries after media reports and complaints from the public. He asked the ministries to answer questions about spending on things such as private jets and oceanside homes.

Now that evangelists ain’t kissing Republican butt anymore, the GOPhers are gonna punish em.

The religious right better tow the line and step back in formation or they’re gonna be IRS sorry.

By Dubya

February 26, 2008 11:59 AM | Link to this

Yes. That’s what we need. McCain. A continuation of the same cast of characters plucked from the sewers by Reagan and 2 Bushes. 19+ YEARS of gross incompetance, ignorance, corruption. God Bluss Murka! Allah Akbar!

By @o@

February 26, 2008 12:10 PM | Link to this

Today’s cartoon is important because it answers the question, “Boxers or Briefs?”

nader is, after all, a presidential candidate and america wants to know.

By Well put!

February 26, 2008 12:15 PM | Link to this

“I”m skeptical,” Mr. Violin said about the Socialists running for municipal office.

“There are a lot of immigrants in the party, and we”re against immigrants. We French won”t say it”s racism, but it”s skepticism.”

IT’S THE SOCIALISTS STUPID!

By Steve

February 26, 2008 12:18 PM | Link to this

Hillary will lose big in Ohio. having lived there for 6 years I know well that it is but a big hick state, filled with typical little men with typical American castration complexes re their hatred & fear of women. Very much a Hickabee/Repunk mindset. The results are a foregone conclusion. Pitiful. Time has NOT “marched on” in Ohio.

By Goldie

February 26, 2008 12:30 PM | Link to this

{{but I seriously doubt that he will have the support of the American people if he strongly identifies with the black community. We are not ready for this yet.}}

Ray @ 10:10 — I’m sure you meant to post that YOU are the one who is “not ready for this yet”… who the hell are you for trying to speak for “the American people” in this campaign???

By Goldie

February 26, 2008 12:33 PM | Link to this

I have some those pink bunny slippers, just like the ones Ralph is wearing in the ‘toon — only, he truly looks like the slob wearing ‘em!

By Obama wrong on everything

February 26, 2008 12:41 PM | Link to this

Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey has got a friend in the Presidential race — and a big-time enemy.

Sen. Barack Obama was the only one of the three remaining candidates who voted to confirm Casey as chief of staff, Inside the Army observes.

With the U.S. operation in Iraq — which Casey led from July 2004 to February 2007 — at what may have been its nadir, and the so-called “surge” just beginning, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) voted against Casey’s promotion along with 13 other senators, 10 of whom were Republicans.

But it was Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), who is making his national security experience a centerpiece of his candidacy, who led the charge on the Senate floor to shoot down the general’s nomination…

McCain’s case against Gen. Casey: As the situation in Iraq worsened, the general maintained that “slow progress” was being achieved — yet Casey never sought additional troops despite what McCain said was a clear need for them…

In short, Gen. Casey was in charge of Iraq, while it went into the toilet. Then he tried to undermine the guy cleaning up his mess. On balance, I think you’d have to score this one for the Senator from Arizona.

By AJC Management

February 26, 2008 12:42 PM | Link to this

{{{{With just a week to go until the crucial March 4 Democratic Presidential Primaries, Barack Obama continues to gain ground on Hillary Clinton in Ohio.}}}}

{{{{The latest Rasmussen Reports poll shows Clinton earning 48% of the Ohio Democratic Presidential Primary vote. That’s unchanged from a week ago. Barack Obama’s support has grown to 43%. That’s up from 40% last week and 38% the week before.}}}}

Ohioans choosing the black candidate is racist?

You klanners are grasping for straws.

GFY (good for you.)

By IN THE NEWS

February 26, 2008 12:51 PM | Link to this

Goldie,

This a true story….

Talked to a “redneck” guy I know recently, he said he was afraid to vote for Clinton because she might get elected and turn into a b*. He also said he was afraid to vote for Obama, because he might get elected and turn into a n**. (Both references I find offensive, and he knew it)

I thought about it a minute and suggested that he had more to worry about McCain getting elected and turning in George W. Bush.

That freaked him out.

When he really thought about the Bush years, he got over his stupid bigotry pretty quick.

By PresidentObama

February 26, 2008 1:03 PM | Link to this

Who’s your daddy now, biattch?

By Big Snooze

February 26, 2008 1:05 PM | Link to this

In other words Obama was out and about.

Whoopteefookendoo.

By Goldie

February 26, 2008 1:14 PM | Link to this

I didn’t see McInsane wearing any flag pin out on the campaign trail yesterday, either. Is he patriotic only on certain days of the week?

By Count Dousty

February 26, 2008 1:20 PM | Link to this

I think what luckovich is trying to say in the cartoon is that with Nader’s consumer advocacy and green politics he will save all the tiny little baby bunnies so that everyone in the country can have bunny slippers.

know something? he’s RIGHT!

By Goldie

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

InTheNews, some Americans are obviously still living in the past — like they’re still in the 19th century! Have not even brought themselves all the way through the 20th century yet, where the rest of America is today.

Besides, I believe anyone who still has trouble with leaders simply because of their gender and/or skin color are going to vote with the Repug Party anyway! We Dems are not trying to convince any sexist or racist kooks to vote with us… who needs ‘em? I mean, other than the Repug Party?

By Asked and answered

February 26, 2008 1:29 PM | Link to this

Senator Obama characterizes those who have concerns about policies he might follow as President as being Likud-supporters. This has been a charge propagated by the fiercest opponents of Israel, who have often slipped into conspiracy theories regarding American supporters of Israel. (Try googling Likudnik and “dual loyalty” or “conspiracy theory”; Likudnik has become a term of opprobrium. As David Berstein notes, “Likudnik has gradually become a general anti-Semitic term for Jews whose opinions one does not like.”

By Crenshaw8

February 26, 2008 1:38 PM | Link to this

Obama should be running on the green ticket because he is green.

By IN THE NEWS

February 26, 2008 1:49 PM | Link to this

John Solomon’s Washington Times Presents The Next Obama Smear: Military “Fears” Him……………. Guess how many “members of Washington’s military and defense establishment” are quoted saying that they fear this “unknown quantity”: Exactly one. And that one person is a retired Air Force Lieutenant General who doubles as a Fox News analyst.

By AskedNansweredAskew

February 26, 2008 1:51 PM | Link to this

Ah, yes, Rush Limbaugh’s favorite, “American Thinker”…should be called “American Demagogue”..

By Just Wondering

February 26, 2008 1:56 PM | Link to this

Concerning Headcase at 9:24…

Wow…this poster must be seeing phantoms on the wall.

Even the most liberal “Libs” I know look and act nothing like he envisions.

HateFearHateFearHateFear..ain’t it a wonderful, healthy thing?

By Apocalypse

February 26, 2008 1:58 PM | Link to this

This morning, the New York Times reported that Senator Clinton is launching what even her aides admit is a “kitchen sink” bombardment of negative attacks against Barack.

This is the same stale, Washington playbook that has driven so many Americans away from the political process.

Yesterday, in a speech on foreign policy, Senator Clinton misrepresented Barack’s positions and compared him to George W. Bush.

She questioned his “wisdom to manage our foreign policy and safeguard our national security,” despite her support for Bush’s war in Iraq — a war that Barack showed the judgment to oppose before it ever began.

These negative tactics are exactly what voters have been rejecting this election season.

While others focus on trying to tear us down, we will continue to highlight what is most inspiring and most important about this campaign — you.

And while others may try to score cheap political points, millions of ordinary Americans are talking to their neighbors, knocking on doors, making phone calls, and turning out to primaries and caucuses in record numbers to support this movement for change.

Barack has organized and inspired what yesterday’s Time magazine called a “new breed of grassroots campaign — viral, internet-based, built from the ground up.”

Today, we are within reach of a goal that is unprecedented at this point in a presidential primary — one million people giving to this campaign.

Thank you for being a part of this historic moment.

This campaign has always been about bringing new people into the political process. Please help us reach this goal and show your support for a new kind of politics and a new kind of leadership.

Make an additional donation today as part of our matching program, and encourage a fellow supporter to give for the first time:

https://donate.barackobama.com/promise

Thank you for your support,

David

David Plouffe Campaign Manager Obama for America

By Truthman

February 26, 2008 2:01 PM | Link to this

Lawrence Korb, a military analyst at the Center for American Progress and one of a dozen or so national security advisers to the Obama campaign, rebutted the lack-of-experience complaint, saying neither President Bush nor John F. Kennedy could claim an extensive national security background before entering the White House.

Unlike Mr. Obama, though, both men served in the military.

That last bit of revisionist history was brought to you by Rowan Scarborough, writing for Sun Myung-Moon’s Washington Times.

It is Truthman’s job to refute any mention of W “serving” in the U.S. Armed Forces. The murderer/traitor/liar jumped over 500 other guys because of his “Diddy,” and went AWOL from Alabama in 1972 to go campaign for “Diddy.”

Bush never served honorably in the U.S. Armed Forces, PERIOD!! END OF STORY!!

Stop the lies, neo-cons!!

By IN THE NEWS

February 26, 2008 2:04 PM | Link to this

McCain’s voting record - how he REALLY supports the troops…… September 2007: McCain voted against the Webb amendment calling for adequate troop rest between deployments………. February 2007: For such a strong supporter of the escalation, McCain didn’t even bother to show up and vote against a resolution condemning it. …………….. May 2006: McCain voted against an amendment that would provide $20 million to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for health care facilities……………. April 2006: McCain was one of only 13 Senators to vote against $430,000,000 for the Department of Veteran Affairs for Medical Services for outpatient care and treatment for veterans………………. March 2006: McCain voted against increasing Veterans medical services funding by $1.5 billion in FY 2007 to be paid for by closing corporate tax loopholes…………… March 2004: McCain once again voted for abusive tax loopholes over veterans when he voted against creating a reserve fund to allow for an increase in Veterans’ medical care by $1.8 billion by eliminating abusive tax loopholes. Jeez, McCain really loves those tax loopholes for corporations, since he voted for them over our veterans’ needs….. April 2003: McCain urged other Senate members to table a vote (which never passed) to provide more than $1 billion for National Guard and Reserve equipment in Iraq related to a shortage of helmets, tents, bullet-proof inserts, and tactical vests.

By Luckoduh Loves Dick Cheney

February 26, 2008 2:07 PM | Link to this

With or without the Cheney…

Hey listen, libs. We GOPers aren’t gay.

We’re whatever it is that Larry Craig is.

By AmVet

February 26, 2008 2:10 PM | Link to this

Is there any reason to believe that ANY of the candidates from either major political party will really stand up to the commercial interests profiting, at the expense of the nation’s interests, from our current energy situation?

I don’t believe it is even remotely possible, as they are by and large all DEEPLY indebted to, if not outright bought and paid for, by the multi-nationals and their army of lobbyists.

Where is a major environmental health agenda that challenges these entrenched, self-serving interests with substantive new initiatives in solar energy, doubling motor vehicle fuel efficiency, and other quantified sustainable and clean energy technologies?

Where is the adequate recognition that current fossil fuels are producing not just global warming, but also cancer, respiratory diseases, and deadly geopolitical entanglements?

And where are the calls for ending environmental racism that leads to more contaminated water, air, and toxic dumps in poorer neighborhoods?

Where?

By IN THE NEWS

February 26, 2008 2:11 PM | Link to this

But Larry Craig wears a flag pin!

By Just Wondering

February 26, 2008 2:15 PM | Link to this

Apocalypse at 10:18: [Your assessments are correct, but you are blaming the wrong person for them. “Jesse Jackson ran a good campaign here too.” said by Bill Clinton in an attempt to connect Obama with the black community and separate him from the white community.”

I’ve read your post five times AND seen the clips..but I still can’t find where Bill Clinton called Obama “darkie” and told him to bring the carriage ‘round front.

Oh yes, Apoca, the race card was played…swiftly, and by Obama’s stragegists and followers.

We’ve seen that kind of carefully orchestrated “spontaneous” reaction before…when Bush’s strategists and followers piled up on the Dixie Chicks.

Black skin or not, it looks like business as usual, except BO will keep insisting his hands are clean - in front of the cameras and for a while, at least.

By Apocalypse

February 26, 2008 2:15 PM | Link to this

FOR AMVET:

Barack Obama’s Plan Reduce Carbon Emissions 80 Percent by 2050 Cap and Trade: Obama supports implementation of a market-based cap-and-trade system to reduce carbon emissions by the amount scientists say is necessary: 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. Obama’s cap-and-trade system will require all pollution credits to be auctioned. A 100 percent auction ensures that all polluters pay for every ton of emissions they release, rather than giving these emission rights away to coal and oil companies. Some of the revenue generated by auctioning allowances will be used to support the development of clean energy, to invest in energy efficiency improvements, and to address transition costs, including helping American workers affected by this economic transition. Confront Deforestation and Promote Carbon Sequestration: Obama will develop domestic incentives that reward forest owners, farmers, and ranchers when they plant trees, restore grasslands, or undertake farming practices that capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Invest in a Clean Energy Future Invest $150 Billion over 10 Years in Clean Energy: Obama will invest $150 billion over 10 years to advance the next generation of biofuels and fuel infrastructure, accelerate the commercialization of plug-in hybrids, promote development of commercial-scale renewable energy, invest in low-emissions coal plants, and begin the transition to a new digital electricity grid. A principal focus of this fund will be devoted to ensuring that technologies that are developed in the U.S. are rapidly commercialized in the U.S. and deployed around the globe. Double Energy Research and Development Funding: Obama will double science and research funding for clean energy projects including those that make use of our biomass, solar and wind resources. Invest in a Skilled Clean Technologies Workforce: Obama will use proceeds from the cap-and-trade auction program to invest in job training and transition programs to help workers and industries adapt to clean technology development and production. Obama will also create an energy-focused Green Jobs Corps to connect disconnected and disadvantaged youth with job skills for a high-growth industry. Convert our Manufacturing Centers into Clean Technology Leaders: Obama will establish a federal investment program to help manufacturing centers modernize and Americans learn the new skills they need to produce green products. Clean Technologies Deploym

By Just Wondering

February 26, 2008 2:21 PM | Link to this

Apocalypse at 10:18: [Your assessments are correct, but you are blaming the wrong person for them. “Jesse Jackson ran a good campaign here too.” said by Bill Clinton in an attempt to connect Obama with the black community and separate him from the white community.”

I’ve read your post five times AND seen the clips..but I still can’t find where Bill Clinton called Obama “darkie” and told him to bring the carriage ‘round front.

Oh yes, Apoca, the race card was played…swiftly, and by Obama’s stragegists and followers.

We’ve seen that kind of carefully orchestrated “spontaneous” reaction before…when Bush’s strategists and followers piled up on the Dixie Chicks.

Black skin or not, it looks like business as usual, except BO will keep insisting his hands are clean - in front of the cameras and for a while, at least.

Oh, and while we’re on the subject..to address “That’s why he’s winning”…

Considering the “Black Power” fists in the air at our caucus, combined with Republican sandbagging (see the unhinged poster at 10:37 above for confirmation), I’d say that those two factors explain the “momentum.”

By getalife

February 26, 2008 2:21 PM | Link to this

This is the kind of crap the gop will use

By Apocalypse

February 26, 2008 2:22 PM | Link to this

Just wondering,

You might want to inform Sen.Ted Kennedy of that. He felt it was Clinton too.

P.S.

You don’t have to use the words “darkie”, and such to play race. I’m sorry you’re not sensitive enough to other groups’ dilemnas to know that.

By IN THE NEWS

February 26, 2008 2:28 PM | Link to this

It’s a story that probably hasn’t generated the attention it deserves, but the National Republican Congressional Committee really has been rocked by a fairly dramatic scandal. We learned a few weeks ago, “Top House Republicans were told in recent days that a former employee of their campaign committee may have forged an official audit during the contentious 2006 election cycle and that they should brace for the possibility that an unfolding investigation could uncover financial improprieties stretching back several years.” Shortly thereafter, we learned that Rep. Mike Conaway (R-Texas), a CPA, had pushed for months for an internal NRCC audit, until the committee’s treasurer apparently fabricated an entire audit out of whole cloth. (Even the letterhead of the audit was a forgery.)……As Josh Patashnik concluded, “House Republicans can be accused of many things, but at least inconsistency isn’t one of them: They adhere to the same low standards of ethics and competence in their own affairs that they expect of the federal government as a whole.”

By Apocalypse

February 26, 2008 2:34 PM | Link to this

Right wing support for Obama may account for the landslide victories, but they are not necessary to achieve a victory.

Without Republican support, Obama would defeat Billary by just 10 points or so.

In a general election, he will devastate McCain due to the excitement of the return of the Democratic party in the White House.

By Just Wondering

February 26, 2008 2:35 PM | Link to this

Apocalypse at 10:18: [Your assessments are correct, but you are blaming the wrong person for them. “Jesse Jackson ran a good campaign here too.” said by Bill Clinton in an attempt to connect Obama with the black community and separate him from the white community.”

I’ve read your post five times AND seen the clips..but I still can’t find where Bill Clinton called Obama “darkie” and told him to bring the carriage ‘round front.

Oh yes, Apoca, the race card was played…swiftly, and by Obama’s stragegists and followers.

We’ve seen that kind of carefully orchestrated “spontaneous” reaction before…when Bush’s strategists and followers piled up on the Dixie Chicks.

Black skin or not, it looks like business as usual, except BO will keep insisting his hands are clean - in front of the cameras and for a while, at least.

Oh, and while we’re on the subject..to address “That’s why he’s winning”…

Considering the “Black Power” fists in the air at our caucus, combined with Republican sandbagging (see the unhinged poster at 10:37 above for confirmation), I’d say that those two factors go a log way toward explaining the “momentum.”

I’ll hold my nose and vote for him if he gets the nom, but he’s an oily politician just like the rest.

By raisedanidiot

February 26, 2008 2:37 PM | Link to this

hello all! anybody else here feel like ralph nader should be taken out and flogged until he admits he’s on the gop payroll?!

By Apocalypse

February 26, 2008 2:39 PM | Link to this

Just wondering,

Fair enough.

By @@

February 26, 2008 2:42 PM | Link to this

Americans want to know?

Ralph wants consumers to purchase “three to a pack?”

Republican - Green/Indy - Democrat

By IN THE NEWS

February 26, 2008 2:43 PM | Link to this

The Audacity of Data

By Just Wondering

February 26, 2008 2:46 PM | Link to this

Holy crap, I’m Just Wondering how that happened…

Sorry for the multiple posts, folks.

By Apocalypse

February 26, 2008 2:48 PM | Link to this

ITN,

Good to see that I am not the only earthling here.

By AmVet

February 26, 2008 2:49 PM | Link to this

Apocalypse, thanks for the info. I’ve read it but will want to look at it closer.

BTW, one area I disagree with Nader on is nuclear energy. He opposes it, I don’t.

I mean how the hell are we ever going to get to the point where we’re using dilithium crystals like those in Star Trek?

Does Obama also oppose new nuclear power plants?

By Apocalypse

February 26, 2008 2:50 PM | Link to this

I posted this on all the major Ohio newspapers.

”[…] Hillary Clinton has made statements unequivocally trumpeting NAFTA as the greatest thing since sliced bread. The Buffalo News reports that back in 1998, Clinton attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and thanked praised corporations for mounting “a very effective business effort in the U.S. on behalf of NAFTA.” Yes, you read that right: She traveled to Davos to thank corporate interests for their campaign ramming NAFTA through Congress.

On November 1, 1996, United Press International reported that on a trip to Brownsville, Texas, Clinton “touted the president’s support for the North American Free Trade Agreement, saying it would reap widespread benefits in the region.”

The Associated Press followed up the next day noting that Hillary Clinton touted the fact that “the president would continue to support economic growth in South Texas through initiatives such as the North American Free Trade Agreement.”

In her memoir, Clinton wrote, “Senator Dole was genuinely interested in health care reform but wanted to run for president in 1996. He couldn’t hand incumbent Bill Clinton any more legislative victories, particularly after Bill’s successes on the budget, the Brady bill and NAFTA.”

Yes, we are all expected to just forget that, so that Hillary Clinton’s campaign can manufacture supposed “outrage” that anyone would say she supported NAFTA - all at a time her chief strategist, Mark Penn, simultaneously heads a firm that is right now pushing to expand NAFTA into South America.

What a total insult to America’s intelligence”

By Spike

February 26, 2008 2:52 PM | Link to this

You will ALL be hearing about the exploits today of one Bill Cunningham in Cincinnati re Sen. McCain. Know that Cunningham is a small, physically ugly little guy w a falsetto voice. I am ashamed to admit that he graduated from a school from which I have a degree (XU) and that school does its best to distance itself from Cunningham, but to no avail. He was detested at the school while there. Cunningham is a great legend in Nazi Cincinnati. He owns 2 childish sports bars and has been a hate-show radio host for about 20 years on a major Cincy radio station. Hate-radio is a 24-hour per day, multi-source enterprise in Cincy which makes Limbaugh & Hannity look, sound like rookies. The nature on the city intellect. Been that way for decades. Happens that on July 12th, 1992 Cunningham dared to grab my wrist at an upscale restaurant in Cincy. God had blessed me truly & provided me w a perfectly lovely day. A single backhand on his little face sent him reeling 4 feet & against a wall, thus silencing him…for the moment. Until he got back to his microphone. It was all over the newspapers. I was terribly disappointed that neither he nor his radio station possessed the required scrotal mass to sue me. And so it is, you Neocons out there, that Cunningham is decidedly one of YOURS - and just like the lot of you. Be proud, Bushies - and don’t miss the evening news. If you can bear to see…truth & reality.

By Georgia 74

February 26, 2008 3:00 PM | Link to this

Obama can’t win.

By Just Wondering

February 26, 2008 3:10 PM | Link to this

Apocalypse:

With all of that, somehow my last paragraph to you didn’t make it…

I think that too often Americans are determined to create heroes because they want to believe, and yet are devastated when those heroes (BO) turn out to be less-than. It’ll happen.

I guess I’ve just been through this too many times to fall for the Obamaphoria (or Clinton or McCain) marketing machine(s).

If it’s not too invasive: What is your approximate age?

Just Wondering.

Peace.

By Mel

February 26, 2008 3:11 PM | Link to this

Apoc (2:50): “…insult to America’s intelligence.” WHAT intelligence would that be? Are you an example? The example currently rests comfortably in the White House. There’s your “America’s intelligence.” Thanks for the reminder. There IS no “America’s intelligence.”

By AJC Management

February 26, 2008 3:14 PM | Link to this

{{{{If its purpose is to print “all the news,” then the Times, like all newspapers, is an old-fashioned product made obsolete by advances in technology. Therefore, what constitutes “news” at the Times is not only a moving target, it’s a series of different targets, depending on who the paper wants to take knock off. But that kind of bias surprises no one: The litany of “I-told-you-so” comments that follow every one of these gaffes by the Times is pointless. The Times no longer pretends to offer a chronicle of the day’s events. Its business has changed: It now provides brain cocoa for its dwindling band of readers by offering a daily validation of the assumptions shared by most of them. In doing so, of course, it also alienates more than half its potential market. If that’s a business plan, it’s a bad one (if the spiraling value of NYT stock is any indication — and of course it is). The most recent announcement of newsroom layoffs won’t be the last.}}}}

By N-GA

February 26, 2008 3:17 PM | Link to this

Apocalypse & AmVet,

I support the widespread use of nuclear enrgy to provide electricity. However, I expect at least 2 rules be followed to the letter:

The facility must be as safe as technology can possible make it. Safe from accidents, safe from terrorists.

The decision about what to do with the nuclear waste must be answered completely BEFORE construction of the facility has begun.

Obama in November, and again in January ‘09.

By getalife

February 26, 2008 3:19 PM | Link to this

Great story Spike. Thanks. I witnessed his vomitting on CNN and McInsane’s instant apology. A real pos.

By AJC Management

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

Well, well, guess who was right and guess who was wrong.

Again:

{{{{Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile — the list goes on and on.}}}}

{{{{No more than anecdotal evidence, to be sure. But now, that evidence has been supplanted by hard scientific fact. All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA’s GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously.}}}}

Go figure.

Another mindless hysteria falling by the wayside.

Don’t you shriekers look the fool.

By IN THE NEWS

February 26, 2008 3:22 PM | Link to this

I respectfully suggest that if we want to move beyond short- term efforts to slow down the bone-crushing machinery of the contemporary conservative movement and begin to build a meaningful movement of our own, we need to expand the job descriptions of our elected officials. To do this, we must consider the two distinct aspects of our work: transactional politics and transformational politics.

By IN THE NEWS

February 26, 2008 3:24 PM | Link to this

BREAKING: DOJ Voter Suppression Activities Investigated by House Judiciary Subcommittee Today

By The Peoples for a Nuked Amerika' Century~!

February 26, 2008 3:29 PM | Link to this

-=-

In the continued story of Big Brother and our government moniotoring the “Citizens”

More rights decay in the state of georgia…

Thomas

“Even the literature of the Party will change. Even the slogans will change. How could you have a slogan like “freedom is slavery” when the concept of freedom has been abolished? The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking — not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.’” (George Orwell - from the book “1984”)

Now how long do you think it will be before the Insurance companies aquire this data base by legal (or illegal) means…..

By AmVet

February 26, 2008 3:33 PM | Link to this

N-GA, Oh, those sticky details!

I can’t see terrorists as a potential problem. The Bush administration has secured our borders and has taken ALL of the prudent steps necessary to keep us safe. (Super-sized snark!)

I can’t know, but would imagine the technology is even better than it was thirty years ago (when the last plants were built). And almost incredibly we’ve had no real incidents since Three Mile Island. (And apparently the French obtain 80% of their requirements from nuclear)

The waste problem IS a biggie.

I advocate storing it at all in Crawford Texas. Or at the RNC headquarters…

By IN THE NEWS

February 26, 2008 3:36 PM | Link to this

A new study concludes that the “supposed ‘global cooling’ consensus among scientists in the 1970s — frequently offered by global-warming skeptics as proof that climatologists can’t make up their minds — is a myth.” An examination of “dozens of peer-reviewed scientific articles from 1965 to 1979″ found that “only seven supported global cooling, while 44 predicted warming.”

AND

Inhofe’s latest claim is that “Over 400 prominent scientists from more than two dozen countries recently voiced significant objections to major aspects of the so-called ‘consensus’ on man-made global warming.” It’s a claim backed up by honest-to-goodness research, of the cut-and-paste kind.

Inhofe’s list includes 413 people.

84 have either taken money from, or are connected to, fossil fuel industries, or think tanks started by those industries.

49 are retired

44 are television weathermen

20 are economists

70 have no apparent expertise in climate science

Several supposed skeptics have publicly stated that they are very concerned about global warming, and support efforts to address it. One claims he was duped into signing the list and regrets it.

Before we get ahead of ourselves, here are some concessions and explanations:

Taking money from companies that have an established stake in burning fossil fuels doesn’t mean your science is junk, but it ought to sound alarm bells for anyone aiming for the label of “skeptic.”

Being retired doesn’t mean you’ve lost your smarts, but it does make it harder to be considered “prominent” on a cutting-edge issue.

Weathermen help us navigate the vagaries of weather on a local level every day, but this isn’t a discipline that requires forecasting world climate conditions decades from now. (Prominent? In one sense: They are more frequently seen and heard.)

Economists, clearly, are valuable participants in policy debates. Clearly, they aren’t climate scientists.

Finally, we could line up 59 regular people (hi Mom!) who don’t have any particular expertise in climate science, but believe adamantly in it. You wouldn’t

By AmVet

February 26, 2008 3:44 PM | Link to this

Bad news for the Bible thumpers:

When it comes to religion, more and more U.S. adults either have none or do not identify with a particular church.

The largest gains due to changes in religious affiliation have been among those who say they are no longer affiliated with any particular religious group or tradition.

Perhaps in another fifty years Christianity will be blessedly (get it?) irrelevant, as a political weapon in this country.

Now if only the Muslims and Hebrews would start giving up their mythology, humanity might just have a decent chance of making it to the next century…

By Bosch

February 26, 2008 3:45 PM | Link to this

AmVet,

“The waste problem IS a biggie.

I advocate storing it at all in Crawford Texas. Or at the RNC headquarters…”

Yeah, maybe the inhabitants will mutate into something tolerable.

By IN THE NEWS

February 26, 2008 3:45 PM | Link to this

The Myth of the Surge Hoping to turn enemies into allies, U.S. forces are arming Iraqis who fought with the insurgents. But it’s already starting to backfire. A report from the front lines of the new Iraq

By AJC Management

February 26, 2008 3:46 PM | Link to this

Did I insult your “religion,” dimwit?

Go ahead and tell me NASA is a bunch of right wing capitalists:

{{{{All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA’s GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously.}}}}

Deal with it, morons.

Brrrrrrrrrrr, damn, it’s cold outside.

By George

February 26, 2008 3:50 PM | Link to this

Thanx Spike. Very interesting story and background. I too witnessed this Cunningham some months ago - may have been on MSNBC. You’re right, he not only sounds like a freak but looks like one. Sad that a fine Jesuit Univ would let him in the door. I’ve flown into Cincinnati numerous time on business. The atmosphere there is as you describe it. Arrogant, repressive, ultra right wing and proud of it. That mentality is a stench and you can cut it with a knife. The city is the perfect example of Republicanism at its worst. Barf.

By IN THE NEWS

February 26, 2008 3:54 PM | Link to this

It is rather misleading to refer to America’s politicized theocratic movement as Christian (their preferred term), because the word has so many different referents, many of which bear no resemblance to this movement. To allow this network of politically active social conservatives to monopolize the term Christian is grossly misleading. I prefer theocrats because it more accurately describes the values this movement represents. It seems the proper question is not whether it is ‘Christian’ to be homophobic, feminist, or “anti-contraception and anti-abortion”.<2> Rather, the question is whether the word ‘Christianity’ refers to any single thing. Mainline moderate Christians concede too much to their theocratic rivals by taking for granted the unity and coherence of the New Testament (i.e. the Christian Bible).

By Luckoduh Is a Gonna Be a Movie Star

February 26, 2008 3:55 PM | Link to this

Eat your heart outs - I’m gonna be in a movie!!!

By @@

February 26, 2008 4:00 PM | Link to this

We report - you decide.

Nuclear Leaks and Response Tested Obama in Senate

(((The history of the bill shows Mr. Obama navigating a home-state controversy that pitted two important constituencies against each other and tested his skills as a legislative infighter. On one side were neighbors of several nuclear plants upset that low-level radioactive leaks had gone unreported for years; on the other was Exelon, the country’s largest nuclear plant operator and one of Mr. Obama’s largest sources of campaign money.)))

By Tony

February 26, 2008 4:00 PM | Link to this

No fan of Mister McCain’s thinking, I take my hat off to him for the excellent way he handled the ugly incident in ugly Cincinnati today. He was a class act.

By AmVet

February 26, 2008 4:03 PM | Link to this

{Go ahead and tell me NASA is a bunch of right wing capitalists}

What the hell is NASA doing studying the weather???!!!

Yes, I know that is a totally idiotic question to ask, but take one guess who asked it here some months ago?

One guess. Just one. One little guess.

Yep, Curly the Cobb county climatologist who now wants to enjoin their endeavor.

Give an angry moron a loaded gun and he is BOUND to shoot his face off.

Talk about proving the old adage that fact is stranger than fiction, I promise you I couldn’t make this cr@p up about these fools if I tried!

By GreenJeans

February 26, 2008 4:07 PM | Link to this

AmVet, no surprise here. Now that the US seems to be awakening from its collective coma, it’s easy to see how extreme fundamentalist Christianity has driven away youth AND dissolusioned those who were sold a bag of hate under its guise.

I worked for my church (UCC) from 2001 to 2005, and during that time folks begged us to be as loud, aggressive and relentless as the Dobsons of the world.

They missed the point that Christianity is pretty simple: Love one another, Peace above all, and Take care of those who can’t take care of themselves. The rest is a bunch of man-made BS. Authentic Christianity would never find itself on a political talk show.

My bigger concern is: What will replace the religious discipline and community? One thing that (most)churches have going for them is a strong community structure. The secular world can be harder to plug into and requires people to think harder and deeper than most religious sheeple are used to.

By IN THE NEWS

February 26, 2008 4:10 PM | Link to this

AGAIN

AND

AGAIN

AND AGAIN

It was way colder than normal today in Wagga Wagga, proof that there is no global warming. Does this even deserve an answer? If we must …Answer: The chaotic nature of weather means that no conclusion about climate can ever be drawn from a single data point, hot or cold. The temperature of one place at one time is just weather, and says nothing about climate, much less climate change, much less global climate change.

By IN THE NEWS

February 26, 2008 4:16 PM | Link to this

RHETORIC: Lanny Davis said, “He took hundreds of thousands of dollars from a nuclear energy company in Illinois of lobbyists after they lobbied him. He diluted the bill on nuclear waste being exposed to Illinois constituents.” [Late Edition, 2/17/08]

REALITY: CLINTON WAS FOR OBAMA’S BILL BEFORE SHE WAS AGAINST IT, HAS MADE ALLEGATIONS THAT ARE UNSUPPORTED BY COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND FACTS

Clinton Cosponsored, Supported Obama’s Bill on Reporting Requirements For Nuclear Plants. In 2006, Hillary Clinton’s name was added as a cosponsor to an amended version of S. 2348, Obama’s Nuclear Release Notice Act. The bill had been introduced in March 2006 and passed the Environment and Public Works Committee unanimously on September 13, 2006. She praised the bill’s passage in a press release that day, saying “This important legislation will ensure prompt notification of any future leaks.” [S. 2348, Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 637, 9/25/2006; Clinton Press Release, 9/13/06]

Washington Post Fact Check: Clinton Campaign’s Allegations Are Uncorroborated; Obama Changed The Bill To Ensure Committee Passage. The Washington Post reported, “No other member of the committee has come forward to support the Clinton version of events…the Clinton campaign has failed to provide evidence to support the New York senator’s claim of a secret deal between Obama and the nuclear power plant operator “to protect them from full disclosure.” Exelon lobbied Obama over the nuclear notification bill, but it expressed the same concerns to other senators. Had Obama not agreed to the drafting changes, the bill would almost certainly have been blocked by the Republican majority on the Environment Committee.” [Washington Post, 2/14/08]

By IN THE NEWS

February 26, 2008 4:20 PM | Link to this

Source: Philadelphia Inquirer

Pa.’s party wants him to settle legal debts before getting on the ballot. He likens the court fees to a “poll tax.”

HARRISBURG - Ralph Nader has jumped into the presidential race, contending that he wants to energize third-party politics.

But angry Pennsylvania Democrats say Nader should first settle his legal bills from his last presidential campaign.

And until he does, lawyers from Pittsburgh have persuaded a Washington judge to freeze $61,000 in Nader’s personal bank accounts.

By Looking at YOU in the corner

February 26, 2008 4:25 PM | Link to this

Frankly, I think the colder weather as of late is in direct relation to an unnamed gasbag having the muzzle properly applied.

By AJC Management

February 26, 2008 4:32 PM | Link to this

NASA was studying ocean currents, you paranoid obsessive.

There is a Huge difference between that and recording atmospheric temperatures, duh.

But don’t let that get you all upset, oh wait, I forgot, you can’t help it.

By IN THE NEWS

February 26, 2008 4:33 PM | Link to this

Republican Senator Larry Craig Is Looking For Summer Interns

EEEEK!

By @@

February 26, 2008 4:34 PM | Link to this

AmVet:

(((Bad news for the Bible Thumpers.)))

I read that same article, and what it said to me was that it isn’t uncommon for younger adults to leave the church in search of a different direction, a different faith.

I left the church for some years after I moved away from home. When my daughter was born it was important that she see not only her parents, but other parents are guided by a moral compass. If she thought we were the only ones, it would have been us, (her parents) against them, (her peers). That’s a hard battle to wage.

Exposing her to a church community proved that our moral arguments in her interest were supported by others.

By Goldie

February 26, 2008 4:38 PM | Link to this

Hillary and Bill will not be elected by the majority of American voters in November.

By getalife

February 26, 2008 4:49 PM | Link to this

The gay wanker would make a great intern for Craig.

Andy,

I guess you are against McInsane’s position but you want to keep feeding the Muslims you hate billions for their oil.

Why is that?

By AmVet

February 26, 2008 4:57 PM | Link to this

ITN, GREAT 3:54!

I confess that I have in some cases allowed myself to buy into this notion that the heinous hijacking of Christianity by some of it’s very worst representatives and obvious frauds, both on television and on this blog, is quite representative of it.

They make most of the noise, but it is just that - noise. And GreenJeans is absolutely right. All it does is drive away people, ESPECIALLY young people, in droves. And that is what those numbers in that latest poll suggest.

And @@, I have NEVER considered you in that category.

GreenJeans, your other point about what will replace religion as a moral guide, for some, is a very good question.

There’s a line from an old Dire Straits song, “Religion is useless, philosophy’s worse”. So it beats the heck outta me.

I just don’t buy into the concept that our ethics and morals MUST come form some ill-defined, illusory outside source.

Though as I have noted numerous times before, there is no doubt that the church often provides the last refuge for those in the most need and peril, without regard to beliefs. And that is the beauty that offsets the beast.

By RW-(the original)

February 26, 2008 4:59 PM | Link to this

Goldielocks,

Bill never got a majority of voters but he still got elected to two terms.

By Apocalypse

February 26, 2008 5:00 PM | Link to this

Just wondering@ 3:10.,

The Apocalypse is 35.

By AmVet

February 26, 2008 5:00 PM | Link to this

Luckodork, your enmity with NASA for studying the ocean’s currents and temperatures was in regard to what?

Climate change!

But your constant intellectual dishonesty is unwavering, I’ll give you that.

By AmVet

February 26, 2008 5:05 PM | Link to this

Goldie,

And Bill was never a judicially-selected President either!

By Count Dousty

February 26, 2008 5:18 PM | Link to this

Tiny little baby bunny slippers!

By AJC Management

February 26, 2008 5:21 PM | Link to this

{{{{By getalife February 26, 2008 4:49 PM Andy, I guess you are against McInsane’s position but you want to keep feeding the Muslims you hate billions for their oil. Why is that?}}}}

al-Gitmo: I don’t recall saying I wanted to give billions of dollars to the Muslims for their oil but I do remember saying that we should drill for our own oil, allow the construction of new gasoline refineries, replace coal burning, smog producing power plants with clean safe nuclear energy and that we should stop converting the very food we eat into ethanol.

Very sensible ideas all, and combined, they would lower our energy prices by a large amount, thereby lifting this pseudo recession off the economy and returning our economic growth back to the 5 or 6% range.

Which is, of course, why you liberals are so dead set against them.

Sickos.

(Uh, Free Advice for you demokrats: Think of how much more taxes you could get from “Big Oil” if they were drilling and producing domestic oil, duh. You can’t tax the Arabs.)

~~~~~

{{{{By AmVet February 26, 2008 5:00 PM Luckodork, your enmity with NASA for studying the ocean’s currents and temperatures was in regard to what? Climate change! But your constant intellectual dishonesty is unwavering, I’ll give you that.}}}}

What the thermometer says is what the thermometer says, surely we can agree on that?

What James Hanson says, after dropping his probe into the deep blue sea, is still what James Hanson says.

You know what I mean?

By @@

February 26, 2008 5:24 PM | Link to this

(((And @@, I have NEVER considered you in that category.)))

Say whaaaaatttt AmVet? Even when you were Huge?

Nevermind…I don’t want to visit my HUGE files where I could offer evidence that you did.

Moving on.

By RW-(the original)

February 26, 2008 5:25 PM | Link to this

A little CNN for your afternoon dose of comic relief. Not only is it funny it’s also dead on.

What I had said was, “I’m sorry, I don’t speak Russian very well, but that building? It’s chocolate.”

{{{{{I once terrified a cab driver in El Salvador by asking over and over, “Where’s Jesus?” I’ve shocked an Italian tailor by asking, “Will these pants hold fish?” I told a dozen French citizens on New Year’s Eve, “Good luck! My daughter is a mushroom!” And I still don’t know what I said to the Albanians, but I was startled at how fast they could run while throwing rocks.}}}}}

By Dancing Bear

February 26, 2008 5:28 PM | Link to this

AmVet and GreenJeans,

Religious growth continues apace in the U.S., AmVet. It’s shifting, though. The Roman Catholic church has taken a hit, but is growing in the Southwest. Of the mainline Protestant denominations, the only one experiencing growth is the Southern Baptist Convention. The fastest growth is among non-denominational Evangelicals. LDS and the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society (the Jehovah’s Witnesses) also are growing.

My guess is that many people brought to Christianity by Evangelicalism are discovering its heterodoxy, paternalism, hypocrisy, etc., and disaffiliating from the organizations that brought them into the fold.

And while I absolutely reject your pap summation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, GreenJeans, I do rejoice in any signs of the disappearance of institutional Christianity. The Book of Acts, even in its very structure, teaches me so to rejoice. So I agree with you about the crucial distinction between Christ’s church universal and invisible, and the very visible bi tch that bore me and so many others.

By Count Dousty

February 26, 2008 5:46 PM | Link to this

God only exists in the mind of an observer. God is nowhere else. Without man, there is no God. He lives only in our imagination. We didn’t create God, but we sustain God.

Never forget that you blaspheming heretics. (Camera to me picking up a whip and turning over the money changer’s tables)

By Dancing Bear

February 26, 2008 6:15 PM | Link to this

Why then were the tables turned, Count?

By The Peoples for a Nuked Amerika' Century~!

February 26, 2008 6:25 PM | Link to this

-=-

(Note this is addressed to only those of (purported) Christian Faith…

Dogma rules our lives now - not GOD!..

The “Ten Commandmants” say keep the Sabbath Holy — (the Day God rested)which was Saturday….

Many years later, the (Catholic) Church changed the Sabbath to Sunday (when Christ arose)… and all the other little churches fell in line with those rules from Rome.

So do you keep the Sabbath day that God said for you to keep (the 7th day?) or do you keep the Sabbath that Man made via the Dogma of the church? (grins)…

But don’t worry —

Praying on any day is still good!

I also find it somewhat interesting that Jesus arose on the day after the Sabbath - so on the Saturday Sabbath even Jesus rested! (smiles)…

Cheers —

Thomas’

Have a good evening everyone….

By Paul

February 26, 2008 6:31 PM | Link to this

Peoples for a Nuked

Only matters if you buy the creation story as seven literal days. If not, then the rest of the if-then question doesn’t really matter.

Glad you see the symbolism in resting on the Sabbath, too!

Personally, I’m all for a Saturday and a Sunday Sabbath. Then pick a couple other days to make up for the loss of a weekend, and you’re down to a three-day workweek.

That’ll teach those heathen French and Germans a thing or two about using religion to advance the rights of the people -

By AmVet

February 26, 2008 6:42 PM | Link to this

Count, here’s something from one of my very favorite, very early albums:

1 In the beginning Man created God; and in the image of Man created he him.

2 And Man gave unto God a multitude of names,that he might be Lord of all the earth when it was suited to Man

3 And on the seven millionth day Man rested and did lean heavily on his God and saw that it was good.

4 And Man formed Aqualung of the dust of the ground, and a host of others likened unto his kind.

5 And these lesser men were cast into the void; And some were burned, and some were put apart from their kind.

6 And Man became the God that he had created and with his miracles did rule over all the earth.

7 But as all these things came to pass, the Spirit that did cause man to create his God lived on within all men: even within Aqualung.

8 And man saw it not.

9 But for Christ’s sake he’d better start looking.

By Paul

February 26, 2008 6:42 PM | Link to this

getalife

you in?

By getalife

February 26, 2008 6:48 PM | Link to this

Yeah, I was posting at Cafferty’s blog on Obama bias but they will not post my comments.

By Paul

February 26, 2008 6:54 PM | Link to this

getalife

So much for being open to new ideas.

‘bout two hours ago I shook hands with Pres Clinton. Quite an experience. In about thirty minutes he decimated the pundits’ claim “there’s not a dime’s worth of difference between Hillary and Obama, particularly on policy.”

Just another case of the message not getting reported accurately by the media.

The guy has presence. Lots of it.

By @@

February 26, 2008 6:56 PM | Link to this

I conclude that the Sabbath can be any day that one remains still, and knows that “He is.”

By @@

February 26, 2008 6:58 PM | Link to this

Getalife - A voice crying out in the wilderness.

By @@

February 26, 2008 7:02 PM | Link to this

Paul:

We’ll be having a hand-washing service at my church soon. You’re invited.

J/K

By AmVet

February 26, 2008 7:02 PM | Link to this

{What the thermometer says is what the thermometer says, surely we can agree on that?}

Andy, like someone who never intellectually moved past algebra, you see the world in static terms.

Calculus.

It is dynamic mathematics. And long ago it opened my mind to the fact that nothing is static, all is in motion.

Perhaps a static thermometer reading is enough for you. But that is childishly simple. That is why you are constantly referring to some static single event as PROOF that your position is well founded. Pure unadulterated poppycock is all that is.

You may try to convince yourself and you are free to believe what you will. But you are doomed to failure in your efforts to convince almost anyone else.

By @@

February 26, 2008 7:05 PM | Link to this

I have to give credit where it’s due.

Today’s cartoon. The contrast between Nader’s face and the smiley face on his mug is funny.

By getalife

February 26, 2008 7:09 PM | Link to this

Paul,

Awesome, where at?

Cafferty was asked if the media was biased for Obama.

This is a guy that read a Peggy Noonan hit piece on the President on the air.

Check this out

In that hit piece, CNN never reported on Obama’s lying fliers that the President called garbage.

But I am sure she will attack him in the debate tonight making them look like a fool.

But they insist the media is not biased for Obama but the bias is very obvious on MSNBC too.

By Paul

February 26, 2008 7:11 PM | Link to this

@@

Cute!

Family member, not a Clinton fan, paid a hundred to hear him speak. I asked why. He said “He’s an ex President.”

Good answer. Not many opportunities come along to make a day remarkably different than any other. Meeting an ex President is one such opportunity.

Gotta take advantage when they come.

AmVet

From a sermon years ago. Many people go through life acting like thermometers. They merely reflect external conditions.

Man’s nature is to be thermostats (with their attitude). Our minds create our conditions.

By AJC Management

February 26, 2008 7:24 PM | Link to this

{{{{By AmVet February 26, 2008 7:02 PM Perhaps a static thermometer reading is enough for you. But that is childishly simple. That is why you are constantly referring to some static single event as PROOF that your position is well founded. Pure unadulterated poppycock is all that is.}}}}

Um, speaking of simple, I thought I made it abundantly clear that I was basing my beliefs on the readings of 4 different “static” thermometers that showed, over the course of an entire year, that average temperatures were plummeting.

Perhaps you are right that I should take this conclusive irrefutable proof and retreat into my study until I have sufficiently convinced myself that it really means that, let’s say, the world is getting warmer.

But then I would only be fooling myself.

I really don’t see the point in doing that.

I said a long, long time ago, amidst all of the hysteria and hair pulling, that the climate on Mars was warming at the exact same rate as the Earth, and also, that the snowcap on Kilimanjaro was melting even though the air temperature at that elevation never got above freezing.

And I attributed these undeniable facts to increased solar activity.

Well, now, sure enough, the Sun is entering a “dormant” phase and what do you know, the planet is getting colder.

I was right.

As usual.

Care to rehash that evolution thing?

By @@

February 26, 2008 7:50 PM | Link to this

(((Our minds create our conditions.)))

“Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind”

Paul, go forth and Zen no more.

By joe

February 28, 2008 10:22 AM | Link to this

another reminder of the douchebag mentality this country suffers from. no wonder europe hates us more and more each day.

By joe

February 28, 2008 10:24 AM | Link to this

another reminder of the douchebag mentality this country suffers from. no wonder europe hates us more and more each day.