Mike Luckovich

By AJC Management

February 27, 2008 8:05 AM | Link to this

A very important message to loyal AJC readers and bloggers:

Andy Sickozellduh is one of the most consistent and loyal contributors to the Mike Luckovich cartoon editorial blog usually being the first to post on the blog every weekday. As we all know, Andy doesn’t have very much that’s positive going on in his life. He lives in his mother’s basement and he’s on heavy medication for mental illness, he’s having to deal with the aftermath of a botched sex-change operation and he’s chained to a radiation for most of the day while intense under suicide watch. The staff of the AJC and the RNC would greatly appreciate if you all would have a little understanding and let Andy have this one thing in his miserable, wretched life. We ask that you let Andy have the only thing that he’s got left. Let Andy continue to be the first to post on the blog everyday while being rude to our distinguished and talented host, Mike Luckovich and downright hostile to fellow bloggers, namely the very informative and insightful IN THE NEWS and anyone else who doesn’t agree with his narrow and misguided viewpoint. Please, don’t take Andy’s blind Republican kool-aid drinking wingnut pride away from him, it’s all that he’s got left.

Sincerely, The AJC Editorial and Managerial Staff

By IN THE NEWS

February 27, 2008 8:09 AM | Link to this

The PNAC is back - same old liars with a brand new name……………There’s a new think tank on the loose, guys, and it’s called the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. They’re on a veritable rampage, penning articles and missives to the editor on a set of issues we are all too familiar with.It doesn’t take long to see these clowns for what they are, another front for the neoconservative agenda: anti-U.N., pro-Iraq war, shills for Israel via proxy (in this case, Lebanon), and pro-Iran invasion. But let’s take a closer look at who is behind this

By Luckoduh

February 27, 2008 8:13 AM | Link to this

You know, I have no doubt that the AJC Staff wrote the post at 8:05.

{{{{When she wasn’t discussing policy, she came off like a madwoman on the street, hawking paranoid pamphlets. First there were the complaints about Obama’s mailers on NAFTA and health care. Then there was the Captain Queeq-like paranoid outburst over the order of questions.}}}}

{{{{“Well, could I just point out that, in the last several debates, I seem to get the first question all the time,” Clinton whined.}}}}

{{{{She continued, “And I don’t mind. You know, I’ll be happy to field them, but I do find it curious. And if anybody saw Saturday Night Live, you know, maybe we should ask Barack if he’s comfortable and needs another pillow.”}}}}

Oh my, isn’t she insane.

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{{{{Speaking on “Squawk Box” this morning, Zell attributed much of the current economic troubles to fear-mongering and politicking by Democratic presidential contenders Ku Klux Klinton and Barack Obama.}}}}

{{{{“Obviously what we have going on is an attempt to create a self-fulfilling prophecy,” said Zell, chairman of Equity Investments Group and owner of the Chicago Cubs, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times and other companies. “We have two Democratic candidates who are vying with each other to describe the economic situation worse.}}}}

Think of all the whiny little gloom and doom “news” paper articles you’ve read over the last 3 years and consider that they are nothing but demokrat kampaign propaganda.

Whose interests does this serve?

By Luckoduh

February 27, 2008 8:15 AM | Link to this

{{{{Gasoline prices, which for months lagged the big run-up in the price of oil, are suddenly rising quickly, with some experts fearing they could hit $4 a gallon by spring. Diesel is hitting new records daily and oil closed at an all-time high on Tuesday of $100.88 a barrel.}}}}

Gee, I wonder if we should drill?

How many disasters from the environmental terrorists must we endure before we learn our lesson?

Empty drinking water reservoirs, rising food prices, light bulbs that cover your home with cancer causing agents when they break, mini cars that when involved in minor fender benders are engulfed in flames.

Are we really this stupid?

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{{{{Bill Klinton is dutifully traveling from state to state and small town to small town on behalf of his wife’s presidential candidacy. But the growling and snapping Bill Klinton that the country saw before the New Hampshire and South Carolina primaries has been muzzled and leashed.}}}}

{{{{He is being kept as far from the media as possible to prevent any more of the red-faced, finger-wagging tirades and freelance political commentary that polls say cost Ku Klux Rodham a lot of support, particularly among black voters.}}}}

{{{{The reason the KKKlinton Big Dog is on such a short leash is obvious from polling data. According to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll, only 22 percent of respondents said they were more likely to vote for Klux Rodham because of her husband, while an equal number said they were less likely to support her because of him.}}}}

Gosh, and here I thought KKKlintoon was the “greatest” president ever.

I guess that’s just more liberal nonsense.

By @@

February 27, 2008 8:19 AM | Link to this

Grasping at straws ml? This one’s kinda ho-hum, don’tcha think?

By Luckoduh Loves Dick Cheney

February 27, 2008 8:20 AM | Link to this

With or without the Cheney… ;>

Thank you, AJC Management, for your kind words this morning.

It is not easy being a blog defender of American freedom. You think our boys and gals in Fallujah have it rough? Try cutting and pasting for 11 hours every day.

My wrists, as limp as they are anyway, are about to fall off.

By Shawny

February 27, 2008 8:21 AM | Link to this

funny toon. GA has a big thirst…note that huge straw. Too bad we didn’t expand our supply as we should when expansion projects were approved and on the books. idiots.

Speaking of idiots…what a huge following this empty suit Obama has. It is so easy to get caught up in ‘Change’ rhetoric. But what does it really mean?

Obama has been criticized for not taking a stand early in his career on some hot-button issues, including abortion: He voted “present” on abortion questions seven out of 14 times in the state Senate, including once when the issue was a statewide ban on so-called partial-birth abortion.

By Shawny

February 27, 2008 8:23 AM | Link to this

…and Obama doesn’t understand a global economy. So easy to say “bring American jobs back to America” and then enact laws in that direction, but Mr. Obama is also proposing to raise tax rates on affluent individuals, as well as on capital gains and dividends. This would also lead to more capital and jobs leaving the U.S..

This rookie scares me.

By IN THE NEWS

February 27, 2008 8:26 AM | Link to this

Bernanke acknowledges ‘economy has worsened.’During a Senate Banking Committee hearing today, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke warned “that the country’s economic outlook has deteriorated” and the economy will continue to endure a “period of sluggish growth”: “The outlook for the economy has worsened in recent months, and the downside risks to growth have increased,” Bernanke said. “To date, the largest economic effects of the financial turmoil appear to have been on the housing market, which, as you know, has deteriorated significantly over the past two years or so.”

DAMN THAT BERNANKE SPREADING ALL THAT “demokrat kampaign propaganda.”

DAMN FORBES MAGAZINE PRINTING ALL THAT “demokrat kampaign propaganda.”

OOOOOPS!

It seems to actually be KKKONSERVATIVE KKKAMPAIGN KKKRAP!

(Anybody can do the “KKK” schtick)

By @@

February 27, 2008 8:30 AM | Link to this

(((How many disasters from the environmental terrorists must we endure before we learn our lesson?)))

Fear not Luckoduh! Obama is going to put America to work building “windmills” but not within view of Teddy’s compound.

Maybe we can attach them to car bumpers.

By IN THE NEWS

February 27, 2008 8:31 AM | Link to this

After promising last year to search its computers for tens of thousands of e-mails sent by White House officials, the Republican National Committee has informed a House committee that it no longer plans to retrieve the communications by restoring computer backup tapes, the panel’s chairman said yesterday.

By IN THE NEWS

February 27, 2008 8:32 AM | Link to this

Analysis Shows Possible Pattern in Missing White House Emails

By IN THE NEWS

February 27, 2008 8:32 AM | Link to this

CREW ANALYSIS OF NATIONAL NEWS AT THE TIME THE WHITE HOUSE E-MAIL WENT MISSING

By Truthman

February 27, 2008 8:32 AM | Link to this

“Larry Craig Looking For Interns!”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/26/larry-craig-looks-for-sumn88599.html

Andi, it’s your “job” of a lifetime!!

Hurry!! Apply now!!!

By IN THE NEWS

February 27, 2008 8:35 AM | Link to this

Look, I realize economics can be a complex subject, and after a quarter-century as a policy maker in Washington, McCain’s interests have been elsewhere. But if McCain doesn’t want to be made fun of for looking ridiculous, he shouldn’t brag about his “extensive background on the economy and knowledge.” It’s just too easy to prove otherwise.

By w00t

February 27, 2008 8:37 AM | Link to this

Even if we drilled it still wouldn’t affect our oil prices unless more refineries were built.

It’s time for the US to get off of its oil addiction. We shouldn’t ask for lower oil prices, we should ask for new technology. Asking for lower oil prices is only prolonging the inevitable, which is little oil reserves left and extremely high oil prices. You’re only denying the ability for the US to be the leaders in world technology if we do not give manufactures reasons to create new energy sources, new cars, or the ability to create new jobs for the future. Why are we letting something from the 19th century drive the technology and economy of the 21st century?

It’s time we moved on to bigger and better things or one day China and India will have that breakthrough, while we’re left in the dust beholden to yet another country for our energy needs.

Unless, you like supporting Middle Eastern country with ties to terrorism with the oil revenue you send overseas.

Then again, when you have no respect for yourself, you show nothing respect. Right Andy?

By IN THE NEWS

February 27, 2008 8:39 AM | Link to this

While some cynics still view Barack Obama’s appeal for “change” as empty rhetoric, it’s starting to dawn on Washington insiders that his ability to raise vast sums of money from nearly one million mostly small donors could shake the grip that special-interest money has long held over the U.S. government. This spreading realization that Obama’s political movement might represent a more revolutionary change than previously understood is sparking a deepening resistance among defenders of the status quo – and prompting harsher attacks on Obama.

By {{{{Sickoduh}}}}

February 27, 2008 8:42 AM | Link to this

Speaking of wingnuts!!!

Andrea R.W. Sickozellduh in cooperation with Fox News Channel and Right-Wing Talk Radio present a Republican National Committee Production…

The “hits to the face” and the “body blows” just keep on “piling up” for the he/she blogger formerly known as Andy in…

“WingNUTS XXX Vol.2, A (G)ay (O)ld (P)arty Orgy” starring the honorable Reverend Ted Haggard, a gay marriage opponent who loves smoking meth while receiving “messages” from gay prostitutes. Also stars Idaho Senator Larry Craig, who likes to play games of “footsie” with total strangers in public airport mens’ restrooms and who could forget the honorable former Congressman from Florida, Mark Foley, who liked to help “break-in” the teenage male congressional paiges on Capitol Hill. Also stars the object of their overbearing and strong-armed right-wing “affection”, Andrea R.W. Sickozellduh in role of total sexual submission! “WingNUTS XXX Vol.2, a (G)ay (O)ld (P)arty Orgy” is Rated XXX for graphic sexual scenes including bloodplay (that ain’t right-wing kool-aid!), total sexual domination, rear-end fisting, fireplay, whips, chains, sex-toys, etc. “WingNUTS XXX Vol.2, a GOP orgy” is not viewing for the faint of heart. And just to think that we didn’t know that Andy was so “dedicated” to the right-wing “cause”!

By Shawny

February 27, 2008 8:45 AM | Link to this

ITN, 8:39. That is dead on!

A revolutionary change is happening with big O! Revolutionary changes are typically emotionally driven, not necessarily sensible decisions being made. Getting swept away in the moment…kind of like buying a new car. change, change, change…..but what are we really getting? He seems to have very carefully chosen out areas where there were prospects of success and where he could find like-minded people across the aisle.” . so, who is most likely to reach across the aisle for meaningful compromise? Mac or the O?

By Shawny

February 27, 2008 8:47 AM | Link to this

Jimmy Hoffa Jr and Obama.

…also scary.

By Bosch

February 27, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this

Yikes! You shouldn’t run with a straw in your mouth! If that guy fell down - Oh, it’s just a cartoon.

By DirtyDawg

February 27, 2008 8:59 AM | Link to this

If George Bush were governor of Georgia, he’d have us invading Chattanooga before Spring…but then he wouldn’t have a plan for occupation or pumping the water…oh yeah, I forgot, that’s what we have Haliburton for.

By Luckoduh

February 27, 2008 8:59 AM | Link to this

{{{{By w00t February 27, 2008 8:37 AM Even if we drilled it still wouldn’t affect our oil prices unless more refineries were built. It’s time for the US to get off of its oil addiction. We shouldn’t ask for lower oil prices, we should ask for new technology.}}}}

mm: I have no objections to new innovation. What I object to is the fact that government is forcing untried and wasteful technology on the private sector without any considerations for energy costs. The American family does not need to be saddled with a government surcharge just so that the environmental terrorists can feel good about themselves.

{{{{Unless, you like supporting Middle Eastern country with ties to terrorism with the oil revenue you send overseas. Then again, when you have no respect for yourself, you show nothing respect. Right Andy?}}}}

You liberals are the ones supporting the Middle East terrorists because you refuse to allow us to produce our own oil domestically. Simple undeniable fact. Look at what your actions have done to the price of energy.

What do want to do, shut down the economy until you find the science to replace oil?

Do you really believe we can just flip a switch and stop using oil?

By IN THE NEWS

February 27, 2008 9:03 AM | Link to this

Shawny, Shawny, Shawny

{{{A revolutionary change is happening with big O! Revolutionary changes are typically emotionally driven, not necessarily sensible decisions being made}}}

Hey Boston, get that dam tea outa’ your harbor and start singing Hail to the Queen!

{{{He seems to have very carefully chosen out areas where there were prospects of success and where he could find like-minded people across the aisle.” }}}

Building coalitions is SOOOOO very dangerous!!

{{{so, who is most likely to reach across the aisle for meaningful compromise? Mac or the O?}}}

FROM THE VERY ATICLE YOU LINKED TO:::

”{{{He brought some ethics reform to Illinois, and that’s no easy thing,” said Jacobs. “He worked with both sides of the aisle to get that done. I think he’s pragmatic. Illinois is the wild west of campaign finance, and Barack came in here and created some rules.”

“I think that what he’s proven is that he does believe in something, he does have a core, but he’s also someone who can move people from both sides to a resolution,” Jacobs added.}}}

By Lickkkoduh

February 27, 2008 9:10 AM | Link to this

Hi, it’s me, Andy and I’m blogging this morning to make some very important annoucements about the direction that I want to take in my personal and political life. As you noticed, I now go by the name of “LICKODUH” I will no longer go by the name of “Luckoduh” while posting on AJC blogs. This name change coincides with the recent name change in my personal life from “Andy” to “ANDIE” and I would GREATLY APPRECIATE it if you all would refer to me as either “LICKKKODUH” or “ANDIE” when either talking directly to me or talking about me on any AJC blog. As part of these changes to my personal and political life, I also recently joined the Log Cabin Republicans to reflect the change in the direction and reality of my personal social life and “exploits”. As you all have heard by now, I recently underwent a sex-change operation that didn’t go quite as planned and ended up being “incomplete”, meaning the physical vestiges of my past life as a wannabe red-meat, red-blooded GOP American male are still with me as I speak. As a result of the changes in my personal life, I will make every attempt to be more sympathetic of the daily issues that affect minorities and the homosexual, gay, lesbian and transgendered communities. I thank everyone who has shown me their unconditional love and support and stuck (no pun intended) by me during this difficult transition in my personal and political life.

Love, Andie a.k.a. “Lickkkoduh” (blogger formerly known as Andy a.k.a. “Luckoduh” a.k.a. “Liberals Suck and Lie”)

By Luckoduh

February 27, 2008 9:19 AM | Link to this

I can’t believe it, the swift boater is swift boated!!!

By Dick Cheney

February 27, 2008 9:25 AM | Link to this

Andie: Is that a peanut in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

By Glenn

February 27, 2008 9:27 AM | Link to this

Yeah, Bosch, that worried me too. What would happen if the Governor were to trip and fall with that long thing in his mouth? We might be left without a Governor!

And was it a good idea for him, in the first place, to swap his divining rod for a long straw? I mean, for one thing, any engineer could tell you that the straw is too long to work. Even Sonny doesn’t suck that much.

Maybe he could get Tech to do up a Divining Straw for him! O blessed assurance!

By Correction

February 27, 2008 9:27 AM | Link to this

No DirtyDawg, if Bush were Governor of Georgia he would invade South Dakota to get to Tennessee’s water.

By Republican Robust Economy

February 27, 2008 9:33 AM | Link to this

WASHINGTON - Orders to U.S. factories for big-ticket manufactured goods plunged in January by the largest amount in five months as manufacturers got caught in the weakness engulfing the rest of the economy.

Just another example of that good ole Republican “Robust Economy”.

Hell, if the economy gets anymore “robust”, we’re all gonna be livin outta cardboard boxes. The real joke is that even the boxes will only be worth half as much by then.

By Lickkkoduh (formerly Luckoduh)

February 27, 2008 9:34 AM | Link to this

Actually I am VERY happy to see you, because I LOVE Dick Cheney, WITHOUT the Cheney!!! Any man named D-ick can invade my “northern” “southern” border for water, ANYTIME. They don’t call me “Lickkkoduh” for nothing!

Oh and by the way, nice cartoon, Mike.

By Goldie

February 27, 2008 9:34 AM | Link to this

The Repug trolls need to concede to the fact that Sen. Obama will be our next President — there’s no way that the majority of American voters will vote for John “100 years in Iraq” McInsane!

By IN THE NEWS

February 27, 2008 9:38 AM | Link to this

Why they are looking at the skinny guy - by Garrison Keillor

By George

February 27, 2008 9:39 AM | Link to this

Hillary still can’t figure it out.

By IN THE NEWS

February 27, 2008 9:40 AM | Link to this

Ooh, neat! Florida, I think it’s super that you’re thinking of having festive “Confederate Heritage” plates:

By Re-Correction

February 27, 2008 9:42 AM | Link to this

Sorry guys but that’s just plain WRONG. TN really DOES have a nuclear production facility.

King George only invades places WITHOUT WMDs.

By Lickoderm

February 27, 2008 9:42 AM | Link to this

Lickkkoduh (formerly Luckoduh), and all the other fake names you use to destroy me. STOP IT right now or I’m going to tell on you again. This is MY BLOG! This is MY WHOLE LIFE’S WORK!!!!

Don’t make me get my mommie involved again!!!!!!!!!!!!! You big fat pinko you!

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

By Bosch

February 27, 2008 9:42 AM | Link to this

Glenn,

“We might be left without a Governor!”

Or worst yet - Casey Cagle!

A Divining Straw - I like it!

By AJC Management

February 27, 2008 9:49 AM | Link to this

{{{{We are watching a grim re-enactment of all of the character traits that led Hillary to decompose in the healthcare debate of her husband’s first term. The blind reliance on a guru-delivered strategy, the religious insistence on following the same rhetorical line even when it obviously isn’t working, the inflexibility in adapting to one’s opposition, and the inability to formulate new strategies or to improvise tactics when her pre-conceptions are found to be so obviously faulty — this is Hillary at her worst.}}}}

{{{{The message is clear and becoming clearer: A growing number of Democrats, even those who like Mrs. Clinton personally and respect her as a public servant, have seen enough. They want the Clinton machine to just go away - to forfeit for real.}}}}

You need another pillow, al-Gitmo?

By IN THE NEWS

February 27, 2008 9:53 AM | Link to this

MASON, Ohio (CNN) — As promised, Mike Huckabee sent John McCain an official request Tuesday for a debate.”Now that the race for the Republican nomination is down to just the two of us, I believe this is the time for a real discussion about our vision for the future of this great country,” the letter reads. “I encourage you to join me in a Lincoln Douglas-style debate so that voters can better understand our views on critical issues.”

By Republican National Committee MEMO

February 27, 2008 9:55 AM | Link to this

February 26, 2008 From: Forsyth County GOP/Georgia GOP/RNC To: Mr. Andy Luckoduh

Andy, due to the recent choices you have publicly made concerning your personal lifestyle choices, you have been dishonorably recognized as a stern and stark disgrace to conservative and American values and are viewed as the SHAME of the modern-day Republican Party. The GOP does in no way, shape or form endorses or condones Mr. Andy Luckoduh’s recent personal behavior and lifestyle choices. Andy’s lifestyle choices are simply just not consistent with the family values-driven goals of the RNC for a traditional family lifestyle movement for Americans and America. It is with great regret, sorrow and disappointment that we must announce that effective immediately, Mr. Andy Luckoduh will no longer be recognized by the RNC as an official card-carrying member of the Republican Party. Mr. Andy Luckoduh’s lifestyle choices are just simply not consistent or compatible with Republican values. Period.

Forsyth County GOP Georgia GOP Republican National Committee

By Severed Ties

February 27, 2008 10:00 AM | Link to this

Today’s cartoon does not work on any level. It’s not funny. it doesn’t make sense about the drought. It doesn’t have any of the developments, like when tennesse sent us bottled water as a joke.

Luckovich, I’m begging you.

Now I wish you had never won the Pulitzer Prize. Tell you what, give it away to some needy cartoonist, and become a hungry, humble nobody again, and dang it, sir, let yourself get desperate. You dont need any compliments. You dont need hacks telling you how great you are.

you need isolation, and misery, and the challenge of existence without selling out.

Start over, burn all your copy, your files, all of it. everything.

Get naked. Get lost in the crowd. Visit a pet store, and hang around for six hours till the owners call the cops. Visit a barber shop and have them shave your head, after carving in “Vote Obama” or get a shmoehawk and walk around the mall.

What, the two guys are in a race? What race? What is the one guy holding, a slurpy? What? I dont get it. Is it a relay race? What?

By Wally George

February 27, 2008 10:06 AM | Link to this

Hey its me Glenn. Funny story, I was at church on Sunday and Alton Brown was explaining the chemical reactions that occur when regular tap water is turned into Holy Water. It really is a miracle.

He then showed us how he can magically make the Holy Water rise from the bottom of a glass by using a straw. It was truly uplifting.

I feel truly blessed. Alton Brown, IN MY CHURCH!!! Hallelujah! Thats the recipe!

By IN THE NEWS

February 27, 2008 10:11 AM | Link to this

Will Newsweek fire Rove over Siegelman scandal?

And what about the McCain/Abramoff connection to this mess?

By AJC Lost and Found Advertisement

February 27, 2008 10:13 AM | Link to this

Found: One missing Karl Rove/Lee Atwater GOP political playbook belonging to a Ms. Andy Luckozellduh.

One Karl Rove/Lee Atwater GOP political playbook belonging to a Ms. Andy Luckozellduh was found about a week ago in a phone booth in the North Concourse T at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Playbook includes references to questioning one’s patriotism (swift-boating), race-baiting (Willie Horton) and the politics of fearmongering (issuing false terror alerts) and the politcs of distraction (opposition to gay marriage) among others not to forget the politics of divisiveness (abortion) and false piety (we’re more religious than you!). Playbook will NOT be returned to owner, instead it will be used against owner and the GOP in upcoming general election. Stay tuned to all major media outlets EXCEPT Faux News/Fox Noise for details and the play-by-play!

By Glenn

February 27, 2008 10:15 AM | Link to this

Severed Ties, they severed your head along with your cravat, you witless wunderkinder of the wounding wet spaetzle; Grand Master of cybernetic finger painting.

The sheer GENIUS of Maestro Luckovich today is manifest in the classical subtleties of his caricature, combined with the bawdy grotesquerie of The Straw. Ah yes, The Straw.

Van Gogh’s vibrant, pulsating, screaming straw?

Or Governor Sonny Perdue’s last straw?

Like all great artists of his time and indeed of all times, Maestro Luckovich leaves the viewer to decide for herself. Behold, art.

By IN THE NEWS

February 27, 2008 10:15 AM | Link to this

As much as I appreciate McCain’s denunciation of Cunningham……..This got quite a bit of attention yesterday, and with good reason. John McCain, to his credit, denounced a right-wing loud-mouth for being a bit of an a* at one of the Republican’s official campaign events in Ohio…….Jonathan Chait, among others, said that McCain “does have a lot of very decent instincts.” I appreciate McCain taking the high road yesterday, but let’s not go too far here. My sense is, McCain’s instincts actually lead him in the opposite direction. …… But it’s probably worth remembering that McCain takes classy steps like these in part to help make up for the fact that he’s been a rather abusive hothead for years, who has rejected the notion of “respectful” debate throughout his career. If yesterday was a sign of a new McCain, I’m delighted. But before we go overboard praising his character, let’s not loose sight of a lengthy career of nastiness.

By IN THE NEWS

February 27, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this

A cool January has elicited gleeful celebration among conservatives still caught in the grip of climate change denial. A good illustration can be found in the blog section of a site called Daily Tech:

By IN THE NEWS

February 27, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this

Yesterday we brought you Karl Rove’s expansive denial of Republican lawyer Dana Jill Simpson’s testimony to Congress and comments to 60 Minutes. Simpson responded last night on MSNBC’s Dan Abrams show: “Since Karl Rove has said that and he feels so good saying that, what I want him to do is go and swear before the United States Congress and swear what he’s saying is true.”

By Goldie

February 27, 2008 10:24 AM | Link to this

InTheNews @ 10:15 — if McInsane wanted to “denounce” what Cunningham said in his introduction, why didn’t he denounce him when he got up on the stage in front of the crowd who was there? What good does it do for McInsane to “denounce” someone’s introduction, a good hour after the introduction occurred and when the crowd in attendance has already left???

If McInsane wants to “take the high road” or be “classy” in his campaign, he should grow a spine and do his denouncing when the time is relevant, such as when the introduction was made by Cunningham and the crowd was still there to witness him taking “the high road”!

By RW-(the original)

February 27, 2008 10:24 AM | Link to this

Siegelman was convicted by a Federal jury of bribery, conspiracy, mail fraud, and obstruction of justice but he’s a Democrat so by all means give him a pass and blame his corruption on Karl Rove.

By {{{{ LUCIFER }}}}

February 27, 2008 10:25 AM | Link to this

Hey Andy, remember back in 2000 when you pledged me your body in return for a George W. Bush victory in Florida for a first term and in 2004 when you pledged me your soul in return for a George W. Bush-reelection to a second term/GOP victory?

Well, Andy-boy, IT’S 2008 and IT’S TIME TO PAY UP!!!

Your body and your soul are MINE!!!

Well, second thought, maybe I’ll just take your soul, because, let’s face it, your body is not all that impressive.

You see, conservatives are the REAL devil worshippers!!!

By Glenn

February 27, 2008 10:30 AM | Link to this

P!ssing Gargoyle,

Holy Water’s a Romish thing. They hold the patent.

If you’ve done some reverse engineering, I expect The Rt. Rev. Brown would be interested.

Have you got any good recipes for what to do when you’ve got a lot of mouths to feed, and only a little bread and fish on hand?

By Dubya

February 27, 2008 10:30 AM | Link to this

We are approaching the end of the Bush era and not a moment too soon. 12 combined years of pathetic, miserable governorship by one of the dorkiest,ugliest, lesst appealing clans of desperately shrill powermongers in all the world. Barb and Jeb and George and George Jr., Laura and Barb Jr. and Jenna and beer bongs and fake IDs and old coke habits and running AWOL from the Air National Guard and it’s all felt like a particularly insufferable episode of “The Beverly Hillbillies,” wherein the Clampetts go to Washington and screw three generations out of any sense of hope or environmental protections or medical research or medical coverage while getting the entire world to despise us for everything we used to stand for. Thanks, Repunks. God Bluss Murka! Allah Akbar!

By mountain man

February 27, 2008 10:31 AM | Link to this

Behind every red blooded, true blue, all American Repug wingnut resides a sexual identity crisis. We’ve known it for a long time, Andi, and we’ve been trying to tell you. But you’ve refused to listen, and you’ve continued to get up at 3 in the morning and ready yourself for your feverish and frenzied stint at the keyboard. But now it’s come crashing down on you and the truth is right there for you and everyone else to see. Give it up, Andi, it ain’t getting you anywhere. Sell your computer to someone who has a good use for it and use the money to build a sweat lodge where you can begin to exorcise those demons.

By Senator Craig (REPUBLICAN)

February 27, 2008 10:34 AM | Link to this

Disgusting. This cartoon should be on a website that does not allow access to children.

One man chasing another man trying to suck him dry is a horrible grossgusting example of deprived American values. Sick.

Btw, I am now accepting applications for the two openings I have. I am desperately seeking boys to fill my different Page positions.

Must be between the ages of 15 and 18, be physically fit, with the ability to follow instrutions. Must also be able to answer the following questions:

One- Tap tap, tappity tap?

Two- Tappity, taptap tap?

Three- Tap, tap, taptaptap, tappity?

Please forward your resume along with 5 photos to my new assistant Tom Foley (Republican.)

No experience required. Tap shoes required.

By RW-(the original)

February 27, 2008 11:17 AM | Link to this

Chris Matthews’ Leg got one of those wicked calf cramps midway through the Democratic debate in Ohio tonight. You know, the kind where it feels like your calf muscle has flipped over on its back and it hurts like a mother.

{{{{{The tension came from the blatant way Russert was ganging up on Hillary with gotcha questions and then would fall into some sort of semi-catatonic state whenever he looked into OSwami’s eyes. The Leg’s no Hillary fan but it thought it was embarrassing.}}}}}

By getalife

February 27, 2008 11:22 AM | Link to this

Jim asks if there is media bias for Obama.

Duh, when CNN reads a Peggy Noonan hit piece attacking President Clinton on the air, it is very obvious.

Clinton obviously crushed Obama in the debate but the corporate media spun it Obama won. They don’t even bother trying to hide it anymore like gop being corporate w-hores. Then they will turn on Obama and help elect McInsane the corporate candidate.

Should be fun next week on the Rezko trial and they will spin it like the lobbyist lover McInsane Times story and blame Rezko.

And people will swallow all this crap like they do with w’s lies. Half of America got punked with Obama, are dumbed down by the media and very gullible just like the RWingnuts.

Then we have the liberal left blogs like Daily Obama and the Obama Post. They have thrown away all credibilty they have established for Obama bias. Crooks and Liars is the only progressive blog that stayed neutral and are still credible. They are the best blog for the truth. The rest are like corporate media.

By AJC Management

February 27, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this

“Inevitable,” eh?

{{{{By threatening to throw the kitchen sink at Obama, the Clinton campaign simply confirmed the fact that they might be going down the drain.}}}}

{{{{Beating on the press is the lamest thing you can do. It is only because of the utter open-mindedness of the press that Hillary can lose 11 contests in a row and still be treated as a contender.-Moron Dud, Treason Times}}}}

By Apocalypse

February 27, 2008 11:26 AM | Link to this

The debate was not a debate.

It was a diversion to the inevitable. An Obama vitory.

Billary has some nerve hinting at media bias against her when if she wasn’t a woman the media(and all the women in it)would have dismissed her campaign by now.

I suppose that Barack Obama is getting an unfair advantage because he is black.

The best thing for her to do is admit that using her husband to win an election was a terrible idea and drop out altogether!!

By Apocalypse

February 27, 2008 11:33 AM | Link to this

That’s ‘victory’ in my 11:26.

By Devastator

February 27, 2008 11:40 AM | Link to this

getalife,

At what point did Clinton crush Obama during the debate? Was it before or after she whined like a baby about being asked the first question?

Your girl should take her whipping like a man! So should you.

By HomoDuh

February 27, 2008 11:44 AM | Link to this

Senator Craig: Tappity, taptap tap. Handsome pix of my genitalia will follow under seperate cover.

By Likkkoduh Takes it Like a Man

February 27, 2008 11:46 AM | Link to this

Thank you sir may I have another? ;>

I’m not gay, though.

I’m whatever Larry Craig is.

By Obamamania

February 27, 2008 11:52 AM | Link to this

It was over a month ago. I called it first in the country because I understand the dual nature of man and particle physics.

You see, you cant have a dozen landslides across a vastly diverse, widely separated region of space without there being a tectonic shift in the grassroots on very fertile geo-political grounds.

It was a mathematical certainty a month ago. But America knew it before me, and I bow to America for knowing itself better than I know myself, and together with Obama as president we will make the quantum leaps forward in truth, in justice, and in the global realization that mankind is one and the planet is very small, and who are we to stop billions of people from being themselves too?

Our strategic interests cant be translated as America against the world or we’ll destroy ourselves. (see the long national nightmare that is Bush/Cheney)

It will take a little time to undo Bush/Cheney, you know. Dont expect Obama to take the oath and then all of a sudden oil is back to 11 dollars a barrel, or collateral babies in Iraq stops, or the FBI and the CIA stop hunting for porn surfers on the internet instead of terrorists in caves. No, it’ll take time.

Then there’s the tiny little pesky problem, and I hesitate to bring it up, actually I’m loathe to mention it, forgive me for ruining your near-snowday atlanta, but there is the very miniscule almost unnoticable problem about the…..kurds. I dont think Bush has ever uttered the word kurd. I dont think he dares, because he’s too frightened that he’ll mispronounce it.

the kurds are the key to the planet. Google the kurd’s history. Read for 2 minutes. you’ll know what’s dead ahead for the planet.

By Apocalypse

February 27, 2008 11:54 AM | Link to this

The Apocalypse feels that it is a d@mn shame that there are are actually people out there who think that Billary won that debate last night.

That was her parting shots folks.

By McCain Unable

February 27, 2008 12:02 PM | Link to this

Apairoflips knows all, blows all, he sees all he pees on all.

Try an original thought first. Then stick your head in the toilet, you hack.

“Duh, after something happens, I’m all over it, duhhhh.”

RETARD!

By Devastator

February 27, 2008 12:06 PM | Link to this

Apocalypse,

Some people don’t know how to cope with disappointment. Hillary supporters are having a tough time now and they will say anything to make themselves feel better.

By RE

February 27, 2008 12:10 PM | Link to this

Andy goes off again about ANWR. How many times do you have to repeat these false statements?

From the cia fact book, oil production

and oil consumption

This is not a prodcution problem, it is a consumption problem, please stop saying that drilling a few million barrels out of ANWR is going to fix the problem. There needs to be a massive conservation effort to stem the oil disparity. I think it needs to start with diversified car engines, using more battery powered cars so production can be shifted from the pump to the grid. It would be easier to create new clean coal, nuclear, wind and solar than it would be to make a 100mpg gas engine in a car people would feel safe in.

Andy, you have been told time and again, ANWR will not change anything.

By getalife

February 27, 2008 12:11 PM | Link to this

Last night we found out Obama’s failure in the Senate on oversight for Afghanistan and NATO. This is not getting reported.

He lied when he won the Senate and said he did not have the experience to run for President and need to serve in the Senate but ran anyway.

Now we found out he is not serving in the Senate.

He chose running for President over winning in Afghanistan.

He should resign his chairman position because he is not holding hearings like Lieberman.

By RE

February 27, 2008 12:19 PM | Link to this

Getalife, he will resign sometime in november to prepare for his presidency.

How are Hillary’s taxes coming along, she would have to file prior to the PA contests, tough to get around that one.

By Senator Craig (REPUBLICAN)

February 27, 2008 12:30 PM | Link to this

HomoDuh,

Although you did answer the questions correctly I’m sorry to say you are not eligible for the Page position.

Although you do still live with your mother, at 56 years old, you certainly are too old. Furthermore, your photos certainly disqualify you as well. Your 2 inches are 4 inches below the minimum size requirements.

Thank you for your application Andy, you are a true Republican hero. God Bless!

By getalife

February 27, 2008 12:46 PM | Link to this

RE,

Will you post yours online for all the world to see?

Hell no.

Did the media report Obama voted for cheney’s energy bill but Clinton voted no?

That is right people, when you pay 4 bucks a gallon at the pump, you can thank Obama.

You want this guy to run the econmy?

Hell no, and remember the Clinton economy.

By IN THE NEWS

February 27, 2008 12:52 PM | Link to this

Under pressure from agriculture industry lobbyists and lawmakers from agricultural states, the Environmental Protection Agency wants to drop requirements that factory farms report their emissions of toxic gases, despite findings by the agency’s scientists that the gases pose a health threat.

By HomoDuh

February 27, 2008 12:53 PM | Link to this

Senator Craig: Why?? Why?? Leave HomoDuh alone! Jus leave him alone! Why did you hafta humiliate me on my own blog? Why? I been sliding along w 2 inches for years. Taptaptap…tap…tap…..tap. Ohh Godd! There, I think I jus did it! What are you, some kinda dirty liberal pinko commie? At least continue your fine moral and religious work in thee Senate on behalf of all Mercans. God bless Merca - and you too, Wide Stance. Geesuss says I shold forgive you.

By RE

February 27, 2008 12:55 PM | Link to this

If I were running for president, I would post my taxes.

Several times I heard that Obama voted for the energy bill and that Hillary voted no. The $4 a gallon gas is due to the war in iraq, the sanctions against Iran and the threat level of the persian gulf. All these factors reduce supply and confidence and raise prices.

By AJC Management

February 27, 2008 12:59 PM | Link to this

{{{{By RE February 27, 2008 12:10 PM Andy goes off again about ANWR. How many times do you have to repeat these false statements?}}}}

RE: When did I say anything about ANWR? I said we should produce oil domestically, whether it be off the coast of Florida or in Texas, it matters not to me.

{{{{This is not a prodcution problem, it is a consumption problem, please stop saying that drilling a few million barrels out of ANWR is going to fix the problem.}}}}

Are you kidding me? Why is it that even a perceived threat of the U.S. releasing oil from the strategic reserves will cause OPEC to cut prices immediately?

{{{{I think it needs to start with diversified car engines, using more battery powered cars so production can be shifted from the pump to the grid.}}}}

That’s nice. When can we “start,” today. We just pull all the cars over to the curb and shut down all of our factories, and convert everything to battery power for 7 o’clock tomorrow morning?

Meanwhile, back on planet Earth, families in America continue to get huge energy bills and you can thank the Jetson crowd for that.

Jetson as in the cartoon.

By RW-(the original)

February 27, 2008 1:04 PM | Link to this

William F Buckley, Jr. has died at the age of 82.

RIP Mr. Buckley

By getalife

February 27, 2008 1:12 PM | Link to this

Dang, there goes my argument that Obama will not fight back.

“John McCain may like to say he wants to follow Osama bin Laden to the gates of Hell, but so far all he’s done is follow George Bush into a misguided war in Iraq.”

Score one for Obama.

By RE

February 27, 2008 1:13 PM | Link to this

Opec does not cut prices. It can try to increase or keep stable production, but does not set prices.

Can you read? We produce 8 million barrels a day and consume 20 million. Get that. If we double production we would still be 4 million barrels a day short. The problem is that we cannot double production because we do not have the reserves in the ground. There is not enough oil. Two sides to the equation, we cannot increase production to match consumption, therefore we would have to decrease consumption which we can do. At some point, you need to get in touch with reality.

By the way, how is gold doing today?

By GreenJeans

February 27, 2008 1:16 PM | Link to this

ITN, you forgot something at the bottom of your 8:09 post:

EEEEEEEK!

By W stands for waterboarding

February 27, 2008 1:22 PM | Link to this

Here is what i dont understand about McCain. In 2000 in the South Carolina primary he let Rove and W run over his family without putting up a fight. So if he cant stand up for his family, how in the hell is he going to stand up to the threats of our country?

By luckovichisaheadcase

February 27, 2008 1:28 PM | Link to this

RE - Actually we do have the reserves in the ground to double production, we just are not allowed to get at them, by law. Also, these alternative fuels are actually hurting the environment and the poor because land is used to grow quite destructive crops like sugar cane and the price of food is going up, which most affects the poor. I guess we should just starve to death in the dark to satisfy some wacko wing-nuts who are convinced that they alone know that an environmental disaster is upon us when history tells us different. The liberal motto is and has almost always been: “Don’t just stand there, PANIC!”

By mm

February 27, 2008 1:36 PM | Link to this

(((Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday that he will tell Turkish leaders they need to wrap up their military operations in northern Iraq quickly, and that the ongoing assault must not last longer than a week or two. Gates, heads for Ankara Wednesday afternoon, also said he will call on Turkey to address some of the complaints of the Kurds, and move from combat to economic and political initiatives to solve the problems.)))

Maybe we should practice what we preach.

By AJC Management

February 27, 2008 1:45 PM | Link to this

{{{{By RE February 27, 2008 1:13 PM Opec does not cut prices. It can try to increase or keep stable production, but does not set prices.}}}}

Really?:

{{{{President Clinton is considering tapping into the country’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve to tame heating oil and gasoline prices….”Ahead of the Gulf War the price of crude oil jumped up to about $40 a barrel, but when it was announced they would use the reserve the price immediately plunged back,” O’Brien told CNNfn.}}}}

Huh.

{{{{Can you read? We produce 8 million barrels a day and consume 20 million. Get that. If we double production we would still be 4 million barrels a day short. The problem is that we cannot double production because we do not have the reserves in the ground.}}}}

Oh yeah?

{{{{Oil analysts and company executives said newly released test results from a well 175 miles off the coast of Louisiana indicate that the oil industry will be able to recover well more than 3 billion barrels, and perhaps as much as 15 billion barrels, of oil from a geological area known as the lower tertiary trend, making it the biggest addition to U.S. petroleum reserves in decades. The upper end of the estimate could boost U.S. reserves by 50 percent.}}}}

That’s from one exploration.

How many more fat reserves won’t the libs let us get at?

RE: We do not have to replace 12 million barrels a day. Sending an immediate message to OPEC of 1 maybe 2 million barrels will boost supplies and lower prices.

But, no, you libs want to hold the American family over a barrel.

By IN THE NEWS

February 27, 2008 1:50 PM | Link to this

{{{RE - Actually we do have the reserves in the ground to double production, we just are not allowed to get at them, by law.}}}}

SOURCE PLEASE

I think this is bulls!t.

By RE

February 27, 2008 1:52 PM | Link to this

Luckovichis a head case,

here are the proven reserve numbers

See, the US is all the way down there at number 12, behind Canada, Saudi arabia, Iraq, Iran… and on and on. We do not have the reserves to produce as much as we consume. Nice job going right to playing on fear of some dark world though to justify doing nothing aside from drilling more. That does not fix the problem. There needs to be a shift in the way we think about energy and consumption.

Crop prices are rising in a large part due to the falling dollar, this happens in waves. The most fungible and easily transported commodities will rice first, like metals and oil, followed by foodstuffs like wheat, rice, meats and fish. This is more a product of inflation than of an increase in ethanol production. While ethanol is a good idea, it will not fix our oil consumption problem.

By @@

February 27, 2008 1:55 PM | Link to this

I’m shocked that liberals would be promoting world hunger with their “feel good” policies on alternative fuels. We should be promoting domestic drilling while we think this thing through rationally.

Americans, who can mainly afford it, are paying more for food these days, but as a new U.N. report reminds us, there are poor people around the world who can’t afford the rising prices.

They are going hungry, are rioting in some countries ― are even resorting to eating mud cookies in Haiti ― and maybe you are wondering why. Ethanol, that’s why. No, this outrageous U.S. boondoggle ― in which you convert corn into a biofuel at no decipherable advantage to the atmosphere or much of anything else except a handful of special interests ― isn’t the only reason for the price increases.

So powerful is this force that it has helped reverse a steady food-price drop of some 75 percent over the past three decades, according to The Economist. It has also caused experts to scuttle predictions of declining hunger worldwide.

Published reports tell us of two Minnesota professors who once were saying the number of people on the edge of starvation would go from 800 million to 625 million by 2025. They are now saying the number will go up to more than 1 billion by that year.

Tote up the impact of ethanol and other factors, and what you get is the recent U.N. report telling us that a 40 percent boost in food prices this past year is helping to keep stomachs nearly empty in such lands as Pakistan, Egypt, Yemen, Indonesia and Mexico.

Some farmers like it, and investors in ethanol operations like it, and you can score political points by cheerleading for what benefits these interests. Some do.

President Bush is completely behind this charade, and Barack Obama, self-advertised as being free of special-interest influence, nearly swoons over it ― his home state of Illinois is a big ethanol producer.

Owing to presidential caucuses in another ethanol state, Iowa, Hillary Rodham Clinton and John McCain went from being rightly skeptical to being at least qualified boosters.

Taxpayers, consumers, the environment and the world’s poorest people deserve more. They deserve a debate in this campaign season about ethanol.

By getalife

February 27, 2008 1:58 PM | Link to this

cons are sniveling cowards about change like they are about everything else.

The reality is change is constant except in government.

Down here, there is a sugarcane ethanol boon like the oil boon in Texas.

They are many start up farmers and sugar cane refineries and green energy is the new Internet bubble and a good investment opportunity.

cons need to stay out of the way because they will not lead.

Back under your beds you sniveling cowards.

By IN THE NEWS

February 27, 2008 1:59 PM | Link to this

Drilling Deep in the Gulf of Mexico …………The next oil frontier — and the next great challenge for oil explorers — lies below 10,000 feet of water, through five miles of hard rock, thick salt and tightly packed sands…………… To picture the challenge, imagine flying above New York City at 30,000 feet and aiming a drill tip the size of a coffee can at the pitcher’s mound in Yankee Stadium. Then imagine doing it in the dark, at $100 million a go………….Even after hitting pay dirt, it will take another decade and billions of dollars to transform oil from these ultra-deep reserves into gasoline. Some of the technology to pump the sludge from these depths, at these pressures and temperatures, has not yet been developed; only about a dozen ships can drill wells that deep, and no one knows for sure how much oil is down there……..According to the most optimistic estimates, there could be 40 billion barrels of undiscovered reserves in the deep water, which starts at about 1,500 feet, enough to satisfy American consumption for more than five years…….. These reserves might lift the offshore output to 2.2 million barrels a day by 2012, up from 1.5 million barrels today………. Still, that’s a drop in the bucket. Even as the deepwater resources are developed, the nation is expected to continue to import more than two-thirds of the 20 million barrels of oil it consumes each day.

By IN THE NEWS

February 27, 2008 2:01 PM | Link to this

Evidence this week of a major new oil find is a tantalizing reminder of the importance of deep-water drilling to America’s energy future. The field found deep below the Gulf of Mexico could boost the nation’s proven oil reserves by as much as 50 percent, Chevron Corp. announced Tuesday. But amid the exuberant claims of a new era for domestic oil drilling, some energy industry insiders could be forgiven for their subdued responses. The sheer depth of Chevron’s discovery reinforces a well-known truth: the world’s much-needed petroleum reserves are harder and more expensive to find than ever.

By mm

February 27, 2008 2:07 PM | Link to this

World oil reserves

For all you ignorant wingnuts, here’s the math.

US reserves - 21.4 billion barrels US production - 8 million barrels per day US consumption - 20 million barrels per day

Even if the US raised it’s production up to the consumption level, we would only have a 3 year supply (based on our known reserves).

Canada is second in the world in reserves but would only last us 24 years, and we would still be buying from a foreign country.

At the current world consumption pace, there are only 44 years of known oil reserves left in the world.

The only answer is a reduction in consumption.

But you wingnuts don’t care what troubles you pass on to your children or grandchildren.

By IN THE NEWS

February 27, 2008 2:08 PM | Link to this

People are starving all over the world because of the debate over ethanol?

How about the 4440 american dead service men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan?

How about the 31153 injured so far?

How about a million dead Iraqi’s?

All for oil?

I’m shocked that conservatives would be promoting death with their “feel good” policies on the occupation for oil.

Wake up and smell your low fat mocha latte!

By RW-(the original)

February 27, 2008 2:09 PM | Link to this

RE,

Not to quibble with your pretty little chart where we’re number 12, but what does entry #1 mean? Are we included in the world?

Oh and if it’s not too much trouble could you tell us how the CIA has PROVED that those are accurate numbers?

By W stands for waterboarding

February 27, 2008 2:14 PM | Link to this

Down here in Texas, the Legendary Willie Nelson has his Bio Fuel refinery. It uses cotton crops and cuts diesel emissions by 75%. But because Halliburton or Exxon cant get in on it W refused to acknowledge or help Willie in any way.. And Willie hasnt drilled one hole in the ground or wrecked the enviornment with his crops. So what other week excuses do you Neocons have for not looking at alternative fuels?

By RE

February 27, 2008 2:15 PM | Link to this

You got me RW. The cia is just another hack left wing website. Probably funded by George Soros and the communists. Go hide under the bed now.

By @@

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

ITN:

You’re somewhat confused. It wasn’t GIANT CORN COBS with wings that flew into the Twin Towers killing 3,000.

By getalife

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

Army Chief Of Staff General George Casey: “No Reason To Doubt” Obama On Troop Shortages.

Support the troops?

BS.

Good for the General and Captain for risking their careers to tell the truth.

I feel better about Obama because he is fighting back.

By IN THE NEWS

February 27, 2008 2:25 PM | Link to this

{{Obama departed from his regular stump speech today in Columbus to respond to John McCain.

“John McCain may like to say he wants to follow Osama bin Laden to the gates of Hell, but so far all he’s done is follow George Bush into a misguided war in Iraq,” he said.

Obama was responding, incredulously, to McCain’s suggestion that he’s unaware of the presence of Al Qaeda in Iraq, which the Arizona Senator said earlier today was apparently “news” to Obama at last night’s debate.

“McCain thought that he could make a clever point by saying, ‘Well let me give you some news, Barack, Al Qaeda is in Iraq,’ like I wasn’t reading the papers, like I didn’t know what was going on.” Obama said, leaning into his developing McCain impression.

He then described the context — a hypothetical question from Tim Russert — and said, “First of all, I do know Al Qaeda is in Iraq, and that’s why I said we should continue to strike Al Qaeda targets.”

“I have some news for John McCain,” Obama continued, “That’s there was no Al Qaeda in Iraq until George Bush and John McCain” began the Iraq war, he said.

“They took their eye off the people who really were responsible for 9/11,” he said.}}}

If McCain wants to mock Obama, perhaps he should pick a topic in which a) Obama is mistaken; and b) McCain knows what he’s talking about. This one fails on both counts. What’s striking is that McCain doesn’t even seem aware of how foolish his attack really is.

By RW-(the original)

February 27, 2008 2:28 PM | Link to this

RE,

That’s a fairly untypical response from you. Generally you try to answer the questions rather than just go straight to the name calling dodge. I guess it shows how little you truly know about the subject you’re trying to project yourself as an expert in.

There’s a reason they call oil exploration, exploration. If somebody already knows exactly what and where everything is there isn’t much need for exploration.

(m)ental (m)idget,

{{{{The only answer is a reduction in consumption.}}}}

Most thoughtful people seem to believe we have two problems in this area. One is the possibility that we’re dealing with a finite resource and the other is the geopolitical entanglements we get ourselves into.

Both have merit, but I don’t think the ONLY answer is to reduce consumption. We solve problem number one in the long term with alternative energy sources. While we’re solving problem 1 in the long term we can solve problem #2 in the short term by exploiting our own reserves.

I don’t know of anyone that’s saying just drill for our oil and do nothing else.

By AJC Management

February 27, 2008 2:30 PM | Link to this

{{{{By mm February 27, 2008 2:07 PM But you wingnuts don’t care what troubles you pass on to your children or grandchildren.}}}}

mm: I said lower prices not replace imports.

And maybe our grandchildren will be lucky enough to see a car that runs on something besides oil.

And maybe not.

By IN THE NEWS

February 27, 2008 2:31 PM | Link to this

{{{{By @@

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

ITN:

You’re somewhat confused. It wasn’t GIANT CORN COBS with wings that flew into the Twin Towers killing 3,000.}}}}}

Now that’s a straight line for getalife if I ever read one.

By mm

February 27, 2008 2:32 PM | Link to this

@@ at 2:21,

There were no Iraqi’s on the planes on 9/11.

There were no Al Qaeda in Iraq until after Bush declared “This is a crusade” and the ever popular “Bring em on”.

By RE

February 27, 2008 2:38 PM | Link to this

RW,

Sorry, didn’t mean to hurt your feelings. The thing is, sometimes people on this blog make unsourced opinions, other times they make opinions sourced to opinion pieces or newspapers. I cited the CIA. If you are questioning the credibility of that institution, I just do not see what better standard I could cite. In full disclosure, I have not now nor have ever been an oil industry exec, explorer, engineer or analyst, however in highschool I did work as a petroleum transfer tech. at the shell station on RT 9 in New Jersey.

By luckovichisaheadcase

February 27, 2008 2:39 PM | Link to this

RE - YOU ARE WRONG. Actual reserves are quite high, but we are not allowed to get at them. That is a fact. Food prices are also going up because of SUPPLY problems related to diversion of food from the food supply chain to the fuel supply chain. By the way, fuel from corn is quite inefficient. It takes one gallon of fuel to produce 1 and 1/2 gallons of ethanol from corn. Rather silly, don’t you think?

By RE

February 27, 2008 2:44 PM | Link to this

“RE - YOU ARE WRONG. Actual reserves are quite high, but we are not allowed to get at them”

Great, show me where you are getting your info from.

By Right-wing nut job in full glory

February 27, 2008 2:52 PM | Link to this

Luck,

Good catch on Zell saying that the bad economy is all the Democrats fault for talking about it. I wonder why they don’t understand that the only reason we had a good economy in the 1990’s was because the GOP all said that Clinton was doing a great job with the economy? Reagan’s economy was good because no lib ever said it wasn’t. I think that this effect on the economy is called the “I’d like to blame something other than my own stupidity and incompetence, so it’s your fault effect.” I think they teach it in the MBA programs at Harvard and Yale.

Of course, it was the GOP’s fault that Clinton lied about the bj’s because the Republicans were always saying he was a liar. Self-fufilling prophecy again.

I mean it makes a lot of sense doesn’t it, just to say that when you say that things outside of your control are a certain way then it has an effect just because you said it? Like Obama saying that Iraq would not go well if we invaded. If he’d just would’ve been positive I doubt that the Iraqis would have even shot at us. Cheney’s upbeat approach was nuetralized by the negativity of Obama. We probably would have never lost even one soldier if we all just said “Heil Bush.”

I just hope that no Democrats start saying that the sun rises in the West. That would really screw everything up.

RWNJIFG

By RW-(the original)

February 27, 2008 2:57 PM | Link to this

RE,

Citing the CIA as an expert on the whereabouts of any and all things is risky business. See: Iraq/WMD

By @@

February 27, 2008 2:58 PM | Link to this

mm:

It really gets tiresome arguing stale points with you guys.

(((There were no Iraqi’s on the planes on 9/11.)))

It was a fuel blend with the base product being all the same.

I know, I know….you think the towers fell because America did something wrong.

I’m off to the track.

By AJC Management

February 27, 2008 2:59 PM | Link to this

{{{{Civil rights leader John Lewis has dropped his support for Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential bid in favor of Barack Obama, according to a newspaper report Wednesday.}}}}

Bwa.

By GreenJeans

February 27, 2008 3:00 PM | Link to this

“Oil analysts and company executives said newly released test results from a well 175 miles off the coast of Louisiana indicate that the oil industry will be able to recover well more than 3 billion barrels, and perhaps as much as 15 billion barrels…”

Having grown up in Texas, awful memories of tar and oil drenching the beaches and wetlands for years at a time is enough to make the above statistic make me shiver.

No either/or here. I want it all.

I want national weaning to cleaner energy sources, conservation, and leadership from Corporate America to take us in a Green direction from the Fed level down to my block.

So much talk of “change” in the election, yet I don’t think most people really do want change. The dinosaurs, especially, want their same jobs, their same stocks, their same way of doing and believing. Technology and job retraining better become an expectation if we want to be a world leader. What’s the difference if American workforces assemble cars with gas tanks or batteries, or build energy delivery systems for cleaner electricity?

The technology that will begin economic transition either exist already or rests in American ingenuety. It’s time for a paradigm shift in how we see ourselves.

Of course Status Quo profiteers will fight to the last gasp; their mental malpractice to demean and stave off change. When you marry that thought process to citizens who just ain’t gonna be told what to do, well…there’s an issue I’d really like to see debated on the big screen.

By getalife

February 27, 2008 3:06 PM | Link to this

w spews GFY on those missing emails.

Enough with this criminal.

Time to impeach like Clinton.

By Where is the switchgrass crops

February 27, 2008 3:28 PM | Link to this

Ive got 40 acres ready to plant switchgrass and help the environment like by buddy Dubya layed out in the state of the union a couple of years ago. Where do i sign up for government subsidies?

By getalife

February 27, 2008 4:07 PM | Link to this

Great stuff out of Baghdad the corporate media will never report

By Fed Up

February 27, 2008 4:26 PM | Link to this

The Fed has steadily cut the federal funds rate, since September. It slashed interest rates by 2.50 percentage points in just under a week last month.

Yet the avg 30 year mortgage rate has gone from 5.50% last month to the current 6.10%.

Which means the Fed rate cuts are only benefiting the mega-banks. The home buyer and refinancer are paying for the banks sub-prime disaster.

By getalife

February 27, 2008 4:28 PM | Link to this

News media unfair to Clinton?

Jack Cafferty read Dowd and Peggy Noonan hit pieces on the Clintons on the air.

Duh.

Of course, SNL nailed them on this obvious bias but they do not have enough credibilty to admit it.

No credibilty for MSNBC too.

Pathetic.

By JonJack

February 27, 2008 4:29 PM | Link to this

I am not against giving water to Georgia. But i must say the way they want to do it is wrong, wrong, wrong. Maybe we could put up a Tollway just past the I-24 and I-75 split here in Chattanooga and charge only Georgia residents a toll to travel on I-75 into Georgia….$5 bucks a pop!!!

By AmVet

February 27, 2008 4:35 PM | Link to this

Lo, all these MANY, MANY months have passed and not a peep about the Iraqi government, political reconciliation between the three tribes, sharing moneys, responsibilities, the 18 “benchmarks”, etc.

Nary a single word.

But now, at LONG LAST! REALLY great news:

BAGHDAD — Iraq’s presidential council rejected Wednesday a measure setting up provincial elections seen as a key step to develop Iraq’s nascent democracy in the latest setback to U.S.-backed national reconciliation efforts.

The three-member panel approved the 2008 budget and another law that provides limited amnesty to detainees in Iraqi custody.

Whoop De F&cking Doo!

They must be partying in the White House tonight!

100 years! 100 years! 100 years!

By @@

February 27, 2008 4:51 PM | Link to this

Sadr’s into gun control?

(((Iraqi Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr is working to transform his Mehdi Army into a humanitarian organization with religious aspects, Saudi newspaper Al Hayat reported Feb. 27. The movement’s leaders are using a process similar to the Badr Brigades’ transformation. In letters to the Mehdi Army’s leaders, al-Sadr said any member who continues carrying weapons will be expelled from the movement. Al-Sadr spokesman Sheikh Salah al-Obeidi told Al Hayat that the movement is “passing through a stage of political opposition” after its involvement in armed resistance. Al-Obeidi said the transformation is in the movement’s best interests and that the Mehdi Army originally was an ideological organization but had to carry weapons to defend itself.)))

Maybe he’s been listening to Obama’s speeches. ‘Ya think?

By @@

February 27, 2008 4:59 PM | Link to this

(((Iran: Rohani Criticizes President’s Anti-Israel Rhetoric February 27, 2008 1211 GMT - Stratfor)))

(((Hassan Rohani, a top Iranian cleric, expressed rare criticism of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s anti-Israel rhetoric, Agence France-Presse reported Feb. 27. Rohani, a former top nuclear negotiator who still holds several important positions, said a foreign policy of “coarse slogans” is not in Iran’s national interest and that Tehran needs to display flexibility and a desire for talks in dealing with the international community. He added that if the international community thinks a country wants to be a troublemaker, it will confront the country.)))

By @@

February 27, 2008 5:04 PM | Link to this

Stratfor:

(((The killing of Hezbollah leader Imad Mughniyah in Damascus, Syria, was planned by several Arab nations, Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported Feb. 27, citing sources close to the Syrian investigation into Mughniyah’s death. Syria plans to release the results of its investigation in March.)))

By AJC Management

February 27, 2008 5:04 PM | Link to this

{{{{By getalife February 27, 2008 4:07 PM Great stuff out of Baghdad the corporate media will never report}}}}

al-Gitmo: I wonder how that whiny little Treason Times reporter was able to film all of those places in horrible Baghdad without getting his head sawed off?

Amazing, isn’t it?

The terrorists can send one brainwashed zipperhead loaded with explosives to kill innocent woman and children, just like they do all over the entire Muslim world, and shazam, they get free NY Times pro al Qaeda propaganda.

Sort of like an incentive, ain’t it?

By @@

February 27, 2008 5:14 PM | Link to this

(((Russia, UN, Iran: Russia Agrees To New Sanctions Against Iran February 27, 2008 1955 GMT Russia has agreed to support a United Nations Security Council resolution for more sanctions against Iran because the proposed sanctions do not involve the use of force, Interfax reported Feb. 27. “If Iran does not stop its uranium enrichment activities in the next few days, yes, Russia will support the new resolution,” Russia’s UN ambassador, Vitaly Churkin, said. Interfax news agency reported.)))

By Soothsayer

February 27, 2008 5:23 PM | Link to this

First of all, I don’t profess to be an expert. I have simply done a lot of reading on the subject. But the consensus observed is that the only energy form with any hope of supplanting fossil fuels is solar.

As I understand it, the world’s energy needs could be met with 1/10 of one percent of the solar energy that strikes the Earth each day. That’s one-one thousandth if my math serves me correctly.

As a near term fix read about jatropha. Jatropha grows in tropical and semi-tropical regions on marginal soils (not suitable for agriculture). Jatropha is poisonous and is not a food crop. It’s oil, which can be run in diesel and jet engines with very little if any refining, is harvested at 1,000 gallons per acre in mature fields. India is planting jatropha like crazy as are many other tropical regions.

Again, I think the only real long-term answer is solar which is carbon-free.

By Just Wondering

February 27, 2008 5:24 PM | Link to this

It’s kind of interesting, in a nostalgic sort of way.

The last time gold was this high was during Jimmy Carter’s Presidency.

The last time gasoline was this high was during Jimmy Carter’s Presidency.

During Jimmy Carter’s Presidency there was stagnation and high inflation (stagflation).

Didn’t the US have Iran issues during Jimmy Carter’s Presidency?

I guess the little Bush went to the Carter school of “How To Lead a World-Dominant Democracy Into Irrelevance”.

By @@

February 27, 2008 5:46 PM | Link to this

Soothsayer:

Five years of waiting and wondering isn’t, IMO, a near-term fix.

Not saying it isn’t possible, just saying there’s always a downside.

Jatropha: What the public should know

By @@

February 27, 2008 5:51 PM | Link to this

Some Arabs warn Tehran and Damascus that their continued provocation and explosive policy in Lebanon will have negative consequences for Syria, Iran and their allies in Lebanon. They are warning Damascus that its excesses may eventually undermine its own interests, and they are telling Tehran that they are opposed to an American or Israeli military strike against Iran but that the ongoing actions in Lebanon and Palestine may eventually trigger such a strike.

The million-plus demonstrators who took to the streets on Hariri’s third anniversary gave life and determination to preventing the abortion of the unique democratic path in the Arab world. It is a new delegation by the people to the state, the government headed by Fouad Siniora, the parliamentary majority, and the pro-government leaderships which refuse to allow the rule of pro-Damascus and pro-Tehran militias from taking over no matter how much of a Lebanese identity they claim to have. It is reassuring to find Shiite leaders in Lebanon who are willing to raise their voice and make it clear to Hezbollah that it has no right to dominate and control the Lebanese Shiite voice that remains independent from Iran, even if these leaders have not organized themselves to break this dominance.

By getalife

February 27, 2008 5:53 PM | Link to this

Andy,

The Iraqis say the worst is yet to come in Iraq.

Plenty more slaughter and genocide for you Andy, you sniveling coward.

How many many more Americans do you want sacrificed for w’s mistake?

What a waste, they are debating the Iraq War on C-Span 2 for redeployment. Obama will vote with the gop and no, Clinton will vote will the Dems and yes on the Feingold-Reid bill.

By Glenn

February 27, 2008 5:59 PM | Link to this

Speaking of Mr. Carter, if you have a yen for geopolitical trivia you may have noticed that he and his Carter Center election monitors have been conspicuously absent in the recent elections in sleepy Pakistan. He’s persona non grata there. Something to do with Afghanistan on his presidential watch.

By Paul

February 27, 2008 6:10 PM | Link to this

ITN 1:59

The story behind the Gulf of Mexico oil story: lots of turmoil in the Mexican gov’t. Pres want to bring in foreign (US) companies – only ones with the technology to recover the oil. Powerful families and the state-run oil company are opposed. Would change the structure of this state-owned enterprise – which is the main source of funding for their social welfare programs. Other accessible sources are due to play out quite soon. Plenty of demagoguing and rhetoric there. Money and power. There you have it, again.

RW-(the original) 2:28

“Both have merit, but I don’t think the ONLY answer is to reduce consumption. We solve problem number one in the long term with alternative energy sources. While we’re solving problem 1 in the long term we can solve problem #2 in the short term by exploiting our own reserves.”

For sure. But there are a lot of single-issue, very well funded special interest groups who want no domestic production, period. And only one or two alternatives considered. Their variation of “just drill for our oil and do nothing else” is “do the one or two things I say, in someone else’s state, and nothing else.

BTW – after the scandals and probs with CA not having enough electricity and buying it from TX – you’d think maybe the Californians would do a little energy self-sufficiency and start building a production grid, right? Yeah, right. They’ve done zilch in that regards. They do some good things with controlling pollution, but as far as taking care of themselves or expecting someone else to….

mm 2:32

“There were no Al Qaeda in Iraq until after Bush declared “This is a crusade” and the ever popular “Bring em on”. “

Modern warfare is fluid. The circumstance under which certain fronts develop do not remain static – new realities develop. Such is the case with Iraq.

BTW – I don’t believe he ever said “This is a crusade.” The word “Crusade” was floated as an operational name before some bright person pointed out that likely wouldn’t be endearing to many Muslims.

@@

So what’s Russia’s problem with Iran? Haven’t they listened to voices in the US? Iran’s not developing nukes, has no interest in nukes, and will not develop nukes?

Hmmm, Russia’s helped build their plants, provided their technology, have made megabucks providing military systems to protect thei

By @@

February 27, 2008 6:11 PM | Link to this

Maannnnn! Syrian President Bashar al Assad really is getting squeezed by Israel and Saudi Arabia.

On the one hand Israel is telling them to back away while Israel goes after Hezbollah.

On the other hand Saudi Arabia is telling them to stay out of Lebanese politics or suffer regional isolation.

Interesting to watch, it is.

By Glenn

February 27, 2008 6:18 PM | Link to this

Call it, why don’t you, @@?

By AJC Management

February 27, 2008 6:18 PM | Link to this

{{{{By getalife February 27, 2008 5:53 PM Andy, The Iraqis say the worst is yet to come in Iraq.}}}}

al-Gitmo: It looks like they believe that crap about a surrender monkey demokrat getting elected this November too.

Who can blame them for being worried about their future?

Once McBushie takes office, the celebrations will be countrywide and the terrorists will be the ones surrendering.

Like Mookie has.

By @@

February 27, 2008 6:22 PM | Link to this

Paul:

(((So what’s Russia’s problem with Iran?)))

Beats me! There’s gotta be something in it for Vlad. Always stand back when it’s a-putin.

Some interesting naval sales proposals being offered to India by both us and Russia. Who will end up on top of those aircraft carriers? I say it’ll be us. What say you Paul?

(((Modern warfare is fluid. The circumstance under which certain fronts develop do not remain static – new realities develop. Such is the case with Iraq.)))

I didn’t even want to discuss with mm how we DID GO AFTER OSAMA in Afghanistan. He then hightailed it over the border into Pakistan where we dare not go.

I’m waiting to hear any day now that General Kayani has taken OBL.

By @@

February 27, 2008 6:27 PM | Link to this

Glenn:

(((Call it, why don’t you, @@?)))

Call what?

By RW-(the original)

February 27, 2008 6:34 PM | Link to this

Paul,

I read a comment from you a few days ago making mention that I would be sitting out this election. Just to set the record straight I would never sit out an election. There are far too many down ballot races that in many ways have a far bigger impact on our day to day lives. I just don’t have a candidate for President so I may try to pump up the Libertarian total by one or perhaps there will be a VP candidate that I feel the need to vote for.

By Buy Danish

February 27, 2008 6:35 PM | Link to this

Hi y’all! I was just wondering if the resident scientist rushncap was around to give his opinion on this chilling report.

I’m also wondering how all you Goreacles feel about your food prices, gas prices and heating oil prices zooming up thanks to the Ethanol hoax, not drilling in ANWR, and other boneheaded* Leftist ideas.

*That’s how Obama describes his Rezko Real Estate deal, so I think I’ll use it.

By Paul

February 27, 2008 6:39 PM | Link to this

@@

con’t:

Russia’s helped build their plants, provided their technology, have made megabucks providing military systems to protect their research sites. Do you think it’s just a little bit possible maybe they have a different view of Iran?

Think Assad every so often thinks life was simpler as an opthalmologist?

getalife

I heard Pres Clinton make a very detailed, concise case for Hillary vs Obama. I left wondering why we don’t hear the same from her. Or hear it clearly reported.

I listened for a gasp but didn’t hear one when he said:

There have been gains in Iraq. The Iraquis have held elections, formed a government, adopted a constitution. They have only two big tasks remaining: oil revenue sharing and power sharing. But the presence of US troops as currently configured permits them to dither. Hillary wants to consolidate them in the north and use to hit al Qaeda as needed. That will bring pressure to bear on the Iraqi govt.

Also said a rapid withdrawal (didn’t mention Obama) would be a big problem.

Also said, very clearly, there is a War on Terror. al Qaeda are enemies to America - but the battleground should be Afghanistan. Then he developed that theme.

Pretty amazing guy. Then again, we’ve had many Presidents who’ve been very effective in certain areas while their personal lives have been problematic. Some Senators, too. And a couple of Congressmen. And governors, don’t forget governors.

By Paul

February 27, 2008 6:44 PM | Link to this

@@ 6:22

No one does aircraft carriers like the Americans. No one. And as far as ongoing training and support - the US is a stable provider.

RW

Thank you for the clarification. I thought McCain was anathema and you’d not vote for him. I read too much into your remark.

Libertarians making it on the ballot again? Darn good point on a VP - from worst-case scenario to a launching pad 4-8 years hence. It’s an important choice.

By The Artist Formerly Known as Rodham

February 27, 2008 6:45 PM | Link to this

I changed my face.

I changed my hair.

I changed my eyes from brown to fair.

I changed my mind on peace and war,

And what the Chinese are good for.

I gave them nice and gave them cruel

And made Bill stay in after school,

But all my styles and all my wiles,

And all my frequent flyer miles,

Still won’t get me asked to Prom

Or put my finger on The Bomb.

By getalife

February 27, 2008 6:48 PM | Link to this

Andy,

They bribed him like they did the Sunnis. They will turn on us.

Go over there and back up your bs sniveling coward.

Our troops could use some rest after being deployed over and over again because you sniveling cowards will not back up your ignorant mouths.

Boner said get up off your lazy a-ss and raise some money for your cowardly chicken sh-it pos party.

It is the least you could do, so stop blooging and follow the crying boner’s advice. They should go the way of the whig if it was up to me.

By Glenn

February 27, 2008 6:49 PM | Link to this

@@,

Syria. Which way, Assad?

By @@

February 27, 2008 6:56 PM | Link to this

Paul:

Are you saying that Russia got inside Iranian nuclear sites and saw something they didn’t like? Something they didn’t anticipate?

Glenn:

Don’t keep me hanging here. Are you talking about Carter’s famous notation:

“The Afghanistan invasion has finally caused me to see the truth about Leonid Brezhnev.” <—-Not sure I spelled that correctly.

I’m drawing a blank.

By Buy Danish

February 27, 2008 6:57 PM | Link to this

Oh great. Brit Hume just reported that no only is ethanol bad for the evironment, but ethanol fires are harder to put out, and the foam that is used to put out other fires doesn’t work on them.

If a tanker filled with ethanol catches on fire it poses a real danger.

Any more brilliant ideas from the greenies?

By RW-(the original)

February 27, 2008 6:57 PM | Link to this

Paul,

I guess I still wasn’t clear. I won’t vote for McCain, but I will be voting in all the down ballot races.

By AJC Management

February 27, 2008 7:04 PM | Link to this

al-Gitmo: Wouldn’t it be easier on the troops if you liberals stopped propagandizing for al Qaeda?

You’ve never been on their side, either in Afghanistan or Iraq, think Abu Graib and Haditha, and your whining for them now is shameless.

All you care about is political power.

That’s awfully low.

By Buy Danish

February 27, 2008 7:04 PM | Link to this

RW,

I will be voting for McCain after we force him to change his position on a few things, like global warming, drilling in ANWR, and carbon taxes.

Call me audaciously optimistic.

By Paul

February 27, 2008 7:09 PM | Link to this

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That’d be sheer speculation.

BUT: Putin has a jihadist problem. Within his borders. Remember the line from the admiral (Fred Thomson character) in Hunt for Red October “Son, the Russians don’t take a d*mp without a plan.” I’ve long thought that’s an area where Putin’s doing a high-wire act. But there may be a few people holding the wire who are also holding wire cutters.

RW I got that. Just wasn’t clear in my musing.

Ever wonder how different media and politics would be if reporters, opponents and hacks asked “excuse me, do you mean such and so” rather than launching “gotcha!”?

Like this from factcheck.org

Obama twisted the words of Republican John McCain, saying he has suggested “war” might “go on for another 100 years.” McCain expressly said otherwise. He said a 100-year presence would be acceptable in the absence of violence against U.S. troops, and later said “the war will be over soon.”

Even having read that, some here will continue the “McCain want War” chant.

Oh well. Who says you can’t count on anything any more?

By RW-(the original)

February 27, 2008 7:28 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish,

I don’t think my vote in Georgia will make a bit of difference, but even if it did I wouldn’t vote McCain. Frankly if we have to suffer through a liberal in office I would prefer the lib carried a D behind their name so the blame doesn’t get misplaced.

Paul,

Now you’re asking journalists to be journalists. Do you really think that’s ever going to happen when the #1 response to the question of why are you here when asked to journalism students is “to make the world a better place?”

I think if I were the professor I would boot them out at that point and show them the way to the school of government or poli-sci.

By Buy Danish

February 27, 2008 7:45 PM | Link to this

RW,

I part company with you there. All it takes is 4 years to usher in things Universal Health Care, A few more Ruth Bader Ginsburg types on the Supreme Court, raise taxes on the so-called “rich”, and take a cut and run approach to the war on terror.

We could never recover or it could take decades. As loathesome as McCain is in many respects, he’s still a damned sight better than Obama who puts the O in sOcialist.

By RW-(the original)

February 27, 2008 8:09 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish,

McCain would probably let Ted Kennedy pick his Supreme Court nominees. The two most likely vacancies would be Ginsberg and Stevens. It would be hard to get more liberal than them, but you could run the risk of ending up with younger libs.

McCain’s strength is on the war and that’s no small thing, but neither Hillary or Obama are going to pull this full retreat they talk about now.

If the Dem overreached on Universal health care and various other Socialist programs we would have Congress back in 2010 without all the RINOs we have now. If McCain is President he’ll probably cave on most of the Socialist programs to gain support for the war and Republicans will be in the wilderness for the rest of our lifetimes.