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By Mike Luckovich | Tuesday, March 25, 2008, 07:17 AM

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By AJC Management

March 25, 2008 8:04 AM | Link to this

The demokrat party presidential race, two bozos for the price of one:

CBS Exposes Ku Klux Rodham Bosnia Trip.

The gift that just keeps on giving….to the Republicans.

~~~~~

{{{{KKKlinton says she is the candidate of experience because of her time in the White House. Experience doing what? Arranging flowers (as her recently released records confirm)? Experience being one step ahead of the Sheriff? Her just released records reveal that she was upstairs in the White House while her husband was getting “Lewinskied” downstairs. Some person might ask the uncharitable question: How is she going to figure out what’s going on in the rest of the world, when she could not figure out what was going on downstairs in her own house?}}}}

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Running out of ragheads:

{{{{On March 6, Al-Sahab, the media arm of al Qaeda, released a 46-minute video statement titled “They Lied: Now Is the Time to Fight.” The speaker is Mustafa Ahmed Muhammad Uthman Abu-al-Yazid, 52, an Egyptian who runs al Qaeda’s operations in Afghanistan, and the speech is in most respects the usual mix of earthly grievances, heavenly promises and militant exhortations. It’s also an urgent call for recruits.}}}}

{{{{“We call on the fathers and mothers not to become a barrier between their children and paradise,” says Abu-Al-Yazid. “If they disagree who should first join the jihad to go to paradise, let them compete, meaning the fathers and the children… . Also, we say to the Muslim wives, do not be a barrier between your husbands and paradise.”}}}}

By AJC Management

March 25, 2008 8:06 AM | Link to this

Let’s play hide the demokrat in the Urinal:

{{{{Twenty-five days before voting for a controversial payday lending bill last year, then-state >>>>Rep.<<<< Ron Sailor Jr. accepted tens of thousands of dollars from a lobbyist pushing the bill. Sailor, who resigned last week after admitting to money laundering, received at least $80,000 in February 2007 from a company controlled by retired Denver Broncos football player Willie A. Green.-Urinal}}}}

Is that “Rep.” as in Republican?

Don’t you wish:

{{{{On March 20, 2007, Sailor was one of 11 demokrats to cross party lines and vote to allow short-term, high-interest loans known as payday lending.}}}}

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Let’s play hide the demokrat part duex:

David Paterson, now that name sounds familiar:

{{{{David Paterson is still adding to his string of confessions. “I tried it a couple of times,” he said in an interview with NY1 News, when asked if he had ever used cocaine. It was his first television interview since he became governor last week.}}}}

Oh yeah, now I remember, he’s the demokrat governor of New York who replaced disgraced governor Love Client #9.

Yeah, you libs sure have “changed” how government operates.

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

March 25, 2008 8:10 AM | Link to this

In case you missed it, be sure to check out the McCain Debates.

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

March 25, 2008 8:14 AM | Link to this

McCain silent on reaching 4,000 U.S. deaths in Iraq.

By Steven Daedalus

March 25, 2008 8:19 AM | Link to this

As 4000th death in Iraq was announced Bush was hiding Easter Eggs. Nice tribute Mr. President.

By Hillary Under Fire (Mad As Zell)

March 25, 2008 8:24 AM | Link to this

The only “fire” that the Hitlery has ever been “under” is exploding vaginal fluids from her assorted lesbian companions.

By Hillary Under Fire (Mad As Zell)

March 25, 2008 8:35 AM | Link to this

Of course, the sex addict Bill KKKlinton has provided the “short arms fire” for many a tryst, the most evident being that “deep stain on his legacy” that he left on Monica Lewinsky’s blue dress. Billy gave a whole new meaning to the term “Free Willy” during his time in the Ovary, I mean Oval Office.

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

March 25, 2008 8:40 AM | Link to this

John McCain’s to-do list

By Bosch

March 25, 2008 8:42 AM | Link to this

I have to admit, I laughed out loud when I heard this one about Hillary - she “misspoke?” How do you freaking mis-speak about sniper fire and dodging bullets?

I swear the Democrats have always had a knack for imploding.

Andy,

Shouldn’t you be glad that the NY governor is admitting these things now instead of hiding them and having someone find out about it later and then we have to live with the complete media circus? Yes, he should have divulged that information sooner, like when he was running for office the first time.

I remember Newt Gingrich admitting to smoking pot after the Clinton “I didn’t inhale” episode (I thought to myself at that time, “well that’s too bad”). I would much rather politicians admit to wrongdoing on their own, then to have it come out in the media. But that’s just me.

People do dumb things when they are young, look at Bush - he did cocaine, and wrecked a car drunk. We all do stupid things - some are human enough to admit it.

By AJC Miss Management

March 25, 2008 8:47 AM | Link to this

Andy Zellduhng loves Bush

…Which is shocking, seeing as though Andy’s never been with a woman.

By Bosch

March 25, 2008 8:51 AM | Link to this

ITN @ 8:17,

Um, I do. But, I guess I don’t count, huh?

By The AllahFuerher

March 25, 2008 8:53 AM | Link to this

I am the AllahFeuhrer! I am saudi. Cheney owes me a favor. I demand New York for my nephew. I will call that state “Osamass”. You’ll love Osamass.

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

March 25, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this

Bosch

You ALWAYS count with me.

McCain on the other hand….

By Ralph

March 25, 2008 9:09 AM | Link to this

Bush and his pathetic supporters see light at the end of the tunnel in Iraq. Too ignorant to realize it’s not a tunnel, but a pit.

By FrankLeeDarling

March 25, 2008 9:22 AM | Link to this

Ralph that light at the end of the tunnel is a train coming right at them

VOTE DEM 08

By Goldie

March 25, 2008 9:23 AM | Link to this

It’s too bad that the Hillary feels the need to embellish her duties as First Lady — it only makes her look foolish and untrustworthy as a General Election candidate. The Clintons are only supplying more ammo for the Repugs to use in their Swift-boat ads against her. Why don’t the Clintons just tout her wonderful experience as a NY Senator instead?

By Goldie

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

It was only a year ago that McBush toured that market in Baghdad with 100 of our troops and helicopters surrounding him — he also declared back then that Iraq was “safe”… why should Americans believe any of his words today? More of the same from McBush!

McCain Wrong on Iraq Security, Merchants Say

By Goldie

March 25, 2008 9:36 AM | Link to this

How presidential and trustworthy can McBush be, when he states that Baghdad is “as dangerous as an American city”???

McCain: Baghdad as dangerous as an American city

A question for McBush: Which American city is as dangerous as Baghdad, in your educated opinion???

By WHY????

March 25, 2008 9:38 AM | Link to this

(http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/25/us/25dead.web.html?hp)

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

March 25, 2008 9:45 AM | Link to this

Seven out of 10 Iraqis want foreign forces to leave: poll

By WHY????

March 25, 2008 9:57 AM | Link to this

(http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/25/us/25dead.web.html?hp)

By Goldie

March 25, 2008 10:04 AM | Link to this

WHY @ 9:57 — you may need to put a little text between 2 brackets before posting the link, like this: “text in brackets” — try that without the quotation marks and see if you get results…

By The AllahFuerher

March 25, 2008 10:08 AM | Link to this

There is a light at the end of the tunnel of Iraq War. But’s the tunnel is a wormhole to the future. 100 years in Iraq, people. At least. 50+ in Korea. So what’s so special about Iraq? Ask Cheney.

I am the AllahFuerher!

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

March 25, 2008 10:13 AM | Link to this

6 Signs the U.S. May Be Headed for War in Iran

By Truthman

March 25, 2008 10:34 AM | Link to this

Heard Bill Maher say this Friday night about Repugs and their idea of “free-market capitalism.”

“The Republicans are free-market capitalists when it comes to profits, but they are totally Socialist when it comes to losses.”

Man, that is so true!!

Socialist monetary policies used to bail out businesses that made bad decision and deserve to fail!

Socialists!! Socialist Republicans!!

By Bosch

March 25, 2008 10:46 AM | Link to this

Truthman,

Don’t you love stuff like that? They think nothing of 200 billion to bail out businesses, but ask for a few million for children healthcare and then all of a sudden they can’t afford that - it’s socialized medicine!

Pathetic.

By Goldie

March 25, 2008 11:04 AM | Link to this

Truthman and Bosch— I guess “free market” economy is just code for welfare for some corporations… and they believe it’s OK if their CEOs reap mega-MILLIONS in their bailout packages while their companies implode.

I wonder why McBush is so silent on the current bailout for Bear Stearns???

By Truthman

March 25, 2008 11:07 AM | Link to this

Goldie, because McBush is in bed with them as much as the current junta.

By Truthman

March 25, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this

Hey neo-conmen and women!

How do you square that Socialist bailout of Bear Stearns?

Aren’t bad companies supposed to fail in a free-market economy?

What’s your answer? I know you MUST have one because I know you hate me for bringing up the Socialist monetary policies of the current regime in D.C.?

So, what’s the rationalization this time?

Well…we’re waiting!!!

By The Devil You Say

March 25, 2008 11:10 AM | Link to this

NOW all of you Obama backers are acknowledging what we Republicans were saying about the Clintons all along. They lie about EVERYTHING!!! Watch how they try to (and they probably will succeed) steal the nomination. However, with Obama you are still getting someone else who plays fast and loose with the truth. Have fun. You folks are gonna hate ‘08!

By getalife

March 25, 2008 11:12 AM | Link to this

Looks like Clinton is trying to level the playing field with Obama’s lies.

Did Mike do a toon on Obama’s lies?

Didn’t think so.

Anyhoo, The Sadr cease fire is over and Mcbushie said:

“We’re Succeeding. I Don’t Care What Anybody Says”

Same as it ever was.

Nothing will change.

By The Devil You Say

March 25, 2008 11:13 AM | Link to this

Goldie - This would be laughable if it were not so serious. Had Bush not done this you Demoncrats would be screaming bloody murder about how he did not take any action to save financial markets. I also remember NO objection when Carter bailed out Chrysler back in the late 1970s. But I forget, Iacocca is a Democrat, so that must make it okay.

By The Devil You Say

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

I guess you folks also don’t know much history. You cannot remember why Wilson had Congress pass the Federal Reserve Act and FDR strengthened it with the FDIC. Remember the Great Depression? It was triggered because the big investment banks started going under and there was a snowball effect in markets. Do you really want that again, with all of the world-wide effects. I’m not thrilled either, but I also don’t want a repeat of the 1930s. This was a little before my time, but I believe the horror stories my parents and grandparents told me.

By WHY

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

faces of war

By Truthman

March 25, 2008 11:30 AM | Link to this

Yes, dummy, I do!

We should let the economy crumble now because it will surely crumble even more later.

Where is the money coming from to prop up the banks? I know the answer, Dunce, but I want you to tell me and all the other panty-waist, bleeding-heart liberals on this site.

Where does the money come from? There is only one correct answer, so don’t think too hard, Dunce-boy!

By WHY

March 25, 2008 11:31 AM | Link to this

faces of war

By Bosch

March 25, 2008 11:33 AM | Link to this

No Devil, we wouldn’t. Financial markets don’t mean a whole lot to middle and poor families - at least directly, they all affect us indirectly, but no I wouldn’t scream a bit about having to watch poor multi-bajillionaire CEOS losing their homes.

I say let ‘em fall.

Now, I was around 8 years old when Jimmy, my hero, was president, so no, I didn’t scream so much about that. But I sure do remember my big ol’ Democrat liberal dad screaming bloody murder about that.

You see, two wrongs don’t make a right. And it wasn’t Carter, it was Congress.

AND, Iacocca paid those loans back. I wonder if these guys will?

See, assumptions don’t work here for all.

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

March 25, 2008 11:40 AM | Link to this

Partying Like It’s 1929 ……. We chose to forget what happened in the 1930s — and having refused to learn from history, we’re repeating it. …….. Contrary to popular belief, the stock market crash of 1929 wasn’t the defining moment of the Great Depression. What turned an ordinary recession into a civilization-threatening slump was the wave of bank runs that swept across America in 1930 and 1931. This banking crisis of the 1930s showed that unregulated, unsupervised financial markets can all too easily suffer catastrophic failure. …….. As the decades passed, however, that lesson was forgotten — and now we’re relearning it, the hard way. …… Congress tried to make sure it would never happen again by creating a system of regulations and guarantees that provided a safety net for the financial system. And we all lived happily for a while — but not for ever after. ………Wall Street chafed at regulations that limited risk, but also limited potential profits. And little by little it wriggled free — partly by persuading politicians to relax the rules, but mainly by creating a “shadow banking system” that relied on complex financial arrangements to bypass regulations designed to ensure that banking was safe.

AND

We’re now in the midst of an epic financial crisis, which ought to be at the center of the election debate. But it isn’t…….Last week Robert Rubin, the former Treasury secretary, declared that Mr. Frank is right about the need for expanded regulation. Mr. Rubin put it clearly: If Wall Street companies can count on being rescued like banks, then they need to be regulated like banks. But will that logic prevail politically? Not if Mr. McCain makes it to the White House. His chief economic adviser is former Senator Phil Gramm, a fervent advocate of financial deregulation. In fact, I’d argue that aside from Alan Greenspan, nobody did as much as Mr. Gramm to make this crisis possible…..In retrospect, it’s clear that the Clinton administration went along too easily with moves to deregulate the financial industry. And it’s hard to avoid the suspicion that big contributions from Wall Street helped grease the rails

By AmVet

March 25, 2008 11:41 AM | Link to this

Excellent cartoon, Mike!

Reminds me of one of the favorite chickenhawk talking heads, Bill O’Reilly, and his countless “challenges” with telling the truth:

“I’ll tell you what. I’ve been in combat. I’ve seen it, I’ve been close to it… and if my unit is danger, and I’ve got a captured guy, and the guy knows where the enemy is, and I’m looking him in the eye, the guy better tell me. That’s all I’m gonna tell you. The guy better tell me. If it’s life or death, he’s going first.” –on his experience as a journalist covering firefights in South and Central America, Jan. 18, 2005

And also of {{{{Curly’s}}}} Audi Murphyesque “tales”!

By AmVet

March 25, 2008 11:55 AM | Link to this

Excellent cartoon, Mike!

Reminds me of one of the favorite chickenhawk talking heads, Bill O’Reilly, and his countless “challenges” with telling the truth:

“I’ll tell you what. I’ve been in combat. I’ve seen it, I’ve been close to it… and if my unit is danger, and I’ve got a captured guy, and the guy knows where the enemy is, and I’m looking him in the eye, the guy better tell me. That’s all I’m gonna tell you. The guy better tell me. If it’s life or death, he’s going first.” –on his experience as a journalist covering firefights in South and Central America, Jan. 18, 2005

And also of {{{{Curly’s}}}} Audi Murphyesque “tales”!

By The AllahFuerher

March 25, 2008 11:57 AM | Link to this

Bill Oreilly. He plays in Peoria. there is no god.

By AmVet

March 25, 2008 12:02 PM | Link to this

Damn! The dreaded double post!

Damn! The dreaded double post!

(Just kidding).

By The Devil You Say

March 25, 2008 12:03 PM | Link to this

Bosch - that is the height of ignorance!!! The international financial markets affect us all, even more than they did in 1929 and we all know what happened then. Allowing large investment banks to go under is just the height of folly. Also, Chase is buying Bear-Stern at a lower price, but they also have to pay the government back for the loans they are taking out. This is not a classic bailout. This is much the same as Chrysler, but it is also much more necessary. Chrysler going under would have cost jobs, and so it was believed necessary to bail them out. This would cost people, normal people with ‘small’ investments a lot of money. You need to do a little reading up on the subject.

By Truthman

March 25, 2008 12:05 PM | Link to this

AmVet, you do know the rest of that story, don’t you.

Right after “Sgt.” O’Reilly made those comments, a caller to the show pointed out to Bill that he was never actually a Soldier and that he never faced any threats to his life. Bill-O went off the deep end calling the caller every name in his little, tiny head.

Moral: Truth hurts, eh Bill-O?

By deegee

March 25, 2008 12:14 PM | Link to this

Why does the smartest woman in the world sound so completely stupid? I don’t even believe she has intelligent people surrounding her. If she does, they aren’t running her campaign. I just wish she would listen to Bill Richardson and get off the stage already.

By AmVet

March 25, 2008 12:20 PM | Link to this

Truthman, I pretty much gave up on Bill “Oh Where’s the Reality” five years ago.

That was when he said that after the bombs started falling (shock and awe) anyone who continues to protest is un-American!

I missed that particular moronic assessment, but was watching the next night, when he issued a “correction”.

And for one brief shining moment, I thought, Wow! Maybe this cretin really does have a backbone.

But alas we’re talking about BOR the de facto head of TV Bush apologists.

His “correction” was to change the term being un-American to being a bad American.

I knew then that these neo-cons were hopelessly f&cked and were not going to be content until they had wrought untold damage on the nation.

And sadly, I wasn’t wrong…

Speaking of which, did anyone see last nights Frontline, “Bush’s War”?

It is obvious what Natalie Maines meant, isn’t it?

Even worse than Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew, Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz/Rove are all more than an embarrassment to the United States of America.

They are all a disgrace…

By Bosch

March 25, 2008 12:21 PM | Link to this

Mr. Devil,

Height of ignorance? Au contraire.

I think that’s exactly what Wall Street wants everyone to think - that if they fall, then we’ll all be doomed. I don’t believe it.

Paranoia.

I still say let ‘em fall and let’s just see what happens.

I say, let it effect us ALL - not just the lower echelons.

By The AllahFuerher

March 25, 2008 12:23 PM | Link to this

It’s tough being the AllahFuerher. I never really get used to the stares, or the children kicking me. But being the pfarfenugen requires sacrifices. No job is easy. Nobody forced me to become the leiderhosen. I do it for posterity. That’s why I’m the panzergrenadier.

dumkaupfs

By Bosch

March 25, 2008 12:23 PM | Link to this

Mr. Devil,

One more thing:

“This would cost people, normal people with ‘small’ investments a lot of money”

Isn’t that the consequences of investing? Don’t people know the risks before they invest?

Consequences of capitalism. Deal with it.

By Truthman

March 25, 2008 12:26 PM | Link to this

AmVet, yes, I did watch “Bush’s War.” I like to call them criminals and/or murderer/traitor/basturds!!.

TM

Andi/RW/@@/Shawny/Dusty call them “patriots.”

Go figure?

By Fly_on_the_Wall

March 25, 2008 12:27 PM | Link to this

The ‘bail-out’ is necessary but the actions that got them (us) there (here) are what need to be controlled. The article by Krugman hits the nail on the head - investment groups & banks are always looking to get around regulations so they can improve their bottom line. The government ‘looks the other way’ at times because it supposedly improves the economy but when the chickens come home to roost everyone gets hurt. I agree with Bosch and think it should go one step further, we just need to make sure these CEOs don’t get golden parachutes but jail time. If you or I take a risk like these investment bankers did we’d be laughed off the face of the planet and everyone here would say how stupid we are plus it might even be considered illegal. But for some reason when people who either have or control LOTS of money take these same risks they are considered brilliant for seeing the ‘opportunity’. Somehow they need to be truly punished for their actions.

By BS detector

March 25, 2008 12:34 PM | Link to this

same with life bosch. it rains on the just and the unjust alike. who, in your vast wisdom or lack thereof, gets the umbrella on america’s streets? all or nothing dude. your call? my call? survival of the fittest i say. you?

By Bosch

March 25, 2008 12:34 PM | Link to this

Fly,

Why is the bailout necessary?

You know as well as I do that the CEOs will get golden parachutes and everything will be a okay for them, while the lower echelons of people will suffer (employees, investors, etc.).

If you or I ran our company into the ground, do you think we’d still have a job?

Hmmmm - NOPE!

Later all!

By The AllahFuerher

March 25, 2008 12:36 PM | Link to this

or maybe they should be SWATTed like pesty flies, n’est pas?

By Midori

March 25, 2008 12:36 PM | Link to this

Did anyone catch Bush’s War on Frontline last night?

It’s available to watch on line as well.

By AmVet

March 25, 2008 12:41 PM | Link to this

Truthman,

I’m not sure who is more pitiful, the lame brains and sheep that voted for Bush twice and now have had their belated meaningless “epiphanies”, or the few remaining pig headed, ostrich-like “conservatives” who still think he’s done a heckuva job.

They are consistent, I’ll give them that.

Consistently wrong.

By Midori

March 25, 2008 12:48 PM | Link to this

oops - I see AmVet answered the question before I asked it.

By getalife

March 25, 2008 12:49 PM | Link to this

Midori,

Here is another good one to watch

By Midori

March 25, 2008 12:52 PM | Link to this

hey, thanks Getalife.

Bookmarked.

By The Devil You Say

March 25, 2008 12:58 PM | Link to this

No one from Bear-Sterns will get a golden anything. They are out in the cold. There is nothing there to pay them with. Unfortunately, a lot of little people are hurting from this already. Pension funds are not bankrupted, but they might as well be because the values are so low.

Again I would caution you that many people thought in October of 1929 that the financial crisis only affected the relative few who owned stocks or who were in banking. They found out differently and the federal government started ‘insuring’ bank accounts. You might call that a bailout. It not only saved the banks (not always) but it did at least save the depositors.

Heads will roll over this by the way. Bear-Sterns execs were lying to the whole world just a few days before the collapse claiming that everything was fine. That flies in the face of all regulations and rules of ethics of the SEC and the FDIC.

By getalife

March 25, 2008 1:02 PM | Link to this

No problem, I was flipping thru the channels and watched it. It is very good and informative.

“For the first time I’ve seen Osama bin Laden and General Petraeus in agreement. And that is, the central battleground and the battle against al Qaeda is in Iraq today, and that’s what bin Laden is saying and that’s what General Petraeus is saying — and that’s what I’m saying.”

Senator McCain certainly got one thing right; Osama bin Laden relishes the idea of the U.S. being bogged down in Iraq for the next hundred years and continuing to serve as a recruiting tool for al Qaeda. The Bush-McCain surge is barely holding on by a thread and even in areas that were not part of the surge, such as Basra in the southern part of the country, where the president is expected to ask Britain to lead a NEW surge of troops in to quell a Shiite civil war that is raging out of control. Dick Cheney was reported to have said: “So? They Volunteered.”

Mcbushie is giving a speech on the economy. Should be funny.

By Fly_on_the_Wall

March 25, 2008 1:08 PM | Link to this

Bosch,

Unfortunately the bail-out is necessary so we don’t have the 1930-31 scenario where there was a run on the banks which led to the economic ruin of that era. For that we need the government to do but they (the Republican Congress) let us down by allowing the investment bankers to do this kind of smoke and mirrors financing. Then when everything goes belly-up it is somehow the little guy’s fault for trying to take out the very loan that these guys were offering.

By The AllahFuerher

March 25, 2008 1:08 PM | Link to this

Bush’s War on PBS last night. I knew every second of that broadcast by heart. I lived it. We all did. If you didn’t know that’s what happened and what W said and did, cheney too, rumsfeld too, then you havent been paying attention for the last six years, you sunshine patriots. You’re all Useless as Betsy Ross’s discarded douchebags.

You people must have miniature brains and dont remember nothing. Rumsfeld refused to attack Bin Laden when BUSH had him surrounded with his CIA. BUSH did good. Rumsfeld, (cheney), stood pat and marked time. Osama slipped away. Now, the explanation for rummy/cheney’s countermand of W’s order to attack is supposedly that Rummy couldn’t work under the CIA. He had 2B boss, or he would take his football and go home.

But the real reason is that if they had destroyed al queda and bin laden, then Americans would have had their mission accomplished parade and everyone would have had to come home and no attack in Iraq could possibly have been approved. We would have bagged the bad guys of 911, and that’s all we should be expected to do.

That’s the real reason. The treason is even worse than even I thought.

Lady Liberty has been quietly defiled for the last six years by jackals in the republican night.

By Unity

March 25, 2008 1:20 PM | Link to this

Hillary Clinton may not realize it yet, but she’s just endured one of the worst weeks of her campaign.

David Brooks

Go to Columnist Page » First, Barack Obama weathered the Rev. Jeremiah Wright affair without serious damage to his nomination prospects. Obama still holds a tiny lead among Democrats nationally in the Gallup tracking poll, just as he did before this whole affair blew up.

Second, Obama’s lawyers successfully prevented re-votes in Florida and Michigan. That means it would be virtually impossible for Clinton to take a lead in either elected delegates or total primary votes.

Third, as Noam Scheiber of The New Republic has reported, most superdelegates have accepted Nancy Pelosi’s judgment that the winner of the elected delegates should get the nomination. Instead of lining up behind Clinton, they’re drifting away. Her lead among them has shrunk by about 60 in the past month, according to Avi Zenilman of Politico.com.

In short, Hillary Clinton’s presidential prospects continue to dim. The door is closing. Night is coming. The end, however, is not near.

Last week, an important Clinton adviser told Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen (also of Politico) that Clinton had no more than a 10 percent chance of getting the nomination. Now, she’s probably down to a 5 percent chance.

Five percent.

Let’s take a look at what she’s going to put her party through for the sake of that 5 percent chance: The Democratic Party is probably going to have to endure another three months of daily sniping. For another three months, we’ll have the Carvilles likening the Obamaites to Judas and former generals accusing Clintonites of McCarthyism. For three months, we’ll have the daily round of résumé padding and sulfurous conference calls. We’ll have campaign aides blurting “blue dress” and only-because-he’s-black references as they let slip their private contempt.

For three more months (maybe more!) the campaign will proceed along in its Verdun-like pattern. There will be a steady rifle fire of character assassination from the underlings, interrupted by the occasional firestorm of artillery when the contest touches upon race, gender or patriotism. The policy debates between the two have been long exhausted, so the only way to get the public really engaged is by poking some raw national wound.

For the sake of that 5 percent, this will be the sourest spring. About a fifth of Clinton and

By AmVet

March 25, 2008 1:25 PM | Link to this

Midori,

I’ve got to run but will be back later.

I’d like to hear your input and discuss that program some more…

By Midori

March 25, 2008 1:32 PM | Link to this

I’ll be here, AmVet.

By The Devil You Say

March 25, 2008 1:38 PM | Link to this

Fly - most of these regs were made independent of any Republican Congress - most of them under agencies authorized by Demoncrat Congresses and many of them old and outdated. Also, much of the housing crisis can be dumped at the door of Chucky Schumer and co. because they jawboned the home lenders into relaxing their standards so the ‘poor and lower middle-classes’ could become home owners. This situation is quite complicated and there is a lot of blame to go around. The task at hand is to fix the situation and try not to allow this kind of thing to happen again. However, the nature of a free market system is that there will be ups and downs and people will do foolish things because they are free to do so.

By AJC Management

March 25, 2008 1:40 PM | Link to this

{{{{By getalife March 25, 2008 1:02 PM Senator McCain certainly got one thing right; Osama bin Laden relishes the idea of the U.S. being bogged down in Iraq for the next hundred years and continuing to serve as a recruiting tool for al Qaeda.}}}}

al-Gitmo: Yeah, maybe we could get the people of Iran and Syria, in the next hundred years, to hate al Qaeda too:

Al Qaeda has desicively lost the Iraqi battlefield. Overall 94 percent have an unfavorable view of al Qaeda, with 82 percent expressing a very unfavorable view.<<<<

That’s^^ Sunni, Shia and Kurdish opinion, bwa.

McBushie’s got your “civil war.”

{{{{The Bush-McCain surge is barely holding on by a thread and even in areas that were not part of the surge, such as Basra in the southern part of the country, where the president is expected to ask Britain to lead a NEW surge of troops in to quell a Shiite civil war that is raging out of control.}}}}

Yes, the British went wobbly and now it is time for the Armed Forces of the United States to surge Mookie right into some Iranian cave.

For the next hundred years.

Hahahahahahaha.

Sissies.

By Bosch

March 25, 2008 1:54 PM | Link to this

Mr. Devil,

Are you one of these people that if it is “bad” it’s the Democrats fault, or the Democrat President’s fault, or the Democrat Congresses’ fault, and if it’s “good” then it’s the Republican President/Congress’ accomplishment?

I really hate that hypocritical sh!t.

By RW-(the original)

March 25, 2008 1:57 PM | Link to this

Oh boy! We get to look forward to two of the biggest moonbat(ic)s&reg: on the blog discussing a movie.

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Truth?man,

I don’t think any private business should be bailed out by the government unless it can be proven that the failure came about as a direct result of government. I’ve always said that freedom includes the freedom to fail and that should count for people as well as business.

Later! (I’ve got to get some popcorn for when Siskel and Roper get back to discuss the PBS flick.)

By Bosch

March 25, 2008 1:58 PM | Link to this

Fly,

I say let the banks fall too - sometimes you need a revolution!

:-)

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March 25, 2008 2:05 PM | Link to this

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By mm

March 25, 2008 2:10 PM | Link to this

RW and AJCM,

Hasn’t the expiration date passed on your turd polish?

Your lame @ss spin has lost its luster.

By Midori

March 25, 2008 2:11 PM | Link to this

I certainly see why you guys have dubbed him “Ricky Retardo”

By The Devil You Say

March 25, 2008 2:18 PM | Link to this

Bosch - first, the foul language is not necessary. It shows quite a bit of immaturity. Second of all, I never said that. I made the point that there is plenty of blame to go around in this instance. However, many of the people in the investment banking business are former Clinton and Carter office holders, so this is not a Republican thing. Greed has a good bit to do with it and Democrats are every bit as guilty of that as a group as are Republicans. In many cases moreso because they believe that EVERYTHING is about money. It isn’t. To me EVERYTHING is about freedom. That is why I made the choice to leave a ‘high paying’ profession to one that afforded me more time off, but at a lower pay scale. It also wasn’t nearly as nerve racking to be a teacher as it was to follow my first profession, which I will not name here.

Andrew Carnegie once said that when you don’t have money that it seems quite important, but when you have more than enough it simply is the game of earning it that holds your interest. That is not an exact quote, but it is close.

By The Devil You Say

March 25, 2008 2:21 PM | Link to this

I would like to know when Mikey is going to poorly draw a cartoon on the mendacity and perfidy of Senator Obama? No time soon, I would bet!

By a free Iraq

March 25, 2008 2:22 PM | Link to this

[The new Iraq] (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/23/AR2008032301990.html)

By The AllahFuerher

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

Hillary clinton lost the race long ago. Last month’s story, slow boy.

What is wrong with you people. Do you want to hash out a play by play of the primary season, and discuss the ups and downs of whatever? Why? there’s nothing to say.

Oh wait, I’m not finished, maybe if hillary win Pennsylvania and Obama is photo-cropped in bed with Bhutto then……

Forget it. Obama is our next president. I give you my word. Have I ever been wrong about anything?

But no, you trolls want to post something important like little dickpimples.

Tune into rush and give him five minutes and listen to the rant and at this point in the campaign, if the pathos doesn’t move you to tears for our country then you’re useless to me and lady liberty.

Obama 08: He’s no dickpimple.

By ask yourself

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

why a majority of employees of the finance industry (sub-prime lenders) donated to Obama’s campaign. Bundling up with Obama perchance?

#1 Obama has taken $1,180,103 from the top issuers of subprime loans.

2 Obama received $266,907 from Lehman. 3 Obama received $5395 from GMAC. 4 Obama received $150,850 from CS First Boston. 5 Obama received $11,250 from Countrywide. 6 Obama received $9052 from Washington Mutual. 7 Obama received $161,850 from Citigroup. 8 Obama received $4600 from CBASS. 9 Obama received $170,050 from Morgan Stanley. 10 Obama received $1150 from Centex. 11 Obama received $351,900 from Goldman Sachs.

By AJC Management

March 25, 2008 2:33 PM | Link to this

No way!:

Mr. and Mrs. Obambi earned 2.6 million last year and, check this out, gave less than 1 freaking % to charity, 1%.

Oh my, what would Jesus do?

You libs can’t even walk your own talk and what you want to force on every body else.

Sicko little hypocrites.

By getalife

March 25, 2008 2:36 PM | Link to this

Hillary: Wright “Would Not Have Been My Pastor”

Ouch.

By Cataclysm

March 25, 2008 2:46 PM | Link to this

AJC management,

How much did you give last year?

By Bosch

March 25, 2008 2:48 PM | Link to this

Mr. Devil,

And calling Goldie “Moldie” and using the word “Demoncrat” IS showing maturity? Please, again, enough with the hypocritcal bs.

I use the word “sh!t” alot. I don’t consider it foul - it’s just a word. Get over it Puritan.

“Greed has a good bit to do with it and Democrats are every bit as guilty of that as a group as are Republicans”

Okay agree with you there, but then WTF? Oh, by the way, the “F” in WTF, stands for “f***.”

Please, for the love of all things good in this world explain what you mean by this statement:

“In many cases moreso because they believe that EVERYTHING is about money”

By “they” do you seriously mean Democrats?

Are you seriously going to stand by that statement? REALLY????

By hillary

March 25, 2008 2:52 PM | Link to this

obama be a one-eye jack.

one-eye jack don’t beat queen o’hearts.

By The AllahFuerher

March 25, 2008 3:06 PM | Link to this

I picked Obama. he’s the next prez.

There’s nothing else to say. You bloggers are writing the equivalent of, “Bush sure ran a great campaign in 04, and he won, and got delegates and redstates and everything, he did and he was sworn in and he’s president now cause he won and his campaign was good, you know he got delegates and made a speech and said there’s hard work ahead….”

That’s how deep the handcramping you trolls write about Obama/Hillary every day. Obvious, last year’s stories that nobody reads, you’re just like windchimes, with nothing but dingdong.

‘muff dread

By Bosch

March 25, 2008 3:09 PM | Link to this

Can anyone tell me why one of those bank robbing, spoiled brat sluts got prison time and the other one did not?

I’m outraged.

Maybe she found Jesus or something.

I’m outraged.

By ask yourself

March 25, 2008 3:12 PM | Link to this

which candidate is planning to increase government spending by 1.4 billion in govt. entitlement programs.

O-B-A-M-A!

McCain seeks to cut government spending.

Big dif!

By AJC Management

March 25, 2008 3:16 PM | Link to this

{{{{By Cataclysm March 25, 2008 2:46 PM AJC management, How much did you give last year?}}}}

10% as the Lord has instructed me to, dimwit, not counting the ridiculous amount I had to feed into the bureaucracy on top of that.

Given of my own free will and with a glad heart.

Conservatism rocks!

By AmVet

March 25, 2008 3:19 PM | Link to this

Even an intentionally ignorant McCarthyite and “conservative” like {{{{rong wing}}}} is surely old enough to know the what a documentary is!

He feigns humor because he knows it casts his fighter-pilot hero of Alabama and fellow bungling liars (my word) in a very accurate light.

If they had even a scintilla of honor, these hang dog neo-cons would watch it and regret their utterly misguided support of these screw ups.

But I can understand why they still prefer to stick their flat-earth heads in the sand and think of the enormously damning evidence, data and facts presented as nothing more relevant than the tard TV entertainment they adore.

But it really doesn’t matter, because many millions almost certainly did watch, and even those sad sacks who voted for the worst President in US history now surely lament their stupidity.

Bet on it, fools.

By The Devil You Say

March 25, 2008 3:20 PM | Link to this

Bosch - I can tell you why. It is not fair and I am outraged too, but one cooperated with the cops before the other did. That is all. So they cut a deal. The guys behind the scheme got a good bit of time, so at least justice was done then. These poor, stupid peroxided girls sure learned a hard lesson, didn’t they?

By Kindergarten Teacher

March 25, 2008 3:26 PM | Link to this

AmVet - you must have a lot of friends from different backgrounds whom you just love to sit down and talk with on a very high intellectual level, using lost of polysyllabic (more than one syllable) words. I am sure that you neve insult anyone or use language your mother would disapprove of. I am so glad that all of you liberals are so tolerant and open minded.

By Cataclysm

March 25, 2008 3:27 PM | Link to this

AJC,

Well then why don’t you let the Obamas give at their free will instead of judging them Pharisee.

Also, you’re not a tither. I am a tither, I know tithers, Tithers are friends of mine, and you’re no tither!

By Bosch

March 25, 2008 3:28 PM | Link to this

Mr. Devil,

I’m still outraged and disgusted. If my daughter ever did something that stupid, I’d demand the judge lock her away! Just kidding.

But, I’m still outraged and disgusted.

Still sticking by that comment? See my 2:48.

By Cindy

March 25, 2008 3:28 PM | Link to this

Bosch, It might also have to do with the drug charges. One used, the other possessed.

By The Devil You Say

March 25, 2008 3:28 PM | Link to this

ITN - Conservatism is no more dead than are the truth and the yearning of the human spirit to be free!!!!

By The Devil You Say

March 25, 2008 3:33 PM | Link to this

Bosch - the Moldie thing was a typo. I apologize. However, I stick by all others. Please watch your language. It is unnecessary to use curse words. Our language is the richest in the world. Please use more appropriate vocabulary.

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

March 25, 2008 3:34 PM | Link to this

SInce Kindergarten Teacher is simply a member of Little Ricky’s cast of characters…..it’s post at 3:26 is just so much trash.

“Running out of ragheads:” it spews at 8:04

and then

“I am so glad that all of you liberals are so tolerant and open minded.” at 3:26

IT IS THE SAME LOWLIFE.

By Bosch

March 25, 2008 3:35 PM | Link to this

Andy,

The Lord Jesus Christ never told you or anyone else to tithe.

By ask Sweet Fran

March 25, 2008 3:36 PM | Link to this

what she thinks of O-B-A-M-A (his ties to sub-prime lenders.)

Could Senator Obama actually be considering Ms. Pritzker

only to chair to his financial advisory committee is all.

—I’m the person mentioned in the article “Breaking the Bank” published in In These Times, 11/08/02. As of this date I have not been repaid full the amount stolen from me by Penny Pritzker & Superior Bank. To add insult to injury approximately one year after stealing $42 million, the Pritzker family gave a $30 million dollar gift to the University of Chicago. My letters sent to Edgar D.Jannotta, Chairman of the Board of Trustees University of Chicago and other board members asking them to examine their conscience on receiving this money from the same family that stole $42 million dollars from Superior Bank depositors went unacknowledged. I wonder if Michelle Obama was associated with the University of Chicago Board of Directors at during this time?—

By RW-(the original)

March 25, 2008 3:37 PM | Link to this

Blowhard,

A movie isn’t necessarily a documentary film, but a documentary film is in fact a movie. Now if you must split hairs, since that and name calling are all you seem capable of, PBS markets the show as a two part series, so I’ll stipulate that you and the parrot are going to entertain us by discussing a TV show.

Carry on please! I’ve got corn to pop.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Bosch,

The one that got probation only was the first canary to sing and apparently she was very helpful to the investigators.

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

March 25, 2008 3:38 PM | Link to this

I suspect the “Devil you say” ia also Little Ricky.

Geez, what a creep!

By Bosch

March 25, 2008 3:41 PM | Link to this

They BOTH robbed a freaking bank! Okay, not at gunpoint, and the teller was in on it, but still they were both standing there TOGETHER.

I’m outraged.

When I’m in charge, if you rob a bank, you will get automatic prison time. If you shoot someone with malicious intent, you will be hung from the neck until dead from the nearest courthouse tree.

Got it? Everyone remember that.

By The AllahFuerher

March 25, 2008 3:49 PM | Link to this

Hillary’s gaff is bothersome. I watched the live event where she was going on and on about her warzone landing and rush to the car with her head down. SHe even had a retired military guy who was there backing up what she was saying with peripheral anecdotes.

the quickness of the of the swiftboat sinking of that tall tale….how could a sophisticated woman, and such a veteran of politics have been so stupid? I dont get it. There’s something going on, like watergate was the tip of the dirty trick nixon iceberg.

We are leaderless, people.

Hillary, like lincoln, is desperately trying to find a general.

Look no further than me, Hillary. I can still form the language to get you into the whitehouse. I still believe in you, but no more stories.

Just whistle. I’m here. Is there anyone more qualified than me to save your campaign?

By RW-(the original)

March 25, 2008 3:51 PM | Link to this

Newsboy @ 3:34,

As I mentioned before I fully support the AJC publicly confirming or debunking your paranoid delusions and I’m willing to leave the blog forever if I’m lying as long as you’re willing to leave the blog forever if I’m being truthful.

I have only posted today at 1:57, 3:37 and whatever time this one gets around to posting. Do we have a wager?

By Bosch

March 25, 2008 3:52 PM | Link to this

Mr. Devil,

Typo? Please, nice try.

Who says my language is foul? You? Again, get over it Puritan.

Demoncrat? Really mature there.

Since your an ex teacher you MUST know what hyperbole is, which pretty much sums up your posts. Pure hyperbole - not a fact in it, pure exagerration.

How can you possibly write this:

“Greed has a good bit to do with it and Democrats are every bit as guilty of that as a group as are Republicans. In many cases moreso because they believe that EVERYTHING is about money”

Do you not see the complete hypocrisy in that statement? And please, elaborate:

Which cases do Democrats believe this? I’d really like to know.

By AmVet

March 25, 2008 3:53 PM | Link to this

Though never to be misdiagnosed as anything other than a card carrying member of the rabid right wing lunatic fringe, {{{{ricky retardo}}}} (yes, yours truly takes credit for that well-placed moniker) at least offered some marginally useful, if not comedic, information once upon a time.

(Think holes in the fossil record. Or was in wobbles in the earth’s orbit? Or variations in the sun’s temperatures?)

But like the rest of the “conservatives” his game has definitely gone to pot.

Especially since November 2006.

Buy Donut’s departure and {{{{Curly’s}}}} lengthy banishment to the non-blogging nether-world seems to have added to their collective dispirited misery here.

Combined with an endless string of humiliating losses and nearly constant bad news on the national stage for these fake conservatives, it all has pretty much sent them reeling and wondering what the hell has gone so wrong with their master plan.

So is it out of character (or even remarkable) that these courageous paragons of reason would refuse to watch an absolutely factual revelation on the single biggest reason their scandalous “leaders” are getting, and will continue to get decimated?

We all know. The TRUTH would set them free. Free from their self-imposed dementia.

And trust me, things ain’t going to get any rosier for these deluded nut jobs come this November.

By pollo loco

March 25, 2008 3:54 PM | Link to this

moonbat alert, moonbat alert

everyone apply hair nets

in the news and bosch have gone kookoo for cocoa puffs (not the cereal)

By Bosch

March 25, 2008 3:55 PM | Link to this

And Mr. Hypocrit Devil,

If you are so concerned about our rich language, then practice what you preach and use the proper term, “Democrat” not “Demoncrat.”

That’s just petty.

By pollo loco

March 25, 2008 3:58 PM | Link to this

yippee!

it’s documentary time!!

let’s have a “loose change” marathon and have a liberal mind f***.

By Bosch

March 25, 2008 4:00 PM | Link to this

Oh, and if you stab someone with malicious intent, you know, when I’m in charge, you will also be hung by the neck until dead by the nearest courthouse tree.

Just giving people ample warning.

I hate Cocoa Puffs, pollo.

By AJC Management

March 25, 2008 4:01 PM | Link to this

{{{{By Cataclysm March 25, 2008 3:27 PM AJC, Well then why don’t you let the Obamas give at their free will instead of judging them Pharisee.}}}}

Let’s see, because Obambi wants to >>>force<<< We The People to give more money to the bureaucracy so that demokrats can give it to the upper middle class “needy” in exchange for their votes?

Just as long as it isn’t Thee Obambi’s Money, right?

Or the Kennedy’s or Pelosi’d or Reid’s or any other of you demokrat party loving hypocrite hacks (I cannot comment on KKKlintoon’s giving because she won’t release her tax returns, bwa.)

~~~~~

{{{{By Bosch March 25, 2008 3:35 PM |Andy, The Lord Jesus Christ never told you or anyone else to tithe.}}}}

Nonsense:

Hear the Lord’s Word:

“Then give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”

Luke 20:25

“Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will not be exhausted, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there you heart will be also.”

Luke 12:33-34

By AJC Miss Management

March 25, 2008 4:01 PM | Link to this

Andy Zellduhng loves Bush

…Which is shocking, seeing as though Andy’s never been with a woman.

By Midori

March 25, 2008 4:04 PM | Link to this

wow!!

what set Ricky Retardo off?

shoes too tight?

pants legs rising up too far off his ankles??

dog bit him?

By Bosch

March 25, 2008 4:12 PM | Link to this

Andy,

Those say nothing about tithing. Sorry.

Taxing and tithing are two different things.

And many take that first verse as a declaration against authority, specifically the Jews and Romans.

The second verse can be interpreted as just that: “sell your posessions and give to the poor” which gives you intrinsic happiness and therefore a richer life.

or

your earthly posessions mean nothing, but treating your fellow man who has it worse off than you with a little kindness is a good thing.

Either way, no tithing. Jesus never said it.

By The AllahFuerher

March 25, 2008 4:13 PM | Link to this

RW = Ricky Wetardo

Wicky Wetardo. See, even retards with a speech impediment know that RW is wicky wetardo.

RW, you dont have to prove yourself. I’m glad you’re happy. Stay happy. Blog on. Nobody is out to get you or flame you.

this blog is simply a blog. the usual cast. you dont have to leave, forever, or stay or anything.

Just B U. That’s fine.

RW, how did Hillary let herself make up that story about the sniper fire? How could that happen? I’m really off balance about it. It’s too big a gaff she had military guys there backing her up. This one got to me. your thoughts?

dont be nervous just because I’m the AllahFuerher

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

March 25, 2008 4:22 PM | Link to this

Midori and AMvet

Ricky Retardo gets his jockies in a wad whenever we discuss his multiple personality disorder.

He seems to think we haven’t figured out that he is 80% of the wing nuts here!

I mean REALLY could it be any more obvious!

By Bosch

March 25, 2008 4:24 PM | Link to this

Sorry Andy,

You know, maybe he did. I’ve never read it in the Bible - those verses mean something totally different to me. My apologies.

By moonbat betty

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

I love canned posts

I love Amvet’s post.

I always said if you got something good, put it in a can and sell it. Sell it hard. Build it and they will come.

Well that’s just what Amvet has done.

Built an empire off his canned post he has.

It’s like one of those songs that suck that wind up stuck in your head all day.

Thank you Amvet.

By The AllahFuerher

March 25, 2008 4:30 PM | Link to this

Wicky Wetardo is on every blog. All Blogs have their main troll. It doesn’t matter. a comment is a comment. I think it’s worse to care about the reputation of your own ID when most of what you write under that ID is so unreadable and stinks so bad, that who cares if someone impersonates you or flames you?

So what?

Besides, I got bigger problems than you or I, I’ve got writer’s block.

When I get it, nobody does nothing, get it? Good then drop it.

‘muff dread

By AmVet

March 25, 2008 4:31 PM | Link to this

The “collateral damage” from Bushco as revealed in “Bush’s War” is pretty shocking.

Even the stand up guy, Colin Powell, is at one point in “the game” reduced to a combat hardened dupe (in his defense he was lied to often), as he read for his overseers that speech at the UN, knowing full well it was chock full of intentional misrepresentations and outright mistruths.

I still hold him in relatively high regard though, as he is obviously as different from that neo-con coward Cheney as could possibly be. And at least he did the semi-honorable thing and left that clusterf&ck of an administration pretty early in “the game”.

I just wished he had subsequently and forcefully spoken out about how the nation was gulled by these deadly Republican nut jobs. Maybe he will yet.

Condi, as you can imagine is like her Texas buddy boss, in WAY, WAY over her head, and was about as useful in the process leading up the invasion as t!ts on a bull. As NSA she was SUPPOSED to quarterback the different agencies, etc, but nobody would even talk to her.

And she did such a heckuva job, the birdbrain-in-chief promoted her to Sec of State!

But it is Dickhead Cheney and Donald Scumsfeld who should be tried as traitors for doing everything in their power to, and succeeding in, burying ANY AND ALL information from the CIA, FBI or ANYBODY else that ran even slightly counter to what they wanted to hear and say.

A disgraceful abuse of power.

And we have 4000 flagged-draped coffins because of these “patriots”.

By Caesar

March 25, 2008 4:32 PM | Link to this

Render unto Caesar…Thanks for the taxes. I’m glad my citizens give to me more willing, and with Christ’s blessing, than those conservatives in the USA.

By AmVet

March 25, 2008 4:33 PM | Link to this

betty, your knickers are all twisted just because I mentioned Buy Danish, aren’t they?

I know you have a sapphic thing for her.

NOT that there’s anything wrong with that!

Look, you’re not the only one here that misses her, missy…

By Bosch

March 25, 2008 4:36 PM | Link to this

AmVet,

I still have a lot of respect for Colin Powell. He is a true gentleman and a true military man. I’ve heard him in interviews since departing, and he is too good to just come out and bash Bush, but he definitely gets his point across.

By RW-(the original)

March 25, 2008 4:37 PM | Link to this

Newsboy,

I didn’t think you’d have the nerve to put your theory to the test. Must be sad having this blog as your whole life and not daring to risk it. Feel free to go back to obsessing over me and never growing the stones to seek the truth.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Polly,

I think Hillary should probably have said she was confusing the trip with one she made into Baghdad in 2003 where there really was corkscrewing planes and small arms fire in the neighborhood. It wouldn’t be a great story, but it would be an improvement over her excuse that she’s human so she misspoke once in 12 years. Especially because she “misspoke” the same lie on February 29th and March 17th.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I think I’ll go hit the track for about five miles. I sure hope this discussion of the TV show gets a little more interesting by the time I get back.

By Bosch

March 25, 2008 4:39 PM | Link to this

You know ITN,

I broke one of my own cardinal rules - I told Andy what something means, and man, I hate it when people do that to me.

If that’s what it means to Andy, then that’s what it means to Andy.

By Bosch

March 25, 2008 4:41 PM | Link to this

Amvet,

Chuckle, chuckle - “sapphic” I’ll have to remember that adjective. Good one.

By AJC Management

March 25, 2008 4:45 PM | Link to this

{{{{By Bosch March 25, 2008 4:24 PM Sorry Andy, You know, maybe he did. I’ve never read it in the Bible - those verses mean something totally different to me. My apologies.}}}}

Bosch: This one should leave no doubts:

Hear the Lord’s Word:

“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a >>tenth<< of your spices—…. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness. >>>You should have practiced the latter<<<, without neglecting the former.”

Matthew 23:23

By Bosch

March 25, 2008 4:53 PM | Link to this

Andy,

Sorry, but that verse means, to me, that Jesus is actually criticizing the Jewish system of tithing. He is criticizing the system for caring MORE about tithing than for the people.

But that’s just me. If that means to tithe to you, then far be it for me to say different.

Right on.

By the way, the Bosch’s tithe alot. The other Bosch is pretty insistent.

By IN THE (Hussein) NEWS

March 25, 2008 4:54 PM | Link to this

Bosch,

Andy/RW is just like a boil on the butt…..irritating

however, eventually it will dry up and go away!

I understand your consternation over telling IT what something means, been there, done that, myself with all IT’s characters. I abhor it when IT tells me what I think too.

It’s particularly annoying when what somebody thinks something means - isn’t even close to the dictionary definition…..

You do good work here Bosch, IT’s whole purpose is to be a disruption(repeatedly over and over every day), yours is to bring rational thought.

By AJC Management

March 25, 2008 5:12 PM | Link to this

{{{{By DHIMMI THE (Hussein) NEWS March 25, 2008 4:54 PM You do good work here Bosch, IT’s whole purpose is to be a disruption(repeatedly over and over every day), yours is to bring rational thought.}}}}

I know, wouldn’t it be sweet if you could just in here all day and hate on America with out interruption?

I almost feel bad about “disrupting” your dimwit goony pinko propaganda festival.

Almost.

Mouth breather.

By AmVet

March 25, 2008 5:48 PM | Link to this

{{{{Curly}}}},

People here don’t hate America.

They just hate you.

No, just kidding.

They love ya man.

By @@

March 25, 2008 5:50 PM | Link to this

(((>>>And trust me,<<< things ain’t going to get any rosier for these deluded nut jobs)))

Good grief AmVet, can’t you keep your personal endeavors to yourself.

You, Rosey, and your diluted nads should get a room.

By AmVet

March 25, 2008 5:58 PM | Link to this

There’s my widdle boobs at 5:50!

Finally, she crawls out from under the kitchen cabinets! (Must be getting dark).

Read my 5:48, boobs.

And drop the last sentence.

By AJC Management

March 25, 2008 5:58 PM | Link to this

Uh, like I was saying:

{{{{Periods of intense news media coverage in the United States of criticism about the war, or of polling about public opinion on the conflict, are followed by a small but quantifiable increases in the number of attacks on civilians and U.S. forces in Iraq, according to a study by Radha Iyengar, a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in health policy research at Harvard and Jonathan Monten of the Belfer Center at the university’s Kennedy School of Government.}}}}

{{{{The increase in attacks is more pronounced in areas of Iraq that have better access to international news media, the authors conclude in a report titled “Is There an ‘Emboldenment’ Effect? Evidence from the Insurgency in Iraq.”}}}}

{{{{In Iraqi provinces that were broadly comparable in social and economic terms, attacks increased between 7 percent and 10 percent following what the researchers call “high-mention weeks,” like the two just before the November 2006 election.}}}}

Pinko propaganda kills American soldiers.

You should be so proud of yourselves.

By Bosch

March 25, 2008 5:58 PM | Link to this

Mr. Devil,

“You, Rosey, and your diluted nads should get a room”

And comments like this shows a great deal of maturity.

Gross, @@. Seriously.

By Jesus

March 25, 2008 6:00 PM | Link to this

Don’t confuse tithing with salvation.

Or a Get Out of Jail Free card to rape and pillage anyone or anything.

One of the worst things to happen to Christianity (OK, other than having it co-opted by a bunch of greedy warmongers) is the concept of Bountiful Blessings. Christianity isn’t a portal to riches beyond belief—not in this life at least.

By AmVet

March 25, 2008 6:12 PM | Link to this

I’ve been thinking lately how “conservatives” and aliens are eerily similar.

(Cue up The Outer Limits music).

For many years, we’ve heard of UFO sightings and even alien abductions. Thousands of them!

But to this day, there is not one scintilla of cold hard evidence that they exist.

Is it possible?

I know this is hard to conceive, much less believe, but maybe, JUST maybe, the conservatives ARE aliens!

Think about it! you never see them in the same photo at the same time!!!

OHMIGOD!!!

By getalife

March 25, 2008 6:16 PM | Link to this

w’s lies and occupation are killing our troops.

China is shooting monks and nuns, all hell is breaking loose again in Iraq, Mcbushie said nothing about the billions wasted on Bearns, Clinton is on the attack while BO cut and ran to the beach.

By RW-(the original)

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

Well just darn. I was so looking forward to that TV show discussion, but I guess it would never work since somebody would have to say something first for the parrot to mimic.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Among the most horrific objects retrieved by Badawi and his team from the notorious torture rooms of the mukhabarat, and now included in the museum, is a wooden table covered in a worn strip of leather and with a domestic iron placed at one end.

{{{{{“This is an electrocution table,” Badawi said.}}}}}

{{{{{“The naked prisoner was bound to the table with a steel bar strapped to his shoulder” to ensure maximum immobility as his torturers electrocuted him or used the iron to inflict burns, Badawi said.}}}}}

{{{{{Electric shocks were delivered via electrodes attached to a plastic syringe, the needle of which “was inserted into the urethra of the victim’s sexual organ,” Badawi added. “The pain was atrocious.”}}}}}

{{{{{Videos of torture sessions are also screened in a basement room. Terrified prisoners can be seen being beaten, having their arms and legs broken and being thrown from rooftops or blown up with explosives}}}}}

That’s what you’re cheerleading for, but keep on believing Bush is the evil one.

By getalife

March 25, 2008 6:29 PM | Link to this

“New Petraeus plan allows Bush to punt Iraq to successor.”

The coward cut and run from his occupation.

Daddy can’t clean up this disaster but Clinton will.

Pathetic.

By moonbat betty

March 25, 2008 6:29 PM | Link to this

“I’ve been thinking lately how “conservatives” and aliens are eerily similar.

(Cue up The Outer Limits music).”

Amvet, don’t think.

Stick to the canned musak.

It’s what the moonbats dig.

bam da lam

By AmVet

March 25, 2008 6:36 PM | Link to this

{{{ricky retardo}}}}, Bush isn’t evil you dipsh!t!

He’s just a lying deadly bumbler. And his administration a cancer on this nation. There’s a HUGE difference.

I’m sure in his delusional “conservative” mind he REALLY believes he is doing what is best for the USA.

And amazingly, there are still a handful of useful idiots like you who trust him.

There are so many great moments in the film, it is hard to know which ones to quote:

Even David Frum, a staunch Bush apologist admitted, “I don’t know if he understood fully and foresaw fully the true radicalism.” And if Saddam is the magnetic pole toward which your compass needle invariably points, you will see aluminum tubes, Nigerien yellowcake, and germ warfare wherever you look.

Even when it doesn’t exist.

Reality - neo-con style…

By @@

March 25, 2008 6:36 PM | Link to this

(((Gross, @@. Seriously.)))

Really now? Good, because no serious discussion has taken place on this site in a month or longer.

In your own ^^^ words….

“Get over it puritan.”

Consider it safe sex education for The ShamVet, and a leftist such as yourself will find it acceptable.

By AmVet

March 25, 2008 6:40 PM | Link to this

Dammit betty!

Who do you think I am?

Some sort of blogging Nuke LaLoosh? And I guess you favor yourself a suave and handsome Crash Davis telling me, “Don’t think meat.”

Harrrumph.

By moonbat betty

March 25, 2008 6:48 PM | Link to this

no amvet,

think spam

you’ll make IN THE NEWS very very happy

it’s the other pink meat.

By AmVet

March 25, 2008 6:54 PM | Link to this

So now the esteemed @@ is the arbiter of “serious discussions”.

Gadzooks!

Let all run out and subscribe to Stratfor!!!

Seriously, @@, what part of “Bush’s War” did you find the most compelling?

And there’s no need for the self-imposed ignorant silence now.

The secret is all out.

betty,

There’s ANOTHER pink meat???!!!

Man, I don’t know if I can trust you anymore.

Next, you’ll be asking me to believe you’ve never eaten red snapper before, homie.

By RW-(the original)

March 25, 2008 6:59 PM | Link to this

And if you’ve got a raging case of open sored BDS you’ll sees lies and deception, just to bully a peaceful goat farmer named Saddam, under every frame of celluloid. Like Blowhard!

Then again BDS sells, so who am I too interrupt the capitalistic ventures of those that willingly take your cash and laugh at you as they make the deposit.

Besides, Bush is all in all a fine President when it comes to International policy, but he’s no conservative as you can tell by his trying to out Democrat the Democrats when it comes to spending and amnesty issues.

By Bosch

March 25, 2008 6:59 PM | Link to this

Hmmmm -

Would I rather my children use “curse” words based on a Puritanical sense of what is right or wrong or make crude comments about an ex-veteran’s genitalia?

Oh, I know, I’d rather them “cuss.”

@@,

Care to have a serious conversation about that?

By Bosch

March 25, 2008 7:03 PM | Link to this

RW,

You think Bush is a good president in regards to international policy?

Maybe we can talk about this tomorrow since time is the enemy here.

By AmVet

March 25, 2008 7:08 PM | Link to this

{{{{Besides, Bush is all in all a fine President when it comes to International policy}}}}

Not merely the stupidest comment today, this week or this year.

Perhaps the single most moronic, delusional thing ever written on a political blog.

EVER.

Hat tip to retardo.

By RW-(the original)

March 25, 2008 7:09 PM | Link to this

“Her securing the nomination is certainly possible - but it will require exercising the ‘Tonya Harding option.’” the official said. “Is that really what we Democrats want?”

{{{{In this metaphor, presumably, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., would be Oksana Baiul. Does that make former President Bill Clinton Jeff Gillooly?}}}}

By Bosch

March 25, 2008 7:10 PM | Link to this

Ooops! I guess always a veteran always a veteran, there’s no such thing as an “ex-veteran.”

By RW-(the original)

March 25, 2008 7:26 PM | Link to this

Bosch,

Sure I’ll discuss that comment with you if my schedule permits. Unlike the rumors spread by Spammaster Dumbazz I very rarely have time to post here anymore.

Blowhard,

I’m sure to a live for today, incurious fool like you that comment seemed absurd. I would expect nothing less of an egotistical simpleton that can’t see beyond the end of their nose. It’s not a static world, Blowhard, and tough decisions can’t be made properly by thinking it is.

By Ray Steffens

March 27, 2008 12:38 PM | Link to this

The only thing that would have made this better would have been the husband correcting his wife with a comment such as “Honey we’re watching “The Terminator”” Or “Her next run will be for Governator”…

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