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Home > Opinion > Mike Luckovich > Archives > 2008 > June > 25 > Entry

Only hope

By Mike Luckovich | Wednesday, June 25, 2008, 07:13 AM

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By AJC/DNC Management

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

I saw yesterday that my local bookstore was selling the AJC in the fiction section.

I nearly fell out in laughter.

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You just know the libs are grasping for straws when this is one of their excuses for not drilling our own oil:

{{{{Other local leaders point to another issue that has long been a concern here: that the rigs might interfere with training at several large area military bases, which operate an offshore test range where pilots practice their gunnery skills.-Urinal/PMS}}}}

Heavens to Betsy! Interfere with our military!

And look at how utterly and hopelessly dim these liberals at the AJC really are:

{{{{Gas prices drive new look at drilling in Gulf, but >>foes<< (probably one person with a fax machine and the Urinal) say tourism trade can’t be risked.-Urinal/DHIMMI}}}}

How are the tourists supposed to get to the beach if they can’t afford the gas?

Geez.

So, ask yourself, why do the dhimmokrats want to keep your energy costs so high?

I pray for you America.

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Aahhh, yes, the world hates Bushie:

{{{{More troops likely for Afghanistan-Urinal/POS}}}}

I’m sorry, you have to get by the Urinal scare headline first, they are trying to make their dimwit readership think WE are sending more troops to Afghanistan.

{{{{Increase of 1,000 German soldiers requires approval-Urinal}}}}

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Queen Pinko wants to play association games this morning, for her scumbag hater readership:

{{{{While the Senate has a reputation for respectful proceedings and close friendships, regardless of ideology, the House is more combative. Think Newt Gingrich. Think Cynthia McKinney.-Urinal/POS}}}}

I by no means like Newt Gingrich, he has good ideas and then he has bad ones, but to associate him with a stone cold POS like McKinney, that is just sick.

But then again, what would you expect from Cynthia Tucker, an ideologue on par with……Pat Buchanan.

By IN THE NEWS

June 25, 2008 8:11 AM | Link to this

IS McCAIN JUST PHONING IT IN?

Is McCain even trying? Part 455 by kos Tue Jun 24, 2008 at 02:55:20 PM PDT He’s proposing things he knows won’t make a difference, then admits it:

At a town hall in Fresno, CA, McCain admitted that the offshore drilling proposal he unveiled last week would probably have mostly “psychological” benefits, NBC/NJ’s Adam Aigner-Treworgy notes. “Even though it may take some years, the fact that we are exploiting those reserves would have psychological impact that I think is beneficial.”

In other words, “It won’t do s** for you, but it’ll make you feel like something is being done.” That’s not beneficial. In fact, it’s the exact opposite of beneficial.

THAT’S CHANGE A WINGNUT CAN BELIEVE IN! AND THEY DO???!@&#%

By reebok

June 25, 2008 8:15 AM | Link to this

McFossil is toast, and he knows it already.

By IN THE NEWS

June 25, 2008 8:16 AM | Link to this

Justice for Sale: How Big Tobacco and the GOP teamed up to crush Democrats in the South…..Almost immediately after his appointment as US Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi in late 2001, Dunnica Lampton began to investigate key Mississippi Democrats. …..

DO I SMELL A SIEGELMAN?

SINCE WHEN DID POLITICAL PROSECUTION/PERSECUTION BECOME PART OF TRUTH JUSTICE AND THE AMERICAN WAY?

OH, NEVERMIND, IT HAPPENED WHEN GEORGE W. BUSH TOOK THE OATH OF OFFICE, SWORE TO PROTECT AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION TO THE BEST OF HIS ABILITIES.

SOME ABILTY HEY?

By Obama Mania

June 25, 2008 8:21 AM | Link to this

Why don’t we ever hear Obama talk about the specifics on his policy proposals? All he ever seems to talk about are existential topics like his church and a flag pin. I wonder why. Is is because he doesn’t really want the truth about his proposals to come out? I suspect it is.

By I love taxes

June 25, 2008 8:27 AM | Link to this

Last week, Barack Obama revealed his plan to shore up Social Security’s shaky finances by raising the income level on which the payroll tax is applied. Currently, incomes above $102,000 are exempt, with that threshold rising every year indexed to wage inflation. Mr. Obama would keep that limit in place, but then assess payroll taxes on incomes above $250,000, which his campaign claims would apply to only the richest 3% of Americans.

Mr. Obama angered liberals last year when he admitted that there was a “Social Security crisis.” But at least Mr. Obama’s base should be appeased now that his solution to the “crisis” is to soak the rich. One liberal columnist actually noted with glee the fact that this would take us back to top tax rates not seen since the 1970s.

According to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, Mr. Obama’s new tax would siphon off 0.4% of gross domestic product annually. Combined with Mr. Obama’s other tax-hike initiatives, “the total tax on labor would be close to 60 percent. In high-tax states like California and New York, the top rate would be even higher.”

Would it help Social Security’s financing problems? Mr. Obama has no idea. One of his senior economic advisers admitted to me that no one on the campaign has run any detailed models or performed any rigorous analysis. When one proposes an enormous tax increase, shouldn’t there at least be a spreadsheet somewhere?

By IN THE NEWS

June 25, 2008 8:30 AM | Link to this

Dear Maniac:

Let us help you into the light….

Start here

Then move here

That is, of course if you are telling the truth about really wanting to know…..

By Mania

June 25, 2008 8:34 AM | Link to this

In the news…Thanks. I was refering to why he doesn’t ever talk about specifics when speaking in public? It seems to me that he focuses on feel good themes, but never tells us how he is going to pay for anything (other than tax the rich, which is very vague).

By IN THE NEWS

June 25, 2008 8:39 AM | Link to this

Two new characters so early in the day!!

and at 8:27 it’s stolen it’s post word for word from Donald Luskin….

you are going to have to work a little harder dude….

you just callin’ it in too?

By Politics Aside

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

Luckovich doesn such a funny caracature of McCain that I almost hope he wins.

Okay, lets look at the odds of another 911 before the election. The timing is right. It could happen on Sept 11. But it also could happen on 711, because that’s where all the islamic sleeper cell guys work now. Have you noticed? All the Quickstops have swarthy arab guys. The arabs have an amazing sense of humor, and very little respect for anything or anyone. I tried to buy a 69 cent piece of beef jerky with my titanium visa yesterday, and the arab guy goes, “Dont you have any change? It will take me 90 days to get this 69 cents if I charge it on your visa card, big shot. It’s almost cheaper for me to let you steal it, except I’d have to waste a 3 dollar bullet. Now get out o’here.”

“Well!” I said, as the impatient lady behind me rolled her eyes and said, “Aww Haw”. Tears started flowing down my cheeks as I slowly made my way through all the eager shoppers with their dollar bills and correct change.

711 is dead ahead. I think we need to go to Big Red alert! ($1.29)

By Copyleft

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

Mania: Because public speeches aren’t about going over policy details. They’re about making impressive speeches that stir the emotions. The American public have made it VERY clear that they’re not interested in specifics.

Gore tried addressing policy specifics, and the response was unanimous: “booooring!” That’s not what the mobs want to hear. Intelligent voters will do their own research; the public-forum mobs just want to cheer and shout. Every campaign manager knows that.

By IN THE NEWS

June 25, 2008 8:46 AM | Link to this

Maniac

than I can only assume, you don’t know how to use the “google”

are you one of those couch potatoes who aspires to being freedom fries?

By Goldie

June 25, 2008 8:49 AM | Link to this

Yep, it’s pretty sad about the state of the Repug Party today — they’re so desperate to win at any cost, they’ll even wish that NYC gets hit by Bin Laden again before November — that’ll show those voters that McBush is the guy! HUH?

Exactly how does the Repug Party think that another terrorist attack will help them, when they’re supposed to be so good at “keeping us safe” in America? It’s all too evident that their policies are what is bankrupting America today and they are in no way keeping us safe!

By Mania

June 25, 2008 8:54 AM | Link to this

I have researched both candidates quite extensively for my own personal knowledge. My question is why has he chosen not to address specifics. Is it because he doesn’t think people want to hear them? Is it because he doesn’t want people to know what his proposals cost, etc? This isn’t meant as a flame, I really just wanted to see what other people thought.

By Goldie

June 25, 2008 8:55 AM | Link to this

{{Intelligent voters will do their own research;}}

Copyleft @ 8:42 — I believe you’ve summed up the exact reason that many trolls keep asking for policy specifics… they apparently can’t spell some website names or how to do The Google.

By IN THE NEWS

June 25, 2008 8:57 AM | Link to this

To his fans he’s a lovable patriot with a maverick streak. But to his critics he’s an anti-abortion Creationist who surrounds himself with religious extremists. Paul Harris uncovers the dark side of John McCain….Away from the headlines and the stirring speeches, a less familiar figure lurks. It is a McCain who plans to fight on in Iraq for years to come and who might launch military action against Iran. This is the McCain whose campaign and career has been riddled with lobbyists and special interests. It is a McCain who has sided with religious and political extremists who believe Islam is evil and gays are immoral. It is a McCain who wants to appoint extreme conservatives to the Supreme Court and see abortion banned. This McCain has a notoriously volatile temper that has scared some senior members of his own party. If McCain becomes the most powerful man in the world it would be wise to know what lies behind his public mask, to look at the dark side of John McCain…..Take one of McCain’s closest aides and senior counsel, Charlie Black. For decades he worked as one of the most powerful lobbyists in Washington DC. His firm represented some of the most unpleasant dictators in modern history, among them the Philippines’ Ferdinand Marcos and Zaire’s kleptomaniac president Joseph Mobutu. Then there’s Rick Davis, McCain’s campaign manager, the man leading the effort to capture the White House. Davis, too, has been a top lobbyist. His firm’s clients ranged from Ukrainian billionaire Rinat Akhmetov to telecoms giants such as Comsat and Verizon…. But Black and Davis are far from alone. McCain’s staff was so riddled with lobbyists that at least four have resigned because of their contacts and businesses. They included Doug Goodyear, McCain’s convention chairman, whose company was paid to improve the image of Burma’s brutal dictatorship.

By Politics Aside

June 25, 2008 9:08 AM | Link to this

Mania: “I will raise taxes. He wont tell you, I just did”.

That was Mondale being specific about an issue in the 1984 campaign. Google the electoral college results for that year in the wake of that statement, sir.

‘muff said

By Copyleft

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

Mania: If you’ve done your own research, you’ve seen that both McLame and Obama DO address specifics—just not in media-friendly soundbites and public speeches. They address them in papers and web-site content.

And that’s for the same reason that cable news doesn’t cover a lot of economic stories (other than consumer prices); because they don’t make good TV.

By Lobby

June 25, 2008 9:12 AM | Link to this

Do people really buy into Obama’s no lobbyist claims? Do you think he will tell special interests groups to stop running ads on his behalf? Will he stop union’s, Moveon, and groups like planned parenthood from smearing the other candidate? The gleeful ignorance on this subject amazes me. Almost as much as the joke that is campaign finance. For years Dems decried money involved in the political process. And now that they finally have a candidate that has more money than the Rep, they stay silent when Obama effectively kills public financing.

By @@

June 25, 2008 9:15 AM | Link to this

August 23, 2007. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton raised the prospect of a terror attack before next year’s election, warning that it could boost the GOP’s efforts to hold on to the White House.

So what’s the difference ml?

Whoops! I forgot….Hillary was one of yours.

Black’s words matter but Hillary’s don’t?

Well I’ll be…..Republicans are calling for an investigation, and it’s long overdue.

Republicans have largely looked the other way as ACORN has expanded its government-funded empire. But finally, a few conservative voices in Congress have called for investigation of the group’s apparent extortion schemes. This week, GOP Reps. Tom Feeney, Jeb Hensarling and Ed Royce called on Democrat Barney Frank, chair of the House Financial Services Committee, to convene a hearing to probe potential illegalities and abuse of taxpayer funds by ACORN’s management and minions alike.

Where does the candidate of Hope and Change — the candidate of Reform and New Politics — stand on the issue? Barack Obama, ACORN’s senator, is for more of the same old, same old subsidizing of far-left politics in the name of fighting for the poor while enriching ideological cronies. It’s the Chicago way.

They bring a knive, we’ll bring the gun so they can shoot Obama in the foot.

Obama cut his political teeth working with Acorn. Sink your MOLErs into this Senator:

(((In March, Philadelphia elections officials accused the nonprofit advocacy group of filing fraudulent voter registrations in advance of the April 22nd Pennsylvania primary. The charges have been forwarded to the city district attorney’s office.)))

(((Last July, ACORN settled the largest case of voter fraud in the history of Washington State. Seven ACORN workers had submitted nearly 2,000 bogus voter registration forms. According to case records, they flipped through phone books for names to use on the forms, including “Leon Spinks,” “Frekkie Magoal” and “Fruto Boy Crispila.” Three ACORN election hoaxers pleaded guilty in October. A King County prosecutor called ACORN’s criminal sabotage “an act of vandalism upon the voter rolls.”)))

By AJC/DNC Management

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

{{{{By IN THE NEWS June 25, 2008 8:39 AM Two new characters so early in the day!!}}}}}

I’m just curious, how come none of you hack liberals ever question if this lame mofo has life, why is it always just me that gets harassed?

I make one post early and then most times you will not hear from me again until 5 o’clock, this dimwit cut and paste artist stays up in here 24/7, one eyeball on the Huffington Post, the other eye on Yahoo “News,” furiously slamming the blog with idiocy that anyone can get, if they want, by going directly to the Huff and Puff.

How pitiful.

But the libs whine about me.

I’m so damn good it justs seems like I’m here all the time, don’t it?

Buh-bye.

By Bosch

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

Mania,

Both candidates have given their speeches and outlined their positions on the issues. Critics of Obama ask for specifics, while ignoring the fact that McCain hasn’t spelled out specifics either.

No candidate ever does that, and to expect it of Obama and ignore it in McCain is rather dishonest.

But to be fair, pick an issue and we’ll see what each candidate has to say about it.

By Soothsayer

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

This was posted late yesterday afternoon and I think bears repeating. My apologies to the original poster—I can’t remember who you were.

Three basic questions:

1) If it was not for US oil dependence, would we have invaded Iraq in the early 1990’s to save Kuwait from Iraq, or would we even care what happens between middle eastern countries? No

2) If we had not invaded Iraq in the 1990’s (including building a military base in Saudia Arabia to support that attack), would terrorists have attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon? No

3) Without the terrorist attacks, would Bush have had the justification to invade Iraq for the oil and rich Haliburton contracts? No

The problem we have with the middle east is US foreign oil dependence. Take away oil and the middle east is just a backwater part of the world that could go to Hell and we would not care.

We could take the money that has been spent to wage the war and invest it in US education and infrastructure to make this a better country for us all to live in.

And everyone could live in it rather than die in the middle east, or live their lives with debilitating war injuries.

I wish Bush had served in Viet Nam. People who have been in a war are aware of its horrors and will not be too quick to send others into one.

By MorningStar

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

Great toon Mike. The media is going to try to demonize Michelle Obama, just as they did Hillary. I hope Michelle Obama is a strong woman, and I believe she is!!!

By Obama Mania June 25, 2008 8:21 AM Why don’t we ever hear Obama talk about the specifics on his policy proposals? All he ever seems to talk about are existential topics like his church and a flag pin. I wonder why

I think he’s been specific regarding policies, and much more will come. Discussion about church and a flag pin? Oh well, our so-called LIBERAL (LOL) media seems to major on the minor such as a flag pin for goshsakes. He’d better address these issues, lest he be swiftboated. Remember John Kerry et al thought some of the cr@* being brought out was so stupid anyone in their right mind would know it was untrue. Well guess what, nothing is so stupid it will not be digested by the masses, if it’s repeated enough times.

By I love taxes June 25, 2008 8:27 AM Mr. Obama angered liberals last year when he admitted that there was a “Social Security crisis.” But at least Mr. Obama’s base should be appeased now that his solution to the “crisis” is to soak the rich.

What needs to be done in this instance is LEAVE THE SOCIAL SECURITY FUND alone. Both sides have been guilty of ‘borrowing’ from SS to SOAK something else. Cutting taxes on the rich when we were involved in the Iraq catastrophe was a real hoot….fix this one…

By Copyleft June 25, 2008 8:42 AM The American public have made it VERY clear that they’re not interested in specifics.

It appears the American public has been making it clear they don’t want business as usual in Washington.

By IN THE NEWS

June 25, 2008 9:31 AM | Link to this

””“I’m just curious, how come none of you hack liberals ever question if this lame mofo has life, why is it always just me that gets harassed?”“”

Because you are also RW

Because you are also Mad as Zell

Because of your long history of being McMultiname you are generally considereed untrustworthy.

Because you use the word urinal way too much, also pervert pinko and POS

Because often your posts are nasty, disgusting filth laden diatribes that appear to be the writing of a lunatic in the mold of the unabomber!

Because you and your other identities whine about sources constantly but seldom worry about truth.

Because,we just aren’t that into you!

By Copyleft

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

By the way, the “Only hope” theme int he cartoon is misleading. It assumes that McLame is seriously TRYING to win the presidency, when he knows he’s just the sacrificial candidate this year.

I mean, ‘cmon: does AYONE on McLame’s staff honestly think they have a shot?

By Politics Aside

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

This whole economic and geo-political oil price nightmare is caused by the Axles of Weasels: GM, Ford, and Chrysler, and their lobbied success in not improving our legislated MPG requirements. They weaseled their way out of it.

That’s treason. I say we prosecute the CEO’s and anyone directly responsible for it.

Let’s destroy the Axles of Weasels!!

Lets destroy the Axles of Weasels!!

Uh, that’d be gm,ford, and chrysler CEO’s and upper mgt and the lobbyist they bribed and anyone else I hate.

By Politics Aside

June 25, 2008 10:22 AM | Link to this

Destroy the Axles of Weasels! (they’re shouting it in cleveland. they’re shouting it in miami)

We could be using HALF the gasoline we use if GM, FORD and CHRYSLER had obeyed our legislation.

That’s a fact.

Destroy the Axles of Weasel. Tell everyone you know. Start an chain email! Yell it out your windows!!

Destroy the Axles of Weasel!!!

By @@

June 25, 2008 10:26 AM | Link to this

(((Currently, American affairs in Iran are handled by the Swiss Embassy, without U.S. diplomats present. Under full diplomatic relations, which this new deal still would not be, the United States would have an embassy and ambassador in Tehran, and the Iranians would have one in Washington. This is a step short of diplomatic recognition. U.S. diplomats would be present in Tehran — and Iranians in Washington — but likely working under the auspices of the Swiss and Pakistani Embassies, which house their respective interest sections presently. The United States has this sort of arrangement with Cuba. It allows diplomatic presence and representation without full recognition.)))

(((Today the United States is not offering diplomatic exchanges. While it said it might offer them, the United States emphasized its division on the subject. U.S. diplomatic translation: “We’d like to exchange diplomats but if you say no, we never asked.” The Iranians quickly replied that if asked, they might agree. Iranian diplomatic translation: “Ask and we’ll say yes.” The speed of the Iranian response is telling. They were not surprised by the request. Their answer was ready. Which means, as one would expect, they were sounded out before.)))

(((So on Friday it appeared that the world was on the verge of war between Israel and Iran, with the United States supporting Israel. By late Monday, the United States was proposing raising the level of diplomatic relations and the Iranians were indicating that they were open to it. In our mind this reinforces the idea that the careful leaking of putative Israeli war games was part of a “bad cop, somewhat better cop” routine, designed to work the Iranians psychologically. They were offered the choice between Israeli air strikes or improving diplomatic relations. The second offer sounded much better than the first.)))

Behind-the-scenes diplomacy.

It’s all about a strong face. There’ll be egg on Obama’s and the dems.

Of course it could turn on a dime and the liberals can go back to pithin’ in their britches over a war with Iran.

By Politics Aside

June 25, 2008 10:59 AM | Link to this

We pay $4 because of the quibbling and lobbying done by the big three automakers to weasel out of the legislated increases in fleet MPG.

Gm, Ford, and chrylser are the Axles of Weasels and must be forced to comply with our legislated MPG!!!

Obama 08: 4 the access of people to prosecute the axles of weasels who dance to the axis of evil’s tune.

By TW

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

Anybody heard anything about ExxonMobil coming through with a monetary thank you for the families of our lost soldiers?

By getalife

June 25, 2008 11:22 AM | Link to this

TW,

They should but the SC just tossed out the settlement for the Exxon Valdez accident.

Said it was too high.

By getalife

June 25, 2008 11:28 AM | Link to this

“McCain Last Night: World War III Would Justify A Draft”

Bombing Iran will start WWIII with China and Russia.

They will protect their oil interests in Iran.

So, if you want your kids to die in massive numbers, by all means, vote for this tortured soul.

By AJC/DNC Management

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

{{{{

NEGATIVE ATTITUDES toward environmentalists are also at an all-time high, as gas prices soar and more Americans become aware of the caribou-environmentalist axis that’s keeping us from getting at those 86 billion barrels of oil. If it were up to the average SUV driver, Greenpeace and the Sierra Club would be classified as terrorist organizations.}}}}

Uh, I’m always ahead of the curve.

By Politics Aside

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

We pay $4 because of the quibbling and lobbying done by the big three automakers to weasel out of the legislated increases in fleet MPG.

Gm, Ford, and chrylser are the Axles of Weasels and must be forced to comply with our legislated MPG!!!

Obama 08: 4 the access of people to prosecute the axles of weasels who dance to the axis of evil’s tune.

By AJC/DNC Management

June 25, 2008 11:42 AM | Link to this

Uh-oh, civil war:

{{{{The liberal media and blogosphere pounced, hard. In a blog post tastefully titled “Shut The Hell Up,” Sara Whitman, a self-described suburban lesbian housewife, called out Mr. Change for his rhetoric.}}}}

{{{{“If I hear ‘Marriage is between one man and one woman’ one more time from Obama’s mouth — or any Democrats mouth — I’m going to scream,” she wrote. “How is this change? Leadership? Hope? Or do only straight people get to hope?”}}}}

{{{{The online homosexual publication Queerty had some advice for Obama, too. The editors warned that “Whitman’s anger clearly indicates that Obama and his campaign could be in dangerous territory with some gays — clearly, Obama should keep his gay explanations to a minimum.”}}}}

{{{{Some mainstream media outlets picked up on the tension as well. In the Reuters blog post “No cake for Obama at same-sex weddings,” Peter Henderson said the passion of same-sex couples in California had cooled when the topic turned to Obama.}}}}

{{{{“With all due respect to Mr. Obama, he is not doing anything to ensure my rights,” Ilana Kaufman of Oakland, Calif., told Reuters. “Domestic partnership is separate, and it’s not equal.”}}}}

By AJC/DNC Management

June 25, 2008 11:49 AM | Link to this

{{{{Do all Washington politicians get their loans directly from CEOs in the mortgage industry? Readers might be wondering after learning about Countrywide Financial and its VIP treatment for Senators Christopher Dodd (D., Conn.) and Kent Conrad (D., N.D.).}}}}

{{{{Still, as we went to press, Mr. Javers reported that 15 members of the Senate were still refusing to tell the stories behind their mortgages.}}}}

“Change” that you can count on!

By getalife

June 25, 2008 12:01 PM | Link to this

Not only that Andy, the dems that caved on telco amnesty recieved massive donations from the telcos.

Would you agree our government is corrupt and broken?

By AJC/DNC Management

June 25, 2008 12:01 PM | Link to this

Should we cut and run from Kentucky?

{{{{HENDERSON, Ky. — The CEO of a company that operates a western Kentucky plastics plant where an employee opened fire after an argument says a sixth person died Wednesday.}}}}

By AJC/DNC Management

June 25, 2008 12:16 PM | Link to this

al-Gitmo: Which presidential candidate is against earmarks and wasteful government spending and which one voted to feed the hogs at the farm bill trough?

Plus, it’ll set the stage for Bruno in 2012.

Know what I mean?

By TW

June 25, 2008 12:25 PM | Link to this

getalife - absolutely. The economic devastation our invasion of Iran would bring to China alone be enough to bring WWIII about.

Spineless Dems need to impeach the guy who set this arrogant, ignorant, unlawful precedent.

By IN THE NEWS

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

McCain and Obama on Tax Reform McCain’s tax cuts would help those with very high incomes; Obama would offer breaks to low- and middle-income earners and increase the burden on the rich ….

THIS IS FROM A “DUH APPROVED” SITE!!!

No huffing, puffing or kosing.

Just little old Business Week!

By Politics Aside

June 25, 2008 12:40 PM | Link to this

The trolls are tyring to drown me out with pointless prattle. They dont support the truth anymore than they support the yankees who took axes to the boweeveled cotton industry of the south in the 1860’s so that the americans could secure access of the people to just government.

Dont let the troll’s axioms of drivel prevent your remembering when the yankees took axes to boweevelists to secure the access of people to stop the axles of weasels from dancing to the axis of evil’s tune!

if you do, then we’re finished.

By Bill

June 25, 2008 12:55 PM | Link to this

Exciting news from Repugland!

Looks like a Dobson-McShame ticket is in the offing.

By AJC/DNC Management

June 25, 2008 1:06 PM | Link to this

{{{{And last month, Strategy Page reported: “Al Qaeda web sites are making a lot of noise about ‘why we (al-Qaida) lost in Iraq’. Western intelligence agencies are fascinated by the statistics being posted in several Arab language sites. Not the kind of stuff you read about in the Western media. According to al Qaeda, their collapse in Iraq was steep and catastrophic. … If you can read Arabic, you can easily find these pro-terrorism sites, and see for yourself how al Qaeda is trying to explain its own destruction (in Iraq) to its remaining supporters.”}}}}

Bwa.

By W stands for worst

June 25, 2008 1:07 PM | Link to this

Ah yes the idiots are at it again, It amazes me that @@ can only bring up minor stuff about Obama. He once had a book overdue at the library, or he once got a ticket for jaywalking. Keep chirping you hypocrites, because if you werent disturbed by Dubyas alcoholism or cocaine abuse, or the fact he couldnt show up to serve his country while in uniform, or got into Yale and Harvard not because he was academically accepted but because of daddy, or the fact that did the insider trading gig on Harking stock or tried to do the eminent domain gig on the wrong family when he owned 1% of a baseball team. If the above didnt bother you about the worst President in history, your little scab picking will only make a difference to yourself. So educate yourself…….

By getalife

June 25, 2008 1:36 PM | Link to this

Andy,

McTourtured soul is lobbyist controlled. Just look at his team. He should fire black and all lobbyists on his team.

TW,

China installed missile launchers at the Olympics. McTourtured soul wants WWIII and a draft to take them on again. He never got over Vietnmam and being tortured.

Insane.

By IN THE NEWS

June 25, 2008 1:52 PM | Link to this

FOR THOSE IN THE WE LOVE AMERICA MORE THAN YOU AND WILL TORTURE YOU TO PROVE IT CLUB…..SOMETHING FOR YOUR NEXT RENDITION DINNER

Recipes from the neo-con cook book…..Karl Rove’s Plame Pudding….John Negroponte’s Super Secret Surveillance Sauce…..Albert Gonzalez’s Constitutional Crepes

By AJC/DNC Management

June 25, 2008 2:49 PM | Link to this

{{{{The Obama camp uses the word “change” more frequently than commas and perhaps in that constant repeating of the mantra they occasionally miss that a country yearning for change wants improvement, not change for the sake of change. What exactly was wrong with the presidential seal? The idea that a candidate and the people around him should deem it lacking, and that an upgrade would be an all-blue version that incorporates his campaign logo into the seal is… strange. The idea that no grownup was around to shake a head and say, ‘you don’t change the seal of the office you seek while on the campaign trail’ furrows the brow. Perhaps most perplexingly, why use the Latin “yes we can” as a replacement for “E Pluribus Unum” (Out of Many, One)? Wasn’t this campaign pledging to unite the country?}}}}

Strange, indeed.

By TW

June 25, 2008 2:56 PM | Link to this

If we aren’t going to impeach ‘w’, it’s only right that we dig up Nixon and dip him gold.

By Repug V.P. Man

June 25, 2008 3:02 PM | Link to this

“I have made judgements in the past. I have made judgements in the future.” - J. Danforth Quayle - 05/18/89.

By AJC/DNC Management

June 25, 2008 3:03 PM | Link to this

{{{{Strongly held arguments challenge the Iraq conflict as central to the war on terror with the claim that the “real” al-Qaeda of bin Laden is not present on the battlefield here. That statement ignores the nature of jihadi extremism as a pan-Arab ideology. Iraq is central, if not the key nation, in the Arab world. Baghdad is ground zero. Not the mountains, caves, and isolation of the Afghan-Pakistani border. When Robert Baer, former CIA operative and now commentator for Time, states that “al Qaeda is an idea, a way of thinking,” when he argues against our taking the war on terror to Iraq, he is right on, but not in the way he uses that statement. What is the death knell of the efficacy of an idea? When reality proves it does not work. Bin Laden himself has said the war in Iraq is central to his jihad, and we are taking him at his word here. The Muslim world sees that the al-Qaeda idea kills far more Muslims than infidels. The Muslim world sees the failure of the suicide bomber — the only significant weapon of jihadi terrorism — to force out the American Army from one of the greatest lands of Islam. The al-Qaeda idea has died a violent death on the battlefields of Iraq.}}}}

Bwa.

By IN THE NEWS

June 25, 2008 3:11 PM | Link to this

Barack Obama’s Cover on Rolling Stone.

Great slide show too.

By Chesty Puller

June 25, 2008 3:45 PM | Link to this

All right, Luckovich, I’ll hafta hand it to ya: that fricking cartoon is so outrageous that it is kinda sorta funny.

There.

By Jesus

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

IMPEACH BUSH NOW!!!

By Lt. Cmdr. J.G. Stallbertsson, (Ret.) USN

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

In the Columbian Protocol of September 9, 1973, it was agreed, on accord of all those nations and tribes present, that Emperor Nixon of the Giant States need not be gilded and tested in this way, and that his anklebona fides spoke not only adequately but eloquently for the genuine and earnest good faith of Americans so full of sh!t as to have no accountability before world opinion for their quaint practices and fitful folways. As a consequence of which, under Finding 14117, the nations united do fully recognized the legitimate propensity of the Americans calling themselves “electorate” to do whatever they elect to do, utterly irrespectuve of any extra-paradigmatic calculus whatever.

By AJC/DNC Management

June 25, 2008 4:19 PM | Link to this

{{{{The latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking update on the presidential election finds John McCain and Barack Obama exactly tied at 45% among registered voters nationwide.}}}}

Bwa.

By Donovan

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

Not bad, eh? See, some of these podPeople are too young to remember what those old street tracts read like. Just enough credibility to drive a fleshy union of paranoia-through-the-night, until the next day’s garish reality, relieved perhaps by the next evening’s lurid, whispering paranoia a la mode Kissinger, or perhaps J. Edgar, and thence to the huddling of the masses, unto the making of little reds for the internationale.

Your ideologies weren’t toys. Your toying with them was time stolen. The children you’ve trained up or even birthed in that mode, you’ve begotten in terrible error. You were wrong.

So were most of us wrong in one way or another. Just stop it. Now. Just let it go.

And let’s move on.

By BUSH

June 25, 2008 4:38 PM | Link to this

Impeach Jesus Now!

Better still, haul him in on some trumped up charges, throw the Book at ‘im, then strip him naked and parade his sorry a* through the streets for all to see, whipping and flailing him right along, and taunting him and spitting at him and urinating on him, and then string him up to bleed in front of God and everybody, until he loses bladder and bowel control and really starts to bark from lethal dehydration—-YES! MAKE THIS HAPPEN!—-because only then, only then, well we have impeached Jesus as needs be.

By W stands for worst

June 25, 2008 4:44 PM | Link to this

Andy,

Do you get your poll readings from the same place you get your global warming info from. The polls show Obama ahead by 15%. The gallop poll in your head might show them tied but in the real world that and you are wrong…

By Glenn

June 25, 2008 4:55 PM | Link to this

Bill (12:55), I think you’re on to something. Perhaps the ticket could be expanded to “Dobson-McShame/Hagee.” That would satisfy the intellect and values of ALL Repugs.

By AJC/DNC Management

June 25, 2008 5:05 PM | Link to this

{{{{By W stands for worst June 25, 2008 4:44 PM Andy, Do you get your poll readings from the same place you get your global warming info from. The polls show Obama ahead by 15%. The gallop poll in your head might show them tied but in the real world that and you are wrong…}}}}

Wanker: RCP average of all the polls has Obambi up by 6.9%. That is alot less than the 15% you are getting from your fake pinko media polls and they are probably influencing the RCP average.

Imagine this polling question: Are you going to vote for Obambi or are you a racist?

Hahahaha.

But when inside the private confines of thee polling booth………

Can you say president McBushie?

By Pete

June 25, 2008 5:10 PM | Link to this

W for Worst (1:07)- You are asking far, far too much of these people.

By Devastator

June 25, 2008 5:18 PM | Link to this

duh,

Sorry to burst your bubble but:

That Bradley effect theory has been discussed throughout the primaries. It simply is non existent this year. Every polling that has been given has been right on the money.

That effect has only taken place in California with Tom Bradley and a little in Virginia with Douglas Wilder, both years ago. Sorry to take the air out of your balloon, but facts are facts dude.

Prepare to lose!

By Midori

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

well Andy - are you going to vote for Obama, or are you a racist?

By AJC/DNC Management

June 25, 2008 5:34 PM | Link to this

{{{{By Devastator June 25, 2008 5:18 PM That Bradley effect theory has been discussed throughout the primaries. It simply is non existent this year. Every polling that has been given has been right on the money.}}}}

Dimastator: Um, the other choice was Bruno, you know what I mean?

Think about this for a moment; Your man went up against the most hated woman that has ever lived in the United States of America, a woman despised far and wide, and he lost the popular vote.

November ain’t gonna be pretty.

But you libs go ahead, wallow around in your fake polls and get all delusional, you may as well enjoy it while you can.

By Devastator

June 25, 2008 5:41 PM | Link to this

duh,

In the Iowa caucus Obama got more votes than all of the repubs combined. Check it out!!

If Hillary was the most hated woman in America, how in hell did she get more votes than anyone in American primary history?

Try again dude.

By AJC/DNC Management

June 25, 2008 5:42 PM | Link to this

{{{{By Midori June 25, 2008 5:26 PM well Andy - are you going to vote for Obama, or are you a racist?}}}}

I wouldn’t vote for that America hating POS even if it meant being castrated with a rusty knife.

Call me whatever you want to.

By Devastator

June 25, 2008 5:46 PM | Link to this

Midori,

duh just answered your question. He’s racist.

By AJC/DNC Management

June 25, 2008 5:47 PM | Link to this

Plus, I’ll go to my grave being able to say that I never defended the likes of Timothy McVeigh or Eric Rudolph.

To bad you libs won’t be able to say that about Bill Ayers and his buddy Obama.

Lowlife mofo.

You and al Qaeda, bomb throwing butt buddies.

By AJC/DNC Management

June 25, 2008 5:53 PM | Link to this

{{{{By Devastator June 25, 2008 5:41 PM duh, In the Iowa caucus Obama got more votes than all of the repubs combined. Check it out!!}}}}

Hickabee had Iowa wrapped up in the middle of last year, and do tell us, genius, where is he now?

{{{{If Hillary was the most hated woman in America, how in hell did she get more votes than anyone in American primary history?}}}}

Operation Chaos?

The racists?

Pick your poison.

By Devastator

June 25, 2008 5:56 PM | Link to this

Obama never defended McVeigh or Rudolph you idiot. What in the world do you have against facts Andy?

These lame excuses you come up with is the reason people think you are racist. If you don’t want to vote for Obama,fine. But how about a reason based on facts and not UFO sightings.

P.S. Until Bill Ayers runs for president, he, too is an excuse.

By AJC/DNC Management

June 25, 2008 5:57 PM | Link to this

Isn’t it a trip though, Conservatives call people that throw bombs at innocents “terrorists” while the libs call them “professor.”

Stupid filthy suck, uh, well, you know.

By AJC/DNC Management

June 25, 2008 6:01 PM | Link to this

{{{{By Devastator June 25, 2008 5:56 PM P.S. Until Bill Ayers runs for president, he, too is an excuse.}}}}

Bill Ayers launched Obama’s political career.

I suppose now McCain call dial up Osama Bin Laden for some campaign support and that wouldn’t be a problem, eh?

Hey, Dhimmi, feel behind your ears and tell me if it’s wet back there.

By Devastator

June 25, 2008 6:09 PM | Link to this

duh,

They sat on an advisory board together duh. If you’ve got proof of what you just said, I’ll be happy to read it. Until then, go play with your d!ldo.

By W stands for worst

June 25, 2008 6:30 PM | Link to this

Pete,

You are correct, that is why they didnt respond to my post, nothing to dispute it. I guess the 23% that still think Bush is doing a great job are all on this blog

By AJC/DNC Management

June 25, 2008 6:33 PM | Link to this

{{{{In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district’s influential liberals at the home of two well known figures on the local left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.}}}}

{{{{While Ayers and Dohrn may be thought of in Hyde Park as local activists, they’re better known nationally as two of the most notorious — and unrepentant — figures from the violent fringe of the 1960s anti-war movement.}}}}

{{{{Now, as Obama runs for president, what two guests recall as an unremarkable gathering on the road to a minor elected office stands as a symbol of how swiftly he has risen from a man in the Hyde Park left to one closing in fast on the Democratic nomination for president.}}}}

{{{{“I can remember being one of a small group of people who came to Bill Ayers’ house to learn that Alice Palmer was stepping down from the senate and running for Congress,” said Dr. Quentin Young, a prominent Chicago physician and advocate for single-payer health care, of the informal gathering at the home of Ayers and his wife, Dohrn. “[Palmer] identified [Obama] as her successor.”}}}}

{{{{Obama and Palmer “were both there,” he said.}}}}

Dhimmistator: By the time October rolls around, you can be sure that we will have a nice little documentary put together for your viewing pleasure.

By Midori

June 25, 2008 6:39 PM | Link to this

Andy,

if anyone hates America, it’s you.

You represent everything that is wrong with this country.

And you completely refuse to listen to those who want to make it better.

It’s as if you and your kind are determined to sink the USA, and you want to take everyone down with it.

By there is hope

June 25, 2008 6:49 PM | Link to this

midori,

you and your kind are al queda’s wet dream.

america haters around the world are praying to allah that obama will win.

you are a tool of the worst kind.

By Devastator

June 25, 2008 6:55 PM | Link to this

duh,

thankfully Obama put such an idiot out of business. Looks to me like he replaced her, not endorsed her.

I don’t see any bombs thrown or laws broken in your post. Guess you couldn’t find those clips.

By AJC/DNC Management

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

Dhimmistator: I could have a picture of Obambi throwing a bomb and you would just make another excuse.

Besides which, I couldn’t care less what the cult thinks.

 

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