Mike Luckovich

By AJC/DNC Management

June 30, 2008 8:04 AM | Link to this

75 cents?

For what?

So you can fuel your smog spewing delivery vehicles?

Lead by example AJC, close up shop and save energy.

Put your money where your mouth is.

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You tell me, is this news reporting or an editorial?:

{{{{Afghans’ grief rises, blah, blah, War kills more civilians; food grows scarce, blah-Urinal/DNC}}}}

It takes some nerve for a candy as-s “news” paper reporter to offer their own evaluation of the conditions in Afghanistan, simply because they have no bad news to report.

Are you surrender monkey always in despair liberals now experts on the subject of reconstruction?

And check it out, even if things are gloomy, is this not better than living under the rule of the religious extremist Taliban?

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{{{{Historic first: North Pole’s ice >>>>>on track<<<<<< to melt away-Urinal/PMS}}}}

In other words, it won’t.

And do you think the libs will print up a nice end of summer article saying that they were wrong, as usual?

Or will they just “drive on by?”

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{{{{It had become apparent by the end of the day that the campaign really hadn’t given any thought to the comfort of the people it had bused in. They were nothing more than props, hauled in and out of this tiny town to serve as a backdrop for the media event (and campaign commercial?) the campaign had dreamed up.}}}}

{{{{The poor folks who gave up an entire day of their lives to see this event got sunburned, dehydrated, then soaked all so Obama could have his symbolic unification rally in this remote town.}}}}

Now it’s America’s turn to get soaked.

By IN THE NEWS

June 30, 2008 8:14 AM | Link to this

Mrs. McCain, San Diego County Would Like a Word….When you’re poor, it can be hard to pay the bills. When you’re rich, it’s hard to keep track of all the bills that need paying. It’s a lesson Cindy McCain learned the hard way when NEWSWEEK raised questions about an overdue property-tax bill on a La Jolla, Calif., property owned by a trust that she oversees. Mrs. McCain is a beer heiress with an estimated $100 million fortune and, along with her husband, she owns at least seven properties, including condos in California and Arizona…..

AND

McCain: I ‘Don’t See How It Matters’ That I Don’t Know The Price Of Gas

ADD THAT TO THE McCAIN’S HUGE CREDIT CARD DEBT…….

MAKES YOU FEEL ALL WARM AND FUZZY ABOUT FOUR MORE YEARS OF OUR ECONOMY UNDER THE REPUBLICANS!

By IN THE NEWS

June 30, 2008 8:14 AM | Link to this

Cheney ‘tried to block North Korea nuclear deal.’

WHY AM I NOT SURPRISED?

By IN THE NEWS

June 30, 2008 8:15 AM | Link to this

SO McCAIN DOESN’T WORK WEEKENDS.

OBAMA DOES…..Obama quietly visits wounded war veterans at Walter Reed Army Medical Center

By jethro bodine

June 30, 2008 8:21 AM | Link to this

Folks up here in the mountains have up till now liked those big SUVs and trucks with tires big enough to fit earth movers. But it seems those days are gone now and people are trying to get rid of their mid-size SUVs as small as Ford Edge.

I sense a hint of resignation in Andi’s post. He knows that the inevitable tide of change is about to sweep out the old and bring in the new.

By DUBYA

June 30, 2008 8:37 AM | Link to this

HARK! It is no surprise that McShame fights against a decent GI Bill for Iraq veterans. What if those people came home, went to college, and figured out what this nation has done to them???

By w00t

June 30, 2008 8:45 AM | Link to this

McCain’s Greatest Flip-Flops!

Act now and you’re receive:

McCain supported the drilling moratorium; now he’s against it.

McCain thought Bush’s warrantless-wiretap program circumvented the law; now he believes the opposite.

Or how about this classic selling of McCain’s soul:

Operators are standing by!

By Shawny

June 30, 2008 8:48 AM | Link to this

Blast that SUV. Shouldn’t have bought it anyway.

Thank you Roberts court majority. I can keep my handguns. Can someone please show Ginsburg the door?

By IN THE NEWS

June 30, 2008 8:49 AM | Link to this

The Top 10 Conservative Idiots, No. 343 June 30, 2008 Look Who’s Protecting Marriage Now Edition

By AJC/DNC Management

June 30, 2008 8:57 AM | Link to this

{{{{By DUBYA June 30, 2008 8:37 AM HARK! It is no surprise that McShame fights against a decent GI Bill for Iraq veterans. What if those people came home, went to college, and figured out what this nation has done to them???}}}}

Apparently the libs think that you brave soldiers fighting to protect this great nation are nothing but a bunch of dumbas-ses.

Excuse me if I chose to disagree.

The two choices and death is an option: You can either slaughter al Qaeda or be slaughtered by al Qaeda.

Now check and see which side the real dumbas-ses are on and which side the soldiers who have chosen to risk it all for are on.

Brave and smart.

Yellow and stupid.

Can it be any more obvious?

By @@

June 30, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this

A funny car tune ml.

Bonnie and Clyde would be blastin’ their way through the “roadblock” on the hill.

By IN THE NEWS

June 30, 2008 9:02 AM | Link to this

DID YOU ALL SEE THIS STORY?

An Attack That Came Out of the Ether Scholar Looks for First Link in E-Mail Chain About Obama…..The e-mail landed in Danielle Allen’s queue one winter morning as she was studying in her office at the Institute for Advanced Study, the renowned haven for some of the nation’s most brilliant minds. The missive began: “THIS DEFINITELY WARRANTS LOOKING INTO.” …..As Allen scrolled through the e-mail about Obama, she saw that the list of people who had received the missive consumed several full screens. Her first thought was to try to learn about the people behind the addresses……Allen discovered that theories about Obama’s religious background had circulated for many years on the Internet. And that the man who takes credit for posting the first article to assert that the Illinois senator was a Muslim is Andy Martin.

By w00t

June 30, 2008 9:16 AM | Link to this

AndySaq, most of the troops join the Military so that they get to go to College. I hate to tell you, but generally most military people come from poorer backgrounds where they may not have the ability to go to college.

I guess you forgot about all those commercials that talked about how the army would pay for your college if you joined.

Not getting yourself killed really isn’t based on intellect. It’s the want to survive. It’s instinct.

There is nothing wrong with wanting to provide access to college to our military vets. It should be provided to them when they can come back from the field and have the ability to learn a new skill or trade. Education is key to our country’s survival.

By ray

June 30, 2008 9:20 AM | Link to this

The doctors don’t allow McCain to work weekends.

By Donovan

June 30, 2008 9:21 AM | Link to this

Like the toon, Mike. Reminiscent of Mauldin’s tearfully dispatching his wounded Jeep. So sad when bad things happen to good SUVs. But not nearly as sad as the thought of Charlie Brown getting stuffed and converted into a lamp…

By Scott

June 30, 2008 10:04 AM | Link to this

Good one, DUBYA! So true. Just saw the resident White House imbecile yapping about “…success on thee war on tear n in Eyeraq. Troops cumming home. Return on success.” Geesuus! The freak has no pride neath that alcoholic exterior/interior.

By AJC/DNC Management

June 30, 2008 10:09 AM | Link to this

Sicko left wing POS:

{{{{West Virginia Senator Jay Rockefeller in April cut a bit closer, suggesting that McCain’s days as a fighter pilot were themselves a critique of his character.}}}}

{{{{“What happened when they [the missiles] get to the ground?” he asked. “He doesn’t know. You have to care about the lives of people. McCain never gets into those issues.”}}}}

There is absolutely no way we can trust the national security of this country to these surrender monkey suckas-ses.

Under what circumstances would these candy as-ses allow us to defend ourselves, after K Street was under siege?

By IN THE NEWS

June 30, 2008 10:16 AM | Link to this

Perhaps because of the four stars on his shoulder, retired Gen. Wesley Clark is bolder than most when it comes to criticizing John McCain’s efforts to connect his military experience with his presidential qualifications. Indeed, Clark has been pretty tough in pushing back against the Republican nominee’s pitch…… Clark, for example, spoke with the Huffington Post a few weeks ago, and was unrelenting in his criticism. “I know he’s trying to get traction by seeking to play to what he thinks is his strong suit of national security,” Clark said. “The truth is that, in national security terms, he’s largely untested and untried. He’s never been responsible for policy formulation. He’s never had leadership in a crisis, or in anything larger than his own element on an aircraft carrier or [in managing] his own congressional staff. It’s not clear that this is going to be the strong suit that he thinks it is.”…..“In the matters of national security policy making, it’s a matter of understanding risk,” Clark said. “It’s a matter of gauging your opponents and it’s a matter of being held accountable. John McCain’s never done any of that in his official positions. I certainly honor his service as a prisoner of war. He was a hero to me and to hundreds of thousands and millions of others in the armed forces, as a prisoner of war…. He has been a voice on the Senate Armed Services Committee and he has traveled all over the world, but he hasn’t held executive responsibility,” Clark said. “That large squadron in the Navy that he commanded — that wasn’t a wartime squadron.”…… Host Bob Schieffer noted that Obama hadn’t ridden in a fighter plane and been shot down. “Well, I don’t think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president,” Clark replied.

By Bert

June 30, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this

AC-DC-Duh: You sure have got your intellectual and educational acumen on high display today. We’re all proud of you, couch-coward. Your hatred runneth over. Had a nice weekend, did you? Rise and shine to a fresh new week of personal failures, bitterness, anger, jealousy, defeat, resentment, psychosis. Good for you, little insect, good for you.

By IN THE NEWS

June 30, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this

If McCain wants to cite his military experience as the reason he’s more qualified to be Commander In Chief, shouldn’t his military record be subject to full disclosure? And I’m not talking releasing it to the press for three minutes in a dark room with no photocopying or cameras allowed.

By Yankee Doodle

June 30, 2008 10:32 AM | Link to this

ITN,

That would be why campaign consultant and Obama supporter Bob Beckell—-not to be confused with a Republican—-made an open plea yesterday for his friend “Wesley” to “shut up”.

By @@

June 30, 2008 10:36 AM | Link to this

Obama and his surrogates will awaken a sleeping giant within this country - what was once known as “The Silent Majority”.

Patriots and evangelicals or what I prefer to call traditionalists.

Bob Beckle (sp?), a raging liberal offered sound advice to General Wesley Clark when he….

“Shut up Clark. Just shut up.”

By IN THE NEWS

June 30, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this

GI Bill Opponent President Bush Lauds GI Bill Opponent John McCain For The GI Bill Expansion

BY GOLLY!

By Devastator

June 30, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this

Bert,

Couldn’t have said it better myself.

By truthman

June 30, 2008 10:45 AM | Link to this

KARL “I LIE FOR A LIVING” ROVE DON’T LIKE UPPITY BLACK FOLK:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-ridley/when-rove-calls-obama-arrb109639.html

Confidential to @@: Barack and we liberals are going to mop the floor with your bigoted, backward cracker a*******es in November, and Gen. Clark and I are going to dance on your political grave!!!

By IN THE NEWS

June 30, 2008 10:52 AM | Link to this

YANKEE DOODLE DUH

Maybe you better look closer at Bob Beckel…..

I don’t think Obama will be taking toooooo much advice from him!

He’s a Fox democrat!

By IN THE NEWS

June 30, 2008 11:00 AM | Link to this

I’m gonna hop in the old swiftboat and get the faketriots some of those purple heart bandaids for all those folks who will be hurt by a realistic review of McCain’s military record…..

If ya’ can’t stand the heat…..

How many planes did he crash?

How many men did he lead?

What opportunities did he have to make national security policy?

By Yankee Doodle

June 30, 2008 11:04 AM | Link to this

ITN that’s just dumb, and since when did you pay any attention to source and provenance, anyway? Beckel always was one of the original “Crossfire” co-hosts—-the one on the left, contra Tony Snow. He’s one of the biggest campaign consultants in the country, and runs democrat campaigns, ITN, such as Walter Mondale’s in 1984.

And what in Sam Hill is a “Fox Democrat”?

By rene

June 30, 2008 11:07 AM | Link to this

maybe this forum for uglyness needs cleaning? maybe coments should be about the cartoon and civil?

thanks,

rene

By IN THE NEWS

June 30, 2008 11:11 AM | Link to this

Here’s a little bit o’Beckel for ya’

Fox Analyst: Iraqis ‘Owe Us’ 100-Year Leases On Their Oil, ‘We Ought To Take It’»…..Last week, the New York Times reported that four Western oil companies — Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total, and BP — are in the final stages of negotiating no-bid oil contracts “to service Iraq’s largest fields.” These contracts would run for one to two years, and give the oil companies a “foothold” in bidding on future contracts. But one-to-two year service contracts aren’t enough for analyst Bob Beckel, a Fox News liberal. On the O’Reilly Factor last night, Beckel said that “what we ought to do is get Iraq to give us a 100 year lease” for exploring their oil fields:

By Devastator

June 30, 2008 11:13 AM | Link to this

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By Yankee Doodle

June 30, 2008 11:14 AM | Link to this

Would “tarnation” be OK, rene? In place of “S@m H!ll”, I mean?

I’m comfortable with Jumpin’ Jehosaphat, too, if you are.

And if you think the occasional “leapin’ lizzards” might be in order, I reckon I could do that too.

By IN THE NEWS

June 30, 2008 11:14 AM | Link to this

Yankee Doodle Duh:

Fox Democrat=Honest Used Car Salesman

By rene

June 30, 2008 11:24 AM | Link to this

maybe this forum needs to be about the cartoon and civil…?

thanks,

rene

By @@

June 30, 2008 11:39 AM | Link to this

(((Barack and we liberals are going to mop the floor with your bigoted, backward cracker a*es in November, and Gen. Clark and I are going to dance on your political grave!!!)))

Merciful Percival!

You are not worthy of knighthood under King Obama! For it was HE, HIMSELF, who declared this campaign is not about race.

And did he mention that he was black?

The race-baiting doesn’t work with me toothless.

When I contemplate all the people I know who just happen to be African American, I can think of none who are uppity.

Were you hillbilly ragger at Wooten’s yesterday?

Rove was commenting on Obama’s social status. Elitism if you will.

By @@

June 30, 2008 12:01 PM | Link to this

The Wilcox formation may have an upper end of 15 billion barrels of recoverable oil and should begin producing by 2014 – perhaps ushering in a new ultradeepwater frontier.

Likewise, in April, the U.S. Geological Survey revised its estimate for the Bakken Shale, underneath the badlands of North Dakota and Montana. The new assessment – as much as 4.3 billion barrels of oil – is a 25-fold increase over what the Survey believed in 1995. Such breakthroughs confirm that very large reserves exist, if only Congress would let business get at them.

All of which has Democrats sweating bullets. The leadership is desperate to avoid debating a Department of Interior spending bill, because they know Republicans will offer amendments lifting the drilling moratorium that may peel off some Democrats. Last week, Chairman David Obey shut down the Appropriations Committee rather than countenance more domestic energy production. Given Democratic energy illiteracy, this is a fight the GOP can win if it keeps up the pressure.

WATCH OUT…IT’S GONNA BLOW!!! under the pressure of REPUBLICAN ROUGHNECKS.

What was the WSJ thinking? Democrats don’t “sweat bullets”…

they wet their pants.

By getalife

June 30, 2008 12:16 PM | Link to this

@@,

I doubt big oil will invest record profits in shale drilling when Iraq is theirs.

Then onto Iran.

Like Ahnold spewed.

They are blowing smoke or Co2 if you will.

By rene

June 30, 2008 12:17 PM | Link to this

maybe this forum needs to be about the cartoon and civil…?

thanks,

rene

By IN THE NEWS

June 30, 2008 12:23 PM | Link to this

After Denying ‘Involvement’ In Iraq’s No-Bid Oil Contracts, U.S. Revealed To Be ‘Integral’ To Deals

By Midori

June 30, 2008 12:24 PM | Link to this

ITN:

Fox must pay their house democrats extra bonuses for telling other Dems to “shut up”.

I remember Susan Estrich, another Dem Fox w*******, telling John Kerry to “shut up” during sElection 2004.

I surprised about Beckle, tho.

Seems he has hit rock bottom every since his conviction in a sex abuse case.

Fox welcomes with open arms any and all disgraced politicos - regardless of political affiliation.

By hillbilly ragger

June 30, 2008 12:28 PM | Link to this

@@shole gave us:

Rove was commenting on Obama’s social status. Elitism if you will.

Oh yes, by all means, do go on about “elitism.” John McCain III and his trophy wife with the eight houses are in an outstanding position to call Obama “elitist.”

I’m sure that line of attack will end well for you.

By IN THE NEWS

June 30, 2008 12:29 PM | Link to this

Crisis grows in Iraq over U.S. raid that killed Maliki relative

By IN THE NEWS

June 30, 2008 12:31 PM | Link to this

Hey Midori

That’s ok, seems karma will catch up with FOX eventually….

By Midori

June 30, 2008 12:35 PM | Link to this

LOL

Look at @@ calling someone a wimp.

she is, after all, a republican — so she has quite a bit of experience dealing with lying liars and wimps.

Bush is the biggest disaster to ever inhabit the White House and she’s quite comfortable supporting that abject failure and his policies.

yet she has the gall to nit pick and invent silly innuendo about Democrats.

Don’t get any more toothless than that.

By Donovan

June 30, 2008 12:39 PM | Link to this

so Susan Estrich and Douglas Kennedy and Chris Wallace and Alan Colmes are “disgraced politicos”?

By getalife

June 30, 2008 12:46 PM | Link to this

Nice Twain quote in Obama ‘s speech.

“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.”

Our government does not deserve it. Our country and our troops do.

Too bad he is for spying on you illegally and for corporate amnesty.

Makes his speech bs.

Here are some real Americans unlike Obama:

“In matters of Power, let no more be heard of confidence in men, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them”.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”.

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves”.

— Abraham Lincoln

“Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety”.

— Benjamin Franklin

Patriotism.

By IN THE NEWS

June 30, 2008 12:46 PM | Link to this

Jus remember the bright side Midori…next year when she joins us in celebrating our new President Obama!

She never questions an American President!

We’ll see posts like this…

“By @@

Isn’t Obama just the most wonderful President ever! He’s my new BFF!

Every word he speaks is golden!

I will always support President Obama our Commander in Chief!

XXXOOO”

NOW WON’T THAT BE …..SPECIAL!

By Midori

June 30, 2008 12:52 PM | Link to this

disgraced Politicos hired by Fox:

Bob Beckle

Newt Gingrich

Ollie North

Tom Delay

Donovan needs to get out more……

@@ — you get stupider as the weather gets warmer. Air conditioning should be your BFF.

By getalife

June 30, 2008 1:03 PM | Link to this

Midori,

And the biggest loser, Rove.

Speaking of elitism

The bud express belongs to the McCains.

By Midori

June 30, 2008 1:22 PM | Link to this

Thanks, Getalife — I forgot about the biggest culprit.

hmmmm…….

wonder what happened to the ‘Straight Talk Express’?

the wheels came off — just like his campaign.

By @@

June 30, 2008 1:25 PM | Link to this

I’ve heard of “stupid”, “stupidly” and “stupidness” but there is none MORE stupid than our Deer (in the headlights) Dori.

Words, no matter how golden, must be dissected.

A good place to make the first cut is in a liberal’s blather errrr bladder.

Only a liberal would assume that elitism has to do with financial wealth.

By Donovan

June 30, 2008 1:27 PM | Link to this

Midori,

What would possess you to claim that Bob Beckel was convicted of “sexual abuse”? A call-girl and her accomplice were convicted of conspiracy to extort $50,000 from Mr. Beckel.

But if you want to go baggin’ on the heaviest-hitting Dem consultants, that’s fine by me.

So Greta Van Sustern is not only a fake Democrat—-which will come as a shock to her husband, a top DNC fundraiser—-but she’s tainted with “digrace” too. Same goes for Mara Liasson and Mort Kondracke: disgraced pseudo-Democrats, all.

And since when does Tom Delay work for Fox?

Wasn’t someone complaining just earlier about your having “the gall to nit pick and invent silly innuendo about Democrats”?

Don’t get any more toothless than that.

By IN THE NEWS

June 30, 2008 1:30 PM | Link to this

only a moron think obama is elitist!

surprise!

surprise!

@@ thinks it!

By IN THE NEWS

June 30, 2008 1:30 PM | Link to this

only a moron think obama is elitist!

surprise!

surprise!

@@ thinks it!

By @@

June 30, 2008 1:35 PM | Link to this

Don’t forget Shepard Smith. If ever there was a bleeding heart….

By @@

June 30, 2008 1:39 PM | Link to this

IN THE NEWS:

Only a moron would forget to capitalize the first letter in her one sentence paragraphs.

Gawd you’re stoopid.

By American First

June 30, 2008 1:42 PM | Link to this

@@ says:

“Obama and his surrogates will awaken a sleeping giant within this country - what was once known as “The Silent Majority”.

Otherwise known as RACISM…..

By Donovan

June 30, 2008 1:45 PM | Link to this

A moron, maybe, or anyone who’d heard or read Viscount Obama’s Nob Hill pronouncements upon the mood of the faraway serfs.

By Midori

June 30, 2008 1:50 PM | Link to this

proof positive that the right has real comprehension problems — I never said that Fox hired ONLY disgraced liberals.

you fools made that link and ran with it.

Tom Delay isn’t a frequent Fox contributor? Do you honestly think he does not get paid for his contributions?

As for Bob Beckel, I’ll admit that I’m not familiar with the specifics — however, I DO know that he was let go from CNN and disappeared after the incident — only to show up on Fox.

Not only toothless, but mindless as well.

By Donovan

June 30, 2008 1:54 PM | Link to this

No, not racism, AmFoist. Though that will be motivating some bozos on both sides.

I think @@ is referring to an uprising of Prudence. Which Obama can’t deliver, but for which he may inadvertently stir up a swelling market among voters, the more confident he gets. In which case, they’d go with McCain as a “safe” and presumably four-year alternative, and let the younger man battle it out with Hillary and whoever all over again in 2012.

It’s a scenario worth considering. My own little observation to add is that Obama’s campaign is getting dysfunctionally more arrogant than their candidate.

By Midori

June 30, 2008 1:56 PM | Link to this

@@,

you’re trying too hard.

but then, nit picking is all you’re good for.

and the harder you try, the more ignorant you appear.

you and Donovan having an out-of-body experience?

By Midori

June 30, 2008 2:02 PM | Link to this

@@/Donovan/Andy/and any other name you wish to go by: you’ve just confirmed that racism is the true answer.

No, behind door number 2……..

Where’s Monty Hall when you need him?

By Donovan

June 30, 2008 2:10 PM | Link to this

No, Midori. It’s really not going to be the deciding factor. It’s always there, in every race, and always has been. But that’s not what will give people the body check and cause them second thoughts. It’ll be that after all the campaigning they still will not have known who or what Obama is or what three things he stands for DOING once innaugurated. He’ll still be the cipher his increasingly obsolete campaign staff still runs him as, and that won’t get enough levers swining and chads hanging when people go into the booth.

It’s just this. Obama is a brand. A stylish brand. That’s fine for plenty of people.

But the majority of whom @@ speaks are going to ask, about two weeks out, “A brand of WHAT?”

And the campaign will not have put those answers sufficiently onto the kitchen tables of America, and that’s how and why he’ll lose.

By @@

June 30, 2008 2:13 PM | Link to this

American First:

That “Silent Majority” are those of us who acknowledge the great accomplishments of all Americans, be they black or white. History did not begin the moment Obama stepped into the limelight.

Nosiree…there were many before him of whom Michelle Obama should have been proud but wasn’t.

The Herald goes from Lincoln’s dream of “a new birth of freedom” to Martin Luther King, Jr.’s later “I have a dream” dream, right to Obama taking the Democratic Party nomination for president as if nothing else happened. Apparently, Condi Rice, Colin Powell, Justice Thomas… even Justice Thurgood Marshall never happened. American blacks went from slavery, to Jim Crow to sudden freedom with a Barack nomination with no other stops in between in this meme. This sort of rhetoric ignores nearly 50 years of advancement in race relations. It ignores the fact that American blacks fill high positions in entertainment, sports, business, government, and education the country over. In fact, in every single area of American life, black faces are seen as leaders and movers and shakers.

It is entirely disingenuous of the media to act as if we’ve gone from Jim Crow to Barack Obama in one fell swoop. But, it does fill the need of the media to over simplify the nature of American race relations and to keep blacks in thrall to past slights, unable to move philosophically into a future they already inhabit in reality.

Obama defines elitist - someone with a sense of entitlement above all others of his race.

By IN THE NEWS

June 30, 2008 2:25 PM | Link to this

@@

you really do keep me amused…..

By @@

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

Donovan’s Ode to Obama

And when only those who love me can see behind the frown.

I’m the well known has-been, the well known has-been,

I got a brand on me.

When I look at my tomorrows, sorrow’s all I see

And the well known has-been, the well known has-been,

I’ll lose the brand on me, yeah.

Today’s all I see, today’s all I see,

today’s all I see.

By @@

June 30, 2008 2:37 PM | Link to this

(((@@

you really do keep me amused)))

Good!

Gnit picking is my pleasure. I’m always armed with a fly swatter.

By Goldie

June 30, 2008 2:43 PM | Link to this

I’m with Gen. Wesley Clark — I also don’t think that flying a fighter plane and getting shot down qualifies anyone to claim that national security issues are his “strong” suit… especially when that same person (McBush) is cheerleading to this day that our occupation of Iraq is keeping America safe. Or that diplomatic efforts to talk to our enemies is the same as “appeasement”… every week that goes by, McBush just shows how much he’s out of touch with America, and that he’s only willing to use our military forces for problem-solving all around the world!

By Donovan

June 30, 2008 2:43 PM | Link to this

@@,

Fancy an out-of-body experience?

By American First

June 30, 2008 2:50 PM | Link to this

Donovan,

Obama cant deliver prudence? It amazes me to what you guys think he can and cannot do without knowing the candidate. You are the same people who swallowed all of Dubyas worthless slogans hook line and sinker. So dont tell me what he cant deliver when you dont know what he can deliver…

By Goldie

June 30, 2008 2:53 PM | Link to this

McBush doesn’t have the good judgment needed to be our next commander-in-chief — but he would be a great Propagandist-in-Chief!

McCain: “And I believe that the success will be fairly easy.”— CNN, Larry King Live, 9/24/02

McCain: “I believe that we can win an overwhelming victory in a very short period of time.”— CNN Late Edition, 9/29/02

By Goldie

June 30, 2008 2:57 PM | Link to this

{{they’d go with McCain as a “safe” and presumably four-year alternative,}

HA — dream on, losers… your RepubliKKKan “brand” is toast in November!

By Pee'er Pressure

June 30, 2008 3:05 PM | Link to this

@@, once again, this is not a chatroom. Blog or stay off. You know how to blog, dont you. You just put your bits together and click. (To have and have not, 1942)

I adore Midori. Very funny bit about door #2.

Goldie, I was the first to predict a 65-35 route, with the fall showing signs of a fed up america like never before in our history, cept maybe Fort Sumter, and man, were we fed up then.

Conservatism’s child was aborted to protect the life of it’s mother, Lady Liberty. May freedom ring.

Obama 08: America Takes Off.

Take off!

By American First

June 30, 2008 3:08 PM | Link to this

@@ Well thanks for clearing up your hypocrisy. You say you celebrate all Americans and then you slam Michelle Obama.. So in other words you celebrate the Americans you choose and not all of them as you state..

By Austell

June 30, 2008 3:15 PM | Link to this

That McCain propaganda video he made in North Korea puts him in the same category as that traitor Jane Fonda. In fact McCain’s was worse. A lot worse.

Obama did not wear a pin lapel, but at least he wasn’t a traitor who aided the enemy.

Obama, by default.

By Donovan

June 30, 2008 3:18 PM | Link to this

Fair enough, AmFoist, and I’m not playing tricks with words, but I do want to examine yours a little. You say to me, “You don’t know what he can deliver.” You’re right. I don’t know. Do you know?

Because it’s hard to find out with and dependability. I’ve been trying for many months. What I find is all manner of over-staffed and often amateurish four-flushing.

So if you don’t know what he can deliver and I don’t know, then like I say, his campaign is headed for some kind of waterfall. But if you do know what he can deliver — because, as you say, it’s necessary to know the man first and maybe you do know him, then please tell me what he plans to deliver and why that would stand to make him the more prudent choice in the Fall.

By Pee'er Pressure

June 30, 2008 3:33 PM | Link to this

Donovan. Very wise, and well developed arguments. I like the double speak running interference for the back stage slaps. Great stuff, sir. Stick around.

Austell: you size up well my fine friend. You’ve obviously been blogging for a long time and it shows. You’ve raised the bar.

America 1st: You see alot, and with 20/20 vision. The ability to communicate nuanced truth is rare. Bravo sir.

@@: You stink.

By AJC/DNC Management

June 30, 2008 3:34 PM | Link to this

As any Conservative knows:

{{{{“May it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains, under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings & security of self-government.”-Thomas Jefferson}}}}

Will we let the liberals bind us back up in their chains?

Who are they to tell us we cannot produce our own energy?

Who are they to distort the blessed sacrament between a man and his wife?

Who are they to silence the voices that they do not agree with?

Who are they to give rights guaranteed under our Constitution to those who want to kill us and follow no laws in their pursuit?

Who are they to tell us what kind of car we should drive?

Do you people not know what Freedom is?

Or do you despise freedom?

By American First

June 30, 2008 3:36 PM | Link to this

Donovan,

You bring up good points, but nobody knows what a candidate can deliver. You know like i do they say what they want to get elected. Look at the current moron in charge,all those worthless slogans they ran out there about what he could do and how he can reach across the aisle and work with both parties was a pipe dream. My point is give someone fresh a chance. McCain has been in the Senate a long time and really has accomplished next to nothing, like his fellow Senators. I keep saying vote incumbent and get new blood in there to move our country in the right direction. If Obama doesnt cut it in the first 4 years vote for someone else. Dont stick with a politician just because he belongs to the same party as you………..

By sherm gallay

June 30, 2008 3:45 PM | Link to this

Mike, where is the cat? I just noticed it missing. Hope nothing bad happened. Regards, Sherm Gallay - a big fan of your work

By AJC/DNC Management

June 30, 2008 3:55 PM | Link to this

Guess who’s fixing to become a NeoCon, hahaha:

{{{{Those polls asked:}}}}

{{{{Regardless of how you intend to vote, what would you prefer the next president do about the war in Iraq? Begin immediately a withdrawal of American troops with a fixed date to have them all out within 18 months. OR keep troops in Iraq until the situation is more stable, and then begin to withdraw them, without a fixed date for full withdrawal.}}}}

{{{{In four swing states, “keep troops” beat “withdraw”: 56% to 36% in Colordao, 52% to 41% in Michigan, 54% to 38% in Minnesota and 51% to 41% in Wisconsin.}}}}

So, in effect, this coming flip flop will make all you moonbats prowar.

Hahahaha.

Welcome aboard, you suckas-ses.

By AJC/DNC Management

June 30, 2008 4:02 PM | Link to this

{{{{The fence around the public demonstration zone outside the Democratic National Convention will be chicken wire or chain link, authorities revealed in U.S. District Court today.}}}}

Demonstrations?

I thought they were the party of Unity and everybody Loves them?

I can’t wait to see the pictures of the angry pinkos in a cage.

Where they belong.

By Pee'er Pressure

June 30, 2008 4:05 PM | Link to this

Obama 08: America wins. The victory is here, not over there.

By Pee'er Pressure

June 30, 2008 4:05 PM | Link to this

Obama 08: America wins. The victory is here, not over there.

By Pee'er Pressure

June 30, 2008 4:06 PM | Link to this

Obama 08: America wins. The victory is here, not over there.

By RW-(the original)

June 30, 2008 4:06 PM | Link to this

Hotline has the full transcript; the part on service is down near the bottom, after the salute to dissidents and his slap at MoveOn.org for the “General Betray Us” smear, which, you’ll recall, His Holiness couldn’t be bothered to condemn in a senate resolution given that he was in the thick of a primary fight at the time. The takeaway: “I will never question the patriotism of others in this campaign.” Except, of course, he already has. He acknowledges at one point in the speech that part of the reason people question his patriotism is due to his own “carelessness,” an oblique reference to his choice to stop wearing the stupid flag pin. What he doesn’t acknowledge is the reason he stopped wearing it — namely, to draw a distinction between “true” and “false” patriots as he defines them. He was happy to play patriot games (just like he was happy with his church) until he got to the general election and realized they may not be a winner for him, which is why that pin’s clearly visible on his lapel in the video below. Out: “New politics.” In: Machiavellian cunning!

By American First

June 30, 2008 4:06 PM | Link to this

Pee’er Pressure: Thanks for the compliment.

By @@

June 30, 2008 4:10 PM | Link to this

(((You say you celebrate all Americans and then you slam Michelle Obama)))

Not so AmFirst.

I slammed what she said because it slammed those who came before the double reeded musical instrument of the woodwind family.

The “O”-beau.

What

is

wrong

with

you

liberals?

You’re always on the defensive.

By Scoreboard

June 30, 2008 4:16 PM | Link to this

Daily Gallup.

Obama lead increases.

47 - 42

By Midori

June 30, 2008 4:26 PM | Link to this

End of an Era- Here’s what we’ll be missing in 2009

By Donovan

June 30, 2008 4:31 PM | Link to this

@@,

As long as we’re to be accused of out-of-bodying, how ‘bout a little out-of-bodying? What do ya say? It can’t hurt, or anything. No bodies involved? And Peer Gleet or whoever that is can’t even say we’re face-booking—-no faces either!

Dontcha wanna just try, even once…

By American First

June 30, 2008 4:33 PM | Link to this

@@:

Yeah right. Lets see she grew up African American which she didnt have the same chances as you and I. So she goes to Yale and as your paper wrote a few months ago, her roommate who was white called and complained to her mom. So her mom and grandmom call Yale and demand their daughter be reassigned another room because her roommate was black. And this was 1981. So i know its hard for redneck GOPers to put themselves in someone else place but try that on for size. And the biggest reason we complain is the constant ignorance that you GOPers constantly toss out there as truth.

By RW-(the original)

June 30, 2008 4:41 PM | Link to this

It didn’t quite work out that way, but Wes Clark remained my favorite Democrat, unsullied by a primary season which left heroes like Hillary Clinton bruised and turned Barack Obama, Our Great Hope, into a rampaging Night Terror. As I hardened against Obama’s utter lack of integrity — his crookedness would make Boss Tweed cringe — my Obamabot friends tried to woo me with the notion of an Obama/Clark ticket. I balked, planting my feet and crossing my arms…but I knew it would have been nearly impossible to vote against Wes.

{{{{{That is no longer the case, since Gen. Clark shocked the world by deciding to go all Swift Boat Veterans for Nonsense on us on tevee this weekend:}}}}}

By Donovan

June 30, 2008 4:42 PM | Link to this

Goldie, it may interest you, as it did me, that when Gen. Clark took his soundbite out of Capt. McCain he said that McCain had been “riding” in an airplane when shotdown. I believe you’ll find that any military person understands these as fighting words in pointed denial of the fact that McCain had even the distinction of piloting the aircraft. Clark’s truly were the military equivalent of fighting words, and are by far the ugliest insult hurled in this campaign to date.

By @@

June 30, 2008 4:50 PM | Link to this

Well somebody wasn’t dancing to the “O”beau’s speech on patriotism.

ABC News’ Teddy Davis and Molly Hunter Report: While Barack Obama was urging supporters not to devalue the military service of rival John McCain, a top Democratic voice on foreign policy argued Monday that the former POW’s isolation during the Vietnam War has hobbled the Arizona senator’s capacity as a war-time leader.

Rand Beers, an Obama supporter who served as the top national security adviser to the 2004 Kerry campaign, said that because McCain was in an unfortunate state of “isolation” during much of the Vietnam War, he missed the domestic turmoil which took place in the United States and his national security experience is “sadly limited” as a result.

The former security advisor to John Kerry’s campaign uses McCain’s imprisonment against him?

Unbelievable.

While John Kerry was testifying before congress on the atrocities committed BY AMERICANS in Vietnam, John McCain is suffering torture BY THE VIET CONG.

Donovan:

I’ll need to shower first. I’m covered in suntan oil.

You may proceed however since this is an out-of-body, no face to face rendezvous.

By Austell

June 30, 2008 4:53 PM | Link to this

Hey everyone help poor ol’ John McCain out!

Send him a Purple Band-Aid.

To: John McCain For President PO Box 12286 Phoenix, Arizona

By American First

June 30, 2008 5:09 PM | Link to this

@@:

Since you bring up McCain and Kerry together, ask yourself this question. Where was Dubya during this time? Since you are so obsessed with Obama and his wife why arent you obsessed with the outright lies that Dubya has been spewing for the last 8 years? Oh now i see, you like paying 4 dollars for gas, you like seeing 4100 of our soldiers die while we arent looking for the mastermind behind the September 11th attacks, all because you love Dubya with all your heart….

By Donovan

June 30, 2008 5:19 PM | Link to this

Goldie, it may interest you, as it did me, that when Gen. Clark took his soundbite out of Capt. McCain he said that McCain had been “riding” in an airplane when shotdown. I believe you’ll find that any military person understands these as fighting words in pointed denial of the fact that McCain had even the distinction of piloting the aircraft. Clark’s truly were the military equivalent of fighting words, and are by far the ugliest insult hurled in this campaign to date.

By Donovan

June 30, 2008 5:24 PM | Link to this

@@,

Meet me in the Casbah…

By Midori

June 30, 2008 5:24 PM | Link to this

America First,

she’s the queen of nit picking.

Bush murders hundreds of thousands, but she has her panties in a wad because Obama burped and didn’t say “excuse me”.

By getalife

June 30, 2008 5:28 PM | Link to this

Payback for swift boating Kerry is beautiful.

Here is a band aid.

Whine on.

Thanks for the karma General.

By @@

June 30, 2008 5:30 PM | Link to this

AmFirst:

The day I surrender my heart and love to ANY politician will be the day you can call me a Maniac for the “O”.

Show me proof of any intentional lies Bush has told.

It was Cheney I voted for in 2000.

I love a brilliant mind.

By AJC/DNC Management

June 30, 2008 5:37 PM | Link to this

@@, you stink!

If you only knew how obnoxious your thoughts on a screen read. Granny, Y dont U go back to GLW? You’re not welcome here. You post to yourself with multiple aliases with hate speak and rushannity hacking.

Pathetic.

By AJC/DNC Management

June 30, 2008 5:46 PM | Link to this

{{{{By getalife June 30, 2008 5:28 PM Payback for swift boating Kerry is beautiful. Here is a band aid. Whine on. Thanks for the karma General.}}}}

al-Gitmo: Tell me if you can see the difference:

“Swiftboat Veteran’s for the truth”

“Candy As-s Surrender Monkey’s for the moonbat propaganda”

You know what I mean?

When you klowns find one veteran that saw McBushie shoot an unarmed and fleeing child in the back and then cut and run from the battlefield after 3 months, get back to me.

Until then, it’s just slander.

Hahahaha, morons.

By Melissa

June 30, 2008 6:02 PM | Link to this

I voted for both Gore and Kerry, but after seeing the despicable behavior of the Obama supporters who have the gall to mock the 5 year horrendous captivity and viscous torture that John McCain endured for his country, I’m a for sure Republican voter now.

Is there no depth that the democrats are ashamed to sink to?

It’s just sick to hear these treasonous Al Qaida supporting left wing toadies speaking ill of a man with ten times more courage and character than all of these power mongering losers put together.

You make me want to vomit, Obama.

By @@

June 30, 2008 6:09 PM | Link to this

(((@@, you stink!)))

And to think, I just got out of the shower, slathered myself with Neutrogena’s Light Sesame Formula. My hair smells like lavender.

Oh well….

You need to have the simplest things explained to you, huh PollyFore.

Don’t read my posts.

By Midori

June 30, 2008 6:10 PM | Link to this

um

yeah, right Melissa.

By Donovan

June 30, 2008 6:22 PM | Link to this

@@,

Ah, but still the faint fragrance of Hawaiian Tropic, how it rises when your skin anemones at every virtual touch; how it wafts in murmurs to the Olfactory Receptor Visor VMZ-27 and blends into a millefiori with the sesame, with the lavender, with the frankincense and cheap coconut extract. Ahhh. Every note, a perfection.

Or is that Banana Boat?

By American First

June 30, 2008 6:27 PM | Link to this

@@,

Okay here you go

Lie 1. I will ask whoever was involved in leaking Valerie Plames name to resign. That was changed to whoever is convicted after his boy genius Rove was found to be involved.

Lie 2: I want Osama bin Laden Dead or Alive. You have to look for him first before making that claim.

Lie 3: In a Radio address he claims: “My jobs and growth plan would reduce tax rates for everyone who pays income tax.”

Lie 4: he constantly claims his FISA program has stopped terrorist attacks against this country, yet when pressed he cant name one. And would you think if we did it would be all over the press. The only attacks that have been stopped where stopped the the British.

Lie 5: “Running for the White House in the fall of 2000, George W. Bush did not talk about ending the right to abortion. To avoid scaring off moderate voters, he promoted a larger “reverence for life” agenda that also included adoption and tougher drunken driving laws. Voters were encouraged to believe that while Mr. Bush was anti-choice, he was not out to reverse Roe v. Wade. Yet two years into the Bush presidency, it is apparent that reversing or otherwise eviscerating the Supreme Court’s momentous 1973 ruling that recognized a woman’s fundamental right to make her own childbearing decisions is indeed Mr. Bush’s mission. “

And you voted for Cheney because he has a great mind. For what ripping off taxpayers and making his energy buddies rich. After you made that quote i know now i am not dealing with a very intelligent person…

By AJC/DNC Management

June 30, 2008 6:28 PM | Link to this

{{{{When the interviewer, Bob Schieffer, noted to Clark that McCain had been shot down over Hanoi, Clark replied, “I don’t think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president.”}}}}

I believe that it is safe to say that Ashley Wilkes here doesn’t have much respect for fighter pilots.

{{{{General Clark’s range of warfare was conditioned by the negative political objective of NATO cohesion. General Clark “didn’t need any convincing about strategic targets,” and he too wanted “to strike Serbian forces in Kosovo.” [25] But without NATO cohesion, Operation Allied Force may have unraveled a 50-year alliance. General Clark spent much time “fending off proposals from the political leaders of some NATO countries—particularly Italy and Greece—who wanted to suspend the bombing altogether.”}}}}

Do tell us, punk as-s liberals, what sort of POS would send men into combat, risking their lives, and then ridicule the same kind of mission he ordered?

You pinkos are the scum of the Earth.

By @@

June 30, 2008 6:28 PM | Link to this

When did you begin to think you could or should be president? At what stage in your life did that idea first dawn on you?

I would distinguish between thinking that, in the abstract, I could make some better decisions being president than the current occupant, and believing that, in a very concrete way, being president was something I would pursue. I would say that it wasn’t until I won my Senate primary and then went to the Democratic convention in 2004 that I had a sense that >>>>the message I was delivering might resonate with a broad cross section of the American people.<<<<

Heck, when Obama says “Words matter”, he ain’t a foolin’.

He should be president ‘cause his purdy words can mooooooooove people.

Alrighty then….

Mooooooooovin’On.

By Etheridge

June 30, 2008 6:49 PM | Link to this

I voted for both Bushes, but after seeing the despicable behavior of the McCain supporters who have the gall to mock the lifetime of patriotism Obama showed for his country, I’m a for sure Democratic voter now.

Is there no depth that the Republicans are ashamed to sink to?

It’s just sick to hear these treasonous Bin Laden supporting right wing toadies speaking ill of a man with ten times more courage and character than all of these power mongering losers put together.

You make me want to vomit, McCain.

By Donovan

June 30, 2008 6:52 PM | Link to this

Well anyway, @@, this has been great for me and I hope for you too, even if my data glove wasn’t as waterproof as it was supposed to be. I hear the muezzin now—-do you hear that?—-and with the sunshadowns moving so swiftly down the minarets perhaps this is the time that we take our leave, you to your happinesses and I to my duties.

Until again, then, in the Casbah…

By American First

June 30, 2008 6:53 PM | Link to this

@@

You should change to your screen name to duck and bob, because that is what you have done to everyone who has asked you a sensible question, you duck them because you arent smart enough or dont have your Rove bulletin ready to answer…

News Flash: Someone asked John McCain in the 3rd grade what he wanted to be and he said a rock star.. wow doesnt seem fit to run our country if he hasnt dreamed of doing it is whole life.

News flash 2: John McCain once stepped on his neighbor cats tail without apologizing…

By Honu

June 30, 2008 6:55 PM | Link to this

I just wanted to wish the Happiest Birthday EVAH to my friend, RW-(the original.)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BUDDY!!! :-.)

By Objective Observer

June 30, 2008 7:03 PM | Link to this

Good god Honu/Rw this is an anonymous blog. -nobody cares.

By @@

June 30, 2008 9:34 PM | Link to this

AmFirst:

(((You should change to your screen name to duck and bob, because that is what you have done to everyone who has asked you a sensible question)))

I invited my neighbors for dinner. ‘Scuse me for being the gracious hostess. I checked your posts addressed to me at 1:42, 3:08, 4:33 and 5:09. Finally, at 5:09 I saw two questions - one I was to ask myself.

Asked and answered. Check!

Why am I not obsessed?

Because it’s not good for mental stability. Check!

Now just to be kind….

Cheney does have a brilliant mind. I love to watch him take on liberals. He leaves them stammering and stuttering.

Name the buddies individually, and show me the money AmFirst.

Donovan:

Noooo

bo

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does

it

be

ter.

@@ “Simon”—izing. (ISH)