Thinking Right

By Edward

August 7, 2008 8:25 AM | Link to this

I’m fatigued of right-wing pundits desperately trying to manufacture anything negative, no matter how tenuous and vague, to bolster their sorry excuse for a candidate.

By Tray

August 7, 2008 8:26 AM | Link to this

Good morning all!

Yes, Obama is over-exposed, and yes, I’m tired of all of it, not just one particular part. Why overexpose a candidate who knows nothing about being a president anyways??

Oh, maybe it’s the media wanting to be part of a historic event, but i can’t figure out what event that is…

Oh, wait, it’s the “we may have the first BI-RACIAL president!

Sorry to disappoint everyone who thought Obama was black, but he’s only halfway there.

The reason he gets so much media coverage is because the U.S. is more concerned with having the first ‘black’ president, than one who can actually do the job right.

If that’s the most important factor this time around, then when he’s elected, the United States will go to s%$t!

By BFKaJ

August 7, 2008 8:31 AM | Link to this

Good morning all. Short answer: no. The stuff in the past week has been hilarious – inflating tires and such. I loved his insane reaction to McCain’s Paris Hilton ad, and his grinding teeth at The One. Even Paris’s own ad was meritorious, greeted warmly by McCain’s bunch, but Obama’s handlers’s reaction: “Whatever.” Watching the thin-skinned pompous pseudo-intellectual buffeted by the storms of real issues, stuck in his leftist dingy – this is great. Watching the clever ads and issue-punches almost makes me want to vote for McCain instead of merely against Obama.

By Tired

August 7, 2008 8:36 AM | Link to this

By BFKaJ

August 7, 2008 8:39 AM | Link to this

My error: I should have capitalized His in each reference to The One.

By Skip Caray's ghost

August 7, 2008 8:41 AM | Link to this

The next logical Wooten topic should be, after the November win for Obama, “Are you sorry you elected Obama in a landslide?”

You can tell, directly from Wooten’s topics, just how great Obama is doing in the real polls, which are buried in some dark damp Republican think tank vault. They’re dismal for McCain, and getting worse.

The published polls: Do you believe them? Why should you. Show me one word from the GOP that turned out to be the truth since 911? One…..assertion….that panned out as truth.

I dare any of you to show me one word Cheney has said, or Rove, or Bush, or one senator on the right who has told one iota of truth. I’ll even accept a Republican based weather report after-the-fact that had accuracy.

“Yesterday, it was partly liberal with widely scattered entitlements, and reports of golfball sized tax increases in some counties….”

lies…Lies….LIES!!!!

all lies. RU sick of Obamamania. That’s like saying are you sick of reality. RU sick of RU285? RU sick of Ru Paul?

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 7, 2008 8:46 AM | Link to this

Heavens no! I am not experiencing Obama fatigue!

I would however, appreciate it if the traditional media would pay a little closer attention to the foibles of John McCain.

I mean REALLY! How would the media have reacted if Senator Obama had offered up Michelle for the Miss Buffalo Chip contest?

How many MSM media outlets are tracking the 70 something McCain flip flops?

How much are the networks looking at the 26 years McCain spent inside the beltway…you know…Washington…that place he just figured out is broken?

By BFKaJ

August 7, 2008 8:50 AM | Link to this

My imitation of Mrs. Godzilla:

Old Scratch is lacing up ice skates: RINO Chris Shays joined the drilling talkathon. http://www.courant.com/news/nationworld/hc-shays0807.artaug07,0,685518.story

McCain takes lead on YouTube hits: Mr. McCain has pumped out a series of brutal yet entertaining attack ads and Web videos mocking the press and Mr. Obama, and the combination of wit and insult has pushed his YouTube channel to the sixth most watched on the site this week. Mr. McCain has beat Mr. Obama’s channel for seven straight days and 11 of the past 14 days, in a signal he intends to compete for the YouTube vote.

http://www.washtimes.com/news/2008/aug/07/mccain-takes-lead-on-youtube-hits/

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 7, 2008 8:56 AM | Link to this

Here’s more on the topic

Instead of acting like journalists, the mainstream media have become McCain’s personal assistants, regurgitating his B.S. without question…..It might seem unlikely that the United States would elect John McCain to succeed George W. Bush when that would ensure continuation of many unpopular Bush policies: an ill-defined war with the Muslim world, right-wing consolidation of the U.S. Supreme Court, a drill-oriented energy strategy, tax cuts creating massive federal deficits, etc., etc. But there are reasons — beyond understandable concerns about Barack Obama’s limited experience — that make a McCain victory possible, indeed maybe probable. Here is one of the big ones: The U.S. news media is as bad as ever, arguably worse…

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 7, 2008 8:59 AM | Link to this

The only way I could suffer Obama fatigue is if I had 72 hours alone with that lovely, lovely man.

By Paul

August 7, 2008 9:01 AM | Link to this

Skip Caraway’s Ghost

[[I dare any of you to show me one word Cheney has said… has told one iota of truth.]]

Radio Interview of the Vice President on the Chaz and AJ in the Morning Show:

Q Is your nickname “Big Time?”

THE VICE PRESIDENT: It was for awhile there.

Q What is it now?

THE VICE PRESIDENT: What is it now? Darth Vader, I think. (Laughter.)

Q Well, that’s original.

THE VICE PRESIDENT: That’s what Senator Clinton dubbed here awhile ago. So I ask my wife about it, I said, doesn’t that make you angry when they call me Darth Vader? She said, no, it humanizes you. (Laughter.) So that’s the latest.”

That was just to illustrate what happens when you speak in absolutes. Even without the CAPS!!!

On a weightier note - from remarks at the Gerald Ford Journalism Prize Luncheon:

‘Q You mentioned a few minutes ago that there’s a reason that we haven’t had a terrorist attack in seven years. Are you saying that’s because of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq? What would you mean — what do you mean?

THE VICE PRESIDENT: I’m saying it’s because we basically made a decision after 9/11 that this was a strategic threat to the United States; that before 9/11 our approach to terrorist — to the attacks on the World Trade Center in ‘93 and so forth, Khobar Towers in ‘96, was to go out and arrest individuals and prosecute them, but treat it as a law enforcement problem.

But what we recognized after 9/11 was that this was a far more serious threat to the nation than the work of an individual or two who might touch off a terrorist bomb in the basement of the World Trade Center — that, in fact, it was a strategic threat, and you had to mount an entirely different approach if you were going to succeed against that kind of threat. “

By Road Scholar

August 7, 2008 9:01 AM | Link to this

I am tired about the mindless media (all sides) that act like parrots. Do they ever have an original intelligent thought? Jim, you are included. This blog’s question is what was on the media’s plate the past few days.

What are the specific issues affecting the US and get on to tell us the facts. Stop this he’s to young/old, experienced/ inexperienced, white/black, smart/dumb, common/elitist BS!

Do some actual fact based research without a preconceived outcome. This will be very difficult for you and all of talk radio. Stop feigning your indignation and amazement.

One observation: have you noticed that Obama can speak w/o notes and provide coherent thoughts (even though you may or may not agree), but that McCain must use notes or a script to read from? This is dicerning, isn’t it? Watch him give a speech.

By the way, while I caught the allusion to “I’m not what the other Presidents look like”, I knew the stone throwers would jump on it (It took two days though). He doesn’t look like previous Presidents on the money/bills…they are green! (John Stewart) Also, other than Shrub, who has big ears like him? Who was tall and very slender? Lincoln? The beard and hat provides a different look. So instead of jumping on the negative, research and show the differences/ similarities. That should keep the pundits from regurgitating the crap they have been doing!

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 7, 2008 9:01 AM | Link to this

And more on topic

Trust me, John McCain doesn’t know what bad press looks like…..Did you know the big bad media are beating up on John McCain? For weeks, the campaign’s media debate centered on whether the press was being too kind to Sen. Barack Obama — whether it was fawning over the Democrat’s historic run and drowning him in rapturous coverage. (Recent studies and analysis have cast that claim into doubt.) But now the narrative has been expanded to include the laughable notion that, following a string of McCain campaign stumbles, including botched staging and questionable photo-ops, the press has suddenly turned on McCain and is mocking the Republican. That the same press corps that branded McCain a maverick and for years worshipped his loose-talking demeanor, has now soured on the senator. Meaning, the love is gone.

By Oz

August 7, 2008 9:02 AM | Link to this

Let the media be the media. Let the GOP be the GOP.

Every ridiculous GOP campaign tactic just proves what Obama has been saying from the start: It’s business as usual with McCain.

Somehow, with ballot stuffing fraud and a treasonous supreme court, Bush was our prez for two terms. We will take a generation to get out from under the pile of elephant dung we now stew in.

Obama 08: America, pick up a shovel!

By Tray

August 7, 2008 9:05 AM | Link to this

Hey, all you pro-Obama peeps out there, quit complaining that McCain isn’t getting the coverage!!!

After all, it’s all of you who started the hooplah about him, and the media followed!

Even though i get tired of hearing about him, all this media coverage of him just publicly shows how he’s not educated enough in the ways of government to know how to be a successful president, you can take that to the bank!

People mention McCains flip-flopping, but no mention of how Obama was wrong for months about drilling, but now supports it; or how he was against tapping the reserve, and now supports it. yeah, that’s only 2 topics i’ve mentioned that he’s changed his stance on, but HOW MANY OTHER TOPICS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN THIS?? I dare to say none, not even the mortgage crisis, because that will solve itself once fuel costs go down and Americans have more money.

Oh, and let’s not forget how hard those Dems are working in Congress right about now…wait, what’s that?? THERE ARE NO DEMS IN CONGRESS, THEY’RE ALL ON VACATION!!! Well, now who the hell cares about what the American people want?? Oh, that must be the over 50 Republicans still in session because THEY REALIZE that the American people need help and answers now!

What’s Pelosi doing?? A book tour!! She doesn’t care about the American people, she cares about how much money her book will make her, and it’s not even a top 100!!

Keep on going Dems…run this country into a gutter!

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 7, 2008 9:07 AM | Link to this

BFKaJ

Good morning to you too dear heart!

You are just a sparkling example of well mannered manhood!

Name Jacker at 8:59

You have been reported.

By hillbilly ragger

August 7, 2008 9:10 AM | Link to this

You know what it’s like, where there are a bunch of people you don’t really care for much anyway, who you find at a social gathering p!ssing themselves laughing over some kind of joke? Just going on an on, practically to the point of tears, laughing about something?

And since they’ve caught your eye and are a somewhat friendly bunch at this get-together, you approach them and ask “Ok, what’s so funny?”

And they can’t stop laughing, not for awhile, but eventually one of them manages to splutter out a few words.

And the whole thing they’re howling about is so convoluted and riddled with in-jokes and, often, old, ugly, sexist, racist stereotypes that you wind up kinda weakly smiling and saying, “oh. Ok.” and thinking of a way to politely leave the circle and talk to someone who isn’t a drooling moron?

That’s kinda like what it is to hear Jim, BFK, Bud, AJC and others going on about “The Messiah” and suchlike.

Just so you know.

By FRANKLEEDARLING

August 7, 2008 9:10 AM | Link to this

NO I AM WAY MORE SICK OF EIGHT YEARS OF NEOCON BS!!

By HIDT

August 7, 2008 9:10 AM | Link to this

Thank you, Mrs. Godzilla, may I have another?

By AJC/DNC Management

August 7, 2008 9:11 AM | Link to this

Jim: I’d call it more of a revulsion, a gross and disgusting feeling in the bowels that cannot be relieved even with an extended stay at thee commode.

I’ve tried retching, I’ve tried breathing into a bag, medication, yoga, exercise, punching the bag but every time I work it out of my system up pops this lying POS, Lord High Dimwit, Thee Most Magnificant, talking about changing America and it washes back over me in waves.

I used to find it most helpful to remember that Bruno Thee Inevitable has been vanquished but even this comfort is now being slowly eroded and may even vanish entirely, God Help Us All.

I guess I’ll just keep praying for you America, for you know not what you do.

By HIDT

August 7, 2008 9:17 AM | Link to this

Dear Mrs. Godzilla,

My name is Humble ID Thief, because occasionally I nick handles on here to post something I think may be humorous. Since you didn’t think it was humorous, I apologize and will not jack your user name anymore. If it happens again, it won’t be me and Wooten will know it’s so.

So, here’s wishing you a nice, fulfilling namejack free blog experience. And for Christmas, maybe Santa will bring you a jar of Lighten Up.

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 7, 2008 9:17 AM | Link to this

Tray

FYI

Of the 198 Republican members of the House of Representatioves - 12 - are still in the darkened well of the House.

Bush laughed it off.

And their fearless leader John Boehner has been playing golf all week.

Oh, and those twelve….just how connected are they to big oil? eh?

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 7, 2008 9:18 AM | Link to this

HIDT

Nope.

By Paul

August 7, 2008 9:20 AM | Link to this

G’morning, Mrs. Godzilla

8:56 We’ve discussed in the past the lack of ‘real’ journalists. Many seem to be little more than cut-and-pasters.

8:59 I wouldn’t want to tick off Mrs. Obama. Just a word of friendly advice -

As far as Mr. Wooden’t question “for People & the Press 48 percent of the country thinks Obama is over-exposed. Among Republicans, it’s 67 percent; among Democrats, 34.” Well that just makes sense. The least exposed we saw Obama was at the basketball court when he was wearing short sleeves. He still had on long pants, not shorts (calm down, Mrs. G). But core family-values Republicans will still think that’s too much exposure. Democrats, being more live and let live, don’t get excited about this much exposure. They even watched Paris’s Energy video and didn’t get excited about her being in a bathing suit. Thankfully, we won’t have to answer this question about Senator McCain. And I do apologize for giving you such a mental picture of what we won’t have to see.

I trust your tenderloin was delicious. Here’s a brine recipe from our discussion last night:

This was for rib chops, but will work with any cut of lean pork. You may opt to use only water, sugar, and salt in the brine and omit the other flavorings. If the chops aren’t being cooked immediately after brining, just wipe off the excess brine, place the them on a wire rack set on top of a rimmed sheet pan, and keep them in the refrigerator, uncovered, to air dry for up to 3 hours.

INGREDIENTS

3/4 cup dark brown sugar (lightly packed)

1/2 cup kosher salt (or 1/4 cup table salt) 10 medium cloves garlic , crushed

4 bay leaves , crumbled

8 whole cloves
3 tablespoons whole black peppercorns , crushed

4 bone-in rib loin pork chops (12-ounces each), 1 1/2-inches-thick

2 tablespoons vegetable oil In gallon-sized zipper-lock plastic bag, dissolve sugar and salt in 2 cups hot water. Add garlic, bay leaves, cloves, peppercorns, and 4 cups cold water; cool mixture to room temperature. Add pork chops, then seal bag, pressing out as much air as possible; refrigerate until fully seasoned, about 1 hour, turning bag once. Remove chops from brine and dry thoroughly with paper towels.

Or a simpler one, say for a roast, would be 2 quarts water, ¼ cup table salt (not kosher, depending on the brand the amount will be lots different) , ¼ cup sugar and brine for 1 ½ to 2 hours.

By Ralph

August 7, 2008 9:22 AM | Link to this

I am suffering from GOP Fatigue, for the past 8 freaking years or so. McCain will be a real “pain” to this country if he wins, which will not happen. I wonder what Jim will write after the election, when Obama is elected. What possibly could he say. Maybe that the AJC has asked him to retire….. Honestly, though you got to appreciate Jim’s columns, he writes what he feels. Jim, you are all right personally, but politcally, you are far from right.

By Oz

August 7, 2008 9:23 AM | Link to this

Mrs. Mothra. STFU! Gadzooks, girl. WTF? is your problem?

SO what if someone jacks your ID? You’re as sensitive as Dusty and @@, which kind of gives you away, as being an alias of one of those two einsteins.

You’re nothing but a public facility, and a sellout hack, dishonestly debating as a liberal with the shrouds of conservatism who haunt this blog. (BJk, and Corporal Duhng).

BTW: I let “the corporal” go on for a while thinking he had fooled everyone with a new alias. He gave himself away with the first post by joining in where he had left off with his “Glenn” ID. What a fall guy! And he thought he was a blogmeister!! Nyuck Nyuck. What a maroon. What a stooge. And then when I called him on it, he quits using it. BWA!~~!

Just like when I tricked the empty headed Duhng into not using italics. I told him nobody could read them, so he thought, “Duhhh, I have to get read or I’ll be a total failure as a human being…”

AND HE STOPPED USING ITALICS!!! with one post I punked the copy rat! What a fall guy. What a maroon. What a dope!

And he thinks he’s still got credibility after he posts all day and night long hacking rush limbaugh!!!

BWAAAAA!!!!

By Ralph

August 7, 2008 9:23 AM | Link to this

I am suffering from GOP Fatigue, for the past 8 freaking years or so.

By Ralph

August 7, 2008 9:23 AM | Link to this

I am suffering from GOP Fatigue, for the past 8 freaking years or so.

By Pat

August 7, 2008 9:26 AM | Link to this

Hmmm. Well, yes, I’m a tad tired of our media’s current obsession with Obama. But I’ve been tired of the media for quite some time - tired with them pitching softballs to Bush in 99-‘00 and failing to reveal his glaring stupidity, hushed-up dereletion of duty and drug use … tired of them cheerleading the war … tired of them being completely co-opted by the Bush regime …and tired of them focusing on trivial issues and ignoring real crises. So my answer is “yes… somewhat.” But somehow, I think I will overcome my ennui and manage to punch my card for OB anyway. Go figure. Guess it’s my “fear.”

By @@

August 7, 2008 9:29 AM | Link to this

How much are the networks looking at the 26 years McCain spent inside the beltway…you know…Washington…that place he just figured out is broken?

Mrs. G:

It doesn’t come as a surprise that you’re an OBlahMa (The One) supporter. What are there…..like 80 senators? John McCain’s reputation of being the Lone maverick is well known inside and outside Washington.

The One, OBlahMa has been there how long? Nevermind…..irrelevant kinda.

Statistics: Barack Obama has sponsored 133 bills since Jan 4, 2005, of which 119 haven’t made it out of committee* *(Average) *and 2 were successfully enacted (Average, relative to peers). Obama has co-sponsored 638 bills during the same time period (Average, relative to peers). [On 4/2/08, the numbers were updated to consider companion bills in the other chamber identified as “identical” by the Congressional Research Service when determining if a bill was enacted or made it past the introduction stage.

Now McCain, on the other hand, was instrumental in passing some bills that pithed off many conservatives. A productive Maverick is what the average American is looking for.

Are you aware that OBlahMa, once He decided to run for President, took credit for successful bills in the Illinois State Senate? Problem is, He didn’t do the work….He just took the credit. Pithed off some of His fellow senators, it did.

Jim:

Am I suffering OBlahMa fatigue?

Initially I was listening. Then the “uhs” began to grate on my nerves just as John McCain’s “my friends” grated on the same nerves. As the campaign progressed I began to appreciate McCain’s wicked sense of humor and OBlahMa’s responses of ?!?righteous indignation?!?

I agree with you when you said he (OBlahMa) doesn’t know when to stop talking. His inexperience is becoming more apparent every day.

But then again….who doesn’t have The Clap On/Clap Off commercials engrained in their memory.

OBlahMa, The Clapper?

By FRANKLEEDARLING

August 7, 2008 9:30 AM | Link to this

I’m sure most of the cons are suffering a lot of anguish over obama’s popularity,the rest of us can’t wait to throw out this gross over fed GOP mess of a party

bye bye you trashy perverts

hello clean respectable America again

By Bosch

August 7, 2008 9:31 AM | Link to this

Some here have already said it.

Obama fatigue. Nope. McCain fatigue. Nope.

Media fatigue. Yes.

Bush and GOP fatigue. Most definitely.

The anticipation of Bush leaving office is similar to that of when I was a kid and I just couldn’t WAIT until Christmas or to go on vacation, or the last day of school before summer. Time seemed to stop, the anticipation just completely unbearable.

And then finally, the blessed day came.

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 7, 2008 9:35 AM | Link to this

OZ

What a proud moment for the supporters of your point of view!

You are just exactly what they need to get the message across!

Such pithy commentary!

Your creative use of abbreviations alone is amazing!

By @@

August 7, 2008 9:35 AM | Link to this

PoliFore/Ooooooz:

You’re as sensitive as Dusty and @@

When was the last time you’ve seen me complain?

Your ?!?righteous indignation?!? is showing my friend.

By Paul

August 7, 2008 9:40 AM | Link to this

Did Mr. Bookman extend his vacation?

By FRANKLEEDARLING

August 7, 2008 9:45 AM | Link to this

When the moment comes, and the pressure is on, I want a president I can depend on, not one that wears Depends.

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 7, 2008 9:47 AM | Link to this

off topic, but interesting

Mystery Deepens Around McCain Bundler By Eric Kleefeld - August 7, 2008, 12:25AM

The New York Times has elaborated on the story of Harry Sargeant, the McCain bundler who has collected some interesting donations from people who are either apolitical or actually profess to be against McCain. They uncovered an interesting new angle — and in the process seem to have missed a bigger point.

It appears, however, that Mr. Sargeant, the finance chairman of the Florida Republican Party and the part-owner of a major oil trading firm, International Oil Trading Company, did not actually solicit the donations from the Abdullahs and their friends. That task fell to a longtime business partner, Mustafa Abu Naba’a. Mr. Sargeant said in an interview that he has known Mr. Abu Naba’a for more than a decade and has worked with him on commercial ventures, including a contract with the Pentagon to supply fuel to the military in Iraq.

The point they failed to notice: That same contract to provide fuel for US troops in Iraq has been the subject of a lawsuit against Sargeant and Naba’a, coming from a business partner who is himself the brother-in-law of the King of Jordan. Their partner alleges that they shut him out of his rightful share of the profit after he arranged for the Jordanian government to only allow them in, despite having failed to give the lowest bid.

In other words, Sargeant and Naba’a are being sued for allegedly bilking their business partner out of his take on the deal.

From TPM

By @@

August 7, 2008 9:50 AM | Link to this

Allow me to be more succinct.

Obama’s treads are wearing thin but his tires are well inflated.

WATCH OUT! CAUSE HE’S GONNA BLOW.

Paul:

Bookman’s was a two-week vacation.

After you retired last night, I read a piece at Stratfor about General Petraeus’ unnanounced visit to Lebanon. Very interesting! Let’s play…….

Why Petraeus?

Why Lebanon?

Why now?

You’re on center stage. Show me what’cha got.

By hillbilly ragger

August 7, 2008 9:53 AM | Link to this

HIDT, the usual practice is to adopt a screen name that is very much like the one you wish to parody, only not quite.

That’s not name-stealing. That’s how parody is done.

Outright online name-stealing is always wrong (and pretty damn cowardly), no matter who does it. I don’t care for it when I see it done to Dusty, either and have said as much.

So yeah, the Mrs. was right to rat you out.

Paul @ 9.40, Jay took two weeks, I believe, so he’s got until next Monday to report for active doody.

By lava

August 7, 2008 9:54 AM | Link to this

YES,OBAMA FATIGUE ON THINKING RIGHT,how ironic that Wooten does not see it.Anything you can get to denigrate Obama for the benefit of Mccain’s sterile and erectile dysfunctional and decayed campaign.

By GMAN

August 7, 2008 9:54 AM | Link to this

During an election year, how in the hell can a candidate for President of The United States be over-exposed! Those who actually think that a candidate in an election can be over-exposed without a doubt “take great pride in being ignorant.” THERE ARE NO STUPID QUESTIONS BUT THERE ARE STUPID ANSWERS!

By Bad Brad

August 7, 2008 9:55 AM | Link to this

Paul,

You got a good recipe for fruitcake, or maybe slug salad?

By AJC/DNC Management

August 7, 2008 10:03 AM | Link to this

I’m sick of some elite POS, who thinks he is better than anyone else, wrongly assuming that I am a dumbas-s liberal like he is and do not know how to properly inflate my tires.

I’m sick of some moron that cannot speak a foreign language but yet still scolds me for not being able to, even though I live in America and couldn’t give a F less if the French understand me or not.

I’m sick of some scumbag who could not even improve the impoverished district that he represented in the Illinois Senate, telling us some garbage about how he will “change” America, the greatest, most prosperous and most giving nation in the history of the world, bar none.

I’m sick of some surrender monkey foreign as-s kisser going around the world bad mouthing my country in front of his fellow yellow bellies who hide from tyranny behind the might and strength of the United States of America.

I’m sick of some whining little cry baby, perched upon his media created throne and filling his diaper, call me and my fellow countrymen racists because we can see right through this light weight’s charade and know that it is all a bunch of BS.

And most of all, I am sick of this maggot talking about the surge failing and surrendering the tremendous gains that our brave soldiers have fought and died for, sacrificing every thing for the freedoms of 50,000,000 people, replacing their destitution with real hope, only to have to some sorry as-s political party and it’s “leader” squander their sacrifice over some stupid election campaign promises.

Other than that, he does read from the teleprompter pretty good.

By lava

August 7, 2008 10:04 AM | Link to this

I was on the Oreilly factor last nite and Oreilly tried to pass on an attack strategy to Karl Rove for Mccain, arguing that the Mccain campaign shld attack Obama for his flip flops…Rove was so disgusted,you cld see that on his face.He argued,rightly, that Mccain is not competent enough to do that,its like the kettle calling me black, becoz He is the FLIP FLOPPER IN CHIEF…with a 27/26 year record in senate,his hands are tied on most policy issues.This election is for KING MESSIAH OBAMA to lose!! Republicans can take pride in being ignorant,like Obama said,but thats your funeral people………

By hillbilly bagger

August 7, 2008 10:05 AM | Link to this

You mean like this? Gee, thanks for the advicel. I’ll take that right to heart. I’ll get on that, boss. You won’t see me doing it wrong no more. Yessirree, I got it, boss. You can count on me. I done learn’t my lesson.

By hillbilly nagger

August 7, 2008 10:08 AM | Link to this

Wrong? Cowardly? Overstate much? What planet is this?

By Abomi Nation

August 7, 2008 10:10 AM | Link to this

Obama is over exposed because columnists like Jim write about him every single day ad-nausea. Its just amazing that Jim could write this column. Here are the titles from Jim’s blog for the last month.

Obama Words, Obama Words, Obama Words.

Planet Obama.

Jesse is Obama’s Sister Soulja.

Obama is a Flip Flopper.

Obama’s Dangerous Change Agenda.

Paid Volunteerism. More Obama.

Despite Hype Obama Won’t Carry Georgia.

You Simply Must Adore Obama.

Do You suffer Obama Fatigue.

In that same period here is Jims Columns on McCain.

McCain Revives Campaign With Scrappy Smarts.

Thats it. One lousy column on McCain. Then Wooten asks if Obama is overexposed! At the same time since the primaries ended McCain has virtually dissapeared from Jim’s columns. Well duh, yes Obama is overexposed and McCain is getting little attention.

Its obvious why.

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 7, 2008 10:12 AM | Link to this

During the interview in a regal room at the State Department appointed with chandeliers, rich carpets and cases of porcelain, Rice was asked: “Would you feel safe with a President Obama?”“Oh, the United States will be fine,” she responded. “I think that we are having an important debate about how we keep the country safe. I think we are having an important debate about our responsibilities, our obligations, our interests in the Middle East in the wake of the now increasing evidence of success in Iraq. Those are important judgments for the American people to make.” From Politico

No Obama fatigue there!

By Mr. Japanese movie monster ragger

August 7, 2008 10:13 AM | Link to this

I am an elitist leftist. I get my panties in a wad easily. And then in my haughty way, dispense advice on how to post on blogs.

Har!

By Paul

August 7, 2008 10:15 AM | Link to this

@@

Well, it’s an opinion worth entirely what it cost ya’. But the Lebanese gov’t has been caving to Hezbollah, who’s been growing stronger. We’ve been giving a lot of aid to the gov’t, so we may see a “we give it to you to protect yourself” message. It’d be an interesting message, given Hezbollah’s part of the gov’t yet is obviously running an independent military. I wouldn’t be surprised if part of the discussion was “you crushed Sadr – what lessons can we apply and survive?” Israel’s learned from its last military debacle – you have to give that to the Israeli military – it learns from its mistakes. Will also be interesting if we see a “Lebanon, we have no beef with you but we’re entering your territory to crush Hezbollah” operation. Will also be interesting if Obama picks up the parallels between that and his emerging AQ/Pakistan policy. Lots of tea leaves to read, eh?

Bad Brad

Fruitcakes? Read the blog….

or try Ascension Abbey’s website.

By Oz

August 7, 2008 10:15 AM | Link to this

Obama 08: America takes over.

BTW: McCain and his surge is McCain’s assessment of our military progress. Well, guess what, mcCain? While you’re pouring money into a hole in the desert sand, the Chinese are building a vast navy.

Bush, ironically, who would start an unjustifiable war and spend more on defense than anyone in history, is weak on defense. SO is McCain.

This money should be going to counter the Chinese, who are our enemy, dont be fooled by their fat smiling faces.

But McCain only knows how to burn US carriers, like he done in Vietnam clowning around like the yokel he truly is.

Obama 08: He’ll know how to spend defense dollars, and it aint giving it away for free to Cheney croneys who steal it for themselves and then buy graft with it.

Obama 08: America4America (copyright, 08).

And what did I just say, Mrs. Mothra? SHUT…..TF…..UP! You have overstayed your blog welcome with hundreds of GOP friendly comments that are pathetic. shut…tf…UP!

moron. (and idiot).

U2, fatfat, nitwit (and imbecile)

But dusty can stay.

bwa

By BFKaJ

August 7, 2008 10:16 AM | Link to this

Dear HIDT, I still think you show great humor – the Mrs. G. riff was funny, and I was not smart enough to identify you. Feel free to use either of my bloghandles, and I care not if you reflect me in an adverse light, so long as it is funny. You may also use my handles to slander others (again, so long as it has some humorous core) – I’ll stand behind it. I know I lack a sparkling wit, yet I appreciate it when I see it in others. That’s why I still like PoFo, even when he is under attack for crossing the line.

By Tray

August 7, 2008 10:17 AM | Link to this

Let’s not forget the media ‘no coverage’ on Obama’s campaign contributions from 2 muslims in the GAZA STRIP!!

The Barack Obama campaign has accepted tens of thousands of dollars from two brothers in Palestine. Monir and Hosam Edwan are from a large refugee camp in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. Monir Edwan has donated over $24,000 to the Obama campaign. His brother, Hosam, has donated over $5,000 to the Messiah. How did they get away with this? Well they listed their address as being from Rafah, GA – a town that does not exist in the state of Georgia. If the Obama people had done their homework they might have discovered this little fact. Not only have the brothers donated well over the $2,300 limit for one person during a single election, but they are clearly not American. You don’t think they could be Muslims, do you?

DO YOU WANT THIS MAN FOR PRESIDENT?? REALLY??? Taking campaign contributions from Muslims?

Why do you think Muslims and other nations like Obama?? BECAUSE THEY KNOW HE WILL WEAKEN AMERICA AND DRIVE IT TO THE GROUND!

Wake up, people! Darn near every other country in the world hates us. They know McCain is the best choice, which is why they are pro-Obama! They don’t want America to succeed, and if you believe that, then go visit another country and educate yourself.

After all, the uneducated would support Obama-they are the ones who can’t seem to hold a job, can’t pay their bills, and want the Gov’t to bail them out of problems they caused for themselves!

I will only vote for McCain because Obama is the greater of 2 evils…just like Kerry was 8 years ago. Bush sucks, and McCain sucks, but they are far better than Kerry or Obama!

By GMAN

August 7, 2008 10:18 AM | Link to this

John McCain is so old, he remembers what life was like before the ice age!

GOP - Taking pride in being ignorant!

By Midori

August 7, 2008 10:19 AM | Link to this

Bad Brad,

I must jump in here and defend Paul.

He has some pretty tasty recipes, and I suspect he is one awesome cook.

You should try to learn from him rather than ridicule him.

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 7, 2008 10:19 AM | Link to this

Mr. Japanese movie monster ragger

Thanks so very much for the props dude!

I am unworthy of your magnificent talent for satire!

I am humbled beside your wit and wordsmanship!

By Bad Brad

August 7, 2008 10:20 AM | Link to this

Read the blog? That’s just what I did. Since you were dispensing recipes on this blog, I thought maybe you might share some more … fruitcake.

By GMAN

August 7, 2008 10:21 AM | Link to this

John McCain is so old, he still parties like it’s 1899!

By GMAN

August 7, 2008 10:22 AM | Link to this

John McCain is so old, hevwas there when they laid out plans for the pyramids!

GOP - Taking pride in being ignorant!

By Get Real

August 7, 2008 10:30 AM | Link to this

Another tired post from Wooten. I wish Bush had been ‘over-exposed’ 8 years ago. You say you don’t know much about Obama, then isn’t exposing him a good thing? I wish the press and you (since you’re not a real journalist) would focus more on McCain. Ask him another question about birth control and he might have a heart attack.

Its hilarious that Republicans say Obama is inexperienced, but touted Bush and his team as the most experienced administration ever. Seems to me experience shouldn’t mean all that much after this debacle. But I know its just another talking point. Wooten and all you other right wing nuts should be banned from voting in November, just for electing this terrible president to two terms. Your voting privileges should be revoked, or at least suppressed the same as the Republicans did minorities in Florida and Ohio. Your party has no standing whatsoever to say Obama is inexperienced, naive, or whatever word this election will produce. You elected the worst president ever, and yet want another four years of Republican leadership. McCain isn’t a maverick anymore, he’s a hardcore Republican.

Any real fiscal conservative would somehow see that with the deficit Bush is leaving, how can you extend his tax cuts? After Iraq, there is no way you can be the party that has national security bonafides. Whatever happens now, it was still a war of choice not necessity. It was managed horribly, and everything that was said before we went there turned out to be wrong. Theres no way your party deserves to lead this country another 4 years. THATS SOME STRAIGHT TALK!!!

By FRANKLEEDARLING

August 7, 2008 10:32 AM | Link to this

John McCain is so old he took the apple from eve bringing us original sin and menstruation

By @@

August 7, 2008 10:32 AM | Link to this

U2, fatfat, nitwit (and imbecile)

Dang! there ^^^ it is again.

But dusty can stay.

I agree PoliFore. I’ve always enjoyed Dusty’s posts.

You like her because…………

She points out your namejacking? But you didn’t like it when Mrs…………………

Oh nevermind.

Paul:

I’ll be right back with Stratfor’s analysis. It’s a progressive thing. Previous observations culminating into an overall assessment.

By CommunistAJC

August 7, 2008 10:35 AM | Link to this

Found this article for all of you whiny p*** liberals who are afraid of your own shadows.

How General Petraeus Saved the U.S. Economy.

With oil prices continuing to plunge—and they may have a lot further to go—I’ve started wondering about this “what if” scenario: Where would oil prices be today had we abandoned Iraq to civil war and al Qaeda? What if President Bush had announced on Jan. 10, 2007, that instead of surging U.S. troops under the command of General Patraeus, he was ordering their withdrawal? Imagine if Iraq had descended in complete chaos and terror and genocide. Somalia or Rwanda on the Tigris and Euphrates, I guess.

Right now, Iraq is pumping out some 2.4 million barrels of petroleum a day. (That’s about what the country was producing before the war and double the level of production at its post-liberation low point.) But given tight global oil markets, what would the price of oil be—and what would the state of the U.S. economy be—with perhaps all of those 2.4 million barrels off the market? Actually, we don’t have to imagine very hard at all. Hurricane Katrina took about 2.4 million barrels off the market (because of refining shutdown and a halt to foreign oil deliveries), and oil prices spiked. And then layer on top of all that a possible regional war. Saudi Arabia and Iran might well have intervened on the side of the Sunni and Shiite. Wouldn’t we all be screaming about $200-a-barrel oil—or maybe twice that?

Instead, to quote a recent and much-overlooked Associated Press analysis, terrorists and insurgents “no longer have the clout to threaten the viability of the central government.” Perhaps now the energy-stressed global economy can look forward to more Iraq oil coming onto the market, perhaps 6 million barrels a day or more in time as western capital pours in. And while we’re at it, don’t forget about the costs of not liberating Iraq to begin with. In today’s Wall Street Journal, columnist Bret Stephens presents an interesting counterfactual that raises all sorts of interesting questions about opportunity costs:

SUCK ON THAT LIBERAL SCUM!

By Paul

August 7, 2008 10:35 AM | Link to this

Mrs. Godzilla

[[During the interview in a regal room at the State Department appointed with chandeliers, rich carpets and cases of porcelain,]]

Sure, part of that’s the elegance of putting the best face forward for foreign visitors. But much is the mindset of a career bureaucracy whose main concern with a budget is to make sure it gets spent before the end of the year.

It cuts across party lines, because this is the bureaucracy that watches administrations come and go. But the Party people do the same. Spkr Pelosi spends $16,000 on flowers in a few months. Her Rep predecessor funnels earmarks that make property he owns worth more (the guy comes to Congress with a net worth of a couple hundred grand and in a few years is worth upwards of $12 mil? At least Spkr Pelosi was rich when she was elected).

But my point is, when people say “that isn’t all that much money” I think of the couple working whose first few months of labor go to pay their Federal taxes. How many years did they work to pay for flowers? Or earmarks? Or new office furniture? Obama and McCain are both correct - we can cut a few billion from the bureaucracy and the bulk of Americans will never suffer for it.

By CommunistAJC

August 7, 2008 10:38 AM | Link to this

Mrs. Godzilla, I’m sure you’ve spent lots of time with men. With all those years of working the streets I mean.

GMAN, You are discriminating against a mans age. I guess you need to take some tolerance classes at Dekalb Tech.

GMAN-Taking pride in being ignorant. And fat.

By Whatever

August 7, 2008 10:40 AM | Link to this

Tray, please provide a link to your assertaion that muslims have given money to the Obama campaign. And is every muslim a terrorist? You Republicans are so backward in your thinking, that every person that isn’t like you is somehow bad or beneath you. Would you let a muslim doctor work on you if it was the matter of life or death? Your whole thinking is uneducated and based soley on assumptions. You already know how McCain would govern, just like Bush.

And under Bush, America hasn’t succeeded so we don’t need any countries to stand in our way. We’re doing the damage ourselves. Just like Bush goes to China to pass judgment on their civil rights, while he imposes on ours here at home. Your comments prove that there are still some dumb Americans.

By Cay

August 7, 2008 10:42 AM | Link to this

Keep his name in the headlines and keep naysayers talking about him. We don’t even care about that other old white guy. The more you hate, the better he gets. And that’s what’s going to get him in the White House. OBAMA 08!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By CommunistAJC

August 7, 2008 10:43 AM | Link to this

What I find funny is how libs made John F. Kerry, who served in Vietnam, out to be a god-like man. In the end he was smashed by W. Obama is now falling apart and being exposed for the fraud he really is. The man, I mean messiah, has NO PLAN other than forcing America to become a socialist country.

Also, the democrat congress has a NINE PERCENT approval rating. Nancy Pelosi just released her new book that has sold a whopping 2737 copies. Wow, America really loves democrats. I can not think of ONE reason to vote democrat. I mean, I love my country and they hate America. I want prosperity and wealth and they want to take it away from me. Can someone give me a sane reason to vote for Barack Hussein Obama?

By Paul

August 7, 2008 10:44 AM | Link to this

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Thanks, I’ll look for it when I return.

But a serious observation on today’s question: I’ll hazard a guess that the reason so many people feel overload is because so much of the reporting has been on relatively frivolous issues. So Reps are looking for, if not some smoking gun, at least an idea of “who is he, really?” while Dems don’t mind the lightweight coverage. Because they aren’t as concerned with the history of accomplishment, or the personal life, or who he knew when, as they are with a broader vision of where they want the country to go.

Rather the same as how Republicans viewed Reagan when he ran for governor, then for President.

By Mrs. Godzilla

August 7, 2008 10:47 AM | Link to this

Duh at 10:38

You constantly bring an air of good cheer to this blog!

With out you as an outstanding example of compassionate conservatism here on this blog we would all be at loose ends!

By CommunistAJC

August 7, 2008 10:48 AM | Link to this

Obama Hussien supporters, You guys/gals better be watching out for one Hillary Rodham Rodham. It’s going to be a hoot watching the DNC fall in to complete chaos this fall. What happens when she steals Obama Husseins rightful place in the White House?

By Cay

August 7, 2008 10:49 AM | Link to this

Blatant race baiter Jim Wooten does it again!!! I love naysayers such as him and his followers because they make people (Obama) stronger. Blame the media (Wooten) for continuing this FASINATION with the presidential candidate. The more exposure he gets the better. Nobody cares about that old white guy. The road to the White House is clearer than ever. OBAMA 2008!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Midori

August 7, 2008 10:49 AM | Link to this

Communist AJC: this some of your work?

By Road Scholar

August 7, 2008 10:49 AM | Link to this

@@: You seem to have the data on Obama; what about McCain? What are the numbers and the source? While you are at it, what are the number of votes they have made the past 2-3 years?

You state McCain was vital to some legislation passing; how many were written by him? Sponsored? Co-sponsored? Does he just jump on the train after testing the waters?

AJC/DNC: I thought that you were describing yourself until you got to the surge…

By Cay

August 7, 2008 10:50 AM | Link to this

Blatant race baiter Jim Wooten does it again!!! I love naysayers such as him and his followers because they make people (Obama) stronger. Blame the media (Wooten) for continuing this FASINATION with the presidential candidate. The more exposure he gets the better. Nobody cares about that old white guy. The road to the White House is clearer than ever. OBAMA 2008!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Cay

August 7, 2008 10:50 AM | Link to this

Blatant race baiter Jim Wooten does it again!!! I love naysayers such as him and his followers because they make people (Obama) stronger. Blame the media (Wooten) for continuing this FASINATION with the presidential candidate. The more exposure he gets the better. Nobody cares about that old white guy. The road to the White House is clearer than ever. OBAMA 2008!!!!!!!!!!!!

By AmVet

August 7, 2008 10:50 AM | Link to this

The question remains, in spite of the ‘statistics’, why are these Republicans so obsessed with Obama?

Or Hillary.

Or fill in the blank Democrat/liberal/moderate/non neo-con.

It deflects them having to explain/justify/apologize for the endless failures of their repudiated ideology.

And that they have NO one to represent them this fall…

By Whatever

August 7, 2008 10:50 AM | Link to this

Commie, your whole post is based on ‘what ifs, imagines, and coulda beens.’ Which means its all opinion and not facts. What we do KNOW AS FACT, is that the oil in Iraq didn’t pay for the war,there were no WMDs (you know the reason we went there in the first place), we weren’t greeted as liberators, over 4000 troops have died, and Iraq has an $80 Billion surplus while YOU and I pay to reconstruct their country. While you say that liberals are afraid of their shadows, the same conservative leaders ducked from Vietnam (Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld). These same chickenhawks that love war so much deferred their way out of the war, or went AWOL from the national guard. While you present ‘what ifs’, I’m bringing facts. Republicans like to puff their chests out, yet they only thing they can say about Bush is ‘he’s kept us safe.’ Thats a fairytale because bin Laden is still somewhere on the planet. He couldn’t even get that right, and you still want to elect another Republican. Puhleeze!

By AJC/DNC Management

August 7, 2008 10:52 AM | Link to this

Suddenly being green is not cool any more- Julie Burchill can’t stand them. According to her new book, Not in my Name: A Compendium of Modern Hypocrisy, she thinks all environmentalists are po-faced, unsexy, public school alumni who drivel on about the end of the world because they don’t want the working classes to have any fun, go on foreign holidays or buy cheap clothes.

In an interview with Rachel Sylvester and me, she told us that the “nutbag ecologists” are the overindulged who have nothing better to do with their lives than talk about hot air and beans.

Go for a ride in my SUV, sweet thing?

Hahahahaha, losers.

By dudewheresmycountry

August 7, 2008 10:53 AM | Link to this

can’t get enough of the guy righ now. maybe have a touch of obama fatigue eight (8) years from now………

By Midori

August 7, 2008 10:53 AM | Link to this

Now I understand the deal with Communist AJC

Earned a big, shiny nickel, did ya?

By Get Real

August 7, 2008 10:54 AM | Link to this

He ain’t a Republican. Thats a big reason Commie?

By findog

August 7, 2008 10:58 AM | Link to this

Greetings,

First to Mrs. Godzilla, my apologies to your father, as a veteran of the Army Chemical Corps I respect all who serve. The cheep shot of tying your two consecutive sentences on spending and addiction was too low a blow for even this blog.

As to fatigue – being a political and history junkie I used to be riveted to the cable channels for the daily updates and analysis they provided. Somewhere along the Florida recount it occurred to me that a diet heavy in saturated opinion was really bad for my ability to accept reality.

I now watch very little of the daily political shows so I am able to process the blabbering in healthy doses. I am still undecided but leaning to McCain unless Obama comes out with a believable plan to fix our budget crisis he will get my vote, unless McCain comes out with a more believable plan…

By CommunistAJC

August 7, 2008 10:58 AM | Link to this

Mrs. Godzilla, Who said I was conservative? I just don’t like democrats.

Midori, Nope.

AmVet, I’m trying to figure out exactly what you are. Help me out a bit. You seem to hate capitalism so I guess that makes you a socialist? Again, help me out. I can not, for the life of me, figure out why anyone would want to vote democrat. I mean, other than to have all of your hard earned money taken away, loss of more jobs? I look at states like Michigan, where for years they had wonderful jobs. Now, its a dying city thanks to high taxes, unions and democrats. Democrats have run most of the northern states economies in to the ground. I just saw a list of the top ten dying cities in America. Not one of them was in the south. Explain please.

By The One

August 7, 2008 10:59 AM | Link to this

BFKaj @ 8:39

The Obamessiah forgives you. Be blessed and say five, Heil Obama’s, and sin no more.

It is so.

By @@

August 7, 2008 11:01 AM | Link to this

O.K. PoliFore, this is gonna be a “long one” so don’t get overly excited.

Paul:

I’m not gonna pull excerpts, and I hope there’s no word limit here. It’s pretty straight forward. Given the Muginiyah (sp?) assassination, the recent hit on General Suleiman, Hezbollah’s recent flight to the hills, ongoing peace negotiations between Syria and Israel; the analysis is conceivable.

Contrary to expectations, the visit likely has little to do with military assistance to the Lebanese army. No amount of U.S. aid is going to be enough to build the Lebanese military into a force unified and formidable enough to competently confront an organization like Hezbollah. And a soon-to-be CENTCOM chief like Petraeus certainly does not have to be the one to make the time for a trip to Beirut to discuss giving a new batch of vehicles to Lebanese security forces. We suspect this meeting addressed more important matters.

The visit comes at a critical time; the regional dynamics are shifting in the Levant. Israel and Syria are negotiating in fancy hotel rooms in Turkey over a peace deal that would enhance Israel’s national security and reassert Syrian hegemony in Lebanon. These talks are progressing and are making Hezbollah more and more paranoid by the day, given that any final accommodation between the Israelis and the Syrians would include cutting Hezbollah down to size.

Though the Syrians already appear to have taken some (quiet) steps to curtail Hezbollah’s arms supplies, the Israelis are signaling that the ultimate litmus test for this peace deal will involve bigger and bolder action by the Syrians against the Shiite militant group. Israel is not about to allow Syria to play the middle ground in dealing with Hezbollah. With the Lebanese incapable of containing Hezbollah themselves, the Syrians are expected to play a major role in diluting Hezbollah’s military strength.

Exactly how Israel intends to deal with Hezbollah is still unclear, especially as the Israeli government is in a major political flux over its prime minister’s impending resignation. But Israeli preparations for a military confrontation with Hezbollah are now in full swing, and we can’t help but wonder whether these preparations are simply precautionary measures in case of a Hezbollah attack; or perhaps they are part of an Israeli strategy to goad Hezbollah into a war that would prove Syria’s commitment to the peace talks.

The same day Petraeus was in Lebanon, Stratfor picked up information from a source in the region claiming that Syria had dismantled an anti-aircraft system in the Anti-Lebanon mountain range to the east of the Bekaa Valley — a major Hezbollah stronghold and likely the main site of fighting between Hezbollah and Israel should full-scale hostilities resume. According to the source, Israel assured the Syrians (via Turkey) that it would not attack Syrian military positions in the event of such an outbreak, leaving Hezbollah particularly vulnerable and dependent on its own meager arsenal of man-portable surface-to-air missiles.

Stratfor has not been able to confirm this information, but if true, it signals a significant shift toward peace by the Syrians. Whether or not Israel intends to attack Hezbollah, whether or not Syria intends to attack Hezbollah, and whether or not the two decide to work together militarily or politically against Hezbollah, the bottom line is that that time is coming. Any of the above options are feasible, and there are many more ways to skin this particular cat. But the commonality among all of them is that Israel and Syria are sliding from a cold war into a cold peace, and that will redefine not just their bilateral relations, but the balance of power throughout the region. A Syria that can work with Israel is one in which Iran holds little influence. A Lebanon under the Syrian thumb is one in which groups like Hezbollah face the question of accommodation or oblivion. A more secure Israel is one that does not need to be overly concerned about anything the Palestinians demand. All this adds up to a very different region, and one which the United States — via Petraeus — fully intends to be involved in shaping.

The only thing that leads me to question is Assad’s recent statement upon his visit to Tehran. I seldom go with the obvious as I believe the obvious is meant to mislead.

By lava

August 7, 2008 11:03 AM | Link to this

You are discriminating against a mans age yes he is so senile,if he becomes president,he wont remember where the nucl