Jack & Jill Politics

Then there's "MCANCIENT": "Low Road Express"

www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/opinion/30wed1.html?...

"McCain has wholeheartedly adopted Mr. Rove's LOW-MINDED and UNCIVIL playbook."

Re "billary watch": Seee, I knew that she was planning something!!!!
"Report: Hillary Gets Major Speaking Slot At Convention"[Eric Kleefeld]
She will be speaking on the first night which happens to be the day of the anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment - the right of women to vote. Billary will be joined on stage by all other FEMALE Democratic senators. Will this be the LAST DAY of her CAMPAIGN, FINALLY!!!???

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com...

Geez!! SSSSSSnakes!!! Whew!!! Deep breaths!!!

Politics has . . . evolved from the centralized "war room" of the 1990s to a decentralized one that exists in a million or two homes right now, of which bloggers and independent media are a new kind of precinct captain that needs no orders from headquarters nor permission to take initiative. We saw that at work last weekend in the rapid response from the bottom up to the McCain campaign's false claims in a television ad about Obama's European trip. Only four days later, the McCain camp has backed down.

And that's a large reason why the Chicken Little proclamations that we so often read and hear elsewhere - the petulant demands from armchair campaign managers that the Obama [campaign] fight back in specific ways - are so silly: Surrogates almost always make the better counterpunchers and anybody with a modem or a network of friends or neighbors is now as much of a surrogate as the big names that can garner mass media attention. When you can do something yourself, it's just plain infantile to call upon daddy or mommy - or the presidential candidate or political leader upon which you project that role - to do it for you. Hopefully, one of the lasting results of 2008 will be the emergence of the more grown-up form of political activism in which rather than calling on others to do things for us we simply do it ourselves.

Profound political wisdom from Al Giordano on The Field.

ice: Thanks, as usual! :>) :>)

I can always count on you to find the best photos!

The one that stood out the most was the photo of Obama smiling while walking over the shake the hands of white men holding up a big sign saying, "Rednecks for Obama" - classic

And also the one of him serving hamburgers to the locals...the smiles on their faces...-just classic

Rikyrah, RIKYRAH,

This one's for your PILL-POPPIN' PIECE ON THE SIDE.


CINDY LOU HENSLEY McCAIN in DICKIPEDIA...a wiki of dicks

isonprize: Funny post!!! Thank you!!!! :>)

Kieth Olbermann is on. He is hilarious. He is slamming McCain's ads. So funny I have to record it.

He's funny and observant.
Toward the end of the show, Keith mentioned the fade in from Obama to the 2 blond white women and wondered if there was anything behind it. The comedian Finnegan didn't run with the line...he was too skurd.

Know what's amazing?? Obama came into this race with not even a fifth of the money of the frontrunners, he's African-American, hell, his name is Barack Hussein Obama, you can't get much blacker than that.....he re-wrote the rules COMPLETELY......and to see these right-wing knuckleheads say "well, why isn't he leading in the polls MORE".....I just gotta laugh.
(now where did I put it....I know I just had it...geez, can't find anything in this purse)...AHAAAA!!! There it is!! My RACE CARD (its everywhere you...well....if you're black its not everywhere you wanna be, its just everywhere you BE)

There is one reason and one reason ONLY that Obama is not 25 points ahead in the polls and I'm sick of these condescending "well why can't he close the deal" rethuglicans......no, the question is why is a lily-white military vet BEHIND?

Miranda: Doesn't it feel good ta be here!? :>) :>) :>)
Co-sign and "virtual dap" on the rest! :>) :>) :>)

So Tucker Carlson stopped wearing those annoying bowties....he still looks like a dweeb.

Thanks GreenLadyHere - got the Mozilla Foxfire downloaded..YEAH!!

I declare Claire McCaskill and Rachel Maddows honorary sistahs! Somebody get a crown because they hold it down ERE time.

Tanya Acker is always holding it down on the Verdict with Dan Abrams...but I haven't seen her for awhile.

Vanity Fair Magazine named Michelle Obama to the top of it's 2008 International Best Dressed List :)

i told you guys that michelle bernard was the truth, her and rachel maddow have been the only one's so far on msnbc who have came to BHO's aid

barry4obama: YEP!!!! :>) :>)

O.K. I'm THA-ROUGH!!!!! Ford said NO! He did NOT hear the RACIAL OVERTONES/PREJUDICE in the accusations of "presumptuous" behavior!

Law ha' mercy!!! [she said shaking her drooped head and pounding on her desk!!!]

Double WHEW!! And Deep breaths to the hundreth power!!!!!

fyi

To view the RNCs new Web site Obama Audacity Watch, go to http://gop.com/images/audacitywatch/audacitywat....

Angela1: I went there. Unless it's normal, I noticed that they're using the same DONATION SYSTEM as Mr. Obama -except they start at $10. Copy cats!! :>) :>)

Uh - OH! They're 'bout to discuss the "UPPITY N****R" concept on Gregory's show! Let's see how many of the "CODE WORDS" are used! :>) :>) I've already heard "presumptuous!!!" Lawd! It will never end!!!
Whew. Deep breaths!!"

I'm watching off and on.....thank god for Maddow

Angela 1: ABSOLUTELY!!! FORD'S POSITION AS A "CENTRIST" IS NOT BECOMING TO HIM!!! The fact is that he can't contain himself when it comes to giving "advice" to Mr. Obama and reducing the number of non-supportive statements. I tried to give him the benefit of the doubt, but I get anxious every time he speaks. Sooooo, I'm LOWERING my expectations of him!!
I am THA-ROUGH!!!!
Whew!!! [as she slowly lowers her head]. Slow, sustained DEEP BREATHS!!

Notice that one of these books will be released on Barack's birthday.

Nasty.

Both books will be released three weeks before the convention.

Anti-Obama books hit shelves within days

The Denver Project.

Sharing: "Richardson Steps Up To Help Clinton"

Richardson will host 2 fundraisers as an Obama supporter on Aug 17[for billary]. Well this is what is done. The article states that Richardson has a $292,726 in debt. Who helps him?? Just askin'

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/07/30/ri...

Between cnn "black in America" and the federal apology,  you would think America is getting ready to consider blacks relevant again.

Claire McCaskill is too fierce. This is the kind of surrogate the campaign needs.

She introduces him in Missouri today

I really wish she was being considered for vp. She's got Obama's back big time.

I looove her! That day I saw that clip of her saying she didn't want Bill Clinton near her daughter, I thought "she's a star!".

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/30/former...

Ludacris Obama video denounced

Oh good grief.

Good grief @ Obama / Obama camp denouncing and rejecting something that had nothing to do with them,yet again


and


Good grief @ Ludacris and everyone else who's taking the opportunity to act a fool in the name of Obama.

When people can go on BET and act like fools in showing their support for Obama, what do you expect?

Who is really surprised by this? The only thing that gets me is that it's taken this long for a rapper to do it.

Can't wait to see the McCain ad on this. Whoever pulls it off-without offending anyone-is a genius.

To hell with whether or not such vile, repugnant and offensive statements are imputed upon a credible and respected Black potential president in particular, and Black people in general ...

I guess what's really important is how it can be spun so that a white politician can benefit from it.

Unbelievable.

And just how do you think he'll benefit from it?

Cause I see no possible way.

But, with the way his campaign's been going, I bet he tries. That speaks to the "tactical errors" that I mentioned earlier....and THAT was the point of that statement.

I'm waiting for the ad that shows Nas and Ludacris performing there most vile or angry lyrics with McCain saying something about "these are Obama's supporters, is this what you want for America". Maybe they can dub in a little "I'll paint the White House Black".

D. and pjamma,

I just saw Pat Buchanan reference the Ludacris incident as "coming from his (Obama's) own people."

WTF???

And I see pjamma's point about the commercial. But that could backfire as well. McCain would be playing with some serious racial fire if his campaign is dumb enough to try something like that. But, after today's Paris Hilton commercial, I can't say I'd put it past him.

B-Serious: Dr. Rachel Maddow just said that these ads are "reflecting a racial prejudice!" She's "fired up" today!

Ford said: I agree with Pat A LOT. Seee, Under no circumstances would I ever utter the WORDS -I agree with the VERY RACIST Pat!!! Mannnnnn! :>(

Whew!!! DEEP BREATHS!!!!!

Rachel was GREAT!!! 10 more minutes and she would have finally just called out Buchanan for being the racist pig that he is. I hope that segment gets youtubed. Just freaking great!

Ford should go back to Fox where I don't ever have to see him.

Nellcote: DOUBLE co-sign and "virtual dap!!!"
My comuter doesn't know what a "dap" is! :>) :>) :>)

Dick Gregory had a monologue at the beginning of the show summarizing McCain's smears against Barack. It was he who suggested this Ludacris song/video is coming from Obama's people.

Nas, Ludacris, Bernie Mac, Rene Marie...

This list is going to get longer and longer.

For Barack to meet with Ludacris and give him props and then to get this in return is, well....

Betrayal.

Fasten your seatbelts.

The Denver Project.

Dick Gregory?

pjamma is dead on.

Obama actually should come out with a statement like that. He can not be held responsible for everything every black person says or does. And not just black people, but anyone. Just remind people that there are only a certain amount of individuals that are authorized to speak for the campaign.

The problem is that Obama can't avoid getting asked about things like this. If someone mentions his name, a reporter is going to ask for his opinion. There's just no way of getting around that . . .

Except . . .

to say "no comment," or "I disagree." And that's what he should do. Obama CAN control his response. Just keep it short, sweet and move on to the next topic. But he needs to stop giving these long a*s responses to every little nontroversy that's out there. He's just asking for trouble when he does that.

Still, I don't know what people expect Obama to do when put in a situation like this. What did Luda think was gonna happen? Luda made an Obama tribute and called Hillary a "bi*ch" in the process. Hello??? Like he didn't think that would grab major headlines?

And this is why Nas got the side eye treatment with his Color of Change action. He might do something really foolish next month that would negate all the good he did. Why is anyone surprised at Ludacris? He was pissed off at Oprah for asking him about his lyrics. Didn't Bernie mac act a fool a few weeks ago? They want to engage in bad behavior but don't want to be held accountable for it. They should just stop. They do more harm than good.

Co-sign. These people are NOT stupid. And they should realize that they are NOT helping. Sometimes I think these Black entertainers want to have it all. They want to get mainstream acceptance, but don't want mainstream criticism. Stop acting foolish!!!!! There is a time and a place for everything, and if you don't know the appropriate time or place to express your feelings than you need to keep your mouth shut. Point blank, period.

heartsandflowers,

I'm tellin' ya . . . Obama needs to call Wayne Brady. He might be corny, but he's about as noncontroversial as it gets. LOL

Are you forgetting the Chapelle skit and 'choke a **tch'?

One more thing . . . message to Obama:

Just stick to Motown!

It's really simple. Motown is some of the least offensive, mainstream black entertainment that you can find. Everyone loves Motown. Even old blue-haired Republicans love some Motown every now and then.

Just stay away from everything else. I don't wanna see no more Kings of Comedy . . . no hip-hop . . . . heck, I don't even wanna see any black gospel (remember the McClurkin' controversy). Not to say I don't love these things myself . . . but keep 'em away from the political spotlight. Just keep it simple . . .

I'm sure Wayne Brady could use some work. That's the kind of entertainment Obama needs. Anything else is asking for trouble.

LOL, I don't know about Wayne Brady, he might flip out and beat a bitch's ass {/snerk}

B-Serious: CO-SIGNING on both! :>)

Hell, why comment at all? You're right; when he responds to every little thing, he either comes off as a whiner/unable to take a joke/overly sensitive (all depending on what the case is).

Love "nontroversy."

what you call nontrovery, the GOP calls Talking Point that leads to the bigger narrative. Deep down, you know its true...

I actually love Admiral Kossack's idea:

Patriotric music plays, a photo of Obama standing at a podium giving a speech, pictures of Rev. Wright, Father Pfleger, Jesse Jackson, Min. Farrakhan, random rappers, etc. flash by

The screen fades to black and the words appear on the screen:

"I did not do it. I did not say it."


Then fades to black again.


"I'm Barack Obama and I approve this message."


Hell, that could be a "web only" ad.

LOL or just play Shaggy's "It wasn't me" in the background. LOL

Bring back No Limit Records and play "it ain't my fault" in the background....

HAHAH

And good grief @ the Hillary people for whining about it.

You don't see McCain denouncing, repudiating or rejecting Toby Keith's lynching video, do you?

Seriously. By 2011 the primary candidates are going to have walk out and say in their first speeches "From here on out I reject and denounce everyone, and everything said or done by anyone, I have encountered directly, indirectly or in some cases not at all from my past, present and future. If I didn't say it, it doesn't represent me"

"I didn't do it."

I am Admiral Komack, and I didn't pay for this message.

ROFL

"I didn't do it.."
I am Admiral Komack, and I didn't pay for this message.

pjamma: co-signing! :>) :>) :>) Good one! :>) :>)

"I hope Senator Obama has the presence of mind to denounce and distance himself from Ludacris," Hedayat wrote in an email to the Huffington Post. "In May, when Father Pfleger made those horrible remarks about Senator Clinton at Trinity United, Senator Obama didn't do much to defend her and John McCain was the first to rush to her defense."

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Brown-skinned assassins.

Y'all ain't seen nothing yet.

I know, he had to know better than that shit.

GreenLady - I just went to McCain's site as well to look up his stances on the issues but instead I saw that ad - CELEB. I want to ask the McCain supporters -- what do you think about the latest McCain ads and how do they relate to the character of your candidate?

McCain making way too many tactical errors for me at this point. He's way too hung up on attacking Obama over this Landstuhl thing....which is (or should be) a non-issue. There are things he could go after Obama on (i.e., experience-which is a legitimate issue) that for whatever reason, he's not.

He sucks at going negative. He should really leave that to a third party.

However, I can't-in good conscience-vote for Obama. So I'll vote for McCain in what I recognize will probably be a losing effort.....or just not vote at all.

I'm not a McCain supporter, but as one of the resident Repubs on the board I'm not a hater either. However this add was stupid and should be beneath any candidate, especially one that claimed he wasn't going to go negative. McCain is McDesperate and coming across as McPathetic. As with Hill in the primary, I expect him to come better then that.

Weaver, McCain's Former Strategist, Calls "Celeb" Ad "Childish"
30 Jul 2008 04:10 pm

John Weaver, for years one of John McCain's closest friends and confidants, has been in exile since his resignation from McCain's presidential campaign last year. With the exception of an occasional interview, he has, by his own account, bit his tongue as McCain's campaign has adopted a strategy that Weaver believes "diminishes John McCain."

With the release today of a McCain television ad blasting Obama for celebrity preening while gas prices rise, and a memo that accuses Obama of putting his own aggrandizement before the country, Weaver said he's had "enough."

The ad's premise, he said, is "childish."

"John's been a celebrity ever since he was shot down," Weaver said. "Whatever that means. And I recall Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush going overseas and all those waving American flags."

Weaver remains in contact with senior McCain strategists and, for a while early this year, regularly talked to McCain.


The strategy of driving up Obama's negatives "reduces McCain on the stage," Weaver said.


"For McCain to win in such troubled times, he needs to begin telling the American people how he intends to lead us. That McCain exists. He can inspire the country to greatness."

He added: "There is legitimate mockery of a political campaign now, and it isn't at Obama's. For McCain's sake, this tomfoolery needs to stop."

On a conference call with reporters, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis said the ad "addresses a unique facet in Barack Obama's campaign that is unlike any other campaign we've seen in modern history: a campaign that is focused on the development of an enormous image of celebrity status." Davis and Weaver do not get along, and the campaign's operations chief, Steve Schmidt,was reportedly upset that Weaver told the New York Times that the campaign "lost" the week that Obama went overseas.

Obama, speaking to reporters outside a diner in Lebanon, MO, at first did not answer a question about the ad. Then he said,.

"You know, I don't pay attention to John McCain's ads, although I do notice he doesn't seem to have anything to say very positive about himself. He seems to only be talking about me. You need to ask John McCain what he's for and not just what he's against," he said.

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/20...

thanks for sharing this article.

I appreciate the honesty. Everyone knows I support Obama but they also know I genuinely like McCain and relished the prospect of a great competition for the presidency. This wasn't what I expected at all.

More gossip then politics but this is a damn shame and sure to get tons of media coverage:

‘Extreme Makeover’ house faces foreclosure
Harper family used home as collateral for a $450,000 loan'

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25888546/

So I ventured into "enemy territory" - "mcancient's" web site www.mccain.com. You know when you describe a swimming pool, you can look for the "deep" or the "SHALLOW" end??? WELLLLLLLLL, his site is MAJOR "SHALLOW!" :>) Everything about it shows a low degree of "THINKING": the campaign, in general, his calendar, his issues [wait, let me pause on this point. "MCANCIENT" HAS MAJOR ISSUES!], his staments, his store, etc. etc.
Whew! Deep breaths!! :>) :>)

OMG PEOPLE!!!!!! US LAWMAKERS APOLOGIZED FOR SLAVERY AND JIM CROW YESTERDAY!!!!!! Did anyone actually see this on the news! This is history making. They admitted they were wrong. Any time you hear someone say slavery was for economic purposes, it wasn't racist because everyone did it, or Africans sold their own people you can tell them the Transatlantic and American (European) versions of slavery were much worse and totally barbaric and EVEN THEY realize it. They apologized for doing something wrong! This is historic people! Read this article and many more about the apology http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jSl-HUek9Cb...

Has anyone seen much about this on the television news? Its as though it didn't even happen! Maybe it will take a while for this news to get around. In the article they admitted to the "fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity" of slavery and the legal segregation of African-Americans" and "Lawmakers also said they were committed to rectifying "the lingering consequences" of slavery and segregation". They admitted SLAVERY AND SEGREGATION HAD LINGERING CONSEQUENCES!!! That should shut up those ignorant people who say slavery and segregation doesn't have any effect on people today!

I saw it on CNN.com; there were actually some people angry about the apology.

I guess that this is one way to clean "HOUSE" B4 Mr. Obama arrives! :>)

"Democrats Urge Head of EPA To Resign"

Seems as if Stephen L. Johnson had a "change of mind" under pressure from the White House on statement he made during his testimony.

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2...

All hands [Dems] on deck!! Keep the watch for Mr. Obama!! :>) :>)

Legislators aim to snuff out penalties for pot use

The U.S. should stop arresting responsible marijuana users, Rep. Barney Frank said Wednesday, announcing a proposal to end federal penalties for Americans carrying fewer than 100 grams, almost a quarter-pound, of the substance.

Also brought to you by Ron Paul and Barbara Lee.

Will someone tell me what a "responsible" drug user is? One who robs you to feed their habit and doesn't kill you?

One that goes to work, does not rob and steal, takes care of their childre, loves their spouse, coaches Little League, and all the other stuff responsible people do.,

And treating drug use like a violent crime and spending billions on a "drug war" has resulted in...a unchanged percentage of adults using drugs. I have to say that Law enforcement against prohibition (LEAP) has it on this. Maybe it is time for use to seek new solutions that might work.

I see your point. My concern is, once that gate is opened, what's the threshold to close it? People would going to be walking/driving/working in various states of impairment.....just because they could. Would you want a doctor performing surgery on you who just blazed one a few minutes before out in the parking lot?

Is that safe? Is that smart?

Alcohol is legal but driving under the influence is illegal, and so is being drunk in public. From a public safety standpoint we have the laws to deal with said problems. So no I like my surgeons not to be high, but I also like them sober...

Let's stop treating drug use like a violent crime (which in turns creates more violent crime) and try and put money into treatment rather than privatized jails.

Point taken. Though the wording on laws against being high in public would be interesting.

Just not convinced this will help more than hurt.

Besides, between this and apologies for slavery....my gas is still high. What about fixing that?

I understand the reluctance. I mean I don't like what drugs do to communities. However we know for a fact that our drug laws create more crimes and problems than are ever really solved.

As for gas, it was bound to happen that we were reminded that A) we're an oil poor country; and that B) we just ain't all that. Look at steel, look at copper, all these things are being used by a lot more people who aren't us which equals higher prices. And guess what? No matter what some tell us we are never going to be able to get out in front of oil on the production side, but maybe just maybe we can fight this on the demand side.

Well, here's my beef: our Congress is too busy discussing things that aren't relevant to the country as a whole. And when I see a Republican put forth a plan on energy independence while two dhimmicrats put forth a resolution on slavery and a bill to legalize weed, I'm a little.....concerned.

maybe one's that use marijuana for medicinal purposes (i.e. cancer)?

The verbiage in the legislation says "for personal use."

I'm not convinced that marijuana has any medical benefits, but as an experimental, ok. Thing is, this doesn't say that......

Joke for today
Welfare Check:
A guy walked into the local welfare office to pick up his check. He marched straight up to the counter and said, "Hi. You know, I just HATE drawing welfare. I'd really rather have a job." The social worker behind the counter said, "Your timing is excellent!' We just got a job opening from a very wealthy old man who wants a chauffeur and bodyguard for his beautiful daughter. You'll have to drive around in his Mercedes, and he'll supply all of your clothes. Because of the long hours, meals will be provided. You'll be expected to escort the daughter on her overseas holiday Trips and you will have to satisfy her every need. You'll be provided a two-bedroom apartment above the garage. The salary is $200,000 a year." The guy, wide-eyed, said, "You're lying !!!" The social worker said, "Yeah, well . . . you started it."

Maybe my wet dream will come true
Karl Rove Held In Contempt By House Judiciary Committee
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/30/karl-r...

The imagery that statement conjures is too much for words.

My friend, if that's what does it for you, you need to get out more.

ROTFLMAO!!!!

Seems like everybody on Andrea's show today is a McCain surrogate.

Jim Webb aide shot to death in Virginia

Given who he was and the work he did in western Virginia, this reeks.

Single shot to the head is an execution.

And on the heels of the Tennessee church shooting....

Don't miss this story about how the NRA infiltrated a spy into gun control groups.

This comes on the heels of companies spying on Greenpeace and other environmental groups. And now we learn the Maryland State Police were spying on peace groups and the WV ACLU suspects the same thing has happened in other states.

Those of us at Netroots Nation probably had our pictures taken by covert police operatives. And who knows what others have infiltrated us. The answer is not to be suspicious, but to operate as transparently as possible. And yes I note the irony of that since I use a handle.

white middle class men usually don't have to worry about law enforcement

Not in the same way as African American men, but it's interesting how wide spread the spying on Americans have been and it wouldn't surprise me if MSP also spied on the NAACP in Md.

So this is one way the GOP and McCain are attempting to bring down Obama. I saw this at the Boston Globe. The GOP as an Obama Arrogance Watch site now set up.
Angela

Obama arrogance watch

July 30, 2008 09:55 AM

The chorus of voices suggesting that Barack Obama might be getting ahead of himself and more than a little full of himself is growing louder.

The Washington Post reported that in a closed pep talk session with US House Democrats Tuesday evening, Obama talked about his triumphant visit to Europe and declared, "I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions."

Democrats are already telling reporters that the comment was taken out of context -- that he was really saying that the campaign was more than about him and that he was a mere symbol.

They say Obama prefaced the declaration that is getting so much buzz by saying something along the lines of, "It has become increasingly clear in my travel, the campaign, that the crowds, the enthusiasm, 200,000 people in Berlin, is not about me at all. It’s about America."

That didn't stop Republicans from forwarding the report as the latest entry in the Obama "audacity watch."

The Republican National Committee just launched a website compiling all the examples it claims shows Obama's arrogance, and said it will update it through the election.

Also, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank weighed in with a piece published this morning that starts: "Barack Obama has long been his party's presumptive nominee. Now he's becoming its presumptuous nominee."

"As he marches toward Inauguration Day (Election Day is but a milestone on that path), Obama's biggest challenger may not be Republican John McCain but rather his own hubris," Milbank writes later.

The Obama campaign disputes portions of the column, including its mention of unconfirmed reports that it was already planning his post-election transition to the White House.

Obama campaigns in Missouri today with Senator Claire McCaskill at his side. She was one of his strongest surrogates during the primaries, and was the subject of some early vice presidential buzz. But she reportedly has not been asked for documents as part of the vetting process

The Boston Globe has become toilet paper.

Except for the guy - can't remember his name, Charlie Savage - who was breaking all the stories about Bush's use of signing statements.

NMP: Co-signing! I saw Del Waters draw the CRICKET*** response from the other 2 panel members. They acted like they didn't get his point which was SO VERY CLEAR!! There is a "MOVING BAR" when it comes to Mr. Obama! Billary, rather, initiated this concept when she kept "MOVING THE DELEGATE COUNT GOALPOST!"

As I noted B4, Attorney Warren Ballentine is on a MAJOR CAMPAIGN of putting "mcancient" on blast!! I need to listen to the other Black radio personalities to see what they're saying. BUT, I hear you! It's NOT being heard [always a qualification-lest I'm missing something; and I could be.] LOUD enough in the main.

Thanks for the passionate statement. :>)

I've gone from disappointed to pissed off at the collective silence from Black bloggers and pundits in response (NON response) to the growing meme from the Republicans and some outlets in the MSM, specifically MSNBC, that Senator Obama is arrogant, which we all know is code for uppity nigger. I give props to the journalist from Ebony magazine who appeared on Hardball last night who spoke fearlessly about the double standard from the media towards Senator Obama. But where are the other Black voices? Any negro who has dared to believe that they can be anything other than the narrow construct of what America expects from us should be offended by this "arrogant" or "presumptious" label they are trying to tag on Senator Obama. Every ambitious negro has been tagged as such, from Paul Robeson to P. Diddy. The pathetic thing is we're usually joining the white chorus or remaining silent.

It's great to celebrate the growing number of Black bloggers, but the question now is what are you doing with that collective voice? This is not just about Senator Obama, but all of US!

Not sure if Eugene Robinson is a Rethug, but he's one of only two or three Black voices on MSNBC. I like Eugene, but his stammering and predictable attempts at humor don't help the situation. Michelle Bernard, who occasionally appears on Hardball, comes correct but they tend to limit her appearances because she ain't about the smilin' and scratchin'.

Perhaps the only consistent voice on MSNBC who exposes the constant MSM double standards that impact Obama is Rachel Maddow. So there's the rub, NMP; the cable shows have a de-facto policy in place to limit Black voices so as not to give Obama a fair shake. If you're Black, you better be either critical of Obama or completely indifferent to the Black experience.

They resent his presence, and they're determined to make him work twice as hard to win this thing.

Based on his behavior during primary coverage, as well as other things I've observed, I believe that Eugene Robinson is an Obama supporter.

As a matter of fact, he was the Washington Post staffer who contributed the Obama chapter in the book, Being a Black Man: At the Corner of Progress and Peril, which is an anthology of writings on black manhood edited by the staff of The Washington Post based on a 2006 series of Post articles.

Robinson's piece in the book is titled, "Not Just Any Walk-On Part" and discusses Barack Obama's career and his blackness. IIRC, he starts his piece by writing that "Obama walks black."

Anyone who hasn't read the book should do so as it is an excellent treatise that offers far more solutons than all the episodes of CNN's Black in America combined.

RonnieB: Co-signing. However, since I really don't know if it's possible - Could the "Black Media[whoever, whatever] get together and present a "BLACK POLITICIANS IN AMERICA" program?? We've had "Black in America", "Black Americans", The State of Black America", etc. ?????????
Just thinkin' . I'm feeling NMP's passion. Thank you.

It is about all of us, which is why I'm personally pissed at the attacks on Michelle Obama because I've heard it all before just being a regular black woman on the job.

I think many of those black talking heads also believe that Sen. Obama is an uppity n!ggr. Just look at half of the CBC skinning and grinning and cosigning Billary and their attacks (as well as joining in, in some cases). He didn't "wait his turn." Just look at Jesse Jackson and his comment that Obama is "talking down to blacks." So it should be no surprise that Obama has very few black defenders on the TV Tubes because he's never had them. Michelle Bernard defends him harder than all the rest of them combined.

town: Co-signing! The sights and sounds of Sheila Jackson Lee and Stephanie Tubbs Jones continue to make me ILL!!! They knew what it means to experience RACISM [and a level of sexism] and they still went out for billary!!! I can't hear anything that they say now!! With them - I'M THROUGH!!!
Whew!! Real deep breaths!!!

The Black pundits on MSNBC are Republicans.

There are some Black diarists on Daily Kos writing about it.

But I hear you.

Michelle Barnard claims to be GOP,

but i get the since she's an OBAMACAN..if not, she's fooled me..

John McCain's brand new ad.

It's comedy gold.

I don't know why..but it feels complimentary to me. That frame of McCain at the end trying to look noble at the end of that ad...makes him look...trifling and desperate.

It's so desperate,it's funny.

OOOOOO-EEEEE!! "MCANCIENT" is put on "MAJOR BLAST!" :>) :>)

"13 Things To Know About The 3rd Straight Mac Attack Ad" William Bradley tears "mcancient" a BRAND NEW ONE!!! :>) :>)

www.huffingtonpost.com/william-bradley/13-thing...

I'll just let you sit back and ENJOY the READ and the SLAM!!!

Yes, this is a "DISS THE DUDE" moment! :>) :>) :>)

You know, I keep FORGETTING about the "PATTY DOYLE SOLIS factor" when I start getting ILL over the thought that billary could be considered on the VP list.
Mr. Obama "moved a chess piece" a long time ago when he appointed her the Chief of Staff over the VP candidate/choice!! A statement in the article said that billary and Patty "haven't spoken since February 10!" Additionally, billary wouldn't comment on this article except to say that she wishes Patty well!
Just as a reminder billary, Patty IS standing in the doorway of the VP's office. That means YOU CAIN'T COME IN!!!! :>) :>) See how that works!! :>) :>)

"Surviving The Free Fall" - Lois Romero

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2...
AR2008072902451.html?wpisrc=newsletter&wpisrc=newsletter

In a word in the "game of chess" ---- CHECKMATE!!! :>) :>) [Isn't that the end?]

Some Patty Doyle Solis trivia. Her relationship with Obama outside of Hillary goes back a long ways. Barack worked with her brother when he was street organizing.

Nellcote: Seeeee. DATA , girllll, is soo helpful!!! Thanks!!! :>) :>)

GOP chief urges investigation into 'widespread' voter fraud

Much of the increased registration activity involves block-by-block efforts by the campaign of presumed Democratic nominee Barack Obama to add tens of thousands of new young and minority voters to Virginia's rolls.

This, of course, will be explained away.

Yeah but the GOP chief couldn't point to anything other than the Hampton incident to speak to widespread, statewide voter fraud.

Along with registering people, people (especially black folks) need to be told to carry their ID as well as their voter registration card to the polls in November. Even though I've known my poll worker and we've been neighbors for over 20 years, I plan on taking my voter card to the polls in case she's not working that day and the other poll workers decide to get crunk.

You would think that carrying your ID and voter registration card would be common sense.

I'm starting to think that the goal is to add as many people as possible to make the (almost inevitable) Obama win seem larger than life itself. Throw in a few ficticious people, give a few felons their rights back, and those votes will go marching right into the hands of the dhimmicrats who "fought" for them.

Course, I can't be too terribly mad. 2008 is the year for the GOP to take it as hard as it was given in 2000 and 2004. Everything done then is coming back 5-10 times worse than when it was done.

"Common Sense"? Hmmm every state as different laws. I am not required to present ID nor do I have a voter card. My name is on the list and I've voted at the same polling location for 6 years. I even know the poll workers by now.

This will be my first time not voting absentee (notwithstanding the primaries earlier). I could vote in DC without showing voter registration, but I took mine anyway.

Now that I'm in the lovely Commonwealth of VA (which is on its own program), and fully expecting to have the Obamaists checking EVERY SINGLE MOVE at the polls that day, I may well show up with ID, my registration card, and a DNA sample.

Well, I've always carried my driver's license to the polls, even though as I said before, I've known my poll worker for over 20 years. But this election is going to have some funny ish go down with it, so I would urge everyone to take not only their driver's license but their voter card with them to the polls, so there is no "snafu."

Also, people need to find out where their polling station is. My polling station has changed about 4 times even though I've remained at the same residence for years.

And if at all possible, make sure your driver's license address matches your voter registration address. If they do not match, you should re-register.

South Carolina governor's goof delays his vote

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/11/07/sanford....

Obama Lowers Sea Levels, But Sadly Discovers Atlantis

More Obama satire from overseas.....though I think the Brits did it much better.

More right wing drivel, D?

Try reading it, instead of making assumptions.

And what makes you so sure I haven't read it, and judged it to be right wing drivel?

If you did, I'd love to know how you came to the conclusion of "right wing drivel."

This is presumptious, but do you normally work this hard to piss people off, or am I an exception?

The "piss off" part is your choice.

Noted.

Talk about making assumptions.

I'll use your word here:

Yawn.

"Yawn"....right back at ya.

D: Funny stuff! :>) :>)

It's okay........

Why can't we (Americans) come up with stuff like that? I still think the NYer cover was a little funny, but it wasn't subtle in the least, and I think that's what may have contributed to the offense of some.

Jed Said: "MCANCIENT" accused the New York Times and the Washington Post of distorting Obama's cancelled trip to the military hospital in Germany.

www.jedreport.com/2008/07/mccain-camp-a-1.html

O.K. So I'm seeing a pattern here. Every time "mcancient" gets CAUGHT, in a lie [which is just about erry time he opens his mouth], it's SOMEONE ELSE'S FAULT!!

So I draw these conclusions: 1. He's in my Category #1 - FLIP-FLOP mode and Category #3 -POUTY mode and he's just straight LYING like any CHILD would do when caught in it. 2. He's in "MAVERICK" mode = C-O-N-F-U-S-E-D!!! [in the Tues. Open Thread, I tried to make a case for the term "maverick" as the new P.C. term [as it relates to "mcancient"] for C-O-N-F-U-S-E-D!!!!

Whew! Real Deep Breaths!!! :>) :>)

Right after Gallop showed Obama with the 9 point lead the media was going to go negative to prop McCain up.

It is never going to stop or relent. The media is going to do everything it can to help McCain win this election. They haven't been "for" Obama since this past February.

Every time Obama has a big lead, except the "hubris, arrogrant" nonsense to continue.

From what I've read, Dana Milbank was putting words into Obama's mouth.

He failed to provide context.

except -> expect

From Huffington Post.....good article on the same theme as "uppity."

I can't stand watching Capeheart anymore and I only watch a little of Joe S. to see what the rant is but it gets harder and harder everyday!
Angela

Paul Jenkins
July 29, 2008

Obama Still Does Not Know His Place

When Barack Obama started running for president, he was widely described as arrogant for daring to take on the Clintons after just two years in the Senate, despite the fact that polling at the time showed him to be the only threat to Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary.

Eighteen-months later, we are told by the McCain campaign and its traditional media parrots that Obama is at risk of looking "presumptuous" for his recent trip abroad, even as he has registered a small but significant bounce in the polls upon his return, presumably for doing what most of us expect of a presidential candidate.

The man who slayed Democratic royalty, who has raised more money than any political campaign in US history, drawn record-breaking crowds in the US and abroad, who has been ahead of John McCain since widespread general election polling began four months ago, this man is presumptuous for thinking he has a good shot at becoming president and should therefore get to know his potential counterparts and visit the sites of US military activity?

Most candidates Obama's age will be charged sooner or later with youthful conceit for taking on their elders, no matter how guilty those elders are of mismanaging the country. It happened to some extent to Bill Clinton, and surely to others before him. However, it is hard not to see in the ongoing attitude towards this presidential frontrunner, just three months before the election, something more uncomfortable that is not simply a matter of age, but one of race.

Throughout the primary there was a growing sense of disbelief in the Clinton camp that this young'un (older than Bill was in 1991 when he started running, mind you) really thought he had a shot at this. Bill, in particular, showed little patience for Obama's "fairy tale" campaign, eventually going ballistic because, in his own version of "some of my best friends are," he did not understand that even he, whose office is in Harlem, may be condescending towards African-Americans, and towards this African-American in particular. Perhaps more perniciously, some long-time African-American political and business leaders joined in with some of the worst stereotyping of the campaign, seemingly upset at the upstart who dared to go where most of them had not.

Now McCain is recycling some version of this superciliousness, heavily aided by a traditional media still so easily scared into thinking it is not tough enough on Obama. McCain can hardly hide his rage at this uppity kid who thinks he can hobnob with world leaders just as he does -- who thinks he has more judgment than a septuagenerian war-mongering former prisoner of war. And who sees no reason to wait his turn when barely 1 in 10 Americans think the country is on the right track, thanks to his elders' enlightened leadership. In a weird echo of the Clinton attacks, McCain smirks his way through one sarcastic comment after another, his face twisted in hatred and disbelief. Not only is Obama "presumptuous," he also "doesn't understand." It is never clear what Obama doesn't understand since he actually has not gotten his facts or, so far, his analysis wrong, as opposed to McCain whose errors in fact and in judgment are so numerous as to make one wonder where he has been for the past 20 years (poring over Cold War era reports on Czechoslovakia? Hanging out at the Iraq-Pakistan border? Plotting to bomb-bomb-bomb bomb-bomb Iran?). McCain is the most arrogant of Senators (not a light charge), yet even by his standards the tone he adopts towards Obama is so densely patronizing that here too it is hard to dismiss it as purely a matter of age gap. McCain's joke of an economic advisor, Carly Fiorina, is now also laying it on thick: she is glad that Obama is consulting with experts. This from the woman who nearly ran a Fortune 100 company into the ground and whose candidate knows so little about economic issues after three decades in Congress that Fiorina is reduced to repeating that McCain "has been understanding [economic issues] for months."

That Obama is actually able to listen to facts, absorb them and analyze them should be a good thing. We assume that those skills came in handy throughout his life, not least at Harvard, where he graduated near top of his law school class. This, of course, now makes him an elitist, as he would not be expected by the old DC guard to possess any such competence (charisma perhaps, analytical ability no.) Both McCain (894th out of 899 at Annapolis) and George W. Bush revel in their under-achieving school days, as if this made these scions of hyper-privilege any closer to real people. This tactic clearly succeeded well enough for Bush to be elected president twice, and McCain to be nominated once. But there is a sense that American voters may not be taken in again and that they may actually enjoy as president someone who isn't an inbred moron or a senile fratboy.

Obama's partner in elitism, his wife Michelle, is in extreme tongue-biting mode. This is a shame, but it is inevitable, as she too is under the kind of scrutiny that would make Cindy McCain's face melt back into some approximation of reality. It is widely understood that Obama is more deserving of close examination than McCain because she is more actively involved in her husband's campaign than Cindy is. This of course is a lie: McCain has campaigned extensively for her husband and, were it not for her family fortune and her private jet, he wouldn't even have come close to being nominated. The truth is that Obama is expected to play a certain role: strong, angry, overbearing, and every one of her statements is demeaningly parsed in that light. If every word uttered by McCain were analyzed and reported to fit the stereotype of the rich, spoilt, husband-stealing white woman that she is, all would be fair. But instead, we get adoring glances, little examination of her actual role and an occasional hiccup about Michelle Obama's lack of patriotism.

What angers John McCain and bemuses many traditional observers is how unflappable Barack Obama remains in public, no matter how condescending the attacks. There is little doubt that the thick skin he grew over decades came in handy as he started to run for president. The past 18 months surely were not the first time Obama was baited for being black, for being white, for being Muslim, or for not being from "here," and it must be fascinating, although not unexpected, for him to see these patronizing attitudes resurface at this stage of his life. For the rest of us, what is fascinating is to witness how these old-school mindsets are backfiring on those who hold them, making them look less wise, more prejudiced, less fit to lead and altogether completely unappealing. And to witness that in America in 2008, it is perhaps not a bad thing not to know your place.

Angela 1 & GoldenAh: Good observations!! :>) Especially on Jonathan Capehart & Joe. I've disliked Jonathan ever since the primaries! Yuk!! :>) :>)

I noted the word SUPERCILIOUS in the article! Whew! Deep Breaths!!! :>)

Somebody needs to call Barbara Walters out for spreading the lie that Obama released his prayer to the media, prior to it being stolen from The Western Wall.

I saw that....

It doesn't make sense that O would release it. And what was the story about the student taking it from the wall? If they already had a copy and Obama's blessings, why talk about the student? I think that paper is trying to cover their ass.

I also think O absolutely knew someone would get a hold of the paper after watching him put it in the wall. Now it occurs to me that if he made it public at all, it was to prevent someone from producing a counterfeit version to try and smear him.

Barbara did smack down Elisabeth though when she disagreed that it "spoke volumes" about Obama.

He didn't release it. The newspaper that accused him of releasing it later denounced the accusation: Obama Did Not Leak His Prayer

Barbara is supposed to be a journalist, yet she couldn't pick up on the doubt the allegation generated, and repeated it as fact.

I also enjoyed the Elisabeth smack down but if she didn't repeat that lie in the first place......

Barbara is supposed to be a journalist, LMAO!!!! Since when? That woman has NO, and I mean NO journalistic integrity.

I know, and her repeating it as if it was fact already has a negative effect.

Anything to get the polls to drop before Denver so the Clintonites can try to do their thing.

(Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if one of the pollsters does a "hypothetical" matchup between HIllary and the Dangerous One in the run up to Denver....

I'll be watching for that, you're probably not to far off on that.

They can't beat him with the truth. Everybody knows it.So they lie lie lie.

I haven't heard a single "reporter" mention it on the cable shows, but the View breaks the lie on network television.

O.K. I decided to go to the dictionary & the thesaurus to look up erry word/phrase that reflects ARROGANT. So it doesn't make any difference how "they" say it, we get it.

ROLL CALL on ARROGANT: pretentious, overbearingly assuming, insolently proud, presumptuous, haughty, imperious, brazen, superiority, "chesty as a peacock", "species of pride", lordliness, conceit, insolent, disdain, lofty, overweening, high-and-mighty, and---, "drum roll, please" ----SUPERCILIOUS!!

So when we read, see and/or hear ANY of these words/terms, we will know that, in reference to Mr. Obama, they mean - - - - - "UPPITY N****R!!!

Whew. Deep breaths!!! :>) :>)

p.s. Ya got any additions? :>) :>) :>)

For a family values spewing Congressman this a strange place to hold a fundraiser
But it was a very tasteful strip joint where conservative family-values Republican Pete Sessions held his fundraisers
http://www.americablog.com/2008/07/but-it-was-v...

Hey now!

He was going after the women's vote!

Pete Sessions WAS NOT having a lap dance with that woman!

They were discussing his various positions on the as...uh, issues...in private.

Admiral: Did you say - "about their privates?" :>) :>)

I blogged about LaVena Johnson from the point of view that black motherhood is always in a constant state of anxiety about our children. Whether we have had to deal with the sale of our children, the rape of our daughters or cutting down our sons after they have been lynched. Black motherhood is unique in that our fears for our children are the things that nightmares are made of.

Networks Helped Spread McCain's False "Troops" Ad
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/us/politics/3...

WaPo: McCain's Troop Attack Just Wrong
This comes close to calling McCain a lying M.F
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...

To the supporters of the war this is just one by-product of your stupidity.
Strained by war, U.S. Army promotes unqualified soldiers
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/07/30/se...

This is interesting. Why does it feel intrusive to me? When is someone going to examine the inner workings of McCain's feeble mind or is "war hero" all we are supposed to know about him?

Professor Obama

"Some of the questions we’ve asked them to consider: Based on what you see here, how does Mr. Obama’s teaching measure up?"

Some of the questions I have are:

How/Why is Obama's teaching important to this election? Should people have examined Mike Huckabee's preaching? Or John McCain's Naval career?

If Obama's teaching is to be examined to gather clues on how he'll govern and views the Constitution, shouldn't McCain's Naval career be examined to gather clues on how he'll end the war?

But that's not what offends me. The original article is what offends me, because the basic theme of the article is that Obama is a do nothing, anti social, absentee affirmative action hire.

Here is a very insightful article that contradicts that one. A MUST READ!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-k-wilson/the...

Well-stated, Town. Well-stated.

Nothing is off limits with Barack.

The same can't be said for the Dangerous One.

Well, well.

Extremists trying to get Joe Klein fired from Time

I think we all know they exist.

Morning Joe is becoming tougher to watch as it continues to leak any bit of substance it had left. Joe's daily personality attacks on Obama are so predictable, they almost have a Mad Lib "insert here" quality to them.

Joe: Barack Obama said (insert statement). Isn't he being (insert euphemism for "uppity": arrogant, presumptive, etc...). Americans are asking themselves who is this guy? Do we really know who he is? yadayadayada (repeat with every guest, every day)

I'd love to see a policy-based attack on Obama b/c right now it would be refreshing to see someone actually talk about issues that affect us rather than make this a popularity contest. Have we not learned anything? It is not Personality of the United States, it is President of the United States. The insistence on the President being daddy (or hopefully someday mother)-in-chief is problematic because instead of electing based upon facts, plans, intelligence, ideas, management skills etc...we elect based upon images and perceptions.

Folks like Joe are basing their entire criticism of Obama on personality-based attacks because, unfortunately, it will work with a portion of the electorate(question is how much). Also on most issues they are devoid of ideas. If Morning Joe is to be watchable again (if it ever was) they need to actually talk about issues and find someone with a spine to balance out Joe. (Mieka is like a one-legged woman in a butt-kicking contest).

pdid: Co-signing! Loved the . . .one-legged woman in a butt-kicking contest. :>) :>) :>) :>)

They (the media) want Obama to act like Stephen Fetchit so that they can say, "Look! He's not Presidential!" so they can prop up McCain.

Joe (Dead Intern) Scarbourough doesn't want anyone with a spine on his show; he's got to be the alpha male.

Mika is hopeless.

Ha..."alpha male" Joe, indeed. And Mika is the perfect submissive female, acquiescing to all his silly opinions.

Morning Joe had substance? When?

By the way, that "symbol " statement wasn't Obama's, even though its being reported as such. It was Jim Clyburn, which brings me to lesson number two: blacks are neither supposed to celebrate Obama's ascendancy, nor are we to expect anything in return. I brought this up because I specifically remember Suzanne Malveaux voicing that as a "concern" of the minority media while talking to Wolf Blitzer after the UNITY forum. Meanwhile I'm browsing FireDogLake last night and guess what the front page story was? This:

"What Should Obama Do For Us?"

What can we get from the Obama Administration in exchange for our money and our work on his campaign? There is no doubt we will vote for Obama. Many of us will do more, contribute money, do phones, door-to-door and all the other nuts and bolts of an election. But what are we going to get for it? We have something to offer, our enthusiasm and our work. They need to put something on the table to earn it.

Jane Hamsher and her crowd are turning into a punk of wnining losers.

Its been a week since I last watched. Its just to much. Joe indeed shows his true colors, Mieka will never stand up for the left b/c it would mean actually having to defend your morals, and the Dark Syth cant be trusted.

I really on watch MSNBC for Olbermann, and sometimes Hardball. In the morning, the best bet is to channel surf. (except fox)

Couldn't have said it better.

What Joe and crew are actually asking is "Who does this n*#%&$r think he is?"

Politico reports that the quote that dominated Morning Joe was taken out of context by Dana Milbank:

THE GOP IS VERY EXCITED ABOUT a quote that The Washington Post runs on both a blog and in the paper, in which Obama supposedly tells House Democrats: “I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.”

BUT A DEMOCRATIC SOURCE SAYS: “His entire point of that riff was that the campaign IS NOT about him. [The Post] left out the important first half of the sentence, which was along the lines of: ‘It has become increasingly clear in my travel, the campaign, that the crowds, the enthusiasm, 200,000 people in Berlin, is not about me at all. It’s about America. I have just become a symbol … .”

Like Mr. Bush, Mr. McCain confuses opposition to an unnecessary war with a lack of spine and an unwillingness to use force when the nation is truly in danger. Obviously, Mr. Obama is untested as a commander in chief and his trip was intended to reassure voters. But Mr. McCain is as untested in this area as Mr. Obama, and it is hard to imagine a worse role model than the one Mr. McCain seems to be adopting: President Bush.

Many voters are wondering whether a McCain presidency would be an extension of Mr. Bush’s two disastrous terms. If the way Mr. McCain is running his campaign these days is an indication, Americans don’t have to wait until next January for the answer to that one.

From NYT: Low-Road Express

It's about time.

Um, ouch. But, um, completely accurate....NYT is that you?

In that viral video about McCain failing the commander in chief test, there's a clip of him sputtering about how it would be great for America to put a man on Mars so they can say that's what Mars looks like! I think OMG, this man is out of his stark raving mind!

will the martians greet us as liberators?? lol//
it was to good to pass up..

Ha! :)

When my family is broke, we don't take long trips. Same with the country.

Lol, exactly!

But I'm sure if they're broke, they still buy food and winter coats....

A simple lesson that the $500 Ferragamo loafer wearing McCain never learned.

That's true. Not to poor mouth my wardrobe, but I doubt if I've spent $500 on all my clothes for the past five years. Granted I do sport a cool pair of $120 running shoes, but I won them in a contest.

Yes, he is.

This is clear.

Ron Fournier (AP Hack) Was Negotiating McCain Campaign Position

So this is why the AP sounds like an arm of McCain communications. But I don't guess "reporters" report on their "own."

Talk about a conflict of interest.

When the pot calls the kettle black.

Jonathan Capehart just said on Morning Joe (Joe is focused on Barack's "hubris" today) that Barack was pushing up on "uppity." He prefaced it by saying he knew his inbox was going to be flooded with hatemail, but that didn't stop him from opening his mouth.

Right before he signed off, he talked about his double-windsor-knotted striped tie.

The comment that caused all the disdain: Barack told the Democrats on the Hill: "I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions."

Dana Milbank (a two-faced fool if ever there was one) reported the quote in his article entitled President Obama Continues Hectic Victory Tour. Clearly Barack should be walking around in a shroud of doubt instead of acting like he can win this thing. That would make him far more attractive to the envious reporter here are there who just can't stand what he's seeing.

Joe's guest reminded people that Reagan presented himself as the architect of the shining American city on a hill and then had to remind folks that Barack hasn't had a break since the primaries began.

He then cited the Dangrous One's "I know how to win wars" quote as an example of blatant hubris since the man hasn't won a war. But everybody laughed that off and went to talking about Capehart's tie.

Umph, umph, umph.

Well I was waiting for someone to actually say "uppity" but didn't expect to see it until late August. Huh. Guess the GOP might be in worse shape than I thought.

They are. They have a sitting senator charged with not reporting gifts received from oil company execs.

Here's a WaPo story on Sen. Ted Stevens' indictment. It's time justice caught up with Mr. Stevens.

Well, either he'll be travelling on that "bridge to nowhere", or he'll be doing the perp walk.

I missed that story.