Obama Puts Bush and McCain On Blast

via barackobama.com

"George Bush and John McCain have a lot to answer for..."

Tell me about it. Obama just nails both of these fools. The man is all up in their ish!

McCain Caught Contradicting Himself Again. This Time On Hamas

h/t jedreport

McCain is losing his bearings. And i'm not saying that because he's old. I'm saying it because he's wrong. I can't wait for his propped up, manufactured image of "honor" and integrity collapse under the weight of his own opportunism.

His position on torture, the religious right, campaign finance, the success of the war and now talking to Hamas.

All that's left is the shell of a leader.

This is going to be fun.

Rush Limbaugh: If Barack Obama were Caucasian...

So apparently the new tactic for Republican attacks on Obama is to question his intelligence in a racially tinged manner, thus implying that Barack Obama is receiving some kind of undue advantage due to his racial heritage.

Rush Limbaugh in commenting on an admittedly awkward moment in one of Obama's recent speeches said yesterday:

I am just telling you, if this guy were Dan Quayle -- if he -- can I channel Geraldine Ferraro? If Barack Obama were Caucasian, they would have taken this guy out on the basis of pure ignorance long ago.

Um. Right. Isn't Dan Quayle still active in the Republican party? Is Limbaugh really comparing Obama to Dan "Potatoe" Quayle, the man who said to the United Negro College Fund:

You take the United Negro College Fund model that what a waste it is to lose one's mind or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

Or who said of human exploration on Mars:

Mars is essentially in the same orbit [as earth]....Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.

I mean, really. If anyone received an unfair advantage, it's Dan Quayle, born into a wealthy and well-connected publishing family. Barack Obama wasn't born with a silver spoon in his mouth and no one can say the Harvard Law-educated brother ain't got more than a couple of brain cells to rub together.


There's audio over at Media Matters. Grrr.

Chris Matthews Hands Talk Radio Host Kevin James His Ass

Oh Lord this is fun. Matthews makes an error late in the clip attributing the USS Cole bombing to the first Bush administration, but other than that he just kills this dude. KILLS him. Oh thank you. Thank you thank you for calling this loud, screaming IDIOT on his b.s.

Bush Attacks Obama in Israel; Joe Biden Responds-"This is bullshit"

Our President was at it again. Today, he compared Barack Obama to Nazi Appeasers. In Israel.

From The HuffingtonPost.com:

Bush Compares Obama To Nazi Appeasers
The Huffington Post
May 15, 2008 09:00 AM


President Bush has said repeatedly that he would not insert himself into the presidential race, but that stance changed dramatically today during his trip to Israel. After likening Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Osama bin Laden, Bush compared Barack Obama to Nazi appeasers:

"Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along," said Bush, in what White House aides privately acknowledged was a reference to calls by Obama and other Democrats for the U.S. president to sit down for talks with leaders like Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

"We have heard this foolish delusion before," Bush said in remarks to the Israeli Knesset. "As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American Senator declared: 'Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to call this what it is -- the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history."

Obama himself quickly responded to the comparison, calling it a false attack and listing past presidents who didn't think that diplomacy was such a bad idea:

"It is sad that President Bush would use a speech to the Knesset on the 6Oth anniversary of Israel's independence to launch a false political attack. It is time to turn the page on eight years of policies that have strengthened Iran and failed to secure America or our ally Israel."

"Instead of tough talk and no action, we need to do what Kennedy, Nixon and Reagan did and use all elements of American power -- including tough, principled, and direct diplomacy -- to pressure countries like Iran and Syria. George Bush knows that I have never supported engagement with terrorists, and the President's extraordinary politicization of foreign policy and the politics of fear do nothing to secure the American people or our stalwart ally Israel."

It was only yesterday that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates argued that United States needed to engage with Iran:

"We need to figure out a way to develop some leverage . . . and then sit down and talk with them," Gates said. "If there is going to be a discussion, then they need something, too. We can't go to a discussion and be completely the demander, with them not feeling that they need anything from us."

What are the odds that Bush says anything about what Gates just said?

Joe LIE-berman sided with the President (surprise...surprise...)

So, what did fellow Senator Joe Biden say?

“This is bullshit, this is malarkey. This is outrageous, for the president of the United States to go to a foreign country, to sit in the Knesset ... and make this kind of ridiculous statement.”

The man who brought us the worst foreign policy in a half century actually thinks he can credibly criticize ANYONE?

Puleeze.

dNa BEAT ME TO THIS...

Regarding the West Virginia primary and the Borg Queen's victory, that is.

However, it does say quite a lot about the fact that the Borg Queen has to play the race card in rural Appalachia (where no person of color has been seen nor heard since slavery), scare the be-jeezus out them Jed Clampett-move-away-from-there mountain folk in order to claim a victory.

Which as time goes on, and more superdelegates are throwing their votes to the "O" man, will be MEANINGLESS when she hits the Denver City Limits.

She needed the votes of a population that includes among their midst, church going folk who believe in signs and wonders following them while challenging God through handling poisonous snakes; Lynndie England (remember her, the first face of torture of Iraqi prisoners during this fiasco of a war?)and the family that kidnapped, raped and tortured a sista named Megan Williams, who has yet to see any kind of justice for her ordeal of being leashed like a dog, being made to eat dog and people shyt, drink out of a toilet, while the whole damned family sexually abused her.

Hillary Clinton is so desperate for votes, she'll take the votes from a State that may very well be a fine state in many ways, but what we have seen come out of the likes of West Virginians, these individuals are giving the state a very bad rep.

And, she's spinning this better than I do in spin class (and with worse results,too).

I don't know about y'all, but if claiming the victory of a state that she has historically written off and being of no consequence when Obama wins them, the Borg Queen's badly in need of being put out of her misery like a rabid dog. Just how loud does Gentleman Jim Clyburn have to sing in the mine before Howard Dean gets a clue?