Mostly about my amusement
This is how you know Senator McCain will say and do anything to get elected.
Rove has leveled similar criticism against Obama. “McCain has gone in some of his ads — similarly gone one step too far,” he told Fox News, “and sort of attributing to Obama things that are, you know, beyond the ‘100 percent truth’ test.”
Rove: Some McCain ads don’t pass ‘100 percent truth’ test.
When Karl Rove is saying you’ve gone too far, then it’s ethics game over.
Saw this on Crooks and Liars. I need to watch The Daily Show more often.
Remember that Jon Stewart likes John McCain. This is all comedy but it’s really funny to hear Ian McShane narrating this.
Ohhhh boy.
The announcement was intended to counter rumors by liberal bloggers that Ms. Palin had claimed to have given birth to her fifth child in April when, according to the rumors, the child was her daughter’s.
Palin’s 17-Year-Old Daughter Is Pregnant – The Caucus Blog – NYTimes.com.
So. A group called Focus on the Family jokingly ask that people pray for rain on Senator Obama’s acceptance speech. It not only did not rain but the opening day festivities of the RNC have been canceled to focus on providing support for the fallout that hurricane Gustav will be bringing with it. Even the Whitehouse is getting it’s act together for this one. Good thing they asked only for rain.
So. The Internet was bouncing around with the rumor that her youngest son is actually her grandson. And to counter that they release that her 17 year old daughter is doing a Jamie Lynn Spears?
How is that going to play in Peoria? Any odds on Palin pulling a Harriet Miers and dropping out?
NRO got it right.
Inexperience. Palin has been governor for about two minutes. Thanks to McCain’s decision, Palin could be commander-in-chief next year. That may strike people as a reckless choice; it strikes me that way. And McCain’s age raised the stakes on this issue.
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Tokenism. Can anyone say with a straight face that Palin would have gotten picked if she were a man?
The Corner on National Review Online.
No one can legitimately argue that a woman can’t be president. That’s just stupid and would eliminate many powerful and capable candidates. Senator Clinton would have been a great choice in an election had she won the primary. The Democratic Party did not throw women under the bus; the process worked out and Senator Clinton received fewer votes.
That’s how elections work.
If it’s legitimate to run ads claiming Senator Clinton and Senator Biden were arguing that Senator Obama lacked experience, how exactly does it work when McCain picks someone who has virtually no national or international experience at all?
She was a mayor of a town with 7,000 residents -> Governor of Alaska. She ran on a reformer ticket and is being investigated for allegedly trying to get her former brother-in-law fired. That a lot of experience alright.
Rooting for Governor Palin purely on the basis of her being a woman does an equal disservice to women. President Palin? Who could honestly say that she can actually be a good president? Sexual discrimination is not over when a woman becomes president. It’s over when a woman becomes president and no one notices that she’s a woman.
This continues to be a fun election to watch.
Check out this interview with John McCain on the Time/CNN website. It’s a little disturbing how far he’s gone off from being himself. He is not the same man who competed with George W. Bush for the Republican presidential nomination.
Politics sure make for odd reading. John McCain’s campaign is reaching out for the angry bitter myopic accusatory how can you be so sexist supporters of Senator Clinton.
“She won millions of votes. But isn’t on his ticket. Why? For speaking the truth,” the narrator in the ad says.
That’s really funny. In 1999 I had so much respect for Senator McCain. But he wants this too badly and apparently will say anything to get the votes.
I voted for Senator Clinton in the primaries. But as it turns out more people voted for Senator Obama. Instead of panning and diminishing his accomplishment, why must some (not all) of Senator Clinton’s supporters continue to harp on this? What was Senator Obama’s camp supposed to do? Crawl hands and knees asking for the approval of the person who lost?
I had thought she was better qualified. I also thought her campaign just expected a shoe-in and did not really try. Florida and Michigan? That was her campaign attempting to cheat. Those states broke the rules and all the candidates agreed to stay clear of them. So when her campaign tried to play the “but wait! Florida and Michigan want me!!” card, I lost respect for her as a candidate.
If (or when) John McCain wins the election, it will not be due to an effort on his side. It will be because the Democrats are too in enthralled with their own drama.
It’s about time. If the rules say you have to be 16 years old the same year as the Olympics, then that’s it. Putting on a 14 year old is just very stupid 1950 style communist government.
You know I hate to see any detainee die in prison. And I always believe if there is negligence or misconduct that ought to be punished. I also recognize that the population of any detention facility, whether it’s a state prison, federal prison, you’re going to get a certain number of deaths.
Aftermath of an Immigrants Death in Detention – City Room – Metro – New York Times Blog.
That must be comforting to the family of Hiu Lui Ng. I wonder what is the percentage of deaths at a facility has to be before it’s considered a “problem”?
Mr. Bush said, “The people of Georgia have cost their lot with the free world, and we will not cast them aside.”
Bush, Decrying ‘Bullying,’ Calls for Russia to Leave Georgia – NYTimes.com.
The Bushism’s just keep coming. I happen to agree with him (kind of) but man, he needs a full time speech writer. This game with Russia can become very castly.
Things sure are weird in this country. People will just accept the oddest things.
I wonder how long it will be before DHS can copy all photos and papers you take on a trip? They can seize and copy your entire laptop every time you cross the border. Next time you come back into the U.S. you lose all privacy regarding any electronic device you have. A misinformed TSA monkeys will decide if you are a criminal or not. Or they can take their time, since they can copy all your data to examine at a later date.
Remember kids: in the United States if you are not guilty and have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to be afraid of. No need to count on suspicion of actually breaking the law or protection of your rights against unreasonable search and seizures.
The 4th amendment does not apply because the government says it doesn’t. the important thing is not that we are developing a police state run by brown shirts, the important thing is Security Theater.
This is insane. This sort of thing is supposed to happen in other countries; we’re supposed to have a history of protecting our citizens rights. It makes me wonder if the conspiracy nuts are actually on to something. Papers please.
