Obama's DNC Speech

President Barack Obama. Get used to it. This speech was amazing.

America Is Ready

This is my dream.

From Cheney To A Chick

So When John McCain dies from old age in a few months, this is your next President? Thank you Republicans for picking a hot woman and yet another candidate that frightens your base. Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska for two years, will have her finger on the button when Grampy McSame takes a dirt nap. Do they even know one another? I guess when you have no choices for VP you might as well take a gamble, conservatives went with the "unknown chick who looks like Tina Fey" card. Well played.

Can't wait to hear all the experience flip flops the GOP will spit out. I guess their new approach is that you need absolutely no experience to be President, vis-à-vis McSame's imminent Viagra sponsored date with a six foot hole. Together, McCain and Palin will look like an old folks home brochure with Grampy and his hot bedside nurse asking for your vote. Or maybe Anna Nicole and the Texas billionaire she rode into the ground.

But big ups for choosing the first female Republican candidate for vice president. Desperation, not necessity, is the mother of invention. And thank you for kneecapping one of McCain campaign’s central arguments, their claim that Obama is too inexperienced to be president.

I also like the initial articles about the VP announcement that call her "relatively unknown". Was "completely unknown" or "complete stranger" too hard to print?

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Putin Accuses Bush Of Provoking Georgia Conflict

Vladimir Putin accused President Bush tonight of orchestrating the war in Georgia in a plot to get John McCain elected to the White House.

“The suspicion arises that someone in the United States especially created this conflict with the aim of making the situation more tense and creating a competitive advantage for one of the candidates fighting for the post of US President.”

Really? Putin is the same guy Bush gazed into his eyes and saw a good soul. And McSame wants to get Russia out of the G8. Seems like Russia wants to go in reverse and kick start Cold War Version 2.0, but what they don't understand is that the Bush Doctrine is toast and America is heading in a new direction. Not saying it's perfect, but it's not as horrible as the last 8 years. This will help Obama.

"The American side in effect armed and trained the Georgian army,” Mr Putin said. The White House denied it. Makes you think that they really did it. Add this: Dick Cheney is due to arrive in Georgia to show support for its pro-Western leader Mikheil Saakashvili. Now you know we did it.

TimesOnline article

Bill Clinton's DNC Speech

The Big Dog.

"People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power."

McLame

Elitist?



There are elite athletes, elite minds, elite schools. All can be used to describe Barack Obama. From a humble background, he has achieved greatness his entire life through hard work.

Then you have elitist hothead pricks like John McCain. They had Daddy and Granddaddy do everything for them. They had all the rules bent for them. Then, when that spoiled elitism was not enough, they cheated on and dump their first wife and re-marry some rich heiress.

John, you barely got out of school, you sucked as a fighter pilot, you claimed privilege as a POW, you bailed on your family once to join conservative politics and a second time to marry some rich girl. Your version of the American dream is to be born into privilege, then marry into money, then line your pockets with corporate and lobbyists' money for the rest of your life.

With such a blatant, I-fly-in-my-wife's-private-jet lifestyle, you turn around and call another guy an elitist? You are so detached from reality and don't see your hypocrisy. Oh wait, you were a POW so I better not say anything. Looking to your past is all you can do, the future is too scary for your old mind to comprehend. Why don't you go to the well one more time with the "I was a POW" line. I think you have incoherently used it to defend about 100 of your mistakes and flip flops. It sucks that it happened, but to borrow one of your Republican lines, let it go. Why don't you thank your boy Nixon for keeping the Vietnam War going for those 5 years in captivity.

Rachel Maddow Is Cool

From Air America to MSNBC, Rachel Maddow has arrived. "The Rachel Maddow Show" is replacing Dan Abrams on MSNBC and right in time for a lead up to the November 4 elections. She seems to always have the correct approach to the Right Wing hyperbole and calls out the conservative wing-nuts with the greatest of ease. Funny how holding people accountable for what they say is a new idea on TV these days.

"[S]he is determined to avoid the left-right pairings that sustain much of cable news. 'It creates fake balance,' she says. 'I'm sorry -- we're going to have a debate about whether or not the Earth is flat? It doesn't make sense to have a debate about whether offshore drilling is going to bring down gas prices. You know what? It's not. The fact that it's false ought to be reported, or you're advancing a lie.'"

This brings an end to the Cheney-era in US politics when someone just gets to spew freely, lie after lie, without being held accountable. I hope it also gets rid of useless debates like Creationism vs Evolution and Global warming vs Oil Company-backed deniers. This is bad news for the likes of John McCain who frequently forget what they say, attack opponents with the biggest of hypocrisies, and live in 7 glass houses as they throw stones. Veracity is a bitch for Grampy McSame.

Bush and Conservatives have assaulted intellect for 8 years. The use of fear on the under exposed and easily frightened was their calling card. Now that has all changed. The bar has been risen by the likes of Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann and other free-thinkers and that's a good thing for both sides.

WaPo article on here

Not A Friedman Fan, But He Points Out 7 Wasted Years

Thomas Friedman tends to give too many "the next 6 months are important" without ever criticizing the previous 6 months of stagnation. In his op-ed he points how the past 7 years have been different for the US and China.

"As I sat in my seat at the Bird’s Nest, watching thousands of Chinese dancers, drummers, singers and acrobats on stilts perform their magic at the closing ceremony, I couldn’t help but reflect on how China and America have spent the last seven years: China has been preparing for the Olympics; we’ve been preparing for Al Qaeda. They’ve been building better stadiums, subways, airports, roads and parks. And we’ve been building better metal detectors, armored Humvees and pilotless drones."

Bush, and Conservatives, have Americans thinking we can be taken over by extremists. Somehow our whole country is going to be taken over. With all the guns we have here, good luck. So with our collective eye focused on an exaggerated, although necessary, goal of "fighting terrorism", Friedman points out that once you're off target you need to refocus.

"But the first rule of holes is that when you’re in one, stop digging. When you see how much modern infrastructure has been built in China since 2001, under the banner of the Olympics, and you see how much infrastructure has been postponed in America since 2001, under the banner of the war on terrorism, it’s clear that the next seven years need to be devoted to nation-building in America."

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Hillary Nails It

"No way, no how, no McCain." Hillary mans up and gets behind Barack. Let this phony Democratic schism be put to bed.