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.

Baracky II

Politics should be fun.

5 Years Too Late

I'm not saying I'm into death photos, but I do think it's disrespectful to bar images of soldiers coming home. Not the cute ones with husbands meeting wives and kids on the tarmac. I'm talking the ones that made the ultimate sacrifice. Seems Bush and Rumsfeld had a bias against dead soldiers. "Make them go away" so we can sell our fake war without the moral and human destruction creeping into their fairy tale.

A new bill has been introduced to change that:

The Secretary of Defense shall grant access to accredited members of the media at military commemoration ceremonies and memorial services conducted by the Armed Forces for members of the Armed Forces who have died on active duty and when the remains of members of the Armed Forces arrive at military installations in the United States.

The current Defense policy, which was updated in 2003, states that there shall be no “media coverage of” the returning war dead. In the five years of the Iraq war, during which more than 4,100 U.S. troops have died, photos of military caskets have leaked out on at least three occasions. Military officials have defended the rule by saying it is in place out of respect to service members and their loved ones.

Who made that decision? The families?

Photographs of returning military dead were permitted during Vietnam. Those images reminded us how horrible war is. Bush's 40 year coke/booze bender helped him escape that fact. Too bad for the 4000+ dead.

Abstinence Is Making Better Engineers

I don't think having sex is a problem for most engineering types. Masturbation counts, right?



To the abstinence advocates out there, you nailed it with this one. You've done nothing to stop people from having sex and you've just decreased engineering majors' enrollment across the country. Well played.

Cranky McCain Hates Social Security But Loves The Money

In honor of the 73rd anniversary of President Franklin Roosevelt’s signing of the Social Security Act, the New Mexico Democratic Party attempted to sing “Happy 73rd Birthday to Social Security” outside of a McCain campaign office, “only to have the birthday cake thrown in the trash by the campaign”

A perfect metaphor for Grampy McSames’s approach to Social Security policy.

So if McSame has a strict constructionist philosophy, to faithfully apply the law as written, not impose his opinions, why does he want to destroy Social Security? For 73 years Social Security has been the way of life for Americans, the accepted norm. Is it McSame's opinion, who, by the way is the only Presidential candidate ever over 70, that Social Security does not work?

I have never heard a single social security recipient say they hated their checks. Oh! Maybe one:

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), who received $24,000 in benefits last year, believes this system is an “absolute disgrace.”

It's so disgraceful he takes the money.

Team Obama Smacks Down Exxon John

The Geriatric Maverick gets pwned. The old dog doing his old tricks. Not that this stuff matters, but it shows that Barack knows how to strike back.

McCain Is An Idiot

McCain is running his "I'm The White Guy" campaign in his usual way, into the ground. Obama comes out with and ad showing McSame voted the same as Bush 95% of the time. A logical assessment, likening a vote for McCain as a vote for Bush, and thus, bad government. The Maverick forgets that they keep records of his votes. Another Grandpa moment I guess.

So in response, quick-draw McSame fires back at Obama saying “In the Senate, Barack Obama has voted in lockstep with President George W. Bush nearly half the time.” What does "nearly" mean? So over half the time Barack voted against Bush. The majority of the time.

Now remember the McCain campaign also argues that Obama is the Senate’s biggest liberal. [That is the conservative catch-all phrase that frightens dim people. It's like saying someone is the biggest philosopher or humanitarian, the Right have demonized a good quality much like Ivy league schools which Bush is a graduate of x2, Yale and Harvard]

The McCain campaign argues that Obama has “voted in lockstep” with Bush and is the biggest liberal. Oddly enough, they’re making both arguments at the same time.

h/t to http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/

Invading Sovereign Countries: Middle East OK, Europe No

John Stewart points out how Bush has the balls to call out Russia and the virtuous Putin, who's eyes he looked into and saw a good man, for invading Georgia. Consistency is not W's strong suit, although he consistently has disregard for international standards which is is nice. Our US Ambassador to Iraq objectively showcases our weakness brought on by the Bush Doctrine.

Stewart: “It’ll be very interesting to see what the United States does here. Our invasion of Iraq somewhat hamstrings our options in Georgia, not just militarily, but also dimplomaticly, and I guess you would say, morally? Let’s watch our UN Ambsassador Zalmay Khalilzad dance the delicate dance…

Khalilzad: We want to make sure our Russian colleagues understand that the days of overthrowing leaders by military means…

Stewart: Careful, Khalilzad. Steady…steady…

Khalilzad: The days of overthrowing leaders by military means in Europe, those days are gone…

Stewart: Yes! He did it! Those days are gone…in Europe. In the Middle East, it’s morning in America.

The Bush Doctrine has streamlined the invasion of countries without out all the need for lies and deception like WMD. George W's legacy in in place. Putin gets bonus points for efficiency.

Conservative Double Standard

FoxNoise fake newsman Sean Hannity is a clown. He goes after John Edwards and his affair, and rightfully so. It's big news for him to slam a Democrat. Plus, Edwards is a public figure, his marriage is open to discussion.

Hannity: “If you can’t keep a promise to your family, can’t keep a promise to your wife, you’re having an affair, you’re lying about the affair repeatedly. Why should the American people trust you when you say you’re not gonna lie to them? Why should we trust you?”

The only thing is, as Alan Colmes pointed out, John McCain did the same thing to his first wife.

Colmes: Excuse me Sean. You’ve had your chance to speak, I’m up. John McCain cheated on his wife, right. Amanda? So how do we trust John McCain? He cheated on his wife, why do you have a double standard and John McCain’s running for President? John Edwards is not. John McCain’s wife was in a car accident. John McCain’s running for President, what about his affair?

See it for what it is. Two men had affairs. Why is one OK and the other one a deep insight into the flawed character of a man who can't be trusted?