30 Sep 08 McCain Fundamentally Wrong
No wonder nobody in his own party is listening to McCain about the bailout. You could fill a book with what he doesn’t know about the economy.
30 Sep 08 Gotcha Bitches!!!
This is so hilarious I can barely stop laughing long enough to post. See our Pakistan Double Whammy post for more details. Enjoy!
28 Sep 08 McCain Sinking Fast
The Stockton Record endorsed Barack Obama today. The last time they backed a Democrat was 72 years ago, when FDR was running for his second term in 1936. Located in a farm community in California’s central valley, The Record serves one of the most conservative areas in the nation. It’s very clear to them that John McCain represents four more years of the same failed Georgie Porgie policies.
Stockton Record link:
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080928/A_OPINION01/809280301/-1/A_OPINION
“For eight years, American politics has been marked by smears, fears and greed. For too long, we’ve practiced partisanship in Washington, not politics. The result is a cynicism every bit as deep as that which infected the nation when Richard Nixon was shamed from office and when Bill Clinton brought shame to the office.
This must end, but John McCain can’t do it. He can’t inspire, nor can he really break from a past that is breaking this nation.”
Their assessment of Palin is even more damaging:
“… McCain’s most troubling trait: his judgment.
While praiseworthy for putting the first woman on a major-party presidential ticket since Geraldine Ferraro in 1984, his selection of Palin as a running mate was appalling. The first-term governor is clearly not experienced enough to serve as vice president or president if required. Her lack of knowledge is being covered up by keeping her away from questioning reporters and doing interviews only with those considered friendly to her views.”
Finally, their endorsement of Obama is direct and clear:
“Obama can inspire, and our nation desperately needs an inspirational leader. And he does not carry the deep scars of Vietnam, as do many of McCain’s generation.
He offers hope. A new way of doing business. And a belief that our system of government can be made to work.
He’s the clear choice.”
28 Sep 08 Pakistan Double Whammy
McCain and Palin just can’t keep their stories straight when it comes to Pakistan. It might not matter quite so much if Bin Laden didn’t live there, but he does. Everybody knows he’s hiding out in the Waziristan province of Pakistan, but Georgie Porgie seems in no hurry to find him.
It seems like it would be a really good idea for a presidential candidate to study up on the history and politics of Pakistan. I sure would if I was running for president. But McCain doesn’t agree, he seems quite happy to remain clueless about Pakistan, calling it a “failed state” in the first debate.
Pakistan was a democracy until Musharraf took over in 1999, with a democratically elected government. It wasn’t the most stable country in the world, but it was far from being in a state of anarchy. You could look it up, and in fact the American government protested Musharraf’s coup in 1999. Sadly, McCain doesn’t seem to be very good at reading or remembering stuff.
It also seems like it would be a really good idea for a presidential candidate and his vice-presidential running mate to keep their stories straight, especially about someplace as critical to our future as Pakistan. However Palin disagrees with McCain about hunting down Bin Laden.
McCain said in the debate that he’ll be just like Georgie Porgie: unwilling to cross into Pakistan to take out Bin Laden. Palin was out getting a cheese steak last night, and told everyone she’d march straight across the border into Pakistan if that’s what it took to get him. Sounds like Palin agrees with Obama on that issue. Who’da thunk it lol.
28 Sep 08 Country Last
John McCain staged a hypocritical and purely political power play last week. It was one of the lowest displays of selfishness and greed I’ve ever seen by a politician, and that includes Georgie Porgie and Tricky Dick. McCain earned a really good spanking, and got one from Frank Rich.
New York Times link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/opinion/28rich.html
WHAT we learned last week is that the man who always puts his “country first” will take the country down with him if that’s what it takes to get to the White House.
For all the focus on Friday night’s deadlocked debate, it still can’t obscure what preceded it: When John McCain gratuitously parachuted into Washington on Thursday, he didn’t care if his grandstanding might precipitate an even deeper economic collapse. All he cared about was whether he might save his campaign. George Bush put more deliberation into invading Iraq than McCain did into his own reckless invasion of the delicate Congressional negotiations on the bailout plan.
28 Sep 08 Laugh or Cry
Last night’s opening segment of SNL would be hilarious if it wasn’t such a true portrait of Sarah Palin. This is an actual quote from her interview with Katie Couric:
” . . . where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the healthcare reform that is needed to help shore up our economy. Um, helping, oh — it’s got to be all about job creation too. Shoring up our economy, and putting it back on the right track. So healthcare reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions, and tax relief for Americans, and trade, we’ve got to see trade as opportunity, not as a competitive, um, scary thing, but 1 in 5 jobs being created in the trade sector today. We’ve got to look at that as more opportunity. All of those things under the umbrella of job creation. This bailout is a part of that.”
Then again, maybe that makes it even funnier. Laugh or cry, your choice:
28 Sep 08 Letterman Roasts McCain - Part Duh
Only an eeeediot would lie to David Letterman. John McCain lied to David Letterman. You do the math lol.
27 Sep 08 McCain Muzzles Palin
Poor Sarah Palin, McCain doesn’t trust her to open her mouth in public. He didn’t let her talk to any of the fun TV people after the debate last night. He must think she’s reeeeally stoooopid, too much of an idiot to even say “We Won!” in a believable way. The networks all wanted to put her up there on the screen like they did Joe Biden, but nooooo. McCain and his team locked her in a closet in Philadelphia and wouldn’t give her permission to speak.
New York Times link:
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/palin-wont-spin-for-mccain/
27 Sep 08 Fux News Lovers Liked Obama
Hard to believe that a group of undecided Fux News watchers thought Obama won the debate, but it’s true. It’s even harder to believe that Fux News showed people who disagreed with their party line on camera, but they did. The only possible explanation is that they know McCain is sinking, and he’s going down fast. The rats are going overboard as quickly as they can.
26 Sep 08 Wall Street to McCain: Drop Dead
John McCain played dice with the economic future of our country yesterday, and contributed nothing other than confusion. Excessive deregulation of the financial industry got us into this mess, and one of the key features of the surprise plan McCain supports is more deregulation. James Pethokoukis at US News published a Wall Street reaction to the McCain bailout negotiations shennanigans.
US News link:
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/capital-commerce/2008/9/26/wall-street-to-gop-drop-dead.html
I am a huge Reagan fan and admirer.I have voted GOP every election since 1976. Until now. Today. September 25, 2008. As soon as I finish this email I am going to try and get my $1000 McCain/Palin credit card donation back as I will not be voting GOP this year after watching this circus and the theatres passing as leadership displayed by the GOP. I am embarrassed to have been an erstwhile supporter of this gaggle of self-serving jerks. I hope the GOP lose their asses come November. They shall deserve it.
25 Sep 08 McCain Clueless About Economy
John McCain doesn’t understand how Wall Street works, and he never did. Check out the stupid lie he told during the GOP Candidates’ Debate:
Crooks and Liars knows how clueless McCain is about economics:
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/09/25/how-is-john-mccain-going-to-help-solve-the-financial-crisis/
BARTIROMO: Sen. McCain, has Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke cut interest rates aggressively enough?
Has Ben Bernanke cut interests rates aggressively enough?
McCAIN: I’m not…I’m not…I don’t have that kind of expertise to know exactly whether he has cut interest rates suffiently or not. I’m glad that whenever they cut interest rates. I wish interest rates were zero.
Just in case you’re not sure what that really means, zero percent interest rates would bankrupt every financial institution in America. Zero percent interest rates would bankrupt our government too. Try telling the IRS you shouldn’t have to pay interest on your late tax payment because McCain told you he wants all interest rates to be zero, and see how far that gets you. On second thought, don’t do that, people who refuse to pay the IRS end up in jail.
25 Sep 08 Sarah Palin Is Clueless
“A track record of the leadership qualities” enables her to say absolutely nothing about anything America cares about today. She knows nothing and says nothing that isn’t in the script McCain gave her. Although she says McCain was “leading the charge” for more oversight of the economy, she can’t offer a single example of him promoting more regulations. See for yourself:
25 Sep 08 Don’t Mess With David Letterman
McCain told another one yesterday, this time to David Letterman. “Gee Dave, I’m too busy saving the economy to appear on your show.” But did he run back to Washington to have a beer with Georgie Porgie? Noooooooo he didn’t, did he. Check it out:
24 Sep 08 Sarah & Hillary Crack Wise
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler bring down the house opening the new SNL season. Enjoy!
23 Sep 08 Litany of Lies
“Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
And here’s more of the same:
