Politics dump
Today is supposed to be my catch-up blogging day. I wrote it on a sticky note and everything. Unfortunately, tonight is also the last presidential election and I’ve been watching TV all morning. (Segue into Tangent #1: I’ve been on a MSNBC bender. If I’m not actually watching something, it’s MSNBC that’s on. It wakes me up in the morning, lulls me to sleep at night…I love MSNBC. I was telling Alceste that if Fox News makes the right wingnuts feel as happy inside as MSNBC makes me, then, heck, who am I to begrudge them their functionally retarded Sean Hannity and the incoherent bloviating of Billo the Clown…er…O’Reilly. I have mentioned how much I love Keith Olbermann, right? Anyway, touching on my Fox news comparison, I had MSNBC on last night and Kearns was all “nah, I don’t like them, they’re too extreme.” And I was all “What? Are you daft, man?” And he’s all, they always agree with Democrats and Obama — it’s like listening to Fox. “But Fox is always wrong and they straight MAKE STUFF UP!” MSNBC does tend to reaffirm all my previously held beliefs and give me awesome buurrnn lines, but is it to be faulted for having smart, discerning anchors who can read and think for themselves rather than spout idiotic Karl Rove/Halliburton talking points about Ayers and Wright?)
Anyway, so I’m watching MSNBC and it has taken me completely out of my personal catch-up blogging mode and thrown me back into my full-on politics mania:
You’ll have to look up links yourself but here are the key things that jumped out at me this morning:
*McCain has promised to bring up Ayers in the debate today because Obama dared him to! Dude, is this man 100 or six?
*Could the October surprise be Dick Cheney’s death?
* LIDDY DOLE IS CURRENTLY LOSING IN THE POLLS!!
* TED STEVENS IS LEADING IN HIS POLLS!!!
* Barack OBAMA has taken the lead in NORTH DAKOTA, FLORIDA, VIRGINIA AND COLORADO!!!!
*Sarah Plain and Tall was found guilty of abuse of power…and quickly dismissed the report as a product of a pro Obama council. In Alaska.
*Obama has more money than McCain! McCain has run 8 TV ads in Virginia compared to Obama’s like 200,000. Has McCain pulled out of Virginia?
*Michael Bloomberg is such a nutter. NYC wouldn’t let Rudy Giuliani stay on as our Mayor after 9/11, a time when he was UNIVERSALLY praised as the only leader IN THE WORLD who appeared to have any clue about what to do in the aftermath of that attack. I distinctly remember, blah blah blahing through President Bush’s addresses and saying “Where’s Rudy?” And yet, when his time was up in January, that was it, Exit stage left! But Mike Bloomberg thinks because the stock market is wildly fluctuating, he should get to stay on another term to “guide us through this economic crisis?” Please. This is the same dude whose idea of how to handle the homeless was to put them on cruise ships off the coast of Manhattan. Beat it.
*Is a dude named Barack Hussein Obama really going to be our next President? Like there’s going to be Obama Boulevards up and down America? A Barack Hussein Obama library? Really? I just…I don’t know…I cannot see the picture yet in my head of Barack Hussein Obama with his hand on a bible saying “I, Barack Hussein Obama, hereby…”
*Ugarles asked me a couple of days ago whether I regretted supporting Hillary Clinton given the state of things today. My instinct then was to say “no, I didn’t regret it. I actually supported Hillary and thought she was the woman for the job.” After giving it some more thought, I still agree with myself. I actually went to early Obama fundraisers and heard him speak. I remember wanting to be wowed by him especially because I thought a half black dude with less than a full term as a Senator –won in a race against Alan “where am I?” Keyes, I should add– would never be able to win a general election. He just didn’t deliver. However, as a full-on Obamaniac now, he was clearly just having an off-day. I do think he’ll be a better President than Hillary would have been, if only because he won’t be dragging around the festering putrid corpse of Bill Clinton. He also has shown that he inspires fierce loyalty and it’ll be good to have a President that can command the young, the way he can. Also, I think he’ll be a BAGILLION times better the President than John McCain or Barr or Nader, and honestly that’s the only test he needs to meet. John McCain, and here I will proudly state that I have NEVER been one of those wacky wacky Dems who used to think “John McCain was a good Republican,” I’ve always seen him as the erratic anti-Martin Luther King Day nutjob opportunist that he now exposes himself to be everyday. Come on? WHO VOTES AGAINST A DAY OFF JUST BECAUSE IT’S FOR A BLACK GUY? A DAY OFF!! No way, no how, no McCain.
* Oh, and speaking of palling around with terrorists: McCain and Saddam?
October 15th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
“WHO VOTES AGAINST A DAY OFF JUST BECAUSE IT’S FOR A BLACK GUY? A DAY OFF!! ”
Exactly, you gotta be really racist to be against a day off.
But I would like to point out that Arizona is not a racist state.
October 15th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Guess I better not ask what you think of this guy then:
http://www.essence.com/news_entertainment/news/articles/mccainsupporterclearsair
October 15th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
No, you can ask. I think he’s a moron. But I despise the whole “sell out” crap. Black people have just as much right to be stupid arse Republicans if they want as anybody else.
October 15th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
That sure was a dump alright.
October 15th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
Ohhh…I get it…you keep blogging that not voting for obama is not racist screed because that is the only political answer you have left in you….aww…sad. You know what, kid? Tomorrow I will post about how if Obama loses it’s because of racism. Just for you! How’s that sound? You’d like that, wouldn’t you?! Okay!
October 15th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
What would that be considered a “political answer” to, exactly?
October 15th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
And yes, you got me, I’m not blogging about politics as much because I’m very sad that McCain will likely lose. Not because I have a dayjob and am planning a wedding, but because it breaks the heart that my favorite candidate of all time won’t win.
October 15th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
So now you don’t like Bloomberg anymore? Took you long enough.
October 15th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Um…I’ve *never* liked Bloomberg. Aint no such thing as a good Republican politician.
October 16th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Wait, Ted Stevens is winning? How can Sevens be winning?
October 16th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
You voted for him, did you not?
October 16th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
Either way I recall you defending him often. And some song about being more than happy to pay whatever was asked of you tax-wise, such is the privilege of being a NYer .
October 16th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
hahahahhahahahaha….did you just suggest that Dawn Summers voted Republican? hahahahahhaha hahahahahahahhahahahaha oh man, dude. You need a blog, you’re hilarious. hahahhhahaha
October 18th, 2008 at 2:02 am
From: http://www.chicagogop.com/blog/400-The-little-red-hen.html
One day the Little Red Hen had an Idea!
She called all of her Democrat neighbors together and said, ‘If we plant this wheat, we shall have bread to eat. Who will help me plant it?’
‘Not I,’ said the cow.
‘Not I,’ said the duck.
‘Not I,’ said the pig.
‘Not I,’ said the goose.
‘Then I will do it by myself,’ said the little red hen, and so she did. The wheat grew very tall and ripened into golden grain.
‘Who will help me reap my wheat?’ asked the little red hen.
‘Not I,’ said the duck..
‘Out of my classification,’ said the pig.
‘I’d lose my seniority,’ said the cow.
‘I’d lose my unemployment compensation,’ said the goose.
‘Then I will do it by myself,’ said the little red hen, and so she did.
At last it came time to bake the bread.
‘Who will help me bake the bread?’ asked the little red hen.
‘That would be overtime for me,’ said the cow.
‘I’d lose my welfare benefits,’ said the duck.
‘I’m a dropout and never learned how,’ said the pig.
‘If I’m to be the only helper, that’s discrimination,’ said the goose.
‘Then I will do it by myself,’ said the little red hen.
She baked five loaves and held them up for all of her neighbors to see. They wanted some and, in fact, demanded a share. But the little red hen said,
‘No, I shall eat all five loaves.’
‘Excess profits!’ cried the cow. (Nancy Pelosi)
‘Capitalist leech!’ screamed the duck. (Barbara Boxer)
‘I demand equal rights!’ yelled the goose. (Jesse Jackson)
The pig just grunted in disdain. (Ted Kennedy)
And they all painted ‘Unfair!’ picket signs and marched around and around the little red hen, shouting obscenities.
Then the farmer (Obama) came. He said to the little red hen, ‘You must not be so greedy.’
‘But I earned the bread,’ said the little red hen.
‘Exactly,’ said Barack the farmer. ‘That is what makes our free enterprise system so wonderful. Anyone in the barnyard can earn as much as he wants. But under our modern government regulations, the productive workers must divide the fruits of their labor with those who are lazy and idle.’
And they all lived happily ever after, including the little red hen, who smiled and clucked, ‘I am grateful, for now I truly understand.’
But her neighbors became quite disappointed in her. She never again baked bread because she joined the ‘party’ and got her bread free. And all the
Democrats smiled. ‘Fairness’ had been established.
Individual initiative had died, but nobody noticed; perhaps no one cared…so long as there was free bread that ‘the rich’ were paying for.
EPILOGUE
Bill Clinton is getting $12 million for his memoirs.
Hillary got $8 million for hers.
That’s $20 million for the memories from two people, who for eight years, repeatedly testified, under oath, that they couldn’t remember anything.
IS THIS A GREAT BARNYARD OR WHAT???