Archive for May, 2008
Straight Talk From The Future!
Posted on May 30, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, Iraq war, John McCain, The Surge | Leave a Comment
Facts have a well-known temporal bias:
On a McCain campaign conference call, Senator Jon Kyl did not concede that McCain had made an error in saying “We have drawn down to pre-surge levels,” instead accusing the Obama campaign and reporters of “trying to nitpick the tense of the verb about the surge troops being home.”
“The surge [...]
Things I STILL Don’t Care About
Posted on May 30, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 democratic primary, Geraldine Ferraro, Things I Don't Care About, gender, race | Leave a Comment
(Part seventeen in an ongoing series)
Geraldine Ferraro.
“It’s not racism that is driving them, it’s racial resentment.” Seriously? Are you sure you wouldn’t be better suited to working on a Republican’s campaign in some backwater in the South?
How could someone so irrelevant to everything be annoying me so much? Why won’t she go away?
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Snow Cones For All
Posted on May 30, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Columbia Heights, food | Leave a Comment
I’ve always complained that you can’t find decent snow cones in DC. In the Baltimore area, they’re everywhere in the summer (and called by their proper name, snowballs), but like a good crab cake or a decent bagel, they simply don’t exist thirty miles South.
Now Carol sends me the link to a Columbia Heights blog [...]
Elections Are Arbitrary
Posted on May 30, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 democratic primary, voting systems | 1 Comment
A new poll in California raises an excellent point in relation to all of the whining about caucus states, Florida and Michigan, and the Democrats’ proportional delegate system.
Even though Sen. Barack Obama lost the California primary to Sen. Hillary Clinton by 18 percentage points, he is now favored among Democratic voters, 51% to 38%, according [...]
Cheap Shots At ESPN
Posted on May 29, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under ESPN, Mark Madden, the media | Leave a Comment
ESPN fired some radio host jackass who said he wished Ted Kennedy were going to live long enough to be assassinated.
Expect them to quietly rehire this guy in two years once their audience forgets why he was ever fired.
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No. Just No.
Posted on May 29, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 Democratic convention, DCCC, Paul Begala | Leave a Comment
Paul Begala, enticing me via email to donate money to the Dems so as to give myself a chance to win a trip to the convention:
Dear Andrew,
I’ll tell you this right out of the box. We’re gonna have more fun than Rush Limbaugh in an all-night pharmacy!
As I said: No. Just no.
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Our Fratboy President
Posted on May 29, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under George W Bush | Leave a Comment
Only eight more months, only eight more months…
I Am Proud To Have Cast A Vote For This Man And Will Be Proud To So Again In The General
Posted on May 29, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama, Bush administration, Constitution | Leave a Comment
Via Spencer Ackerman, Barack Obama gave us a preview of his first hundred days as president:
During a fund-raiser in Denver, Obama — a former constitutional law professor at the University of Chicago Law School — was asked what he hoped to accomplish during his first 100 days in office.
“I would call my attorney general in [...]
World War II Veterans Are Awesome
Posted on May 29, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, Auschwitzgate, World War II, veterans, wingnuts | Leave a Comment
Sorry to do another post on the whole Auschwitz/Buchenwald thing; I know some of you would probably prefer I ignore it from here on out. I promise, this one is much lighter and hopefully funny. The story is courtesy of Sadly, No!
One of the troglodytes in wingnutland was not satisfied with knowing the name of [...]
When I Said Before That I Spent The Day Obsessing Over Stupid Shit, This Is Mostly What I Meant
Posted on May 28, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under FOX News, Holocaust, World War II | Leave a Comment
If this is true, FOX News has gone way past the line of… advocating war and torture? Wait, scratch that. This is definitely par for the course for FOX News, but it hits me on a personal level and makes me want to break things.
This morning on the program Fox and Friends, one of the [...]
Apropos Of Nothing In Particular…
Posted on May 28, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 democratic primary | Leave a Comment
Because I’ve been obsessing about stupid shit all day, allow me to throw this out there.
What, exactly, do Hillary Clinton’s remaining supporters believe will happen should she win the nomination now?
I keep reading in pro-Hillary areas of the intertubes angry denunciations of Barack Obama and his supporters, many of which include threats not to vote [...]
Live In The Now!
Posted on May 28, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 1996 presidential election, 2008 democratic primary, Hillary Clinton | Leave a Comment
Hillary Clinton wrote a letter to the superdelegates asking them to support her candidacy. It’s long, boring, and largely irrelevant, so I didn’t bother to read it. But then the conclusion of the letter caught my eye, and I couldn’t help but chuckle:
But at this point, neither of us has crossed the finish line. I [...]
Didn’t He Predict Republicans Would Win Seats In Congress In ‘06?
Posted on May 28, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, Karl Rove | Leave a Comment
Why would anyone take Turd Blossom’s electoral maps seriously? Even if he’s not operating with a political agenda, hasn’t Mr. Permanent Republican Majority been a bit discredited?
Things I Don’t Care About
Posted on May 28, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Bush administration, Scott McClellan, Things I Don't Care About, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washingt, books | Leave a Comment
(Part sixteen in an ongoing series)
Scott McClellan’s critique of the Bush administration in his upcoming memoir.
Seriously, is there going to be anything in here I didn’t already know?
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Simple Rule: Don’t Try To Score Points By Claiming To Remember The Holocaust Better Than Someone Else
Posted on May 28, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama, World War II | Leave a Comment
That Auschwitz/Buchenwald thing yesterday really pissed me off. Before I went to bed, I caught this post from John Aravosis noting Jake Tapper’s excellent response to the mainstreaming of the non-story. Reading it really made me feel a bit better. I was especially pleased to see Tapper specifically call out the Post’s Michael Dobbs for [...]
Stupid Wingnut Explosions
Posted on May 27, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama, Memorial Day, World War II, wingnuts | 3 Comments
The nuttier conservatives have been up in arms all day because Barack Obama, during a Memorial Day event, made a passing reference to an uncle who served in the United States armed forces during World War II. Here’s what the senator said while attempting to discuss our mental health care obligations to our veterans:
“I had [...]
Too Funny
Posted on May 27, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Stephen Colbert, wingnuts | Leave a Comment
Expect to see this mentioned shortly after 11:30 tonight.
Inappropriate Google News Photos
Posted on May 27, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Google News, John McCain, National Spelling Bee | Leave a Comment
I love when Google News attaches the wrong image to an article. I don’t know why, but I find it hilarious. Here’s a good one (live as of 3:30 pm):
Little John McCain is going to make his family proud!
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Simple Answers To Simple Questions
Posted on May 27, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 2008 elections, George W Bush | Leave a Comment
CNN:
Bush: An asset or a liability for McCain?
Liability.
They don’t get much simpler than this.
Here’s a slightly harder question: What will it take for the media to finally believe that Americans widely (and justifiably) view George W Bush as the worst president of the modern era (at least)?
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Doing McCain’s Work For Him
Posted on May 27, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under E.J. Dionne, Richard Cohen, The Washington Post | Leave a Comment
The usually quite good E. J. Dionne endorses the ridiculous opinion of two guys trying to sell a book:
The reaction of too many progressives to patriotism is “automatic, allergic recoil,” say two young Seattle writers, Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer, in their important book “The True Patriot.”
Thanks, Dionne, for giving this smear additional legs in [...]
