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May 03, 2008
Crazy John & Hillary's Gas Tax Holiday
Their gas tax holiday is INSANE!
05:59 PM | Comments (1) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Bartlet For Obama
"It’s unfortunate that they’re beating each other up. I haven’t made a proper claim, maybe I should do it here, I’m an Obama supporter. But you mustn’t reveal it yet, Bill Clinton loved the West Wing and he still calls me his President, so I have to be careful for just a while longer."
05:42 PM | Comments (1) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Worst Cycling Crashes Ever
I was very lucky yesterday. Here are some guys who weren't as lucky:
The dog was uninjured, and, remarkably enough, so was Brad Huff in this crash:
12:37 PM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
The Next President Of the United States
Senator Obama's closing remarks at the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner in North Carolina.
11:12 AM | Comments (2) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Solution Plagiarism
Remember Senator Clinton's awesome Xerox joke from February?
"It's not change you can believe in, it's change you can Xerox." (Written for the Senator by DLC president, Bruce Reed.)
I was wondering how many Xerox copies the Clintons have made of the McCain gas tax pander?
ADDING... And of course there's this -- the most notorious Clinton Xerox of the campaign so far:
"I want to know where they stand [on the gas tax] and I want them to tell us - are they with us or against us?”
Which was Xeroxed from this:
"You're either with us or against us in the fight against terror."
Where's the plagiarism outrage police?
09:14 AM | Comments (1) | Posted By Bob Cesca
300,000 Jobs
Don't know how many blogotubers caught this, but Newsweek's Jonathan Alter on Countdown last night reported that the McCain-Clinton gas tax holiday will result in 300,000 lost jobs. 300,000 construction workers without work. Great idea! Senator Clinton is really with the working class.
09:06 AM | Comments (4) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Morning Awesome
Yeah, it's a repeat. But for safety's sake.
08:47 AM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
May 02, 2008
I Got Hit By A Car
Note to drivers. If you see a cyclist riding on the road in front of you, don't make a right turn in front of the cyclist, thereby cutting him off and forcing him to slam into the side of your car.
No serious injuries, but I got to ride in an awesome ambulance and they gave me some lovely drugs at the hospital. And -- bonus! -- I got to parade around the ER wearing my garish cycling clothes.
07:57 PM | Comments (13) | Posted By Bob Cesca
If, If, If...
"If we had the Republican rules, I would already be the nominee." --Senator Clinton, 5/1/08
"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." --President Bush, 12/8/00
Well, okay. The Republican rules include stealing elections and trampling on the Constitution. So in a way, Senator Clinton is right.
08:25 AM | Comments (12) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Morning Awful
"I think torture gets actionable intelligence."
--Joe Scarborough, 5/2/08
Wrong.
08:03 AM | Comments (6) | Posted By Bob Cesca
This Is Insane
This ABC town hall meeting Sunday morningrepresents a new low for the corporate media -- especially ABC which ought to be on everyone's shit list in the first place.
Clinton alone. Hosted by former Clinton Communications Director George Stephanopoulos. Just 48 hours before the polls open in Indiana and North Carolina.
An executive at a rival network mocked, "We look forward to ABC holding the next town hall meeting with President Bush, hosted by Karl Rove!"
But this ABC thing is far worse. President Bush isn't participating in an election on Tuesday.
What we're seeing here should be obvious... The Clinton Machine is trying to steal this election from Senator Obama, with all the vigor and style of the Bush-Rove Republicans. The consequences will be a McCain victory in November and another Clinton run in 2012.
[Corrected: I originally reported that the town hall was being held in prime time. It's not. It's taking place during ABC's This Week.]
07:36 AM | Comments (1) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Morning Awesome
07:18 AM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
May 01, 2008
Hillary W. Bush
There's little doubt that the media's love affair with hating Jeremiah Wright has hurt Obama's momentum in North Carolina and Indiana and maybe even a bit nationally. Obama's doing a remarkable job of changing the dynamic despite the massive assault these mega-corporate megaphones have launched. It's not just what he's said, it's also the super-delegate endorsements he's garnered in the last two days that prove his momentum is gaining again.
And let's be clear: Obama is in the lead and gaining, both in pledged delegates and superdelegates. Period.
But what's going on within the Clinton branch of the Democratic party? I mean, what's really going on?
What's going on is that the Clintons think that losers should win; racists should win; liars should win. Hey, it worked for George W. Bush!
07:25 PM | Comments (2) | Posted By JumpyPants
Gas Holiday In Hell
This is how much it cost me to fill up my mom's sedan this morning with premium (it's fancy, it must have premium):
Supposedly Clinton's internal polling (done by Mark Penn of course!) is showing that her batshit/bullshit gas tax holiday from hell is actually working on voters. These voters must not understand that after ONE fill up like I had this morning, the holiday would be over. That's one crappy holiday, America.
07:20 PM | Comments (2) | Posted By JumpyPants
Experts Shmexperts
The Clinton campaign has officially become a Bush-Rove Republican campaign. Regarding that gas tax holiday -- a plan which every expert agrees is a boondoggle:
"We believe the presidency requires leadership," said Wolfson. "There are times that a president will take a position that a broad support of quote-unquote experts agree with. And there are times they will take a position that quote-unquote experts do not agree with."
Uh-huh. Sounds like the Bush administration on -- oh, let's say... everything. Start with Iraq and run down the list to torture and the climate crisis. Bush Republicans hate quote-unquote experts. They hate them so much that they also hate anyone who's an expert in using the phrase "quote-unquote".
04:38 PM | Comments (3) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Clinton Supporters Might Vote For Him?
Him = Senator McCain. Because they'd inexplicably rather vote for a guy who calls his wife, Paris McCain, a "trollop" and a "cunt" in public than to vote for Senator Obama. Mental note: Calling wife a "cunt" in public...good. Running against Senator Clinton in the primary...bad.
On that note, this exchange really happened today:
Audience member: This question goes to mental health and mental health care. Previously, I've been married to a woman that was verbally abusive to me. Is it true that you called your wife a (expletive)?McCain: Now, now. You don't want to... Um, you know that's the great thing about town hall meetings, sir, but we really don't, there's people here who don't respect that kind of language. So I'll move on to the next questioner in the back.
And I salute my friend Cliff Schecter. SAL-UTE!
04:20 PM | Comments (4) | Posted By Bob Cesca
283
That's how many more delegates Senator Obama needs to win the nomination.
According to my math just after the Pennsylvania primary, Senator Obama can win less than half of the remaining pledged delegates and still pick up around 170 more delegates. In other words, he can basically lose the rest of the primaries and still pick up 170-180 delegates. That would mean he'd only need around 110 out of the remaining 250 (approximate) uncommitted superdelegates.
01:40 PM | Comments (3) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Evan Bayh's Polluted Waters
Adding to what Paddy wrote about Senator Bayh, it's worth noting that Senator Bayh has an ugly record of taking money from one of America's biggest air and water polluters: the AK Steel corporation. From my forthcoming book:
America’s TOP 25 Water Polluters1. AK Steel Corp. (Rockport, IN)
2. BASF Corp. (Freeport, TX)
3. IBP Inc. (Lexington, NE)
4. Smithfield Packing Co. (Tar Heel, NC)
5. Excel Corp. (Fort Morgan, CO)
6. DSM Chemicals N.A. Inc. (Augusta, GA)
7. AK Steel Corp. (Coshocton, OH)
8. Tyson Foods Inc. (Sedalia, MO)
9. IBP Inc. (Hillsdale, IL)
10. USS Gary Works (Gary, IN)
11. Anheuser-Busch Inc. (Baldwinsville, NY)*
12. US Army (Radford, VA)
13. Du Pont (Belle, WV)
14. Excel Corp. (Schuyler, NE)
15. Du Pont (Deepwater, NJ)
16. McCain Foods USA Inc. (Easton, ME)
17. J.R. Simplot Co. (Heyburn, IN)
18. John Morrell & Co. (Sioux Falls, SD)
19. Motiva Enterprises LLC (Port Arthur, TX)
20. McCain Foods USA (Burley, ID)
21. IBP Inc. (Dakota City, NE)
22. AK Steel Corp. (Zanesville, OH)
23. Samoa Pacific Cellulose (Samoa, CA)
24. Choctaw Maid Farms (Carthage, MS)
25. Taylor Packing Co. Inc. (Wyalusing, PA)Source: Scorecard.org
*Senator McCain’s wife, Cindy McCain, is the chairwoman of the board of Anheuser-Busch. Senator McCain’s son, Andrew, is the corporation’s CFO.
In 2006, Senator Bayh took $6,000 from the AK Steel PAC. $7,000 in 2004. $1,000 in 2002. Other AK Steel recipients include House Minority Leader John Boehner ($38,500 since 2000), Rick Santorum, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Bob Ney and President Bush.
Just a thumbnail about AK Steel's water pollution issues... AK Steel has polluted the Connoquenessing Creek -- the primary source of Butler, PA's drinking water -- so much so that the EPA ordered the corporation to provide free bottled water for all of the residents there. The nitrate level (nitrates cause, among other things, "blue baby syndrome") of the drinking water was more than ten times the acceptable level.
12:27 PM | Comments (4) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Something For Intoxination
Some news for fellow cycling fan Intoxination... This is from nearly a month ago and I totally missed it. There's no way of knowing whether Senator Obama is a fan of the classic Indiana-based cycling movie Breaking Away, but the Senator made a stop in Bloomington to watch the Little 500 cycling race (featured in the climax of the movie) at Indiana University's Bill Armstrong stadium last month:
INDYSTAR.COM -- Obama made no public remarks, but made a circuit of the cinder track, garnering screams of delight every time he waved his hands and also collecting loads of T-shirts from the bike teams.He stood between the first and third turns of the track to watch the start of the race, singing along to the Star-Spangled Banner, holding his hand over his heart, and also bowing his head in prayer during the invocation.
And in case you haven't seen Breaking Away:
11:37 AM | Comments (5) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Kentucky Is Redneck For "Whitey"
“I really don’t want an African-American as President. Race.”What about race?
“I thought about it. I think he would put too many minorities in positions over the white race. That’s my opinion. After 1964, you saw what the South did.” He meant that it went Republican. “Now what caused that? Race. There’s a lot of white people that just wouldn’t vote for a colored person. Especially older people. They know what happened in the sixties. Under thirty—they don’t remember. I do. I was here.”
The guy who said this is a Democrat. Think about this thing. Kentucky Democrats would rather vote for more wars and a shitty economy, rather than to vote for a fellow Democrat -- who happens to be black. That's remarkable to me. Not surprising, necessarily. But definitely educational.
(h/t TPM)
11:05 AM | Comments (2) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Grippy!
Now that's comedy.
10:22 AM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Baby Drop
Holy crap!
07:57 AM | Comments (2) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Ask Not...
While Senator Clinton talks about her scars and her solutions, Senator Obama is challenging you and me to work hard.
07:05 AM | Comments (1) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Five Years
Ah, memories:
CHRIS MATTHEWS: What do you make of this broadside against the USS Abraham Lincoln and its chief visitor last week?G. GORDON LIDDY: Well, I -- in the first place, I think it's envy. I mean, after all, Al Gore had to go get some woman to tell him how to be a man. And here comes George Bush. You know, he's in his flight suit, he's striding across the deck, and he's wearing his parachute harness, you know -- and I've worn those because I parachute -- and it makes the best of his manly characteristic. You go run those -- run that stuff again of him walking across there with the parachute. He has just won every woman's vote in the United States of America. You know, all those women who say size doesn't count -- they're all liars. Check that out. I hope the Democrats keep ratting on him and all of this stuff so that they keep showing that tape.
And the reality:
American soldiers killed in action since Mission Accomplished: 3,924
Women killed in action since Mission Accomplished: 102
Total American military casualties: 29,829
06:26 AM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Average Joe
I just turned on MSNBC and guess what they're talking about on Average Joe? Reverend Wright.
Oh, and Joe Scarborough just told me that Senator Obama's sharp, clean look is a problem. In order for Senator Obama to overcome the "Harvard" and the "Oxford," the Senator needs to walk around in a plaid shirt -- untucked.
Yeah.
Senator Obama didn't go to Oxford, but okay. Senator Obama needs to walk around like a fucking slob. Jesus, have our standards for the presidency dropped this low?
06:13 AM | Comments (2) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Morning Awesome
06:11 AM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
April 30, 2008
Go Senator Kerry!
Senator Kerry kicks so much ass here. Watch as he tells MSNBC to shut the fuck up about Reverend Wright.
KERRY: Can I say something to you? Obviously it is painful and he said it. You folks need to let go of this. Television needs to stop dwelling on something that is in the past. I thought Barack Obama yesterday gave America his second big presidential moment of this campaign. [...] And it is you guys have to focus on the thing that really matter to the American electorate. The other thing is just worn out, old history now. This guy had his narcissistic moment and it is finished.WITT: Okay. Point well taken. Did I say to begin, can I just say, sir, I knew you weren't going to like that question. On the record.
KERRY: Let's move on to the thing that really matter to people. I think people in America are tired of this stuff.
And here's my latest Huffington article in which I, too, shame MSNBC for their wall-to-wall nonsense.
07:07 PM | Comments (1) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Clinton v. Coffee Machine
Some evening awesome from Paddy at Cliff Schecter's place. Senator "Not An Elitist" Clinton can't figure out how to use a convenience store coffee machine.
06:54 PM | Comments (1) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Buying Votes
This says it all: Senators Clinton and McCain are attempting to buy votes. Granny Doc:
We figure that 18 cents a gallon, over 90 days, will put $11.34 in our pocket.
By the way, there are around 196,165,667 licensed drivers in America. But let's knock that down to 150,000,000 just to be on the safe side. With a savings of $11.34 each, that'd be $1,701,000,000 in lost federal revenue which ought to be used to, you know, fix the gigantic fucking potholes and collapsing bridges along our interstate highways.
02:37 PM | Comments (2) | Posted By Bob Cesca
The Lesson
Hunter from dKos has learned something this year:
In a race that includes a former First Lady of the United States and a multimillionaire Republican senator rumored to share up to eight residences with his wife, the black guy from Chicago is unforgivably elitist.
Who would've thought?
01:01 PM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
So Long, Big Guy
Otis
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11:55 AM | Comments (13) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Morning Awesome
08:36 AM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
April 29, 2008
Senator Obama Blasts Wright
Boom:
I'm outraged by the comments that were made and saddened by the spectacle that we saw yesterday. I have been a member of Trinity United Church of Christ since 1992 and have known Jeremiah Wright for almost 22 years. The person I saw yesterday was not the person I met 20 years ago. His comments were not only divisive and destructive, but they also give comfort to those that prey on hate and I believe they do not accurately portray the perspective of the black church. They certainly do not accurately portray my values and beliefs. If Reverend Wright thinks that is political posturing on my part, he does not know me very well.I have already denounced those comments that have come out of these previous sermons. I gave him the benefit of the doubt in my speech in Philadelphia, explaining that he has done enormous good in the church, has built a wonderful conversation. They are a wonderful people and what attracted me has always been the ministries reach beyond church walls. But when he states and then amplifies such ridiculous propositions, that the U.S. government is involved in AIDS, when he suggests that Louis Farrakhan represents one of the greatest voices of the 21st century, when he equates the United States' wartime effort with terrorism, then there are no excuses. They offend me, they rightfully offend all Americans, and they should be denounced. That is what I am doing very clearly and unequivocally here today.
I have spent my entire adult life trying to bridge the gap between different kinds of people. That's in my DNA, trying to promote mutual understanding to insist that we all share common hopes and common dreams as Americans and as human beings. That's who I am, that's what I believe, and that's what this campaign has been about.
VIDEO UPDATE:
04:37 PM | Comments (4) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Have You Left No Sense Of Decency?
New Huffington Post article here.
04:15 PM | Comments (4) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Congratulations!
Congratulations to commenter "natashacrk" for becoming a United States citizen today.
Welcome aboard. It's a crazy nation.
04:11 PM | Comments (5) | Posted By Bob Cesca
The SUSA Survey: Keep Cool
Bloggers and commenters who heart Hillary are all making hay over SUSA's latest five-point race poll in NC. Okay, first of all, even according to SUSA Obama's still ahead. According to everyone else, he's ahead by double-digits. SUSA also underpolled black voters by 7% points. But even if SUSA is right, it should be pretty obvious that Reverend Wright is hurting Obama.
But Obama's response today should put most of that white fear to rest.
And finally, this excellent analysis by a TPM commenter:
Perhaps I am making overmuch of this, but I note that while SUSA has an excellent track record overall this year, they have been notably poor in their track record down south. The day before the SC primary they were predicting a 13 pt victory for Obama, but as we all know he won by 29 pts. The day before super Tues they were predicting a 2 pt victory for Obama in Alabama, but instead he won by 14 pts and they were predicting an 11 pt victory for Clinton in MO and instead Obama won by less than one percent. By contrast, two days before the election in TX they had Obama up by 1 pt in the primary, when in reality he lost the primary by 3 pts. In other words, with the exception of Texas, they have rather routinely understated Obama's support in the south and by large margins at that. As such, I do not know that it makes a lot of sense to set much stock by this poll.
04:08 PM | Comments (0) | Posted By JumpyPants
Obama-Weiss '08
This is truly awesome. (h/t Paddy)
11:36 AM | Comments (7) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Half A Tank Of Gas
A partial transcript of the video Bob posted below:
Half a tank of gas. That's [John McCain's] big solution...this is at the same time he is proposing hundreds of millions of dollars of more tax breaks for corporations and the wealthiest Americans...that's typical of how Washington works, there's a problem, everybody's upset about gas prices, let's find some short-term, quick fix so that we can say we did something, even though we're not really doing anything...and then we pretend like we did something. So I'm here to tell you the truth. We could suspend the gas taxes for six months, but that's not going to bring down gas prices long term...we have to go after the oil prices and look at their price gouging, we've got to go after windfall profits...and we have to stop using less oil, that means raising fuel efficiency standards on cars, and developing alternative fuels, that's the real honest answer to how we're gonna solve this problem, that's what you need from a president, someone who's gonna tell you the truth, who's gonna tell you not what you want to hear, but what you need to hear.
I've typed this all up because I want you guys to read it, to copy and paste it and send it to friends. Make sure everyone you know reads Barack's words, because he's telling a truth that's too "complex" for the media to cover.
Here's the thing: it doesn't matter how long Jeremiah Wright talked yesterday; it doesn't matter how much the media paints the Obama campaign as "on the ropes" or "embattled"; it doesn't matter that the media/Hillary/McCain/the GOP continue to paint the race as "in play" or Texas as a "win" for Hillary or over half the states as "unimportant." The reality is, Obama is winning. And he's winning because he simply refuses to play the lying, cheating, attacking bullshit Washington game.
I just got back from a couple of days in Appalachia, the area where Obama does worse than anywhere. There's a reason he does poorly there: racism is profound. I know: most of my family is from there. And many of them are either overtly racist or quietly so. But at the family gathering I attended, I had three women, all of whom are over the age of 65, all of whom I would describe as conservative, all of whom voted at least once for Bush, seek ME out and tell me they are voting for Obama. One of them lives in Indiana. This is anecdotal, of course, but the point is, they're paying for gas. They're living on fixed incomes. They have family and friends in Iraq (again). They want the same thing the majority of Democratic voters want: change they can believe in.
10:15 AM | Comments (4) | Posted By JumpyPants
The Truth About The Gas Tax Holiday
It's worth noting that Senator Clinton's plan is the same as Senator McCain's plan, with the only difference being that Senator Clinton's plan includes a windfall profit tax.
UPDATE: Markos has more.
09:08 AM | Comments (3) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Agreed
Jeremiah Wright fucked Obama today and fucked him good.
But I'll add that it was Jeremiah Wright and the corporate media who did the fucking. On the upside, the Obama campaign will recover.
09:03 AM | Comments (5) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Record Profits
BP and Royal Dutch Shell have reported massive increases in profits for the first three months of this year on the back of rocketing petrol prices, which are expected to hit £5 a gallon today.BP's pre-tax profits rose 48 per cent in the first quarter to $6.6 billion (£3.3 billion) while Shell increased its profits 12 per cent to a record $7.8 billion (£3.9 billion).
Hearings? Anyone? Oh, wait. BP and Shell aren't scary shouting black men, so they're not newsworthy.
08:41 AM | Comments (1) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Morning Awesome
08:33 AM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
April 28, 2008
Denounce And Reject
The following Republicans have praised Ron Paul, despite his (truthful) remarks about how American foreign policy helped to provoke the 9/11 attacks:
"I think it’s all up for grabs, and I don’t think that anyone’s emerging. I think these people who are racing to declare anyone the true frontrunner at this point — I just don’t see it. Although I am partial to Ron Paul…” --Laura Ingraham
"That's music to my ears, Laura." --Tucker Carlson responding to Ingraham's praise
"I like him personally, I know him personally… I will say that he is also the one candidate that everybody knows who fought against big government. He voted against unsure Medicare, the prescription drugs, and No Child Left Behind. He’s consistent, he’s courageous." --Pat Buchanan
“Ron Paul is one of the outstanding leaders fighting for a stronger national defense. As a former Air Force officer, he knows well the needs of our armed forces, and he always puts them first. We need to keep him fighting for our country.” --Ronald Reagan
"[Ron Paul] is the only candidate out there that’s talking like a lot of us talked in 94. And that’s what a lot of Americans want but no one will say anything anymore…I bet he’s gonna shock a lot of people in New Hampshire.” --Joe Scarborough
“He’s a very engaging person… I’d like to see him as president.”“I think I’m fondest of Ron Paul… He’s the only person I agree with on foreign policy.”
“Rep. Ron Paul (Tex.) continues to amaze on many levels, and he had finally started to register on the polls. In last Tuesday’s Midwestern ice storm, almost every Iowa event was cancelled. The exception was a Paul rally, which drew hundreds. His crowds are regularly huge and enthusiastic. He chalked up another record fundraising day on Sunday’s anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, with more than $6 million in online donations in a single day.” --Bob Novak
“The most honest man in Congress.” --Senator John McCain
11:22 AM | Comments (5) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Disgusting GOP Attack Ad
That got me to thinking... Who else has said that America's policies provoked the 9/11 attacks?
That would be Republican candidate for president, Congressman Ron Paul. I wonder if Republicans in Congress will refuse to work with Ron Paul or accept his vote on their legislation. I wonder if Greg Davis will sit on the same committee as Ron Paul, should Davis win in November. Will the Republican Party denounce or reject Ron Paul for his comments with the same fury as they have Reverend Wright?
Oh wait. Never mind. Ron Paul isn't a scary, shouting black man.
11:09 AM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
If...
If the corporate press had been as diligent about watchdogging the President as they have been about Reverend Wright, we might've avoided the Iraq invasion.
If the corporate press were as diligent in debunking the lies about Iran's nuclear program, there wouldn't be such a rabid drumbeat to obliterate them.
If the corporate press had spent as much time exposing the dangers of Reaganomics throughout the last 30 years, we might not be staring into the maw of another depression.
If the corporate press spent just half of their time on the climate crisis, we might have some alternatives to gasoline as this point.
10:43 AM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Awww. Poor MSNBC.
Wright isn't saying anything controversial yet. Instead, he's schooling the press about black churches. But more to the point, they've decided to cover this thing live hoping for teh crazy, and they're not getting it.
09:11 AM | Comments (2) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Roger Waters At Coachella
The pig, which was led above the crowd from lines held on the ground, displayed the words "Don't be led to the slaughter" and a cartoon of Uncle Sam wielding two bloody cleavers. The other side read "Fear builds walls."The underside of the pig simply read "Obama" with a checked ballot box alongside.
09:04 AM | Comments (1) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Shame on MSNBC
They're talking about Reverend Wright non-stop this morning and it's disgraceful. Axelrod is on right now letting them have it for talking about it ad nauseum. And now Pat Buchanan is on -- a known race-baiter -- questioning Axelrod. Axelrod: "You guys are giving [Wright] a platform."
I just wrote to "Morning Joe" asking them when they plan on covering Pastor Hagee with the same possessed vigor. Write to them here (e-mail form on the lower right) and ask them why. Yeah, I think I'm going to war against MSNBC this week.
What about Iraq? What about gas prices? What about the failing economy, Mika?! Pat?
08:46 AM | Comments (1) | Posted By Bob Cesca
MSNBC
I wonder if MSNBC will cut to live footage of Pastor Hagee every time he speaks, too.
08:22 AM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Morning Awesome
08:21 AM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca
April 27, 2008
Afternoon Awesome
03:15 PM | Comments (3) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Karl Rove Sucks Eggs
Rove, in his (choke) Newsweek column, had some advice for Senator Obama.
In Pennsylvania, you won only 30 percent among Catholics and 29 percent among white working-class voters. Defections like this elect Republicans.
Rove sucks eggs. Another Democrat won the rest of those votes. And the people who voted for Senator Clinton will by-in-large vote for Senator Obama in November.
Even liberal commentators who adore you warn you can't win with a McGovern coalition of college students and white-wine sippers from the party's left wing.
And he gets some agitprop in there -- the "McGovern" thing. Plus, Rove entirely fails to note that Senator Obama won 90 percent of the black vote.
So you're doing badly in Scranton, Youngstown and Erie, where ordinary Americans live.
But he won Wisconsin, Missouri, Virginia, Idaho, North Dakota, Kansas and Colorado. Is Rove suggesting there aren't any "ordinary Americans" there? And to that point, is Rove suggesting that only white male working class voters are "ordinary"? That's weird and racist.
08:52 AM | Comments (2) | Posted By Bob Cesca
Morning Awesome
Gauchos performing Metallica's "Fuel". Rock on, Gauchos!
08:41 AM | Comments (1) | Posted By Bob Cesca
