Showing posts with label the longest 16 years of our lives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the longest 16 years of our lives. Show all posts
Monday, November 3, 2008
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
da tarrists: wid McCain
In a message on an al Qaeda website, terrorists wrote of continuing the war in Iraq, "This requires presence of an impetuous American leader such as McCain, who pledged to continue the war till the last American soldier," the message said. "Then, al-Qaida will have to support McCain in the coming elections so that he continues the failing march of his predecessor, Bush."
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Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Mr. Burns is really making the rounds...
Tonight
In what might be the second worst kept secret of all time, I will be on the Colbert Report tonight. We will also, of course, be liveblogging the debate.
-- Nate Silver at 5:22 PM 51 Comments...
He was also in the studio last night with Olbermann. He does a weird thing with his eyes--distracted by the lights, like a moth. He has Obama at nearly a 90% win chance right now, which means his fall will be a spectacular crispy, crackly fireball, preceded by so much sleaze that the Swift Boaters will look like a bunch of Girl Scouts in comparison.
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In what might be the second worst kept secret of all time, I will be on the Colbert Report tonight. We will also, of course, be liveblogging the debate.
-- Nate Silver at 5:22 PM 51 Comments...
He was also in the studio last night with Olbermann. He does a weird thing with his eyes--distracted by the lights, like a moth. He has Obama at nearly a 90% win chance right now, which means his fall will be a spectacular crispy, crackly fireball, preceded by so much sleaze that the Swift Boaters will look like a bunch of Girl Scouts in comparison.
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Friday, September 12, 2008
The longest rest of our lives...
Today's Polls, 9/12
Really, if the Dems can't win this year, stick a fork in 'em, they're done. Jesusland will have won. It's time for Barack to get in the gutter with Rove & Co. They put one of yours in the hospital, you put one of theirs in the morgue, that's the Chicago way. Really, no more futzing around. Got any "pictures" of McCain and his black baby? GO RIGHT DOWNTOWN AND PRINT IT. I dunno, BUT DO SOMETHING. And by SOMETHING i mean DURTY! I just can't imagine 8 years of McCain and 8 years of Palin. I'll be 59 for phokk's sake. Actually, if this all comes true i'll have either hung myself by that point, or will be held at an America Haters Internment Camp with K-Mad. If he hasn't moved to Europe by that point.
This is all to say, getting really really really really really worried at his point. Someone talk Smiff down off the ledge...
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Thursday, September 11, 2008
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
I would say this is something to be very worried about...
...but since it's a poll by Zogby--who is profoundly brain dead--it's probably good news for Obama...
McCain takes lead over Obama in new poll
In a sharp turnaround, Republican John McCain has opened a 5-point lead on Democrat Barack Obama in the U.S. presidential race and is seen as a stronger manager of the economy, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday. McCain leads Obama among likely U.S. voters by 46 percent to 41 percent, wiping out Obama's solid 7-point advantage in July and taking his first lead in the monthly Reuters/Zogby poll....
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McCain takes lead over Obama in new poll
In a sharp turnaround, Republican John McCain has opened a 5-point lead on Democrat Barack Obama in the U.S. presidential race and is seen as a stronger manager of the economy, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released on Wednesday. McCain leads Obama among likely U.S. voters by 46 percent to 41 percent, wiping out Obama's solid 7-point advantage in July and taking his first lead in the monthly Reuters/Zogby poll....
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K-Mad, a pessimist? Shirley, you jest.
Bushian logic from Planet McCrazy - this sounds like something Perino would say
Because he was a POW, he is incapable of doing anything wrong.
Meanwhile, it's emerged that while Obama was answering questions from celebrity pastor Rick Warren, McCain wasn't being "held in a cone of silence", as Warren claimed: actually, he was in his car. But his campaign insists he wasn't listening to the questions, breaking the rules so as to be better prepared, and they've made an official complaint to NBC, dripping in wronged outrage, for suggesting as much. ("The insinuation from the Obama campaign that John McCain, a former prisoner of war, cheated is outrageous," says spokeswoman Nicole Wallace, as if one followed automatically from the other.)
Meanwhile, it's emerged that while Obama was answering questions from celebrity pastor Rick Warren, McCain wasn't being "held in a cone of silence", as Warren claimed: actually, he was in his car. But his campaign insists he wasn't listening to the questions, breaking the rules so as to be better prepared, and they've made an official complaint to NBC, dripping in wronged outrage, for suggesting as much. ("The insinuation from the Obama campaign that John McCain, a former prisoner of war, cheated is outrageous," says spokeswoman Nicole Wallace, as if one followed automatically from the other.)
Friday, August 8, 2008
Well, you know what Ohio will vote for: more of the same economic policy via McBush III
America's Fastest-Dying Cities
Washington, D.C. - The turmoil of the mortgage market granted a temporary reprieve from hearing about the woes of America's Rust Belt. That doesn't mean things are better. Despite a decade of national prosperity (huh??--ed.), the former manufacturing backbone of the U.S. is in rougher shape than ever, still searching for some way to replace its long-stilled smokestacks.
Where's it worst? Ohio, according to our analysis, which racked up four of the 10 cities on our list: Youngstown, Canton, Dayton and Cleveland. The runner-up is Michigan, with two cities--Detroit and Flint--making the ranking.
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Washington, D.C. - The turmoil of the mortgage market granted a temporary reprieve from hearing about the woes of America's Rust Belt. That doesn't mean things are better. Despite a decade of national prosperity (huh??--ed.), the former manufacturing backbone of the U.S. is in rougher shape than ever, still searching for some way to replace its long-stilled smokestacks.
Where's it worst? Ohio, according to our analysis, which racked up four of the 10 cities on our list: Youngstown, Canton, Dayton and Cleveland. The runner-up is Michigan, with two cities--Detroit and Flint--making the ranking.
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Thursday, July 24, 2008
Good Morning!
McCain Makes Significant Gains in Four Key Battleground States
Majority of Voters in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin Favor Keeping Troops in Iraq, According to Quinnipiac-washingtonpost.com-Wall Street Journal Survey
Republican John McCain has quickly closed the gap between himself and Democratic rival Sen. Barack Obama in several key battleground states even as the Arizona senator struggles to break through the wall-to-wall coverage of Obama's trip to Europe and the Middle East this week.
Majority of Voters in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin Favor Keeping Troops in Iraq, According to Quinnipiac-washingtonpost.com-Wall Street Journal Survey
Republican John McCain has quickly closed the gap between himself and Democratic rival Sen. Barack Obama in several key battleground states even as the Arizona senator struggles to break through the wall-to-wall coverage of Obama's trip to Europe and the Middle East this week.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
I get it now, by "Maverick" he means: Agrees with Bush on nearly everything...
McSame Voted With George Bush 100% In 2008
Progressive Media USA:
Progressive Media USA:
CQ’s Presidential Support studies try to determine how often a legislator votes in line with the President’s position:
CQ tries to determine what the president personally, as distinct from other administration officials, does and does not want in the way of legislative action. This is done by analyzing his messages to Congress, news conference remarks and other public statements and documents.
So, these studies only track votes when the President has an explicit, stated opinion on a bill.
According to CQ, Senator John McCain has voted with President Bush 100% of the time in 2008 and 95% of the time in 2007: Read on…
And yet there are still those in the media that call McSame a Maverick. That horse was put out to pasture long ago. Oh, and since we know how much the aging Senator loves him some lobbyists, send him a tasty treat he’s sure to love — send him a Lobby-Pop!
Thursday, May 15, 2008
take dat, HATERS (cont'd)
McCain believes Iraq war can be won by 2013
Sounds good - what's a couple more trillion dollars we don't have? Hasn't stopped us so far...
Sounds good - what's a couple more trillion dollars we don't have? Hasn't stopped us so far...
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
straight-talk express (cont'd)
Say again?
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) when asked to comment on John McCain's statement that the United States can't get along without maintaining a military presence in Iraq for many years to come:
"I not only think we could get along without it, but I think one of our big problems has been the fact that many Iraqis resent American military presence. . . . As soon as we can reduce our visibility as much as possible, the better I think it is going to be."
Then again, what do you expect from --
No. Wait. Those are the words of John McCain in 2005.
Sorry.
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) when asked to comment on John McCain's statement that the United States can't get along without maintaining a military presence in Iraq for many years to come:
"I not only think we could get along without it, but I think one of our big problems has been the fact that many Iraqis resent American military presence. . . . As soon as we can reduce our visibility as much as possible, the better I think it is going to be."
Then again, what do you expect from --
No. Wait. Those are the words of John McCain in 2005.
Sorry.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
i don't think anyone could have forseen a flip-flopping sack of bulls#i+ winning the repthuglican nomination
News item: McCain Offers Tax Policies He Once Opposed
Reversal Includes New Support for Bush Cuts
Washington Post
Friday, April 25, 2008; Page A01
On May 26, 2001, after then-Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee (R.I.) cast his vote against President Bush's $1.35 trillion tax cut, he trudged back to his office, convinced, he recalled, that he had been the lone Republican to oppose the largest tax cut in two decades.
But Chafee's staff told him that one other Republican, who had largely avoided the grueling efforts at compromise, had joined him in dissent. That senator, John McCain, was marching to his own beat, Chafee said, impervious to pressure from either side.
Now that he is the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, however, McCain is marching straight down the party line. The economic package he has laid out embraces many of the tax policies he once decried: extending Bush's tax cuts he voted against, offering investment tax breaks he once believed would have little economic benefit and granting the long-held wishes of tax lobbyists he has often mocked.
McCain's concerns -- about budget deficits, unanticipated defense costs, an Iraq war that would be longer and more costly than advertised -- have proved eerily prescient, usually a plus for politicians who are quick to say they were right when others were wrong. Yet McCain appears determined to leave such predictions behind.
"He's looking forward, not back," said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, McCain's senior policy adviser.
Reversal Includes New Support for Bush Cuts
Washington Post
Friday, April 25, 2008; Page A01
On May 26, 2001, after then-Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee (R.I.) cast his vote against President Bush's $1.35 trillion tax cut, he trudged back to his office, convinced, he recalled, that he had been the lone Republican to oppose the largest tax cut in two decades.
But Chafee's staff told him that one other Republican, who had largely avoided the grueling efforts at compromise, had joined him in dissent. That senator, John McCain, was marching to his own beat, Chafee said, impervious to pressure from either side.
Now that he is the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, however, McCain is marching straight down the party line. The economic package he has laid out embraces many of the tax policies he once decried: extending Bush's tax cuts he voted against, offering investment tax breaks he once believed would have little economic benefit and granting the long-held wishes of tax lobbyists he has often mocked.
McCain's concerns -- about budget deficits, unanticipated defense costs, an Iraq war that would be longer and more costly than advertised -- have proved eerily prescient, usually a plus for politicians who are quick to say they were right when others were wrong. Yet McCain appears determined to leave such predictions behind.
"He's looking forward, not back," said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, McCain's senior policy adviser.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
this just in -- we're still really phokking stupid
Tendentious diatribe: In his 1991 book, The Reasoning Voter, political scientist Samuel Popkin argued that most people make their choice on the basis of "low-information signaling" - that is, stupid things like whether you know how to roll a bowling ball or wear an American-flag pin...
The audacity of the Obama campaign was the belief that in a time of trouble - as opposed to the peace and prosperity of the late 20th century - the low-information politics of the past could be tossed aside in favor of a high-minded, if deliberately vague, appeal to the nation's need to finally address some huge problems. But that assumption hit a wall in Pennsylvania. Specifically, it hit a wall at the debate staged by ABC News in Philadelphia - viewed by an audience of 10 million, including a disproportionate number of Pennsylvanians - that will go down in history for the relentless vulgarity of its questions...
The audacity of the Obama campaign was the belief that in a time of trouble - as opposed to the peace and prosperity of the late 20th century - the low-information politics of the past could be tossed aside in favor of a high-minded, if deliberately vague, appeal to the nation's need to finally address some huge problems. But that assumption hit a wall in Pennsylvania. Specifically, it hit a wall at the debate staged by ABC News in Philadelphia - viewed by an audience of 10 million, including a disproportionate number of Pennsylvanians - that will go down in history for the relentless vulgarity of its questions...
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