I glanced through the links I have for the McCain/Palin campaign and realized that there’s too much and I’m going to have to separate the Palin circus from the McCain train wreck. So, here is Part 1: the Train Wreck…
My Holiday With John McCain, His foreign policy advisor and foreign policy experience, His government-run health care, On troop and veteran’s issues, Rolling Stone: Make-Believe Maverick, Thin skin, McCain’s buddy, G. Gordon Liddy, Rich on McCain’s health, a dermatologist on McCain’s health, Keating, McCain and anti-semites, Kissing Florida goodbye (and Nevada, for that matter), He gets TIRED!, Who is Senator McCain?, Embarracuda, Ambien Amnesia Presidency, Ineffective, irresponsible and dangerous, Out. Of. Touch, Oh, those pesky laws!, McCain’s ignorance of basic economics, Helpless, McCain goes after Michelle — does that mean it’s open season on Cindy?, Buyer’s remorse?, McCain’s Lobbyists, That’s Mavericky Talk!, The first totally unethical ticket in history, Oh, SNAP! The Mavericks shun the maverick!, The Annals of McCain - Palin, McCain’s Pandora’s Box, Erratic Man
Videos: Rape victims, McTesty, McCain not a rich man (no, really?), So creeeeeepy!, McCain tax increases, Keating economics, that pesky health care issue, Maverick, MAVerick, Maverick! (it sounds like Marcia, MARcia, MARCIA!), Worst. President. Ever, Citizens Against Government Waste, McCain’s health care plan, John McCain’s Rage, Let them know you want the job!, Domestic Terrorism, McCain’s Terrible Record on Veterans Issues, Letterman: “I just don’t know if we can trust him”, Selling access to McCain, He hates the gooks
Why we haven’t impeached these jackasses is completely beyond me, but failing that, perhaps it’s time to let this administration, and their lackeys in the press, know that we are not amused by their incompetence and corruption. Or, to put it another way:
In this clip, Keith plays us George W. Bush’s latest massive self-embarrassment, singing a fucked up song about all the crap he’s done wrong as President. He basically laughs about the destruction of a major city and the shredding of the constitution. It’s not a howl.
Here are a few (very random) links for the last day of the year…
Who is the most honest man in news?
The battle behind the Hollywood writers’ strike is a story we’ve heard before: even though big business makes its money off the creative talents of the little guy, they still want to cut him out of the deal. But maybe this time the artists will break new ground. The world’s musicians are starting to realize that they don’t need the greedy bastards at the RIAA. Perhaps the writers will find out they can still make livings without without the studio fat cats.
Speaking of the RIAA, guess what? They’re still evil. And they think we’re stupid.
Do you have any idea how the amount you spend on food compares to other world families?
What’s a New Year without a bunch of lists? Here’s just one: 2007 Dickheads of the Year.
While we’re reviewing the year, we have to give a nod to the iPhone. Unfortunately, we also have to recognize that this was the year when Apple lost its white hat.
The iPhone altered our calculus of concern. By illustrating the possibilities of the mobile Web, the phone cast wireless networks as ground zero in the battle for computing freedom.
Ironically, Apple itself wound up on the wrong side of the fight.
It’s not as though everyone didn’t already know that abstinence-only education doesn’t work, but now the failed movement has it’s own pathetic poster child. Can we please start handing out condoms, along with knowledge, in middle schools now? Seriously, what harm would it do?
And of course, let’s not forget those we’ve lost, including Benazir Bhutto.
And consider this: if George W. Bush had done his job — the one the Supreme Court appointed him to do — instead of diddling around in Iraq, how would the world be a different place now?
By the end of this year, Bush’s occupation of Iraq will have lasted 4 years, 9 months, and 14 days. Think about that when you go to vote in your state’s primary or caucus, and please, don’t vote for the a guy you could drink with — this time, vote for the smart guy. Incompetence gets really old very quickly.
Keith Olbermann
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It’s just that he doesn’t know any black people besides Sharpton (and it gets worse)!
Here’s some great coverage from (who else?) Keith Olbermann.
I couldn’t get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia’s restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. I mean, it was exactly the same, even though it’s run by blacks, primarily black patronship. [...] There wasn’t one person in Sylvia’s who was screaming, “M-Fer, I want more iced tea.” You know, I mean, everybody was — it was like going into an Italian restaurant in an all-white suburb in the sense of people were sitting there, and they were ordering and having fun. And there wasn’t any kind of craziness at all.
Last night, Keith Olbermann schooled Condi Rice on some pretty basic American History facts. Condi should be humiliated by her shocking display of ignorance, but is she? If you’d prefer to read the transcript, it follows after the jump.
I know a lot of you were probably watching tonight, but if you missed it, Keith Olbermann’s comments this evening are very much worth reviewing. Keith definately has become Must See TV.
In other news, Harold Ford, Jr. made (another) huge splash in Chattanooga today, and once again, he out-drew Bob Corker on the Bobster’s home turf. Some of my photos of the event even made the hamdems.org homepage! (My favorite is the third, of Congressman Ford and a local pastor.)
A special comment about lying
The president of the United States — unbowed, undeterred and unconnected to reality — has continued his extraordinary trek through our country rooting out the enemies of freedom: the Democrats.
Yesterday at a fundraiser for an Arizona congressman, Mr. Bush claimed, quote, “177 of the opposition party said, “You know, we don’t think we ought to be listening to the conversations of terrorists.’”
The hell they did.
One hundred seventy-seven Democrats opposed the president’s seizure of another part of the Constitution.
Not even the White House press office could actually name a single Democrat who had ever said the government shouldn’t be listening to the conversations of terrorists.
President Bush hears what he wants.
Tuesday, at another fundraiser in California, he had said, “Democrats take a law enforcement approach to terrorism. That means America will wait until we’re attacked again before we respond.”
Mr. Bush fabricated that, too.
That was just an exerpt from Keith Olbermann’s commentary last night. Read the transcript or watch the video.
