WASHINGTON — After calling a halt to his campaign earlier today, John McCain spent the afternoon working on a plan to personally re-inflate the economy, and rescue Wall Street. However, a spokesperson for the McCain campaign has just informed the MSM via video that Senator Barack Obama has destroyed the plan with a childish stunt:

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(Please ignore the frickin’ ads AP feels compelled to run on top of this.)

Sarah Palin lets a parrot give her talking points now;  she’s saving her voice for the debate with Senator Joe Biden. (Not everyone can see the clownface on the candidates;  it’s not your fault; blame it on the MSM.)

Palin:
“As fur foreign policy, you know, I think that I’m prepared and I know that on January twintieth, if we are soo blessed as to be sworn into office as your president and vice president, certainly we’ll be ready. I’ll be ready. I hiv that confidence. I hiv that ridiness.”

How will she get that “ridiness”? Well, she said she has “confidence,” which leads directly to “ridiness.” And of course, she “thinks” she’s prepared, which is a necessary first step to readiness. What other “verbiage” do you need to know?

McCain:
“A large contingent of the Alaska guard deployed to Iraq and her son happened to be one of them,” he said, “so I think she understands our national security challenges.”

Yes, this sounds like more visual foreign policy cred, i.e., if you can see Russia from your balcony, then you have foreign policy cred;  likewise, Palin can handle “Pooty Poot,” because her son wears government issued camo— because he’s in the United States Army— not the Alaskan National Guard (McSlop clean-up crew, take note). So what other “verbiage” do you need to know?

“Wauuck! We’ll be riddy!  Hello. . . I have teh ridiness.”

“We’ll be riddy.  Hello. . . I have teh ridiness.”

“. . . I have teh ridiness. Wauuck! We’ll be riddy!  Hello.”

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When the MSM pundicks start sniffing around this story, John McPOW may experience another, much more spectacular shoot-down crash and burn; one that will turn a war hero into a traitorous turd in one fell swoop.

McKarma may prove to be a much bigger bitch than mere payback.

For thirty years, agents of the GOP have invoked political strategeries to intentionally polarize and divide the American people, often in ways that ignore or betray the very Judeo-Christian principles John McPOW says he believes our nation was founded upon. If McPOW somehow manages to convince a majority of the American electorate that four more years of Dick-Bush policies will make this nation a better place to live, then along about the time it becomes necessary for McPOW to pardon Cheney and Bush for war crimes, the Vietnamese might decide it’s time to show Americans the thirty-two propaganda pieces starring POW Songbird; President McPOW may sing a much different tune when he is exposed as a cowardly collaborator.

We just might have to “nuke the gooks for God,” aye, Johnnie?

Yeah; stranger things have happened. But who am I kidding. This Judeo-Christian nation makes a full-time job out of looking the other way at monumental immorality and hypocritical betrayal of trust. They couldn’t begin to find the balls to look Dick-Bush in the eye and throw the bastards into prison for their heinous crimes against humanity.

And somebody will.

But it won’t be this clown.

Like so many others who are brainwashed into believing that every politician can be stuffed into the left-right-centrist meme of MSM convenience—no need to think, just do what you’re told and say he’s a “progressive leftist!”— it’s no surprise such reasoning reveals a steady diet of MSM garbage in-garbage out. But it also reveals that its victims haven’t grokked that Obama’s commitment to highest values is truth-driven— not ideologically-driven— and that makes it ostensibly impossible to ever pigeon-hole him into some obtusely-defined ray of the spectrum of MSM political shorthand.

Those who are only interested in nurturing their comfy little ideological clusterphuque of values are also the ones crying the loudest now, some even abandoning a candidate in whom they haven’t invested enough thought to realize that true national unity— remember that?— demands he appeal to all Americans, not just some amorphous democratic base;  and that Obama’s pursuit of highest truth drives his decision-making— not some “brand” of narrow ideology defined by the meme of the old politics.

The real problem stems from the fact that secularists of whatever political sub-group have no personal religious insight to identify the genuineness of Obama’s insight into issues derived from his own personal religious values, and must therefore put their brains to work to discover the real moral value of his decisions. And we all know that’s asking too much a lot of an uneducated electorate that cares more about entertainment tonight than the destiny of America.

He may as well be a brother from another planet:
“Greetings; Take me as I am— not as you think I should be.”

The “new politics” of Barack Obama are leaving many Americans lost in his dust. Traditionally they may have been categorized— and understood themselves to be— “liberals,” “conservatives,” “progressives,” “Republicans,” “Democrats,” and “Independents.” Not so surprisingly, a sizable majority of MSM pundits also have no idea what Obama means by a “new politics.”

But it is proving altogether unsettling for these various sub-groups of the electorate, having been so thoroughly and completely indoctrinated in the “Left-Right-Centrist” Meme of politics as usual that they can’t see themselves defined any other way, to suddenly find Barack Obama is not following their calcified notions of what they think he should be, and how he should behave. A few weeks ago Karl Rove was all by his lonesome calling Obama “arrogant” and “elitist” (read: “uppity”); now the fickle mouth breathers of teh illiterate electorate are having to change their intellectual underwear almost every week, and they don’t like it one bit.

Yo Yo: What ever your old political notion was of Barack Obama, he is not definable that way, anymore.

It has nothing to do with the dissection of political decision making by attributing it to left, right, or center, and it never did. These crude demarcations of political ideology never really yielded a true picture of the real values that form the basis of the decisions of a Barack Obama, or any other politician. Obama’s recent decisions have the various segments of his supporters, and his opponents, attempting to hammer them into the increasingly meaningless meme of the old politics, by whining “He’s tacking teh the center,” “He’s betraying the left,” “He can’t be trusted,”  “He won’t go to Bagdad,” He’s just another liar,” “He’s a fundamentalist Christian!” blah, blah, blah— Because the MSM, and even some of the progressive blogosphere, still insist on seeing the political world through the grossly cynical but fading paradigm of the old politics. Thank you, Dick Bush; your legacy is upon us.

It is inevitable that a presidential candidate who actually has a living relationship with Christ will eventually make his way to the White House. The tacit and superficial toleration of the inconsequential religious lives of recent presidential candidates and presidents (save perhaps Jimmy Carter) is symptomatic of an even bigger problem, and it has left the electorate unprepared — even the secular and religiously educated intelligentsia— for what they might expect from an Obama presidency.

Many who were initially inspired by Obama’s leadership abilities and personal charisma haven’t really grokked what he’s been saying about his religious convictions, in his books or in his speeches. Those who have been paying attention, if they are agnostic secularists or even religious secularists, are flabbergasted and confused by his commitment to following the truth— as he sees it, not them or more specifically, their political creed— wherever it may take him. Why is anyone shocked they barely hesitate to turn and rend him, his pearls be damned.

There are numerous comments at places like Alternet and HufPo where one can read the whining superficial loyalty to Obama, now that he’s beginning to “refine” his opinions in ways that don’t nuzzle up to the secular left’s butt cheeks. A couple examples.

Liz Sidoti:

Obama also may be undercutting his claim to be a straight-shooting, new-politics candidate as he repeatedly breaks with his liberal base on various issues to aggressively move to appeal to the center of the electorate.

Liz can’t help but fall into the “center of the electorate” pit; it’s just too easy to assume Obama’s principles are as jello-like as any other politician’s; he can’t really believe his own decisions are based on real principles, can he??

I selected this comment from Susan of Texas at HufPo because she riffs on a “true believers” stereotype and father substitution, while throwing in a little personal peccadillo she harbors on authoritarianism:

He says everthing [sic] that is right, but what he actually does conforms with his authoritarian leanings. He is extremely competitive and ambitious; he wouldn’t be the nominee if he weren’t. He gew [sic] up without a father and substitutes his “heavenly father” to make up for the loss; he is a true believer. And we all know how dangerous they are.

Setting aside for the moment the lack of personal religious experience at the heart of so many of Obama’s critics both inside the democratic party and out, let’s focus on her notion that Obama says everything that’s “right, but. . .” Ask yourself why he says everything that’s right, if he really means none of it? The deeply ingrained cynicism of such a view is of course, lamentable, but ultimately it’s the insinuation that Obama is a shallow, lying deceiver just like Bush, Cheney, or Rove, that he has no real values at all, that smells up the place. Such a lack of discernment results from a completely debilitated ability to trust, and is the ultimate cost of cynicism.

“And we all know how dangerous they are.” Let the term “True believers” be defined here as anyone on the planet with a genuine spiritual awareness through their own personal religious experience. To every appearance, Obama is such a person. But “dangerous”? True believers in Jesus actually believe “Love your enemies” is a superior philosophy to “kill your enemies.” Hence, Obama’s commitment to withdraw from Iraq, and not launch American wars of choice.
And his recent decisions, which have caused a chorus of caterwauling among some of his supporters, probably the same ones who recoiled at the spiritual fervor Obama engendered in many of his other early supporters, are all positions that place the highest values of a truth-driven political prodigy right out there for all to marvel at, or complain about. Discuss.

“He g[r]ew up without a father and substitutes his “heavenly father” to make up for the loss; he is a true believer“

Non-religious minds can plop out such a thoughtless notion because it seems so logical. But anyone who truly knows God as a Father does so, not to fill the physical void of an absent or inadequate earthly father, but because they have already learned the value of such a divine Father through their experiences with an earthly father figure. Every child is wholly dependent on his parents and the home life for all his early concepts of everything intellectual, social, moral, and even spiritual; all that he can first know of either human or divine relationships comes from the family. Obama’s book, Dreams From My Father, makes it reasonably clear that most of that guidance came from a loving Grandfather, Grandmother, Father, however briefly, Step-father, and Mother all of whom, to my mind, must have done a superb job, based on what little we can observe of Obama’s spiritual relationship with God as a Father.

America’s political ship has steamed out of the sheltered bays of established old-politics tradition, and has begun its perilous cruise upon the high seas of evolutionary destiny. The only real question is, does America want Obama— a genuine religionist— the “real deal” at the helm, or McCain— a genuine fraud. As never before in our history, the soul of America had better carefully scrutinize the charts of our highest shared values, and therein find the trust the new captain will need from us if he is to steer us true.

Unity— Not Uniformity!!

Former Bush Administration Press Secretary Scott McClellan’s new tell-all book, What Happened:Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception, hasn’t even officially hit the bookshelves yet and there is already a ton of reviews and political analyses, thanks to advance copies provided to the well-connected. My local Borders is not among the elite, however, so I’m going to have to rely on others for the accuracy of the quotes provided herein.

The emerging consensus is that the book contains little, if any, in the way of new revelations. What’s being emphasized is that judgments about same are coming from a once loyal Bushie insider. McClellan was one of the Administration’ chief propaganda mouthpieces, a go-to guy responsible for bamboozling the public and what he describes as the “complicit enablers” of the Fourth Estate.

The latter is probably the real public policy meat of the book. And the one guaranteed to receive the least amount of analysis by that self-same media, if the controversy over the Pentagon’s reverse embed “message force multipliers” is any precedent. This makes it ripe for evisceration by the liberal blogosphere. (See, for instance, the perspectives of the relentless Glenzilla, and Editor and Publisher’s Glenn Mitchell .)

Meanwhile, the right wing blogosphere and their counterparts in the MSM will do what they do best–ignore the message and attack the messenger, especially since they haven’t found any actual factual content to take issue with.

Given that the MSM and the blogosphere are our virtual agora (where just about everything has been said but not everyone has had a chance to say it), I’ll direct my comments to a dimension of the story that I haven’t seen addressed yet– what Scottie’s little morality tale tells about the ingenious ability of the human mind to deceive itself and others. And how that, in turn, can be used to appraise Scottie’s own truthfulness.

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Deception, in both human and non-human primates, was selected early on by evolution for its obvious survival advantages. Tossing a rock into the brush to fool a rival sentinel, or distracting a fellow tribal member from a piece ripe fruit (or a ripe female) would help insure an individual’s genes would be propagated down the evolutionary time tunnel to thee and me.

Naturally, conspecifics developed such that the ability to detect deception in others was also selected, precipitating an evolutionary arms race of sorts. Effective deception detection, especially since the inception of human language, requires the ability to read a variety of neurolinguistc “tells.” These include facial expression, parlance, prosody, voice quality, eye movements, small movements of extremities, and emotional microexpressions. (Stevens, et al. (2007). Deception, Evolution , and the Brain. Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience. MIT Press, 18, 517-540)

What, then, is the adaptive response, the counter to the counter? How does the deceiver mask all these powerful yet subtle electro/chemical/somatic clues, working so insidiously behind conscious awareness to betray our true, i.e false, intentions?

In a word, self-deception. By convincing ourselves of our own lies, we can more effectively deceive others. Thus are deliberate falsehoods consigned to the unconscious, which requires fewer metabolic resources to maintain.

(Further refinements in the evolution of self-deception involves the use of the narrative and autobiographical parts of the brain to construct false but plausible versions of a given reality. Other psychological phenomena that testify to the power of human deception include confabulation, delusion misidentification syndrome, delusion redupliciation syndrome, false memories, and false recognition; ibid.)

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Fast forward to the Chimpocentric Universe, whose present coordinates in the time-space manifold are found at 1600 Pennslyvania Ave, Washington, D.C., USA, Urantia.

Imagine, if you will, a master manipulator— call him Darth Cheney— has taken control of the White House. In order to mask his true intentions, he removes himself from public scrutiny as much as possible, setting up a redundant, deception detection deflection machine composed of people convinced of their own integrity and idealistic correctness, all the better to propagate his desired falsehoods with a patina of complete sincerity.

The first brick in the firewall was, of course, our easily manipulatable, intellectually incurious president. A self-described CEO who doesn’t even bother to follow the news. An undoubting, unreflective, man born to privilege who doesn’t understand the meaning of the word “accountability.” For instance, when he was asked by Timmeh on MTP whether in retrospect he saw Iraq as a war of choice or of necessity, W. [told Scottie] that he was “puzzled” by the question, and indeed he was. “Puzzled” was also word used initially by Administration hacks to describe their reaction to McClellan’s book.

Here was a president, the very personification of self-deception, who immediately surrounded himself with eager sycophants only willing to feed his malignant narcissism and delusions of messianic grandeur, carefully insulating him from anything that might cause him even a moment of cognitive dissonance (if for no other reason than to not be on the receiving end of one of his legendary outbursts of rage). A president who, according to McClellan, invaded Iraq because he saw an “opportunity to create a legacy of greatness.”

By his own account, McClellan has finally seen through the years of spin and propaganda— he can’t quite bring himself to call them “lies.” He decries the replacement of public policy with the Bushie mindset of the permanent political campaign, so relentlessly overseen by Karl Rove who lied to his face about his own treasonous role in the Plame-Wilson outing.

Scottie says he still admires Bush, but realizes now that Bush is deluded, clinging to the hope that he will somehow be vindicated by history for what the rest of us outside the “White House bubble” see as his monumental, strategic and operational blunders. Scottie’s disillusionment with the Great Man began when in 1999, at a hotel “somewhere in the Midwest,” Bush replied to rumors that he had once been a cocaine user by telling him:

“The media won’t let go of these ridiculous cocaine rumors. You know, the truth is I honestly don’t remember whether I tried it or not. We had some pretty wild parties back in the day, and I just don’t remember.’

Says McClellan:

“I think he meant what he said in that conversation about cocaine. It’s the first time when I felt I was witnessing Bush convincing himself to believe something that probably was not true, and that, deep down, he knew was not true. And his reason for doing so is fairly obvious— political convenience. . .”

I hate to tell you this, Scottie, but “political convenience” is only the tip of the cognitive iceberg. But do go on.

“[Bush] has a way of falling back on the hazy memory to protect himself from potential political embarrassment. In other words, being evasive is not the same as lying in Bush’s mind…It would not be the last time Bush mishandled potential controversy. But the cases to come would involve the public trust, and the failure to deal with them early, directly and head-on would lead to far greater suspicion and far more destructive partisan warfare.”

Perhaps ten years from now Bush won’t remember ordering the invasion and destruction of Iraq. Or that he wasn’t greeted as a liberator in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina stopped by for a visit. . .

The authors of The Urantia Book write:

Never hesitate to admit failure. Make no attempt to hide failure under deceptive smiles and beaming optimism. It sounds well always to claim success, but the end results are appalling. Such a technique leads directly to the creation of a world of unreality and to the inevitable crash of ultimate disillusionment.

Young Scottie seems to have gotten the message. But I sincerely doubt that old man Bush ever will. He has been culturing deception for far too long.

David Kurtz over at TPM reports that:

…the House last Thursday passed an amendment to this year’s military authorization bill mandating investigations by the DOD IG and the GAO. Democrats argued that the program amounted to illegal domestic propaganda. Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) called the program part of “a military-industrial-media complex” (with apologies to Eisenhower).

Despite the MSM’s continuing refusal to cover this monumental instance of illegal government propaganda and their own role in propgating it, the government is now legally obliged to:

The Department of Defense inspector general announced last Friday that it was undertaking a investigation of the program, and the Congress’ own General Accountability Office has “already begun looking into the program and would give a legal opinion on whether it violated longstanding prohibitions against spending government money to spread propaganda to audiences in the United States.”

‘Tis a sad day when the US government is more attentive to its own oversight than the Fourth Estate.

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I can’t stay away from plant nurseries this time of year. Greenhouses full of brand-spankin’ new plants does something to me that’s hard to describe. We are fortunate to have a couple of really fine greenhouse nurseries nearby, and as spring really settles in, I figured one good way to purify my psyche of the MSM’s complete clusterfuck of the presidential race would be a nice long visit to the local greenhouse.

While walking among the billions of new cells chuggin’ all that photon energy screaming into the greenhouse at the speed of light, I began to mellow out a bit. Photosynthesis is PFM* if you ask me. And even the most humble field weed can take photons apart and turn them into food!

I can’t think about photosynthesis without recalling I once met a guy in Normal, Illinois who was planning on becoming photosynthetic. He was a huge fellow, not fat, just huge; his nick was “Bear”; he wore a sandy Quaker-like beard without a mustache. Everything he owned was in an external-frame backpack. What impressed me most about that was his record collection; he had one lp, Gustav Holst’s “The Planets.”

Jupiter, conducted by Seiji Ozawa

I’m sure it was an adequate rendition of the music, but what made it memorable to me was the cover. It had the cheesiest cover I’ve ever seen on a classical album. It was so cheesy, I had to have a copy of it myself. Two studio actors, hero and heroine, were dressed in futuristic space-dance leotards, holding little sci-fi ray guns, and were looking apprehensively off to the upper-left corner of the album. There was no background. Just a sick pale pink backdrop of. . . space.

I think the album cover may have also served as Bear’s complete collection of erotica, as the space honey was down on one knee, her other leg trailing off in dramatic fashion, thus presenting the camera et al with a wide open shot of her photon torpedo tube. I’d show it to you, but it’s buried deep under a lot of stuff out in the barn. Maybe another time. Meanwhile, get thee to a nursery.

*PFM: Pure Fucking Magic

Barack Obama told reporters of the MSM Mouse Circus he ate a lot of pot roasts and Jello molds growing up.
Stunned reporters asked why an elitist would ever admit to “eating pot roasted and jello molded.”

Atienne, a resident of a small town in Northwestern PA, responded to their stupidity this way:

This is the problem with the MSM. I would challenge any of those who feel they don’t know him or think he’s an elitist to go and see him for yourself. Most of the rallies are free and open to the public. If you really want to know and get his feel. . . just go!

Seeing him in Pittsburgh was one of the greatest things I’ve done outside of my family and career. Why? Because I could personally bear witness to one of the great human beings of our time! Not just a great man, not a great black man, not a great bi-racial man, but great human being! PERIOD!

I saw that this man had inspired that group of about 10,000 people to come together, put their differences aside and treat each other with respect. People talked about how he had inspired them to do “better,” take an interest for the first time in their government, and what they can do to help their country.

Now, if only the MSM would start reporting on THAT!

I have lived in Pennsylvania most of my life, both in bigger cities and small towns. I currently live in a small town that has been ravaged by job loss, industry shutting down and jobs being given to those who will work for less in foreign countries. While some paint a rosy, romantic version of Pennsylvania. . . Barack points out the other side of PA.

Yes, people ARE bitter— and do take refuge in other things besides politics. People go to work, college and yet still are unable to obtain that American dream without bouncing checks to feed their families. I see it daily, and I work in a corporate environment while my husband works in the steel industry. People here are struggling. While some won’t let the state of things dampen their spirits, there are others that are bitter, depressed, and angry! Perhaps Hillary Clinton or John McCain should tour these small areas and visit the local taverns, meth houses, and crack houses.

The phenomenon in the small towns is that these people are drinking and drugging their lives away; they are mostly people that had good jobs at one time before most of the factories pulled out. My community is trying for a comeback, but there is a very ugly reality here and I, for one, am pleased that a politician finally has the guts to tell it like it is!

I don”t sip wine, never had a latte, my man works in a steel tubing plant and we”re BOTH voting Obama in the general and did so in the PA primary! We BOTH know flag pins are made in China, preachers and charity board members are nonsense, and have been spun to fool the foolish! We BOTH know and remember the lies, lies, and the more lies of the Clinton years then, and now! John McCain can”t stick to the same answer from one interview to the next. So our choice is clear.

Atienne— I’m a married mother of two wonderful children and 3 huge dogs! My career has taken me through social services, law, broadcast and advertising and now marketing for the Safety Industry. In past years, I haven’t felt moved or compelled by any election such as this. But over the years, I’ve watched the American dream slip away for many including my own family, and I’m eager to have a voice to make it stop. I support Barack Obama for PRESIDENT!

UPDATED. . .

McCain “Family Recipes” Lifted from the Bush Administration

The MSM mouse circus has cooked up another diversionary dish ‘o shit this week, the main entrée being a few purloined recipes from the Food Chanel being tossed off as “family recipes” of the McCain family, (as if McCain could find her way to any one of her own EIGHT kitchens, let alone prepare a meal in one of them.)

I say “diversionary,” because it’s just ludicrous the MSM mice could miss old Johnny’s blatant rip-off of Bush’s Iraq War BBQ recipe. They’re the same in every way, and for the press to be raking Cindy over the coals for her petty theft and give her old geezer a pass is total hypocrisy. (I know; what’s new.)

Bush’s Iraq War Barbecue Recipe is identical to John McCains:

• Preheat the military industrial complex. Select a raw third-world country; make sure it’s well-marbled and has plenty of oil. Attack the infrastructure by placing over high heat, shaking constantly, for 3 to 5 hundred days. When the volume of rubble reaches a nice crumb consistency, remove from heat and set aside.
• Drain out as much of the oil as possible.
• Heat the remaining oil over high heat; when the oil is hot, return the country to a boil and pour in as many of the undesirable collateral carbon components as you can, until they are dark brown and crispy; you may occasionally hear cries for mercy coming out of the mixture; pay no attention, it just prolongs the process.
• Cook until a crust forms; scrape it up, and repeat the process until all components are consumed, or for 50 or 100 years, whichever comes first.
• If militias should form on the crust, sprinkle liberally with American currency until they are thoroughly saturated and/or mollified.
• Remember, this is an expensive and time consuming recipe for protracted war; be willing to shed lots and lots of blood and be prepared to stay in the kitchen for as long as it takes.

Oh yeah—I almost forgot— enjoy!

UPDATE:

David Weiner at HUFF PO has a clip of Cindy McCain on that bastion of blablablabaloney, THE VIEW. . . We think it was a damned good recipe for Damage Control. Here it is:

• Take every incident of stolen recipes planted earlier in other publications previous to the website debacle, and simply ignore them.

• Then wrap the entire website debacle in ignorance— “I don’t know how it happened.”

• Sprinkle a little silly humor over the fall-guy/gal— send’em to “Betty Crocker (a fictitious woman, BTW) Boot Camp”??
Boot camp is where you get berated and cowed for 18 weeks so you can learn to kill human beings without hesitation and take orders like a robot. Just what every political campaign needs: militant killer robots.

• Then fold this slimy mess into a whole other project— “I’m writing a book!” (Yeah, right — write.)
. . .where it can be deflected, absorbed, and disappear as a two line account of a mistake by an “intern,” who must forever remain nameless, because, well, it’s just another lie.

You can bet your momma’s secret cookie recipe “her book” will not be about how Cindy McCain spends time in the kitchen preparing favorite family recipes.

Hillary Clinton once said all she had to do to knock a story off the front page was change her hairstyle. This past week, as it rained nine-inch deep double-basin shameless-steel kitchen sinks in Ohio, it was clear that something a little stronger than a hairstyle had knocked Barack Obama off the primary juggernaut he’d been on since the fifth round of this scheduled 55 rounder.

The bobble-head punditry had been salivating for the return of negative campaigning, those nasty blows below the belt, not just to give them the highly addictive shivers down their quivers, but to escalate the too-often civil discourse which makes for boring endless news cycles.

“I’m a fighter!” Clinton cries, “”Let fly the sinks!” And the MSM goes ape-shit, blathering on about the necessity of returning to uncivil discourse and unsportsmanlike conduct between the two democrat contenders, attributing Clinton’s victories in round Ohio and round Texas to an intensifying downpour of Clintonian sinkatude.

Sinkatude consisting of, as our Carpetbagging friend Steve Benen observed:

* Rezko
* Canada/NAFTA
* Accusations of “plagiarism”
* Obama’s crisis-management abilities at 3 a.m.
* The media has given Obama a break
* Obama’s healthcare mailings are “Karl Rove-style politics” (”Shame on you”)
* Obama’s experience is similar to George W. Bush
* McCain’s experience is preferable to Obama’s
* Pictures of Obama wearing African garb
* Obama didn’t hold holding hearings as chairman of a Senate subcommittee that is in charge of overseeing NATO troops in Afghanistan
* Obama “denounced” Farrakhan, but didn’t “reject” him
* Obama’s message of “hope” is worthy of mockery and derision
* “60 Minutes” — Obama’s not a Muslim “as far as I know”

Hillary “The Fighter” Clinton’s barrage of sinkatude unleashed on Barack Obama makes for an impressive looking late flurry, but the delegate math of the judges are still scoring Obama in the lead with 1,386 delegates, compared with 1,276 for Clinton — a 110 delegate advantage.

But a quick glance around ringside, and there in the smoky dark you can begin to make out the fat-cat superdelgates, who are masticating those big Cuban ceegars with a nervous vigor that gives a tell— while there may be twelve more rounds, and even though Obama could score a technical knockout, they’ll still have their say in Denver.