Updates To Some Recent Posts

McSame’s Mock Obama Strategy Under the direction of John McSame‘s new Rovian campaign strategist, Steve Schmidt, the attacks against Obama’s character have become so vituperative that even long-time McSame supporters like Mike Murphy and Mike Weaver are crying foul, (or at least, lame). Not only because they are damaging his brand as someone who eschews personal attacks, but because he …

McSame’s ‘Mock Obama’ Strategy

Latest Development in the McSame, Obama, Hilton Smackdown In keeping with his campaign’s desperate attempt to ‘undefine’ him as “McSame” and to recapture his sullied maverick brand of old, John McCain went on the attack again yesterday, this time at the South Dakota Sturgis biker rally (where he babbled incoherently and tried to enter his plastic-fantastic wife into the annual …

Pentagon Deploys Spokesdrone To Deflect Reporters’ Questions

Top Pentagon Aide Debra Cagan After a top aide to Def. Secretary Robert Gates, Debra Cagan told her British counterparts during a meeting that “I hate all Iranians,” the Pentagon has rolled out a new line of spokesdrones to avoid such PR disasters in the future. The Onion has the scoop. Pentagon’s Unmanned Spokesdrone Completes First Press Conference Mission”>

“Pander Bear” McCain Does Sturgis

John “Pander Bear” McCain trailered into the Sturgis Bike Rally today. STURGIS SD — Appearing in an unusual pastiche of “biker” raiment, Senator John McCain gave a live performance Monday at the Buffalo Chip Campground in front of several hundred intoxicated and bemused bikers. With the sound of automatic weapons fire reverberating in the background from the camp’s newest feature— …

Iraqis Crap on Bush’s SOFA

Well, not so much… Today was the deadline that the Iraqi government was supposed to roll over and capitulate to the Bush- Cheney Administration‘s demand for a Status of Forces Agreement that would formalize the permanent military occupation of their country. The attempt to guarantee future investments of US oil companies in Iraq by transforming US troops into company security …

Bumper Sticker Blues

I had delivered my wife to DIA for an early morning flight, and was headed back to Boulder. The cruise control was nudging 75 in the 70 mph zone, the sun was bathing the front range in a soft bright white, and morning cirrus were already stretching their tails eastward; like most of mid-July Colorado, we could really use a good …

Arrogant Presumptuous* Traitorous Muslim Metrosexual

Traitorous Muslim Metrosexual— That’s how the right-wing meme machine is trying to define Barack Hussein Obama these days. . .