HE SAID WHAAAAAT?!?

You know, if this trend continues to gain momentum, it wont be Obama that defeats McCain— it’ll be YouTube. Another historic first.

Cookie Monster Redux

You probably thought that when Cindy McCain‘s reputation was sautéed by a low-level campaign staffer who plagiarized the Internets for less than authentic McCain Family recipes for the McCain website, that they would have at least smacked her hand— the intern, not Cindy— and told her to go and sin no more. But the little dollop has had a relapse …

Screw This Up And You’re History

Frank Schaeffer, a survivor of polio, an evangelical/fundamentalist childhood, and many years as a right-wing Republican, says: While Republicans are concentrating on winning in November it seems to me that they have lost sight of the fact that this moment has far greater significance than whatever happens in electoral politics this year. If you listen to the silly chatter on …

We Must Rise The Occasion

NEW ORLEANS— John McCain stammered his way through one of his more memorable speeches ever Tuesday night, but unfortunately it was memorable for the number of speaking miscues off the teleprompter, not the content. It was memorable for the forced, creepy smiles at the end of sentences that didn’t warrant them. Even his repetitious blinking was unnerving. And with more …

MOUTHPIECE BITES PRESIDENT

The Party Under The Bus Of course the Bus we’re talking about isn’t the “Straight-Talk Express,” AKA, “The Lobby-Knobby Express,” piloted by John McSame, the Greedy Old Party’s nominee for Commander-in-Chief of the World president of the United States. The bus we’re talking about, as well as all of Washington, is the Scott McClellan man-of-war, the Milquetoast Marauder— no, the …

Paying The GI Jackson

WASHINGTON — John McCain defended his plan for veterans’ college benefits Monday, as both he, and Barack Obama spoke to veterans on Memorial Day. Hillary Clinton campaigned Monday in Puerto Rico. Obama and McCain have sparred from a distance recently over the bill, sometimes with what the MSM calls “heated words.” In his comments on Memorial Day, McCain did not …

Waiting For The Storm To Blow Over

  Apologies to Thomas Nast for borrowing his September 23, 1871 cartoon captioned: “A Group of Vultures Waiting for the Storm to ‘Blow Over’—‘Let Us Prey” Yes, that’s Satan’s lapdog, Carl Rove behind her, so to speak. . . The media shit-storm over the assassination slur probably hasn’t reached full pitch yet, but who really expects it to even momentarily …