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 …

The Surge Is Not A Success

Urban renewal project in beautiful downtown Baghdad Chris Matthews‘ substitute host, McCain enthusiast Mike Barnicle, reacted incredulously Wednesday to a comment by Iraq war vet Jon Soltz, co-founder and chairman of VoteVets.org, that the so-called “surge” has not been a success.  Pressed by Barnicle, who reflects the corporatist media’s official narrative of the surge, Soltz made a number of arguments: …

Wrecking the Economy

Impact of two terms of Bush’s management of the US Economy The Bush Administration today issued a mind boggling record deficit projection of $482 billion for 2009. And that’s not even counting the off-budget estimated $80 billion being spent in Iraq and Afghanistan, nor the cost of the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac and homeowner bailout bill. That’s a yearly deficit of …

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. . .

McCain’s New Poster Already a Collector’s Item

And you can see why. . . Lofting PTSD* to new heights. . . *Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

McSame’s Economic Policies: That’s Rich

McSame demonstrates he no longer needs his wife to access the internets Frank Rich begins his New York Times Sunday column yesterday by noting what a favor Barack Obama did for his presidential rival, John McSame, by traveling overseas this weekend: THE best thing to happen to John McCain was for the three network anchors to leave him in the …

Bush Aspirates A Goal For Surrender In Iraq

A Charge To Keep, by W.H.D. Koerner The above painting was proudly displayed in Governor George Bush‘s office in Austin, Texas. As Crooks and Liars describes it: In 1995, he issued a memo to his Texas staff, describing the painting, by W.H.D. Koerner in 1916, which he kept on his office wall. Bush told his aides: The…painting is based upon …