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Saturday, September 27, 2008 12:27 PM
Original article: Cranky vs. cool

@seerer

You must not have watched too closely.

Obama verbally pointed out in the debate that McCain supported and voted Bush's policies 90% of the time.

There's no sense in using all of your wind for a blustery whine, if you're gonna be so willfully and self frustratedly 100% blind.

Saturday, September 27, 2008 12:40 PM
Original article: Obama and McCain face off

The audience shouts from the gallery

Please

More Good Celery.

Saturday, September 27, 2008 12:45 PM
Original article: Obama and McCain face off

@NYShooter

Spontaneously combust

Or turn off your computer.

Saturday, September 27, 2008 12:54 PM
Original article: Obama and McCain face off

@rupe

How clearly you see, the 'ol grey McCain just ain't what he used to be...

Saturday, September 27, 2008 12:59 PM
Original article: Cranky vs. cool

@Bee

Bumble bumble toil and fumble, what's your latest little triflin' mumble?

Saturday, September 27, 2008 01:05 PM
Original article: Obama and McCain face off

but rupe

take you klytus for a fool? anybody could see that mccain was the mule...who are you tryin' to sell a dud bill 'o goods?

Saturday, September 27, 2008 01:08 PM
Original article: Obama and McCain face off

G. Celery

Give 'im Good Hellery.

Saturday, September 27, 2008 01:28 PM
Original article: Cranky vs. cool

Ahmad-I-need-a-job

Is a small time pimp

Obama's approach would clearly be

Not to hail over aside and chat with the pimp

But rather to reach some straight face to face dialouge

with the Ayatollah

and not the little buffer boy

And grocery clerk shrimp....

Saturday, September 27, 2008 01:34 PM
Original article: Cranky vs. cool

To speak to the true Iranian leadership

You have to peel aways layers of political veils

This is why Bush and McCainian foreign policies

Always begin ignorantly and awkwardly

And always crash and burn without fail.

Saturday, September 27, 2008 05:05 PM
Original article: Cranky vs. cool

@Faulkner

What's this I read about cake leaving for a little visit to Cairo? If i were planning on visiting Egypt I wouldn't visit the ruins of Karnak in the town of Aswan, things of late have been unsettled there, like violent ripples upon the surface of a small pond.

Saturday, September 27, 2008 05:34 PM

I'll always remember him

In "the Life and Times

of Judge Roy Bean"

the most truthful tall tale about a famous Texan

That I've ever seen.

Saturday, September 27, 2008 09:48 PM
Original article: Cranky vs. cool

@Fester

Billions and billions have been dropped into Iraq

Like dropping mega mega mega bucks down the drain

The revelation that billions of those dollars have gone missing

Doesn't speak well of either Bush or McCain

Whose wasteful Iraq policies in money and lives

Have gone beyond the bounds of insane

All throughout the debate

I didn't hear a single word

About when the Iraqi people

Will have their own country

Returned.

Saturday, September 27, 2008 10:05 PM
Original article: Cranky vs. cool

@Fester

If the U.S. economy goes broke

How in the name of Allah

Will McCain keep Iraq fastened to its yoke?

Saturday, September 27, 2008 10:37 PM
Original article: Cranky vs. cool

I'm no bean counter

But I would assume that that

"control" would put the U.S. in a deep hole.

Sunday, September 28, 2008 03:29 AM
Original article: Cranky vs. cool

@Fester

Speaking of transparent

McCain seems to self appoint himself

As Iraq's military governor

And stern and stubborn parent

What in the name of good sense

Does McCain see as a seemingly ceaseless need

To have 200,000 troops spread out all over Iraq

Most without a clearly defined mandate

Of what they are there for

In terms of end all purpose

Action, and deed...

And most of all

What in the hell is the U.S. REALLY wanting to achieve?

Build a new nation from top to bottom?

Sort out sectarian rivalries

Bitter fruit

That's ferociously rotten?

Act as a constant cop on the beat

Daily patroling every Iraqi alley way, souk, and backstreet?

Stay for an eternity as an occupational force

With fingers crossed

That Iraqis keep democracy

As their freely chosen course?

After so many years

Iraq is on the mend

And it's people are stiiiiill wondering

When the U.S. occupation

Will finally end.

Sunday, September 28, 2008 11:03 AM
Original article: Cranky vs. cool

Keep your eyes to the skies

There are increasing anxieties

That the unsettled state of Israel

Might rashly launch a bomb attack on Iran

In a pre-election "October Surprise"

Which John McCain could only accept

As a blessing in disguise....

Sunday, September 28, 2008 11:18 AM
Original article: Cranky vs. cool

I agree

I'm not looking for a gladiatorial combat

Or a bloody joust

But looking hard for a political vision

That will return honor

To a fallen house...

Sunday, September 28, 2008 11:29 AM
Original article: Cranky vs. cool

The choice it seems

Is old and decrepid

Or inovative and intrepid....

Sunday, September 28, 2008 11:47 AM
Original article: Cranky vs. cool

If the United States celebrates another cowboy

A Washington style version of Hollywood's John Wayne

Then I fear the American public

Will have really delivered a fatal bullet to its brain...

Sunday, September 28, 2008 11:56 AM
Original article: Obama and McCain face off

I think McCain came across

As a living incarnation of Elmer Fudd

And hence forth

I shall refer to his stammering debate style

As the Porky Piggish stylings

Of John McDud...

Sunday, September 28, 2008 02:11 PM
Original article: Cranky vs. cool

McCain looked like Elmer Fudd

Grand standin' at the unsteady ready

Like Bush's right hand shrub.

Sunday, September 28, 2008 02:18 PM

Give 'em Hellery Hill!

With a thrash 'n burn deliviry

That'll give the repubs a worried chill!

Sunday, September 28, 2008 04:27 PM
Original article: Obama and McCain face off

Uh bidee uh bidee uh...

That's all folks!

Sunday, September 28, 2008 06:25 PM
Original article: Cranky vs. cool

@Fester

Most Egyptians I know hope that the United States will again begin to work to better results with its arab allies, through the good auspices of the U.N., instead of going off like a half crazed cowbody, alienating both foe and long standing friend.

Most Egyptians believe that the U.S. should have left Iraq after the depostion of Saddam, and believe a continuous occupation, is still as potentially volatile - as a bomb.

Egyptians often jokingly refer to Bush and McCain as "itneen homar," because they are as stubborn and uncomprehending, as a donkey in front of a car.

Sunday, September 28, 2008 06:34 PM
Original article: Obama and McCain face off

"presidential?"

...more like nursing home residential...

Sunday, September 28, 2008 09:14 PM
Original article: Cranky vs. cool

@zoltan

"Bil arabi" barak means "blessing.'"

But the mark of McCain

Only means "deeply distressing."

Sunday, September 28, 2008 09:49 PM
Original article: Obama and McCain face off

@NYShooter

Your lies and fabrications

Are most unbecoming

And don't make you seem

Any smarter or cuter.

Monday, September 29, 2008 07:53 AM
Original article: Cranky vs. cool

@odonnell

Most people in the arab world are bemused at how the United States could have such total faith in Israel, which many liken to a not so always reliable, wanton mistress, and as for terrorism aimed at tourists in Egypt, the peolple hate it, because it deeply imapacts the country's tourist business.

I live near New Orleans, which shares an uncanny similarity in one way with Cairo, in that, when the crime rate significantly rises in New Orleans, local merchants and restraunt owners, are sure to be affected in tourist dollars tommorow.

Monday, September 29, 2008 08:07 AM
Original article: Cranky vs. cool

@odonnell

Beleive it or not Hosni Mubarek does not control EVERY detail and aspect of Egyptian life, today my uncle Elias sat down to breakfast, with a delicious repast of tahmiyya, which was chosen by his wife.

In mocking fun, Egyptians call Hosni Mubarek "the laughing cow," because he produces bitter milk, but laughs anyhow...

Monday, September 29, 2008 08:25 AM
Original article: Britney Spears, feminist?

All of Spears songs have the same name to me.

"lobotomizer" to the nteenth degree....

Monday, September 29, 2008 12:15 PM
Original article: Cranky vs. cool

Hmm...

I guess the Bush "laughing cow" isn't laughing too hard today, and that the American people have had their own choice of say....

Monday, September 29, 2008 03:33 PM
Original article: Cranky vs. cool

@Faulkner

Perhaps the GOP haven't a care for true roll up your sleeves legislating, because spin fetches a mischievous grin, and is as fun and productive, as masturbating...

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