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Tuesday, June 3, 2008 01:00 PM

This is pretty consistent with a Salon article

a few months back (Greenwald?) stating that Bush had been convinced of the folly of attacking Iran. However, the rest of the neocons are gnashing their teeth for red meat and blood.

Wednesday, June 4, 2008 08:23 AM

Last I saw, Hillary was in front of a large crowd

speaking of herself in the 3rd person, repeatedly.

Thursday, June 5, 2008 08:45 AM

Please not that the Republicans have their own Rezko

problem. Bob Kjellander and Bill Cellini, major RNC players from Illinois have been majorly implicated in the Rezko trial.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-kass-06jun05,0,3215974.column

Thursday, June 5, 2008 11:34 AM

@sajwan

"If it's not illegal then it must be ethical."

What's this "IT" you are referring to?

Friday, June 6, 2008 10:13 AM

McCain/Bush

"So, is McCain calling Bush a fool or fraud?"

I'll bet that if you keep asking him that question at every opportunity he will eventually get mad.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008 02:45 PM
Original article: Quote of the day

Google "Terrorist Fist Jab"

and you'll discover it's a phrase that did not exist before last week when E.D. Hill made it all up in her little blond head.

Wednesday, June 11, 2008 10:21 AM

Regardless of the carnage, the Iraq

occupation is costing US taxpayers at least $2 Billion/ Week. All of this is happening "off the books." Here's an issue with political traction.

Thursday, June 12, 2008 07:25 AM

Maybe Fox "News" could use

one of those gun range targets of a black guy with a gun to represent Obama's absence.

Thursday, June 12, 2008 01:08 PM
Original article: Fox News responds

I have a dream

of seeing every minority employee of Fox "News" file an EEOC complaint against FNC for maintaining a hostile, racist working environment. I have never worked in an environment where those types of comments would be tolerated, let alone become the substance of our message.

Monday, June 30, 2008 09:55 AM
Original article: McCain's tax troubles

Give the guy a break

He's an elderly man who sometimes has trouble remembering things and falls asleep in public. This should not prevent him from controlling a nuclear arsenal.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008 12:59 PM
Original article: McCain campaign gets greedy

It's only a matter of time before

conservatives start their quivering-lipped blubbering that the Obama campaign is treating McCain worse than the North Vietnamese did.

Thursday, July 3, 2008 07:53 AM

True Conservatives distrust McCain because

he is a weakling who allowed the North Vietnamese to scare him into making a treasonous claim against the United States.

Thursday, July 3, 2008 09:48 AM

@Gcubed

"If I had his experience in the military and considering that the President is commander in chief of the military, he is definetly more qualified than Obama in that regard.

So for someone to ask hime that question is rather ridiculous!"

So how will Senator Sleepy get that message across to the millions of people who are not as wise as yourself if he keeps acting like a truculent child every time the subject arises?

Thursday, July 3, 2008 10:22 AM

I remember back in 2001

after we invaded, the bushies were under orders to constantly tell the Afghanies "we will never abandon you again". They sure know how to split hairs.

Monday, July 7, 2008 11:16 AM
Original article: Big speech, big venue

How quickly the local trolls forget

that the 2004 Republican Convention was diliberately scheduled as close to the 9/11 "Anniversary" (cuz they actually celibrate it) as possible to maximize their use of fear on their own people.

From the posts I've read here, Obama is doing exactly the right thing.

Monday, July 7, 2008 12:42 PM
Original article: Big speech, big venue

Cut Nyshooter some slack!

He's still recovering from the Million Man March.

Tuesday, July 8, 2008 08:54 AM

In contrast,

the McCain campaign is resorting to cannibalism.

Tuesday, July 8, 2008 01:42 PM

@James T Kirk

"Obama's clown car must have a two headed lesbian midget communist Hindu as his running mate."

In other words, you're announcing your candidacy?

Wednesday, July 9, 2008 10:47 AM

Senator Sleepy is quick to point out

that if you think government health care is so great, you should consider the "government health care" he received from the North Vietnamese. No, seriously, he made this exact argument on This Week with George S.

Thursday, July 10, 2008 01:25 PM

True Colors

Republicans afraid of Mexicans, Republicans afraid of black voter surge. White, right and lookin for a fight.

Thursday, July 10, 2008 01:43 PM

If the Dems were smart

they would collect some of the more outrageous statements about immigration made by Republican legislators (and there's plenty of them), translate them to spanish, print it all on to a double-sided 8.5"x 11" sheet of paper and distribute it far and wide in the hispanic communities across the US.

Thursday, July 10, 2008 02:42 PM
Original article: True grittiness of Iraq

I found the book to be very

enlightening about overall attitude of today's soldiers about going to war and the disillusionment that combat brings. *If* the series stays true to the book, then it should be good. I, personally, wouldn't classify it as "entertainment" as the book did not glorify the war in any way.

Friday, July 11, 2008 06:28 AM

Senator McSleepy's media honeymoon

may be coming to an end. Gramm's ("senior McCain adviser")remarks are front and center on CNN this morning. "Are YOU one of those whiners?"

Then, in a real departure, they showed a clip of McCain taking an long "akward" pause when answering a question and called it "another akward pause brought to you by Viagra."

Personally, I attribute it to the msm sharks smelling more blood in the water on the Republican side these days.

Monday, July 14, 2008 08:18 AM
Original article: The Obama cover kerfuffle

Satire aside,

this seems to be another event that is giving Obama a celebrity status in the media that poor Senator McSleepy can't match. And Americans loves their celebrities.

Personally, I think it's great satire.

Monday, July 14, 2008 09:21 AM
Original article: The Obama cover kerfuffle

@Pathfinder

You should really put the cap back on the paint thinner when you're done.

Monday, July 14, 2008 12:30 PM
Original article: Best. Bailout. Ever.

@ James T Kirk

"I for one would LOVE to have a mortgage holder collapse. I would stop sending them checks. I would have instant 100% ownership in my home."

Ha Ha Ha! You will be disappointed in the same proportions as your delusions.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008 01:20 PM
Original article: Oops, he did it again

Just don't get him started on

Persia...

Wednesday, July 16, 2008 09:02 AM

The "surge" was helped by cash

flown in by the pallet-load and given to Sunni tribes in exchange for their "loyalty". Holding with the long-standing Conservative tradition of paying people to change their behavior.

Wednesday, July 16, 2008 10:42 AM

@ annony

One reason we could afford to send 500,000 troops to combat in Gulf War 1 was that we had a much larger military in 1990-91 because of the Cold War. I'm looking for the numbers now...

Wednesday, July 16, 2008 12:30 PM

A few weeks back

McSleepy was drawing a parallel between Obama and Jimmy Carter...

Thursday, July 17, 2008 08:57 AM

The interesting thing about reading

the conservative blather on Salon is that I have yet to read even 1 endorsement of McCain or his policies. The Republican party is dead in its tracks, just pathetic.

Monday, July 21, 2008 10:59 AM

Denying access

is not censorship. The New Yorker is still free to print what is chooses and Obama is free to let who he wants on the plane.

Btw, It really brightened my morning to see all outraged Republicans braying on about the unfairness of Obama's press coverage. Get used to it.

Monday, July 21, 2008 11:56 AM

@ Independece_2008

Did it ever occur to you that the NYT rejected Senator McSleepy's "Op-Ed" because it was nothing but rambling gibberish?

Monday, July 21, 2008 12:48 PM

"We've Succeeded"

He's right, a D- is a passing grade.

Monday, July 21, 2008 03:00 PM

Bill Kristol got

his op-ed printed today. So WTF are they complaining about?

Tuesday, July 22, 2008 07:42 AM

One additional problem for McCain

is that a significant number of Americans view the Republican party as 1 big pathalogical liar.

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