Once upon a time there was this group of Americans, in New York, who wanted to start a online journal called 'an american place'. It was a very unusual group of people because they came from all walks of life and from all sides of the political spectrum - but there was this 'thing' they shared - a wonderful common interest for dance 'im Allgemeinen' (as Timbermann perhaps would say) and Art 'im Besonderen' - and this common cause let them to overcome all their pesky little differences and turned them into a group of tolerant and very independent thinker - because it is hardly possible to enjoy Groucho Marx and not being 'independent' and so their heroes were the likes of Jefferson, Adams, Marx (Groucho) and Alfred Stieglitz, who had found the first american place and also had 'found' artists like Ansel Adams, who decided to show 'the American landscape' only in Black and White.

And as these founders of a new an american place were very fond of Black and White - but also liked color they thought about some kind of 'Gesamtkunstwerk' - were all the barriers between the Arts had fallen - and as they (begrudgingly) noticed that 'politics' starting to become the new 'Art' - and as they were fearlessly independent (did I mention it already?) they got sick from all this 'noise' from all these partisan sid(t)es because no one listens to a obvious partisan anymore - and they especially got ticked off by Salon - because there was this so called 'left', 'liberal' or 'progressive' woman editor, who struggled so much with her gender reflexes, that everything she wrote could be used in a writers seminar about reactionary subtext and there was this other blogger, who was an excellent journalist, but he had this weakness, that he was a lawyer too - and everybody knows about laywers, and this is such a moronic stereotypical statement, that the group of Americans, we are talking about here - felt a little bit bad - (but only a little bit) - because they all had this stereotypical problem which bordered on Paranoia. They -(as the rest of the world - had identified lawyers) as 'die Ursache allen Übels' (the cause of the whole madness) and they thought it was a tiny bit hypocritical to fight crusaders with crusades - but this lawyerjournalist was such a damn good writer and he shared their love for Jefferson and Adams (perhaps not for Groucho Marx) - that they thought he could be pursued to move over to a truely independent sit(d)e - and they talked a lot about him and one of the Americans was filthy rich (as a lot of them are) - and he said 'we might not get him with the money but we get him with his 'instinct'. And that’s how we solve the puzzle, why even politicians vote against their own policies, philosophies or interest - because they are like this group of Americans, who tried to found a new 'an american place' – and suddenly they got into such a huge and ugly fight because of their instincts and after one of the 'liberal founding mother' of the new place described in drastic words, how she wanted to show it to Obama and to f… terrorist - the group dissolved and irony was back with a vengeance and it never ever will be dead - even if there is another 911.

but we honestly don't know If we should be happy about it.

My mom always tells me: Be real careful, who you hang out with and i am - and i first was really happy to know Friedensreich because his name translates Into 'Peacerich Happymountain' and he was tremendously articulate and witty and could quote Jefferson and Adams and Groucho Marx - but then i found out he is not peaceful at all. He wants to fight with everybody. It started out with him leving notes with 'homo homini lupus ( the people are wolfs to the people) - i know this Is a bad translation from latin but you get the picture and then he insulted Obama an then he sucked the fuel out of the lawnmower of this very old and crippled Republican in the neighborhood and now Mr.Paulson can not mowe his lawn anymore and I fear Friedensreichs strange behaviour has turned into a full blown Persecution mania. Becausee he doen't want to be associated with Bob Barr at all - he thinks he Is the scum of the earth and tells everybody he should sniff old panties (how tasteless) So I just want to warn you Glenn - if somebody like Friedensreich calls you - beware!

and they should hire more of these guys - We need McCains popularity to be down, down, down!

but we doubt it that the Obama campaign is as experienced in the art of self destruction as the good old Bush pros!

don't discourage the elephant - he has always been very helpful.

is Mel Brooks also attending?

because the undistructable quality of jewish humor is - you can laugh, when it really hurts.

let this threat not develop into a discussion of the jewishness of Mr. Lieberman -

Lets instead treat him like a Cashless Banker or a General Motor manager without a trucks

and then we could discuss the housing crisis and why nothing is anymore like it supposed to be and then somebody should call up Israel and tell them that there is this Terrrorist attack

in Washington.

besides McCain who still is not in love with Obama is Maureen - perhaps she hasnt heard

the Gorilla joke yet - Sorry Maureen - I couldnt resist and yes the Germans they loove the

Obamator!