That's what we used to say about Bush. He was a faux cowboy and so it fit.

We need a new one for Obama. All wind, no rain? All flash, no cash? All bling, no sing? Money talks, bullshit walks?

Shorter Obama: Laws were broken, and I'm not going to do a damn thing about it. I'll try to break fewer or no laws, but will not make any promises. Anyone who criticizes me will be met with blustering self-righteous bravado. If they continue to criticize me, they will be punished. Lawbreakers I will not punish, and I will block any attempts to do so, but critics can expect political death.

What a great fucking country we have here, folks. What a fine leader. A self-righteous chickenshit autocrat. Exactly what a nation of cowards and bullies deserves.

... these policies are now no longer just right-wing dogma but also the ideas that many defenders of his -- Democrats, liberals, progressives -- will defend as well. The more Obama embraces core Bush terrorism policies and assumptions... the more those premises are transformed from right-wing dogma into the prongs of bipartisan consensus, no longer just advocated by Bush followers but by many Obama defenders as well.

And that's how fascism happens.

A fantastic and rich film, DTRT premiered while I was in college as well. I took a bunch of white boys from the student council - there was at least one guy who had never even known a black person in his entire life. The movie opened his eyes, without a doubt: he was planning to be a lawyer, but now works for recruitment and retention of minorities in collegiate education.

One odd occurrence at that screening: during the scene where the block kids hassle Da Mayor, a possibly intoxicated man near the front of the theater began yelling, "You can't talk that way to old people! You have to respect old people!" He was quite dismayed by the razzing of Ozzie Davis.

We tried to bring the film to campus as well. The student activities director, a preppy white frat boy with a giant stick up his ass, cycled through his worries: guns, possible rioting, controversy - he finally objected with the claim, "Everyone has already seen it."

At the same time that Democrats were offering to donate money to get him off some ballots, Republicans were actually donating money to help him campaign, most likely in the same states McAuliffe wanted him out of.

Koppelman equates attempted bribery with campaign donations, excusing political crime as 'the way things are,' I guess. Bending reality to fit his twisted world-view. What a hack you are, Koppelman. What a hack.

And "most likely?" Such an easy fact to check, Alex. Lazy lazy lazy.

A hack is bad enough, but a lazy hack? Damn near criminal.

Paranoid are ye? Does the USP force you at gunpoint to use only their services, or did UPS, FedEx, and others rise to profit under the oppressive boot of a guv'mint-owned bidness? Some people cling to religion, some cling to guns, and some, dear Rangoon, cling to simplistic paranoid nightmares rife with paltry truisms about Evil Guvmint. Puh-leeeeeez!