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http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/07/31/mccains-rick-davis-goes-on-the-attack-against-andrea-mitchell-and-obama-like-a-pit-bull/

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but I have it on good authority that Britney is voting for Bush.

Now leave her alone!

punch of Greenwald and Somerby is truly poetic and devastating to the media naarative. If only more would listen,sigh.

You guys are my heroes.

One Two punch not on. I don't need spell check I need grammar check.

I was always ahead of you, even when you were calling yourself Algernon Ramsbottom and letting on to be related to royalty. That fall down the mountain must have given you some awful bumps in the head because you're so forgetful. I began this letter about an hour ago but somebody rang me (landline) and we had a good gossip (nothing about the American election). I must now think about that "Leave Barack Alone" video with all that gulping and sobbing and the only thing that struck me about it was that I wasn't sure whether the weeping one is a girl or a boy. As you've been to Rio you're probably much wiser and educated about that sort of thing than I am.

Does anybody here know who Britney and Paris are voting for?

No, but I heard they were out trying to get signatures for a ballot referendum that would allow all women, not just celebrities, to be panty-free when wearing miniskirts.

We got rid of those damned girdles, now we're takin' it to the next level!

The one I saw was "Please let Barack Alone". If it was you doing all that hysteria, I'll make no comment except to say I always guessed you weren't a natural blonde. You need to attend to your roots and buy a more expensive mascara.

Glenn,

You really should be syndicated in the nation's largest newspapers. Your articles are important. I can't reach enough people just by e-mailing your Salon articles. Imagine how this Presidential campaign would be far away a lead by Obama. I wish the Obama campaign would use them or cite them in campaign material/ads.

Piece of Cake, I've already seen "Please Leave Obama Alone" on YouTube.

-- maureenodonnell

Wasn't that just a spoof on leave Britney alone? Maybe you knew that?

This country isn't going to elect John McCain as its president, stupid as it is. Rove and his fellow schemers know that it is all about image, but there's really no way to make a silk purse out of this sow's ear. More likely there is an "underground" movement to replace McCain, having him drop out for "health reasons."

What this points out is that "democracy" is an illusion, more about the creation of celebrity than anything else. Rove, "genius" that he is, uses Obama's superior celebrity as a weapon of reverse psychology, attempting to convert his strenght into a weakness.

I suspect that Obama is smart enough to pull a double reverse, turning the "strength" of the Rove strategy into a weakness. If celebrity is such a bad thing, then let's have a complete nobody for president. Woops. We've already done that. How about the nearest person on the street, or a randomly picked entrant in a national lottery?

The celebrity gimmick likely won't last long. McCain is tired, lifeless, and has no answers. If the country is dumb enough to "elect" him, then we are finished anyway, so we might as well get it over with quick. This is the real test. How dumb are we? We'll find out soon enough.

I too live in the bay area. Although many areas are not that liberal. Even San Francisco is oddly conservative in many ways. I take for instance SF constant opposition to modernist architecture and obsession over their ginger bread houses.

As far as Arnold and Gray everyone I know was very aware of what was going on, and not shocked at all. I am a long time Democrat. The Democrats have not had a good candidate for Gov. for a long time. Lockyeer would have been much better Gov. that Davis, but every Democrat thought they owed it to Gray to let him run...big mistake. His name is Gray for a reason.ZZZZZZZZ

The big question is who is going to run for gov. in CA next for the Democrats? Gavin, Dianne? it better be somebody goos because Tom Campbell, moderate republican, is rumored to be seeking a run for the republicans next time. When Tom Campbell was our congressional representative, many Democrats voted for him.

And George W. Bush will be at home in Crawford, playing occasional golf in Austin.

Naw. The ranch was just a prop. They're gonna live in Dallas where they can take advantage of the nightlife they've been missing while clearing brush for the cameras.

Laura Bush: She, president moving back to Dallas

Thursday, April 10, 2008

By ERIC AASEN and ERIC AASEN / The Dallas Morning News

Dallas County may be turning Democratic, but it's about to gain two prominent Republican residents: The Bushes are moving back to town.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/0401108dnmetlaurabush.4dd71749.html

I can recognise a spoof when I see one. Thanks to globalisation or whatever, the world-wide village has come into existence. I think Britney was meant to be called Brittany (so Celtic French!) but someone couldn't spell. Paris evokes that film classic "Casablanca" in which Humphrey Bogard tells Ingrid Bergman "We'll always have Paris". The world is in love with airheads once they're expnsively and prettily packaged.

I guess I just never thought that anyone would be stupid enough to vote for such an idiot in such large numbers, no matter how vile Gray Davis was. I'll be honest, even if makes me look naive, I actually refused to believe it until I saw the raw data that morning. But I was still relatively young then. I will say for places like Hayward, Fremont, San Jose, San Lorenzo, most of the East Bay that people who live in the metro areas really have no idea how conservative people tend to be, though they are just a twenty minute drive to the bigger cities.