"Watch as he desperately pretends he hasn't sacrificed every principle he ever had (if he had any) to get to this point."

You mean Obama, right?

No. McCain.

I didn't know Jeremiah Wright was a raving, racist lunatic. (Memo: Disinvited Wright to his campaign kickoff months earlier because "you know you can get kinda rough at times.")

He isn't.

I cannot disown Jeremiah Wright any more than I can disown my white grandmother. (Memo: Wright thrown off the train a few weeks later.)

A disingenuous paraphrasing.

I'll stick to public financing for my campaign. (Memo: hell, let's just roll in the dough and forget my "promise.")

A disappointment.

I'm against changing the FISA law. (Memo: voted for the new FISA law.)

Another disappointment.

The surge is a failure. (Memo: Tells O'Reilly tonight that the surge has succeeded.)

It was.

Said we should end the embargo of Cuba because it was a failure. (Memo: Speaking to a Cuban-American audience in Miami, said we should keep the embargo "because it is an important inducement for change.")

It is.

Said "no" on a questionnaire that asked if we should crack down on business that hire illegal immigrants. (Memo: In January debate said, "We do have to crack down on those employers that are taking advantage of the situation."

Sensible.

Obama's an empty suit, a calculating pol, a liar and a fraud. -- T. Suarez

As is McCain. As is most every other professional politician in the world.

From Palin:

In small towns, we don't quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they are listening, and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns when those people aren't listening.

We tend to prefer candidates who don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco.

Trust me, you'll be seeing this over and over again this fall in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, W. Virginia, Virginia. Obama professes to care for the "poor people" while looking down his nose at them and, by the way, totally misunderstanding them.

What a person says when he thinks no one is listening is a true indication of his heart, and Obama's speech in San Francisco shows him to be the condescending hypocrite he is. Anything he says afterward is a lie.

The Washington Post has now put up a fairly reasonable description of what transpired in court today.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/04/AR2008090402245_pf.html

Note that the judge, as it says in the article, suggested the possibility of closed-circuit TV for the arraignment. Not mentioned in the article is that the judge said it might not avoid the strip search because she would still have to leave her cell. Please carefully note that: She is being kept in solitary, and she is being told, her lawyer is being told, and the Pakistani consular delegate is being told, that she is such a security risk she needs to be strip searched every time she enters or exits her cell. Lucky for the U.S. this isn't military detention, it would violate the rules for Geneva sanctioned close confinement. We are being told it is S.O.P. at the federal detention center at Brooklyn.

Note also, her lawyers described the search in court, which includes bending over and coughing during an anal search to prove she hasn't something concealed in her anus. It is that last she is unable to perform due to her injuries.

Her lawyers are not sure she is fit to stand trial, they believe the problem is abuse in prolonged custody. They are requesting a doctor, a psychological evaluation (the Judge is asking for the latter as well) and a gynecological examination. They ought to do a full Istanbul Protocol exam on her, but I don't know if that has been requested.

If you want to know how this sounds in a foreign country (Muslim), here is how the Daily Times covered it in Pakistan:

http://tinyurl.com/5kknvr

How come the frame, and how image plays in the news, only counts for American TV?

Dr. Kirk Murphy did a piece on FDL about the detention conditions in Minneapolis yesterday, people should go read it.

http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/03/ramsey-countys-contempt-for-justice-tell-them-to-stop-the-torture-and-restore-the-rule-of-law/

The best argument for not returning the Republicans to power is that they are utterly cruel monsters. U.S. Attorney Michael J. Garcia serves at the discretion of the President, as so many in Alberto Gonzales' office were so fond of telling the Congressional committees. I take it that it is the pleasure of the President to do this, then. It is being done on his U.S. Attorney's orders.

This may still be the land of the free, but there is nothing about the handling of this case that indicates it is still the home of the brave.

Classic liberal illogic

The Dow too a 345 point nosedive today on the Palin Speech

Class post hoc fallacy: B follows A, so A must have caused B.

And you claim to be the smart ones.

-- HornetDriver

Perhaps it was a market correction.

Perhaps it was a bad hair day on Wall Street.

Perhaps Shooter's luck has run out.

Perhaps it was the fact that analysts and high line investors don't think much of McCain or his VP pick.

perhaps it was this:

The number of U.S. workers filing new claims for jobless benefits jumped by 15,000 last week, the government reported on Thursday, adding to signs of a weakening labor market.

Initial claims for state unemployment insurance benefits climbed to a seasonally adjusted 444,000 in the week ended Aug. 30 from a revised 429,000 in the prior week, the Labor Department said. Analysts polled by Reuters had forecast 425,000 claims, the same as the previously reported count for the prior week.

Perhaps it was all of the above.

Perhaps you are just a clueless chairforce asshat and you can't find your own ass without a heads up display.

Perhaps you are just a clueless chairforce asshat

Except the Chair Force doesn't fly Hornets ... asshat.

Try to know what you're talking about before you spout off.