Or perhaps one of those donors was FDR's dog Fala.

As I recall, Fala does mind when things are said about her.

Posted at August 7, 2008 1:15 AM in response to Mystery Deepens Around McCain Bundler

No, we don't have brains. No apology needed. We have a larger concentration of idiots than should be possible under Darwinian view of history. The best arguement against evolution is the United States itself.

You are watching a great civilization implode and deconstruct itself. That has to be more interesting than the reverse. But such a civilization deserves no homage of respect.

All civilizations collapse. We've been flirting with our own demise even as we ascended. Now its finally coming to fruition.

Even if we dodge a bullet this time don't count us in. Republican policies in the 1920s lead directly to the Great Depression which nearly sank western civilization into a new dark age (per Churchill in his 'Finest Hour' speech). And here we are again facing similar demise. We are a stupid, stupid, people. There is no greater evidence of this then ascendancy of George W. Bush. Only a nation of suckers would elect such a rogue.

Posted at August 6, 2008 4:06 PM in response to Election Central Morning Roundup

I think the second ad here is on to something: New Energy versus the Old Gas Bag.

I hope Obama hammers some more on the idea that he's new energy. It's a double entendre.

Posted at August 6, 2008 3:49 PM in response to Election Central Morning Roundup

Maybe you haven't noticed. All 'buy' decisions, and voting is of such a kind, are based on emotion.

Since the 1960s, the Democrats have proposed intellectually smart positions, racked up tons of moral victories, and lost election after election.

Republicans have always push an inferior product. Then as now, they skip the policy proposals and push the emotional buttons.

So don't come at me with this is smart and that is dumb policy, and that drilling is a big mistake. With less than one hundred days before the election, I don't care. One or two more lost elections and this country will look like the south won the civil war, ie. like Brazil.

You can take your dream of smart policies with you to your grave if you like. We stand no chance of socially constructive policies if we lose this election. Winning is everything, and frankly I would sell all that I hold dear down the river to prevent another loss.

The smart thing doesn't always sell.

Personally, I think Obama is the greatest politician this country has ever produced. Unfortunately, he's black, and if you can't win the south, you have to win 70% of the rest of the country. And for Republicans, the emotional race card is low hanging fruit every where south of the Ohio River. For this reason I was for Edwards as the safest bet (turned out wrong there). Given Obama's racial liability, he can't afford to surrender any emotionally manipulatable positions in any other quarter. And with people paying $4 for gas, that's easy to manipulate emotionally.

Turns out the real world of politics is emotion based.

Posted at August 3, 2008 3:07 PM in response to Election Central Sunday Roundup

Also, I'd like someone to ask McCain, in a town hall setting: "One candidate has never breeched the vows he's made to his first wife, the other candidate committed adultry to his first wife, while having an affair with the daughter of a multi-millionare, my question is who is more trust worthy?

Count down from ten, and watch McCain go ballistic.

The fact is, from this perspective, McCain isn't trustworthy and so he's vulnerable.

Obama doesn't need to bring this up. Someone else can.

Posted at August 2, 2008 3:30 PM in response to Election Central Saturday Roundup

Well, I think he should have a hard charging confederate bring it, not he himself, at least not in the early rounds.

Have Hillary bring it. She's good in a street fight, and women have a decided advantage because if the man is too successful in his retaliation, he looks like a brute.

Posted at August 2, 2008 3:23 PM in response to Election Central Saturday Roundup

Wouldn't it be nice if people made their decisions on who to vote for intellectually?

Unfortunately people's decisions are based upon emotions - especially 'buy' decisions, which includes who to vote for. The Republicans know this. They always are selling an inferior product. They can never win on the merits, but they know they can manipulate emotions.

To a hard working, increasingly impoverished public, that has little time to research the candidates, the idea of waiting on future technology is vapor ware. Drilling sounds more tangible, especially since it is already taking place.

If Obama doesn't compromise here he gives the Republicans a modicum of traction. Keep in mind we are the party that wins the debates, has all the intellectually sound ideas, achieves all the moral victories (like nominating an African American) yet loses all the elections.

Frankly, I'm sick of that. At this point Obama can promise building a Nuclear Power plant in my back yard and promis using my basement for long term storage of the waste, and if it helps him get elected, he has my permission to so promise.

Posted at August 2, 2008 3:13 PM in response to Election Central Saturday Roundup

Win, loose or draw, one thing is certain. Kristol's "New American Century" won't make it a quarter.

That's what happens when Monday morning quarterbacks with nothing to do all day but plot and plan, suddenly get to call the shots.

Oh well. There are other countries and their will be other centuries.

Posted at July 28, 2008 7:54 PM in response to McCain Adviser's Horrifying Iraq Track Record: Will the Press Notice?

uhm, correct spelling is: titillate.

Posted at July 28, 2008 1:46 PM in response to MSNBC Gets It Right: McCain Attack Ad Is False

She's also in danger of being labeled a soft-political pornographer for some of her biased reporting. And really that's what's going on here. These kinds of reporting titelate . Fox is selling political pornography, and like generic pornography, there's some hard core demand for it. That's why main stream media is sliding into soft pol-porn.

All of these talking heads like to think of themselves as the antithesis of porn stars, which is exactly why we have to call them political-porn stars when they engage in it, and why we have to call outfits like Fox, not just propaganda, but political-pornography.

If they want to keep their highly treasured dignity, their going to have to inject it into their reporting. Otherwise I don't have any problem refering to Limbaugh, Savage, Hannity, Coulter, Malkin, Ingrams as hard core pol-porn stars, and Gibson and Stephanopolous as soft-pol-porn stars.

They want dignity in their field, they have to earn it. They aren't earning it these days. My guess is Andrea Mitchell sensed her exposure and has run a hasty retreat for cover. But the rest of them won't until they are labeled as pol-porn stars.

Posted at July 28, 2008 1:44 PM in response to MSNBC Gets It Right: McCain Attack Ad Is False