If you give the liberal newspapers 11 months, they will eventually catch up with conservative media.
If you give Jonathan Chait a lifetime, he never will. Refusal to pursue voter-intimidation cases against nonwhite people, he says, is a “tiny matter.” (Does he know that it’s not just Fox that’s covering the scandal but the Washington Post too?)
If they gave grades for charm, Nancy Pelosi would be failing: “While trying to mend ties between her caucus and the White House, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi turned her ire toward her Senate colleagues on Thursday, blaming Senate delays in passing the Democratic agenda for the disappointing jobs picture heading into the midterm elections.”
If you keep hoping for Peter Beinart to write something that is factually supported and more than an ad hominem attack on conservatives, you’ll be disappointed. He says Republicans think you have to be Christian to be American. Or something. No, don’t read the whole thing. Or any of it.
If you think liberals aren’t angst-ridden, think again. Greg Sargent complains about Robert Gibbs’s comment on losing the House: “[I]t’s pretty clear now that Dems have good reason to be furious about Gibbs’s misstep. It has forced a days-long media process story about whether they’re going to lose the House and about tensions between them and the White House. This is happening just when Dems are trying to turn the spotlight away from themselves and onto Republicans in order to persuade voters that this fall’s elections represent a choice between competing governing philosophies.”
If you also thought it was bizarre that Obama was invoking race to explain why al-Qaeda kills Africans, you are in good company. Charles Krauthammer: “I found a more interesting element in the interview when he said al-Qaeda doesn’t respect African life. I mean, it doesn’t respect Indonesian life, Pakistani life, Iraqi life, American life. Of course it doesn’t respect African life, but it’s not because of race. It doesn’t respect anyone or any organization, any people who won’t accept the extreme interpretation of Islam and the bringing on of one rule under sharia.”
If Republicans are doing this well in fundraising, you have to think they’re going to do very well in November. (That sure was the pattern for Democrats in 2008.) “Republicans are outraising Democrats in nearly a dozen open Senate races, increasing their hopes of significantly narrowing the Democrats’ majority in November.”
If you like a good news story: “A judge had resentenced a 70-year-old civil rights lawyer to 10 years in prison for letting a jailed Egyptian sheik communicate with his radical followers. Federal Judge John Koeltl sentenced Lynne Stewart in Manhattan after she pleaded with him to reimpose the two-year, four-month sentence he had originally given her in 2006.” You might want to avert your eyes from the photo, however.
I know it probably takes a lot of effort to ladle all that smarm on your posts, but some basic fact-checking would’ve discovered that the WSJ article cited by McCain’s campaign is completely false. This is amateur hour.
Obama is on record saying “To know me is to love me.”
Perhaps he is learning something 10-year olds realize: not everyone will like you. He can move from there to learn what all mature adults know: you cannot be an effective leader if your principle concern is whether everyone likes you or not (e.g., Bill Clinton).
- Why has no one called Obama to task for his “willing to have that debate any time” comment made at the Democrat’s convention? He explicitly rejected townhall debates when asked to join by McCain, then said he was willing to debate, and now…nothing.
What WSJ article did the McCain campaign cite?
click my name for the WSJ article
Like I was saying about Little Red Riding Hood last week…
#1,
If it is false, I’m sure everyone would like to read your citation proving the point…
Let’s face it. Without a teleprompter, the man is an empty suit.
Well perhaps we need to rethink this now that Matt Damon has opined on the proper course of action:
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/10/important-matt-damon-horrified-by-palin/#comments
Well it is Matt Damon saying this, maybe Palin is not the best choice. Matt Damon was wicked smart in Good Will Hunting. Matt was also wicked smart in those Bourne movies but they put stem cells from Joe Biden’s brain or something in his head to make him that way. Anyway if Matt Damon says Palin is underqualified, who are we to question him? Matt Damon! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWTzyU5MFgM
I knew something was up with the Obama “pig on a lipstick” comment. He knew McCain had already said it and set the trap to discredit the way the McCain camp is playing the sexism card any chance it gets.
Interesting move. The Palin image is still a tough nut to crack for the Obama camp.
I now know why he won’t wear a flag pin. His empty suit would collapse under the sheer weight of it.
Edward Rykken,
yup, those O’Reilly interviews were hard to sit through. O’Reilly would make a good point, and Obama would put out his hand and say something like, “BIll, ok, bill, yeah, but, yeah, but, just let me finish my point, ok” He just returned to whatever he was saying before O’Reilly’s point. He is so empty and its such a one-way street in conversation. He totally ignores and dismisses points he doesn’t want to address. It is absolutely no wonder he rejected those townhall meetings. He will not have those debates anywhere at anytime.
Hey, Barry’s a busy guy. He doesn’t have time for debates. He’s designing the next soundstage for his new rap video.
Those interviews were set up… I’m fully under the opinion Murdoch and O’Reilly want Obama to win, but must publicly play out the roles (particularly O’Reilly) as right wring guys.
The powers that be realize its time to swing back to the democrats side for the next 4 years.
Geopolitics demands it.
Bush got us the Iraq oil for the next 80 years but the stench is too great to not shift to democrats for at least a term.
Boy it looks like Obama lifted that line (just before the pig comment) word for word from a Toles cartoon:
Plagiarism by Barack? Sure looks like it.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2008/09/10/did-obama-steal-his-lip-stick-pig-speech-political-cartoon
I guess being around Joe Biden is rubbing off on Barack Obama, gaffes and plagiarism.
If your love of the truth was a great as your love of incest, you wouldn’t read the crap in the WSJ.
Hank, have you ever heard of Occam’s Razor?
According to Greta, the Enquirer has five reporters on the beat.
So today they splash their big story… some party kids claim her kids are party kids too. Also that her son may have had some substance abuse problems in the past. John Edwards himself was hiding in a bathroom and the media took a pass, but I bet they start digging into the possibility that the Palin kids have been binge drinkers or smoked some pot.
#11,
I was a bit embarrassed for him, actually. O’Reilly asks where FOX News has said or written anything comparable to Daily Kos: Obama, …Sean Hannity… He asked what “far-right” friends Obama has: Obama, …well, well….well, I can’t…
Unfortunately, O’Reilly is not a particularly good interviewer in that he very rudely talks over the guest(s), sometimes fails to mention certain pertinent facts prior to asking a question, fails to do a proper follow-up, or connect the dots at the time of the conversation.
For example, Obama stated people were using classic “guilt by association” tactics against him. If the major public figures in your life are all a bit bizarre, why doesn’t that guilt stick? If you seek out a man because he gives radical sermons (your words), and you dedicated your State Senate run to the man, and you have same man marry you and baptize your children, why can I not infer something about you from your 20-year association with him? O’Reilly mentioned he, too, knows “thousands” of people and none of them are like Obama’s associates and Obama went into what has to be a flat lie, that he was unaware of Reverend Wright ever making such remarks. “I wasn’t in church that day.” The populist-rhetoric State Senator knows nothing about what goes on in his own church?
Why didn’t O’Reilly bring up that the proprietor of Kos himself wrote “Screw ‘Em” regarding murdered and mutilated American mercenaries? If you make that point and then ask Obama why he would associate with someone with that mindset, what could he possibly reply?
And this red herring of “Ayers did his actions when I was eight years old” must be the weakest excuse ever offered to dismiss criticism. I don’t care if he did it when you were negative-eight years old. You established a friendship and started your political career in the home of a proud, unrepentant, US-hating American-born terrorist.
Ali Khar:
What is it about the WSJ article that is so obviously false? The article describes a small army of lawyers airlifted into Alaska to give sop to anyone with a grievance against the governor. Is the claim false that it was a SMALL army of lawyers? Are you saying you Dems sent a LARGE army of lawyers?
You can put lipstick on a democrat lawyer, but you can’t keep him from lying.
#15,
We’re still waiting for a news story refuting the WSJ piece by John Fund concerning the people sent to Alaska on behalf of the Democrats.
Childish ad hominem concerning incest (what?) followed by non sequitur is not the reply of an adult.
I’m not sure the “it’s just guilt by association” defense is going to work, coming from a guy whose ENTIRE CAMPGAIN rests on claiming John McCain is buddies with George Bush.
Here’s what I don’t get about the polls: McCain is like 90% of Republicans and leading in independents by double digits. The latest party identification figures show the Dems with anywhere between a 1-4% party ID advantage.
Given all this, how come McCain is only leading by 3-5 points in the polls?
Forget the lipstick. This is a good ad, and a topic worth jumping on.
“and started your political career”
And McCain started his career dropping bombs on civilians living in a country that never threatened the United States in way actual way. Did the North Vietnamesse have the right to consider McCain a war criminal? I’m sure you have an answer
Every turd Obama has had the pleasure to poop out has been combed through first by Team Hillary and then by Team McCain… why are people surprised by this now for Palin?
Palin’s value is the sexism card, sex appeal, and her evangelical views. Her value is at its highest the more unknown she is.
#24,
If you’re implying John McCain is a terrorist for bombing a Communist nation that was invading a US ally the US was, by treaty, bound to defend in a proxy war of the Cold War, well, that speaks more about you than McCain.
Is a moral equivalency being implied between bombing Communist *soldiers* in a war and a man, Ayers, who set bombs against Americans in America?
And, to answer the question, the North Vietnamese can consider him whatever they want. That he, or anyone besides a Communist, cares about their moral declarations, is unknown. Typically, however, if a Communist hates you, you’re doing something right.
[The Germans never really threatened America in WWI or WWII; only Japan attacked the US directly. The North Koreans didn't threaten the US in the Korean War. Iraq didn't threaten the US in Desert Storm. So, if the just war is based on being attacked first, there are a whole mess of mistakes according to your logic.]
So this is Obama’s New Politics and overcoming the divisions of the past … sending private dicks (heh heh) to comb through the garbage of the opposing ticket’s nominee for VP.
…we’re still waiting for some proof the WSJ article is false…tick tock, tick tock.
“So, if the just war is based on being attacked first, there are a whole mess of mistakes according to your logic”
Well, we were attacked first seven years ago,but the results are unclear according to my logic.
“Typically, however, if a Communist hates you, you’re doing something right”
If we want to keep borrowing Communist money,we better be “nice-nice”
Addison might think that McCain,after he was shot down after bombing civilian targets,should have been welcomed as a hero,patched up at their expense,and sent home. But those Commies,being bad Commies,didn’t like it and threw him in prison. We should have thrown Ayers in prison too,but we couldn’t manage that.
#31,
Do you think poorly or do you actively try at being obtuse?
At what did I ever remotely imply McCain should have been welcomed as a hero? I wrote I didn’t care about the North Vietnamese opinion of him. Why is that difficult to comprehend?
Are Communists not, by definition, bad? Or did a body trail of 90+ million over the 20th century have no influence on your opinion?
And I take it you have proof pilot McCain was ordered to, and did, bomb civilian targets. As with Alicar’s “fake WSJ article” response, I won’t be waiting with bated breath.
No need to smear me beacause of another’s post, #32. Blind rage and racist homophobia do not suit civil discussions well.
So, lets see. Matt, “Bourne again, and again, and yet again” Damon thinks that Palin has a one-third chance of assending to the Presidency and that this is a bad thing because she lacks experience. According to Mr. Good Will Hunting, genius that he is, it’s way better to vote for Barrack Obama so that the there is a 100% chance of having the candidate with no experience become POTUS. Sounds like our boy has been reading too many “Oceans” scripts to me. Anyone who could patch over some of the holes found in those suckers would make this sort of argument out of habit.