Who am I now?

In the 2000 and 2004 elections the right-wing and MSM meme was that the Democratic candidates weren't sure who they were, or were uncomfortable in their own skins. While that was rank bullshit then, this is a campaign year in which the meme is true. Both McCain and Clinton(s) have revealed their utter lack of integrity as they pander, compromise and lie about their supposed core values in order to be considered by the low-information voters. They need consultants for their souls.

Linked to Carpetbagger Report.

Instead of Obama Paying Clinton Campaign Debts

How about Clinton contributes massively to the Obama campaign for all the extra campaign expenditures he had to make because of her intransigence? Payback. Or as Van Gogh would say, terugbetaling.

Evolution

We laypersons talk about evolution one way. Here's how scientists talk about it:

Evolution: what's the real controversy?: "Other controversies within the evolutionary field popped up in the discussion. Bruce Lahn reiterated his controversial proposal that an allele of a key gene in human brain development came via Neanderthals. Andrew Roger suggested that secondary and tertiary endosymbiosis may have scrambled parts of the eukaryotic family tree. Peter Holland, who works on amphioxus, described some confusion about the precise location of the base of the chordate tree, while Ulrich Technau mentioned that the single axis that exists in Cnidarians may not be equivalent to either of the two axes of bilaterians."

Faces in the News

Is it true that Josh Marshall is hiring Brit Hume to mouth his words on his TMPtv spots until Josh finds his shaving razor?

Predictive Science

I suppose polling is scientific, but if that is the science that was used to prove evolution I’m gonna become a doubter.

Clinton won Indiana, but it was within the margin of error. :-)

Clinton & Hatred

I have Clinton-hatred, but I define it as the hatred I have for the hypocritical Republicans who put our country through the impeachment fiasco. Impeachment? For that? As I watched day by day the impeachment show with its asinine Republicans forcing that carnival I knew that they had no agenda except to destroy. And the Republicans who have come along since them are even worse. They do want to destroy the country. And that’s why I don’t truck with any pandering toward them now. I want someone who will kick their treasonist asses.

And now when impeachment would be healing rather than destroying there is no one to do it.

Cliff's Note Bene

Political blogs like The Carpetbagger Report offer a deeper look at the news than networks do. If you consider that commenters on blogs like this are the more engaged percentage of the population then it is a little sad to see that even they (we) post more comments on the horse race than we do on discussions of issues.

‘What is left is the Cliffs Notes of the news’ - The Carpetbagger Report
Posted April 27th, 2008 at 1:20 pm"

When Roomies Go Bad

Okay I admit it. I ousted God out of my life.

But I had to.

For one thing I was going broke because He demanded 10% of everything I earned. Shattered my budget. I lost my wife because she wasn’t really comfortable with the missionary position. And I had zero privacy, the guy was "everywhere"! But when he tried to get me to stone people for all kinds of silly reasons I had to put my foot down. I do feel a little bad about kicking Him out because he obviously needed pyschiatric treatment. But really it was Him or me."

Suicide F-Bomb

Hillary's Strength
One advantage that Hillary might have over Obama in the General Election is her ability to totally piss people off. She might be just the person to make McCain "passionate" to an unsightly degree. She might make him explode in public. So I wish she would go ahead and apply her irritating tactics to McCain now and hopefully take him out of the race. She could become a suicide f-bomber. Then we can go ahead and nominate Obama.

I have a nagging cold that I just can't seem to shake. Apply the analogy as needed.

Make comment formatting a little easier

I've written a simple executable with AutoHotKey to make blog commenting on other blogs a little easier by letting me italicize, block, center or strikethrough text. I simply copy or cut the text I want to quote and hit Win-i, b, c or s to paste the text with the chosen format into the comments section of the blog I'm reading.

I run the script once and it's enabled for wherever I surf until I log out or shut down.

I've added some other features also that eliminate most of the irritating details of commenting. All I have to do is think of something to say.

Superdelegates Can't Help Us Now

Why do we think that Clinton (or Obama for that matter) would accept some declaration from the superdelegates as final? I don’t think Clinton would quit and Obama might not either.

McCain is also older than Daffy Duck

Here's a video about things that John McCain is older than.
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It was produced by Younger than McCain


Daffy was "born" April 17, 1937.

A patriot at last

Notice the flag pin on the lapel? That proves it!

So now is Obama Pin Laden?

Lie....

Lieberman is the putz that will take over the Homeland when the rightwing putsch takes over the government. He’s a sleeper freeper.

Balancing Acts

Just about everything Obama says is a Sistah Soljah moment. He keeps an interesting sense of balance.

Boxers

Clinton’s like a tired boxer going into the final round needing a knockout. She hopes the Wright thing will knock him out but it just uses up more of her strength. She hope bitter-gate will knock him out, but she swings and misses.

She’s tilting at molehills.

McCain't

There are reports that McCain caused the incendiary incident on the USS Forrestal aircraft carrier by "wet-starting" his jet against regulations. 167 lives were lost.

Now he's promising to wet-start our economy.

If you consider that he must have gotten young Cindy excited enough to marry him, McCain also wet-started his political career.

His family history shows he's not an upstart, but he IS a wet-start.

You don’t really learn to lead in the military. You learn to follow. Look at Colin Powell.

Brokeback Clinton

Clinton is giving Obama a vetting he’ll never forget. And neither will we. She’s broken her own back by trying to break his. But Clinton’s campaign is an almost perfect model of how the Republicans will act in the GE: the identity-attacks, the litigiousness, the pandering, using the powers that be that she is a part of. To paraphrase Kill Bill: Did I think she could do this. Yes. But I didn’t think she would do it to her own Party.

Hillary has taken me on what is now a ubiquitous journey from supporting her, to defending her, to supporting Obama, to finding her despicable. If she wanted to devalue hope, she’s done it.

Couple of thoughts:

Hillary might think she’s immune to rightwing attacks, but she is creating many new occasions for ridicule with her Bosnia comments, and her CiC claims. And don’t think the Republicans wouldn’t love to have the “she stole the nomination” thing to attack.

If the primary goes to the convention, Clinton will be renounced and rejected in a very public way. Does she really want that?

Moment of silence for Richard Widmark

The 300

Three hundred more days of the worst president ever.

Creative Hillary

With all her redos, re-calcs and delegate liberation ideas, Hillary is really thinking outside the (ballot) box.

Comments I've made on Carpetbagger Report

When rightwing publications make spurious attacks on Hillary Clinton, Obama should refuse to respond to it and especially refuse to respond in a way that accepts it as true and really especially shouldn't tack on their own complaints in their response. It would help dispel the appearance that Obama is okay with benefiting from the C
Clinton-hatred noise machine.

The danger is for Obama to be piggybacking on wingnut attacks to launch his own attacks.

They came for Hillary, but I wasn’t Hillary so I did nothing. Then they came for me…

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Being gullible about rightwing innuendos because they are "easy to believe" is a weak-ass substitute for thinking.
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Clinton Rules state that anything the least bit controversial the Clintons or their surrogates say will be reverberated through the rightwing noise machine.
Temporary Obama Rules (they’ll change if he’s the candidate) state that he’s not nitpicked so much.
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The kid who hits back gets caught. Another Clinton Rule is that when she responds to an attack, it is her attack that gets highlighted without the context of the

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