You see it's funny cause he's not just muslim but also queer!

The Washington State GOP... a bunch of racists!

RPK hackery

Funny that an RPK staffer would gloat about an ad that is so dishonest and scummy that even FOX NEWS refused to run it.

Maybe one of those LHL/CJ/WHAS political reporters should ask the RPK if they approve of this ad that their staffer is spreading, eh?

Awwww.....

Holy crap, their kids are cute.

Oh, and Michelle nailed it.

UPDATE: Oh, and this is funny watching Fox News Heads trying to rip the speech.

No no no no no no...

Great. Well, another thing to keep me up at nights....

Aurora police arrested a longtime drug user Sunday afternoon during a routine traffic stop where the man was seen “weaving,” sources said. Two possible other accomplices also were arrested, according to police. Police found four weapons, including two rifles and two handguns, in a rented pickup.

That arrest then led authorities to a second man staying at the Cherry Creek Hotel at 600 South Colorado Blvd in Glendale. When authorities knocked on the man’s door, they say he jumped out of his sixth floor window, landing on an awning and running from the scene. They say they soon found him with a broken ankle. He too was arrested. […]

Police found a rifle in the man’s pickup and methamphetamine. The man allegedly made comments about Sen. Obama, but sources wouldn’t say what they were. It was enough, however, to make police believe the man might have been plotting to somehow harm Obama.

Oh yea, and this.

"Sources tell NBC the two men had tattoos and jewelry popular with white supremacists." It also notes that an unidentified source tells NBC, "There is no reason for someone [with a criminal record] to have rifles with scopes."

Ugh...
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Faux News

Decided to flip over to Fox news for one minute and Dick "toe-ducker" Morris said that Obama is losing among women.

Yes, Fox News remains Faux News.

Although surveys show the presidential race could be a squeaker, Barack Obama is winning women 51 to 39 percent, according to a poll conducted for EMILY's List. .... Female voters have trended Democratic in their choice for the White House in recent elections, although John Kerry won them by a mere 3 percentage points in 2004.

Yes, and there about a million polls saying the same thing.

Huh. Go watch Pelosi, now.

What Chris Bowers says

on the PUMA's:

PUMA's act like idiots, and that is also a good thing. Self-identified Democratic concern trolls who are willing to trash the Democratic Party are a dime a dozen, and the media will pick up on them whoever they are. It is much better that our major concern trolls right now are idiotic PUMA's who have no idea who to influence voters, then media savvy, corporate funded pundits who could do real damage. Even the McCain campaign knows this, because they aren't throwing any money behind their ad featuring a PUMA. These are the sorts of concern trolls that we want.

And these PUMA's for Hillary made a complete ass of themselves on Hardall today, as they were yelling "Obama went to a madrassa!". (these in particular were most likely Republican agents looking to cause disruption..... we have those on our side too, and gawd bless them)

New Obama ad

I hate cable news

Was just watching MSNBC as they spoke about Michelle Obama speaking tonight at the convention. They decided that it is somehow appropriate to show the "terrorist fist jab" on repeat, as it aired 9 times in a row over the span of one minute.

Joy.

Elitist reporter Mark Hebert ruins my peaceful Sunday evening

For the first time in over a year, I live in a domicile with a functioning television. With cable, to boot. So I've become re-accustomed to how incredibly godawful cable news is, as I've been watching the whole VP pick/Convention circus this weekend, able to force myself to watch it up until the point where I want to grab something sharp.

Generic cable news consists of 2 interviews. In one, the woman with anchor hair asks the candidate's surrogates about the talking points the other side's surrogates are smearing them with. In the other, the woman with anchor hair asks both surrogates these questions and they yell at each other for 10 minutes. In the end, everyone is stupider for having watched it and you fear for humanity.

So I wasn't really amused to read elitist reporter Mark Hebert's latest blog post tonight, in which he lazily repeats tired talking points, and doesn't even pretend to make an effort to defend them or logically explain them.

My two cents - if Barack is serious about "change" and a "civil" campaign, I'm not sure he should have picked Biden. As a reporter, I love Biden. I've interviewed him a couple of times. He's smart, he usually answers the question and he's usually blunt. All three of those together are tough to find in a politician. But I might worry a bit about him "wandering off the reservation" if I were Barack Obama.

So elitist Mark is here to tell us that Barack isn't really about "change" or a "civil" campaign. And why is that? If you can abstract that from his next 5 sentences, you speak Louisville cocktail party circuit, and my hat is off to you. Is he merely regurgitating these memes, assuming you already have digested the tired arguments of the talking heads? Because unless Barack is letting Joe Biden make all policy decisions once he is in the White House (just for the heck of it, I assume) or making an executive order that VP's now sign bills and treaties, Biden is the VICE EFFIN PRESIDENT. Obama is the guy in charge, he is the change, and he might even have other people around him that aren't yes men and agree with everything he says. What a concept. And if you think that choosing someone other that Biden would be "civil", because this unnamed VP would be nice and agreeable like Joe LIEbermann was towards Dick Cheney, you're choosing the wrong word... he would be naive and stupid.

All right, I'll just stop there.... no more cable news for me. But Mark... you make a helluva lot of money, so if you're going to be one of those "opinion bloggers", don't be so damn lazy, OK? Otherwise, just stick to the reporting.

Tax truth

The Republicans haven't come up with a single new idea in the last 6 years, so it's no surprise that their strategy this year remains, "elect us, or the terrorist will kill you and the Dummycrats will raise your taxes". McCain hasn't ramped up the terrorists will kill you dialogue yet (wait for it...), but he's already laying out the Obama-tax fertilizer.

Too bad there are those pesky "facts" out there to fuck with a good talking point, though.

Obama Art

Cool.

The AP's usual suspect trashes Obama

AP's beat writers are supposed to practice objective journalism. But just like Nedra Pickler before him, Ron Fournier just can't seem to grasp what that concept is. Apparently, the AP's D.C. Bureau chief thinks that he is a political blogger or columnist, and a McCain fan at that. Check out the MoveOn action item sent out this morning:

Today, the Associated Press (whose articles are published in thousands of newspapers nationwide) wrote a story about Barack Obama's vice presidential pick that sounded more like right-wing FOX than an unbiased news organization. Under the headline "Biden pick shows lack of confidence," the AP wrote:

The candidate of change went with the status quo. In picking Sen. Joe Biden to be his running mate, Barack Obama sought to shore up his weakness—inexperience in office and on foreign policy...He picked a 35-year veteran of the Senate—the ultimate insider...The Biden selection is the next logistical step in an Obama campaign that has become more negative..."¹ (Emphasis added)

This isn't an isolated incident for the AP reporter who wrote this story, Ron Fournier—who was recently appointed as the AP's Washington, D.C. Bureau Chief. Media watchdog group Media Matters wrote a report showing that Fournier's presidential coverage has consistently smeared Democrats and favored John McCain.²

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A congressional investigation recently uncovered an email Fournier sent to Karl Rove in 2004, telling him to "Keep up the fight."³ Plus, it was recently revealed that Fournier talked to top McCain campaign operatives in 2007 about being a senior McCain political adviser!⁴ Given all this, Fournier has an obligation to the public to show that he's not a partisan McCain supporter.

But during the 2008 primary, Fournier wrote what amounted to a bunch of smear jobs on Barack Obama and the Clintons. Here are some of the "fair and balanced" pieces he wrote:

Headline: "Sen. Hillary Clinton an Artful Dodger" Excerpt: "Slick Hillary? Former President Clinton earned the nickname 'Slick Willy' for his mastery in the political arts of ducking and dodging...His wife may not be as smooth, but Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is doing a passable impression of the ever-parsing former president."⁵

Headline: "Obama walks arrogance line" Excerpt: "There's a line smart politicians don't cross—somewhere between "I'm qualified to be president" and "I'm born to be president." Wherever it lies, Barack Obama better watch his step. He's bordering on arrogance."⁶

Headline: "Clinton's Politics of Pity" Excerpt: "Poor Hillary. After trying to save her sinking candidacy with awkward turns of flattery and sarcasm, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton resorted to a new tactic in Tuesday night's debate: self-pity."⁷

Meanwhile, Media Matters could only find one negative piece Fournier wrote about Republicans during the entire primary—and that was trashing Mitt Romney for beating John McCain in Michigan!⁸ (Fournier called McCain's loss "a defeat for authenticity in politics" and glowingly called McCain "the man who spoke hard truths." Seriously! That's unbiased journalism?)

Can you email AP reporter Ron Fournier and CC his boss, Managing Editor Mike Oreskes? Tell them that the public's faith in the 160-year-old AP will be gone if Ron Fournier is allowed to continue his slanted articles against Democrats and for McCain.

Here are their emails:

Michael Oreskes, AP Managing Editor, mOreskes@ap.org
Ron Fournier, AP reporter and Washington D.C. Bureau Chief, rfournier@ap.org

After you email them, please help us track our progress by reporting your email here:
http://pol.moveon.org/call?cp_id=797&tg=508.532&id=&t=3

Gosh darn librul media!!!

UPDATE: Oh, and Lindsey Beyerstein finds that he's come speak to your high scoiety group if you pay him $10,000. Professional, indeed.

Biden fever

I'll have the video of the rally up as soon as I can find it, but here's one of the lines that stood out:

You sit at your kitchen table and worry about how to pay the bills. That's not something John McCain has to worry about. He worries about which of the seven kitchen tables to sit at.

Biden's not perfect (Bankruptcy Bill, for example), but he's still a damn good pick as VP. The best attacks are laced with humor, and his role as attack dog against McCain is going to use this in big supply. He'll reach conservative Dems and independents, and he's going to destroy whatever schmuck McCain chooses on national TV once, which can't hurt.

Yes we can, yall.

3am in the White House

Anybody else think it's a coincidence that Obama's text message went out when it was 3am? (h/t Sean)

McCain doesn't know how many homes he owns (but knows the economy is peachy!)

The answer is 10.

When asked how many houses he and Cindy own, Senator McCain said, "I think — I'll have my staff get to you," McCain told Politico in Las Cruces, N.M. "It's condominiums where — I'll have them get to you."

Let's recap: $5,000,000 is rich, our economy is in better shape than 8 years ago, and people should just work a second job or skip vacations to make house payments or else they are irresponsible whiners. And John should know, because he's just an average Joe like us.

Got it?

(oh, and he owns a parking garage worth over a million, too)

And Obama knocks it out of the park:



oh, and here's a refresher on McCain's mansions:

My thoughts on Saddleback

I've been chuckling at all of the talking heads as they proclaim McCain's dominating victory at the Saddleback Jesus and Stuff Forum. Really? You mean John was received warmly by an evangelical crowd that he constantly pandered to? Incredible!

Then again, those who realize that most people are pro-choice (and certainly independents), must know that Barack Obama looked uber-moderate to McCain's bible beating "performance".

NCJan at DailyKos nails it.

As far as the Saddleback thing goes, couldn't Obama have pulled a Stephen Colbert/Press Club thing that night?

By that I mean, while McCain was speaking to the audience in front of him and ignoring the fact that the nation was watching, Obama was speaking to all of us.

I remember when Colbert's first reviews came out, everybody in the traditional media thought he had bombed. That's because they were taking their cues from the people in the room.

I also remember how much all of the netroots loved him, and I remember a comedian saying that every performer knows that there are times when you don't talk to your intended audience, you talk instead to the waiters standing in the back of the room. He said that's what Colbert was doing.

And sure enough, days and even weeks later, Colbert's performance was upgraded to brilliant. It is still remembered. It is memorable.

I think that by sticking to his guns on things like choice, Obama was "playing to the waiters" in that crowd. In this case, the waiters were all those pro-choice Republican women who were, by the very nature of patriarchal right wing religion, standing "in the back of the room" that night.

Already, this morning's Washington Post is trying to help McCain step back from his "unwavering" anti-abortion support, by saying that he might pick a pro-choice running mate:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

And already, a Republican woman has gone on Chris Matthews' Hardball saying that she is for Obama because of the appalling way that McCain has thrown pro-choice Republicans under the bus--and she especially referenced Saddleback.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...

Now it's up to Obama--and to us, to solidify the victory, to make sure that we see his performance as memorable. We do this by saying Obama won in spite of advantages taken by silent coneheads or whatever. We do this by hammering McCain's unequivocal position against a woman's right to choose. We go on the offensive about Saddleback, we use it for our side.

Dude for Obama

A little birdie just told me that this week in Miami, there is a MoveOn Lebowski Party for Barack Obama.

"Far out man, far f'ing out..."

This is, of course, the greatest thing ever.

y tu, Reuters?

Crap like this is just mind-numbingly stupid. Almost as stupid as the RNC trying to use it.

Newsflash: "Obama uses toothbrush. A terrorist dental jab?"