Is McCain Gay Baiting Obama?

This is very interesting. Much of the male population in America's 'fly-over' country (the parts between New York, Miami, and LA) are at least nascent homophobics--it's part of the macho, red meat eating, football watching ethos of being a 'real' man. Karl Rove and the Republican attack machine succeeded in exploiting this and turned John Kerry from a decorated war hero into an effete, Gucci-loafer wearing, French speaking sissy man back in 2004. They seem to be trying to do the same thing to Obama. Never mind record high gas prices, the continued destruction of the environment, two clusterfuck wars, a record $500 billion budget deficit, and the near complete loss of American prestige abroad: John McCain is more manly than Barack Obama....so there!

One Less Reason to Vote for McCain

McCain has put in jeopardy what had been his most reliable voting block: rich Americans worried about having their taxes raised. At this rate, John McCain will be swamped, literally destroyed by Barack Obama in November.

Thug NYC Cop Assaults Bicyclist

STORY HERE

Dem Veepstakes: Signs are Pointing to Kaine

Tim Kaine is the current governor of the political battleground state of Virginia. 50 yrs old, moderate, telegenic, and with great communication skills, his background and demeanor closely dovetail with that of Barack Obama himself. In fact, both Kaine and his wife Anne and Obama and his spouse Michelle are all Harvard grads. If Obama does choose him, this reminds me quite a bit of when Bill Clinton chose Al Gore as his running mate back in 1992: both elections were all about change and saying good riddance to Bushes, and both candidates chose like minded, smart young men like themselves. Of course naysayers will point out to Kaine's lack of military experience, which is a perceived weakness of candidate Obama himself, and it's certainly no guarantee that Kaine will become the man. But the current political winds are certainly blowing in his direction.

McCain attack ad is "literally not true" says NBC's Andrea Mitchell

Leaked Promo of Coming Oliver Stone Movie 'W'

W. Teaser Trailer
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Rich: How Obama Became Acting President

By FRANK RICH

Published: July 27, 2008

IT almost seems like a gag worthy of “Borat”: A smooth-talking rookie senator with an exotic name passes himself off as the incumbent American president to credulous foreigners. But to dismiss Barack Obama’s magical mystery tour through old Europe and two war zones as a media-made fairy tale would be to underestimate the ingenious politics of the moment. History was on the march well before Mr. Obama boarded his plane, and his trip was perfectly timed to reap the whirlwind.

He never would have been treated as a president-in-waiting by heads of state or network talking heads if all he offered were charisma, slick rhetoric and stunning visuals. What drew them instead was the raw power Mr. Obama has amassed: the power to start shaping events and the power to move markets, including TV ratings. (Even “Access Hollywood” mustered a 20 percent audience jump by hosting the Obama family.) Power begets more power, absolutely.

The growing Obama clout derives not from national polls, where his lead is modest. Nor is it a gift from the press, which still gives free passes to its old bus mate John McCain. It was laughable to watch journalists stamp their feet last week to try to push Mr. Obama into saying he was “wrong” about the surge. More than five years and 4,100 American fatalities later, they’re still not demanding that Mr. McCain admit he was wrong when he assured us that our adventure in Iraq would be fast, produce little American “bloodletting” and “be paid for by the Iraqis.”

Never mind. This election remains about the present and the future, where Iraq’s $10 billion a month drain on American pocketbooks and military readiness is just one moving part in a matrix of national crises stretching from the gas pump to Pakistan. That’s the high-rolling political casino where Mr. Obama amassed the chips he cashed in last week. The “change” that he can at times wield like a glib marketing gimmick is increasingly becoming a substantive reality — sometimes through Mr. Obama’s instigation, sometimes by luck. Obama-branded change is snowballing, whether it’s change you happen to believe in or not.

Looking back now, we can see that the fortnight preceding the candidate’s flight to Kuwait was like a sequence in an old movie where wind blows away calendar pages to announce an epochal plot turn. First, on July 7, the Iraqi prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, dissed Bush dogma by raising the prospect of a withdrawal timetable for our troops. Then, on July 15, Mr. McCain suddenly noticed that more Americans are dying in Afghanistan than Iraq and called for more American forces to be sent there. It was a long-overdue recognition of the obvious that he could no longer avoid: both Robert Gates, the defense secretary, and Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had already called for more American troops to battle the resurgent Taliban, echoing the policy proposed by Mr. Obama a year ago.

On July 17 we learned that President Bush, who had labeled direct talks with Iran “appeasement,” would send the No. 3 official in the State Department to multilateral nuclear talks with Iran. Lest anyone doubt that the White House had moved away from the rigid stand endorsed by Mr. McCain and toward Mr. Obama’s, a former Rumsfeld apparatchik weighed in on The Wall Street Journal’s op-ed page: “Now Bush Is Appeasing Iran.”

Within 24 hours, the White House did another U-turn, endorsing an Iraq withdrawal timetable as long as it was labeled a “general time horizon.” In a flash, as Mr. Obama touched down in Kuwait, Mr. Maliki approvingly cited the Democratic candidate by name while laying out a troop-withdrawal calendar of his own that, like Mr. Obama’s, would wind down in 2010. On Tuesday, the British prime minister, Gordon Brown, announced a major drawdown of his nation’s troops by early 2009.

But it’s not merely the foreign policy consensus that is shifting Obama-ward. The Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens has now joined another high-profile McCain supporter, Arnold Schwarzenegger, in knocking the McCain nostrum that America can drill its way out of its energy crisis. Mr. Pickens, who financed the Swift-boat campaign smearing John Kerry in 2004, was thought to be a sugar daddy for similar assaults against the Democrats this year. Instead, he is underwriting nonpartisan ads promoting wind power and speaks of how he would welcome Al Gore as energy czar if there’s an Obama administration.

The Obama stampede is forcing Mr. McCain to surrender on other domestic fronts. After the Democrat ran ads in 14 states berating chief executives who are “making more in 10 minutes” than many workers do in a year, a newly populist Mr. McCain began railing against “corporate greed” — much as he also followed Mr. Obama’s example and belatedly endorsed a homeowners’ bailout he had at first opposed. Given that Mr. McCain has already used a refitted, hand-me-down Obama campaign slogan (“A Leader You Can Believe In”), it can’t be long before he takes up fist bumps. They’ve become the rage among young (nonterrorist) American businessmen, according to USA Today.

“We have one president at a time,” Mr. Obama is careful to say. True, but the sitting president, a lame duck despised by voters and shunned by his own party’s candidates, now has all the gravitas of Mr. Cellophane in “Chicago.” The opening for a successor arrived prematurely, and the vacuum had been waiting to be filled. What was most striking about the Obama speech in Berlin was not anything he said so much as the alternative reality it fostered: many American children have never before seen huge crowds turn out abroad to wave American flags instead of burn them.

Mr. McCain could also have stepped into the leadership gap left by Mr. Bush’s de facto abdication. His inability to even make a stab at doing so is troubling. While drama-queen commentators on television last week were busy building up false suspense about the Obama trip — will he make a world-class gaffe? will he have too large an audience in Germany? — few focused on the alarms that Mr. McCain’s behavior at home raise about his fitness to be president.

Once again the candidate was making factual errors about the only subject he cares about, imagining an Iraq-Pakistan border and garbling the chronology of the Anbar Awakening. Once again he displayed a tantrum-prone temperament ill-suited to a high-pressure 21st-century presidency. His grim-faced crusade to brand his opponent as a traitor who wants to “lose a war” isn’t even a competent impersonation of Joe McCarthy. Mr. McCain comes off instead like the ineffectual Mr. Wilson, the retired neighbor perpetually busting a gasket at the antics of pesky little Dennis the Menace.

The week’s most revealing incident occurred on Wednesday when the new, supposedly improved McCain campaign management finalized its grand plan to counter Mr. Obama’s Berlin speech with a “Mission Accomplished”-like helicopter landing on an oil rig off Louisiana’s coast. The announcement was posted on politico.com even as any American with a television could see that Hurricane Dolly was imminent. Needless to say, this bit of theater was almost immediately “postponed” but not before raising the question of whether a McCain administration would be just as hapless in anticipating the next Katrina as the Bush-Brownie storm watch.

When not plotting such stunts, the McCain campaign whines about its lack of press attention like a lover jilted for a younger guy. The McCain camp should be careful what it wishes for. As its relentless goading of Mr. Obama to visit Iraq only ratcheted up anticipation for the Democrat’s triumphant trip, so its insistent demand for joint town-hall meetings with Mr. Obama and for more televised chronicling of Mr. McCain’s wanderings could be self-inflicted disasters in the making.

Mr. McCain may be most comfortable at town-hall meetings before largely friendly crowds, but his performance under pressure at this year’s G.O.P. primary debates was erratic. His sound-bite-deep knowledge of the country’s No. 1 issue, the economy, is a Gerald Ford train wreck waiting to happen in any matchup with Mr. Obama that requires focused, time-limited answers rather than rambling.

During Mr. McCain’s last two tours of the Middle East — conducted without the invasive scrutiny of network anchors — the only news he generated was his confusion of Sunni with Shia and his embarrassing stroll through a “safe” Baghdad market with helicopter cover. He should thank his stars that few TV viewers saw that he was even less at home when walking through a chaotic Pennsylvania supermarket last week. He inveighed against the price of milk while reading from a note card and felt the pain of a shopper planted by the local Republican Party.

The election remains Mr. Obama’s to lose, and he could lose it, whether through unexpected events, his own vanity or a vice-presidential misfire. But what we’ve learned this month is that America, our allies and most likely the next Congress are moving toward Mr. Obama’s post-Iraq vision of the future, whether he reaches the White House or not. That’s some small comfort as we contemplate the strange alternative offered by the Republicans: a candidate so oblivious to our nation’s big challenges ahead that he is doubling down in his campaign against both Mr. Maliki and Mr. Obama to be elected commander in chief of the surge.

Economic Everyman McCain Needs Crib Notes to See How Much Milk Costs

Introducing: The Portable Shit Box

Story here, actual product here.

Israeli paper publishes Obama's wall note

Amazing that this would be stolen and published, but newsworthy just the same....

Benny Hinn: Let the Bodies Hit the Floor

THIS GOES A LONG WAY TO EXPLAINING HOW GEORGE W. BUSH WON TWO ELECTIONS IN THIS COUNTRY

A Picture is Worth A Thousand Words

I've said all along that John McCain 2008 is Bob Dole from 1996 virtually reincarnated. The picture at left, taken in a grocery store where McCain was rather ludicrously trying to morph into an 'everyman' and empathize with a normal shopper forced to pay for higher food prices due to inflation, really crystallizes the McCain/Dole comparison. At least he didn't become bewildered and amazed at the digital price scanners as George Bush Sr. famously did in a similar setting back in 1992.
Give the Republican party credit, with regards to their presidential nominees they usually remain loyal and pass the baton to the 'next guy in line', no matter how pathetic, ancient, and non-inspirational that candidate might be. Dole lost a relatively close nomination battle to George Bush Sr. in 1988 but played the role of the loyal Republican soldier for the next eight years, biding his time for his next shot, which he got in 1996.
After losing a tight nomination battle to George W. Bush in 2000, McCain reemerged as virtually the second coming of Dick Cheney, connected at the hip with the administration on everything from Iraq to taxes, again patiently biding his time until now, when he eventually did become the nominee. Unfortunately for the party, the general election result will, too, be very similar.

Bitch: Rudy Giulian's Son Sues Duke Golf Team After Getting Cut

Wow, this kid seems like a little spoiled brat who wasn't good enough to make the team, got cut, peed in his pants and called mommy because he didn't get his way. Seems quite a bit like his father, actually. As they say, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Hey kid, grow up.

Spitzer Whore At It Again

Married women across the country: guard your husbands from the Spitzer whore! Good heavens this chick must be a friggin dynamo in the sack!!

America is Back: Millions Await Obama in Berlin

After eight long years of embarrassingly corrupt, arrogant, and incompetent leadership, America stands poised to wipe the slate clean and get back to the serious business of being the world's beacon of hope with the election of Barack Obama on November 4. Berlin and the rest of Europe are absolutely giddy over Obama's address on Thursday, and as this article points, out one can't help but make a comparison to another great American who made a speech in Germany decades ago, John F. Kennedy. George W. Bush has been an abominable president. loathed worldwide and he has left a black stain on the American flag. The world is longing for America's first black president to wipe that stain clean.

WNBA Brawl Clears Benches

The Daily Show Covers Obama's Overseas Trip

CBS Edits McCain's Whopper Out of Broadcast (w/original video)

Report: Batman Star Beat Up Wife, Sister

Wow, this is decidedly un-super hero like! Was Batman drunk or something? Or, perhaps, were his mom and sister being super aggravating and they deserved a slap or two? Did Robin try to intervene??

Novak: McCain to Name VP Choice Later This Week

Say what you want about Bob Novak, but the guy's as old as the hills and is as connected as anyone in Washington--so I believe this. As to who McCain's VP choice will be? The smart money's on Mitt Romney, however it could also be Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty, Mike Huckabee, or even Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal. Or, of course, someone else.

During a segment on education, Fox News misspells the word 'education'

The Rolling Stones Live In L.A. 1975 'Heartbreaker'

McCain Pretends to Fall Asleep While Being Interviewed on Conan

Al Gore at Netroots Nation 2008, Part 1

Bush Comes Closer to Having Sewage Plant Named After Him

Kudos to the creative people of San Francisco for this very fitting move...

Pelosi Slams Bush as "A Total Failure"

The Bush Energy Policy Legacy: Un Unmitigated Clusterfuck

In the black and white, simple little parallel universe that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney inhabit, invading Iraq and taking over that country's huge lake of oil would translate into lower gas prices for the American driver and bigger profits for their oil tycoon cronies. Well, at least one of those things has come true.

Stewart Takes On Media, Obama For Overreacting To New Yorker Cover: "It's Just A F***ing Cartoon!"

Republican Socialists

The next time I hear a Republican extol the virtues of the 'free market' or 'unfettered capitalism', I think I'll puke. And anyone who still thinks the Republican party is the party of small government, well if they still think that, they are an idiot. We are living through a period of unparalleled, massive, extreme government intervention in the American economy--all on the watch of a Republican president and cabinet.

Hick Republican Puts Up Controversial Billboard

I wonder if this guy realizes that about 80% of the New York City vote--the city that actually was attacked in 2001--went to Democrats in both 2004 and 2006. As if Orange County, Florida is in any threat whatsoever of experiencing a terrorist attack. Imbecile.

Rolling Stones - The Old Grey Whistle Test 1977 Part 1 of 2

Ron, Mick & Charlie interviewed by Bob Harris about the release of "Love You Live" 20th Septemeber 1977. Wood & Jagger are most certainly high on cocaine and Charlie being plain drunk.

Bumbling McCain Strikes Again

This time he referred to Russian/Czechoslovakian relations. The problem is, Czechoslovakia hasn't existed as a country for about twenty years.

9 British Women Arrested in Greek Blow Job Competition

Something tells me these girls were less than upfront with their parents as to what they would be up to on this vacation....Sorry guys, couldn't find any video of this on the web.

Banned in the USA: Irish TV 2004 Interview Shows Bush at The Height of his Arrogance

BACKGROUND STORY HERE

Rupert Murdoch Gets Drunk, Loses His Wedding Ring

Rupert Murdoch, one of the world's most influential men, also happens to be one of the most wrinkled men alive as well...

Tennis Star Jelena Jankovic Changes Panties During Match

Hedge Funds Line Up Behind Obama

Everyone likes to get behind a winner, even if in this case it might mean higher taxes. I think, more than anything, a majority of people in this country long for competence in the Oval Office.

Rove avoids subpoena by fleeing the country

STORY HERE

Obama's Queen Latifah Moment?

By now every Tom, Dick, and Harry who follows American politics is aware of the crude remarks caught on microphone that Jesse Jackson made about Barack Obama. The right wing and many bloggers are making a HUGE deal out of this, but I think it will actually help Obama in the long run--just as Bill Clinton's condemnation of Queen Latifah's incindiary lyrics helped him back in the 1992 campaign. There are millions of latent racist whites across this country who are contemplating voting for Obama, but just aren't sure if they could ever pull the lever for a black guy. The 'black guy' many of them are afraid of is a lot like Jesse Jackson--an over the top, bombastic, controversial figure. 100% of the black vote will go to Obama anyway come November, this new Jesse Jackson controversy just might help him with the white vote.

McCain's Top Economic Adviser Gramm: "America's become a nation of whiners."

This comment will go over like a fart in church for the McCain campaign. People nationwide are struggling with plummeting housing values, gasoline at record highs, food price increases, and job losses. As McCain struggles to connect with this swath of voters, Phil Gramm--a former right wing senator from Texas and notorious supply-sider, blindsides the campaign with this remark. Not good.

Bush addresses the Italian prime minister in Spanish: ‘Amigo! Amigo!’

I wish this were a joke, but it isn't. Yes, the president of the United States in an abject dunce, and quite literally an international embarrassment.

Bush to Rest of World At Final G-8 Summit: "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter."

It still boggles the mind that so many millions of Americans voted for this horse's ass--not once, but twice. This sarcastic farewell to the G-8 was the equivalent of saying, "Fuck you, world."

Michael Jackson Visits Vegas Toy Shop in Wheel Chair, Surgeon's Mask

Michael Jackson has been acting bizarre for decades now, but if anything his mental health appears to be deteriorating. Story here.

Professor: Inconvenient Fact That Bush Committed Multiple Felonies with Evesdropping

New Jersey Republicans Take Racist Obama/OJ Piece off of Website

Wow, you'd expect something like this out of perhaps the Mississippi or Alabama Republican party, but the New Jersey GOP? Pretty pathetic. And desperate.

Bruno Causes Stir in Arkansas

This is pretty funny. People in a redneck Arkansas town expecting to watch a steel cage fight instead see two dudes rip each other's clothes off and start kissing....This guy Sacha Baron Cohen has some balls--more here.

Pictures Surface of Nadal's Hot Girlfriend

It's good to be Rafael Nadal these days....

Cutting Through The Bullshit on the McCain/Obama Race

The amount of energy being spent by the media on largely useless information as it breathlessly reports on the supposedly very close presidential election is staggering. And I repeat, about 99% of it is useless. In my eyes, this is far and away the most important website, newspaper, magazine, TV show, etc. that people should follow to see the probability of who will be the next American president. You know what they say: money talks, bullshit walks.

John McCain, Candidate for World's Most Important Job, Admits He Doesn't Know How To Use a Computer

Would you hire him?

5 Year Anniversary of Bush "Bring 'Em On" Iraq Bravado

Story Here

Bush Stimulus Package Stimulates The Porn Industry

Very ironic indeed, story here....

An independent market-research firm, AIMRCo (Adult Internet Market Research Company), has discovered that many websites focused on adult or erotic material have experienced an upswing in sales in the recent weeks since checks have appeared in millions of Americans’ mailboxes across the country.

According to Kirk Mishkin, Head Research Consultant for AIMRCo, “Many of the sites we surveyed have reported 20-30% growth in membership rates since mid-May when the checks were first sent out, and typically the summer is a slow period for this market.”

Russia to USA Over Iran: Back Off

Riding high on riches generated by high oil and gas prices--and still armed to the teeth with Intercontinental nuclear weapons--Russia feels like it needs to be listened to.

Oops! Florida Democrat Uses Picture of Soviet Soldier on Ad

This is pretty funny....

New Democratic Ad Hits Bush Over High Oil Prices

STORY HERE

Are A-Rod and Madonna an Item?

I would sincerely hope that A-Rod would have better taste than this: Madonna is looking every bit of her 49 years these days and dozens of plastic surgeries haven't helped too much. Plus, she's old enough to be his mother....

Study: Weed Safer than Alcohol, Tobacco

Gee--you don't say??! You mean smoking a joint is less dangerous than downing whiskey, vodka, or tequila--all fully legal and available at your local liquor store? Who knew!

Bumbling McCain Confuses Sudan and Somalia

Ok, I'll come right out and say it. This guy is too old to be president.