All I can say is I applaud Jack Cafferty for saying what he really thinks and, furthermore, for shutting down Wolf Blitzer when he attempted to make an excuse for Sara Palin's pathetic response to Katie Curic's question. Cafferty rises high in my estimation and can hold his head up high. Enough of this The Empress Has No Clothes syndrome.

Posted at October 1, 2008 12:18 AM in response to You're Welcome, Jack

It has baffled me that no one seems to have commented on the fact that Senator McCain hammered away at Senator Obama's "naivete" (namely his inexperience) during the debate, really hammered away at it, and made it a central point, and yet Senator McCain chose someone everyone agrees is much more than "naive" about foreign policy. McCain chose a "naive" running mate who might, conceivably, have to take over the Presidency. So is Senator McCain being a hypocrite? How could he criticize Obama and mean it, when that criticism applies even more so to Palin? How can anybody out there, who heard the debate, come away without concluding something is wrong here, very, deeply wrong. Either McCain is completely off the tracks or he's a hypocrite.

Posted at September 30, 2008 1:46 AM in response to CBS To Air More Footage Of Couric Interviewing Palin This Week

How can anybody take McCain seriously when, a short time ago, he was for "deregulation"? It's no secret that his good friend and advisor, Senator Phil Gramm, wrote the original legislation that got all this mess started by voiding the rules it was supposed to prevent. McCain's own manager, Rick Davis, a key figure in his campaign, was paid $2 million for years to lobby for Fanny May and Freddie Mac so they wouldn't be regulated. These are facts. So how can McCain suddenly now be for "regulation"? And here in Orange County, more facts: does anybody remember the scandal of Keating and Lincoln Savings of Irvine with their big-time melt-down, with McCain being friends with Keating, accepting contributions from him, and pushing for 'deregulation." So, tell, me please, how does Senator Flip-Flop McCain have any creditability when it comes to being a "deregulator"? (Find out the truth about these things, guys and gals, it's your money and your kids' money they're giving away.)

Posted at September 24, 2008 2:24 PM in response to McCain's Embattled Campaign Manager Skips Lunch With Reporters

Vetting, or careful checking, of personnel or of statements made by such people as McCain, Palin or any of the others is not a trait of the McCain campaign. If carefully vetted, or checked, McCain's flip flops would be all too evident and his outright lies would be right up there with Sarah Palin's lies (she was for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it, and held on to the money for it for unnamed projects; she put that plane on EBay but sold it through a private broker; she raised the sales tax as mayor; she won't testify in TrooperGate when she promised to originally). So don't expect anybody but the press and the opposition to fact-check the McCain Fabrication Machine.

Posted at September 6, 2008 12:55 AM in response to School Raps McCain For Using Image As Speech Backdrop Without Permission

Vetting, or careful checking, of personnel or of statements made by such people as McCain, Palin or any of the others is not a trait of the McCain campaign. If carefully vetted, or checked, McCain's flip flops would be all too evident and his outright lies would be right up there with Sarah Palin's lies (she was for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it, and held on to the money for it for unnamed projects; she put that plane on EBay but sold it through a private broker; she raised the sales tax as mayor; she won't testify in TrooperGate when she promised to originally). So don't expect anybody but the press and the opposition to fact-check the McCain Fabrication Machine.

Posted at September 6, 2008 12:50 AM in response to School Raps McCain For Using Image As Speech Backdrop Without Permission

Sarah Palin smiles a lot, very much like Cindy McCain. She has that beauty pageant contestant smile that never varies, and so she was a beauty pageant contestant as was Cindy McCain, and it bothers me. She's been thrust into the national arena, and she cannot seem to vary that smile, at least in the photos and TV I've seen. She didn't "hit the ground running" because she isn't ready for Prime Time Foreign Policy and so didn't appear on Sunday's political talk shows. The smile, that smile, it bothers me. How in the world does anyone expect a Hillary supporter to vote for an anti-abortion candidate like Palin? is a question that puzzles me. I suspect, under the smile, she is ruthless as her nickname "Barracuda" seems to imply, and that would mask any real emotion and any real open reaction.

Whatever happened to the argument that McCain made about Obama, that he didn't have experience? If Obama didn't have experience, Palin has even less and she's a heartbeat away from the Presidency with McCain who is 72 and has had cancer. So McCain has "flip-flopped", I repeat "flip-flopped" on that issue. Don't try covering up with her so-called experience as governor of Alaska, or mayor of a small town, or PTA leader, because it's obvious that she has No, repeat, NO foreign policy experience. So McCain flip-flops again.

The sloppy way McCain chose this woman. He met with her once, face to face, and didn't even properly vet her to discover that she was embroiled in a state investigation about her possible misuse of power. Evidently the only thing that mattered was (1) her gender) and (2) her staunch opposition to pro-choice. This was not a "considered" choice, it was a last-minute attempt to cover the criticism McCain was getting from the right-to-life conservatives. It was a "gamble" to try to (3) pick up the Hillary voters, which I suspect will fail badly. So McCain shores up his base and still loses.

And the latest... Her daughter, 17, unmarried, pregnant. Makes you kind of sick, doesn't it? First, they talk about right-to-life values, nothing about chastity before marriage. Then they, under pressure, announce the daughter, unmarried, at seventeen is pregnant. Shows you the kind of values she was brought up with by her mother and father, doesn't it? Then they claim it's private; what's private about running for Vice President, maybe President? This reflects badly on the so-called family values that this woman supposedly stands for.
Also shows how carefully McCain's campaign "vets" their choices. If they knew about it, it's damning. If they didn't, it's just as bad.

Posted at September 1, 2008 2:34 PM in response to Report: Palin's Spokesperson Didn't Know About Pregnancy Two Days Ago

The mainstream media (MSM)is a whore, beholden only to its owners and advertisers. It’s only allegiance is to audience figures, for setting advertising rates. When can you all get that straight? A pretension is made that facts or straight news is one of their principals, but it just aint so. That was proven by the Judith Millers of the world. So to feel upset or angry about the lies the media tells is a waste of emotion. Until an Administration gets the FCC and Congress that has some shred of integrity, nothing will change. Besides, with all the cutbacks there are now no brakes on what mistakes the MSM will be making. Sensationalism sells news and sometimes gains audience. Few, if any MSM commentators have access to facts to back up what they're presenting, so all we get is chatter, chatter and more chatter about inane acts. They also can’t state the obvious, such as “Bush lied” or “This is not true” and have to accept any statement that’s put forward by a candidate as reasonable. That’s all, folks.

Posted at August 3, 2008 10:33 AM in response to How many people have stopped watching MSM?

McCain loves the Town Hall format, which allows him to make statements and doesn't confront him with any hard questions. He can read prepared answers to the soft balls that are lobbed at him. So he wants Obama to play in that arena. Obama's a little too smart to do that. So the ball's now in McCain's court and look for him to be calling Obama a coward for not wanting to play in the Town Hall format. Ho hum, McCain, if he has to answer any hard ball questions and has to show he understands geography (past experience has shown he doesn't know Iraq and Pakistan have NO COMMON BORDER) and which parties are fighting whom in Iraq, may prove just how out of touch he really is. Let the games begin.

Posted at August 3, 2008 2:36 AM in response to Obama Campaign Accepts Proposal For Three Presidential Debates

My guess is that, in Oklahoma, there are a lot of people who are very "red neck" and who dislike and are afraid of blacks. I have a friend from there who has told me some tales about how hateful such people are in the state of his birth. It is there, and Obama will have to deal with it, even from one of his own party who thinks he's catering to his constituency. The "liberal" part, I believe, is only a smokescreen. Ditto for the "red necks" in Florida; please remember that Jed Bush was Governor of that state.

Posted at June 11, 2008 2:04 AM in response to Another Red State Dem Refuses To Endorse Obama

Compared to Obama, McCain's economic plans are smoke and mirrors. McCain has no sense of where money can come from and what works and what doesn't when it comes to economics. The mess, the pile of dung left behind by the Bush administration will make it very hard for anyone, let alone a clear thinker, to unearth Americans from the economic havoc wreaked upon them by Bush & Co. Anyone can, and probably will, criticize Obama; the alternative is to look at what will work and back it. Main stream media pundits are notoriously irresponsible, even towards their own interests, and like to criticize rather than analyze; and if they propose solutions it is without any sense of responsibility to seeing such solutions implemented. That's generally why we need to continue to ignore them, and marginalize them.

Posted at June 10, 2008 12:08 PM in response to Time Mag Sniffs At Obama's Economic Plan