McCain's not going to pick a running mate until the last minute. He doesn't want to remind voters that he probably won't live long enough to finish a term as President.

At least not according to actuarial tables.

And who's betting that when he loses this election Cindy poisons him and finds some boy-toy.

Maybe Bobby Jindahl

Posted at July 23, 2008 3:31 PM in response to Robert Novak tells Fox that he thinks very senior McCain aide may have tricked him with VP this week tip, to distract from Obama coverage. He is mad. Watch.

It's funny, but I'm noticing that more and more of my neighbors, who have always been a mix of Republican and Democratic, liberal and conservative, are starting to see through the little tricks that Mr. Hiatt and the rest of the corporate media use to try to force us into their view of the way things ought to be.

It seems that every few days I am completely surprised by another 72 year-old retired garbage man or 42 year-old day trader who tells me that they're really optimistic about the country if Barack Obama gets elected. This is Chicago after all, and my neighbors are lower middle-class, young yuppies and retired folks, as well as lots of the "hard-working" WHITE folks (you know, "regular" Americans). At least from around here, it looks like Barack Obama is going to win in a huge landslide.

I'm sure there are pockets of hard-core racists and GOP dead-enders, but there's no way they're going to get 150 electoral college votes, much less enough to win the White House.

Posted at July 23, 2008 3:26 PM in response to Washington Post Editorial Falsely Claims Iraqi Political Leaders Don't Support Obama's Withdrawal Plan

He (FDR) was either our greatest president or our worst and right now, I can't decide.

Stupidest quote by a blog commenter I've seen since May 10, 2008.

Posted at July 14, 2008 1:06 PM in response to What The New York Times Won't Tell You About Joe Lieberman

Let's see...

I wonder why the New York Times is so intent on protecting Joe Lieberman?

I just can't figure it out. I mean, is there a more dishonest, less trustworthy man in Washington who has ever stabbed the Democratic Party and the American People in the back more often and more reliably than Joe Lieberman?

Is there a slimier, senator in Washington (in either party) than Joe Lieberman? Is there anybody in the US Senate who puts the well-being of the USA second to his own agenda the way Joe does and still calls himself a "liberal"?

I pray every day that the Democratic Party throws that scum out before he has the opportunity to get media mileage out of the inevitable "I must switch parties for the good of the country" speech that Lieberman will give at the GOP convention. I pray that I live to see the smirk wiped off Joe Lieberman's face when he loses his senate seat.

Posted at July 14, 2008 1:04 PM in response to What The New York Times Won't Tell You About Joe Lieberman

The American people are so beaten and battered by the tremendous volume of BS that's been dropped on their heads by the Bush Administration and by their captive media cohorts that one has to be really careful with sarcasm these days. When you've got media outlets willingly representing those in power's viewpoint and giving up on their own responsibility to seek out the truth, you just can't be too careful when actually telling the truth.

I'd say that the safer approach, if you really want to communicate with most people, is to actually say what you mean.

Maybe some day when the level of total BS recedes, it might be possible again to throw curve balls to your readers. But not now, not today.

Posted at July 11, 2008 4:40 PM in response to Obama is no better than McCain

When you want to say "Jesus isn't a political figure" the only examples on the Left you can come up with are Eugene Debs and FDR? You're playing a game.

Ghandi and Martin Luther King were great political figures and great religious men. When Jesus throws commerce out of the temple, you don't see that as being just a little bit lefty?

You know, when one starts an argument by making up some imaginary "balance", thinking it makes one look more "reasonable", one has already lost ones way.

Posted at February 13, 2008 7:46 AM in response to Why We Should Not Be Easily Satisfied