The end of the Bush administration has brought unprecedented courtesy to the White House...
Every time Bush picks up the phone, it's someone saying "I beg your pardon."
McCain Claims Palin Nomination a Hoax
(BroNet) Republican presidential candidate John McCain today accused the "liberal media" of perpetuating the widespread belief that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is his running mate.
"My friends," he told a crowd of supporters in Des Moines, Iowa, "I never selected, nor did the Republican Party confirm ... that one," gesturing to Palin, who stood smiling at his side. Persistent press reports that she is the Republican vice-presidential candidate are widely seen as having injured McCain's presidential aspirations.
"I don't know who started this lie," McCain said, "but it's clear that the liberal media is spreading it." A press package given to the media after the speech contained statistics purporting to show that 100% of media reports that mention his vice-presidential running mate refer to the candidate as 'Sarah Palin.'"
"Now, I'm sure Governor Palin is a fine American," he said, "but I've never met her, much less asked her to run as vice-president. Anyone who was at the Republican Convention knows that Joe Lieberman is my running mate."
McCain said that, despite a "partisan press that doesn't want real America to know the truth," the Connecticut senator has been on the McCain/Lieberman ticket since early September. The candidate insisted angrily that Lieberman was on stage with him at that very moment. "Who do you think this is, standing next to me?" he asked.
Governor Palin, who is campaigning in Iowa with McCain, could not be reached for comment.
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Greetings from the guy formerly known as Frank Mullen III
Hi. I'm the P.O.'d guy who, a few months ago, wrote the post, "A meaningless blog about nothing," complaining that I couldn't understand how TPM was supposed to work,
Things got worse with each month. The new Beta-blogging improvement grabbed my posts and stuck them in a black hole and refused to show them with consistency anywhere at TPM. Yesterday, my blog homepage refused to believe that I existed, as though I were Santa's bad brother Raoul the Sharp-fanged.
I asked for advice, but rarely got it, since my posts were rarely, well, posted.
I decided that TPM's software hated me. And I decided to fight back.
I've registered another TPM account under a different name. I haven't posted yet--this will be my first under this new name--but already I am encouraged. I visited my TPM blog homepage and was not told I don't exist. This is a vast improvement.
If this post appears at TPM, as it should, I will have narrowed down the problem. It's not that TPM's software hates me--it just hates my name.
Rest assured, America; though you may see the name "Bro" attached to my posts, I am stlll Frank Mullen III. Same clueless guy with little to say and so little time to say it.
Tell your friends, tell your mama. But don't tell the software.
