RIP.

Or better yet, burn in hell.

I'm really getting sick of this "Hamas endorses Obama" lie, and I'm even more annoyed that the media can't be bothered to check its veracity.

Randy Scheunemann is merely the latest person repeating the lie, and the media needs to call him on it. Quite simply, Scheunemann's story is complete B.S.; the media ought to try going to the source.

If Hamas is so pro-Obama, how come they don't have a single statement to that effect on the official Hamas website? The Republicans keep pulling out this tired canard, and no one can be bothered to fact-check it. You would think that by now that if Hamas liked Obama  they would at least have gotten around to posting something positive about him. At the very least they would get rid of all the articles critical of Obama. I mean, if they're endorsing him. I'm guessing that they're not as incompetent at catapulting their propaganda, as say, the McCain campaign is. 

That hyperlink, BTW is a search of all instances of the word "Obama" in articles posted on the Hamas site. It yields a grand total of nine hits, and No Endorsement. Not even grudging respect. In fact they don't even like him.

It seems that Hamas just isn't as good at the endorsement game as Al Quaeda.

Off-topic here, but I have seen posts for various sports teams, so  ya-freaking-hoo!

John McCain's new ad states among other inanities, that he'll "fight the Oil Companies".

Recognizing the potential for comic gold when I seek it, I thought I'd solicit suggestions for a "top ten"list of ways that McCain will "fight the Oil Companies".

Here are my three:

1) Wrestle them down and plant more Oil Leases in their pockets

2) Agrresively court them for bigger campaign contributions

3) Challenge them for the best luxury boxes at the Republican National Convention

I haven't seen anyone else here point this out, and I thought it was worth at least a post.

In case anyone's been living under a rock, Barack Obama pointed out recently how he didn't "look like the men on the one dollar and five dollar bills." This is a relatively innocuous line that Obaba's used to blunt concerns about him since the primaries.

The McCain campaign, in a classically manipulative Rovian move, recently decided to trump that line into charges of playing the race card.

How do we know McCain's rapid-response "outstage" was all scripted in advance? Because McCain's Campaign, clearly anticipating the standard Obama line, posted this web ad on June 27.

Kudos to Huffpo and specifically blogger Jed  for bringing this to light.

Setting aside all vituperation for just a moment, it’s so nice to know that the same ardent Centrists who helped George Bush gain the White House twice are now clamoring to be the latest in line to protect us from his Neo-Stalinist ambitions.

Well, thanks at least for finally getting it.

Columnist David Broder writes that the "know-it-all" arrogance of Gore and Kerry rankles "Midwesterners" like himself. Golly gee, I grew up in the same midwestern state of Illinois that Broder did, and I left there more recently- 26-odd years ago as opposed to Mr. Broder's 46. Hasn't anyone bothered to tell him that both John Kerry and Al Gore carried Illinois in their respective Presidential elections?

I guess Illinoisans weren't sufficiently rankled for Mr. Broder's taste. It seems to me that I've heard tell of other Midwestern states that voted for at least one of these two Democrats as well. But what do I know; I'm just one of those "vituperative, foul-mouthed bloggers on the left". Oh yeah? So's your old man, Broder.

While we're on that subject, if you really wanted to drive Liberal bloggers into a vituperative, foul-mouthed frenzy, you could do worse than to blame them for the fact that you supported Bush and helped him get elected twice, partly by pointing out how arrogant Kerry and Gore were.

If only one of these candidates had simply shown more deference to Mr. Broder, the self-styled "Dean of American Political Reporters", we could have avoided this whole mess.

Unapologetic and apparently unchastened, Broder now writes of Bush:

"he has proved to be lawless and reckless. He started a war he cannot finish, drove the government into debt and repeatedly defied the Constitution."

Well thats weird; Broder's beginning to sound like a vituperative, foul-mouthed Liberal. After all, we've been saying pretty much the same thing for years.

I for one am glad he's on board to protect the country from rampant Liberalism. And thank goodness he's not being arrogant about it either.

I'm thinking:

"Are the Republicans in Washington lying, or are they really that dumb?"

"Who cares?"

"Vote Democratic"