Bill Clinton accepts cabinet position within McCain administration

This is a completely unsubstantiated claim. I just think it would explain the reason why he apparently refuses to say anything whatsoever negative about John McCain.

Barack Obama Quote of the Year

Taken from this CNN Ticker article

“It’s great that he now wants to talk about putting corporate lobbyists in their place. But he needs to explain why he put seven of them in charge of his campaign,” he said at an outdoor rally under a cloudless Colorado sky. “If you think those lobbyists are working day and night for John McCain just to put themselves out of business, well I’ve got a bridge to sell you up in Alaska.”

Glenn Beck is a smarmy douchebag, and apparantly, an insecure bitch

I was gonna post a long rant about how people like Glenn Beck are fucking smarmy douchebags, but i found this YouTube interview and it's priceless. I love his touching story on how he found Mormonism. Talk about an insecure bitch. I quote, "I DON'T CARE OF THERE'S KOOLAID DOWN IN THE BASEMENT, BECAUSE I'M DRINKING IT". I dunno, the story is touching, and i'm not trying to bash a man who has found god, but i WILL bash a man with an easily manipulated closed mind. what a smarmy douche.

CNN skewers Joe Biden; Has love affair with Sarah Palin

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Ok so just doing some nightly news surfing and i came across a fucking crazy special report setup on Sarah Palin and Joe Biden. Honestly, see for yourself how fucking ridiculous that is. I don't even know where to start.. how about with one of the headlines. "Joe Biden: Political Survivor". Really?? Ok let's look at what they called his Career and Personal Highlights "Sen Joe Biden has proved himself a surivor many times, suffering the deaths of his young wife and daughter," POLITICAL SURVIVOR MEANS SURVIVING THE DEATH OF YOUR WIFE AND DAUGHTER?? how fucking tasteless. then next, "under going brain surgery" ok.. i guess that fits in the context of him being a survivor, though i still don't see the political connection... which brings us to lastly, "and being forced out of the 1988 presidential race for admitted plagiarism." Wow. I'm just shocked that any biased news company would call those 3 things Joe Biden's "career and personal highlights". What tactless and biased reporting again on the part of CNN. I also love the little bullet notes at top. WAY TO LEAVE OUT THE FACT THAT ONE OF HIS SONS WHO SURVIVED THAT VERY CAR CRASH YOU MENTION IS LEAVING FOR IRAQ THE FOLLOWING MONTH. I also like how the first bullet they have is that Joe Biden stuttered as a child. Very artful. An artful crock of shit. Again, this wouldn't be so ridiculous if Sarah Palin didn't have an identical page setup that basically kisses her ass and touches on zero of the topics that touch on the election. It's like the McCain camp doctrine that this election will be decided on character and not on the issues is being orchestrated hand in hand with a couple schmuck's over at CNN, probably from folks like Glenn Beck. Oh yeah, just got an idea for a follow up post.

This is high-larious (The Daily Show, September 9th, 2008)

This is absolutely well done. So fucking funny.



not much you can say about that.. except for maybe 'wow, what pieces of shit those people were just made out to be'. I mean for real, that was good, must see tee vee

David Plouffe's $10 Million Dollar Donation Letter

Usually i don't read these, but i had just read this Yahoo! News piece that says Sarah Palin's speech on Wednesday had raised over $10 million dollars for Obama as of today, Thursday, the day after. . In any event, i decided to read one of the donation emails and figured i'd share this in case nobody reads them like me. If anyone hasn't watched Sarah Palin's speech, or at least some of it, you should do that too. It's pretty funny when crowds start heavily cheering points that seem pretty unapplausable, if that's even a word. I mean i guess it's not really fair because I didn't have this blog when the Democratic convention started. That had some fucking hilarious moments.. perhaps a follow up post with a Democratic Convention recap is in line. anyway, read David Plouffe's donation email that is in response to what was said:

Auger--

I wasn't planning on sending you something tonight. But if you saw what I saw from the Republican convention, you know that it demands a response.

I saw John McCain's attack squad of negative, cynical politicians. They lied about Barack Obama and Joe Biden, and they attacked you for being a part of this campaign.

But worst of all -- and this deserves to be noted -- they insulted the very idea that ordinary people have a role to play in our political process.

You know that despite what John McCain and his attack squad say, everyday people have the power to build something extraordinary when we come together. Will you make a donation of $25 or more right now to remind them?

Both Rudy Giuliani and Sarah Palin specifically mocked Barack's experience as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago more than two decades ago, where he worked with people who had lost jobs and been left behind when the local steel plants closed.

Let's clarify something for them right now.

Community organizing is how ordinary people respond to out-of-touch politicians and their failed policies.

And it's no surprise that, after eight years of George Bush, millions of people have found that by coming together in their local communities they can change the course of history. That promise is what our campaign has been about from the beginning.

Throughout our history, ordinary people have made good on America's promise by organizing for change from the bottom up. Community organizing is the foundation of the civil rights movement, the women's suffrage movement, labor rights, and the 40-hour workweek. And it's happening today in church basements and community centers and living rooms across America.

Meanwhile, we still haven't gotten a single idea during the entire Republican convention about the economy and how to lift a middle class so harmed by the Bush-McCain policies.

It's now clear that John McCain's campaign has decided that desperate lies and personal attacks -- on Barack Obama and on you -- are the only way they can earn a third term for the Bush policies that McCain has supported more than 90 percent of the time.

But you can send a crystal clear message.

Enough is enough. Make your voice heard loud and clear by making a $25 donation right now:

https://donate.barackobama.com/fightback

Thank you for joining more than 2 million ordinary Americans who refuse to be silenced.

David

David Plouffe
Campaign Manager
Obama for America

Oh shit i think i just threw them another $25'er

Sarah Palin's a Fucking Liar

but then again, aren't all politicians? taken from this Yahoo! News article written by Jim Kuhnhenn, a point by point rebuttal to some of the propaganda that was spat out during her RNC speech and other republican mishaps..

PALIN: "I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending ... and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. I told the Congress 'thanks but no thanks' for that Bridge to Nowhere."

THE FACTS: As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town totaling $27 million. In her two years as governor, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. While Palin notes she rejected plans to build a $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport, that opposition came only after the plan was ridiculed nationally as a "bridge to nowhere."

PALIN: "There is much to like and admire about our opponent. But listening to him speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform — not even in the state senate."

THE FACTS: Compared to McCain and his two decades in the Senate, Obama does have a more meager record. But he has worked with Republicans to pass legislation that expanded efforts to intercept illegal shipments of weapons of mass destruction and to help destroy conventional weapons stockpiles. The legislation became law last year. To demean that accomplishment would be to also demean the work of Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, a respected foreign policy voice in the Senate. In Illinois, he was the leader on two big, contentious measures in Illinois: studying racial profiling by police and requiring recordings of interrogations in potential death penalty cases. He also successfully co-sponsored major ethics reform legislation.

PALIN: "The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes, raise payroll taxes, raise investment income taxes, raise the death tax, raise business taxes, and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars."

THE FACTS: The Tax Policy Center, a think tank run jointly by the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, concluded that Obama's plan would increase after-tax income for middle-income taxpayers by about 5 percent by 2012, or nearly $2,200 annually. McCain's plan, which cuts taxes across all income levels, would raise after tax-income for middle-income taxpayers by 3 percent, the center concluded.

Obama would provide $80 billion in tax breaks, mainly for poor workers and the elderly, including tripling the Earned Income Tax Credit for minimum-wage workers and higher credits for larger families.

He also would raise income taxes, capital gains and dividend taxes on the wealthiest. He would raise payroll taxes on taxpayers with incomes above $250,000, and he would raise corporate taxes. Small businesses that make more than $250,000 a year would see taxes rise.

MCCAIN: "She's been governor of our largest state, in charge of 20 percent of America's energy supply ... She's responsible for 20 percent of the nation's energy supply. I'm entertained by the comparison and I hope we can keep making that comparison that running a political campaign is somehow comparable to being the executive of the largest state in America," he said in an interview with ABC News' Charles Gibson.

THE FACTS: McCain's phrasing exaggerates both claims. Palin is governor of a state that ranks second nationally in crude oil production, but she's no more "responsible" for that resource than President Bush was when he was governor of Texas, another oil-producing state. In fact, her primary power is the ability to tax oil, which she did in concert with the Alaska Legislature. And where Alaska is the largest state in America, McCain could as easily have called it the 47th largest state — by population.

MCCAIN: "She's the commander of the Alaska National Guard. ... She has been in charge, and she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities," he said on ABC.

THE FACTS: While governors are in charge of their state guard units, that authority ends whenever those units are called to actual military service. When guard units are deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, for example, they assume those duties under "federal status," which means they report to the Defense Department, not their governors. Alaska's national guard units have a total of about 4,200 personnel, among the smallest of state guard organizations.

FORMER ARKANSAS GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE: Palin "got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States."

THE FACTS: A whopper. Palin got 616 votes in the 1996 mayor's election, and got 909 in her 1999 re-election race, for a total of 1,525. Biden dropped out of the race after the Iowa caucuses, but he still got 76,165 votes in 23 states and the District of Columbia where he was on the ballot during the 2008 presidential primaries.

AND BEST OF ALL, THEY QUOTED FROM MY LAST POST ON MITT ROMNEY!:

FORMER MASSACHUSETTS GOV. MITT ROMNEY: "We need change, all right — change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington! We have a prescription for every American who wants change in Washington — throw out the big-government liberals, and elect John McCain and Sarah Palin."

THE FACTS: A Back-to-the-Future moment. George W. Bush, a conservative Republican, has been president for nearly eight years. And until last year, Republicans controlled Congress. Only since January 2007 have Democrats have been in charge of the House and Senate.

What a fucking doofus.