This TV ad is timely in light of the McClellan book’s negative focus on Bush
Add comment May 29th, 2008
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Where’s my e-mail?
3 comments May 29th, 2008
If your Internet service provider is Comcast, as mine is, you’ve no doubt had problems this morning accessing your e-mail or the Comcast home page.
Well, it says HERE that Comcast was hit by hackers overnight.
UPDATE: Hours later, and still no e-mail. What’s especially frustrating is that I can’t send an e-mail to Comcast to vent about this situation. Call them on the phone? Don’t make me laugh. You have to go through endless layers of menus and recordings before you finally talk to a human, who seems not to give a damn. The Comcast phone system apparently was designed by a raving lunatic.
UPDATE II: The crisis has passed! Return to your homes, folks. Nothing to see here. Everything’s fine. Move along.
Ku Klux Klan declines to endorse Obama
3 comments May 28th, 2008
I guess THIS validates Hillary Clinton’s argument that Barack Obama can’t carry the all-important poor white racist vote.
Former White House flack says Bush played media for saps during run-up to Iraq war
9 comments May 28th, 2008
If you’ve got a political junkie on your Father’s Day gift list, you might want to consider the new TELL-ALL BOOK by former Bush administration spokesman Scott McClellan.
Not the kind of guy you’d expect to turn against his erstwhile masters, McClellan nevertheless comes right out and says President Bush “veered terribly off course,” was not “open and forthright on Iraq,” and took a “permanent campaign approach” to governing, which led to disaster.
McClellan says Bush used “propaganda” to play the compliant media for chumps in the days leading up to the war. (That’d be your so-called liberal media, by the way.)
McClellan’s also got a thing or two to say about Karl Rove, including the fact that he was the one who pushed the photo that became an unflattering symbol of the administration’s detachment and incompetence in dealing with Hurricane Katrina.
Obama’s so-called gaffe
12 comments May 27th, 2008
Barack Obama said the other day that his great uncle was with the first group of U.S. troops to liberate a Nazi concentration camp toward the end of World War II.
That’s true, but Obama got the NAME OF THE CAMP wrong. It was Ohrdruf (pictured above), a subcamp of the more infamous Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. Obama mistakenly said it was Auschwitz, which was in Poland.
The Obama campaign corrected the mistake the following day, but Republicans are trying to turn it into a big scandal. Some overwrought guy at NewsBusters.org has even accused Obama of “an insult to mankind,” simply because Ohrdruf was smaller than Auschwitz.
Insult to mankind!
That McCain feller is debatin’ hisself agin
4 comments May 27th, 2008
In this thrillin’ episode, Mr. Straight Talk faults others for talkin’ about timetables for withdrawin’ our troops from Iraq — and then he sets hisself his own timetable for withdrawin’ the troops.
Oh, and don’t miss the real good part at the end where he admits that the war is about oil.
How many vets will kill themselves today?
11 comments May 27th, 2008
As we honored our American military veterans yesterday, most of us gave little or no thought to the thousands of them who have TAKEN THEIR OWN LIVES.
By one count, vets are killing themselves at the rate of nearly 18 a day. But we don’t ordinarily count these as casualties of war.
GOP senators abandon Bush and McCain
Add comment May 27th, 2008
On a farm bill and veterans legislation, substantial numbers of Senate Republicans voted with the Democrats last week to HAND DEFEATS to President Bush and John McCain.
Bush has become so politically toxic that McCain doesn’t want the president to appear at his fundraisers unless they’re held in private. So, don’t expect to see any new photos like the one above.
“No one wants to be seen as aligning with Bush right now,” said one GOP lobbyist.
U.S. military vets are dying at a record pace
4 comments May 26th, 2008
This Memorial Day 2008 rolls around at a time when U.S. military veterans are dying at a RECORD PACE of about 1,800 a day.
Last year, the median age of World War II veterans reached 84. For Korean War vets, it was 76. For Vietnam, 60.
There are still more than 23 million living veterans, but the number is gradually dwindling.
