Listen up for a good smackdown

11 comments July 11th, 2008

A page from the Karl Rove playbook prompts this nifty REBUTTAL.

Not nice? Says who?

2 comments July 11th, 2008

Steve M. over at No More Mister Nice Blog,  which has been around for nearly six years and is one of the more widely read and widely linked sites in the progressive blogosphere, has kindly ADDED Applesauce to his blogroll.

And since the list is alphabetical, my position is advantageous.

This should boost our traffic here at least a bit.

Fie on Hillary and her pouting supporters

10 comments July 11th, 2008

There was a time not very long ago when I wouldn’t have been disappointed with either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama as the Democratic presidential nominee.

That sentiment changed however when Clinton waged a primary-season campaign against Barack Obama that nauseated millions of Americans, including a lot of loyal Democrats.

Hillary repeatedly made unfavorable comparisons of Obama with the presumptive Republican nominee, John McCain. She and her surrogates (most notably Geraldine Ferraro) employed thinly-veiled racist rhetoric and fostered whispering campaigns about her rival.  She and her mouthpieces continually tried to move the goalposts when it became apparent to almost everyone else that she no longer had a chance to win the nomination.

When Clinton finally bowed to the inevitable and gave up the race, a considerable number of her supporters childishly refused to face reality.  They ranted and pouted. They said Hillary had been cheated. They wrongly accused Obama of sexism.  They demanded that he choose her as his running mate. They threatened to vote for McCain in November, no matter that his positions on most issues are dramatically at odds with those of the Democratic Party.

Meanwhile, Hillary and her top lieutenants have been demanding that Obama help retire the debt she incurred in the course of her disgusting campaign — including the millions of her own dollars she loaned to the effort. Never mind that Hillary and Bill Clinton are sitting on a personal fortune of more than $100 million to which they can always add with a book here and a speech there.

How’s that for chutzpah? Obama’s supposed to help pay the bills for the garbage that was thrown at him. In a just world, he would tell the Clintons and their die-hard backers to go to hell. But, of course, he can’t. The cause of party unity demands amnesty and graciousness.

As for the threats of certain Clintonistas to back McCain in the fall, it’s not likely that many of them actually will do so when they’re confronted with names on a real ballot.

Michael Kinsley has FURTHER THOUGHTS on all of this.

The war on Michelle Obama

1 comment July 11th, 2008

Read THIS (warning: it includes one mild vulgarity) and watch this:

What? Me whine? I’m chuckling: Phil Gramm’s Swiss bank has lost $38 billion in the credit crunch

7 comments July 11th, 2008

THIS is too, too delicious.

But, hey! Phil Gramm is an economic genius.  John McCain told me so.