NEWS: Super Shitty Tuesday

bean can't call people names, so I did it for him.

I like to call people turds floating in the gene pool.

For example, i'm a turd floating the gene pool when I think I'm on one thread (the John McCain one), but it turns out later I posted to another. Doh!

i'm still not sure what i did.to get a link.

and i'm bored.

and delighted that the rum is, in fact, not gone.

I swear you had a link... wha...?? Maybe, indeed, it was the substances...

Source? Because everything I have found has Goolsbee claiming his intentions were "misread" or "taken out of context", but nothing reputable anywhere saying that they statements were not made.

Again: source? Because that NEVER HAPPENED. At least, there is no evidence it did. The Clinton camp, as I noted above, basically dared the Canadians to prove it did. Because it DID NOT. The only reason that idea even got floated was because an anonymous source overheard Ian Brodie suggesting it had.

Again, no. In fact, according to the Canadian PM, the Clinton camp never briefed Ottawa on NAFTA, however Obama's team did..

Honestly, I think Brodie was just talking out of his ass and trying to calm everyone down. And maybe BOTH camps gave some kind of assurance to the Canadians. Unfortunately for Obama, there is only evidence of ONE, and it's not Clinton's. But claiming they both did it (or even worse, that Clinton did and Obama did not) is just willfully ignoring the evidence on the table at this point.

But a lie is a lie, whether no matter to whom it is attributed


The Clinton campaign has publicly admitted that the only way they can still win this election is by tearing Barack Obama down. They have called their attacks the "kitchen sink strategy," and Senator Clinton herself has referred to it as "the fun part" of the campaign. The result has been a constant barrage of attacks about Senator Obama's record that they know full well aren't true. And yet they repeat them, over and over again, day after day, in an attempt to deceive the American people just so that they can win this election.

This may be fun for the Clinton campaign, but this is exactly why people don't trust their leaders anymore. This is exactly why so many people are so cynical about the political process. And it's exactly what Barack Obama is running to change.

There is no more serious issue than the war in Iraq. 150,000 American troops are risking their lives every day in a conflict that this President and John McCain have no intention of ending anytime soon. It's a conflict that's cost us thousands of lives, billions of dollars, stretched our military and taxed their families, and has seriously undermined our national security, our moral standing, and our ability to go after Osama bin Laden and the core leadership of al Qaeda and finish the job against the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Barack Obama had the judgment to oppose this war before it began for these exact reasons. Senator Clinton voted for this war, and yet she continues to tell the American people that her vote was for diplomacy even though the resolution was titled, "Joint Resolution to Authorize the use of Military Force Against Iraq."

When Senator Obama arrived in the Senate, he called for a phased withdrawal before Senator Clinton did. He also introduced comprehensive legislation in the Senate to begin removing combat troops at a pace of 1-2 brigades a month, with an end date for completing that drawdown - legislation that became the basis for the Senate Democrats' plan to end the war.

Barack Obama has said, repeatedly, that when he is President, his first act will be to convene the Joint Chiefs of Staff and ask them to immediately put in place his plan for withdrawal. He's also said, as he did recently on 60 Minutes, that as Commander-in-Chief he would retain the flexibility to implement this withdrawal in a way that ensures the safety and security of our troops. But there has never been a doubt about the purpose of his policy - ending this war and bringing our troops home on a timetable for withdrawal.

Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton is resorting to lies.

Lies about her voting record (Oh I thought I was voting for development when I authorized military involvement in Iraq!)

Lies about Barack.

If she had the bravery to run on her own merit, her own Senate record, I might have had respect for her. But she has relied on deception, aggressive attacks, and a mafioso-flavored means justify the ends behavior that makes me disrespect her and everything that comes out of her mouth.

It has nothing to do with misogyny. It has everything to do with not aquiesing to people who believe they are entitled to power based on who they are, not what they've done.

I think we've all had enough of it!

i am so awesome that i needed no link to direct you to the information pertinent to the discussion that i wasn't even cognizant of.

hah.

.
Well, wait a couple of days, then respond. Since I posted, the PM has made this statement. Kudos to you.

As far as the Obama memo, go look it up yourself. It's everywhere. Never happened. At some point I stop doing people's home work for them.

does this mean you're not going to do that English paper i paid you write for me?

^^excellent video excerpt, and there is Joe Scarborough secretly wanting to defend her as the GOP sees her as a better candidate to run against (of blah blah I do not buy that he is an 'independent').

He's about as independent as the character Stephen Colbert plays.

He might be independent as in he is a conservative and not a GOP party loyaltist, just like Glenn Beck isn't a party loyaltist but is a conservative that is independent from the two partys (altho he swings more GOP then not). I dunno i just thought the video was really funny

Oh for pete's sake, don't you guys know that Canadian politicians will say anything to get in print? We don't have anything newsworthy going on in Canada (not that any of our newsworthy political stuff would make it to the US media anyway), so our pollys have to jump on the American election bandwagon. Don't take it personally - these are the same guys that yell at eachother and call eachother scumbags, dogs, and grave-robbers when they are in session, in hopes of getting a little print. (They do apologize later, though, so that makes it ok.)

Oh our politicians would never, ever...

What I am treasuring today is what Dick Morris's advises Obama to do re: the red phone... :

SERIOUSLY.

Heh. Not a bad idea, actually. It drives me nuts to see Hillary pontificating about her greater experience, which in actual fact doesn't exceed Obama's unless she counts her husband's as her own.

Saying that Hillary has Executive Branch experience is like saying Yoko Ono was a Beatle." -JSN