That bouncing snowman is strangely mesmerizing.  Damn you!  :)

(Is this where, during the primaries, I swore I’d vote for McCain if Hillary somehow stole the nomination?  I meant it, too, at the time.  I’d like to think I would have smacked myself back to sanity in time.)

What a bullet we dodged.

Boy, ain’t that the truth, Mrs. P.  More than a bullet even, a howling nuclear missile more like.

I’m not 100% convinced as to why Lieberman came through on DADT but that he voted on the sabbath is worth noting as he usually doesn’t.

Elizabeth, I’m sure you’d have come to. The consensus here during the worst, if I might be so bold as to make a stab at summing it up, was, that HRC’s campaign was thoroughly dirty, with the vile Penn (VILE PENN!) and all, but that should she win the nomination, we’d vote for her.

Because anyone who’d been paying attention before 2008 would know that parties pick their nominees any way they want to, after which the pugilists bandage their wounds, paste on a smile, and go out and endorse the nominee for the general.

I would like to know what caused McCain to decide to impede investigations into remaining POWs in Viet Nam, and to do it with such fierceness that he would verbally abuse their grieving family members.

that he voted on the sabbath is worth noting as he usually doesn’t

I guess he didn’t have a “family holiday gathering” to attend, like that weasel Manchin.

I’m with you, Elisabeth. I think I made noises about not supporting Clinton sometime around the “I’ve passed the commander-in-chief threshold” remark (hey, she was obviously saying that McCain would be a better CiC than her, right?), but I would have gotten over it.

And yes, pretty amazing that Lick-Spittle Lieberman, the Uriah Heep of the Senate, just managed to win back some statesman cred as McCain flails and pouts and tantrums and further ensures his permanent position on the dungheap of history.

@Nellcote: The voting-on-the-Sabbath thing struck me as well. Between Lieberman doing that and Sen. Wyden delaying cancer surgery so he could finish the lame-duck session, Manchin’s whole “Oh, lookit the time, I gotta get to a family party!” dodge looks really pathetic.

@strange: I see what you mean about the provenance. You know what else is distracting? Pin-ups! How many soldiers are legless now because they were dreaming over pin-ups?

Ban Betty Grable!

If Farrah hadn’t been wearing that red bikini, perhaps a certain navy pilot might not have spent five years in a bamboo bungalow.

I would have voted for Clinton.  I never even considered McCain (even before he sold his soul to the debbil and picked Palin as his running mate).  was mad as hell at Clinton by the end of the primary, but I would have done it. 

Lieberman, I have to give him credit.  He did the right thing, and he was loud about it and dedicated to it.  So, big ups to the Joe.  And, his “I’m right; John’s wrong” line is fabulous.

Farrah wore a red one piece, and it wasn’t until 1976. 

I’m guessing McCain kept crashing planes because he was thinking of Annette Funicello while handling the joystick.

Did Jane Hamsher’s head explode because of the Lieberman twist to this?

That would be awesomer than the actual DADT repeal, which, nice gesture and all, but I had rather been enjoying the “0% chance of dying in stupid wars of empire so some rich guys can make some more money” you used to get free with your public declaration of liking homosex.

So I may have to bleed and die for some dumb war now, too?  Thanks but no thanks.  A gift card or some fresh flowers would’ve been a better choice, IMHO.

Dearest Angry Geometer, you might always consider on the Rush route, undignified as that may be. A pilonidal cyst was enough to convince the Army that they didn’t want him in their uniform.

*unlinked to Wikipedia’s article. They should have a warning pop-up before taking a person deep into some stranger’s poxed gluteal cleft!

McCain is a thoroughly disgraceful character, a hollow shell filled with equal parts vanity and bitterness. Thank god he’ll never be president.