Wednesday, April 02, 2008

The secret has been revealed: Barack Obama sucks at bowling.

And now for some perspective…

These guys don’t suck at bowling:

This ends today’s edition of Barack Obama sucks at bowling.

Posted by Kevin K. on 04/02/08 at 08:29 AM
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Friday, March 28, 2008

PA resident Michael Tedesco from Comments from Left Field:

There is not a word to describe the scale of this endorsement so I will settle simply on gargantuan.

Read it all.

Posted by Kevin K. on 03/28/08 at 09:53 AM
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Thursday, March 27, 2008

I am giving Hillary a sincere pat on the back for this:

Clinton was asked by a questioner in the audience here what she would tell frustrated Democrats who might consider voting for McCain in the general election out of spite.

“Please think through this decision,” Clinton said, laughing and emphasizing the word “please.”

“It is not a wise decision for yourself or your country.”

The crowd applauded loudly.

A Gallup poll released this week indicated that 28 percent of Clinton\‘s supporters would back McCain should the New York senator lose her quest for the Democratic nomination.

That compares to the 19 percent of Obama supporters who say they will favor McCain should Clinton be the party’s nominee.

“First of all, every time you have a vigorous contest like we are having in this primary election people get intense,” she continued. “You know, Sen. Obama has intense support. I have intense support.”

Clinton stressed that there are “significant” differences between her and Obama, but said “those differences pale to the differences between us and Sen. McCain.”

“I intend to do everything I can to make sure we have a unified Democratic party,” she said. “When this contest is over and we have a nominee, we’re going to close ranks, we’re going to be united.”

Bravo.

Posted by Kevin K. on 03/27/08 at 06:43 PM
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

From TPM Election Central:

This is pretty funny. Hillary spokesperson Phil Singer blasted out an email at 11:23 insisting that Obama release his tax returns for back years,

Exactly two minutes later, at 11:25, Obama spokesperson Tommy Vietor emailed out word that Obama had posted his tax returns for 2000-2006 on his campaign web site. Turns out the Obama camp has been planning this for some time.

And, yes, it was pretty damn funny. *Thwap!*

I’ll lay off of snipergate (or Tuzlagate or Sinbadgate) because the media has finally picked up the story en masse and the trainwreck that is the Clinton campaign is handling the onslaught so poorly that I don’t (currently) feel the need to rub their noses in it further.  Here’s the nutshell version of the Clinton responses to the controversy: She mispoke.  She was sleep-deprived.  She is human.  Rev. Wright.  Rev. Wright!  Rev. Wright!!!  Pathetic.

But the above example from TPM is another reason why I’m totally impressed with how well the Obama campaign has worked the game during this campaign, without appearing underhanded, and how I’m becoming increasingly confident that Obama can handle whatever comes his way during the general election. He’s a solid candidate, he’s picked a great staff and he responded to the Wright controversy magnificently.  Hillary and her team of allegedly great political minds, on the other hand, were taken down by fucking Sinbad and have responded like sniveling, dissembling infants.

For their sake, I hope Carrot Top doesn’t have anything on them.

MORE: Just a reminder of how far Obama has come.  People tend to forget how far he was behind Hillary when this all started.

Posted by Kevin K. on 03/25/08 at 07:41 PM
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Friday, March 21, 2008

Ferraro:

“To equate what I said with what this racist bigot has said from the pulpit is unbelievable. He gave a very good speech on race relations, but he did not address the fact that this man is up there spewing hatred.”

Posted by Kevin K. on 03/21/08 at 08:29 AM
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Oh my:

One interesting even in Sen. Clinton’s just-released schedules from the 1990s comes on Nov. 10 1993, when the former First Lady was to serve as the closing act during a briefing on NAFTA, the trade agreement she now assails.

11:30 am -
11:45 am

NAFTA BRIEFING DROP-BY
Room 450, OEOB
CLOSED PRESS

PARTICIPANTS: Approx 120 expected to attend
(See briefing book for further info)

FORMAT:
- Alexis Herman intros HRC for brief remarks
-HRC concludes program

Two attendees of that closed-door briefing, neither of whom are affiliated with any campaign, describe that event for ABC News. It was a room full of women involved in international trade. David Gergen served as a sort of master of ceremonies as various women members of the Cabinet talked up NAFTA, which had yet to pass Congress.

“It wasn’t a drop-by it was organized around her participation,” said one attendee. “Her remarks were totally pro-NAFTA and what a good thing it would be for the economy. There was no equivocation for her support for NAFTA at the time. Folks were pleased that she came by. If this is a still a question about what Hillary’s position when she was First Lady, she was totally supportive if NAFTA.

Read it all.  The additional quotes from the attendees are pretty damning.

Sorry, Ohio, you got punk’d.  You may want to let Pennsylvania know how you feel about it.

Posted by Kevin K. on 03/19/08 at 04:31 PM
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Joe Lieberman helps out his BFF John McCain in Jordan.  Later on Lieberman corrected McCain when he asked for a “big bowl of that oatmeal” in an Amman market while pointing at a container of humus.

[video via Instaputz]

Posted by Kevin K. on 03/19/08 at 09:31 AM
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

A growing spittle-flecked swath of Hillary’s supporters on the innertubes are pretty much virtually indistinguishable from wingnuts:

Goodness. I just thought of something.

If Obama had gotten away with this, he would have had Wright, and Farrakhan as guests at the White House. How disgusting is that? And who knows who else??

If you want proof this person is a Clinton supporter, take a look at their TPM comment history.  I especially enjoyed the comment where they quoted and linked to the discredited Newsmax article (that’s right, Democrats linking to fucking Newsmax) about Obama attending one of Wright’s infamous sermons.

And, believe me, this is one of the milder, wingnut-like comments you see from Hillshills around the web these days. Take a gander at this string of comments at Philly.com:

Tammie said:
Don’t listen to this speech. Err, those purple lips that I won’t watch. It’s about time for the power of estregan. Go Hillary 08!!
12:35 AM, 03/18/2008

Toni said:
Don’t waste your time. His words are just lies. He’s a hypocrit and his campaign is a fraud. Support Clinton.
12:46 AM, 03/18/2008

greeneyedstone said:
Unbelieveable! Were a white candidate found to be involved with a pro-white, anti-black church, the NAACP and various other groups would take to the streets to protest that they step down. Instead, we get to listen to some innane drivel about how Senator Obama had no idea that he was part of a Black Supremacist movement and we all should overlook the issue. The hypocrisy apparently knows no limits….
12:46 AM, 03/18/2008

j9zig1 said:
Yes, Tammie!! As my sister says…get the testosterone out of the White House. Hillary got a rousing welcome here Friday night, I was there and it was great. Saturday was the St Patrick’s day parade where she was cheered for the whole mile. Keep going Hillary! We’ve got your back.
12:51 AM, 03/18/2008

I included j9zig1’s comment not because it’s shocking or offensive in and of itself, but because j9zig1 didn’t blink an eye (“Yes, Tammie!!”) at Tammie’s obviously racist “purple lips” comment and cut right to the shameless bonding. I’m seeing vile stuff like this being spewed everywhere by Hillshills and it’s not pretty.

Obama’s speech is going down at 10:15am today (MSNBC is definitely airing it) and it won’t be just the most important speech of his career, but it could potentially be one of the most important speeches uttered during a presidential campaign ever.  I hope he nails it and drives all of these freshly-exposed knuckledraggers back into their dank ‘n’ hateful little holes.

MORE: Check out the comments at this post at Taylor Marsh’s House of Horrors where TM’s minions are hugging Sean Hannity so hard that Marsh has to tumble in and gurgle out her opposition to Hannity to save face.  The fully quoted anti-Obama article from the rightwing Human Events site at the bottom of the thread puts the icing on this rancid cake.

Posted by Kevin K. on 03/18/08 at 06:00 AM
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Monday, March 17, 2008

From The Boston Globe (via FREEscreening):

For a party that loves to hate the Clintons, Republican voters have cast an awful lot of ballots lately for Senator Hillary Clinton: About 100,000 GOP loyalists voted for her in Ohio, 119,000 in Texas, and about 38,000 in Mississippi, exit polls show.

A sudden change of heart? Hardly.

Since Senator John McCain effectively sewed up the GOP nomination last month, Republicans have begun participating in Democratic primaries specifically to vote for Clinton, a tactic that some voters and local Republican activists think will help their party in November. With every delegate important in the tight Democratic race, this trend could help shape the outcome if it continues in the remaining Democratic primaries open to all voters.

Spurred by conservative talk radio, GOP voters who say they would never back Clinton in a general election are voting for her now for strategic reasons: Some want to prolong her bitter nomination battle with Barack Obama, others believe she would be easier to beat than Obama in the fall, or they simply want to register objections to Obama.

“It’s as simple as, I don’t think McCain can beat Obama if Obama is the Democratic choice,” said Kyle Britt, 49, a Republican-leaning independent from Huntsville, Texas, who voted for Clinton in the March 4 primary. “I do believe Hillary can mobilize enough [anti-Clinton] people to keep her out of office.”

Britt, who works in financial services, said he is certain he will vote for McCain in November.

About 1,100 miles north, in Granville, Ohio, Ben Rader, a 66-year-old retired entrepreneur, said he voted for Clinton in Ohio’s primary to further confuse the Democratic race. “I’m pretty much tired of the Clintons, and to see her squirm for three or four months with Obama beating her up, it’s great, it’s wonderful,” he said. “It broke my heart, but I had to.”

If my brain stem wasn’t all clogged up with cotton candy dreams and magical unicorn dust, it would be clear to me that this was SEXIST hateful bullshit written by someone who doesn’t want the MOST qualified and electable (and whitest) person to be the next president of the United States, the country Michelle Obama and Rev. Jeremiah Wright hate with red-hot, reverse-racism-fueled, black-souled passion.

Posted by Kevin K. on 03/17/08 at 03:35 PM
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Friday, March 14, 2008

From WTNH in Connecticut:

Two spectators at a high school basketball game are considering legal action after they say they were kicked off the court for not standing up for the National Anthem.

The incident happened last week at New Britain High School during the Class-S basketball tournament between Bloomfield and Old Saybrook.

Jeffrey Green and Aaron Johnson say their First Amendment rights were violated after they did not stand for the National Anthem and were subsequently asked to leave the premises. [...]

“In order to get to us, he had to go over about four or five rows that had fans in there that weren’t standing up,” Johnson explained.

You guessed it, they were singled out because they were lucky.

[p.s. Make sure you watch the video (same page).  The part where the high school principal marches out three (!!!) security guards to confront the news team is priceless.]

Posted by Kevin K. on 03/14/08 at 09:34 AM
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Monday, March 10, 2008

Did AP really need to circulate this picture of Spitzer? He looks like the saddest Muppet ever.

[via NY Times]

MORE: TS looks at the scrubbing bubbas.

Posted by Kevin K. on 03/10/08 at 02:56 PM
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Thursday, March 06, 2008

Okay, now I’m angry.

Reason #1:

“I think that since we now know Sen. McCain will be the nominee for the Republican Party, national security will be front and center in this election. We all know that. And I think it’s imperative that each of us be able to demonstrate we can cross the commander-in-chief threshold,” the New York senator [Hillary Clinton—ed.] told reporters crowded into an infant’s bedroom-sized hotel conference room in Washington.

“I believe that I’ve done that. Certainly, Sen. McCain has done that and you’ll have to ask Sen. Obama with respect to his candidacy,” she said.

Calling McCain, the presumptive GOP nominee a good friend and a “distinguished man with a great history of service to our country,” Clinton said, “Both of us will be on that stage having crossed that threshold.” [Chicago Trib via TPM]

Adds John Cole, whose panties are bunched even tighter than mine:

Christ on a crutch, I am tired of the Clintons. And just as an FYI, being held as a POW and wrecking your plane on a ship and then being wrong about EVERYGODDAMNEDTHING in Iraq does not make you “Commander in Chief” material. Neither does being in bed next to your husband when he answers the phone at 3am. Please just stfu, Hillary.

Reason #2:

Someone should ask Jim Blanchard if he had anything to do with the flap about NAFTA involving the Clinton campaign, the Canadian embassy and a false press report accusing the Obama campaign of something instead done by the Clinton campaign.  [via Daily Kos]

Too much to quote here.  Read it all. That bullshit cost Obama in Ohio and probably lost Texas for him.

More from Kos.

Reason #3:

“When Senator Obama was confronted with questions over whether he was ready to be Commander-in-Chief and steward of the economy, he chose not to address those questions, but to attack Senator Clinton. I for one do not believe that imitating Ken Starr is the way to win a Democratic primary election for president.” [via TPM]

I absolutely despise Howard Wolfson and in a perfect world I’d be allowed to headbutt that oily fuckweasel through three layers of drywall, but here on planet Earth I’m restricted to just referring him to as a C-list (and 2% more fuckable) version of Karl Rove.

I’m donating $100 to Obama to combat all of this wretched bottom-feeding. I’d suggest you give whatever you can.

P.S.: Must credit Rumproast if you use the phrase “Bitch is the new hack”:

Your search -  “bitch is the new hack” - did not match any documents.

Call me misogynistic for making a funny. Apparently I’m automatically a male chauvinistic pig for supporting Obama in the first place. It’s a lose-lose for me. Whatever. Bring it.

MORE: Keith Olbermann, who is a misogynist, on Clinton’s three-Card NAFTA deception & her cozying up to St. Maverick.

“V” IS FOR…

Posted by Kevin K. on 03/06/08 at 08:22 PM
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But there’s a phone in the White House and it’s ringing.
Something’s happening in Times Square:

New York City police officers and firefighters cordoned off much of Times Square after a small explosion — apparently set off by a manmade device — damaged the front of the Armed Forces Recruiting Center on the traffic island bounded by 43rd and 44th Streets, Seventh Avenue and Broadway shortly after 4 a.m., officials said. No one was injured, and after a temporary interruption, subway service was restored.

Most traffic around Times Square was allowed to pass by 6:45 a.m., after vehicles had been diverted for about two hours. City officials confirmed that police had initially blocked off the area as a precaution to ensure that there was no secondary device or other threat; the officials emphasized that they did not believe anyone was in danger.

Police officers at the scene said the explosion blew a hole through the front door of the recruiting center, which is at the northern end of the structure.

In Washington, a spokeswoman for the United States Department of Homeland Security said it was monitoring and investigating the explosion, Reuters reported. Asked if there was a link to terrorism, the spokeswoman, Laura Keehner, said, “At this time we’re still investigating.”

If there was a “link to terrorism,” the Recruiting Center wouldn’t be there anymore (it was probably some lone—and lonely—white whack job), but that won’t stop the bedwetters from turning this into the scariest Islamofascist assault on America since the Al-Qaeda steam pipe attack of ‘07 (they are masters of rust!). Sigh.  Expect Times Square to have more cameras installed per square foot than the Big Brother house by the end of the year.

Posted by Kevin K. on 03/06/08 at 07:00 AM
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008

You’re a wonderful person:

Clinton congratulated Obama and said she looks forward to continuing to campaign with him in Pennsylvania and the other 16 states or territories that still need to hold contests. But she also used the stage to critique her opponent. “When the phone rings at 3 a.m. at the White House, there’s no time for speeches,” she said.

Charming.  Months and months more of this shit. Does anyone know if John Hodgman picked up any extra forms?  He lives in my neighborhood.

(Hat tip to Will from sublimeguile for the Hodgman link.  While you’re there, check out the King of Kong chaos that’s broken out on his blog.)

Posted by Kevin K. on 03/05/08 at 07:55 AM
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Tuesday, March 04, 2008

(Photo via CNN)

From TIMES’ Karen Tumulty:

This has got to be a first. Here in Austin, on the night before that make-or-break Texas primary, the Clinton campaign has set up a filing center for the traveling press corps ... in a men’s room. Insert metaphor here.

More from Tumulty here:

UPDATE: The Independent Film Channel is interviewing Gail Sheehy over by one of the urinals. I am not making this up.

UPDATE2: Official comment from campaign spokesman Doug Hattaway:

These accommodations should in no way be taken as a commentary on the quality of our media coverage.

That’s the way to get the media on your side.  Line ‘em up next to the pissers and then wipe your ass on their shoes. Brilliant.

I used to think that Giuliani ran the worst campaign of these primaries, but now I’m not so sure.

MORE (with additional pics):

Los Angeles Times:

The reporters, including The Times’ Louise Roug, were set up in the toilet with tables right next to the urinals. Their dinner was delivered there too—tamales piled in the corner and candies served in paper cups.

The Swamp:

In any event, the Clinton campaign maintains that the filing center was not a reaction to the campaign’s complaints that the New York senator has been getting a lot more scrutiny than her rival, Barack Obama of Illinois.

Yet the campaign housed the press in the bathroom/athletic training room for about 5 hours. Was that a stall tactic?

But in a campaign that hasn’t exactly been flush with success lately, and is looking to remain viable in Tuesday’s primaries, it’s not unusual to wonder what the Clinton camp was thinking. Perhaps, yellow journalism?

Posted by Kevin K. on 03/04/08 at 12:23 AM
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