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McCain Sign – Four More Years

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Standing Behind Clinton

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Old Soldier’s Home

From an interview in 2000 with Jim Leher:

Lehrer: Finally for the record, you have not lost your desire to be President of the United States have you?

McCain: Certainly it’s been put in deep cold storage. haha..

Lehrer: You haven’t lost it?

McCain: Well, in 2004, I expect to be campaigning for the reelection of President George W. Bush, and by 2008, I think I might be ready to go down to the old soldiers home and await the cavalry charge there.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/05/23/in-2000-mccain-admits-hed-be-too-old-to-run-in-2008/

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Assassination as Political Strategy

In an interview, Clinton dismissed calls for her to drop out, saying:

“My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. I don’t understand it.”

I’m speechless.

http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/05/hillarys_bizarre_rfk_comment.html

UPDATE: Bill Clinton’s primary race was effectively over in March, not June as stated by Hillary.

UPDATE 2: Keith Olbermann is definitely not speechless about this.

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Race in the Political Race – Al Jazeera

It took Al Jazeera, of all the news organizations, to do a story on what everyone knows, but the mainstream media in the US tries to ignore: the role that racism is playing in the current election:

But even this news piece doesn’t cover the origins of racial tensions in Appalachia, which came about because mining companies successfully pitted black and white workers against each other.

http://halfricanrevolution.blogspot.com/2008/05/via-matt-yglesias-this-pretty-good.html

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Larry Craig Bobblefoot

Everyone has seen Bobblehead dolls, which are often handed out to fans at baseball games. In a hilarious twist, the St. Paul Saints are passing out Bobblefeet at this Sunday’s game, in the form of a miniature bathroom stall with a tapping foot (and a wide stance).

The description of the promotion doesn’t mention Senator Larry Craig, instead claiming ironically that the promotion is in honor of National Tap Dance day.

http://pageoneq.com/news/2008/Saints_promotion_pays_edgy_tribute_to_Sen._0522.html

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Deja vu all over again

Sometimes, drama turns unexpectedly into comedy, as is the case with the current $290 Billion Farm Bill. First, congress passes this bill, brimming (as is usual in an election year) with earmarks (better known as “pork”). Second, they send it to President Bush, who vetoes it. Third, congress overrides the veto.

Then the comedy starts. Congress discovers that an aide dropped a 34 page section from the phone-book sized bill before they sent it to the president.  So the bill that was passed by congress was not the same bill that was vetoed. Congress tries to pass the 34 page section separately, but Republicans balk.

So now, congress is going to pass the entire bill again, then send it to the president, who will veto it again, and they will (again) override the veto.

http://www.reason.com/blog/show/126615.html

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Late Night Humor

“Hillary Clinton is expected to win in Kentucky. Barack Obama is expected to win in Oregon. And John McCain is expected to win at bingo. So everybody wins.” –Conan O’Brien

“Yesterday, Barack Obama visited an Indian reservation. And I don’t know if you heard about this, the chief adopted him and gave him the name ‘Black Eagle.’ That’s true, yeah. The chief also gave Hillary Clinton the name ‘Runs Even After Losing.’ Good name.” –Conan O’Brien

“The White House has announced that next month, President Bush will be making a trip through Europe. He’s gonna travel all through Europe, yeah. President Bush says he’s really excited to go to Europe, because he’s never seen a kangaroo.” –Conan O’Brien

“Barack Obama spoke before 75,000 people at a rally in Oregon. 75,000. That’s the equivalent of 75,000 Ralph Nader rallies.” –Jay Leno

“Hillary Clinton campaigned extensively in Bowling Green, Kentucky, over the weekend. Barack Obama did not campaign in Bowling Green. He doesn’t do well in any place with the word ‘bowling’ in it. Anywhere with ‘bowling,’ he is out of there.” –Jay Leno

“Hillary knows how to appeal to those voters. Like, she promised the people of Kentucky, if elected president, she would lower the price of pay-per-view wrestling fifty percent.” –Jay Leno

“They held primaries in Oregon and Kentucky. … Hillary won Kentucky and Obama is expected to win Oregon, which means he would clinch a majority of the pledged delegates. There are delegates, superdelegates, pledged delegates, lemon pledged delegates and of course, the farmer-in-the-delegates … you don’t get those, you don’t get the White House.” –Jimmy Kimmel

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Nightmare Ticket

Obama, Clinton, McCain Join Forces to Form Nightmare Ticket

from The Onion, of course

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/obama_clinton_mccain_join_forces

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Please don’t hurt us!

Republican Senator Liddy Dole’s campaign is asking both the national Democratic and Republican parties to not run ads in her upcoming NC senate race, in the name of civility. Republican Senator Susan Collins has asked for the same thing in Maine. This sounds great, until you realize that Dole herself was the chair of the national senate campaign when it ran the odious “Call Me, Harold” ad in 2006. How odious? Watch it yourself:

 

Do you think the sudden change of tune was because this year the Democratic National Party is the one with $20 million more than the Republican National Party?  We note that in 2002, when the Republicans had all the cash, neither Dole nor Collins had any problems with the national party funding ads for their races.

http://www.senateguru.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=169
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/5/21/12252/4967/512/519169

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McCain: Obeying the law is for the “little people”

Once upon a time, John McCain was the co-sponsor of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (also known as the “McCain-Feingold” bill), but he seems to be spending more time now getting around the provisions of his own law.

First he took out a loan for his own campaign, using the promise of public money as collateral (a big no-no). Then he spent more than allowed by law. Then he opted out of public financing (after he had opted in), but didn’t get permission to opt out from the FEC as required by law.

But all of those are mere details compared to this. The Republican National Committee has announced a new fundraising structure whose sole purpose is to get around the limits on contributions to political candidates; limits that are the heart of the McCain-Feingold bill. Instead of being limited to $2,300 per person, each donor can give up to $70,000 to the “McCain Victory 2008” fund. In order to obey the letter of the law (but not the spirit) this money is split up into multiple funds:

  • $2,300 goes to McCain’s campaign fund (the legal limit)
  • the next $28,000 goes to the Republican National Committee (RNC) so they can campaign for McCain
  • the rest is divided among state-wide funds in four swing states that the Republicans have targeted for the presidential election: Wisconsin, Minnesota, Colorado, and New Mexico

I guess campaign finance reform is for the “little people”.

    http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/05/mccain-has-reco.html

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    Jay Leno

    “It was quite a weekend, politically. Yesterday, an estimated 75,000 people attended a Barack Obama rally on the banks of the the Willamette River. … And if you believe the media, listen to this. After the rally, Barack Obama fed them all with just five loaves of bread and two fish. Amazing!”

    “The oldest serving member of Congress, former Klan member, Senator Robert Byrd, has endorsed Barack Obama for president. That’s got to make Hillary feel good, huh? Even the Klan guy is going, ‘I’m gonna go with the black guy.'”

    “And over the weekend, John McCain spoke about what he hopes to achieve by the end of his first term as president. McCain spoke about his vision, which he said was a little blurry and not good at night. … McCain also said the war in Iraq will be over by the year 2013, which is also when I think Hillary is expected to pull out of the race.”

    “According to these latest financial disclosures, Dick Cheney is worth somewhere between $20 million and $100 million. I mean, could they be more vague? Isn’t that like an $80 million gap? Apparently, Cheney’s accountant is the same guy telling Hillary she still has a mathematical chance of winning.'”

    “President Bush was in Saudi Arabia to mark 75 years of official relations with the royal family. And 40 years of officially being screwed royally by that family. Did you see the present the royal family gave President Bush? You see what it was? … A Schwinn. A brand new Schwinn, yeah. That pretty much says it all, doesn’t it? He goes over there looking for solutions to the energy crisis, they give him a bicycle.”

    “And as you know, the country of Saudi Arabia is run by the Saudi royal family. Boy, imagine allowing someone to run a country just ’cause his dad ran the country. Thank God that could never happen here.”

    “While he was in Israel, President Bush launched a political attack on Barack Obama. I guess he attacked him over there, so he doesn’t have to attack him over here.”

    “Anyway, today, Barack Obama responded to that attack, and then McCain attacked Obama, and then Obama fired back at McCain, and then Hillary Clinton said, ‘Hello! Will somebody attack me? I’m still in the race! Hello, I’m still here! Everybody attack me!'”

    “President Bush was just in Saudi Arabia meeting with King Abdullah. He gets a little confused. He kept saying, ‘So where’s Paula Abdullah?’ I don’t think he understands.”

    “She’s starting to get a little desperate. You know, Hillary Clinton is doing whatever she can to stay in the race. Yeah, things are not looking good for Hillary. In fact, today, she was thinking of changing her name to ‘Gas Prices’ just to see her numbers go up.”

    “And the other day, John McCain made a speech about what things will be like five years from now. See, normally, a guy that age starts talking about the next five years, the word ‘assisted living’ usually comes up.”

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    At least I’m not racist


    © August J. Pollak

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    Not even close


    © Steve Sack

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    McCain’s bearings are even more lost outside the US

    Foreign policy “expert” McCain put his foot in it again, claiming that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the leader of Iran, and that Obama would negotiate with him. Wrong on both counts. First, Obama has never said he wants to have talks with Ahmadinejad, and second, Ahmadinejad is not the primary leader of Iran.

    When confronted with this information by Time’s Joe Klein, McCain insisted that ultimate political authority in Iran rests with Ahmadinejad, even though our own CIA World Factbook states that the leader of Iran is Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, not the president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

    I mean, that would be like someone claiming that ultimate political authority in the US rests with the President of the Senate, Dick Cheney.  Oh … oh wait … never mind.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/20/mccain-confronted-with-ne_n_102614.html

     

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