Saddled with a very unpopular president, and losing elections even in heavily Republican districts, the Republicans are trying to grab a piece of the “change” mandate. So on Wednesday, Congressional Republicans will start rolling out their new policy agenda, complete with a new slogan (drum roll please…) “The Change You Deserve“.
Unfortunately, the Republicans seem to have plagiarized this slogan. “The Change You Deserve” is the registered advertising slogan for the popular drug Effexor XR, used for the treatment of depression, generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, and panic disorder in adults. And it is a red pill with a large “W” on it! Even its side effects will sound familiar — nausea, apathy, constipation, fatigue, vertigo, sexual dysfunction, sweating, memory loss, and (are you ready for this?) “electric shock-like sensations also called ‘brain zaps’.”
Ralph Hardy, a 13-year-old boy, confessed to ordering an extra credit card from his father’s existing credit card company and taking his friends on a $30,000 spending spree, including playing “Halo” with a couple of prostitutes in a Texas motel.
The prostitutes told the arresting officers they suspected something was up when the kids (who claimed they were undersized adults) said they would rather play Xbox than get down to business. But the topper — and why this made it into this blog — is that Ralph’s ambition is to one day become a politician.
Last Friday (days after the pundits had already declared the race over) 11-year-old Dalton Hatfield presented a check for $440 to former President Bill Clinton. Hatfield feels so strongly that Hillary Clinton should be the next president that he sold his bicycle, some video games, and other items to raise money. “I was thinking one day how could I make money for the campaign,” he says. “And I just went through my closet and found things I didn’t need.”
UPDATE: In honor of this flub, the Suitably Flip website is actually selling flag pins with 57 stars. As they say, it’s the perfect accessory for the ironic Obama supporter, and a wonderful “substitute for true patriotism”!
And Marc Ambinder at The Atlantic points out that if McCain had made the same flub, it would surely be pointed to as evidence of senility.
In a speech last week at Wake Forest University, McCain said the following:
There is hardly a clearer principle in all the Constitution than the right of private property. There is a very clear standard in the Constitution requiring not only just compensation in the use of eminent domain, but also that private property may NOT be taken for “public use.”
The best part, however, is that McCain’s campaign changed the quote when they posted the transcript, and even edited the video to remove the incorrect statement.
A Clinton political TV ad (which you can see on her website) uses an image of a supposed newspaper article with the headline “Obama attacks Clinton’s gas tax plan”. But if you look closely at the text of the newspaper article, it is actually about Troopergate, an alleged scandal about Arkansas state troopers arranging sexual liaisons for then-governor Bill Clinton. Ouch! Does Hillary really approve of this message?
If the Republicans claim that you can judge Barack Obama by his relationship to Rev. Wright, then what can you make of this? George W. Bush’s daughter Jenna was married on Saturday, officiated by Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell. Caldwell, a longtime religious adviser to Mr. Bush, has endorsed Barack Obama.
In a major speech on the war in Iraq today, presumptive GOP nominee Sen. John McCain said that the Iraqis have split into two factions, Shiites and Sunnis, with a sinister goal in mind.
“My friends, the Iraqis have divided themselves into these two groups for one reason and one reason only,” McCain told an audience in a retirement village in Scottsdale, Ariz. “They are trying to confuse me.”
Unfortunately, the Republicans seem to have plagiarized this slogan. “The Change You Deserve” is the registered advertising slogan for the popular drug Effexor XR, used for the treatment of depression, generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, and panic disorder in adults. And it is a red pill with a large “W” on it! Even its side effects will sound familiar — nausea, apathy, constipation, fatigue, vertigo, sexual dysfunction, sweating, memory loss, and (are you ready for this?) “electric shock-like sensations also called ‘brain zaps’.”
