Mike's Blog Round Up
Gin and Tacos: Conservatives' states benefit the most from the federal tax policies they often oppose.
Shakesville: "Obama Racism/Muslim/Unpatriotic/Scary Black Dude Watch Part Forty-Three and Clinton Sexism Watch Part Ninety-One." Now with Bigot Bingo!
Huffington Post: Ali Eteraz debunks Edward Luttwack's claims that the Muslim world might seek to execute Barack Obama as an apostate. (Funny how the New York Times is essentially recycling the same, long-debunked concern trolling of Daniel Pipes and other right-wingers from four months ago.)
Campaign for America's Future: Bill Scher examines McCain's move "from independent maverick to incoherent conservative" on the environment, and Rick Perlstein's Nixonland book tour might be hitting your city this very week.
Media Bloodhound: Not even Tim Russert and his dry erase board can compete with John King's "months-long affair" with his interactive election map. (The map could do sooo much better.)
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Hillary, Hillary, Hillary, (sigh). Run all you want. Stop trashing Obama.
John McCain is caving to the pressure of the McCain Energy Policy Watch! He gave a climate change speech in Oregon ("tantalizingly vague") and his campaign says that an energy policy is coming in June. We'll keep an eye on that.
Ali Eteraz said:
QFT.
Bush gives up golf in solidarity with U.S. Soldiers... Here's what laura and the twins are giving up:
http://freewayblogger.blogspot.com/2008/05/first-family-sacrifices.html
Having McCain in charge of the environment is akin to having Mel Gibson as the curator of the Holocaust Museum.
[ Deleted, C'mon, please don't post in all Caps. It's Yelling. Thank You. Site Monitor]
John @ 2:
Has he announced his current stance on adultery yet?
Abandon All Hope Ye' Who Enter Here
http://tinyurl.com/6rm9tb
I really hate the Huffington post. And yet, I still go to see their front page despite knowing what will be on it.
Why do this to myself!
Travis @ 7:
Only through his actions. But seriously, why is it not a big deal that McCain has been running for president for over a year, and won his party's nomination, without ever putting forward a set of policies to deal with this country's energy problems? It's kind of important...
Did you know that several people in the Bush Administration have been charged with war crimes?
I remain hopeful that Bush et al will wind up visiting The Hague for an extended stay. I am sure you join me in my thoughts.
Chris Gamble @ 9:
Just to remind yourself if you want to remain original, don't follow the crowds.
Re: Shakesville
Why am I not surprised that this racist/sexist asshole owns a bar in Marietta, GA? For those who don't know, Marietta is a suburb of Atlanta, and is the seat of Newt's district when he was a Congressman. The town is the worst combination of rednecks and SUV driving soccer moms in the country.
marko @ 6:
ok, west virginia......
land of the racist sexist inbred appalachian assholes
1. racist...voting for the white person, even though she "likes the idea of coercive diplomacy, was on the board of walmart, and voted for the war
2. sexist...voting for the woman, because she is a woman, even though she is buddies with rupert murdoch and smeared mr. obama
3. inbred....they are the issue of related parents...obscenely false of course, but just as outrageous as calling obama a n____r!
4. appalachian...the poorest most backward part of the US east of Arkansas, and most in need of progressive politicians, not republican lite clinton
it's a racial, sexist thing stupid!!
marko @ 14:
Where's John Denver we need him!
Chris Gamble @ 9:
I find Huffington Post to be hit or miss, but I thought the Ali Eteraz piece was good and much needed. Of course, less prominent blogs debunked the same BS when right-wingers shilled it four months ago. But if a few MSM types read the Eteraz piece, all the better.
In conjunction with Perstein's book about NixonLand, I think it behooves one to also read "Slavery by another name", by Douglas Blackmon. It tells of the mindset of the american southerner prior to 1940 where slavery was alive and kicking in most of the south, with many corporations involved in peonage and well known southern names making millions on the backs of these new "slaves". This antebellum mindset might explain the politics of 1970 and 1980's southerners.
http://www.slaverybyanothername.com
i want to congratulate Hillary Clinton…
she and her campaign have suddenly made it okay to use race as part of an evaluation regarding electablilty…
and by extension… race can now be used to evaluate (name your poison)…
The country is simply not ready to put a black in the White House. Sorry. Been saying it for years. I like Obama...he's intelligent, knowledgeable, and very much in touch with what REAL Americans are going through. Just bad timing. The country is simply not ready. A shame.
And here's news for Hillary. The country ain't gonna put a woman in the White House either. Even women will vote against her when push comes to shove.
And as far as West Virginia is concerned. Another backward state feeding off the teat of government due to it's ignorance and laziness.
These people probably think they're part of the richest 2% of the country while they collect their gubmint checks...all the while railing at poor blacks and social programs.
It's been what...100 years since the civil war....West Virginia...proof that you can't fix stupid.
Liberal AND Proud @ 19:
bullshit!!!
but if you want to win... it MIGHT just be that the other guy is going to lose...
i don't think america is ready for a 70+ neo-something who is losing his mind...
so GOBAMA!!!!!
and ... going for the WIN.... please don't forget to ALWAYS call him
JOHN "THE REPUBLICAN" MCCAIN
he hates that middle name... but should wear it proudly ... like a flag lapel pin
Liberal AND Proud @ 20:
Uhm, West Virginia didn't secede
I mean, unless you count when they seceded from Virginia due to being against slavery
The Daily Show showing John King drawing on his magical screen while creepy nursery music played was the best thing ever.
Barack Obama has been making efforts to tamp down donations to independent issue groups in an effort to control the level of negative attacks in the future. John McCain has made statements that he doesn't support 527s either, but the 527s don't seem to have gotten the message:
"We will attack Obama viciously on all fair issues, whether they are national security, whether they are taxes or the economy," promised Chris LaCivita, one of the Republican strategists behind the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the group that attacked Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry in 2004. LaCivita added: "At the end of the day, every individual has a right to participate in the political process whether John McCain likes it or not. It's their constitutional right."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/14/kerry-swiftboater-we-will_n_101...
Concerning Shakesville Obama Racism. All day long I've been hearing Clinton's spokespersons, talking heads and pundits citing polls that many rural, poor and high school educated white voters will not vote form Obama because of his race. Two questions: 1. Are they talking about his white half or his white half? and (2) Becaause the fore amentioned group will not vote for Obama because of race, dosen't that make them racists?
Just questions!
just questions once c127 @ 27:
CorrectionQuestion 1, should have read, Are they talking about his white half or his black half?
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