September 12, 2008 12:00 PM
Why isn't McCain in Texas for Hurricane Ike?
Want proof that last week's nonsense on Hurricane Gustav was all political posturing?
Why is McCain not in Texas playing President this time around?
Reports indicate 2.9 million without power. Wholesale gas at $4.65 a gallon on refinery damage fears. Thousands flooded out.
Our best wishes and good thoughts to those affected by the storm...including those in Cuba. There should be no restrictions in offering help to a storm-ravaged area.
Barack Obama canceled his SNL appearance in response to the hurricane, and indicated he would not travel to the area in order to avoid interferring with relief efforts, just as he did with Gustav.
just sayin'...
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Because he doesn't give a shit. Repukes care only for themselves. They are scum.
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Because he doesn't care.
Obama cancelled his SNL appearance? Wow. That takes guts. Good for him! And best wishes to everyone in the affect areas. Maybe this'll cheer you up:
What’s the difference between Rudy Giuliani and a pitbull?
Lipstick!!!
Too bad the media won't report on Obama's trip to Texas. If they did, maybe we could shave off some McCain votes there.
he has good eye sight. from where he's at , it looks fine. just like Palin can see Russia from Alaska.
those republicans must eat a lot of carrots.
Did Sarah Palin wrongfully push to have her ex-brother-in law fired? Was she really against the "Bridge to Nowhere?" Did she really sell Alaska's plane on eBay, or just list it on eBay? Did she actually have any substantial duties commanding the Alaska National Guard?
The correct answer to all these questions is: who cares?
Every second of this campaign not spent talking about the Republican Party's record, and John McCain's role in that record, is a victory for John McCain.
Maybe he can't go because it's time for his nap.
Palin would probably take his place if they'd let her shoot something from her helicopter.
We are all mourning the hyperbolically dead. The thousands of 'imminent' and 'certain' corpses floating in the wake of the tsunami-like Chertoff-Ike hurricane.
Another news cycle stolen. I expect political manipulation by Chertoff and his ilk in DHS and FEMA, but The National Weather Service?
Crying wolf. Next time no-one will leave.
Why isn't Obama in Texas (like he promised) helping down-ticket dems? He's pulled out of Texas and so far reneged on a pledge to help.
Yesterday a firefighter here in FL told me he didn't like Obama because, "he was going to take away our 2nd amendment rights, and besides, he wouldn't even wear a flap pin on his lapel".
Forget Ike, this is what we're up against.
Fortunately, after telling that McCain understands the military, this guy also then informed he doesn't vote anyway.
I didn't try to change his mind.
How crazy must we look to Europeans and the rest of the world. To hear a Presidential and a VP candidate say that because a person can "see" another country they have foreign policy experience. Or because her state has oil.
How the mighty have fallen. I hope the rest of the world does not look up to us to set a shining example or lead the world.
I really believe the Republicans are hell bent on destroying this civilization so Armageddon arrives during this lifetime.
I cannot rationally explain what is happening any other way
You know, it might be nice to hold off on politicizing this unfolding human tragedy for just a little bit. Like, maybe until we actually now what the fuck is going on and can make intelligent evaluations and comments. Speaking as a Katrina survivor I can tell you with some assurance that none of us gave a flying fuck how this stuff was 'spun' in those`early days. We were just trying to survive.
Believe me, the really nasty stuff will start soon enough. If there is no great loss of life, Rush Limbaugh or one of his clones will be bloviating soon about how much better those rugged individualists in Texas handle these things, compared to us whiney titty babies in New Orleans. If a scenario like the Superdome developes, with thousands of poor black people trapped in flooded neighborhoods (a distinct possibility; there's plenty of low-lying ghetto around the Houston ship canal, and Washington doesn't give any more of a shit about those folks than the ones in New Orleans) then that will have arisen out of the "culture of entitlement" and the "nanny state." Any wealthy areas that are in dire straights can of course expect plenty of help and support on the QT.
I'm not criticizing the post per se. Just saying it would be nice to put up something to the effect that our thoughts and prayers are with our fellow citizens in Houston today. Going on the attack straight away makes you look like assholes. Or republicans.
Sir, the peasants have no electricity and no bread.
McElitist: Let them eat cake!
Jamie @ 9:
Don't kid yourself, this was a monster storm, and there will be bodies found of people who didn't leave. People who didn't get out were being emergency evaced right up to the last minute, before the crews had to quit for their own safety. You can bet there were people who didn't get out.
Levees broke where they weren't expected to break and many houses are under water. Because it changed direction at the last minute, the surge has pushed floodwaters upriver.
This was no joke. The eye of Charlie went over my home and the next morning it looked like my neighborhood was part of a war zone - and it was only a catagory 1 by the time it hit us. We are inland, no surge, no real flooding, but I had friends whose homes were uninhabitable for months.
Most of Galveston is under water, all those homes are ruined. The upper floors of skyscrapers in Houston got hit with category 4 force winds. The real extent of the damage won't be known for awhile - and it isn't over yet.
I'm no fan of Chertoff, but they were right to order the evacuation, this storm was huge, strong and dangerous.
By the way, have you noticed how Texans "brave" a storm, or "stare it down," (these phrases occur frequently in recent AP coverage of Ike) while New Orleanians (many of whom were old, infirm, or had no transportation) are "too stupid to get out of the way of a hurricane"?
Or am I being too uppity by pointing out the lipstick on that pig?:-P
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Diane @ 12:
The Christofacists want to hurry along Armeggedon, the neo-con facists just like to keep them riled up for the votes and the money they bring to the table.
The real Republican elites have no allegiance to this or any country, their allegiance is to their money and the self-supporting system they have with each other; sitting on each other's corporate boards, giving each other huge golden parachuts and no-bid contracts, never prosecuting each other, no matter what. Their wealth is held off shore, they move their headquaters to avoid corporate taxes and pesky laws - there's a reason Halliburton has moved it's headquarters to Dubai, and it ain't the scenery.
roooth @ 15:
I take your point, but the hysterical hyperbole in the run up to the storm will be remembered next time, and not taken seriously. I have never heard such a thing before, not professional. Dangerous to panic people and destructive to the credibility of those who are appointed to protect us.
Diane @ 12:
Don't worry, the rest of the world already moved on to a post-American century frame of reference.
The thing that astounds me, when I interact with the average red blooded American is their expectation that they are supposed to be number 1, even if they are some of the most ignorant and lazy members of the homo sapiens family to ever walk the earth.
Senator John McCain
yeah @ 2:
Look. I don't know what you are selling, but just what does this have to do with this subject. I find you very annoying and have emailed the site monitor of my feelings.
Enough already.
Niko Griffin @ 4:
Hmmm . . . I like riddles. Lipstick and one electoral vote?
I've read reports where Texans were told to stay put and now Gov. "Goodhair" Perry is blaming them for not leaving. Typical CYA from the Repubs - "it's not our fault - they did what we told them to do, not what they should've done."
John Doheny @ 16:
Well, look at it this way: Their national monument, The Alamo, is one of the biggest displays of hypocrisy the world has ever seen. So it makes sense, that double-standard is systemic when discussing Texas.
CoIntelPro against the WAR of LIES @ 7:
Exactly! And, dammit, I want to know more about his so-called religious beliefs that he would pick a v.p. who espouses the "Rapture" and the destruction of this planet.
Re Gustav
Texas Gov Rick Perry:
I'm glad they are putting partisanship behind them. /s
Dutton Peabody @ 20:
Senator John McCain
"No one knows what war is like other than my family, period." --Meghan McCain
Obviously the apple does not fall far from the tree....
Look, he was a POW. He doesn't have to go to texas if he doesn't want to. Because he was a POW.
I don't get it.
You bitch that McCain is not going to Texas and then praise Obama because he is not going to Texas. Would not McCain's presence also be a distraction? I realize that McCains visit to LA was politically motivated. Leave it at that.
Give them nothing.
Both candidates should be acting on the devastation in our little nation sate project in the Caribbean - Haiti. The place is a shithole disaster and it's largely been ignored. Of course Bush cannot handle it. He couldn't handle a dull pencil. His solution would be to buy the pencil factory and bill the taxpayers.
Dutton Peabody @ 20:
Senator John McCain
Courtesy of Fact Check.Org.
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Energetically Wrong
September 12, 2008
Palin says Alaska supplies 20 percent of U.S. energy. Not true. Not even close.
Summary
Palin claims Alaska "produces nearly 20 percent of the U.S. domestic supply of energy." That's not true.
Alaska did produce 14 percent of all the oil from U.S. wells last year, but that's a far cry from all the "energy" produced in the U.S.
Alaska's share of domestic energy production was 3.5 percent, according to the official figures kept by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
And if by "supply" Palin meant all the energy consumed in the U.S., and not just produced here, then Alaska's production accounted for only 2.4 percent.
JOHN MCCAIN IS A LIAR!!!
Article from Politico on Yahoo about the campaign deliberately using LIES and picking "dumb as a post" Palin for veep. It is all strategy and unfortunately it has worked so far.
I'm not sure how it will play out to the end of the election, because once you are known as a LIAR, it is hard to get your "honor" back. But then John McCain never had any real honor to begin with. Being captured by the Vietnamese didn't suddenly give him honor. Just a guy without honor got caught.
Jamie @ 18:
The part that bothered me was the idiot newspeople that think they can only report from the most dangerous areas - they show shots of waves and trees blowing that look like nothing more than some wind, and then other idiots think it's no big deal to stay. In the end, it's the emergency workers who risk their own lives to go in and pull out those too stupid to listen to warnings. So I liked it when they announced that anyone who stayed was on their own; no police, no medical, no firefighters would stay. They should have told the tv crews to stay away too.
How many shots of a wet newsperson in the dark do we need?
TheToonGuy @ 23:
I'm starting to suspect that there was very good reason for that. A colleague of mine who evacuated to Houston for Katrina was also a part of the subsequent evacuation of Houston in front of Rita. That evacuation was a debacle of monstrous proportions, with hundreds of thousands of people either stuck in huge traffic jams or stranded due to gas shortages. If Rita had made landfall at Galveston like this storm did, the casualty rate would have dwarfed Katrina's.
It may very well be that in America, with our almost total reliance on the private automobile, a city like Houston is impossible to evacuate.
Rusty Shackleford @ 8:
No birthday cake, even at Shrubby's ranchette? How cold...
Surprised Palin's not there shooting dogs and "looters" from a chopper.
Diane @ 12:
They already think we are stupid...It is kind of too late for that, look....Bush got two mandates......What do you want them to think of you after that...
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Powerful video from a preacher on Palin's selection. Starts a little slow, but be patient...:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al_y3g77ZsA
Tyler Durden @ 27:
"No one knows what war is like other than my family, period." --Meghan McCain
Obviously the apple does not fall far from the tree....
And, when the ladies on the View asked McCain if he really believed that Obama had called Palin a pig and wanted to teach comprehensive sex ed to 5 yr olds, McCain answered, "yes", and then, as if what he just claimed wasn't a lie needed rationalization, he added, "Have you seen his ads about me?"
So, he really believes his dishonest ads, but wants sympathy for poor victimized old him.
Damn that uppity Obama, he's so direspectful to the sweet little lady and the old white guy.
You know, maybe it's time to point out that if McCain and Palin can't even take a campaign without whining about being disrespected and refusing to talk to the press unless they pick them, what the hell will they do when faced with real questions, or real opposition, the kind that doesn't care about polls or feelings? Cry? Refuse to talk to them? Bomb anyone who doesn't kiss their asses?
We're just beginning the stages of grief. This race is over, so we can begin the post-mortem, blame game. Voters decide by September, lock in, and ignore the rest. That's what happened with Dukakis, Kerry, and Gore. Only the drunk-driving arrest news about Bush brought Gore back from the dead in 2000. Clinton could only win in a 3-person race where personal destruction Rove politics cannot work, because Perot made it no longer a zero sum game of going for the jugular.
Every four years, Dems say they won't stand for distractions and mud-slinging, but there is nothing that can be done. The media switches to election mode, meaning equal time for truthiness spinmeisters with the horserace and "gotcha" stories as the only other political news. The only thing that could change the outcome this cycle is if Biden steps down for Hillary. But that will polarize the country even worse in our 1990s culture war "back to the future" ride. My only consolation is how the hurricanes are destroying all the Red states -- perhaps the Lord is trying to tell them something? Too bad their hate and fear still won't let them vote in their economic self-interest.
The American Red Cross is cash empty and borrowing money. What happened to all those charitable donations for the hurricanes the Repugs were allegedly collecting during their Convention? Where were all those phone banks that they were running. What a crock!
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Why is Obama cancelling his appearance on SNL? Why would it be disrepectful or cynical to go ahead with it? What, exactly, does an appearance on a television comedy show have to do with natural disasters? This is a missed opportunity, and will make him look soft and "sensitive," just when he needs to be baring his fangs and his knuckles. Come on, guys, this isn't croquet.
Jo @ 21:
Thank you.
In a moment of seriousness, for five-and-a-half years, John McCain didn't even have the opportunity to brave a hurricane. He was in a prison cell.
Che's Lounge @ 29:
I agree. This is one of those “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” scenarios. If he goes, he’s politicizing a disaster. If he doesn’t, he doesn’t care.
The reality is there’s nothing either Obama or McCain can do to help Texas at this point. FEMA did get somewhat better after Katrina, and hopefully the next Obama administration can straighten out the blatant politicization of all these Federal agencies.
Help me here....you're chiding McCain for not visiting Texas but you were upset when he visited Louisianna for Gustav......Ya can't have it both ways....Politicos should stay the hell out of the way of people who are doing their jobs and dealing with the problem...I'm not a McCain supporter and am reluctantly voting for Obama tho I think he is not a strong candidate.
It seems to me C&L is just like MSM focusing on nonsense. Let's get Obama/Biden off their colklectives asses and start articulating what their going to do for the Joe 6 Pak & Harriet Heartland.
roooth @ 37:
It is my opinion that projecting is second-nature to most republicans. Freud would have a field day with them...
Also, during the same interview he pretty much claimed that since "Obama choses his words carefully" any context the GOP decides to take those words into is fine, the implication is that he (McCain) does not chose his words carefully... ergo he can then retract whatever he says if the context does not follow his intended narrative. The fact that this is going on in the XXI century in this country is, I am sure, the main reason why the founding fathers must be spinning in their graces at supersonic speeds.
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Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act.
53 Republican Senators plus one Democrat - AYE
44 Democrats no Republicans - NAY
Economist Robert Kuttner has criticized the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act as contributing to the 2007 subprime mortgage financial crisis. Economists Robert Ekelund and Mark Thornton have made similar criticisms, arguing that while "in a world regulated by a gold standard, 100% reserve banking, and no FDIC deposit insurance" the Financial Services Modernization Act would have made "perfect sense" as a legitimate act of deregulation, under the present fiat monetary system it "amounts to corporate welfare for financial institutions and a moral hazard that will make taxpayers pay dearly".
100's of bank WILL FAIL the FDIC does not have enough funds to cover the potential losses. of course Uncle Sam will have to add more capital to the bail out.
"John McCain voted FOR the bank laws that led to the current credit crisis. John Mccain's economic advisor WROTE the law. 53 Republicans voted YES to the law. When you're in danger of losing your house, can you take a chance on more of the same from those who wrecked out economy?"
fastfeat @ 35:
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!!
The GOP Scewed America
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act.
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The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, also known as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act, Pub. L. No. 106-102, 113 Stat. 1338 (November 12, 1999), is an Act of the United States Congress which repealed the Glass-Steagall Act, opening up competition among banks, securities companies and insurance companies. The Glass-Steagall Act prohibited a bank from offering investment, commercial banking, and insurance services.
The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) allowed commercial and investment banks to consolidate. For example, Citibank merged with Travelers Group, an insurance company, and in 1998 formed the conglomerate Citigroup, a corporation combining banking and insurance underwriting services. Other major mergers in the financial sector had already taken place such as the Smith-Barney, Shearson, Primerica and Travelers Insurance Corporation combination in the mid-1990s. This combination, announced in 1993 and finalized in 1994, would have violated the Glass-Steagall Act and the Bank Holding Acts by combining insurance and securities companies, if not for a temporary waiver process . The law was passed to legalize these mergers on a permanent basis. Historically, the combined industry has been known as the financial services industry.
The GOP Senators Screwed America
Andrew @ 43:
Well, in all honesty they have plenty of Typhoons and the yearly Monsoon over that part of the world.
He was, however, unable to crash planes in Texas for those long five years... so I can see where he is coming from.
Jamie @ 8:
Glad you mentioned this. I thought the "certain death" announcement was way over the top. Brought to you by
SkelatorChertoff----a hypothetically competent person.Taarak @ 44:
I think C&L is pointing to consistency of response to a natural disaster, whether or not a political convention is going on...bottom line; GOP at Gustav was for show. always politically expedient and cynical. doing what republicans do.
Che's Lounge @ 40:
And when you examine what "socialism" REALLY means it sounds just like "government of the people, by the people, for the people" as opposed to "the people work for the corporations and buy everything from the corporations and, by the way, are ruled by the corporations."
USA will be the last nation to embrace Socialism, after the present catastrophe collapses on our heads and we are FORCED to rely on our SOCIETY instead of the CORPORATIONS.
"Socialism" = relying on our own society, our own community.
Nowhere in the US Constitution does it say the US economy must be capitalistic, run by and for the corporations.
A Socialist economy (not to be confused with the "communists" who pretended to be "socialists") is 100% consistent with the US Constitution.
Business can continue to thrive in a socialist economy, but the government DOES ITS JOB of regulating commerce - and that (regulating commerce) IS in the US Constitution.
MrJJ @ 49:
THIS should be one of the top stories in major news (not just financial news). Many people believe that the safeguards put in place after the Depression are still there. They aren't. Thanks to McCain economic advisor Phil (I love Enron's ripoff) Gramm.
Jo @ 48:
Thanks!
Personally, I think both politicians should stay out of Texas for now, unless they have something to contribute to relief, and I'm sure neither does.
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Our best wishes and good thoughts to those affected by the storm…including those in Cuba. There should be no restrictions in offering help to a storm-ravaged area.
Agreed here. And now that the US has been hit hard, and since charity begins at home, I'm sure the plight of Cubans, Haitians, and other neighbors will be completely ignored by MSM.
I read somewhere that the US (gov't) sent a whopping $100K to Cuba so far. Why not lift some travel and trade restrictions so that at least relatives can help their own? And while as a Miami resident, I certainly feel for the people in Houston area, I know many Cuban-Americans who ache to help their relatives in Cuba but can't. Why not at least let these people help their own blood? We will (hopefully) help Texas.
I don't get it. McCain's not there and neither is Obama? So it's bad that McCain is not there and good that Obama isn't? I'm so confused..........
Jo @ 48:
It was sent to me by my mom this morning.
I'll pass along your gratitude.
MountainMan23 @ 53:
The bolsheviks theorized that socialism was a stepping stone to communism. I don't think we need to take it that far. But the cycle of capitalistic crises we have witnessed over the last 100 years suggests that Marx was absolutely correct.
dosido @ 52:
Agreed but the trolls will note the inconsistency of the statement only. Not that we care.
"Why isn’t McCain in Texas for Hurricane Ike?"
Don't ask why just be glad he isn't there.
Those poor people have enough hot air and wind to deal with without him too.
I know why obama didn't go to Texas for the hurricane he is scared crapless....he only goes where he has rock stars perform for him and give free beer and hot dogs to draw a crowd so he can show those tall tall columns you know the ones that make him look like the messiah he thinks he is......
Jamie @ 8:
Jamie, just found this on Raw Story - this is what I was talking about:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5998538.html
It happens everytime.
Let 'em eat cake.
Bush and McSame just wanted to make sure that it did not hit New Orleans during their convention. Too bad for Katrina victims who moved to Texas after the storm. McCain is another Dubya, and he just proved it.
Johnny Mac is not here because this is a Solid Red State with no likelihood of turning Blue or Purple. Also, that darn Ike decided to make landfall on a weekend, and we know John takes weekends off to rest his lying lips up for the week ahead.
Tyler Durden @ 46:
Agreed. And I was a little ticked they didn't hold his feet to the fire on this.
What was really bad was this exchange last night on Larry King: King had on one of the Bush-GOP talking heads, (can't think of his name). King showed the exchange and then cut back to this guy and asked him to respond. The guy's response was that he didn't know why McCain would even bother putting himself in such a situation talking to THEM, (the women on the View).
You know, the whole time they cry sexism, they are the sexist ones. Palin has to be hid and protected unless the press promises to be "deferential", Obama is "disrespectful", they take such great umbrage with every perceived slight to the "lady", and now, McCain shouldn't subject himself to the women on the View?
Whatever.
The lipstick comment upset them because when McCain used it, he really was calling Hillary a pig, and he got away with it. They probably all went behind the garage and giggled like crazy over that one.
And these people want to run the country? God forbid!
McCain not dashing off to Texas to watch storm? Must be because some gay guy once thought about being in a good ol' Texas Pride Parade
Marge @ 61:
Oh Marge - you missed such a great opportunity!
You should have said Obama took one six-pack of beer and a dozen hot dogs to Berlin and still had enough to feed 200,000!
I mean, really, if you're going to peddle stupid GOP psuedo-religious talking points, you might as well get really creative. You know, you're not at Townhall.com now - this is liberals you're talking to here, and we hold the bullshitters who come to tell us stories to a higher standard for creativity in the crap they spew.
Next time put a little effort into it.
Marge @ 61:
Speaking of Messiah, weren't you nuts praying for rain in Denver and instead you got Gustav during your convention and Ike going towards your boy king's current home state?
Hum....
I think what the US government is doing with respect to Cuba is disgusting and immoral. We are restricting Aid agencies from buying supplies for the poor people of that country, we are restricting Cuban Americans from sending aid to their dying relatives, we are restricting the Cubans from getting emergency loans for this disaster, we are not allowing the Cubans to buy construction materials so that millions won't have to go homeless, and we are dooming thousands to die just because their leadership is communist. Disgusting. Immoral, and I for one am glad Barack Obama is saying something about it.
Tyler Durden @ 68:
You know, if it wasn't for the fact that they'd have to admit global warming is man-made, they would probably be blaming Al Gore for Gustav and Ike....
JimboSlice @ 69:
Agreed.
JimboSlice @ 69:
Cuban Americans care so much about their dying relatives that they are the biggest cheerleaders of the blockade. The old Cuban guard in Miami are of the opinion that if they can't have Cuba neither can anyone else.
roooth @ 70:
Indeed, the problem that I have with these religious nutjobs is that if they can't even get a simple "rain dance" right. What gives them the gall to be so certain about a far more serious item like the rapture. They can't even manage to crawl but they are certain they can win a marathon.
Sad that in the XXI century it is America the ones who are being the reactionaries.
Ha! We had this very same conversation yesterday in my classroom here in Austin. Two weeks ago W was all full of himself by coming TO TEXAS when hurricane Gustav threatened Louisianna. So this week when Hurricane Ike threatens TEXAS... he's nowhere to be found. Probably hiding in one of Cheney's bunkers someplace in Whyoming.
Um because that photo he needed for the RNC is no longer useful and Texas will vote for him anyway. Other then that I am sure he really cares
another good reason obama cancelled his SNL appearance:
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smart.
Let's see... perhaps we can put this in terms the religious right can understand:
1. You cannot petition the Lord with prayer. You cannot abuse your brothers and sisters, the poor and the unborn to further radically false concepts of what Jesus was all about.
2. If you do these things, the Lord will smite you. He will strike you down with a terrible vengeance.
3. Does this sound at all familiar: "The river of Kishon swept them away, "that ancient river, the river Kishon," and there was none of them left? Hath it not been told you, too, how by the hand of David, God smote the Philistines...?"
4. Substitute "Ike" for "David" in 3. above. Re-read. Rebuild. Repent.
roooth @ 67:
Marge just hates men. Wouldn't matter if it was Obama or the real Messiah. She'd hate the baby Jeebus if he was alive.
mcfuckhead is not concerned with average to poor people's lives
they can't afford a lobbyists so they don't exist to him or the
reichwingneocon bastards.
the gop and mcfuckhead have drunk too much of the
gop recycled "summer's eve" cool aid from palin.
Tyler Durden @ 72:
The old Cuban guard is no longer the majority here in Miami. Many younger and middle-aged Cubans reject the outdated views of their parents and grandparents. Visit local businesses or homes with Telemundo or Univision on here, showing footage of the destruction, and I doubt you'll here any Cubans saying "Stick it to Castro!" They're more likely to be frustrated and hurting like anyone who can't help their loved ones.
Raul Martinez, mayor of Hialeah, is running for Congressional seat in District 21 and is also trying to get restrictions loosened to aid Cubans following the 'canes:
http://www.raul2008.com/
He's afraid the winds will muss his hair.
Uh Marge, give it up already...
I have.
roooth @ 71:
Second. The US embargo on Cuba is promoted by wingnut idealogues who can't get past the idea it isn't 1962 anymore. We could have buried Castro decades ago with capitalism. But no, these reactionary Luddites have to hold fast to their bankrupt, backward philosophy.
Not to mention that I really would like easy and legitimate access to Monte 2's and Cohiba Esplandidos.
NIKO, Go and look at Obama's website. He is raising money for the victims of Ike. Instead of shooting off your mouth why don't you donate. Oh, by the way McCain doesn't work on the weekends. At least Obama doesn't need to have Biden with him to get the crowds like grandpa McCain. You republicans can't think for yourselves. You have a habit of voting presidents that you want to have a beer with. Look what that got us. Now the republicans want the office so bad they will vote for a woman that doesn't carry the moral high ground. She was pregnant before she was married and now has a daughter the same way. McCain sold his soul to the devil (Dobson, Hagee, Falwell and the Graham,Jr) so he can get elected. Guess what will happen if he wins (by cheating of course)? Somehow he will die in office and they will get the president they really wanted a mooseburger momma. She knows how to shoot a gun by crackie and can gut a moose but what the hell she can't tell you anything about other countries. Now you know why this country is going to hell real soon.
What Americans have against these::
Miss Russia - http://tinyurl.com/MissRussia
Secrets from Russia - http://tinyurl.com/Russian-Secret
Hot Russian Lady Army - http://tinyurl.com/Russain-hot-lady-army
Russian Secret Weapons - http://tinyurl.com/Russian-Secret-Weapons
He is working on that plan to follow Osama bin Laden to the gates of hell.
I don't think either candidate is in Texas this time. I know for the New Orleans hurricane the nation seemed more anxious due to it's history with Hurricane Katrina and the doubt about whether the levies would hold.
I did notice on John McCain's website he is organizing a massive relief effort. It is certainly a tragedy, and I'm sure the McCain team will do all they can to help - Cindy included since she has a long history of humanitarian effort. I know it can get confusing with all the biased media reports out there, but you have to look no further than the history of dedication and service for people like John and Cindy McCain, and Sarah Palin, and you will know the true core of what they represent.
McCain / Palin "08!!
Terri @ 87:
Yup, Cindy does really have a long history of service, I mean she even started her own charity just so she could steal pills from it, and then when that got busted up by the feds she closed up shop. And what service has Sarah Palin ever engaged in beyond elected office?
Because he is a POW of course
JimboSlice @ 88:
Palin has been know to have "serviced" her husband's business partner. So she has a history of service I guess... Hey, been eye candy is not easy!
Jo @ 51:
I AGREE!!!
Marge @ 64:
You can't POSSIBLY be that stupid!
I have a friend who is a quadriplegic. And unlike McCain, he can't even lift his arms at all. He manages to use a computer with some special devices. Jonah is full o' shit in trying to rationalize the luddite McCain.
that said, I don't think this line of attack on McCain will be effective. It will only make him more endearing to a lot of Americans who are proudly computer illiterate. And the people for whom this means something negative, they will vote for Obama anyway.
Obama needs to hot back hard on something that actually matters..
Yeah, what gives? Every single hurricane needs the presences of a Senator from Arizona and the Governor of Alaska FROM NOW ON!
I think Senator Obama agreeing to appear on Saturday Night Live in the first place was a big mistake. We're less than two months away from Election Day, for crying out loud. It's time to get *serious*, not take time off from the campaign to appear on comedy shows.
Yeah, I was wondering what happened to his "America Hat." (that sounded so stupid).
Evidently he didn't have a big tv event that would allow him to exploit him pretending to be the president.
Diane @ 12:
MUSE ON THIS: GOP = RULE BY FEAR, IGNORANCE & INTOLERANCE
It is the duty of every rational human being, to CAST OUT THE DARK BY BEING THE LIGHT. Their collective consciousness of fear and hate under the guise of rightous religion is part of the darkness that is destroying this nation.
Light and truth always win in the end. In the meantime, we all have a job to do..........stay calm, focused and positive.
POWER TO THE PEACEFUL(thanks to Michael Franti)
The Convention is over....screw America as The Cowboy the Maverick and Hockey Hunter would say....It really is the 3 stooges
Deja vu! All over again. (Same picture, different caption, folks!)
Bush was bringing McInsane an anniversary cake to celebrate 32 years since McManchurian's release from the NVA POW camp. See, it was POW business, so McInsane was excused from showing up.
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