Obama weds Clinton, McCain in unholy matrimony

So Hillary Clinton, despite the "be my veep" nonsense, says even John McCain is a better choice for president than Obama. Birds of a feather. Here's what Obama has to say about the Clinton-McCain lovefest.

Diebold already rigged election for McCain

"If you can't trust your shadowy overlords to keep a secret, what is the purpose really of voting...?"

Don't panic... this is satire. :-)


Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early

CNN and the Passion of St. Hillary

They don't call it the Clinton News Network for nothing. Check out the drab colors and lighting of the Clintonpostles as compared to She-Jesus at an event broadcast this morning. All that's missing are tongues of flame. Clever work, CNN and Team Hillary, right before Super Tuesday. Should make some headway against that fascist Negro.


Where have we seen this quasi-religious effect before? Oh yeah, the media deification of St. George!

Ann Coulter would vote for Hillary Clinton? Makes sense to me

Ann Coulter was on Hannity & The Other Guy last night and said she prefers Hillary Clinton over John McCain. Wait, what?

Yes, you heard it right. Check out the vid, which I was made aware of via DownWithTyranny!, props.


Shocked? Puhleez. Why wouldn't Ann campaign for Hillary? If Clinton's elected, it means at least four more years of food on the table for the silence-challenged Coulter. All the right-wingers want Clinton in office. It's their fervent dream. The conservative Mouth of Sauron, Bill Bennett, practically blew kisses to Hillary after the debate last night (emphasis on race-baiting garbage mine):

It was a -- frankly, it was a -- I think, a little disappointing, from my perspective. I think Barack Obama had to do more than he did.

I thought she won -- I will just be crude and say I thought she won the debate. I thought she was in control. He said -- he used the locution, "we both believe," "we both think" too many times.

I think, if it comes out even, if no one has a clear advantage, it's advantage Hillary Clinton. He's the challenger. He's an athlete. He should know that he had to work a little harder.

He's an athlete that has to work a little harder for some reason. Hm, where have I heard that before?

Anyway, conservatives win three different ways whether or not Hillary is elected in November.

1. She loses to a Republican and the Clintons are never heard from again;

2. She wins, reveals herself as a right-leaning, business-friendly, pro-war "moderate," thus the status quo continues and fatcats stay fat and happy;

3. Least likely scenario: She wins, reveals herself as a hardcore liberal committed to reversing the Bush era, and conservatives spend every hour of their waking life gleefully trying to have her removed from office with lies and dirt and rehashes of Bubba's crimes.

Any of those three are enough to make cro-mag conservatives slobber like Rush Limbaugh at a Golden Corral.

The nightmare for the right is the ascension of Obama. And with the shenanigans Bill Clinton pulled in South Carolina seemingly not having much of an effect overall on Hillary's strategery, certain shameless cretins like the aforementioned Coulter might feel they can get away with even more egregiously racist attacks in November, which may well hasten their demise.

And sadly, inevitably, result in a powerful thirst for vengeance of some kind. That's one of the things the far right really specialize in, revenge... but you knew that, yes?

Hillary: Let's come together, because I rule

Sen. Clinton just released a statement, evidently in an attempt to slough off all the ugliness these last few days with back-and-forth sniping among the top Dem candidates (and a certain ex-prez), as follows...

"Over this past week, there has been a lot of discussion and back and forth - much of which I know does not reflect what is in our hearts.

"And at this moment, I believe we must seek common ground.

"Our party and our nation is bigger than this. Our party has been on the front line of every civil rights movement, women's rights movement, workers' rights movement, and other movements for justice in America.

"We differ on a lot of things. And it is critical to have the right kind of discussion on where we stand. But when it comes to civil rights and our commitment to diversity, when it comes to our heroes - President John F. Kennedy and Dr. King - Senator Obama and I are on the same side.

"And in that spirit, let's come together, because I want more than anything else to ensure that our family stays together on the front lines of the struggle to expand rights for all Americans."

UPDATE: Obama's on the same page.

Bumper stickers for the American plutocracy

It's where we're headed anyway... dynasty leadership. Mecenday has the goods.



hat tip to Nick

Bob Novak reminds us how the economy works

Er, the D.C. economy, at any rate. From his latest exclusive newsletter:

[F]amily members of senators and congressmen from both parties and in all regions of the country have for years benefited directly from the "Washington economy" of lobbying firms and government contractors, many of which would not even exist without the infusions of taxpayer money that earmarks provide each year. ... This has never been considered improper, but few Americans know that a very small number of Washington-connected families negotiate, appropriate and benefit from large expenditures of taxpayer money on a small number of companies through the earmarking process.

Another interesting bit from his latest is his take on the dust-up between Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama at the recent Democratic YouTube debate. Of Clinton, Novak quips, "This debate will likely be remembered as the performance in which [she] finally learned to lighten up and act a bit human [emphasis his], eschewing the debilitating and robotic persona she normally affects in public speaking situations." Not sure exactly what Novak means by "act a bit human"; is this what he had in mind?

Crows Novak, "When offered the opportunity to exploit rival Barack Obama's lack of experience, she hit a home run." Uh, did she? He continues on Obama: "[He] delivered a gaffe on a foreign policy question that highlighted his lack of experience and could cost him...

"His unqualified willingness to meet with a number of rogue world leaders," he states, "was suddenly thrown into sharp contrast with Clinton's careful answer that she would not meet with anyone if she believed that the visit was going to be used as a propaganda piece to humiliate the United States."

Katrina Vanden Heuvel at The Nation makes a mockery of Novak's (and others') rah-rahing of Clinton's "careful answer" and alleged foreign relations superiority by simply saying, "Witness how far Clinton's nuanced experience got her when confronted with the 2002 Iraq war resolution."

But Clinton does have a point about being used as a propaganda piece. A president should always leave it to his lesser, nameless footsoldiers to do the grunt work with unsavory world leaders. Ronald Reagan was wise enough to do that with Saddam Hussein, sending some guy named Rumsfeld over there to meet with him. Whatever happened to those two, by the way?

Pelosi a slave of moderate Dems: Novak

GOP Chatty Cathy Bob Novak says that Nancy Pelosi isn't a left-wing loon at all... she's in fact beholden to a handful of Blue Dog (i.e., moderate) Democrats.  Count Novakula writes in his latest newsletter:

[Pelosi] is painted by Republicans as a left-wing extremist, but the truth is that the left wing of House Democrats complain privately that she is far too cautious. They grumble that nothing is being accomplished in Congress because Pelosi is far too attentive to 20 or so moderates in the Democratic caucus -- especially those who overturned Republicans last year in marginal districts.

I wonder if maybe Novak is miffed that Nancy won't go nuts and unleash Kucinich, Conyers, and Waxman to impeach Bush & Cheney in a Dem feeding frenzy, because that will set the stage for the inevitable revenge impeachment proceedings against President Hillary Clinton.  That's what Novak and all the neocon chimps want: an excuse to go apeshit in '09.  Henry Hyde made it plain why the wingers went after Bubba in '98.  I think Pelosi—to the bitterness of grassrooters slobbering for justice, and the chagrin of conservatives spoiling for a rumble—will bide her time and let the Shrub and his minions be to avoid that whole juvenile retaliation bullshit.

Novak also keeps up his rah-rah'ing for GOP White House hopeful Fred Thompson, this time by taking an easy, steaming dump on the faltering Sen. John McCain.

While [McCain] claims that everything is "fine" in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, events strongly suggest otherwise. The former frontrunner is now in deep trouble. With respect to the positive signs a presidential campaign can point to at this early stage -- fundraising, national polls, state polls, endorsements -- McCain finds himself almost empty-handed.

Then Novak whips out some amusing metaphors to describe Uncle Hulka and the GOP also-rans: "If Thompson is the charging bear, McCain is the slowest of the three campers fleeing him -- the most likely to be devoured."

And you thought Republicans didn't do drugs.

Novak: Large number of Dem insiders believe Obama will be '08 nominee

Nuggets from Bob Novak's takes on the recent Democratic and Republican debates in New Hampshire:

* Sen. Hillary Clinton, whom Novak accidentally identifies as a Republican, "never looked better physically," he writes.  "She is slow-walking her way toward the nomination, which is often a path leading to defeat."

* Why defeat?  Because Novak reveals that "[t]here are a surprisingly large number of Democratic insiders who now believe [Sen. Barack] Obama will be the nominee."  He says Limbaugh's Magic Negro is "still a little rough around the edges, but getting better."

* On Gov. Bill Richardson, Novak has less than stellar things to say.  Oh, who'm I kidding, he rips him a new one.  To wit: "He appeared totally unprepared at the debate.  It was a continuation of his disastrous performance on NBC's 'Meet the Press' last Sunday -- perhaps the worst performance in the show's history."  Ouch.  There's more... "Longtime Richardson-watchers say he has been flying by the seat of his pants his whole career, and this time he crashed and burned."

* And that brings us to Novak's odds-on favorite to succeed King George, Sen. Fred Thompson.  Novak just can't gush enough about Uncle Hulka, despite the fact that Thompson wasn't at the debate since he hasn't even announced yet, and trails in most polls.  Looking into his crystal ball, Novak matter-of-factly asserts, "Thompson now leads in the futures markets, with Giuliani and Romney close behind and McCain a distant fourth place."  We could truncate that sentence to simply, "Thompson now leads ... with Giuliani," because as I mentioned before, that will be the 2008 GOP ticket if Karl Rove has his way, and he's certainly already clued in his friend Bob.