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

Million-Years McCain and the answer to a stupid question

While CNN et al. were busy going ga-ga over Mike Huckabee's trouncing of Mitt Romney et al. on the GOP side, Barack Obama was steadily putting a similar distance between himself and the rest of the Democrats in a state that is almost 95% white. Hopefully this at last provides a definitive answer to the dumbest question still being asked by corporate media: "Is America ready for a black president?" Yes, America is ready. Are the media? Are the other Democrats in the race? And for that matter, is the black Democratic establishment? You'll all be left behind. Get with the times.

Here is Obama's compelling Iowa victory speech.



And while the caucus thingie was going on, GOP contender John McCain, who about tied for third among Republicans in Iowa, had something quite startling to say about Iraq while campaigning in New Hampshire today. He interrupted someone recalling that President Bush envisions U.S. forces in Iraq for 50 more years with, "Maybe a hundred [years]." He continued, "That's fine with me, I hope that would be fine with you, if we maintain a presence in a very volatile part of the world where al-Qaeda is training and equipping and recruiting and motivating people every single day." Video below. Notice that "Independent Democrat" Sen. Joe Lieberman is standing behind him.



David Corn asked McCain about his assertion afterward and says McCain told him American troops "could be in Iraq for 'a thousand years' or 'a million years,' as far as he was concerned." Hey, why not shoot for a googolplex, Senator? You gotta think big.

UPDATE 04 JAN 2008: It's up to ten million years now, per the AP.

ADD'L ADD'L 04 JAN 2008: McCain's also hip to having Lieberman "play a part" in his cabinet, "particularly in national security issues."

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.