I Love The Daily Show
August 26th, 2008
Via C&L, via Tennesseefree:
Ha! I wonder if they have a similar one in Denver…
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Attention Whore, or Just An Idiot?
August 26th, 2008
You decide. More on the Clinton supporter in the McCain ad. As far as I can tell, this is sour grapes, and she’s doing it out of pure spite. If she could name just two substantive issues where McCain’s position is closer to Clinton’s than Obama’s is, I might understand. Of course, it would be foolish to expect anyone in the media to actually ask that question.
Quoth the woman:
every time I tried to learn about [Obama] he seems to change his mind on a lot of the issues
Err, have you ever “tried to learn” about McCain? He’s “changed his mind” on everything from tax cuts to torture to social security privatization. And it’s no coincidence, I think, that he’s changed his mind in the less-mavericky direction. A partial list of McCain flip-flops.
Cross-posted at Tennesseefree.
UPDATE: Did anyone see The Daily Show’s bit on the Clinton Supporters for McCain? They actually talked to a child behavior expert about how to deal with kids who refuse to play nice, then tried the tactics on the Clinton supporters. Hilarious!
Another One For Digglahhh
August 26th, 2008
Warning: Racist Humor Inside.
Categories: Humor, I do too have a life | 1 Comment
Michelle Obama’s Speech
August 26th, 2008
That was a very, very good speech. Despite the campaign ads and the talking heads nonsense, the Obama’s are an incredible, uniquely American story. They came form less than privileged backgrounds — no Admiral in the family to smooth the way for Barack, no rich daddy to make things easier for Michelle — and they worked very hard to be where they are. It is a remarkable, deeply American story that resonates, I think, with people who have had to work for a living, have had to struggle to get where they are in the world. Barack Obama, despite the opinion of the millionaire wignut welfare brigade, is as American as apple pie. Michelle Obama did a fantastic job reminding people of that last night.
But her speech was more than just that. When she talked about building the country that should be, she was getting to the heart of the campaign. John McCain really is just more of the same. he basically wants to continue the foreign policy and economic policies that the Bush Administration has followed for the last eight years. he thinks things are fine, with maybe a little tweaking. The country as it is, according to McCain, is basically as it should be. I don’t think that, obviously. hard work doe snot pay as it should. Our foreign policy is stupid and counter-productive. Discrimination of various forms are still a large problem. The rich are getting richer and everyone else is getting poorer. It is getting harder to send your kids to a doctor or to a college. The world should not be this way.
And it doesn’t have to. No matter how entrenched the interests seem to be, no matter how much money and political power the status quo has, not matter how long this predator state has been in existence, it does not have to be this way. It can be made to change. Bowing to a crown, keeping another man as a slave, holding a women in a house as a virtual child: at one time, men could say “that is the way the world is”. And now they represent the way the world was. It does not have to be this way. It is, I think, one of the most powerful notions in human events and the Obamas seem to understand that at a fundamental level. That, more than the stories of their lives, more than the genuine emotion with which Michelle talked about their past and their dreamed for future, more than even their adorable kids (okay, maybe not more than that), is what struck me about Michelle’s speech. Their lives have taught them that the worlkd is not as it should be and that we can do something about that.
