Can We Trust McCain?

Mmmmm.....I think not.

UMMMMMMMMMMMMM

some crazy at dailykos (a liberal blog for crazies) thinks barack obama is a mythic hero, hillary clinton is medusa, and barack is destined to save the planet by severing hillary clinton's head, etc etc etc. read the whole thing for a big dose of crazy, etc etc etc.

i really hope am really glad that this is satire. because if it wasn't, this post would just demonstrate that the far left, in its quest to manufacture a soothsaying wunderkind, will stop at nothing to destroy pragmatic politics and its purveyors. hillary clinton, for reasons left unclear, is medusa simply because she is, kind of like samantha power once said, "a monster that turns people into stone if they gaze upon her." and if that isn't enough, it's sooooo well-known (especially in the circle of prophesy-wielding crazies) that "Algol, Medussa's eye, has long been seen as one of the most malifec and evil stars in the heavens."

well, to quote an oft-used and tacky phrase, if loving medusa is wrong, i don't want to be right. i'd rather have a tested woman impervious to attacks than a man guided by perseus.

really, i like barack obama. but why do some of his supporters have to be so farcical?

UPDATE: duly noted, eva. samantha power did NOT say that hillary clinton was a "monster that turns people into stone if they gaze upon her"--that's from the dailykos entry, tenuously attributed by the comma that separates "is" and "like." i've added "kind of" to  emphasize the difference.

Heh Heh

This from the euphoniously monickered Rabbit Hussein Smorgasboard, over at TPM Cafe:

Fox and NBC are both calling it for Hillary.  

As a result, Obama will go into the remaining primaries with an insurmountable lead in pledged delegates, a strong lead in the popular vote, and a huge advantage in fundraising ability.

I had hoped that Obama could pull off a win here, and go into the remaining primaries with an insurmountable lead in pledged delegates, a strong lead in the popular vote, and a huge advantage in fundraising ability.  

I'm still holding out some hope that the results will be close enough that Obama will go into the remaining primaries with an insurmountable lead in pledged delegates, a strong lead in the popular vote, and a huge advantage in fundraising ability.  

I think that if Hillary wins by less than ten points then Obama will go into the remaining primaries with an insurmountable lead in pledged delegates, a strong lead in the popular vote, and a huge advantage in fundraising ability.

But if Hillary wins by more than ten points, then Obama go into the remaining primaries with an insurmountable lead in pledged delegates, a strong lead in the popular vote, and a huge advantage in fundraising ability.

It's white-knuckle time to be sure.

Hillary is F*cking Obama???

It's clear that there has been a wave of infidelity in our society. Ex-governor Eliot Spitzer. Current governor David Paterson (and his wife). Even two of our favorite celebrity couples, Jimmy Kimmel/Sarah Silverman and Matt Damon/Ben Affleck have failed to be faithful to each other.

Well now it has become evident that the two contenders for the Democratic Presidential Nomination, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, are closer than we may have thought...

Kristol's latest

From Kristol's NY Times column:

"Both have taken positions appropriate for the Democratic primaries — for a precipitous withdrawal from Iraq, against making it easier for telecommunications companies to cooperate with the government in spying on terrorists, for tax hikes and against a ban on partial-birth abortion — that should cause difficulties in a general election."

The--let me rephrase Kristol's formulation--"making it more difficult for telecom companies to get away with breaking the law" position that Obama and Clinton are taking is unlikely to hurt them in the general. Bill Foster just won Dennis Hastert's speech in a special election, in a pretty red district, and he did so while saying the following:

"The President and his allies in Congress are playing politics with national security, and that’s wrong. Nobody is above the law and telecom companies who engaged in illegal surveillance should be held accountable, not given retroactive immunity. I flatly oppose giving these companies an out for cooperating with Alberto Gonzalez on short-circuiting the FISA courts and the rule of law."

Was that so difficult? Even if people don't fully understand the issues in play here, it's easy to convince voters that the Republicans are full of crap on this if you just make the case. At this point it's easiest just to make a prima facie assumption that Republicans are lying until proven otherwise.

Oh, and by the way, Kristol ends his column in this way:

"But whomever he picks, and whatever issues he emphasizes, McCain should keep following Danton’s injunction: “Il faut de l’audace, encore de l’audace, toujours de l’audace.”

Pompous much?