"This is a farewell kiss, dog."
-- currently the most famous man in the world, Iraqi television journalist
Muthathar al Zaidi, after throwing his shoes at Dubya,
Excerpt: Many of the familiar figures and institutions
that should be permanently discredited by their roles in
the Clinton drama have emerged again to smear
Obama. Newsmax, the big right-wing Web site
founded by Richard Mellon Scaife, sugar daddy
of the Arkansas Project, dispatches daily news alerts
with blaring headlines: "Obama Birth Certificate
Battle Not Over" and "Obama, Blagojevich Tied to
Same 'Godfather.'" Rush Limbaugh,
who has never stopped hinting that the Clintons murdered
Vince Foster, no matter how many investigations
concluded that Foster's death was a tragic suicide,
now wonders how Obama could be unaware of "all
this stuff swirling around him."
Such are the "questions" darkening the great forensic
brains of the right. "Did Barack Obama's transition
team know this was going on? Heck, did Barack
Obama himself know this was going on?" demands radio
talker Neal Boortz. And asking a question is
tantamount to winning a conviction, or at least an indictment,
according to the perverse norms of discourse
established during the last Democratic administration
-- or what my friend and coauthor Gene Lyons
calls 'the Clinton rules.'
We knew this would happen. The Nazi right will vilify Obama and they'll
fabricate
scandal after scandal just like they did with the Clintons.
The worst part is - the Left will believe half of it - just like they
did with the Clintons.
In eight years, Obama will hated by the Left - because we eat our own.
Excerpt: Michael Savage: "The children's minds are being
raped by the homosexual mafia": Responding to a caller
who said, "I had to explain to my young son why
these two men were holding hands the other day,"
Savage stated, "You've got to explain to the
children why God told people this was wrong. You have to
explain this to them in this time of mental rape
that's going on. The children's minds are being raped by
the homosexual mafia, that's my position. They're
raping our children's minds."
Why do homophobes always use that colorful language, "raping our children's
minds" and
"ramming it down our throats" when discussing the subject of honest,
law-abiding gay Americans?
Maybe Savage hates gays so much because he hates himself?
"Do you want Obama, the guy who has his finger
on our nuclear trigger to be dying for a smoke? All irritable, his nerves
and famously smooth temper on edge? Do you want to die because President Obama
is dying for a smoke?
-- Ron Rosenbaum, auditioning for a show on FOX News, Link
Colin Powell gave his endorsement to Obama. Was
this not the same Colin Powell that helped Bush
sell the war in attacking Iraq? Yes! Afterwards
those on the left that were so anti-Hillary opened their
arms to old Colin when he endorsed Obama. And
that is the damn problem with Democrats.
Bill Clinton gave this country 8 years of peace
and prosperity but one would not know it because
the damn Dems do not talk it up. Unlike Republicans
that have made Reagan into a saint, the Dems
hardly ever give mention to Clinton and his 8
years. When one looks at the record of both Reagan
and Clinton, it is Clinton that had the best
8 years but here again the Dems do not voice it.
You are correct.
Many Democrats look at the Clinton years the
same way FOX News does.
Now we have many of the players that were hooked
up to the Clinton administration and those on the
far left are going apey because Obama is calling
on them once again to help get this country back on track.
Hell yes it is change.
If I were Dems I would be shouting out loud how
great the Clinton years were and how Obama is doing
his best to set the stage for a major recovery
in this country. But, I suspect the Dems are more like
Dave McCurdy who ran against Inhofe in 94 and
act as though they never heard of Presdient Clinton.
Well Bart, I had to rant, but you have been dead
solid perfect on your assessment
during the primary and afterwards. You do give
great hammer Bart.
Happy Holidays.
David in Mississippi.
Excerpt: Bush is ending his presidency in aggressive fashion,
with a swath of controversial measures
designed to reward supporters and enrage opponents.
By the time he leaves, he will have issued a record
number of so-called 'midnight regulations'
- so called because of the stealthy way they
appear on the rule books - to undermine Obama,
many of which could take years to undo.
It figures...
Somehow, Bush has the power to stack the deck, but the Democrats never
do.
Why don't both parties have the same rules?
Why didn't Clinton do what Bush is doing?
Sometimes I wish the gelding Dems weren't so "honorable."
"I'm getting regular death threats. You've
put my home address on national television. I'm pissed at the
networks. You've intruded too much."
-- Rahm Emanuel, to whore reporters stalking him at his house,
Link
Doesn't it figure?
After eight years of playing with themselves while the biggest crimes
in American history
were being committed right under their WHORE noses, now the sons
of bitches are back on the job,
hounding innocent Democrats BECAUSE THAT'S THEIR FUCKING JOB.
Excerpt: "Obama will not be the next president. I said
that if he lost to expect to see the 'riots' that
2 Peter 2:13 tells us about. He didn't lose.
But the story is not finished yet. I still think they
may begin the riots before Christmas 2008, as
I said."
These riots, according to his prophecy, will encourage
the "old, hard-line Soviet guard" to
seize the moment and rain down nukes on the United
States, killing at least 100 million of us.
Excerpt: I act like a world-weary veteran of politics,
but I can still be shocked. I thought the RNC's huffing and
puffing about how the Rod Blagojevich scandal
will hurt Barack Obama would be seen for the desperate
political posturing it is. When Americans are
lying to pollsters about the fact that they voted for Bush,
you know the GOP has big problems it can't deflect
by attacking Obama.
But I was wrong.
Cable news continues to hyperventilate over the
possible damage Blagojevich may cause to Obama.
Even though the only thing we know about the
scandal is that Blagojevich is caught on tape ranting
obscenely that Obama won't pay-to-play on the
issue of his Senate seat – we're being subjected to
endless rounds of "what did Obama (or his staff)
know, and when did they know it?" in the media."
Doesn't it figure?
After eight years of playing with themselves while the biggest crimes
in American history
were being committed right under their WHORE noses, now thE sons
of bitches are back on the job,
hounding innocent Democrats BECAUSE THAT'S THEIR FUCKING JOB.
Excerpt: To anyone who lived through the media feeding
frenzy of the 1990s, during which the nation's
leading news organizations spent the better part
of a decade destroying their own credibility by
relentlessly hyping a series of non-scandals,
the past few days, in which the media have tried to
shoehorn Barack Obama into the Rod Blagojevich
scandal, have been sickeningly familiar.
Whenever reporters think -- or want you to think
-- they've uncovered a presidential scandal,
they waste little time in comparing it to previous
controversies. Yesterday, CNN's Rick Sanchez
tried desperately to get the phrase "Blagogate"
to stick -- the latest in an annoying post-Watergate
pattern of ham-handed efforts to hype a scandal
by appending the suffix "-gate" to the end of a word.
The Americam whore press laid down for Bush while he got 4200 soldiers
killed, dismantled the
Constitution and crashed the economy, but Obama's a villian because
he refused to be corrupt?
I finally had the opportunity to listen to BCR
147. It was fabulous (although I can’t recall one
that wasn’t).
And yes, I wonder every day how I got into a party
of f-ing whiners and losers
who don’t stand up for you and me. I just
know that if we stop, they have won
and I’m not up for that. So, on I go. I’m right
here with you, every step of the way.
Thanks for making things bearable for me as we
travel this path in solidarity.
JL
Excerpt: If the Democratic Party intends to get serious
about governing, (Should he bother finishing
that sentence?) it can start by disabling the Republican filibuster
that gives the minority party in the Senate a virtual veto over
anything it wants to kill. The chatter in Washington
assumes that since Democrats failed to gain a sixty-seat
majority, there's nothing they can do. But that's
not true. Democrats can change the rules and remove a
malignant obstacle from the path of our new president.
Given the emergency conditions facing the nation,
why should Mitch McConnell and his right-wing
colleagues get to decide what the Senate may vote on?
They could, but they probably won't.
As I've said 1,000 times, Democrats MIGHT accept victory if it knocks
on their damn door,
but they will never actually work for it because they just don't care
enough to try.
Excerpt: Chris Beam unfurled a beloved Beltway CW as way
to prop up the breathless Blago story in terms of it
being an 'Obama scandal.'...the key point was
that presidents always have to release all embarrassing
information. Immediately. It’s the only way to
make a story go away. It’s the only way to get the press
to back off. And if presidents (or president-elects)
don’t immediately disclose every morsel of information,
the tenacious Beltway press is never going to
be satisfied.
To that I have a two word response: Harken Energy.
Think back to when that embarrassing presidential
scandal broke in 2002. Did Bush instantly reveal
every Harken-related fact, figure, time and date?
Did the White House do everything it could to make
sure journalists had as much relevant information
as possible and do it in a timely fashion? Please…
Actually, the rules being applied to the Democrat
today are exactly like the ones that applied to Clinton
the Democrat in the 1990’s. Yet for some miraculous
reason the same rules did not apply to Bush the
Republican, and people like Beam play dumb about
it.
I can't tell you how many times I re-read that
transcript last weekend.
I get the biggest kick out of hearing politics
in its purest form.
I can't stand most political speeches because
everyone knows it's all crap,
but this private conversation shows the real
underbelly of politics and it's fascinating.
I mentioned this before, but have you ever seen
Entourage
on
HBO?
Ari Gold, one of the most foul-mouthed characters
in YV history is allegedly
modeled after Rahm's brother, Ari
Emanuel, who is a big-time Hollywood agent.
When I read that transcript, I keep hearing Jeremy
Piven, who plays Ari Gold.
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