When I first saw this headline, McCain addresses economy in Obama’s backyard, I actually had to read the story to assure myself that McCain didn’t hire Michelle Malkin and company and, you know, really set up shop in Obama’s actual backyard.
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dslak
I demand funnier jokes.
bub
Git off ma lawn!!
Tax Analyst
So how is the economy of Obama’s backyard? Could McCain (aka “Straight-talk McFlawed” and his doppleganger, “Babble-hooey”) see Obama’s counter-tops from the backyard?
Can he run with Obama in the Belmont, or is a mile-and-a-half just too far for the old fart-faced gasbag?
This is important stuff, so Inquiring Minds wanna know.
Billy K
Obama: Lawn Jockey or Lawn Gnome kinda guy?
Barbara
I went to graduate school with someone from my hometown who later ran for Congress. For some reason he decided to stake out his opponent’s house with a helicopter, at night. Maybe he suspected that the person was growing marijuana, something strange like that? The reaction was not good.
Needless to say, the move backfired rather badly and he was not elected.
Punchy
I’m now wondering if my dad is there at the speech. I’m dead serious. I know he dislikes Yawn McCane, but let’s just say that Obama’s “D” isn’t the worst thing about Obama in my dad’s opinion.
Sigh.
Tax Analyst
I’m thinking a little statue of Dick Cheney with a shotgun in an Elmer Fudd-esque pose.
I guess that would be the “Lawn Gnome” thing…kinda…
ThymeZone
Mister Magoo on the economy:
mrrichardfeder
Theirs –
Ours –
jake
No way. Obama is a big angry scary islamanegro.
Billy K
No way. Obama is a big angry scary ATHEIST islamanegro ELITE.
FIX’D
Dulcie
Lawn Jockey painted half black and half white
Jen
Y’know, I’m startin’ to like this Obama guy…
joe
Not only is he an atheist, Muslimist elite, but he attends a scary ghetto church.
Hmm, that doesn’t make any sense.
I know: we don’t know who Barack Obama really is!
joe
Ever see Michelle Obama speak at a live event?
She is an ass-kicking good speaker, and not in that “brilliant orator” sort of way, like her husband, but like a neighborhood type who makes the whole room feel like she gets them.
They need to get her out there MORE, so that people already have an image of her before the GOPers try to paint their picture.
Tax Analyst
Well, he’s no Michael Dukakis, that’s for sure.
Thank our Hokey Smokes for that.
Yes, I’m liking the Senator from Illinois more and more as events occur and the candidates step forward and reveal more of themselves. Especially when compared to Senator McLame’s borderline psychotic ramblings and temper-rants.
nightjar
That well known KKK’er Robert Byrd has come out to endorse Obama. Take note wingnuts, demonizing Senator Byrd will never be the same. I do love it so.
J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford
Visit Hillaryis44.
Dennis - SGMM
From the article:
Huh? How did they get years of gains from trade agreements that haven’t been approved yet? Dodderer.
Punchy
What the hell is “arugula”? I saw it in a comment over at S,N, and dont get it. And I dont trust those yuks to give a straight answer.
Halteclere
Can we have a presumptive First Lady debate?
Tax Analyst
Well, “Duh”, Dennis. Didn’t you know McClame was a Time-Traveller?
He’s already been to the future and determined we will be victorious in Iraq in 2013 and all sorts of other good stuff.
In the year 2525 that old Zager & Evans song will be credited to John McCain, 44th, 77th and 132nd President’s of the Nation formerly known as the United States of America, but now (in 2525) known as “McCainamericanistan”.
American workers will no longer work in America. They will work in China and they will aspire to the standard of living of the Chinese worker, which will still be abysmal.
Or maybe not.
nightjar
nightjar
Wow, wee I sure screwed up that comment, or WP did.
Barbara
It’s the Italian word for a kind of lettuce that the Italians translate into English as “rocket” lettuce, because its leaves are long and narrow and shaped like rockets. It’s ubiquitous in Italy, where they serve it raw on pizza, and it’s extremely easy to grow. It’s not more expensive than any other kind of lettuce so I don’t know what the fuss is about, most likely the foreign name.
If you want to be elitist, ask for “microgreens” or even better, watercress soup or mache (with a carat over the a). Those are way more elitist than arugula.
cleek
it’s a leafy green vegetable so exotic that you can get it at McDonald’s. it’s a component of every “mixed green” salad you’ll ever find.
it’s every bit as exotic as that elitist Italian coffee drink, “espresso”, which you can also get at McDonald’s.
Billy K
Google is your friend.
(Me, not so much.)
Punchy
My point was deeper; i.e., what it had to do with politics. I saw it w/r/t to Obama. Lemmie guess: he ate lettuce, reporters ref’d it as “arugula”, and The Confeddy Patriot blew a sphincter over it as elitist?
Or am I way off?
peach flavored shampoo
And McCain’ll use it in the Northeast as “arugula” to paint him as a snob, and then it’ll become “collard greens” when he’s stumping in Mississippi to paint him as a Poor Scary Negro. And to think a friggin’ salad could determine this election.
Where has Tim F. been lately?
Dulcie
Obama was talking to some arugula farmers in Iowa in the run up to the primary, and he asked them if they’d seen the price of arugula at Whole Foods. This caused the Hillbots and the wingnuts to have a hissy fit (mostly about his Whole Foods reference), and they started calling him an elitist shortly afterward.
Jen
It won’t. When people are working and their hospital bills are paid, they might have time to fret about lettuce. Even the mainstay cultural wedge issues that make all rational people bang their heads in frustration — stem cells, flag-burning, prayer in schools, teh [email protected]!! — have been airbrushed out of the platform in a desperate attempt to focus on something voters might actually care about. Note to NRCC: 5 months before the election, and 7.5 years after Bush, might be just a smidgeon too late to retool, as it were.
Jen
Note also: ghey at !!-have is not a real email address. Overenthusiastic typing, I’m amused that it hyperlinked it.
mellowjohn
arugula?!?!?
c’mon, people. can we stick to what’s really important? like flag pins!
SamFromUtah
…a desperate attempt to focus on something voters might actually care about.
Well put. I’m having a good time with this Republican “change” branding. I think the slogan should be:
Everything is just fine, and we’re the only ones who can fix it.
kid bitzer
say, has everyone seen the great column by kathleen parker in today’s chicago tribune?
it’s a lovely example of the smiley-faced racism we’re going to be seeing more and more of!
without actually saying, outright, “don’t vote for obama! he’s black!”, she instead tells us that opposition to obama is the natural outcome of the fact that he is not “full-blooded”, and that real americans won’t vote for people like him who do not have the right “bloodlines” and the right “heritage”.
it is really one of the most charming aryan screeds i’ve read since goebbels put down his pen. and it’s in the trib!
jebus. it’s going to be a long campaign. and a lot of deep-seated american ugliness is going to bubble up before we’re done.
joe
It’s true. He’s come here from the past.
Sirkowski
Didn’t you hear? McCain totally dissed Malkin.
cleek
she’s quite the piece of shit… here’s how she smelled in 2003:
Tax Analyst
And with any luck we can help him find his way back in November.
Anybody remember the old “Willoughby” episode of Twilight Zone?
Garrigus Carraig
FAIL. I got no problems with Delta Force, but mebbe they should stick to deltaforcing.
Billy K
Barry has been wearing his flag pin, so we’re struck with arugula for now.
Dennis - SGMM
“Willoughby! Next stop Willoughby!”
I have personally traveled forward in time from 1948.
calipygian
Kathleen Parker also writes at K-Lo’s House of Crazy. I can only conclude that NRO supports Kathleen Parker’s blood and soil platform.
Calouste
More Republican stupid: (via the GOS)
Now, except for the minor facts that a) McCain DID denounce the US under torture, b) Jesus DID ask on the cross why God had foresaken him and c) this is pretty much blasphemy, it is a brlliant statement.
Tax Analyst
The “forward” part works pretty easily, at least for most folks (not sure about McCain, though).
1950 to present para mi.
Face
PLUS
EQUALS
Fail. Serious Fail.
cbear
Anybody remember the old “Mayberry” episode where Barney was begging Andy to let him have a bullet for his pistol?
Tax Analyst
John McCain as “Barney Fife”? Sir, you do Mr. Fife a grave injustice if you are making such an assertion.
Oy vey! If McCain were somehow to be elected he would have TONS of bullets at his disposal.