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Archives for May 2008
Preakness Open Thread
Have at it.
BTW- apparently Tom Harkin made some remarks about McCain filtering everything through his military experiences:
Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s family background as the son and grandson of admirals has given him a worldview shaped by the military, “and he has a hard time thinking beyond that,” Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Ia., said Friday.
“I think he’s trapped in that,” Harkin said in a conference call with Iowa reporters. “Everything is looked at from his life experiences, from always having been in the military, and I think that can be pretty dangerous.”
Ruh roh. You know what that means. Off to the fainting couches for the keyboard commandoes. Assrocket calls it an outrageous attack, Gateway Pundit claims Harkin “blasted” McCain. Captain Ed weighed in, but I have to be honest, I didn’t read it. Powerline and the Gateway Pundit were enough stupid for me.
Is there a bigger bunch of pansies than right wing bloggers? They can spend years hammering the opposition, lying about them and calling them traitors, and someone makes a fairly harmless remark and they just go insane. Well, more insane.
Super Delegates
I don’t know if you have been paying attention, but the flow of delegates to Obama appears to have tapered off the past two days. The last I saw go to him was this fellow, and I have not heard anything since, which means that the Obama campaign has this choreographed perfectly.
CNN has Obama at 1904 total delegates, 121 shy of the 2025 needed, so rather than have it appear that the supers put him over the top, they are going to let his delegate pickups from Oregon and Kentucky launch him past the point where there is no way Hillary can overcome his pledged delegate majority, and the supers will push him over the finish line next week.
The Straight Talk Express
This is entertaining- watch McCain try to explain his peyote fueled vision from the other day:
We are dealing with crazy people.
Another Open Thread
Handle it, Roy.
***Update ***
BTW- hard-core gaming dorks will want to know that Death and Taxes broke up. Xi posted the guild GBCW here.
Open Thread
Stupid Things People Say
Mike Huckabee’s turn:
During a speech before the National Rifle Association convention Friday afternoon in Louisville, Kentucky, former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee — who has endorsed presumptive GOP nominee John McCain — joked that an unexpected offstage noise was Democrat Barack Obama looking to avoid a gunman.
“That was Barack Obama, he just tripped off a chair, he’s getting ready to speak,” said the former Arkansas governor, to audience laughter. “Somebody aimed a gun at him and he dove for the floor.”
I am sure this will get a great deal of play over the next few days, and obviously with RFK and JFK and MLK in our nation’s collective history, it is quite clear why this is not only a gaffe, but offensive.
Having said that, maybe I just have a soft spot for Mike Huckabee, or maybe I am just a sucker, or maybe it is because I have a history of saying stupid things I immediately regretted, I am willing to bet he will offer not only an effusive apology and explanation, but an apology is sincere and heartfelt. He knows he screwed up, and he will own this and do the right thing, I am betting.
Additionally, to all the people who are going to freak out about this remarks- yes, it is offensive. But how offensive is it in the big scheme of things? Personally, watching Mike Huckabee make this stupid remark in an off-the-cuff and unscripted gaffe tells me a lot less about him that watching George Bush go to the heart of the Israeli government, and in a scripted event read from a card, lecturing the descendants of the Holocaust about appeasement and Hitler for some brief, cheap, domestic political gain.
Huckabee’s gaffe was an accident and, while unfortunate, is forgivable. Bush’s crass, calculated, and obnoxious rhetoric yesterday is not. We would be wise to remember which is worse.
*** Update ***
Huckabee blogs his apology.