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Quote of the Day
“It’s like these guys take pride in being ignorant.”– Barack Obama,discussing the tire gauge idiocy from the GOP.
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Angling For the Female Vote
Via TPM, John McCain, at the Sturgis Rally:
Indeed, McCain felt so comfortable at the event that he even volunteered his wife for the rally’s traditional beauty pageant, an infamously debauched event that’s been known to feature topless women.
“I encouraged Cindy to compete,” McCain said to cheers. “I told her with a little luck she could be the only woman ever to serve as first lady and Miss Buffalo Chip.”
Clearly Obama has a problem with women voters.
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From the comments:
So what if McCain volunteered his wife for a debauched, misogynistic event and also called her a c**t and a trollop?
Obama said “periodically”! ! !
I am waiting for Susie Tompkins Buell to weigh in with her deep and important thoughts.
You Answered Your Own Damned Question
McCain himself has acknowledged that conservation is an important part of his strategy to achieve energy security.
On June 17, in a speech on energy security in Houston, the senator from Arizona said:
In the face of climate change and other serious challenges, energy conservation is no longer just a moral luxury or a personal virtue. Conservation serves a critical national goal.So if conservation is so vital to the national well-being, as McCain says, why ridicule a conservation method as simple but effective as proper tire inflation?
How does Frank James start his piece? As such:
Now that many of us have had a good laugh following Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign’s use of tire-inflation gauges as weapons of mass distraction against Sen. Barack Obama…
You answered your own question, you enabling twit. “Ha ha ha, Obama is so out of touch. Look at the fun we are having with tire gauges. Hey- wait. Maybe he is right?”
Simpletons.
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Was I unfair to James? From the comments:
I guess I don’t get what’s wrong with James’s column. Yeah, he writes, “Now that many of us have had a good laugh,” but “many of us” is what someone writes when he means “many of you” and doesn’t want to come off like a prick. From there on in the entire column is critical of McCain. Even in that same sentence you’ve got James calling the tire gauges “weapons of mass distraction.”
I don’t understand why anyone would care if they came across as a prick to, well, pricks. They deserve it.
Scott Beauchamp Was Full of Shit
Our soldiers would never do anything like this:
Clearly what you saw did not actually happen, because it is not SOP to run over cars. Anyone with a little bit of military training can tell you that is something is not SOP, it never happens.
Open Thread
Have at it.
Interesting Name Choice
This is mildly amusing:
Sen. Evan Bayh’s staff softball team, The Bayh Partisans, has cancelled the game it had scheduled for tomorrow evening with the drug policy team The One Hitters. Bayh staffer Jonathan Stahler sent One Hitter team captain Kris Krane an e-mail Monday morning citing “[t]oo many people out of town” as the reason for the cancellation.
I can’t be the only one who recognizes that the term “one-hitter” has meaning outside of baseball.