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Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.

I’m more christian than these people and i’m an atheist.

We do not need to pander to people who do not like what we stand for.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

This really is a full service blog.

Also, are you sure you want people to rate your comments?

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

No one could have predicted…

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

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  1. 1.

    Asti

    Wow John and you got top billing in the credits. How COOL is that?

    That video is a thing of beauty. :)

  2. 2.

    KCinDC

    I haven’t watched the whole thing, but I really hate that it twice talks about the Pledge of Allegiance (including once by Dan Abrams), which as far as I’m aware isn’t involved in any of the truthy allegations about Obama. He didn’t put his hand over his heart during the national anthem, which isn’t something that I’d normally do either. But these attacks mutate faster than you can get the story out, helped along by mistakes like Abrams’.

  5. 5.

    cmoreNC

    BRAVO !

    I’m sure that if this successfully goes viral, within 24 hours the GOP will successfully distract the mainstream media with a planted rumor campaign of their own that Hillary Clinton is a closet Wiccan, and that Vince Foster’s death was actually caused when he attended a ceremonial worship coven with the Clintons, and she mistakenly gave him the wrong sacramental potion that made him suicidal instead of meditative.

  6. 6.

    Jen

    Unfortunately due to the kiddos I can’t hear Randy Newman without Pixar associations. I keep expecting to see Buzz Lightyear in his lapel pin. It’s great though. Could’ve safely moved a little bit faster since it doesn’t have to be at Republican reading speed — would be my only improvement.

  8. 8.

    Jen

    I just read the strangest Bill Clinton quote:

    “The country is groaning and moaning and screaming for change to turn this country around and get it working again.”

    Substitute about two words and he’s talking about a breech birth. I don’t think he’s getting enough sleep.

  9. 9.

    Caidence (fmr. Chris)

    Meh, I’m unimpressed.

    Why were they pointing at former-House-Rep criminals wearing their Congressional pins when they were in Congress?

    Underwhelming.

  10. 10.

    Asti

    Substitute about two words and he’s talking about a breech birth. I don’t think he’s getting enough sleep.

    Hey, what do you have against breech births? I happen to have been born ass first, got a problem with that?

  11. 11.

    demimondian

    cmoreNC — that is a filthy lie! She gave him the right potion — she has experience with this kind of thing, you know — but once he became meditative, he immediately saw the utter emptiness of his life, and chose to seek nirvana.

  12. 12.

    Jen

    I happen to have been born ass first, got a problem with that?

    Yo’ mama might have. Give her a hug for me.

  13. 13.

    JGabriel

    Shorter Jack Kingston:

    I mean, look at Obama’s full name. Did you know that… if you spell his name backwards you get ‘Amabo’? Look at that, will you? Backwards, forwards, no matter which way you turn it, you got vowels on both sides.

    That’s just dang’d sinister.

  14. 14.

    Asti

    Yo’ mama might have. Give her a hug for me.

    I’ll need a shovel to dig her up first. I think the hug is probably a bad idea considering I could get arrested for such things.

  16. 16.

    Dug Jay

    That’s not as good or current as the tape of the Obama news conference in Texas today. Obama couldn’t handle the questions about his long time close relationship with Tony Rezko and walked out of the conference after about 8 questions by his own account.

    Hmmm. It appears that the local [Chicago] press has managed to do what the national media could not — treat Obama as a politician and not a secular messiah. They asked tough questions about Obama’s political connections to a fixer and his campaign’s outright false answers on an Obama adviser’s contacts with Canadian diplomats regarding Obama’s rhetoric on NAFTA. Instead of handling the questions calmly and patiently, Obama accused the media of having an agenda against him, and then angrily stalked off.

    ……….

    Many people profess concern that McCain lacks the proper temperament for the presidency. Instead, they should wonder just how a President Obama would deal with the press and with the accountability that comes with the office. If today’s press conference gives any indication, it looks like Obama has some temper and judgment issues of his own — or that the questions strike a little too close to home.

  17. 17.

    Asti

    Oh, she doesn’t need a candle, she was pretty well lit the last 40 years of her life. I’m sure she’s still shining six feet under.

  19. 19.

    ThymeZone

    Many people profess concern that McCain lacks the proper temperament for the presidency. Instead, they should wonder just how a President Obama would deal with the press

    Oh absolutely. People across the country are letting it be known that handling the press is their number one issue hot button. For example, most people want a president that shrugs and snickers at the press and makes jokes about WMDs and stuff like that, stuff that irritates the people because they don’t like to see a president bothered with those type of questions. They like to see a president talk tough and tell the press to take a hike. In other words a president like the one we have now.

  23. 23.

    Asti

    Spelling? Dug Jay can’t even spell his own name right, I wouldn’t worry too much about spelling.

    shhhhh, it’s not Dug Jay I’m worried about, it’s demi ;)

    (you’ll need to check out the next thread down for that inside joke).

    just kidding demi.

  24. 24.

    jake

    If it wears a pin it belongs in the pen. Congrats John.

    This is far more substantive than those irresponsible rumors about Jackoff Kingston wearing his patriot bling as a nipple ring. Just take the man’s “word” for it:

    Ah duu got wun and Ah duu ware wun when Ah have wun but I don’t got none riteyer at this ‘ticular moment, hyuck, hyuck, hyuck! [spit]

    Fucking dumbass Uncle Brother Cousin.

  26. 26.

    r€nato

    Christ, every single time I see that smarmy sack of shit Kingston peddling his GOP bullshit, I just want to wipe that glib fucking grin off his putrid, lying face.

    Does that make me a bad person?

  28. 28.

    The Other Steve

    Speaking of stupidity… Apparently bush’s answer to the problems in Palestine was to back a covert military group tied to Fatah, launching a civil war in Gaza which resulted in the entrenchment of Hamas.

    Within the Bush administration, the Palestinian policy set off a furious debate. One of its critics is David Wurmser, the avowed neoconservative, who resigned as Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief Middle East adviser in July 2007, a month after the Gaza coup.

    Wurmser accuses the Bush administration of “engaging in a dirty war in an effort to provide a corrupt dictatorship [led by Abbas] with victory.” He believes that Hamas had no intention of taking Gaza until Fatah forced its hand. “It looks to me that what happened wasn’t so much a coup by Hamas but an attempted coup by Fatah that was pre-empted before it could happen,” Wurmser says.

  29. 29.

    Asti

    Does that make me a bad person?

    Why would that make you a bad person? His pride is a sin! You’re just helping him get to heaven. ;)

  32. 32.

    jake

    Does that make me a bad person?

    A bad person wouldn’t want to bitch slap him into last week.

  33. 33.

    TR

    Great idea, but yeah, the images need to be all flag pins. The Larry Craig one is terrific.

    Here’s one of DeLay on Hannity and Colmes. Looks like Hannity is anti-American too.

  35. 35.

    BettyPageisaBlonde

    Does that make me a bad person

    Only if you’re NOT wearing a flag pin. Otherwise, knock yourself out, you bit ‘ol patriot you!

  38. 38.

    myiq2xu

    Very good John!

    Now how about dealing with some of the real issues concerning Obama?

  39. 39.

    Perry Como

    To the person that did the video (and obviously reads Balloon Juice) … you have a comedy goldmine there, but it lacks a certain panache.

  42. 42.

    merlallen

    He’s the same idiot who wants to post the 10 Commandments everywhere.
    He only knew 3 of them when asked to name them.

  43. 43.

    TR

    Very good John!

    Now how about dealing with some of the real issues concerning Obama?

    If only there were a blog of your own where you could discuss whatever these “real issues” are yourself.

    Or, for that matter, if only there were a comment section here where you could raise them.

    Oh, to live in such a world.

  44. 44.

    Greg

    Sadly, it seems that in the majority of those shots the individuals are wearing their Congressional pins NOT an american flag pin. They all have to wear congressional pins – thats how they are identified in the Capitol and Office Buildings

  45. 45.

    jake

    Hey John, who made this? Do they wish to remain anonymous for fear Larry Craig will look through their bathroom window?

    “Kingston”… sounds like he has a drop or two of Tory ^Jamaican blood in him.

    OMG! RASTAMAN SMOKING WEED IN THE CAPITOLZ!

    thats how they are identified in the Capitol and Office Buildings

    It’s true! You don’t need the electronic ID tag, just a damn pin. That whole thing with Cynthia “Cell Phone” McKinney was because she wasn’t wearing her lapel pin. Really, try it! Get a blank brass pin from any craft store, some enamel paint and make your own pin. It doesn’t have to be completely accurate because the guards will have to sniff your aftershave to get close enough to inspect the thing. Then put on your best suit and you too can wander the Corridors of Power unhindered!

    Pfffffffffffft!

  46. 46.

    elf

    Caidence (fmr. Chris) Says:

    Meh, I’m unimpressed.

    Why were they pointing at former-House-Rep criminals wearing their Congressional pins when they were in Congress?

    Underwhelming.

    Sorry don’t know how to put his quote in a “block” but this comment just shows how these so called Congressman were shoving it up your ass Caidence while they held office and you loved everyminute of it ..idjut!

    Me, I cried

  47. 47.

    Seitz

    There’s a typo in the video (I think). On the Larry Craig item, it say “you should always wear a lapel pin when flying in to to Minneapolis.”

    Unless that’s a joke I’m missing.

  48. 48.

    boctaoe

    Gotta get to Balloon Juice faster. The video is gone and I know I would have loved it

  49. 49.

    SP

    Who the fuck cares about some stupid flag pin? Does patriotism mean adherence to specific symbols only?

    If this is all they have to go after Obama with, he will wipe the floor with these redneck motherfuckers.

  51. 51.

    bernarda

    I bet that Rethug Jack Kingston also has a magnetic yellow ribbon for his SUV too but he just forgot to stick it on.

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