Rubes! To the heights of spitflecked Faux Outrage! ArwOOt!

Sweet Gogueries of Dema, if Obama doesn’t POUND THE FREAKING JOWLJUICE out of McCain over this, he deserves to lose.

Class warfare, mofos. When McCain responds in kind, point out Obama earned his rather than inheriting and marrying into his.

Goddamn it rubes, all I asked for was a good food fight. ArwOOt!

I’d post youtubes here if I knew how to post youtubes here, but you can see the youtubes I did post on this post, including Obama’s quick response, HERE - plus good links.

POLL: How soon until a pig says McCain entitled to $13M+ in multiple homes because he was tortured?

The US government is going to send US warships into the Black Sea.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24181796-26397,00.html

We are quickly moving down the slippery slope to nuclear war. If war breaks out between Russia and the United States, I do not see how it can be contained to the Black Sea or prevented from going full nuclear.

I wish everyone the best of luck.

Folks are starting to pour it on. It’s becoming a chant. Let’s hope some of it is being heard. It’s from governors, senators, academics, punsters, and bloggers. I’m still of a mind to give him one more week and see what he has up until now held under wraps.

This comment is typical of what is out there. It was passed along by my friend, Howard Bailen, who is starting to wisper in my ear. He’s a PR professional and sees a crisis on the horizon. He’s patient in most things, but Obama passive indifference is bothering him greatly. I don’t agree with all of this post, but this paragraph caugh my attention:

“Politics is not just about issues, it is a metaphorical test of strength. If a man will not get immediately — if quietly — angry and fight back when his patriotism is attacked, why should we trust him to defend the country? And if he won’t punch back by explaining clearly why his approach to foreign policy is actually tougher and smarter, why McCain’s is thoughtless and reckless, why would we think he is better to be Commander in Chief?”

On this point she is right on. This is why Bill Clinton’s softness on McCain bothers me. This is why I am concerned, as posted below, if Obama does not take McCain on in prime time next week. This is why a choice of running mate is important, more important in Obama’s case.

I’m starting to get a little nervous, but I haven’t lost hope. We’ll know in seven days.

Starring John McSame and Ralph Reed.

Shibuya is a major hub railway station in Tokyo, and a monkey was spotted just roaming around. Perhaps he didn’t have a ticket.

In any case, and I saw this on TV, what appeared to be about 30 cops surrounded the little beastie while holding up nets and gradually moving in. However, our Simian cousin eluded Japan’s finest by leaping along a wall and over the net, and led police on a 300 meter chase where he finally disappeared along the tracks.

Not a glorious day for our boys in blue, and somewhere, there is one happy monkey.

The word “bump” is quickly losing its currency in this campaign. Until now, a bump in presidential politics is when one candidate or the other has a jump of five percent or more in the polls due to some specific event. The first bumps usually reported come after the conventions.

But now the MSM is reporting that McCain got a bump from his Saddleback performance. But what they mean is not a bumb in the polls, but a self-reported “bump” by the McCain campaign in the number of people who are calling. Now there is an objective measure? Hardly, so why is the media hyping this this way?

Bill Clinton. As the summer shadows lengthen, he should have more than faint praise for Obama. Can you believe that Mr. Clinton is doing all of us a favor by contending that McCain is just as good on the environment as Obama? All this, just a week before he struts his holly ass before a convention that, one way or the other, will not forget what that man, Mr. Clinton, has wrought.

Remember, how he infamously said, while his wife was still a factor, that there were only two people in the race who cared about this country, “John McCain and Hillary Clinton”? Who do you think John McCain got his treason line from? Can this man, Mr. Clinton, not find an ounce of grace in this public speech? We’ll know in about a week, but this is not a good omen.

I expect nothing but a self-serving professorial lecture on politics and formal comments about Obama from Bill Clinton at the convention. I don’t expect him to dump on 43, because 42 has deals with 41 and 43 could mess with those before the curtain falls, creating big-time mischief for 42.

He better be careful because Obama, 44, may just remember all of this when 42 needs him the most.

Russia-Georgia gives McCain a bounce in the polls? Here’s a question: How many innocent lives will be saved in October if McCain is ten points up instead of Obama?

Hah! a rhetorical question. Missiles will be flying - American and/or a proxy’s - come October, the number calculated to the level of belligerence necessary to ensure Republican victory. Fewer die if McCain is winning, more die if Obama’s winning. Is it complicity to goad Bushco/GOP, who view the military as a propaganda organ AND private security force, to gin up violence against innocent civilians to maintain power?

Some yes but more no, but no only if you understand that if Obama wins despite, the lesson won’t be lost, though supposing Obama needs to be taught that lesson is ruby.

Standard linky goodness, an ex-lover’s birthday, ear-whig.

Four years ago, John Kerry made the first big strategic mistake of his campaign by not using the convention as a venue to hammer Bush. Instead he took the high, high road, some where up there in the clouds, and instructed everyone to accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative and insisted that they not even mess with the inbetweeners. I pray that Obama will not make the same mistake. McCain’s convention will be all pig trough, complete with the Beach Boys (they will be there, maybe doing a reprise on McCain’s “bomb, bomb, bomb Iran…”).

So here is my list of five signs from Denver that will spell trouble for Obama’s campaign.

1. Letting John McCain off the hook. They need 10 different kind of speakers to each address one reason why John McCain is not fit to be president. And Obama, himself, needs to hammer McCain. One of the 10 should be a general and one should be a wounded Iraqi vet. One should be a teenager who worries about the future under a John McCain presidency.

2. Focusing more on George Bush than John McCain. It’s okay to link the two and speak of a third term, but George Bush is not running and McCain will use the following week to sort out his differences with Bush, thus trying to neutralize the argument. Reference Bush mistakes on Medicare, the economy, the war, the economy, did I mention that, Katrina, torture, rendition, No Child Left Behind, and the economy.

3. Denying Republicans a chance to speak at the convention, especially those like Congressman Jim Leach and former Senator Lincoln Chafee who have endorsed Obama. You can bet Traitor Joe will pop off against Obama and praise McCain’s shit, except someone should stick Traitor Joe with how comfortable he is with the kind of judges McCain will appoint.

4. Misspeaks by Bill or Hillary Clinton or any of their major surrogates such as Lanny Davis or Terry McAuliffe or James Carville. No first or second tier Clinton supporter can say, in response to a miscue, ”I didn’t know the mike was on”, or “”I was quoted out of context”. There will be some unknown supporters of Hillary’s that the media will find who will spout off and make waves, but none of the first tier supporters should diss Obama, directly or indirectly.

5. Clinton delegate protest and demonstrations, including booing during pro-Obama speeches. They claim there will be a love fest on Thursday, but the sound bits and the YouTube videos could start playing on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.

What am I missing?

United went to Chicago and beat Chicago using Chicago’s ugly disgusting bullying tactics and I sang hallelujah. I’m asked, how do I separate my politics and my soccer and I say, huh?

Obama is suckbucketful. McCain is calling him (and by extension anyone who supports Obama) a traitor as I type this sentence. I expect Obama’s nuanced response promptly.

Fleabus?

Fellow Crackerstanis, I knew Obama need avoid Angry-Negro Syndrome, but McCain is rallying the Confederacy without needing to scream NIGGER!, stroking the Necks of Red with the very taunts he’d use against Hillary Kerry Gore, and rube that I am, this pisses me off.

I’ve long abandoned hope in Obama’s .06% chance of exceptionality, but lordy, his bucketsuckfulness astounds as much as frustrates. Four years to prepare for the same Rovian tactics as always, and Obama thinks nuance suddenly sells in America.

Good links, even by my standard of good links, actually.