Are the Republicans serious?

Obama has failed because he didn’t get the Republicans to help out!!!???

Loser: McCain

This from the loser of the general election.

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Big Day Tonight

Wow! I’ve been waiting for this day for so long, as I’m sure the rest of the nation is.  What happens tonight could be of major importance.   We’ll find out who the warriors are, and who the losers are.  Which reminds me,… John McBush is also performing this evening.  I’ll read the reports on his hoo-ha tomorrow because I’ll be  watching the Giants vs Washington in the opening game of the NFL.

PREGAME ANALYSIS
Plenty of new looks early

The Giants begin their Super Bowl title defense with a new look, but against a familiar NFC East opponent. Eli Manning and Co. will be without five defensive starters from their championship team as they take on the Redskins in their first game under new coach Jim Zorn.

week one for NFL

Why

Just watched some of the Repub. convention. Why are Republicans so angry? They know they put bush in office, right?

The good old days

NEW YORK – In a summer marked by hurricanes and $3 gasoline, the oil companies struck gold.

Friday, Chevron joined the eye-popping profits parade. The nation’s No. 2 oil company reported earnings of $3.6 billion. The totals only get bigger: Conoco Phillips made $3.8 billion, BP made $6.5 billion, Royal Dutch Shell made $9 billion and Exxon Mobil raked in a whopping $9.9 billion in just three months.

Think, this is an article from Friday’s paper?  Look again.  Three dollar gas?  This is an article from the summer of 2005!

What makes this year different is that the oil companies (and especially Exxon Mobil) have made the most profits ever!!!  Meanwhile, McCain proposes tax cuts for the oil companies and, also like bush, offshore drilling.

Democrats Moving Forward

Saturday, Hillary Clinton did the right thing, and she did it with much grace and in a positive way. As she has said, it is now time for Democrats to come together and correct the course that this country has been on. For us to continue on the course that bush (and believers in his policies) has stubbornly followed, is insane.

Oh, and for those (alleged Hillary supporters) who say they will vote for McCain/bush rather than Barack Obama, the jig is up. Even if the news programs don’t get it, we all know you are really Republicans attempting to split the Democratic vote. It’s the only thing that makes sense.

McCain/Parsley and Islam

What is it about the main stream media, that they don’t want to deal with the obvious? I thought it was bad enough that it has taken so long to even make John Hagee a recognizable name directly connected to John McCain. Remember, McCain actively sought Hagee’s endorsement.

Now, I’ve discovered that McCain also has sought (and has not denounced or rejected) the endorsement of Rev. Rod Parsley a rabid anti-islam preacher. Don’t believe me? Check out the video.

Isn’t it curious that all these fringe people and beliefs belong to the Republicans, and isn’t it curious that the MSM hasn’t connected these people with McCain (can I add a yet to the sentence)?

the all-white elephant

Frank Rich (New York Times) has a fantastic column today entitled, The All-White Elephant in the Room,

in which he lambast the main stream media for its double standard.

…if there’s any coherent message to be gleaned from the hypocrisy whipped up by Hurricane Jeremiah, it’s that this nation’s perennially promised candid conversation on race has yet to begin.

This one is well worth the little time it takes to read. John Hagee is dealt with and questions are raised that have yet to be brought up by the MSM. The defense for not bringing up McCain’s ties to Hagee has been that McCain was not a member or Hagee’s church for 20 years. Mr. Rich points out however,

That defense implies, incorrectly, that Mr. McCain was a passive recipient of this bigot’s endorsement. In fact, by his own account, Mr. McCain sought out Mr. Hagee, who is perhaps best known for trying to drum up a pre-emptive “holy war” with Iran.

It should be interesting to see whether any in the MSM brings up the dead topic again without mentioning Hagee now that it has been exposed in the Times.

(image © Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times)

intolerance

If you get a chance, go over to Citizen Zion. What I attempted to do with a few short videos, he accomplishes with strong words and logic… and he says himself that he is not an Obama supporter.

He prints in full text, verbatim, Rev. Wright’s words, and then does one better and prints some of Hagee’s words.

You’ll wonder, as I have wondered, why John Hagee has not had as much of an effect on John McCain. It seems that since a certain right wing tv station has not released any “snippets” of Hagee, the MSM hasn’t bothered to investigate on its own.

Why Obama is my choice

I was wandering around the blogisphere reading comments by people about the Pennsylvania primary election, when I came across one comment response in which the writer spewed on and on about his hatred of Barack Obama and how if Hillary Clinton didn’t get the nomination, he was definitely voting for McCain.

I know if Hillary is not given the presidential nomination, I will definitely vote for McCain. McCain is a “mild” conservative — a moderate and has very little in common with Bush. I will never vote for Obama

He then goes on to tell us that Barack Obama is a liar and can’t be trusted and so on and so forth (without any citations or references). Obviously this person is angry and for some reason feels that it is Obama’s fault. It seems to me, that many of the Hillary supporters (at least on the web) fall into this manic, screeching, hatred hurling category, and very few of their blogs relate to issues. More of them seem to fall into the name calling category instead. There are a few who seem thoughtful and sane, though.

Anyway, all of that is to let you know that MoveOn.org is asking for peoples’ feedback on their 30 second Barack Obama ads. You’re asked to rate the submissions on degree of positiveness, creativity, and overall message. I like Barack Obama because, yes, of the hope and “things can be different” attitude, but what it all boils down to, is that it’s not about him winning, it’s about them winning. They are what this election is about. This is one of my favorite ads.