Oh Barack, we’ll always have Berlin

UPDATED: Do you support Obama’s approach to foreign policy? VOTE HERE.
We’ll always have Berlin…. the days when it was all “Hope” and “Change” and governance was just a word.  The cheering throngs, the coordinated signs, the events and emotions and condescension palpable.  If the atheists could suspend their values for a moment, surely they too [...]

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Obama orders GTMO Shutdown, GOP Whip Cantor Responds

Keeping to his campaign promises, President Obama issued an Executive Order to close down the global netowrk of CIA prisons, including the detention center at Guantanamo Bay where HVT Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) has spent the time after he was captured sporting a look that even the greenest stylist would refer to as “late Belushi-chic.”
Interestingly [...]

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Farewell Address: President George W. Bush

THE PRESIDENT: Fellow citizens: For eight years, it has been my honor to serve as your President. The first decade of this new century has been a period of consequence — a time set apart. Tonight, with a thankful heart, I have asked for a final opportunity to share some thoughts on the journey that [...]

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The South’s McCain Voters are Racists

They are also uneducated, out of step with the rest of the country, to be pitied, isolated, suffering in the area of “jobs, education and development”, ideologically aligned with the old Confederacy, at odds with the values of the rest of the country, and are getting what they deserve because they won’t “… get with [...]

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Vanity Fair: Advance Speech Text from McCain Tonight

You have to admit… this is extremely funny.
VF Daily has received advance drafts of concession speeches written by Senator John McCain himself that were, for various reasons, rejected by his staff. Here are three that didn’t make the cut, with their titles:
Black-Comedian Indignation
Now, what kind of fucked-up bullshit is this?! A P.O.W. hero with almost [...]

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Mercy

For the record… when the polls close tonight, I will be thrilled.  Win or lose, it’s game over.  In the event of a recount – I hope that voter fraud and voter suppression are looked at in a real way.  They should be anyway.  I highly recommend folks contact the Secretary if State in the [...]

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Obama and Khalidi, Sitting in a Tree

K. I. S. S. I. N. G.  Okay, not really.
—Media Lizzy
From The American Spectator:

The refusal by the Los Angeles Times to release the videotape featuring Barack Obama’s farewell toast to Rashid Khalidi has thrust the Columbia University professor and activist into the center of the presidential campaign, creating particular interest in his ties to Yasser [...]

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John Kerry. Barack Obama. More of the Same.

Sure, I expect some hate mail. Some BS about “Swift Boat Veterans for Truth” and other invectives.  I expect all the usual attacks.  But here is the thing, we live in a wonderful country.  We all get to vote.  We get to look at the facts and make an assessment.
I am voting for John McCain.  [...]

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VOTE.

Really, it’s this simple. VOTE.
I am voting for John McCain. You can vote for whoever you want.
Because, really, that’s the whole thing. I vote. You Vote. America Votes. And then, we get a new president.
Pretty cool. Seriously.
Just VOTE.

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Sarkozy on Obama: “Utterly Immature” on Iran

Via Haaretz, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his advisers have some grave concerns about Obama, an dhis advisers.  Turns out, Obama is not quite the sophisticate he plays on TV in the USA.
—Media Lizzy
Haaretz:

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is very critical of U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama’s positions on Iran, according to reports that have [...]

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