Billmon, a guy I didn’t listen to enough a few years back, is back to blogging, and man is it depressing. Well, his return is not depressing, but what he has to say is. If you will, some quotes from Billmon’s new post at the Great Orange Satan, juxtaposed with some quotes from our illustrious …
Archives for July 2008
I Got Nothing But Admiration
Really, you have to admire the chutzpah of it all. You have to really be impressed by the brazenness of the GOP, the party that was just a few weeks ago canonizing Jesse Helms, now accusing the black guy of using race in electoral politics: John McCain told CNN Thursday it is fair for his …
Please Just Shut Up and Go Away
If there is anyone who, regardless of the outcome of this election, has made sure that he will never work again in Democratic politics at any meaningful level, it is this jackass: ABC News’ Jennifer Parker reports: A longtime friend of Sen. Hillary Clinton said it’s “incomprehensible” that Sen. Barack Obama would choose another woman …
Willing Accomplices
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t: What the McCain campaign doesn’t want people to know, according to one GOP strategist I spoke with over the weekend, is that they had an ad script ready to go if Obama had visited the wounded troops saying that Obama was…wait for it…using wounded troops as campaign …
Bonus Idiocy
Ben Smith delivers: In the primary, Obama’s campaign, with the partial exception of South Carolina, never overtly drove the cries of racism. Part of the candidate’s selling point to the white majority is that he isn’t a bearer of racial grievance, and he is very careful to preserve that impression. Meanwhile, his surrogates and the …
At Least Someone Is Doing Well
More record profits: Profits at oil companies this quarter continued to reflect oil prices that almost doubled in the second quarter from the year earlier. Exxon Mobil on Thursday reported that second-quarter profit rose 14 percent, to $11.68 billion, the highest-ever profit by an American company. Exxon broke its own record. The profit of $2.22 …
The Voices In Jake Tapper’s Head
You heard: “John McCain right now, he’s spending an awful lot of time talking about me,” Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., said today in Rolla, Mo. “You notice that? I haven’t seen an ad yet where he talks about what he’s gonna do. And the reason is because those folks know they don’t have any good …