"Obama has a speech he gave in 2002"

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Thursday August 07, 2008 · 7:22 AM PDT

2008/08/07 · 07:22

Remember that comment from Hillary during the primaries? How she has a lifetime of experience; Mccain has a lifetime of experience; Obama has a speech.

Pissed you off royally at the time, didn't it? Not only for the untruth of it, the snarky nastiness of it; but also, and more importantly, because you knew, you just knew, even then that the Republicans would use it against Obama.

And now they have.

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How much will this ad hurt Obama?

204 votes Vote Now!

How much will this ad hurt Obama?

Little if any effect

65 votes

Some, but they released it too soon, nobody's paying attention

48 votes

It sure as hell won't help

79 votes

This is bad, really bad

12 votes

McCain: "I don't know" if Obama is a Socialist...

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Friday July 18, 2008 · 10:28 AM PDT

2008/07/18 · 10:28

..."but by golly, I'm gonna insinuate that he is! Scary! Red scare! Boogah boogah boogah!"

Okay, so McCain didn't say that last bit -- out loud. But the implication was loud and clear.

Yep, folks, the latest smear from the Straitjacket Express is that old-fashioned GOP favorite: The Democrat's a socialist who's bent on destroying America!

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Thursday July 17, 2008 · 8:25 PM PDT

2008/07/17 · 20:25

In my last diary, I talked about a modest experiment in fuel economizing. It seemed like a good idea at the time: Pick one's foot up off the gas pedal and coast wherever conditions permit. As I noted, the driving I normally do seemed ideally suited to such a technique.

That was a month ago. Since then, I've faithfully followed the coasting approach, finding every little opportunity there might be to let off the accelerator and use the force of inertia for my auto's motive power.

So, how's that been working out for me? Coast on down below the fold and see!

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Can I coast my way to 40 mpg?

18 votes Vote Now!

Can I coast my way to 40 mpg?

Sure!

4 votes

That's pushing it, but it's worth a shot.

4 votes

Dream on, you crazy diamond.

5 votes

Only if you jettison the pie stash.

5 votes

In Praise of Coasting

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Friday June 13, 2008 · 10:01 PM PDT

2008/06/13 · 22:01

Recently I came across an offbeat proposal for saving gas when one drives: Coasting. The author (whom I can't remember now) noted how he (pretty sure it was a he) has been letting off the gas pedal and coasting down hills for a while now, and has seen a modest but real decrease in his fuel consumption.

The idea intrigued me, and I tried it out. The driving I do, primarily at nonrush hours on gently undulating back roads, is well-suited to such an experiment, offering a plethora of opportunities and a paucity of other drivers I might inconvenience by failing to put the pedal to the metal at all times.

So how's that working out for me? Follow below the fold:

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So whadday think of this?

41 votes Vote Now!

So whadday think of this?

I'm way ahead of you -- already doing it.

36 votes

Huh -- sounds intriguing, might give it a try.

1 vote

It'd never work for the driving I do.

0 votes

What are you, nuts?

0 votes

Won't work for pie delivery.

4 votes

Obama on Congress: "I'll Whup 'Em"

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Thursday June 05, 2008 · 5:24 PM PDT

2008/06/05 · 17:24

CNN has got a video up now, funny and deeply touching at the same time, of Obama receiving a long maple walking stick from a 95-year-old African-American man at today's town hall meeting in Virginia.

Funny? Hell, yeah, just watch our next President take the gift and riff on it:

Touching? Oh, yeah; watching Charles Edwards make his halting way up to the podium, watching the grace and delight with which Obama spoke with him; feeling the joy suffusing the crowd at this realization of an impossible dream, well, I felt the tears well up. Tears that will be welling up again and again as this campaign unfolds.

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Who should Obama use that stick on first?

176 votes Vote Now!

Who should Obama use that stick on first?

McCain

24 votes

Bush & Company

24 votes

The GOP en masse

31 votes

Congress if they don't toe the line

3 votes

Lieberman, if he ever tries to get out of that corner

94 votes

Friday Follies -- A Diversion From Doomsaying

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Friday May 30, 2008 · 7:50 AM PDT

2008/05/30 · 07:50

Okay, we're all stressed out by the long slog through the primary season. Everywhere we look, at home and abroad, crises loom, suffering and misery abound, and that's on a good day. Even political junkies get the blues. Maybe especially that demographic find blue funks fatally attractive.

One antidote around here is the pootie diary. We luvs us them puppies and kittens and silly pix. Luvs us them zinger captions.

And now, my friends (non-McCain version), there's a way to combine lolcattery and politics. Plunge with me, if you choose, below the fold, and I'll take you there.

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Obama doesn't figure often in these things because

27 votes Vote Now!

Obama doesn't figure often in these things because

Nobody wants to piss off the next President

8 votes

They're just not that into him

0 votes

He doesn't give people a handle for mockery

4 votes

Wait a while -- he'll get zinged too

3 votes

Other than the ears, what have they got?

6 votes

The ones who'd do him are still figuring out how to log on

5 votes

Not-so-humble pie is now being served

1 vote

Obamamania Sweeps Germany

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Tuesday May 27, 2008 · 10:31 AM PDT

2008/05/27 · 10:31

So reads the headline on an article in today's online edition of Der Spiegel which takes a look at how political circles in Germany regard the candidates.

In brief, Clinton isn't even on the radar there. McCain is, and it's not a pretty sight to German eyes. Obama is charming the socks off 'em. Why? The article points out: "He's perceived here as peace-loving and cooperative, and those are the kind of traits Germans admire in a foreign politician."

Follow below the fold for more.

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What'll be on the menu for Obama's first state dinner in Germany?

218 votes Vote Now!

What'll be on the menu for Obama's first state dinner in Germany?

Sachertorte

2 votes

Spatzle

30 votes

SchwarzwÃ¤lder Kirschtorte

11 votes

RhabarbergrÃ¼tze

2 votes

Pumpernickel

9 votes

Maultaschen

0 votes

LeberkÃ¤se

5 votes

Bratwurst

25 votes

Hochzeitssuppe

2 votes

Reibekuchen

0 votes

Pfefferkuchen

4 votes

Birnen, Bohnen und Speck

9 votes

Never mind the food, where's the beer?

119 votes

What if ... President Pelosi? A Thought Experiment

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Thursday May 22, 2008 · 7:27 AM PDT

2008/05/22 · 07:27

Some musings that ran through my half-awake mind this morning while fending off hungry cats:

What if both Bush and Cheney, by some unlikely constellation of events, were to be removed from office, thus elevating Nancy Pelosi to the Presidency?

Let's assume this happened around the time that the primary season was wrapping up. How would things play out for the three persons most immediately affected? For the party as a whole? For the election in November?

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What's the winning combination?

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What's the winning combination?

Pelosi/Obama

1 vote

Obama/Pelosi

13 votes

Pelosi/Clinton

1 vote

Clinton/Pelosi

1 vote

Pelosi/pie

3 votes

Dunno, but I'd love to see Hillary's face when she hears the news

29 votes

Hitting above the belt

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Friday April 11, 2008 · 9:56 PM PDT

2008/04/11 · 21:56

As I watched that clip of Obama responding to the "elitist" attacks from Clinton and McCain, one thing leaped out at me:

Obama never hit below the belt, never took a cheap shot at his opponents, even though they'd left themselves wide open for it.

Cheap shots would have been so easy, wouldn't they? Both McCain and Clinton are immensely rich, compared to most Americans. It would have been so easy....

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Friday April 11, 2008 · 8:00 AM PDT

2008/04/11 · 08:00

This morning I wandered over to Slate and started paging through their collections of political cartoons: first McCain, then Obama, then Clinton.

The conclusion? Obama is on the whole being treated far more kindly than the other two, in fact is praised as much as dissed, it seems to me.

As you might expect, certain themes recur for each of them, as I'll discuss below.

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The cartoon character you loathe the most

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The cartoon character you loathe the most

Mallard Fillmore -- okay, we all loathe him; so who's number two?

23 votes

Doonesbury

3 votes

Li'l Abner

7 votes

Mary Worth

23 votes

Captain America

2 votes

Calvin's dad

3 votes

The Wizard of Id

10 votes

Anthony in For Better Or For Worse

10 votes

McCain demands immediate troop withdrawal

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Wednesday April 09, 2008 · 12:27 PM PDT

2008/04/09 · 12:27

That's right, John McCain is on record as demanding that American troops be withdrawn immediately from futile attempts at nation-building in a foreign country. No timetable, no phased withdrawal -- just get them out now.

Well, no. No, not from Iraq, because we have to stay the course there until we've achieved victory and democracy thrives in a peaceful land.

But here, hop into the Wayback Machine and let's slide on back to 1993 and 19094.

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McCain's hypocrisy will

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McCain's hypocrisy will

Be picked up and prominently explored by the MSM

7 votes

Amuse and infuriate Kossacks and their ilk

10 votes

Never see the MSM light of day

26 votes

Be handwaved away whenever it's brought up

17 votes

Send pie stocks plummeting

3 votes

In praise of (some) Republicans

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Thursday April 03, 2008 · 3:05 PM PDT

2008/04/03 · 15:05

Let me be clear: I regard the Republican Party in its current incarnation as an abomination, a corporate-master-serving, Constitution-shredding, civil-liberties-repressing, hate-mongering, corrosive and cancerous assault upon the American ideals it most fiercely claims to embody. Its leadership is contemptible and its tactics malign.

And yet! Just as not every progressive, every Democrat can be jammed into one mold, so too, not every Republican can be defined by the worst of that label. There are decent Republicans out there, decent people who hate what the extremists have done to their party, who will never agree with us liberals on a lot of issues but who want to get past the partisan bitterness to seek common ground for dealing with this country's problems. As a lifelong resident of Massachusetts, I have observed a number of that sort of Republican over several decades -- Elliot Richardson, for example.

Below the jump, I will speak about one such Republican.

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"Obama has a speech he gave in 2002"

McCain: "I don't know" if Obama is a Socialist...

In Praise of Coasting: The Results Are In!

In Praise of Coasting

Obama on Congress: "I'll Whup 'Em"

Friday Follies -- A Diversion From Doomsaying

Obamamania Sweeps Germany

What if ... President Pelosi? A Thought Experiment

Hitting above the belt

Obama is winning the cartoon war

McCain demands immediate troop withdrawal

In praise of (some) Republicans