BREAKING: New Palin Gaffe on McCain & THE SURGE

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Friday September 05, 2008 · 1:09 PM PDT

2008/09/05 · 13:09

TPM is reporting that Gov. Palin just went out in public and uttered this whopper:

"I think, said Senator Obama, "that the surge has succeeded in way that nobody anticipated." I guess when you turn out to be profoundly wrong on a vital national security decision, maybe it's comforting to pretend that everyone else was wrong too.

But I remember it a little differently. It seems to me there was one leader who did predict success, who refused to call retreat and risked his own career for the sake of the surge and victory in Iraq, and ladies and gentlemen, that man is standing right next to me, Senator John McCain.

Well, Governor, if you "remember it a little differently," that's because you're a ditz.

John McCain didn't think The Surge™ would work, either. And, according to the administration, it hasn't.

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Thursday August 21, 2008 · 9:00 AM PDT

2008/08/21 · 09:00

So, McCain has spent a couple of weeks talking to his base, and it's helped him in the polls. What's missing in all the liberal hand-wringing about the polls' latest spasm is that McCain had to go talk to his base. Obama chose to. Obama may have skipped the bazillion townhall meetings that McCain needed help filling, but Obama has gone to Saddleback and the VFW. You won't see McCain at an analogous liberal event.

McCain doesn't have the guts, but that's not the point.

The point is that McCain had no choice but to go say things he doesn't believe to placate people he doesn't like. That's the curse of McCain's life and career.

Grand Moff Texan

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Friday August 15, 2008 · 1:30 PM PDT

2008/08/15 · 13:30

first as tragedy, second as farce

The disaster playing out between Georgia and the McCain campaign appears to be a sad echo of the last time a Republican presidential campaign manipulated American foreign policy to win an election. Randy Scheuneman is no Dragon Lady.

Forty years ago, Richard Nixon's presidential campaign sabotaged peace talks in Vietnam, afraid that peace would help the Democrats:

In 1968, Clark Clifford was secretary of defense and Richard Holbrooke was a member of the American negotiating team at the Vietnam peace talks in Paris.

From his seat in the Pentagon, Clifford had been able to read the intelligence transcripts that picked up and recorded what he terms a "secret personal channel" between President Thieu in Saigon and the Nixon campaign.

Grand Moff Texan

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Tuesday August 12, 2008 · 1:34 PM PDT

2008/08/12 · 13:34

Up 'till now, every bit of the analysis of the South Ossetian conflict has assumed that Russia entered into the fighting as the result of careful thinking and careful timing. It was timed to coincide with the Olympics. It was a show of power, not just to the former Eastern Bloc, but to the US and NATO.

The Russians were trying to reestablish the Soviet Union. - John Bolton

The Russians are trying to reestablish the Russian Empire. - John McCain

Surely it's the Russians whose minds we should be reading, because the Russians must have known what Georgia was going to do in South Ossetia, right?

Grand Moff Texan

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Monday August 04, 2008 · 11:21 AM PDT

2008/08/04 · 11:21

Aaaaaand here we go again. The entire "news" industry has been barking up the wrong tree ... for days, now. Obama has been mocking a McCain ad from June, which showed Obama's face replacing faces on the $ 100 bill, the Statue of Liberty, and Mount Rushmore, since it first came out. But the "news" industry is still pretending that Obama was talking about the "Celeb" ad ... from last week.

How do these idiots keep their jobs? Or maybe this is their job?

The "news" industry, and the rightwing blogsphere, can pretend that Obama's "dollar bill" comments are coming out of left field by ignoring the actual "dollar bill" ad that Senator Obama is talking about. They can furthermore pretend that Obama is "playing the race card," all while talking about the wrong ad!

Grand Moff Texan

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Friday August 01, 2008 · 11:42 AM PDT

2008/08/01 · 11:42

Yesterday upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today.
I wish that man would go away.
- William Hughes Mearns, 1899

I do not recognize the Obama that the Republicans are trying to portray. Sadly, much of the press doesn't recognize complete garbage, at least while they are being fed it. A lie, as Mark Twain said, is halfway around the world before the truth can get its shoes on. For example:

Fwd:Fw:FWD:FE:URGENT - ZOMG!! OBAMA PLAYED THE "RACE CARD"!!!

- No, Obama was talking about this ad, from two months ago, which literally does everything Obama said it did. In fact, Obama's been making fun of that stupid McCain spot since June.

The Republicans' point is to paint Obama as a race-baiting ambulance-chaser. The problem is that the Republicans had to fabricate the evidence.

Grand Moff Texan

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Thursday July 31, 2008 · 1:09 PM PDT

2008/07/31 · 13:09

Media whores, clear your palettes and ready your doggy-bags: here we go again. The guy with eleven mansions and a private plane or two is the regular guy. His opponent? The self-made neighborhood organizer and college instructor? He's the elitist.

Get it?

Actually, I don't care. EAT IT!

Obama's problem is that he's popular, you see. McCain is lucky he doesn't have that problem. No, McCain's face has only been glued like a latex deathmask to the inside of your TV and scorched into a translucent cuero by cathode rays since the Reagan administration, but the other guy?

He's the celebrity! And that's bad.

... or something.

I DIDN'T ASK YOU IF IT MADE SENSE, I SAID "EAT IT!"

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Tuesday July 29, 2008 · 1:23 PM PDT

2008/07/29 · 13:23

The race had been close, and although both candidates made noises about waging a dignified campaign, the barbs were getting sharper. Frustrated that he could not make much progress against his opponent, John McCain cashed in his "war hero" credentials and started lying about his opponent on Iraq. When challenged, McCain said his opponent owed those serving in Iraq an apology.

Last week?

No: January 2008.

The opponent was Mitt Romney.

Grand Moff Texan

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Wednesday July 23, 2008 · 1:00 PM PDT

2008/07/23 · 13:00

It appears that John McCain would rather lose his reputation for foreign policy expertise than lose the election. Unfortunately, on Iraq, John McCain is losing on both counts, demonstrating on numerous occasions that he doesn't know anything about Iraq.

John McCain is now a joke, even to usually reliable Republican media proxies like David Gergen.

Perhaps, in stressing Iraq, McCain's campaign was trying to follow the alleged Rovian maxim: first, take away your opponent's strength. Being right on Iraq from the beginning was Obama's strength during the primaries. And, for a time, when you'd asking McCain about anything, say the economy, McCain would change the subject back to Islamic extremists. McCain would balance the budget by means of a victory he somehow still can't define.

Grand Moff Texan

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Thursday July 17, 2008 · 7:54 AM PDT

2008/07/17 · 07:54

He brought it to me like a puppy. A troll on Eschatonblog came ranting about Obama's "purgery." Naturally, I wondered what he meant.

Turns out, as usual, it's nothing. You will hear that "Barack Obama's aides have removed criticism of President Bush's increase of troops to Iraq from the campaign Web site."

Ah, so Obama has removed criticism of the surge from his website ... other than this part, I guess:

Since the surge began, more than 1,000 American troops have died, and despite the improved security situation, the Iraqi government has not stepped forward to lead the Iraqi people and to reach the genuine political accommodation that was the stated purpose of the surge. ... But the absence of genuine political accommodation in Iraq is a direct result of President Bush’s failure to hold the Iraqi government accountable.

Yep. No critism of the Surge there, right?

Morons.

Grand Moff Texan

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Friday June 27, 2008 · 9:17 AM PDT

2008/06/27 · 09:17

First off, let me say that I have more respect for Glenn Greenwald than for any other blogger. He writes what he knows, he knows it well, he writes extensively so as to cover every angle, and he constantly updates his material as the debate develops. This is a standard of work head and shoulders above other bloggers', and he has been an invaluable resource.

And I hope he'll keep doing that, because Glenn Greenwald screwed up, big time.

Now that I have already done my due diligence, in going to Glenn's site and telling him what I'm about to tell you (which is as face-to-face as is possible in the blogsphere), I'm going to lay it out for you.

Grand Moff Texan

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Friday June 20, 2008 · 12:11 PM PDT

2008/06/20 · 12:11

Yes, that's right! It's time for another round of "Hey, Dumbass!" where we try to get the attention of alleged journalists who seem to think it's their job to play dumb.

First off, the following quote should be tattooed backwards on the forehead of every journalist in America.

"If I am the Democratic nominee, I will aggressively pursue an agreement with the Republican nominee to preserve a publicly financed general election." - Barack Obama

Of course, every American journalist already knows what Obama said, and are only pretending he unilaterally promised to run a publicly financed campaign, no backsies, etc., so it's not like they actually need to see it every time they look in the mirror. It's just that this way, American journalists will look as stupid as they sound.

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Hey, Dumbass!