Posts from ‘May, 2008’

This presidential election is becoming a yearlong festival of inappropriate words and deeds — they’re coming almost too fast to keep track of. Sen. John McCain’s campaign scored a biggie by sending out a fund-raising letter topped with a photo of him and Gen. David Petraeus.

No, Perino, unfortunately the McClellan you knew was a Bush-Cheney-Rove true believer. That made McClellan a compliant stooge, which is just what the powers that be in the Bush White House wanted. McClellan is indeed disgruntled about having been set up, used and abused, with his credibility and reputation forever damaged. Perino, especially, ought to think carefully about McClellan’s situation in terms of her own future.

Accept as an index of how hard up and demented right-wing-extremist bloggers are that they’ve gone after Rachael Ray and Dunkin Donuts over a scarf. Seriously — who could make this stuff up?

A key consideration is that Bush is seen as still able to bring in big donations. There is a potential downside, however. The Uniter turned out to be The Divider; 80 percent of the U.S. public thinks the country is on the wrong track; Bush’s Iraq war is hated across the country and around the world; the economy is in a mess now and appears headed for worse . . .

If, God forbid, Sen. Barack Obama should ever be assassinated, his grieving family ought to invite Fox News contributor Liz Trotta to speak at his funeral. Trotta could then explain what part of this she found so funny. . .

Quote: “In memory’s eye I could see those staggering columnsQuote logo of the first World War, bending under soggy packs on many a weary march, from dripping dusk to drizzling dawn, slogging ankle deep through mire of shell-pocked roads to form grimly for the attack . . .”

Quote: ““America wants and needs everything that we have got from 1993 Quote logoto 2000. You got 22 million new jobs. You got a balanced budget. You got a potential surplus of $5.4 trillion . . .”

With an extensive home-improvement project under way here at Oh!pinion headquarters, posting will be spotty if at all through Saturday. Our small complement of readers has shown little enthusiasm for open threads, so we’ll post a question and look forward to your response.

Reporters should grill McCain on the irrational double standard applied by the U.S. to Vietnam and China’s communist regimes, both of which enjoy thriving trade and normal relations with the U.S. Reporters should do that, but being heavily biased toward Sen. Flip-flop McPander, they probably won’t.

Tragic news out of Boston this morning, that Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., has a malignant brain tumor. Kennedy, 76, suffered a seizure and was airlifted from his Hyannis home to Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital Saturday morning.