18 posts tagged “politics”

My farewell Bush cartoon is now up. Let the shoes fly

http://editorialcartoonists.com/cartoon/display.cfm/65498/

Well, for Turkish shoe manufacturers that is...

Turns out sales for the brand that was thrown at Bush are going through the roof and the company has hired a hundred people to help make more:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=auI050ptHyPg

If you haven't noticed yet, I believe the Onion has raised that little pastime known as the 'revenge fantasy' to new and sublime heights with a quiet little series of painful briefs they're doing on Bush.

Wow. 

Well, one can dream can't one ...

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/bushs_eyelid_accidentally
http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/bush_dragged_behind
http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/bush_passes_three_pound

My personal favorite:
http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/bush_tumbles_wildly_down



And if any of those things happen (oh please! oh please), I'll come back to political blogging.

Now, back to your "regularly scheduled" pop culture missives ...

In the aftermath of Tuesday's defeat, it looks like the RNC, the McCain camp or -- well, take your GOP pick -- are out to field dress Sarah Palin:

NEWSWEEK has also learned that Palin's shopping spree at high-end department stores was more extensive than previously reported. While publicly supporting Palin, McCain's top advisers privately fumed at what they regarded as her outrageous profligacy. One senior aide said that Nicolle Wallace had told Palin to buy three suits for the convention and hire a stylist. But instead, the vice presidential nominee began buying for herself and her family—clothes and accessories from top stores such as Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. According to two knowledgeable sources, a vast majority of the clothes were bought by a wealthy donor, who was shocked when he got the bill. Palin also used low-level staffers to buy some of the clothes on their credit cards. The McCain campaign found out last week when the aides sought reimbursement. One aide estimated that she spent "tens of thousands" more than the reported $150,000, and that $20,000 to $40,000 went to buy clothes for her husband. Some articles of clothing have apparently been lost. An angry aide characterized the shopping spree as "Wasilla hillbillies looting Neiman Marcus from coast to coast," and said the truth will eventually come out when the Republican Party audits its books.

A Palin aide said: "Governor Palin was not directing staffers to put anything on their personal credit cards, and anything that staffers put on their credit cards has been reimbursed, like an expense. Nasty and false accusations following a defeat say more about the person who made them than they do about Governor Palin."

"I am rubber and you are glue?" I guess it's true what they say about politics, that it's just high school writ large

 

 
No really, he perfectly frames the wingnut's past performance, and projects ahead:

It's one of the richer ironies of this election season that the conservative bloggers disparage Obama as a phony lightweight, a glib opportunist, a suave vessel of empty eloquence, yet endow him with the sinister strength to bend America to his socialist will and fog men's minds. ...

And to think they called us "sore losers" in 2000! They haven't even lost yet and they're already blaming the victor, acting all butch and making with the big talk about stocking up on gold and ammo as they hole up in the shag-carpeted panic room and let their whiskers grow. They can't face the fact that conservatism has epically failed; this is their way of pouting and refusing to come out and play, leaving everybody else to deal with the ruin left behind.

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/wolcott/2008/10/this-halloween-be-on-the.html

So this Halloween flyer showed up in my newspaper last week ... was the graphic designer a republican who was trying to give McCain a veneer of youth, or a democrat making a statement on McCain's anger issues? Either way, pretty funny

We went to hear obama today at the political rally in Raleigh ... couldn't see him because of the size of the crowd (25,000+) and because of the layout of the rally (it was obviously very TV centric, with the small stage surrounded by bleachers and flags). Here's a look at the crowd and the closing pitch from Barack:

Palin is supposed to be in the area on Saturday, and we're both thinking of going to that so we can compare crowds (both size and disposition)

You know, when you get caught lying and shit:

Rep. Robin Hayes (R-N.C.) has conceded that he did tell a North Carolina crowd that "liberals hate real Americans that work and accomplish and achieve and believe in God," even though he initially denied making such a statement. ...

“I genuinely did not recall making the statement and, after reading it, there is no doubt that it came out completely the wrong way. I actually was trying to work to keep the crowd as respectful as possible, so this is definitely not what I intended,” Hayes said in a statement for Politico.

Hayes initially denied saying any such thing, and accused reporters of practicing "irresponsible journalism" for spreading such scurrilous lies ... until a recording of him saying exactly that surfaced.

Whoops.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14797.html