FTFA: "In a crisis, voters want steady, calm leadership, not easy, misleading answers that will do nothing to help. Mr. McCain is sounding like a candidate searching for a political foil rather than a genuine solution. He'll never beat Mr. Obama by running as an angry populist like Al Gore, circa 2000."

This xEleveny

We must find them a new name.

I propose "Bush Camps". (In Spanish, los pueblos Arbusto because because of Bush your arses are bust-oh.

If McCain wins we can call them Johnny Pancake Villas because this is where you go when your corporation pancakes faster than the Twin Towers.

If Obama wins, we can call them Obamarama-ding-dong-villes.

It sort of sounds like the French word for shanty-town: Bidonville.

Hey! Biden! Bidon! Bidenvilles!

The kid is hot tonight.

brantgoose:
The kid is hot tonight.

evidently, the kid is also in the wrong thread...

darkmeevish: evidently, the kid is also in the wrong thread...

shhhh, i'm going to steal his post and claim all the linguistic glory for myself

that's unpossible!

I see what you did there

Op Ed contributor

I dunno...he's a pretty good liar....

Guess what Sarah Palin has in common with George W. Bush now? (new window)

It's an opinion piece subby. Even the NY Times allows a token conservative now and then.

/Not disagreeing with the article, just this type of headlines the greenlighters seem to like.

lexslamman: Guess what Sarah Palin has in common with George W. Bush now? (new window)

D'oh. FTFM. (new window)

Yeah, Lots of Reps don't care for McCain.

That's what makes him a real MAVERICK!

(Just like that Caribou Slayer Palin pissed off lots of entrenched Alaskan Reps)

/MAVRICK!

Sorry, WSJ, but your bipartisan lipstick isn't covering up that schitt-stain you got from all the ass-kissing!

Before the "b-b-but Obama" girls get here, let me just point out that McCain was supposed to be the "experience" candidate.

How's that going for you ladies, anyway?

brantgoose:
The kid is hot tonight.


The "kid" wouldn't happen to be wearing a foam helmet and drool bib, would he? Thanks for the trip down short bus lane.

Well, at least we can trust the Wall Street Journal, which definitely isn't run by some hack smear artist who has soiled journalism with character attacks of very little substance and even less accuracy? Let's see that unbiased mastermind again:


Oh, never mind...

Subby: Liberal Rag...

Clinton's going through menopause, sir.

Spanky_McFarksalot: It's an opinion piece subby. Even the NY Times allows a token conservative now and then.

/Not disagreeing with the article, just this type of headlines the greenlighters seem to like.

Token, now and then? William Kristol has a regular column.

lexslamman: D'oh. FTFM. (new window)

To be fair, they have to figure out the depreciation on a tanning bed, if lipstick is really deductible as a business expense, and how to properly value her collection of skulls from her vanquished foes. I'm going to go ahead and guess at over $250k income, regardless of the $125k Governor salary.

Hey, for next year - can you claim your child's child as a deduction, even if she is married?

Indis: lexslamman: D'oh. FTFM. (new window)

To be fair, they have to figure out the depreciation on a tanning bed, if lipstick is really deductible as a business expense, and how to properly value her collection of skulls from her vanquished foes. I'm going to go ahead and guess at over $250k income, regardless of the $125k Governor salary.

Hey, for next year - can you claim your child's child as a deduction, even if she is married?

Are you sure that Palin isn't going to do that for this year?

/sorry, I hate that rumor, but couldn't resist.

brantgoose:
The kid is hot tonight

Is he crankin Loverboy?

lexslamman: lexslamman: Guess what Sarah Palin has in common with George W. Bush now? (new window)

D'oh. FTFM. (new window)

Attacking a female Vice-Presidential candidate over her tax returns is not only sexist and unfair, it's also unprecedented.


But by the last week of July, questions were simmering about Ferraro's finances, those of her husband, and their separately-filed tax returns. (While the Mondale campaign had anticipated some questions, the drawn-out vice-presidential selection process had not fully vetted her on this aspect.) Ferraro said that she would release both their returns within a month, but maintained that she was correct not to have included her husband's financial holdings on her past annual Congressional disclosure statements. Notice of the FEC's past investigation into Ferraro's 1978 campaign funds also came to light. On August 12, she announced that her husband would not in fact be releasing his tax returns, on the grounds that to do so would disadvantage his real estate business and that such a disclosure was voluntary and not part of election law;[35] she then quipped, "You people who are married to Italian men, you know what it's like."

This development dominated television and newspapers; Ferraro was besieged by questions regarding the finances as well as criticism for ethnic stereotyping. As she later wrote, "I had created a monster." Republicans saw her finances as a "genderless" issue that they could attack Ferraro with without creating a backlash. A week later, Ferraro said her husband had changed his mind and would release his tax records, which was done on August 20. The full statements included notice of payment of some $53,000 in back federal taxes that she owed due to an accountant's error, but overall Ferraro said the statements proved that she had nothing to hide and that there had been no financial wrongdoing.

Ferraro's strong performance at the press conference covering the final disclosure effectively put the issue behind her for the remainder of the campaign, but significant damage had been done. No campaign issue during the entire 1984 presidential campaign received more media attention than Ferraro's finances. The exposure would have the effect of diminishing Ferraro's rising stardom, removing whatever momentum the Mondale-Ferraro ticket gained out of the convention, and delaying the formation of a coherent message for the fall campaign.

After the election, the House Ethics Committee found that Ferraro had technically violated the Ethics in Government Act by failing to report or reporting incorrectly details of her family's finances, and that she should have reported her husband's holdings on her Congressional disclosure forms. However, the committee concluded that she had acted without "deceptive intent", and since she was leaving Congress anyway, no action against her was taken. Ferraro said, "I consider myself completely vindicated."

Well, okay, maybe not unprecedented, but . . .

HighOnCraic: lexslamman: lexslamman: Guess what Sarah Palin has in common with George W. Bush now? (new window)

D'oh. FTFM. (new window)

Attacking a female Vice-Presidential candidate over her tax returns is not only sexist and unfair, it's also unprecedented...

TLDR (j/k, it was very interesting)

...Well, okay, maybe not unprecedented, but . . .

sexist and unfair, eh? (new window)

lexslamman: HighOnCraic: lexslamman: lexslamman: Guess what Sarah Palin has in common with George W. Bush now? (new window)

D'oh. FTFM. (new window)

Attacking a female Vice-Presidential candidate over her tax returns is not only sexist and unfair, it's also unprecedented...

TLDR (j/k, it was very interesting)

...Well, okay, maybe not unprecedented, but . . .

sexist and unfair, eh? (new window)

That story has no relevance to this year's election. John Kerry was a gigolo who suckered a rich heiress into marrying him. Oh, wait . . .

Wow. Pat Buchanan AND the Rupert Murdock's Wall Street Journal are trashing the Republicans today. My guess is that the Moon turns to Blood tonight. RIDE, HORSEMEN, RIDE!

Hey, could it possibly be that SOME Republicans (not the kind that hang out here, of course, who are basically just mobile piles of shiat with computer access) are finally getting the message. Blind partisanship to a party that long ago wiped their ass with every decent human value turns out to be a BAD thing. Who'd a thunk it?

Well, to be fair he's moved on from blaming COx and has settled on a brand new scapegoat: This is all Barack Obama's fault: (new window)


We have heard a lot of words from Senator Obama over the course of this campaign. But maybe just this once he could spare us the lectures, and admit to his own poor judgment in contributing to these problems. The crisis on Wall Street started in the Washington culture of lobbying and influence peddling, and he was right square in the middle of it...this is the problem with Washington. People like Senator Obama have been too busy gaming the system and haven't ever done a thing to actually challenge the system. That's not country first, that's Obama first


That heartless greedy capitalistic bastard! In three short years he single handedly destroyed the American Economy

Non-story. Rupert Murdoch and the Wall Street Journal's editorial page have a liberal bias.

Lol, this is from the local Fox news station blogs.

From an independent who wouldnt vote for either socialist, I will say this:

The left wing KNOWS THAT THEIR THUNDER ( BY "USING " A BLACK MAN)WAS TRUMPED WHEN MCCAIN CHOSE A FEMALE.

NO WAY AROUND IT

THE LEFT WING HAS ALWAYS HAD A PUBLICLY PERCEIVED EDGE IN THE FIGHT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS.

OF COURSE, NOTHING COULD HAVE BEEN FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH AND THE PRIMARIES BROUGHT IT OUT LOUD AND CLEAR SO THE LEFT WENT ON THE OFFENSIVE AND SHUT HILLARY DOWN VIA THE HARDCORE LEFT BLOGS.

THE CLINTONS (B.O= BEFORE OBAMA) WERE THE "LOVED ONES" THE CHOOSEN ONES OF THE LEFT WING" EVEN BILL BEING "ANNOINTED" THE FIRST BLACK PREZ.
QUITE AN HONOR BASED ON HIS NOT HAVING A FATHER AT HOME AND THAT FATHER BEING A DRUNK.
GO FIGURE...BUT I DIGRESS

THE CLINTONS MADE A CAREER BASED ON POLITCAL CORRECTNESS, THE "HOW DARE YOU CAHLLENGE/ARGUE/DEBATE THOSE SUBJECTS YOU ARE A RACIST," WAS THE CRY OF THE LEFT WING.

THEN OF COURSE AS SOON AS THE FBP,CLINTON MADE AN HONES ON TARGET STATEMENT ABOUT JESSE JACKSON, THE LEFT ALREADY HAD THA ANSWER THEY WERE JUST WAITNG FOR THE RIGHT QUESTION.

CALLING CLINTONS A RACISTAND THEN LO AND BEHOLD THE "BIG CHANGE MAN" OBAMA PLAYS THE RACE CARD AND THE PALIN GETS CHOOSEN.

THE CONSERVATIVES ARE THE NEW LIBERALS BUT THE LIBERALS ARE THE NEW FRENCH!!"

TFA: Mr. McCain clearly wants to distance himself from the Bush Administration. But this assault on Mr. Cox is both false and deeply unfair. It's also un-Presidential.

Yeah, good luck with THAT!

libral rag???? since when is newscorp libral?

unless that was supposed to be sarcastic???

colbert_rules: libral rag???? since when is newscorp libral?

unless that was supposed to be sarcastic???

That's the joke.

You're not living up to yer login.

Magorn: Well, to be fair he's moved on from blaming COx and has settled on a brand new scapegoat: This is all Barack Obama's fault: (new window)


We have heard a lot of words from Senator Obama over the course of this campaign. But maybe just this once he could spare us the lectures, and admit to his own poor judgment in contributing to these problems. The crisis on Wall Street started in the Washington culture of lobbying and influence peddling, and he was right square in the middle of it...this is the problem with Washington. People like Senator Obama have been too busy gaming the system and haven't ever done a thing to actually challenge the system. That's not country first, that's Obama first


That heartless greedy capitalistic bastard! In three short years he single handedly destroyed the American Economy



So they are just projecting John McCains career, on this here Obamer character?