Whatever her motivation, I’m sure it had nothing to do with race.

Jonah Goldberg and a slough of nitwits, by virtue of the op-ed policies of every “major” newspaper, can claim they have been published. It doesn’t mean their work isn’t worth shit.

The link names were enough to tell me I couldn’t take actually reading the bilious tripe that Tbogg bravely surveyed. The problem for the nutjobs at the Mail and the op-ed scribblers at the WSJ is that they don’t know how to take the high road on anything without looking like the shitheads they are. Every time they take Obama to task for talking about killing Bin Laden or trying to dismiss it as a no-brainer they remind everyone that … Obama took out Bin Laden. They’re keeping the story nice and fresh.

Luntz is a whore mentor. He’s paid well to teach the real whores their tricks.

Neither Romney NOR Obama are, technically, qualified candidates. That doesn’t happen until the conventions. Not to mention that Obama could equally, according to the dimwits’ own logic, claim equal time for every minute the networks have spent slavishly relaying every utterance of the gang of chuckleheads who have been soaking up hundreds and hundreds of hours of “in-kind” air time for the Republican primaries and “debates.”

Thank goodness. For a second there I thought this thread about Romney and the GOP would leave out Obummer bashing.

wowzer.

Paul taps into the same gullible, selfish me-me-me mentality Romney taps into, except he does it with a consistent, rigorously tunnel-visioned economic philosophy instead of the jiggly, purloined one Romney offers.

I don’t presume to speak for rudepundit, but I take his comments to mean that a middle-class/income status is privileged *compared* to lower-class/income status. Most people in the latter group don’t have a choice at all. The word “privilege” is probably the hang-up. He could have expressed himself more congenially, but that wouldn’t be rude, would it?

As a “reduction in labor force” stay-at-home dad by default, I can back you up, bam. Compared to the fulltime, 40-hours plus 50-50 parent role I had for 20 years before, this job is a goddam cakewalk. And, yeah, 30 years of plowing money into retirement accounts, aka financial privilege, is the ONLY REASON we can pull this off now.

Well, there were the facts of what Rosen said, and there are the “facts” that followed: Rosen speaks for the president, is his advisor, spokesperson, counselor, all the lies and bullshit the wingers spewed and the news media promulgated and let slide in the aftermath of her remarks. There was no f-ing way he could respond to this other than to put distance between himself and Rosen — one of his most enthusiastic attackers, by the way, in the 2008 primaries. Trying to pivot on this one wasn’t going to happen. That doesn’t let him or his party leadership off the hook for trying to back off from the “war on women” activism the DNC has been mealy-mouthing. Obama needed to make the stay-at-home statement but he needs to get back on the attack as swiftly as possible.

Y’got yer Upton Sinclair collection, Marquez, Catcher in the Rye, a dog book of a sort, a slough of nicely bound collected works, var. authors, coupla Conrads, a John McPhee reader, Faulkner, Stegner, Kerouac, Ginny Woolf, Anna Karenina, a Maugham collection. Classy.

What is it with bassets and stairs? Ours has the same homicidal look, especially in dim lighting. And then of course, the drooling and the wagging and the menace is gone.

Does Big Brain Bryan understand that to properly fluff Fox his argument depends on someone FROM Fox actually getting hired by another mainstream media outlet? Naming three shitty hacks from other networks just proves that Fox hires shitty hacks. The mole’s mistake was thinking he might break the mold.

That ends the comment contest for this thread.

*sit* sted sith.

Right, it’s Obama’s fault that the right wing is turning contraception into a religious battle.

And I am suggesting that beyond the fact that most every Obama supporter I know of is quite fully aware of his faults and the faults of the Democratic Party, the razor-thin line you see between one side and the other is much, much thicker than you think. IMO. Perhaps it’s the result of never, not once, not even with JFK, having had a president who accomplished what I wanted or stood for everything I stand for in my lifetime, but I’m sanguine about the fact that this election seems to be exactly what most of them turn out to be: a choice between unmitigated disaster and some semblance of sanity. People sat out, voted Nader, and we reaped the Bush-Cheney whirlwind. Sith this one out, vote third party and we’ll get the same thing again.

John “Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran” McCain/Heartbeat Away would never have thought of going all neocon had they won.

Political fantasists seem to always presume ignorance and moral dereliction on the part of non-fantasists.