GW's Speach Impediment a Hoax?

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Having observed "Forest Gump" take the nation by storm in the mid-ninties it appears that our president took note: pre-senile dementia you say? Pre-senile dementia like a fox!

UPDATE: charlie crist, not so much.

k, so evidently charlie crist is gaygaygay.

so I take it all back.

Charlie Crist WILL be John McCain's VP

Why? You ask.

Good thing I am here to walk you through it, dopey.

Exhibit A:
See, John McCain is deeply unpopular in Florida b/c he hates nature, unless its power can be harnessed to fuel cars or kill terrorists. McCain discovered just how unpopular his nature hatred is in the swing state of FL earlier this month.
So, he will need a Florida, a Florida governed by the very popular Charlie Crist, who loves the everglades so much that he announced yesterday he wants to buy it from US Sugar, a very evil sounding company.

Exhibit B:
You know how John McCain was all "drilling for oil offshore is a really terrible pollutey idea" and now he's all "I'm crazy as a shit house rat for Texas Tea!!! Drill the ocean, YEEE-HAW!?!?!"

Well, guess who also had a change of heart AT THE SAME TIME FOR THE SAME REASONS?!?!?

I'm just sayin'

Yes, Virginia, Politicians are Hypocrites and Liars

-First up, a charming Oregon GOP candidate Mike Erickson may have paid for his ex-girlfriend's abortion ten years ago. Too bad Erickson positions himself as a virulent abortion foe.

I have to say that I am pretty happy that this is an repub abortion hypocrite story as opposed to the old standby the repub gay as a daisy hypocrite story, because I am certain that there is many a politician that has availed him/herself of the convenience of safe & legal termination and scandal-wise this demographic remains sorely under represented.

-Obama's decision to forgo public funding has generated lots of ink and hand wringing, because he did, like, promise over and over again to do the opposite. As much as I think it would have been a total utter mistake for him for to limit himself to the $85 million public financing cap, I do think he has done himself a disservice by not being straight with us as to why.

I think this points to just how conservatively Obama and his advisors feel they have to play this going in to November. After all, too much candor of the 'first time as an adult i am truly proud of my country' variety can only get you in trouble when your under the absurd spastic 24-hour news cycle general election microscope. At the end of the day this will all blow over long before November and I am reasonably certain that its enough of an inside the beltway issue that Joe Sixpack doesn't give a rat's ass anyway.

happy happy no.

adios, la pequena hillary.

via con dios.

In Defense

So, Scott Mcelellan has gotten a pretty major bum rap over the past ten days for writing a memoir that, in places, directly contradicts the statements he made as press secretary. On the right the criticism has been that he is a transformed man, and that greed has driven him to write scurrilous things that he does not truly believe. On the left he is battered around for 'too little too late' why didn't he resign, or at least say something at the time? Couldn't it have made a significant impact, even changed the course of conduct he objected to?

I can't jump on either train entirely, because I believe that the process that brought him to write the book he did had to be painful. His is not a position I am unfamiliar with, I have genuinely admired someone, even had faith in them, only to be disappointed with decisions they made. The faith we have in the people closest to us means that we give them a buy on behavior that strangers would not tolerate. When you admire a person to the degree that Mcelellan admired Bush at one time, they get more than a buy, the get an actual pass. It is only later, on reflection that we realize what we tolerated, and for how long. We've all had a boyfriend or girlfriend, a mentor, a teacher, a boss who has let us down, not been everything we thought they were. It takes time to register that disappointment, time to realize that we gave them a buy or a pass that they didn't deserve. We then feel used or taken advantage of, it takes some time to do what Mcelellan has actually done in this book, and own it.

Everyone is an ethicist when it comes to politics, and because what goes on in the White House does affect so many lives, we all have a right to take Mcelellan's oversight and inaction personally. It is also important to remember that Mcelellan was doing his job, working for someone he believed in and admired, and he has more courage than the current and ex administration members that have continued to say and do nothing. Mcelellan has lost a lot of old friends by making this public assessment of his past, and he has not gained a lot of new ones in exchange. This isn't a huge cash book deal, he is actually doing the one thing that both sides beat him around for not doing earlier; he is being honest. It is time, now that the week + of sturm and drom has blown past, to realize his behavior is not an abomination, it is ours, it is human. To deny that would make us the real liars.