Feeling good!

I have just been overwhelmed with joy today at the though of how miserable all those bigoted racist lunatics like Michael Savage, Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, Bill Cunningham, and Rush Limbaugh must be right now.

And Karl Rove is a treasonous, evil, lawbreaking, bloated idiot. No wonder Fox News hired him.

Just had to be said.

Our Long National Nightmare….

Is FINALLY OVER!!!!!!!!!

So…. About Joe the Plumber

Pollster.com did a look recently into why Joe the Plumber has done little, if anything, to improve McCain’s poll numbers.

Thus, these data indicate that McCain hasn’t gained much ground with the tax argument for two reasons. First, critiques of income redistribution and higher taxes for those in the top income brackets appear to mostly resonate with Republicans (who are already supporting McCain) and they have far less appeal for independents. Second, the argument also fails because the symbol doesn’t fit the argument very well. Working class whites are just as likely to strongly favor the government’s role in income redistribution as they are to oppose it and most among this group feel as though high income Americans aren’t paying their fair share in taxes. Thus, “Joe the Plumber’s” views on taxes are not really representative of the views of the demographic he is supposed to symbolize. Ultimately, the tax arguments made by the McCain campaign may resonate with his base, but they are doing little to help him make inroads into Obama’s support among independents.

Interesting Stuff

How Stuff Works

How Stuff Works

Confused…. or Evasive?

This recent interview of John McCain with a Spanish journalist reveals a man who is either incredibly confused, or incredibly evasive and noncommital. I’m wondering which one is more frightening in a leader.

Here is the transcript of the radio interview:

QUESTION: Senator, finally, let’s talk about Spain. If you’re elected president, would you be willing to invite President Jose Luiz Rodriguez Zapatero to the White House to meet with you?

MCCAIN: I would be willing meet, uh, with those leaders who our friends [sic] and want to work with us in a cooperative fashion, and by the way, President Calderon of Mexico is fighting a very very tough fight against the drug cartels. I’m glad we are now working in cooperation with the Mexican government on the Merida plan. I intend to move forward with relations, and invite as many of them as I can, those leaders, to the White House.

QUESTION: Would that invitation be extended to the Zapatero government, to the president itself?

MCCAIN: I don’t, you know, honestly I have to look at relations and the situations and the priorities, but I can assure you I will establish closer relations with our friends and I will stand up to those who want to do harm to the United States of America.

QUESTION: So you have to wait and see if he’s willing to meet with you, or you’ll be able to do it in the White House?

MCCAIN: Well again I don’t, all I can tell you is that I have a clear record of working with leaders in the hemisphere that are friends with us, and standing up to those who are not, and that’s judged on the basis of the importance of our relationship with Latin America, and the entire region.

QUESTION: Okay… what about Europe I’m talking about the President of Spain?

MCCAIN: What about me what?

QUESTION: Okay… are you willing to meet with him if you are elected president?

MCCAIN: I am willing to meet with any leader who is dedicated to the same principles and philosophy that we are for human rights, democracy and freedom, and I will stand up to those that do not.

How Is It That These People Haven’t Been Thrown Away in Shackles?

On Thursday, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a report concluding that top Bush Administration officials mislead the American people in the build up to the Iraq War.

“There is no question we all relied on flawed intelligence,” Rockefeller said in a statement. “But, there is a fundamental difference between relying on incorrect intelligence and deliberately painting a picture to the American people that you know is not fully accurate.”

“Before taking the country to war, this administration owed it to the American people to give them a 100 percent accurate picture of the threat we faced,” Rockefeller said. “Unfortunately, our committee has concluded that the administration made significant claims that were not supported by the intelligence.”

Read the full article here.

The Fruits of George Bush’s Labor Continue to Bloom

Is there anyone out there who still believes that this man has a clue how to manage the economy?
The Dow Plummets.

Thank God for those stimulus checks.

Groan.

How Disturbing is This?

Not for the squeamish, watch this video and tell me we don’t need to start respecting each other and taking care of each other? There is literally no humanity to be found in this video.
Hit and Run Video

Bring it on, Jon McSame

How Is This Even Up For Debate?

Last Thursday the California State Supreme Court kicked off what will surely be the opening salvo of the latest battle concerning Gay marriage by ruling the banning of gay marriage to be unconstitutional.

It would be a safe bet that Republicans will milk all of the opportunity they can from this tender little morsel. It is an election year, after all.

The TV pundits will confer with anchors over how this issue will divide the electorate, and discuss which states will introduce gay marriage propositions in order to bring out conservative voters. Everyone taking part, as well as everyone watching, will have an opinion on whether marriage should be restricted to couples consisting of a man and a woman.

The reality is that the conversation should never be allowed to get that far. Whether marriage is limited to couples of mixed gender is irrelevant.

In the history of this argument, no one has ever (and nor will they ever) be able to make the case of how some Americans have the right to tell other Americans what the restrictions of marriage are.

Religious organizations and the clergý have every right to define marriage within their own belief system, and even to decide who they are willing to marry within their own churches.

Beyond that, the authority to allow gay marriage through the State does not belong to a small-minded portion of the populace.

Social conservatives are sure to disagree.

Imagine for a second that gay americans had the audacity to tell straight americans who they could or couldn’t marry. Social conservatives would be the first in line to decry the merits of such a decision.

On a personal level, watch Ellen Degeneres put it so eloquently to John McCain.

As a straight, married American Citizen, it just all seems so insane to me that other people like myself would assume they have the right to keep others from being happy. It’s downright un-American.