Things I’d Like to Post About Today ….. (092208, Morning Round 2)
….. But I Don’t Have Any Time For:
- One Hillary Clinton supporter in the primaries hasn’t been taken by the aura of “The One” I refer to as “Mr. BOOHOO-OUCH” (Barack O-bomba Overseas Hussein “Obambi” Obama - Objectively Unfit Coddler of Haters) and is supporting John McCain. Lynn Forester de Rothschild, who votes in New York, almost certainly supported the Eliot Spitzer-David Paterson ticket in 2006, and probably supported Carl McCall in 2002. I’m confident that someone in the SOB Alliance can whip up an Empire State-customized Racism-Free Certificate like the ones already done for Ohio and Illinois if she needs one.
- Maybe someone should put up a reward that would be given to the person who can prove that Joe Biden said the following in the presence of two or more Ohio residents while actually in the Buckeye State (HT Keane Observations) — “Speaking to members of the University of Delaware football team Friday morning, the Democratic VP candidate said: “I was out in Ohio,” he said while fiddling with a football in his hands. “I told the folks in Ohio that ….. (the Delaware Blue Hens football team would) kick Ohio State’s a**!” If someone does, their money is probably very, very safe.
- What obscure blogger had one of his posts at NewsBusters tabbed in a screenshot of Sarah Palin’s mailbox?
- There’s news about Victoria Wells Wulsin Whatever (affectionately known around here as “VW3″), and the title of Dean’s post at Cincinnati Beacon about it is great (”Wulsin choking on a Heimlich maneuver? Slippery Vic tripped by work history”). I’m looking forward to Malia Rulon et al at what’s left of the Cincinnati Enquirer getting right on this — right after they get done obsessing over what mailing lists incumbent Jean Schmidt is and isn’t on.
- Here’s another woman on the verge of accomplishing something the National Organization of What Kind Of Women (NOWKOW) probably won’t consider significant, because it’s really the National Organization Of Liberal-Only Women (NOOLOW). Speaking of new lows, the NOWKOWs endorsed an all-male presidential ticket for the first time, and only because a woman who wouldn’t stoop to being a NOOLOW is on the other ticket. Take heart: The NOWKOWs endorsement winning percentage is zero.
- An English Baroness says that “dementia sufferers have a duty to die.” Those who believe in the sanctity of life have a duty to fight the Baroness’s special brand of dementia.
- At IBDeditorials.com (HT Weapons of Mass Discussion) — “OK, we’ll say it if no one else will: Thank heaven for Gramm-Leach-Bliley. ….. Democrats largely supported it at the time, and one of their own, Bill Clinton, signed it. Now they frame it as a Republican bill that helped send the nation on the path to perdition. ….. (But) by taking down an outmoded firewall, the law is helping the financial industry cope with a once-in-a-lifetime crisis. Far from being the cause, this instance of deregulation, or whatever you call it, is part of the cure.”
Where did you get your blog layout from? I’d like to get one like it for my blog.
Comment by Spam Link Removed — September 22, 2008 @ 8:57 am
The point that isn’t being made is that the banks that took advantage of GLB and diversified are the ones doing OK, and the ones that didn’t are the ones failing!
Comment by Joe C. — September 22, 2008 @ 10:03 am
Ms. de Rothschild believes Obama is too elite. Now that’s rich, real rich.. Maybe she missed it when McCain said he would pay Lettuce pickers $50 per hour, or maybe she is just as out of touch as McCain.
Comment by Mike — September 22, 2008 @ 10:30 am
#1, from a web guy who wants to keep his work proprietary, and isn’t particularly active in this area right now. I’ll check, but assume he’s out of pocket unless I contact you. Thanks for the nice words.
#2, true enough.
#3, funny how this “elitist” was perfectly acceptable lo these many years until now. I guess there are good elitists and bad elitists, eh?
Comment by TBlumer — September 22, 2008 @ 12:23 pm
For the record I am pro-elitist for my doctor, lawyer and president. I just think it is hillarious that a woman named de Rothschild is quoted as saying Obama comes off as elitist. You can’t make this stuff up!
BTW, I have noticed you have not really said much positive about Palin, except to knock her critics. If she’s so great, why the hesitation?
Comment by Mike — September 22, 2008 @ 12:40 pm
#5, the humor is definitely there.
Palin’s fitness is mostly self-evident to all who don’t get that an Ivy League education in and of itself proves nothing. It’s up to critics to prove she’s not. They haven’t, but have given passes to objectively less qualified candidates at the TOP of the ticket in the past (Bill Clinton) and present (Obama).
But if you’re looking for Palin props around here, you have plenty:
- this (prolife cred, preferable to aggressive infanticide; the former makes Palin worthy of consideration, the latter make Obama objectively unfit);
- this, delegated by me to Richard Viguerie — “Governor Palin’s life story is one of sticking to principle. She is living proof that a person can take on the corrupt political establishment – including corrupt leaders in her own party – and achieve great things.” That is not refutable.
- this (”Palin Killed Bridge to Nowhere, per ….. AK Dems”), with the last word supplied by Club for Growth.
Comment by TBlumer — September 22, 2008 @ 1:14 pm
Tom, ignore #1…hes a spammer.
Biden probably did say it about OSU. Even though they have been a complete embarasment this year I would think they could handle Delaware.
Comment by Ben Keeler — September 22, 2008 @ 2:24 pm
Still seems your endorsement is kinda weak. There appears little to support the idea that she is a conservative in fiscal matters or that she has given international affairs any deep thought at all. I agree that Harvard and teaching Constitutional Law doesn’t qualify a person to be president, but certainly neither does a bachelor in communications or being mayor of a town of 7,000. It appear even you see the weakness here. But this isn’t really about Palin or Obama, it is more about McCain’s recklessness. With the financial system on the brink and with growing international tensions, McCain show how unserious he is with such a pick.
And since you Repubs keep bringin up Trig, I have to ask this: How responsible is it for a 43 year old Governor with 4 older children and a high pressure career to get pregnant? I’m not talking about abortion, I’m talking the “getting pregnant” part. And this is one of the 2-3 major things that makes you support her?
Comment by Mike — September 22, 2008 @ 3:39 pm
#8, if the Palin pick was unserious (which I don’t agree with), Obama and Clinton at the top of their tix is SNL funny.
I said that the prolife decisions make her “worthy of consideration,” not “qualified.” I assume you can read.
As to the “kinda weak” claptrap — What about Viguerie’s statement that I agree with …..
She is living proof that a person can take on the corrupt political establishment – including corrupt leaders in her own party – and achieve great things.
…. don’t you understand?
Comment by TBlumer — September 22, 2008 @ 3:50 pm