ht to Campaign Spot on NRO - nice perspective
John McCain was born on August 29th, 1936.
So heres an idiotic lefty attack ad designed to spook all of us into into freaking out over how old that actually is. ad omitted - go to link to view
Among the items mentioned, the ad notes that John McCain is older then
The Golden Gate Bridge
Plutonium
Coke in a can
McDonalds
Velcro
OK, smart-ass, that sword cuts both ways; heres my list of things John McCain is older than.
John McCain is older than betraying national security secrets on the front page of the New York Times.
John McCain is older than the fundamental break-down of family structure among the poor.
John McCain is older than Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
John McCain is older than having to explain to your children why everyone on the TV is talking about the Presidents penis.
John McCain is older than the ban on lawn darts.
John McCain is older than 9/11 Troofers.
John McCain is older than the ACLU being taken over by radicals.
John McCain is older than Hillarys secretive health-care task force.
John McCain is older than the public sphere being filled with near-pornographic advertising that is impossible to avoid.
John McCain is older than facial moisturizers for men.
John McCain is older than Gangsta Rap.
John McCain is older than politicized CIA agents distorting a National Intelligence Estimate on Irans nuclear program because they dont like the Presidents (i.e., their boss) policies.
John McCain is older than Roe v. Wade.
John McCain is older than Michael Moore.
Im all for change and progress but some of whats new since 1936 hasnt been an unqualified improvement, and theres nothing wrong with preserving (or trying to recover) the good while getting rid of the bad and embracing the future.
So by all means, if the Democrats want to have a debate over what John McCain is older than, lets have it.
I suspect a lot of folks havent had to wait until 2008 to finally find something about America to be proud of.
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John, take heart, you youngster, you're younger than GK. And the kids on the ad sound younger than Gulf War I.
ARAPAHO, Okla. (AP) Authorities have charged a western Oklahoma Democrat sheriff with coercing and bribing female inmates so he could use them in a sex-slave operation run out of his jail.
Custer County Sheriff Democrat Mike Burgess resigned Wednesday just as state prosecutors filed 35 felony charges against him, including 14 counts of second-degree rape, seven counts of forcible oral sodomy and five counts of bribery by a public official.
Among other things, Burgess (D) is accused of having sex with a female drug court participant who was in his custody. The crimes are to have occurred between October 2005 and April 2007.
A federal lawsuit filed in October claims Burgess (D) told one drug court participant he would have her sent to prison if she didn't comply with his sexual demands.
The lawsuit, filed by 12 former inmates, alleges the Democrat sheriff's employees had them engage in wet T-shirt contests and offered cigarettes to those who would flash their breasts.
One prisoner alleged she became a jail trusty [sic] with more freedom after agreeing to perform a sex act on Burgess (D), but lost that status when she later refused.
Burgess (D) also faces two counts each of sexual battery, rape by instrumentation and subornation of perjury, and one count each of engaging in a pattern of criminal offenses, indecent exposure and kidnapping.
Seven paragraphs and no party named before 'Moose took care of it. Another example of 'Name That Party!'
Wednesday's debate was devoid of substance and rife with gotcha politics. In the end, Obama seemed to win simply by not losing.
By Walter Shapiro
Way I heard it was, Hillary wiped the floor with him simply by letting him do the talking.
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Why Obama's 'people' continue to expose his right flank with these idiotic, time bomb, sand pit, and bobby trapped interrogation's, is beyond me! For once, I wish this prognosticator of 'Change' would simply tell the Democratic and Independant electorate they have to choose, and let the people decide at the polls. Those, who are not going to vote for him because they can't give one black man a chance in 47, are not going to change their minds! Those who are not going to vote for him because he doesn't have a vagina, are not going to change their minds! Take my advice Mr. Obama, look into the nearest camera tomorrow and say these words: "There will be no more debates, I have offered my vision and hopes for 'change', and the American people must decide what direction this country will take! As for the matter of the Michigan and Florida Delegates, I and my campaign obeyed the rules of the DNC; As for the SuperDelegates, again...I have won more States, more popular votes and more Pledged Delegates than my opponent, your options are crystal clear!" Say "Thankyou, and GOD bless America" exit stage left to greet the dazzled on lookers!
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I have been holding my piece on this whole fandango. There is no way in hell I would vote for Obama because I don't like him and I never will. There is no way in hell I would vote for a Clinton ever under any conditions. All this crap in the press is wasted energy and time as far as I am concerned. But the Media seem to have decided Obama is going to be be the next President.
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These so-called debates are taking on the aura of a Freddy Krueger "Nightmare..." movie for the donks. There is nothing going on in these debates that is new and the issues are not being addressed. Aside from that, please pass the popcorn while I enjoy the mud wrestling.
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The contractor who finished my kitchen this morning said that he watched five minutes of the debate and turned it off. I printed out a Michael Yon article for his edification.
Tom Shales
When Barack Obama met Hillary Clinton for another televised Democratic candidates' debate last night, it was more than a step forward in the 2008 presidential election. It was another step downward for network news -- in particular ABC News, which hosted the debate from Philadelphia and whose usually dependable anchors, Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos, turned in shoddy, despicable performances...
Charlie had the audacity to press his questions home against both 'Bamer and the Hildebeast, particularly on the proposed (or supposed) captial gains tax increase. You'd think that's what a journalist is supposed to do, press questions, but apparently WaPo thinks that's wrong. Maybe that's why WaPo isn't such a great newspaper anymore.
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All Bout Color, wants to inject the 'R' card (how do I know when the 'R' card is dealt; by remembering that 'Stephy' has never asked George 'W' Bush those same type dumb stupida** questions whenever he had an opportunity at one of his interviews); to boost sagging over the air ratings. With the 'Wolfman' prowling over there at CNN, and consistent high numbers with the FOX team; what better way to break open the stalemate and chatter! The Race Card always trumps the Gender Card or the 'F' (Faith) card, whenever America has to consider it's options for itself. Outside of WWII (when the nation was forced to look outside of herself), has no other cause resulted in the deaths and misery of so many millions (slavery, Civil War, Jim Crowe) in the life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness! All Bout Color knows this, and the poodle 'Stephy' knows it as well! My vote for the best "3 Amigo's", Carville, Krauthammer, and Stephanopoulos!!!
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...Well, clearly the WaPo feels that Gibson's job was to knife one candidate (whoever the WaPo's against)and support teh other. Pity Charlie didn't follow the script.
Mike
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Well, Tom, we were going to call over and ask if we could borrow al-Zahar to moderate, but your boss said he was too busy writing his OpEd piece for Thursday's paper...
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All Bout Color, wants to inject the 'R' card (how do I know when the 'R' card is dealt; by remembering that 'Stephy' has never asked George 'W' Bush those same type dumb stupida** questions whenever he had an opportunity at one of his interviews); to boost sagging over the air ratings
I'll be more than HAPPY enough, once I own the network, to ask George W Bush, John McCain, and Hillary Clinton about their respective relationships with William Ayers.
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The main stream media has mistaken itself once again for a group of people that are relevant. This time they really distinguished themselves at being irrelevant.
By Mahmoud al-Zahar President Jimmy Carter's sensible plan to visit the Hamas leadership this week brings honesty and pragmatism to the Middle East while underscoring the fact that American policy has reached its dead end. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice acts as if a few alterations here and there would make the hideous straitjacket of apartheid fit better. While Rice persuades Israeli occupation forces to cut a few dozen meaningless roadblocks from among the more than 500 West Bank control points, these forces simultaneously choke off fuel supplies to Gaza; blockade its 1.5 million people; approve illegal housing projects on West Bank land; and attack Gaza City with F-16s, killing men, women and children. Sadly, this is "business as usual" for the Palestinians.
Last week's attack on the Nahal Oz fuel depot should not surprise critics in the West. Palestinians are fighting a total war waged on us by a nation that mobilizes against our people with every means at its disposal -- from its high-tech military to its economic stranglehold, from its falsified history to its judiciary that "legalizes" the infrastructure of apartheid. Resistance remains our only option. Sixty-five years ago, the courageous Jews of the Warsaw ghetto rose in defense of their people. We Gazans, living in the world's largest open-air prison, can do no less.
The U.S.-Israeli alliance has sought to negate the results of the January 2006 elections, when the Palestinian people handed our party a mandate to rule. Hundreds of independent monitors, Carter among them, declared this the fairest election ever held in the Arab Middle East. Yet efforts to subvert our democratic experience include the American coup d'etat that created the new sectarian paradigm with Fatah and the continuing warfare against and enforced isolation of Gazans.
Now, finally, we have the welcome tonic of Carter saying what any independent, uncorrupted thinker should conclude: that no "peace plan," "road map" or "legacy" can succeed unless we are sitting at the negotiating table and without any preconditions.
Israel's escalation of violence since the staged Annapolis "peace conference" in November has been consistent with its policy of illegal, often deadly collective punishment -- in violation of international conventions. Israeli military strikes on Gaza have killed hundreds of Palestinians since then with unwavering White House approval; in 2007 alone the ratio of Palestinians to Israelis killed was 40 to 1, up from 4 to 1 during the period from 2000 to 2005.
Only three months ago I buried my son Hussam, who studied finance at college and wanted to be an accountant; he was killed by an Israeli airstrike. In 2003, I buried Khaled -- my first-born -- after an Israeli F-16 targeting me wounded my daughter and my wife and flattened the apartment building where we lived, injuring and killing many of our neighbors. Last year, my son-in-law was killed.
Hussam was only 21, but like most young men in Gaza he had grown up fast out of necessity. When I was his age, I wanted to be a surgeon; in the 1960s, we were already refugees, but there was no humiliating blockade then. But now, after decades of imprisonment, killing, statelessness and impoverishment, we ask: What peace can there be if there is no dignity first? And where does dignity come from if not from justice?
Our movement fights on because we cannot allow the foundational crime at the core of the Jewish state -- the violent expulsion from our lands and villages that made us refugees -- to slip out of world consciousness, forgotten or negotiated away. Judaism -- which gave so much to human culture in the contributions of its ancient lawgivers and modern proponents of tikkun olam -- has corrupted itself in the detour into Zionism, nationalism and apartheid.
A "peace process" with Palestinians cannot take even its first tiny step until Israel first withdraws to the borders of 1967; dismantles all settlements; removes all soldiers from Gaza and the West Bank; repudiates its illegal annexation of Jerusalem; releases all prisoners; and ends its blockade of our international borders, our coastline and our airspace permanently. This would provide the starting point for just negotiations and would lay the groundwork for the return of millions of refugees. Given what we have lost, it is the only basis by which we can start to be whole again.
I am eternally proud of my sons and miss them every day. I think of them as fathers everywhere, even in Israel, think of their sons -- as innocent boys, as curious students, as young men with limitless potential -- not as "gunmen" or "militants." But better that they were defenders of their people than parties to their ultimate dispossession; better that they were active in the Palestinian struggle for survival than passive witnesses to our subjugation.
History teaches us that everything is in flux. Our fight to redress the material crimes of 1948 is scarcely begun, and adversity has taught us patience. As for the Israeli state and its Spartan culture of permanent war, it is all too vulnerable to time, fatigue and demographics: In the end, it is always a question of our children and those who come after us.
Warty Nose Mahmoud al-Zahar, a surgeon, is a founder of Hamas. He is foreign minister in the government of Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, which was elected in January 2006.
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Looking forward to the day they're swarming your Hellfire shredded Mercedes and holding up your various body parts, warty boy.
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Hope you wear your PRESS flack jacket when the tank is around Mahmoud. Gives them a better focal point. You and you death cult society will continue to suffer and live in squalid conditions because that is what you and ham-ass want. You have had 50 years to get your shit together and you have wasted it firing home made missiles instead of building a country. You may all FOAD now, nobody cares.
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President Jimmy Carter's sensible plan to visit the Hamas leadership this week brings honesty and pragmatism to the Middle East while underscoring the fact that American policy has reached its dead end. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice acts as if a few alterations here and there would make the hideous straitjacket of apartheid fit better. While Rice persuades Israeli occupation forces to cut a few dozen meaningless roadblocks from among the more than 500 West Bank control points, these forces simultaneously choke off fuel supplies to Gaza; blockade its 1.5 million people; approve illegal housing projects on West Bank land; and attack Gaza City with F-16s, killing men, women and children. Sadly, this is "business as usual" for the Palestinians. 
