Wednesday Nov 05


Congratulations to President-elect Barack Obama!

He ended up with 364 electoral votes, well above the 270 needed to win (can you say blow-out?) and more than I predicted yesterday. In fact, he did better than most polls had indicated.

I am SO excited, now we can get down to reversing some of the terrible policies of the Bush-Cheney-Rove administration.

Tuesday Nov 04
A very exciting day today, I am throwing a party tonight to celebrate the Democratic victories! The main one, of course, being the election of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States. We have bets going here on the final electoral count, and I have predicted:

348 for Obama (270 to win).

58 Senate seats for the Dems (60 to have a filibuster proof super-majority).

Should be an exciting evening!!

Monday Oct 27
Sarah Palin does have a lot of executive experience - unfortunately, the wrong kind. She just can't tell the straight truth to save her life.

About her $150,000 shopping spree at Neiman Marcus and other stores: "I'd never spend that [on clothes]. I'm frugal..." Denial? She was caught, but acts as if it never happened! She also claims she doesn't own the clothes, the RNC does. She ALSO says she doesn't "have" them, they are in the belly of an airplane. Hmmm, sounds like she's trying to get off on a technicality. She also says that they will be given to charity, like that means she didn't buy them in the first place. Whatever. It might be easier if she said she bought them because she needed them to campaign in, just as the other candidates do. But practiced liars lie even when they don't need to. It becomes part of who they are.

About Obama: She claims he's already written his inaugural acceptance speech (fact: he hasn't). She also says he will say anything to get elected (a change more often leveled against her running mate, McCain).

The good news is that with a little luck, we won't have Palin to "kick around" much longer. NBC, CNN and RCP polls all have Obama over the 270 electoral votes needed for victory - without considering ANY of the tossup states. Currently, Obama leads in almost all of those states anyway. The election is 8 days away, and alot of folks have early voted already.

Monday Oct 20
Yes, you have probably already read this story.


...He said McCain’s choices in the last few weeks — especially his selection of Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska as his vice presidential running mate — had raised questions in his mind about McCain’s judgment. 'I don’t believe [Palin] is ready to be president of the United States,' Powell said flatly.

Stressing that Obama was a lifelong Christian, Powell denounced Republican tactics that he said were insulting not only to to Obama but also to Muslims. 'The really right answer is what if he is?' Powell said, praising the contributions of millions of Muslim citizens to American society.

But now I am able to pass on something equally important:

DRCHINESE endorses BARACK OBAMA!

Saturday Jul 28
From MSNBC:

"Vice President Dick Cheney went to the hospital on Saturday to undergo minor surgery to replace the battery that powers a device monitoring his heart rhythms.

During Cheney's annual physical last month, doctors tested his implanted cardioverter-defibrillator and learned that the battery powering the device had reached a level where replacement is recommended, Megan McGinn, deputy press secretary for Cheney, said Friday.

The surgery will be performed at George Washington University Hospital."

What they DIDN'T report - because it is classified *TOP SECRET* - it that Cheney signed an executive order temporarily transferring control of the government to George W. Bush - in case any emergency arises during the surgery and Cheney is still out.

Of course, we also know that Cheney is NOT getting a new battery for his pacemaker... that would be imposssible because he has no blood in him. He is actually a Cylon alien android. They are probably installing new instructions in his CPU from the rulers of a distant star system.

Tuesday Jul 03
Chris Matthews, who was taking the day off today, called into the 7 p.m. edition of Hardball to react to the breaking news of Pres. Bush commuting Scooter Libby's 2 1/2 year-prison sentence.

For Matthews, Libby was “at the concourse of intelligence, at the concourse of case for war, and apparently also at the concourse of the leaking operation.”

“Libby is in trouble for being part of a team – part of a team whose purpose it was to sell the case for war and to perhaps make sure that someone who was out to debunk the case -- Ambassador Joseph Wilson -- wasn’t credible. So everything he’s been accused of and found guilty of were efforts that were very much a part of the administration’s political purpose.”

“The irony in this case is that the president said he would 'deal with anyone who leaked,' and now his way of dealing with Scooter Libby is to pardon him.”

“For him to say that the penalty is 'excessive' may well be true, but it was the same crime that President Bill Clinton was impeached for by a Republican House of Representatives and in which 50 U.S. senators, Republicans, voted to remove him from office. So Republicans as a party thought perjury and obstruction of justice were sufficient to remove a twice-elected president from office. And now the president is saying that 30 months in prison is an excessive penalty for the same exact crime. It’s inconsistent.”

Matthews considers the human aspects of all this. “He was President Bush's political ally, so I certainly understand that he sympathizes with Scooter Libby and his family. The human aspects of this are totally understandable. And it may well be that Libby has suffered enough already and will suffer in the future... you could argue that the punishment has been exacted without Libby going to prison.”

Matthews thinks this decision wasn’t exactly a proud moment for the White House. “If the president were proud of his decision (and that’s his decision and his right to make it), he would have held something at the Rose Garden. He would have said it in person and not issued a statement on paper. He wouldn’t have done it on a 4th of July holiday period with everyone out of town. He would have done it with some flourish and some pride.”

But for the Hardball host, the misinformation on the case for war – and that legacy – lives on. “The 25 to 30 percent of the country who believe in the president’s performance are largely conservatives, and they believe in the war. It’s frightening that 40 percent still think that Iraq attacked us on 9/11. Twenty percent of the country still believes there were weapons of mass destruction discovered by our military forces when they went into Iraq."

"The misinformation in this country remains after all these years -- because of the propaganda before we went to war. The results are still in effect. We’re still under a misunderstanding of the nature of why we went to war. That’s the tragedy here.”