First….Governor Sarah Palin is most probably a very nice person who loves America. She has a great family and, from all indications, she's been well received as governor of Alaska. So…this post is not about Sarah Palin, per se.

It's about John McCain.

I think that the choice of Palin, itself, was decided upon based on a media hoax. Forever and a day we have been exposed to the completely phony narrative of the so-called 'Hillary voters'. Those whom, pundits insist, are so upset with Obama's primary win that they won't vote for the Democratic ticket in November. Sadly for hopeful Republicans, that is a hoax, as witnessed by both of the Clinton's thunderous support for Obama-Biden.

However, John McCain, whose campaign is being directed by Rovian elements, has apparently, with the Palin pick, bought a one way ticket on this cycle's TurdBlossom Special, believing in the preposterous notion that he can strip away Democratic women voters with a female VP choice.

As the next president said last night…"I've got news for John McCain."

For John McCain to think that Democratic women, for that matter any women, will vote for a ticket that will end the right to choose their own reproductive futures, because a woman is his VP, I think, demonstrates, once again, poor judgment. To believe that women will want to vote for more anti-science, anti-environmentalist same-ism because there's a woman on the GOP ticket, demonstrates judgment out of touch with "regular Americans". To believe that voters will not see the connection Palin has with oil and gas corporations simply because she's a….woman….and won't remind voters of the current oil men in office…is believing in a hoax.

And how fitting. McCain, with warrior full-throatedness, believed in the hoax of the Iraqi threat. He not only believed in it, he shouted it from the rooftops. Alas, it was a hoax. John McCain loves himself some "surge" and, still today, shouts it from the rooftops….but, sadly for the 72 year old veteran, the "surge" was yet another political hoax carried out on an uninformed American population. John McCain still believes, and enthusiastially endorses, more supply side giveaways to the wealthiest in our land….despite the fact that 8 straight years of economic quagmire have rendered that same economic policy….a failed hoax.

How fitting then, that John McCain's choice for his vice-presidential running mate, would also be based on a hoax.

It's not about McCain's veteran POW history, it's not about his experience in the Village for almost 30 years, it's not even really about the outgoing administration….it's about McCain's judgment. He demonstrates a curious tendency to be a sucker for hoaxes.

Sarah Palin has her own problems.

Sarah Palin on the issues.

Sarah Palin on ANWR…"the nation's most prominent advocate of drilling in ANWR,"

Call a Wammbulance for the Mittster.

Barack Obama passionately claimed last night that America was a "better country" than what we've seen under 8 years of Bush/Cheney. Better than the one whose executive branch leadership sat "on its hands while a major American city drown(ed) before our eyes."

"We are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look just like the last eight."

The Democratic candidate for president in 2008, the first black American ever to reach that pinnacle, demonstrated that he will fight for the country he loves and not allow it to fall under 4 more years of poor judgment like we've witnessed in the last eight….

"Senator McCain likes to talk about judgment, but, really, what does it say about your judgment when you think George Bush has been right more than 90 percent of the time?"

"I don't know about you, but I am not ready to take a 10 percent chance on change."

Obama stripped away the tissue paper facade of John McCain's maverickness in one sentence….

"The truth is, on issue after issue that would make a difference in your lives — on health care, and education, and the economy — Senator McCain has been anything but independent."

Out of touch….

"Now, I don't believe that Senator McCain doesn't care what's going on in the lives of Americans; I just think he doesn't know."

McCain, Obama said, subscribes to "that old, discredited Republican philosophy: Give more and more to those with the most and hope that prosperity trickles down to everyone else.

In Washington, they call this the "Ownership Society," but what it really means is that you're on your own."

And then came what I thought was Barack Obama's finest line from last night's historic speech….

"Well, it's time for them to own their failure."

Truer words have never been spoken.

What Obama's change will look like….changing the tax code, no tax breaks for outsourcers, incentives for small business, tax cuts for 95% of Americans, 10 year goal for independence from middle eastern oil as part of a broad energy package, investments in early childhood education, an army of new teachers with new accountability standards, education credits for service to the nation, affordable health care for all, pension protection, equal pay for equal work.

Change paid for "by closing corporate loopholes and tax havens" and Obama's promise to "go through the federal budget line by line, eliminating programs that no longer work and making the ones we do need work better and cost less." A promise fiscal conservatives should appreciate.

Obama covered all the bases last night. On foreign policy, he shredded the credibility of McCain's macho promise to get Bin Laden…..

"John McCain likes to say that he'll follow bin Laden to the gates of Hell, but he won't even follow him to the cave where he lives."

Iraq…

"John McCain stands alone in his stubborn refusal to end a misguided war."

"The Bush-McCain foreign policy has squandered the legacy that generations of Americans, Democrats and Republicans, have built, and we are here to restore that legacy."

Expanding on his 2004 theme, the Democratic candidate said…

"The men and women who serve in our battlefields may be Democrats and Republicans and independents, but they have fought together, and bled together, and some died together under the same proud flag. They have not served a red America or a blue America; they have served the United States of America.

So I've got news for you, John McCain: We all put our country first."

To those cynical of Obama as a far left liberal Trojan horse and a "happy talker"…..

"If you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from. You make a big election about small things."

Barack Obama, in one of most powerful speeches ever given by a presidential candidate, directed Americans attention to the "American promise"…..that we are all in this together, "together our dreams can be one",and that America still is the world's last great hope….if we will only take it back this November.

Not bad for a skinny black kid from Hawaii.

Give America a chance…..vote Obama.

Transcript of Obama speech.

Main media whores notwithstanding, the speeches last night by Bill Clinton and John Kerry were truthful and powerful.

Clinton, much to those who earn their livings from a kneeling position's chagrin, smoked his speech last night….and The Reverend inhaled and declared it all good. This was the Clinton politician we remember from the 90's. He made it clear that he, his wife, and his daughter will do everything they can to make sure that Barack Obama is elected president. The ex-president urged all 18 million of Hillary's supporters to do likewise. He insisted that Obama was ready to lead and mocked the ignorant barking by corporate media whores and their customers, Republican powerbrokers, pointing out that the very same criticisms thrown out like so much vulgar bile at Obama were thrown out at him in 1991. One of Bill's strongest lines placed his and Barack Obama's respective campaigns for the presidency…"on the right side of history".

Hillary and Bill Clinton, on successive nights, have proved to the American people that today's corporate media stenographers for the GOP are either comfortably tucked into bed with the powers of the last eight years…or…are completely full of dooey. You decide.

So much for the Clinton-Obama bloodfest predicted by those who allegedly are in the know….you know, the experts….with the emphasis here placed on the 'spurts' syllable of the word.

Special Blog-Interruptus Comment: Those in the stable of media whores found to be luring unsuspecting customers into their bordellos of bullsh*t during this Democratic Convention include the MasterFreak of NBC, Brian Williams and the I-wish-he-had-stayed-retired asshole, Tom Brokaw.

John Kerry gave a very powerful speech last night. His listing of John McCain's incoherence on policy was compelling and persuasive. McCain may once have been an independent politician who dared kick against his own party….but no more. Now McCain, hopelessly self-conflicted to demonstrate his loyalty to a bankrupt and failed political party, doesn't know anymore, what he stands for. Kerry surgically excised that ugly cancerous truth and put it on display for all Americans to see. The Massachusetts senator mocked the upcoming performances in the debates by McCain, pointing out that before McCain debates Obama, he must first finish the debate he's having with himself.

Tonight, Barack Obama, preceded by the elected president of the 2000 presidential race, Al Gore, will inspire American voters, at least those who are not reflexively racist, to take back their country from the destructive and criminal hands of the neo-conservative maniacs. All distinctions with the failed GOP will be clearly made. The Democrats will leave Denver recharged, united and ready to sweep November's election.

The Knee Pad line? The wisdom of corporate media whoredom?

"Barack Obama is a celebrity." My God, what insight.

The Reverend's Special Prayer:
God save us from the red light district media, the stiletto heeled streetwalkers with their suggestive political STD selling, those that kneel down and hook-up like vacuums to the powerful who pat them on their heads. Lord, deliver America from the propagandistic prostitutes for power….for they lurk behind every teevee corner and newspaper byline…seeking out those who they might mislead into the carnal sin of voting for more of the same old heaping pile. Defeat these evil corporate media enemies of all things just and moral, Oh God, and send them back into the dark recesses of back alleys and shabby crack-addict hotel rooms…where they belong…..is my urgent prayer. Amen….and E-V-E-N Amen.

Update: Also read this fellow believers take.

Those Americans planning on voting for an unprecedented third term of the Terror Twins in the 72 year old person of John McCain, are sad this morning.

Hillary Clinton didn't cause any trouble for Barack Obama last night.

You see, corporate media and rogue government loving Bush/Cheney/McCain hacks encouraged Republican voters, as we moved closer to the Democratic Convention, suggesting that Barack Obama's campaign for president would collapse after Hillary and her "voters" raised unholy hell in Denver this week. Predictions of doom continually rolled off the tongues of the usual suspect propagandists.

Alas, the dumbasses were wrong. Imagine that. Not only did Hillary Clinton and her "voters" not cause Obama any trouble last night…..Mrs. Clinton made it abundantly clear that she supports Obama, unequivocally, for president. She spoke directly to those who voted for her in the primaries and instructed them carefully that now is the time to join her in putting Obama/Biden in the White House. To Hillary, there are no other options.

No narcissistic, self-absorbed drama…..no call to splinter the Democratic Party……no sign of disunity. None of it. Hillary, along with a host of other intelligent, well spoken Democrats of both sexes and of every color and background, paraded to the podium one after the other last evening all speaking with one voice…..elect Barack Obama as the next president.

Sadly, this morning, McCain supporters are sad. They know that unless something significant changes the "playing field"…..their candidate is going to have his POW ass handed to him in November. These GOP bitter-enders were pipedreaming about some 1968 sequel playing out at last night's convention…..anxiously awaiting an intravenous bag of Democratic bickering and fragmentation to hook up to their dying party and pitifully poor candidate…..and to give them a reason to go out and vote for one of the weakest GOP presidential candidates in recent memory. It never happened.

Last night Ohio's Dennis Kucinich told not only Democrats, but all Americans, to wake up. His animated "Wake up America" talk brought the crowd to it's feet for a standing ovation. Governor Ted Strickland told Americans about how George W. Bush was born on third base, thought he had hit a triple, but then proceeded to steal second. Not bad for a, you know, Reverend. Mark Warner, ex-governor of Virginia and the next senator from that state, showed Americans why he's a rising star in the Democratic Party and more than likely will succeed Obama in 2016.

And then Hillary put the final nail into the GOP coffin by delivering a very good speech, not only reaffirming what she and the Democratic Party stand for….but encouraging all Americans to focus now on putting Obama/Biden into the White House….to keep the dream of America alive. Well done, Hillary.

To those sweating out the polling data that will be released this weekend….to those saddened by such a strong showing of unity by the Democrats….to anyone downhearted because they found out last night that Hillary….I know it's a shocker….is a full blooded Democrat….let me offer you a lightning rod to run your sadness to ground.

George W. Bush and Richard Cheney.

While the Terror Twins, who had shirked military service themselves, were snarling and grabbing their adolescent big-boy crotches sending Americans to die in a hoax…while the CEO Bush administration was financing the cost of wars of choice through the childish and reckless cutting of 7-home-owner's taxes….while we watched "compassionate conservative" policy worked out in the abandonment of poor minorities in Louisiana….the backlash was building. That now mighty backlash, whose energy will crest the first week of November, was brought on by the incompetent, cynical, permanent-majority-dreaming maniacs who touted that they would "restore dignity to the presidency."

Once more I offer my condolences to faithful, though misled, Republican voters. Today's Bush/Cheney/Rove/McCain Republicans have proven once and for all that they cannot govern America in a modern age. They put on one heckuva "mission accomplished" theatrical show….but they didn't accomplish much for American people, and what was accomplished, was destructive. They talked proudly of a "humble foreign policy", and then had to eat humble pie when their WMD imminent threat hoax crumbled right before America's eyes. They painstakingly preached about stimulating America's economy through counter-productive tax relief for those who didn't need it and which only brought more pain to working families, stimulating those same families to rise up and vote for Democrats this time.

Fellow Americans of the Republican persuasion: Take today's sadness off your psychological backs and place it where it belongs….not on Hillary, not on the Democrats….but on those very bad men and women in the Bush/Cheney administration, who, through their criminal and reckless approach to governing, have insured the permanent minority status for the political party, ironically, that they sought to make a permanent majority.

Just as the ancient Jewish priests, in an annual Day of Atonement, placed the sins of the people, symbolically, on the head of a goat and sent him out into the wilderness….Republicans need to cleanse themselves of the worst executive administration in American history. Republican voters, take that sad feeling you are experiencing this week, the pit-of-the-stomach thing that happens when bitter disappointment finally sets in, and dispose of it….lay all that sadness at the neo-con men and women's altar of propagandistic fantasy…and come join the new movement to restore the nation we all love.

The next first lady of the United States of America.

Former Republican representative from Iowa, Jim Leach, telling America why Barack Obama should be our next president.

"The way today's Republican Party has broken with it's conservative heritage…" at 5 minutes into the video.

Leach: Today's GOP "regulates values", has "taken us to war with a country that did not attack us", has "undercut treaties crucial to the defense of the earth", has "abdicated it's responsibilities in the face of global warming", and has "doubled the national debt….in an undisciplined effort to finance a war with tax cuts".

Leach was persuasive in his calm presentation in support of the Democratic candidate, Barack Obama. He was no nutty, red-faced and shouting Zell Miller. The Iowa Republican laid down the best case I've heard recently of how the Republican Party of 2008 has lost its way.

Opening night stellar performances other than Leach's clear and present Republican danger talk…

Jesse Jackson Jr…..great.

Katrina video with Jimmy Carter….great.

Caroline Kennedy and Ted Kennedy….great.

Michelle Obama….fabulous.

What the gasbags have been farting out of their mouths over the summer quickly dissipated like so much foul smelling methane….after about one minute into Michelle's speech. The fraud that is today's main media was exposed in one speech….the most powerful speech by a candidate's spouse I've ever witnessed.

Barack and Michelle Obama will do America proud as our next president and first lady.

A couple of months ago, immediately following Barack Obama's primary win, I predicted that the KPM (Knee Pad Media) would spend as much time, if not more so, leading up to the conventions, talking about Hillary and Bill Clinton as they would Barack Obama. My prediction was relatively accurate and remains so on the first day of the Democratic Convention.

Think how much time has been spent, from the traditional kneeling position, bloviating and bullsh*tting about Hillary's chances of becoming Obama's VP pick. Still today, the totally asinine whining goes on. Why, how dare Obama! He didn't even vet Hillary to be his VP….my goodness, get out the smelling salts and the fainting couches. Once again….there's nothing to the alleged story. Hillary told Obama if he wasn't going to consider her in the top tier of VP candidates…she would just as soon not go through the vetting process. No story here at all…..yet the lamebrained, pushers of propaganda…..those who are in the, you know, know,….will push that phony story all week long.

The media doesn't like it that Obama is the Democratic nominee. That's why they keep telling us stupid sh*t, like, "we just don't know who Obama is" and "is he really one of us?" They preferred Hillary because there's just so much more empty, meaningless, and distracting biographical material to work with….with the Clintons.

Listen and watch for the totally phony narrative being spun, starting today, about the Clintons. The more time wasted on the Clintons, the less time left for them to cover Obama and his policies of change. Already today the "big" news is that Bill Clinton's feelings are still hurt. Someone call a Wammbulance. Already today, the threat by the alleged Hillary voters to eff stuff up this week is being given "breaking news" exposure.

Here's what I think: It's all a steaming pile.

The Clinton's will speak highly of Barack Obama….they will encourage all Democrats, Independents, and non-winger Republicans to support Obama with everything they have. Hillary and Bill may have their own unique characteristics….but let's get this one point clear….they are Democrats. They are not George W. Bush/J.Sydney McCain Republicans. The Clintons know that four years of J. Sydney McCain would be too much of a threat to America. More imperialistic wars, the end of a woman's right to choose, the further hollowing out of the middle class, more Americans without health coverage, more tax breaks and giveaways to the already wealthy and powerful.

Here's something else I think is total bullsh*t: Hillary voters are just so effing upset over Obama's candidacy….they will vote for McCain. Those Hillary supporters who actually say this….are not Democrats. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised to find out that most of these folks are actually Republicans…trying to game the system ala Fatso Drug Addict Limbaugh's campaign urging Republicans to go out and vote for Hillary in the Democratic primaries.

Having said all that….here's what to listen for from the Knee Padders this week. The job of the Knee Pad Brigade is to portray the Democratic Party as hopelessly fragmented and fatally at each others' throats. That's what the slobbering bloviaters have been doing all summer….they won't stop now. No matter what the Clintons say this week….no matter how powerful their calls to unite behind Barack Obama….the narrative will continue to be one of disunity and backbiting.

Democratic policies laid out this week will be given short shrift by those who earn their livings staring at the crotches of the powerful. Instead, every word uttered by Bill, Hillary, Pelosi, Carter, Warner, Biden and Obama will be microscoped for atomic particles of Democratic Party disunity.

Listen and pay attention if you have time this week. See if America's most imminent threat, corporate media, doesn't continually seek to portray the Democrats as a broken party, fighting amongst themselves, and unable to unite to defeat the weakest and most discombobulated Republican candidate in The Reverend's lifetime. Count how many times the suck-job artists talk about Obama's "trouble" with white working class voters. Count how many times Hillary's name is invoked to denigrate Barack Obama. Count how many times the mindless chant of "Americans just don't know who Obama is"….is spewed around like so much vomit.

One thing you won't here much about from the stenographers for the powerful this week….is the total clusterf*ck resulting from electing Republicans to the presidency and a majority in Congress starting in 2000. Those who type up the powerful's propaganda don't dare speak of the mess Republicans will hand to the next administration. They haven't spoken much about it for the last eight years, why would they start now?

The many talented Democratic speakers in Denver will lay out the total failures of GOP policy channeled through George W. Bush. The Democrats will clearly explain the failed GOP policies, both at home and abroad. The Democrats will speak coherently and persuasively about just how out of touch 21st century American conservatism is with the American people. The economy, health care, Iraq, pre-emptive wars, torture, Constitution violations, obstructionism, activist neo-Supreme Court Justices…..the entire ugly, rotten and disgusting lot.

The Knee Padders will have no interest in any of it.

They just can't quit Hillary and the Clenis.

From CNN:

"Barack has chosen Senator Joe Biden to be our VP nominee," the text message, sent at around 3 a.m. ET, said.

"Joe and I will appear for the first time as running mates this afternoon in Springfield, Illinois — the same place this campaign began more than 19 months ago," Obama said in an e-mail sent to supporters Saturday morning.

"I'm excited about hitting the campaign trail with Joe, but the two of us can't do this alone," he wrote. " We need your help to keep building this movement for change."

Biden wouldn't have been my pick….but it is what it is.

McCain campaign official Brian Rogers responding to a question about McCain's numerous homes….

"This is a guy who lived in one house for five and a half years — in prison," referring to the prisoner of war camp that McCain was in during the Vietnam War. Link

I mean, come on old dude….it was forty years ago, right? It simply cannot be the response to every one of your embarassing situations or eff-ups. The former prisoner of war stuff, I mean. All Americans take their hats off to veterans, POW veterans even more, I suppose. But good granny…..how in the blazes can something that happened 40 years ago be the answer to every contradiction, every flip-flop, every embarassment, today….to the point where McCain is now using his POW experience to respond to the question of how many homes he and Mrs. Buffalo Chip own.

Now correct me if I'm wrong for, you know, asking. …but does McCain's 1968-1973 stint in North Vietnam have anything to do with the 8 homes he owns now? Does the real estate company Cindy McCain uses go by the name of POW Realty, or some similar, like, coincidence?

Or is McCain and his Rovian sacramentalist campaign…..angry….because of those very bad people who asked Mr. Maverick how many homes he owned? Could that have been the reason why McCain's campaign responded with the default "POW" answer? How dare those little people ask how many homes he and Mrs. Straight Maverick Talk Regular American, own?

Barack Obama has taken a lot of flack about his speeches. "All he can do is give speeches." Remember Hillary saying, "All Obama did was give a speech"? Well….all McCain and his campaign can do is talk about something that happened 40 years ago, which has nothing whatsoever to do with his qualifications to become president. And sure as hell, that POW time has nothing to do with McCain's ownership of 8 expensive homes. Those 8 expensive homes are the answer to the question, "Is McCain a regular guy?" Kind of obvious, isn't it? A regular guy doesn't own 8 homes. McCain, like Bush before him, is said to be America's "everyman" by GOP hacks and compromised Knee Padders (redundancy?), in spite of the total ridiculousness of such a statement.

Here's Rogers again from the out-of-touch McCain campaign….

"In terms of who's an elitist, I think people have made a judgment that John McCain is not an arugula-eating, pointy headed professor-type based on his life story."

Dangerous, don't you think, for a campaign to talk about "pointy heads" when their candidate has one jowl of his face the size of Rhode Island?

Tell me, what "judgment" will Americans make about McCain when they find this out….

The McCains increased their budget for household employees from $184,000 in 2006 to $273,000 in 2007, according to John McCain’s tax returns. Link

So, how is it that a, you know, regular American, got to the point where he spends more money on butlers and maids per year than 4 average American families, combined, EARN per year?

Ross Perot would later say, "After he came home, he walked with a limp, she [Carol McCain] walked with a limp. So he threw her over for a poster girl with big money from Arizona [Cindy McCain, his current wife] and the rest is history."

McCain, an elitist? No, hell no. What McCain really is…..is a burnt-out, cynical opportunist, like W., who never liked bookwork or learning (5th from bottom of his class), couldn't fly planes very well (crashed four), had and still has a bad temper, didn't honor his marriage, divorced and married a fortune, and now is running to become president to make up for his utter failure to become an admiral like his daddy and grandaddy.

McCain is a more dangerous George W. Bush rerun.

I have no idea who Barack Obama will pick as his vice-presidential running mate….but I think today may be the day he announces his pick. Knee Padders of every network and cable teevee channel think they know who is on the "short list" for Obama's V.P., and they have been telling us about that short list, nauseatingly, for weeks. I hope Obama chooses someone else…..just to demonstrate how full of sh*t the media morons are.

Speaking of waste and morons…..I caught quite a bit of Suzanne Malveaux's CNN hitjob on Obama last night….ominously titled, "Obama Revealed". The 1980's sleazy porn music which played in the background of CNN's hitjob on the Democratic candidate for president….was extra special.

Malveaux followed the Knee Pad script to the letter….minimizing Obama's strong points while majoring on guilt by association nonsense. The program was so slanted, it could easily have been written by Karl Rove…and who knows….maybe it was. After all CNN is the Most Busted Name In News.

CNN, following in the footsteps of other "news" networks like FOX and ABC, has morphed into a shameless and disgraceful conduit of propaganda. Just stating the obvious.
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I see Rachel Maddow got her own 9PM show on MSNBC starting the first full week of September. The 8-10PM MSNBC nightly programming slot will be the only refuge to be found from the neo-con hurricane of lies and disinformation swirling around us. Rachel is excellent….and in many ways she is better, even, than Keith Olbermann. I predict she will be the first to allow liberal bloggers (gasp) to be heard on teevee. Olbermann was the only actual progressive on cable or network news prior to Maddow's hire.

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Very sad to hear about Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Democratic representative to Congress form Cleveland. She was the same age as The Reverend. Tubbs tragic death should remind all of us of how fragile our individual lives really are.

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I'm hearing some rumblings from Johnny Mac Daddy that he may pick a pro-choice running mate, like Ridge or (Jesus) Lieberman. What a hoot that would be, huh? And speaking of hoots…..have you watched any of the video clips of Rush Limbaugh recently? Rushbo ain't happy with the thought of a pro-choice running mate for Straight Talk McDraw and he's saying so……but did you look at Rush's eyes? I'm telling ya'…..he's on the little blue pills again……and no, I ain't talking about Viagra.

And just think….recently the president, vice-president, brother of the president, and the president's daddy…..all called Rushbo up and congratulated the propagandist on a 20 year-long-knee-job well done.
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About Joementum. Joe Lieberman is a miserably distasteful man. His self-righteousness is palpable, disgustingly so. His neo-con-itis is maniacal. His desire to set the middle east on fire for the sake of Israel borders on treason. Lieberman is not a Democrat, no matter what comes out of his mouth. His speaking at the GOP convention will mean the end of Joe Lieberman as we've known him…..and not a moment too soon, either. Holy Joe will be a politician without a constituency, without a political party, and without any committee chairmanships. It's what he deserves for aiding and abetting a treasonous administration guilty of multiple felonies.

When Holy Joe speaks in Minnesota representing the GOP alongside of George W. Bush and Richard Cheney, he will be where he belongs…..neo-conservative, anti-American traitors of a feather and all that. The GOP Convention's clean-up crew will need extra shovelers just to remove the deceptive bullsh*t left behind by Connecticut's own disgrace.
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And then there's Condi. Scott McClellan talks about Condi Rice in his book about the White House. Scotty saw her as a sycophantic failure. One who was willing to tell Decider what he wanted to hear, no matter what. She was, and is, a criminal administration facilitator.

With McClellan's viewpoint in mind…..it's pitiful to hear Condi be so void of self-awareness in her stupid words about the Russian/Georgian situation. Russia is berated by Rice…..Russia is chastised for invading a sovereign country, etc, etc,. Rice seems hopelessly oblivious to the fact that her boss is guilty of exactly the crimes Rice accuses Putin of doing. America continues to this day to militarily occupy Iraq, a previously sovereign country. Putin is dealing with a backyard dispute with separatists…..Bush sent $1 trillion worth of American military might halfway around the world to control any "separatist leaning oil reserves".

I must say that McCain and Rice have been way over the top about this Russian issue…..as has the Knee Pad Media. I suppose that the neo-con American traitors must respond to, you know, facts on the ground…..even if those facts are never portrayed…ummm….factually. Responding, exaggerating, and inflating a border dispute into World War 5, you must understand, is good for the GOP candidate.

I don't know how in the hell that equates…..after Iraq….but there it is.

From today's Beacon opinion piece by former George W. Bush speech writer and now McCain cheerleader, Michael Gerson…..slobberingly entitled "Authentic John McCain".

"…. the Warren forum demonstrated how difficult it will be for Obama to appeal to religious and conservative voters as the campaign proceeds. His outreach to evangelical voters is obviously sincere, but he doesn't actually agree with them on much." Link

I thought about Obama appearing and taking questions from Rick Warren, mega-church pastor and Jesus salesman extraordinaire. Barack Obama was damned if he did and damned if he didn't. If he didn't, the worn-out-knees media would swear Obama IS Muslim. The wingnut, Michael Gerson, demonstrates in his piece today why Obama was damned if he did.

Democrats, and therefore the Democratic presidential candidate, are pro-choice. No surprise there. Democrats believe strongly that it is a woman's right, not a black robed man, not a white preacher, not a wingnut writer….to choose her own reproductive course. Puffed-up charlatans and feel-good psycho-Jesus-babble salesmen who continue today to strain at gnats in discussions of zygotes and fetuses while simultaneously swallowing camels of wars of choice, have absolutely no vantage point to speak from when it comes to morals or ethics.

Michael Gerson knows this fact…and so he goes all "common sense" on us….

"His (Obama's) whole manner smacks of chalkboards and campus ivy. Issues from stem cell research to the nature of evil are weighed, analyzed and explained instead of confronted."

You see, Obama wants to analyze and explain and weigh the facts about stuff first before making important decisions. Seems like the normal way to go about things in the 21st century…..but not to Gerson. Gerson likes confrontation. You know, common sense confrontation…..like, say, Iraq. Why analyze and weigh facts when common sense confrontation is all that's necessary?

Because Obama is intelligent enough to not be compromised or tricked by a psycho-babble religion salesman asking whether he believes in the existence of evil or not…..Michael Gerson translates all of that into the hillbilly assumption that Obama would be too busy analyzing, weighing and explaining facts to be able to "confront" such evil. Gerson, himself, has never been able to "confront" the evil of George W. Bush's administration. Gerson can't comprehend the evil under his own nose….but what he can do…is recognize authenticity when he sees or hears it…..

"Asked by Warren about his greatest moral failure, McCain's response — "the failure of my first marriage" — had an abrupt and disarming authenticity. The account of his hardest decision — refusing release from captivity ahead of others who had been imprisoned longer — remains shocking in its valor. And McCain's habit of understatement — he described the excruciating rope torture he experienced in Vietnam as "very uncomfortable" — makes his stories even more effective."

Gerson isn't impressed by intellect….he's impressed by phony biographies of self-adulation. "The failure of my first marriage", Gerson says, was authentic in a disarming and abrupt way. I didn't here McCain confess that that "failure" was because he started f*cking women he wasn't married to and acting like he wasn't married at all when he came home from Vietnam. That would have been some "disarming authenticity", huh?

"The failure of my first marriage"….is no suggestion that McCain failed. So even here, McCain can't be straightforward and honest. Yet, Gerson, in what he has to call his Knee Pad Delight, found that non-answer disarmingly authentic.

To Gerson, doing what a naval officer is supposed to do while being held captive….is "shocking in it's valor"……and who didn't shed a tear when Johnny Mac recited his "very uncomfortable", yet "effective" story of torture? Notice how McCain's hardest decision wasn't about sending hundreds of thousands of people to their death with his Iraq vote…..instead McCain's hardest decision just happened to be in harmony with his own Rove driven campaign talking point, which features the only endearing quality McCain has….he was a prisoner of war 40 years ago.

Michael Gerson, like many Republicans this year, are depressed about their chances in November's election. They should be. People like Gerson can try and try and try to spin gold from straw all they want…..but straw will be all they will get. Obama will not receive the votes from evangelical wingnuts. That's true. A Democrat will never get those votes. However, thinking Americans…..those who analyze and weigh the political facts on the…umm…chalkboard…..will be voting for the intelligent, thoughtful candidate…..not the say-anything-in-front-of-winguts with "disarming authenticity", candidate.

Vote for change…..real change….we've had enough common sense, bullsh*t, authenticity.