Secrets of the City

I think it would be hilarious if he announced he was moving to Kenwood.

I hope he doesn’t turn too serious. He’d be doing himself a disservice to run away from himself during a campaign. It’s going to be a tough balance. He should hire Bill Hillsman to do his ads.

Franken’s going to document the whole thing in his next best-selling book, and you’re all going to buy it.

I think it would be hilarious if he announced he was moving to Kenwood.

or new york

Al has a very nice townhouse downtown. All he’d get for moving to Kenwood would be ridiculously high property taxes. All the Kenwood people will vote for him already.

by tom’s logic he should move to Eden Prairie and shore up the nouveau riche NIMBY McMansion Repuglican vote.

Why would he move to Kenwood.

He should be shopping for an affordable place near Dupont Circle.

Or move to Duluth.

I was just making a joke. He lives in one of the townhouses underneath the whatever that condo tower is called on Grant.

skyrape

Grant Park

But I head Al loves himself some Drag Queen Sunday Brunch.

Are we to be subjected to another another dysfunctional, inept, embarrassing Minnesota politician? PUL…..EEZE!!! HELP!!!

I thought the original plan was that he wouldn’t announce whether or not he was to run for Senate until this last show. That went by the wayside, so this special message can’t be much for newsworthy after that. Unless he says something really funny about Norm.

He promised his listeners he would first publicly announce on his show. He then told some people privately about his decision, early, and asked them to keep it to themselves.

So, of course, several of them immediately called news conferences to announce it.

.

Coleman was in trouble, until today.

Someone else get in this race, quick!

THIS IS AS BIG OF A SHOCKER AS WHEN BARACK OBAMA ANNOUNCED HE WAS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT!

His video was actually really impressive. Prediction: he beats Coleman by 10 points.

I’m surprised by the amount of national press Al’s already getting on this.

I hope Al runs in another state. Who cares.

I’m surprised by the amount of national press Al’s already getting on this.

Why? the press are democrats. According to Drudge, there were 600 members of the press at osama obama’s announcement and only 200 at Mitt Romney’s. And Romney actually has more than a half-page resume. Seems logical to me that the press would clamor to hear the democrat’s alleged comic announce his intentions.

I’m from Michigan.

You Minnesotans are blessed to have Franken as a candidate. You better darn well elect him. America needs a smart and compasionate MN.

I contend that it has little or nothing to do with party affiliation. It’s because Mitt Romney is about as yawn inducing a candidate as you could have. The medium is the message, and Obama is an intriguing, fresh voice. Mitt is the dull scion of an old-school Michigan political family. You, Maz, may dwell on the issues and resumes…the media by and large wants sexy, and so do the people.

Obama is an intriguing, fresh voice.

That has said absolutlely nothing thus far. I guess I see what the democrats’ criteria for leadership is …form over substance.

I hope Mitt Romney gets a ton of press and that Republicans love him and champion him big time because the biggest knock on Obama is his lack of experience. I believe Romney is a one term state governor with zero Washington experience.

Support for Mitt would pretty much water down that argument against Obama. Can someone remind me what in Bush’s background prepared him to become the excellent leader he’s been?

I’m talking about what makes news, not who I’m voting for, ass. Try absorbing a little info before you spout off your talking points.

BTW, I got through about 90 seconds of Al Franken before I shut it down as I realized that he wasn’t going to say anything funny (not that he often does anymore)

Damn! maza’s done it again! While I’m writing a post to flesh out Bush’s substance, he’s already beat me to the punch.

Ooooohh!!!!! Mac Hammond/Michelle Bachman 2012? What do you say maza?

People ridicule George Bush but the man graduated from Yale, Harvard business school and jet pilot school … any of those three would be sufficient credentials for a democrat politician, much less all three. Then you add that he was a two-term governor of texas … a rare accomplishment indeed. Yet the democrats still act as if he was handed the job. As if Hillary Clinton is qualified to be anything other than senior madam at a DC brothel.

Other than the brothel shot, that was a reasonable reply. I’m not a huge Hillary fan, and not really all that big a fan of democrats (or any other party). But she was a highly successful lawyer, First Lady, and a U.S. Senator on the Armed Services committee.

Breath deeply. I’m going to ask a few questions, and I will wait for an answer that’s not inflammatory or defensive. Here goes. How did GW do at Yale? How well did he do as a businessman? Did he ever fly jets?

I know those are seemingly loaded questions, and I know that if I was really a political wonk I would know the answers. I don’t. But I do look forward to them.

Inquiring minds want to know. Is Al Franken a Jewy Jew or a fugotaboutit Jew? (like Norm Coleman) Anybody seen him at shul? Did his kids have a bar/bat mitzvah? Do tell.

the ivies and the military are easy places for the connected son of a prominent politican to skate through. texas is provably batshit insane, so I’m not terribly impressed there either.

I will agree with you that Hilary sucks, though. (yes yes, not enough for Bill, wakka wakka). But if anything you should love her, because she’s further right than a lot of moderate republicans.

Norm Coleman is a new york jew who made it in minnesota. Al Franken is a minnesota jew who made it in new york. I think Franken should audition for washington by first being a mayor like Coleman did. I thought you people believed in paying dues?

How did GW do at Yale?

I don’t know except that he graduated. But his actual grade point averag seems a bit irrelevant when you consider that the democrats wanted to elect Al Gore and he dropped out of school and flucnked out of divinity school. I didn’t hold that against him.

How well did he do as a businessman?

Well I don’t know that either, except to ask, compared to whom?

Did he ever fly jets?

According to the reports I’ve seen on the tv and the internets, Bush got high performance evaluations from his flight instructors who wrote glowing comments about his abilities in their reports.

But again, compared to whom? Hillary?

“You people”

Indeed.

Yes Marzapan, “us people” do believe in paying dues.

It’s amazing how naive you can become when you’re defending “your man.” Nobody in the military is going to give bad marks to the son of any prominent politician. That’s the kind of thing that can cost them their careers. It’s not right but it’s how the pentagon works. Piss off the wrong politician and they’ll threaten to withold funding to the top brass’s pet projects until they get what they want. Keep them happy and the money keeps flowing.

As for business, Bush ran an oil company into the ground. Good management, there! I don’t think the baseball team was doing super great either.

I meant you democrats. But I guess this incarnation of dems has nothing to do with organized labor, does it?

Damn right we believe in paying dues…you should see my monthly dues & daycare payments to the syagogue. Why’s Maz always Jew-baiting??? It’s not like we were the ones who conspired to wipe out the Indians or stick them on reservations…hell, the only Jew west of the Mississippi at that time was just trying to make a living selling blue jeans.

“According to Drudge, there were 600 members of the press at osama obama’s announcement and only 200 at Mitt Romney’s”

You mean 199 journalists attended Mitt Romney’s announcement and Matt Drudge was there, too.

Nobody in the military is going to give bad marks to the son of any prominent politician.

What would you know about it? The closest you ever got to the military was playing with your G.I. Josephine.

Bush is a total fuck-up and loser who “failed upward” his whole life due to the money and prestige of his family. If you don’t believe me, look no further than his performance in his current position.

Eli Chic?

I used to work for a transplanted new york jew about 25 years ago. He was branch manager for a consulting firm I worked for at the time. I was the poor guy’s only friend in town. The people of minneapolis had no time for a jewish guy with a new york accent and it really bugged me. I had never seen anti-semitism in this town until then and I was shocked and disappointed in my fellow minnesotans. I thinked he eventually moved back to n.y.

So graduating, not being Al Gore, being better than some people in business depending on the comparison, and doing well in flight school is the substance of your answer?

Look, I don’t think Hillary or Obama or Gore or Romney or anyone else is THE answer. But the way we skip from talking point to talking point, playground style, is so tiring.

I’m sure I’m completely swayed on my own answer at this point, but after 7 years of this, do people really still want to defend this presidency? What part has gone well? I’ll hang up and listen.

Al Gore dropped out of law school, flunked out of divinity school, lived off his old man’s Occidental stock and bonds that he was given as a crooked senator, never ran anything, business or otherwise, yet you people wanted him to be president of the united states.

Maz…the peoples’ disdain for him had much less to do with his religion than with his accent. Irish Catholics from NYC are posessed of way more of what’s typical cast as “Jewishness” than are Jews from Minnesota.

Ignore the biased news media. If this had been WWII with this news media, Roosevelt would have had to abandon the Normandy invasion after the first 25,000 casualties. In 25 years, I have no doubt that the historians will be very kind to the Bush presidency. And Donald Rumsfeld’s dash to baghdad will be taught at the war college for generations to come as the most daring military sprint in history.

The Rumseld Baghdad Sprint was indeed impressive (see: Mission Accomplished).

It’s the Bush Iraq Marathon that’s a little less impressive.

Yes, what would I know about something I’ve not been a part of? No one can ever know anything about a topic unless they are in some way personally involved! There’s no possibility whatsoever that anyone could possibly know about anything they were not physically present for by, I don’t know, reading about it or something. Blasphemy!

One more thing: in an effort to ignore “biased news media,” to what news source should I turn that tells me how well the war is going?

Maz…the peoples’ disdain for him had much less to do with his religion than with his accent.

pretty much. It outed him as an “outsider” who didn’t grow up two towns over, which means he must be scary and worthy of shunning.

Ask a soldier.

How much does the average grunt know about what goes on in the pentagon, dumbass? Need to know, and they don’t.

Nate: duh.

Thank you wayne. I’m feeling both fair and balanced now.

“Why does reality always have a liberal bias?”

Wayne tells us to ignore a soldier’s opinion, but his opinion of military matters is to be listened to. Typical arrogant dumbass kid.

Pesky facts, that’s why.

Aren’t soldiers trained not to voice their opinions of the military?

I didn’t tell you to ignore anyone’s opinion, but, and I know this never matters to you, I’m a lot more likely to trust something based in fact than an uninformed opinion of someone.

PS, the modern military is not the same one maz served in, so he really has about as much experience with the military today as I do. Maybe he doesn’t want to admit that things changed, in some ways for the worse?

Maz: Ask a soldier.

You mean me, or Al Gole?

Ironically enough, Marsupial, I ate lunch a few weekends back with an honest to gosh soldier stationed in Iraq (he was on leave for 10 days) and he said everyone he is surrounded with is simply exhausted and fearful that each day is their last. Morale is slipping each and every day and he said that he seems like they are just putting in time instead of accomplishing anything.

And that is coming straight from the mouth of a National Guardsman who has been stationed in Iraq for less than 6 months.

Other than the getting killed part, they sound like your average American working stiff.

That’s becuase they are.

If soldiers have the Warrior Gene that Maz keeps talking about, do National Guardsmen have the Weekend Warrior Gene?

If soldiers have the Warrior Gene that Maz keeps talking about, do National Guardsmen have the Weekend Warrior Gene?

That’s funny. But the sad fact is, not all soldiers have the warrior gene. They signed up for the benefits, not to fight. Then they come home and vote democrat

Perhaps the warrior gene only activates in truly moral endeavors, issues of right and wrong and essential human goodness. There’s no doubt that in the early stages of this war, the soldiers (and probably the rest of us) did indeed feel a moral calling and imperative to end the suffering of the people of Iraq. Maza has used WWII as a cross-reference, which is only a serviceable reference in so much as we can continue to define a human gain tantamount to the human losses.

That same moral clarity simply doesn’t exist anymore in this conflict. I would imagine that the warrior gene, that which calls the warrior to jump through fire and take a bullet for a cause would go on shut down mode if the moral clarity of the cause had been watered down by politics and false pretenses.

I have that warrior gene, as I imagine we all do on some level. I would not be a CO candidate – for the right cause I would fight. I feel the calling. I do. But if you ask the foot soldiers, and I have not, what they were fighting for and what they were willing to die for in Iraq, would they know the answer? Would they know that their death was going to serve in the greater human good?

If there’s a warrior’s gene to fight, is there also a warrior’s gene for self-preservation when the circumstances call? Might “descreasing morale” really be “lack of moral calling”? I’ve seen footage of veterans visiting Normandy. I’ve seen their reckoning of the events of those hours. Their sadness and pride is marked by a sense that what happened on those beaches led to a tremendous gain for humanity. Will these soldiers return to Baghdad or Fallujah and have that same sense?

There’s no doubt that in the early stages of this war, the soldiers (and probably the rest of us) did indeed feel a moral calling and imperative to end the suffering of the people of Iraq.

So what’s changed? The impatient and politically partisan press reporting day in and day out about those things that aren’t working are wearing down the will and resolve of both the american people and the soldiers, who get to watch CNN like the rest of us. This phenonmenon is no less effective than if the enemy were conducting psyops by jamming our radio and tv stations and broadcasting propoganda ala tokya rose or saigon sally.

Let’s be clinical about this: The “war in Iraq” ended when that nation’s regime was captured and imprisoned. Regime change has occurred. That mission has been accomplished.

What followed has been a messy occupation. It’s been messy because of this nation’s inherent compassion. The primary mistake of George Bush was in letting Saddam’s army dissipate into the population to fight another day in the form of an insurgency. They should have been totally destroyed on the battlefield, or failing that, converted into a domestic security force immediately after major hostilities had ceased.

It took allied forces four years to take down Hitler and Tojo, at the cost of millions of lives, and we’re still occupying germany and japan, 60 years later! Yet I don’t recall there ever being a great outcry because all U.S. forces hadn’t left germany and japan by 1950. Most people don’t even know that remnants of the german army fought an insurgency in germany for years after their supposed surrender. The american people were told the war was over because Hitler was dead. And japan? Well, we weren’t as compassionate in those days. We just obliterated them. No fuss no muss.

My point is, it’s instructive to view these events against the events of WWII and ask yourself why things are being reported so differently than they were then and why politicians seem to be allowed to take the side of our enemy without consequence.

Transcript of the Video Tape:

Franken: “Today, I’m decided to run for the senate in 2008 as a DFL contender.”

(cue the crickets chirping in the background*)

Franken: “Today, I decided to become a black man instead, who grew up in Kenya with a Muslim father and an African native mother that later sent me to a boarding school in Indonesia.” (looking confuse). What’s that? You’re telling me that I can’t copycat Obama’s personally for this PA? God damn it! I should had been from Illinois instead!

Transcript of the Video Tape:

Franken: “Today, I’m decided to run for the senate in 2008 as a DFL contender.”

(cue the crickets chirping in the background*)

Franken: “Today, I decided to become a black man instead, who grew up in Kenya with a Muslim father and an African native mother that later sent me to a boarding school in Indonesia.” (looking confuse). “Huh? What’s that? You’re telling me that I can’t copycat Obama’s personally for this PA? God damn it! I should had been from Illinois instead!”

why things are being reported so differently than they were then and why politicians seem to be allowed to take the side of our enemy without consequence.

Just thinking out loud here….Perhaps it’s not that things are being reported differently, it’s that what’s reported is not subjected to as much of as rigorous an editorial process and/or, more to the point, government censorship. Through technological improvements, the general public has direct access to the news as it happens, and getting it to market quick is of the essence. 60 years ago it was possible for the government to manipulate “the truth” as it was reported through limited outlets…just radio and newsprint. Now you have up-to-the-minute bloggers and embedded journalists popping up everywhere, and the information is out of the government’s control….and if you believe in a free press, that’s a good thing.

Well I agree that that’s a large part of it. But another glaring difference is the american public’s seeming requirement that the U.S. fight a politically correct war has made it tougher for the american soldier to do his job and the american commander-in-chief to do his.

In WWII, we took out entire cities to deprive the enemy of their factories and war supplies. Harry Truman said screw it, nuke the bastards and let’s be done with it. George Bush’s military has to avoid shooting at mosques and other sensitive sites to avoid offending the world press (apparently) even if the dispicable enemy uses mosques or women and children as shields. Kid glove rules of engagement make for longer than necessary occupations. U.S. soldiers can’t fire unless first fired upon, etc.

George Patton would have resigned in disgust.

Hey Big G,

Obama has a Kenyan dad and white, Kansan mother. Get it right.

Let’s be clinical about this: The “war in Iraq” ended when that nation’s regime was captured and imprisoned. Regime change has occurred. That mission has been accomplished.

True. We have replaced a puppet strongman installed with the assistance and support of the United States with a country collapsing in the middle of civil war.

You have no idea what you’re talking about, do you?

Oh, and there’s no fucking thing as a warrior gene.

Um, Max, I beg to differ.

Yes, I suppose I should defer to your superior knowledge and experience in these matters.

Pres. Bush and his pals dragged us into war with Iraq so they could all get rich. Mission Accomplished.

Harry Truman said screw it, nuke the bastards and let’s be done with it. George Bush’s military has to avoid shooting at mosques and other sensitive sites to avoid offending the world press (apparently)

Except Japan attacked the US. Did Iraq?

You’re whining that the army can’t blow the living fuck out of anything they feel like because of PR concerns, but really, when the war was started without provocation from the other side, do you really think barbaric scorched earth tactics are acceptable?

Wait, yes, you do. Becuase you’re fucking loony.

Let’s be clinical about this: The “war in Iraq” ended when that nation’s regime was captured and imprisoned. Regime change has occurred. That mission has been accomplished.

I seem to recall the “mission accomplished” banner being unfurled a long time before they actually found Saddam…

Why do liberals insist on cursing so much? Does it show that you care about these subjects more than other people?

“Bush is a total fuck-up and loser . . .“

– - -

And, incidentally, President of the United States, which makes him, arguably, the most powerful person in the world. (Not my words – that’s simply the historical and widely-held characterization.)

Also, if the most current polls can be believed, roughly 126,000,000 Americans approve of his job performance. Can you claim such a job eval? Can you name twenty people who approve of your job performance?

Oh, and he’s rich.

Not looking to get into a pro/anti-Bush argument here. Just pointing out that words have meaning, unless you use them like . . . well, like above.

.

Well, let’s put that figure back into context, Bobby. That means his presidential approval rating is somewhere between 30 and 35 percent. Lyndon Johnson, who did not run for a second term because of disapproval over Vietnam, left office with an approval rate of 49. Jimmy Carter left office with an approval rate of 34 –about what Bush has now. There’s only one president below that. Nixon, who resigned office in disgrace with an approval rating of 24.

I would say “total fuck up and loser” reflects his job approval rating pretty well. If you got an approval rating like that on your job, you’d be fired.

The reason Bush’s approval ratings are in the 30s in because republicans, especially conservatives, are honest in their disapproval of the man’s performance. Those numbers reflect that about half of the republicans who would still vote for him today against John Kerry or Al Gore, disapprove of something he’s doing. When democrat presidents are rated by the public, their partisan supporters are less honest in their rating of him because they view it as a measurement of their party’s performance. Hence you have a guy like Bill Clinton, for example, who should have resigned in disgrace, still getting full support from the party regulars regardless. Republicans, honest. Democrats, not so much.

Bullshit, Maz. I have never seen Republicans protesting their own president the way Democrats protested Bill Clinton — actually getting out in the street and protesting. Also, if you look at his approval rating, Clinton bounced around quite a bit — at one point, his approval ratng was as low as this current president is.

But, of course, you didn’t bother to do any research at all, preferring simply to babble baseless partisan attacks than actually engage in reasoned discussion.

“I would say “total fuck up and loser” reflects his job approval rating pretty well. If you got an approval rating like that on your job, you’d be fired.“

– - -

Ah, but that’s not really speaking to my (fairly narrow) point, which was simply that it’s kind of hilarious to see losers like us, conversing on an internet B-Board, some with jobs, some not so much, some with accomplishments, some too young to have any yet, using words like “loser” and “total fuck-up” as being descriptive of someone whose life achievements to-date likely far surpass anything even the best of us will ever attain.

(Well, I mean, except for me. I’m going places, man.)

I have the same discussion with people who refer to the teams that lose the national championship games as “losers”, too. They’re not losers – they’re the second-best team in the country.

It’s just a “language should be used in context” sort of point, not a Bush-specific thing.

.

protesting the president is a sign of weakness to the terrorists and emboldens them!

You’re priceless bobby. heh

I was president of my student council, and vice president of the University of Minnesota’s Hillel House.

I will decline to release my approval ratings.

Hey! now see Max, we do have something in common. I was president of my student council too. Plus president of my sophomore class, junior class and senior class. Then I became a republican and I never won another election again. rats.

They’re not losers – they’re the second-best team in the country.

Ah-hem:

“If you’re not first, you’re last.”

Also, I was king of the winter formal while we’re harking back to earlier days. I’m pretty sure a king has more authority than a president, at least before the stupid peasants made up their ‘constitutional monarchy.’ Weak.

I thought you went to an all-boys school?

Thanks, Maz!

– - -

““If you’re not first, you’re last.”“

– - -

In an exchange in which my point has been that a bunch of interwebnets nerds probably lack standing to call the President of the United States a “loser” and a “total failure”, you’ve just quoted Will Farrel to me.

I think my work is done here.

.

just keep on makin’ shit up, man. it suits you.

I went to a Jewish high school for two years. I was going to go to an Irish high school, but I couldn’t drink that much.

I think my work is done here.

Don’t go. Jesus said, go to where the sinners are.

Hey man, I don’t even really like Will Farrel. That one was just to reach out and make a connection with the kids. I hear they’re wild about him these days.

I’d call the president more of a ‘chump’ than a ‘loser,’ though.

I’ve caught Obama fever! Obamamania, Obamarama, Obama, Obama, Obama. (I just pray to God this is clean, renewable electricity I’m feeling.)

Only white guilt could explain the insanely hyperbolic descriptions of Obama’s “eloquence.” His speeches are a run-on string of embarrassing, sophomoric Hallmark bromides.

In announcing his candidacy last week, Obama confirmed that he believes in “the basic decency of the American people.” And let the chips fall where they may!

Obama forthrightly decried “a smallness of our politics”  deftly slipping a sword into the sides of the smallness-in-politics advocates. (To his credit, he somehow avoided saying, “My fellow Americans, size does matter.”)

He took a strong stand against the anti-hope crowd, saying: “There are those who don’t believe in talking about hope.” Take that, Hillary!

Most weirdly, he said: “I recognize there is a certain presumptuousness in this  a certain audacity  to this announcement.”

What is so audacious about announcing that you’re running for president? Any idiot can run for president. Dennis Kucinich is running for president. Until he was imprisoned, Lyndon LaRouche used to run for president constantly. John Kerry ran for president. Today, all you have to do is suggest a date by which U.S. forces in Iraq should surrender, and you’re officially a Democratic candidate for president.

Obama made his announcement surrounded by hundreds of adoring Democratic voters. And those were just the reporters. There were about 400 more reporters at Obama’s announcement than Mitt Romney’s, who, by the way, is more likely to be sworn in as our next president than B. Hussein Obama.

Obama has locked up the Hollywood money. Even Miss America has endorsed Obama. (John “Two Americas” Edwards is still hoping for the other Miss America to endorse him.)

But Obama tells us he’s brave for announcing that he’s running for president. And if life gives you lemons, make lemonade!

I don’t want to say that Obama didn’t say anything in his announcement, but afterward, even Jesse Jackson was asking, “What did he say?” There was one refreshing aspect to Obama’s announcement: It was nice to see a man call a press conference this week to announce something other than he was the father of Anna Nicole Smith’s baby.

B. Hussein Obama’s announcement also included this gem: “I know that I haven’t spent a lot of time learning the ways of Washington. But I’ve been there long enough to know that the ways of Washington must change.” As long as Obama insists on using Hallmark card greetings in his speeches, he could at least get Jesse Jackson to help him with the rhyming.

If Obama’s biggest asset is his inexperience, then if by the slightest chance he were elected and were to run for a second term, he will have to claim he didn’t learn anything the first four years.

There was also this inspirational nugget: “Each and every time, a new generation has risen up and done what’s needed to be done. Today we are called once more, and it is time for our generation to answer that call.” Is this guy running for president or trying to get people to switch to a new long-distance provider?

He said that “we learned to disagree without being disagreeable.” (There goes Howard Dean’s endorsement.) This was an improvement on the first draft, which read, “It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice.”

This guy’s like the ANWR of trite political aphorisms. There’s no telling exactly how many he’s sitting on, but it could be in the billions.

Obama’s famed eloquence reminds me of a book of platitudes I read about once called “Life Lessons.” The book contained such inspiring thoughts as:

“When was the last time you really looked at the sea? Or smelled the morning? Touched a baby’s hair? Really tasted and enjoyed food? Walked barefoot in the grass? Looked in the blue sky?” (When was the last time you fantasized about dismembering the authors of a book of platitudes?)

I can’t wait for Obama’s inaugural address when he reveals that he loves long walks in the rain, sunsets, and fresh-baked cookies shaped like puppies.

The guy I feel sorry for is Harold Ford. The former representative from Tennessee is also black, a Democrat, about the same age as Obama, and is every bit as attractive. The difference is, when he talks, you don’t fantasize about plunging knitting needles into your ears to stop the gusher of meaningless platitudes.

Ford ran as a Democrat in Republican Tennessee and almost won  and the press didn’t knock out his opponent for him by unsealing sealed divorce records, as it did for B. Hussein Obama. Yet no one ever talks about Ford as the second coming of Cary Grant and Albert Einstein.

Maybe Democrats aren’t secret racists expunging vast stores of white guilt by hyperventilating over B. Hussein Obama. Maybe they’re just running out of greeting card inscriptions.

Ok my roi, admit it. You’re really Al franken aren’t you? I’d recognize that comedic timing anywhere. Forget about Obama. He’s a non-factor. If Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton don’t think you’re black enough, your name might as well be Clarence Thomas as far as they’re concerned.

He’s just the rabbit in this race, put there to make it look like Hillary had to compete for the nomination with someone, anyone, even if he is the Washington Generals of politics. How do I know this? He smokes. The demorats would never seriously consider anyone who uses the evil tobacco.

I did like your John Edwards/Miss America crack though. Can I use it?

That drivel is actually lifted straight from Ann Coulter…I just wonder why, if he’s as sophomoric and irrelevant as she says, then why does she have such an axe to grind with him…homegirl needs to go eat something.

Well, I guess that proves that not all of us hairy-backed conservatives read Ann Coulter.

Does anyone know where downtown he lives…. I think that I would like to get a few photos or autograph

That would be great!! or if anyone know when he is moving.

“Does anyone know where downtown he lives…. I think that I would like to get a few photos or autograph“

You’re going to get more responses if you put that scoped rifle away first.