Part 4 of Misogyny, Sexism, & the Gender Gap in the 2008 Election

In choosing a nominee, the Democratic Party will not merely be deciding who deserves to win, or who would make the best candidate. It will also be a decision about which poisoned landscape the Party wishes to compete upon —- one in which toxic wildflowers of misogyny and sexism are in full bloom, or one in which the poisonous weed of racism is a constant part of the environment, and needs the merest watering to completely despoil the land.  Read more 

100 Years of War in Iraq
(sung to the tune of “99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall”)

100 years of war in Iraq
100 years of war
You burn it down
Down to the ground
100 years of war in Iraq

99 years of war in Iraq
99 years of war
You burn it down
Down to the ground
99 years of war in Iraq…

Continue lyrics to “zero” years of war, then begin the negative numbers*, i.e.:

Minus one year of war in Iraq
Minus one year of war
You burn it down
Down to the ground
Minus one year of war in Iraq

++++

*Two negatives make a positive. Go figure.

++++

I’m glad to hear that Obama’s finally getting ready to draw some contrasts between Himself and McCain.

Just one thing though: I do have just a little problem with the idea that neither candidate has been drawing contrasts with McCain, and that both should start.

In reality, Hillary’s been drawing a sharp contrast all along.  Read more 

As the MSM largely ignores what is truly occurring in Iraq, the bumper-sticker tactics of the Republican Party (and their minions) seem to be working.  Read more 

Excellent Times op-ed about John McCain, “the first real postmodernist candidate.”

Frank Luntz-isms live on in the Bush White House.

From today’s Presidential Radio Address:

Where do we start?  Read more 

Once you hear McCain warm-up guy Bill Cunningham’s confusing assholery, stick around to hear Andrea Mitchell’s LOLzy bloviations.

I’ve diligently read the posts here at the Mighty Corrente Building regarding Senators Clinton and Obama over the last months. And, until now, I’ve kept my trap shut. Please allow me to open it once again and say, “Enough!”  Read more 

[via]

Last September 10, as David Petraeus was giving Congress a rosy evaluation of the situation in Iraq, a poll of Iraqi public opinion was released that belied Petraeus’ reporting. The poll received little attention amid the media’s love-fest for David Petraeus. But the findings of the poll should send shivers down the spine of anyone concerned with the lives of Iraqis and American in Iraq.

The poll (conducted in August 2007) found increasing resistance to the occupation, especially when compared to Iraqi public opinion polling from five months earlier (March 2007). Among the poll’s findings:  Read more 

Quoth the mythical moderate maverick:

Sen. John McCain told a crowd of supporters on Sunday, “It’s a tough war we’re in. It’s not going to be over right away. There’s going to be other wars.” Offering more of his increasingly bleak “straight talk,” he repeated the claim: “I’m sorry to tell you, there’s going to be other wars. We will never surrender but there will be other wars.”

Today, John McCain said this:

“There is only one man who should decide when to withdraw from Iraq and that is…”

The complete sentence appears below. Take a moment to think about how that sentence should end.

Then read on.  Read more 

The romantics in the current Republican Party herald back to the 1980 Reagan coalition and his victory born of the “three-legged stool” of Reagan Conservatism: a strong defense, a strong economy and strong social values.

Now, over two decades later, the incongruity among those three ideals haunts the Republican presidential nomination process. As the plethora of Republican candidates stake their claims, the dissatisfaction of the Republican electorate over their choices reflects the fact that it is impossible to obtain all three of the Reagan goals simultaneously.  Read more 

[Welcome Drunk Report readers.]

I swear I’m not making this up! And it saddens me, just a little, truly. I would have thought that McCain, having been tortured, would be the very last Republican candidate to throw his hat in this particular ring:

But doggone it—hat tip to alert reader muttley66—once again I just wasn’t cynical enough.

Follow me to the grand guignol below:  Read more 

From Senator McCain today (speaking to the NRA), referring to the 70% of OUR Country that is against the war in Iraq:

“My friends:
We beat you yesterday, we beat you the day before, we’ll beat you today [inaduible inexplicable] we’ll beat you tomorrow. We won’t choose to lose. We won’t choose to lose this conflict.”

Which “conflict” is that, dear Senator?  Read more 

John McCain says MoveOn.org “ought to be thrown out of this country.”

This is understandable: they ran an ad critical of a general who’s needlessly squandering American lives and capital.

The way civilized people treat military men is spreading lies about illegitimate black babies and a drug-addicted wives. Anyone who can’t adhere to that standard must leave the country at once.

msnbc.com headline:

McCain raps Congress for bridge collapse — Claims diverting money to pet projects hurts infrastructure

I’m sure it will take weeks of research, but if we work really, really hard, I’ll bet we can identify an expensive pet project that McCain diverted our tax dollars to. Now, what could it be?

In yesterday’s debate, John McCain “warned of genocide in Iraq if U.S. soldiers were to withdraw.”

Given that he’s so deeply concerned about Iraqi casualties, could someone please ask him how many Iraqis have been killed since the invasion?

If he doesn’t have a good answer, no doubt he’ll sponsor legislation to fund an accurate accounting, right? ’Cause he’s, you know, so concerned and all.  Read more 

No.  Read more 

Tom Turnipseed, my good friend and future United States Senator from South Carolina, sent me an e-mail this morning about Senator Lindsey Graham, who has been twisting a lot of far-right evangelical arms in South Carolina for his “Surge” buddy, John McCain. The response among evangelicals has been, shall we say, less than enthusiastic. So McCain has broken out the old “consultant” (wink, wink) checkbook and is flat-out trying to buy the wingnut vote.

This is how the sham shakes out:  Read more 

This morning, I got an e-mail from my old friend, Tom Turnipseed, a veteran political activist and former Democratic State Senator from South  Read more 

When our kids were young, we tired of teaching the usual menagerie of animal sounds. You know, “What does the cow say? Moo!”

One of our favorite variations was “What does the weasel say?” This was followed by rapid-fire sniveling sounds.

I’m not an animal expert, so I admit I got it wrong.

John McCain, when asked about the role of condoms in AIDS prevention, shows us exactly what a weasel sounds like.  Read more 

McCain says the troops he urged and surged into Iraq have wasted their lives.

As we’ll surely see, “gotcha” politics don’t stick as much to Repubs as they do to Democrats.

His statement won’t matter much to the MSM, because McCain is not only a war hero, he’s as Glenn Greenwald says, “serious.” That is, he always wants war.  Read more