Prediction: Republicans Will Retain Control of Both Houses Thanks to Vote Hack
I predict Republicans will win/retain control of both the House and the Senate thanks to voting machine irregularities and voter suppression. Anyone care to bet against this? And there's nothing...
View ArticleChristians vs Tiger Woods at the 2007 Masters
Zach Johnson won the 2007 Masters golf tournament over Tiger Woods and thanked Jesus in his acceptance speech. All of a sudden Evangelical Christians complained that the media was condescending of...
View ArticleA Guantanamo Taste of Your Own Medicine
Scenes we'd like to see: The Philippine government yesterday arrested the U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines James Donnely and his family after an Abu Sayaf member with close ties to Al Qaeda confessed...
View ArticleIf US Leaves Iraq--'they'll' be greeted as liberators!
One thing people haven't considered: if the US pulls the troops out of Iraq, instead of the country exploding with Shiites and Sunnis and the Kurds undergoing a free for all, the fighting and suicide...
View ArticleDid Cheney leak ABC News story on Iran non-lethal covert action?
We all know that Dick Cheney prefers military action against Iran. But his plan has been shot down because it has more negatives than positives (duh!). So could it be he and his staff have leaked the...
View ArticleWhy Apple's coming out with the Safari browser for Windows
At the last Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, Steve Jobs announced that their Safari browser, erstwhile only avilable for the Mac, now had a Windows version. Lots of tech pundits point to the...
View ArticleIs news media bias by design or by accident?
If you're an average American, if you don't actively seek out the news from sources other than ABC, NBC and CBS, i.e., free-TV, for your news nutrition, you only get sensationalism, sound-bites,...
View ArticleNASA Bushie Griffin Stifling Global Warming Findings at Goddard?
Let's look at two recent headlines and put two and two together:Exhibit 1: "Global warming will bring stronger storms, tornadoes:...
View ArticleGeorge W After his Presidency: back to the bottle?
Robert Draper's book "Dead Certain: The Presidency of George Bush" has an interesting quote that may foretell what'll happen to Dubyah after he quits the Presidency:'Then he said, "We’ll have a nice...
View ArticleGet real: can Hillary win Prez? No. Can Barack or Edwards? Yes
Given that in 2008 all candidates are not-Bush (even the Republicans), it automatically means they have a chance to win the Presidency (sort of by default). Now, can anyone thinking clearly really...
View ArticleDemocrats should use Republican Tactics
Democrats should take a page from the Republican playbook: stop backing down, show your backbone, apply stick-to-it-ness. When criticized, attack your critics. You're in the right after all, so why...
View ArticleHillary Meltdown: she's Dana Perino you see
Here's the main reason for Hillary's meltdown: she's the Democrat equivalent of Dana Perino, i.e., obfuscator extraordinaire. Hillary's new health care plan? covers everyone except those that aren't....
View ArticleBehind the Scenes at White House Holiday Parties
"Ding-dong!"Laura (calling from her bedroom): "GW! Some guests are here!"President George Walker Bush heads for the door wearing a tuxedo. A secret service man comes over and whispers to the President...
View ArticleThe (il)Logic of the Telecom Immunity Bill
Put simply, here are the arguments of the Telecom Immunity Bill: The Bush govt wants to catch bad guys. The bad guys are a slippery lot. Bush govt asked the Telecom firms to spy on these bad...
View ArticleDaily Kos Candidates' Negative Attackers Poll
Here at Daily Kos, do you notice that if someone posts a negative diary or comment about a candidate, the diarist gets attacked by the candidate's supporters? Whether this is good for the candidate or...
View ArticleI Like Edwards But...
I like Edwards but......he should've creamed Cheney in their debate....he should've slapped Kerry several times until he did something more forceful about the Swiftboating....he should've shaken Kerry...
View ArticleObama Negative Attack Counters
The negative attacks on Obama have begun. Hillary's attacking his progressive stance against unfair sentencing of African-Americans. Some are attacking his health care plan. Romney is attacking his...
View ArticleMichelle Obama: The Closer
I just saw Michelle Obama's speech at New Hampshire on C-SPAN...maaaan! She was INCREDIBLE! Smart, wise, compassionate, practical, courageous, clear, emphatic, passionate. Just like in the Newsweek...
View ArticleWho really deserves to be President
In the movie 'Akeelah and the Bee', Akeelah doesn't really believe she has a chance to win the spelling bee. She's black, she's poor, she comes from a rotten school. But her spelling coach (played by...
View ArticleGolf Anchor Suspended for Saying "lynch" Tiger Woods
Kelly Tilghman, a blond, beautiful former player/Southerner turned Golf Channel anchor, was suspended for two weeks for saying during a discussion about Tiger Woods' dominance that young players on the...
View ArticleAnother Golf exec in trouble for race insensitivity
Just after Kelly Tilghman was suspended for two weeks for the "lynch him in a back alley" remark regarding Tiger Woods, a golf editor for GolfWeek magazine has been fired for having a noose on the...
View ArticleLynching, golf, and slavery embedded in your genes
If this Kelly Tilghman episode has produced any good, it's that it has made people aware of what 'lynching' really means to the African American.To recap, Kelly Tilghman, a blond, beautiful former...
View ArticleNow for some shallow reasons to vote Obama
First off, he's a great dancer:Number two, attractive women get crushes on him:...compared with McCain's crush:More...
View ArticleTipping Point for Hillary's downfall
This is the first time I saw the full interview with this innocent, idealistic college student who was wide-eyed and interested in participating in the democratic process. But along the way, she was...
View ArticleNedra Pickler: Swiftboater Extraordinaire
As mentioned in the DailyKos diary, "Show YOUR Patriotism: Fight back against the AP"Nedra Pickler repeats Repug's talking points, Pickler is the AP writer who pretends to be an objective AP reporter...
View ArticleThe Swiftboating of Sen. McCain
Let's say we are the right-wing attack machine and our target is John McCain. What shall we say about him? Here's a sampler: How can we trust a person for President when his own staff question his...
View ArticleTelecom Immunity: Winning Arguments
Here are the main arguments for telecom immunity that swayed the Senate Democrats to tie-up with the Republicans and Bush: the Telecom firms were asked by the government to engage in the warrantless...
View ArticleHillary's Tax Return, Bill's Funders = buyer's remorse
In goldmj's diary Bill Bradley attacks on NewsHour w/Jim Lehrer, she mentions Bill Bradley attacking Hillary on PBS's Newshour by saying the only reason he can see for Hillary to refuse to show her tax...
View ArticleMaureen Dowd's Mistaken Musings about Obama
In her NY piece, "Monster Mash," M.Dowd criticizes Obama, saying, "You can’t be elected president unless you prove you’re tough." And for M.Dowd, this means dishing the dirt, going as negative as...
View ArticleChina will always be considered 'Low Class'
I recently saw on TV some mainland Chinese speaking about the Tibet protestors as if they were pests, cockroaches to just be stomped on and swept away. These Chinese citizens and officials talked with...
View Article"The View" in love with Obama
Sen. Barack Obama was just on "The View" which is hosted by Barbara Walters, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, and Sherri Shepherd. The View women had been pretty negative about Obama...
View ArticleObama wins Pennsylvania. Clinton concedes. Democrats unite!
A campaign tactic that Obama can employ is to let Pennsylvanians realize the power they have to unite the party and thus enable it to win the White House. Hillary, pundits and the DNC all have said or...
View ArticleObama's Iraq Hearing Style: Very Presidential
I just watched C-Span's coverage of the Senate Foreign Relations committee hearing where Obama got to question Gen. Petraus and Amb. Crocker. Verdict? Impressive! As I listened to him, I could almost...
View ArticleThere's no such thing as 'fate'
Whether we admit it or not, at the back of our minds, whether we're religious, athiestic or agnostic, some of us think there's such a thing as 'fate', as in, if you're meant to experience something in...
View ArticleWhy Obama will win: Reality vs Media Reality
There's a severe disconnect between attending an Obama rally or hearing him in an interview on TV or YouTube, versus what what you read in papers, what you see/hear from the talking heads/pundits, what...
View ArticleDC Madam Suicide Suspicious
"It was her, and she's deceased," said Frank Ruggiero, a public information officer with the Tarpon Springs Police Department. "There's no question that it was a suicide."Considering the DC Madam,...
View ArticleList of Obama Endorsers
Hi all. I'm wondering if we can compile a list of all well-known Obama endorses/supporters or those who have said they will vote for Obama. Here's what I have so far (please add more or correct if I...
View ArticleObama Greatest Hits
If you're in the mood to celebrate and to shed some tears of joy and pride, then here's a collection of Obama Greatest Hits, starting with the speech for John Kerry and John Edwards at the Democratic...
View ArticleRabid Hillary Supporters
I visited www.hillaryis44.org and I'm just amazed at how much vitrol they feel toward Sen. Obama and his supporters. They're all saying they'd rather vote for McCain than Obama. I tried to post a...
View ArticleQuestions for the NRA (National Rifle Association)
From Marc Ambinder:At the NRA convention in Kentucky this afternoon, Karl Rove portrayed Barack Obama as an effete, South Side liberal who claims he's immune to criticism and and who would confiscate...
View ArticleMcCain Flipflopper Ad
In honor Brave New Film's "The Real John McCain" which features McCain flipflop greatest hits, I decided to make an ad! Enjoy (after the fold):
View ArticleIt's 3 a.m. in the morning and I'm shooting my mouth off
It's 3 a.m. in the morning and I'm shooting my mouth off. Bill and Chelsea are fast asleep but I can't. So I get up, walk out of the bedroom and look out the living room window.I've just lost the...
View ArticleObama's answers to McCain/Swiftboaters
This is an updated diary to respond to the negative attacks already begun as part of the McCain/Rove general election strategy:The negative attacks on Obama have begun. They've attacked his patriotism,...
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[Updated] Breaking: McCain cheek cancer returns
Presidential hopeful John McCain had been pretty secretive about his medical records, no wonder, his cancer has returned in a really horrible form:The tumor now talks, though unintelligibly, about not...
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