was the complete lack of humor. It was so pathetic watching the guests shill for Barack Hussein Obama that the only reason I kept watching was to see if they would actually pass the plate for him.

What a snore.

Spot on.

My uncle was a Kluxer in this period. There was this Catholic Irish easterner with a gawdawful accent running for President. There was going to be hell to pay if upright white, Protestant men didn’t sally forth to defend the Republic.

The candidate was Al Smith, the year was 1928. We have moved on.

P.S. Elvis is dead.

In another venue, the guest Republicans on HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher have been grinding the same axe, with some help from ‘ol Bill himself.

Maher has had a FOX pollster, Frank Luntz on twice. Here is what the FOX does in the chickenhouse. Maher’s audience is nearly solid liberal, southern California democrats — it’s Obama wonderland. Luntz asks the audience to applaud if they support Obama and the place goes wild. He asks the audience to applaud if they support Clinton and there is a decidedly muted response. He then pans to the camera and tells America that they have seen the VOICE OF THE PEOPLE. We used to call it salting the mine.

For the last two weeks, the guest reactionaries on this show, like Andrew Sullivan, Jonah Goldberg and Matt Dowd, have been heaping unctuous praise upon Obama, painting a Renaissance fresco of this youthful demigod surrounded by winged cherubs and with beams of sunshine emanating from his ass.

Hey rubes, you’re being played.

You’re right! Go Urban League! White people suck – all of them are no damn good. Boo hiss.

I mean, for all of the moaning about the Clinton years didn’t Bill step into office riding a wave of hope and optimism? And I don’t even remember him talking triangulation until the GOPers did their contract on America – I think that was his way of maintaining power.

I don’t like triangulation, and I didn’t agree with the results of it (“welfare reform” was one of the worst outcomes of that, imo). But I understood why he was doing it.

What I don’t understand is people getting their hearts a’flutter for centrism before we even begin to fight, or legislate, or do anything. That is also another way to consolidate political power…

…but why people are fainting over it is beyond me.

Rules of Engagement

The inside story of what happened in Haditha, Iraq, where 24 Iraqis were killed by U.S. forces. Many in the media branded it “Iraq’s My Lai.”

This has been the most disapointing thing for me to deal with. I already had my campaign of hope, I hoped that the last seven years had caused people to develop a healthy dose of skepticism. I hoped we would never elevate a leader to messiah status again. I hoped we would begin to look at politicians for what they are, human beings with huge marketing machines behind them.

But you know what they say, hope in one hand and spit in the other.

I can’t find Hillary’s speaking schedule in Ohio. Any one else know?

Same with all of that experience.

Ready to Lead

Not exactly confidence building.

Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign failed to file a full slate of convention delegate candidates for Pennsylvania’s April 22 primary.

This despite the possibility the primary proves critical and despite Clinton owning the full-throated support of Gov. Rendell, state Democratic Party leadership, Mayor Nutter and, presumably, the organizational skill all that entails.

And despite a Rendell-ordered extension of the filing deadline that could be viewed as more than just coincidental.

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Thanks for your perpective and clarity of your prose.

The age of most Obamatons I see are young who don’t remember Kennedy and how he escalated Viet Nam, and how his clumsiness with Kruschev precipitated our handful of Cubans flailing against 200,00 Cubans who were armed and expecting. We were brought to the brink of nuclear disaster because of his terible judgement. Obama uses him as a role model?

They actually know not much about civics, 20 century politics and history, and have no political experience or savvy. They’re on a bandwagon pure and simple. All hype,message, and no substance. Smoke and mirrors.