Cindy McCain Is a Ditz

I do hope it’s not too terribly sexist of me to say that; I can’t help myself. She thinks that Sarah Palin is experienced in national security and foreign policy because she lives in Alaska, and Alaska is close to Russia (emphasis in original): STEPHANOPOULOS: But she has no national security...

They Like Us! Hey, Mikey!

From the Los Angeles Times: At the “make-or-break” stage of talks with the U.S. on the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq, Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has swept aside his negotiating team and replaced it with three of his closest aides, a reshuffle that some Iraqi officials warn risks...

McCain Wanted Lieberman

So it seems that McCain really wanted to pick Joe Lieberman as his running mate, but could not stand up to the Christianists’ wrath: For weeks, advisers close to the campaign said, Mr. McCain had wanted to name as his running mate his good friend Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, the...

Is Palin running for veep or tin horn dictator?

Even from from days as mayor of Wasilla, she has a history of firing officials on a whim. In this case, the Wasilla police chief supported her election opponent in 1996, so she fired him for “not fully supporting her efforts to govern”. Is that even legal? Palin even managed to fired...

The Storm of the Century

It’s unbelievable that New Orleans might have to go through worse than Hurricane Katrina, when the city still is in a state of devastation from that nightmare three years ago (thanks to the Bush administration): The mayor, C. Ray Nagin, said Hurricane Gustav was larger and more dangerous than Hurricane...