Big Ol' Smitty

I think it's stupid to do this right when the Iranian public seems to be rejecting the extremism of Ahmadinejad. I wonder if this sort of posturing will turn the public back toward him. Also, it's important to keep in mind that, despite all of the fearmongering by the US media, the President of Iran actually has very little actual power over foreign policy or military matters.

Ha!

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/21/world/mi...amp;oref=slogin

Washington, Washington, six foot eight weighs a fucking ton.

Rich Lowry, editor of National Review, finally entered the real world, albeit about 4 years too late... http://author.nationalreview.com/latest/?q=MjE1NQ== This cover, from May '05, will never get old to me.

You had to do research to find out Debbie Schlussel was Jewish?

I heard some rightwing radio guy throwing around the "Hussein Osama" when talking about the Senator the other day, too. I think crap like this could actually get sympathy for Obama.

http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/20...ck_hussein.html Oh noes~! Sorry Czech, but from The History of Anti-Semitism: The Longest Hatred

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...6121801410.html

Newsweek 12/17/06 http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories....92582&EDATE via Atrios

These "Rules of Primary Campaign Discourse" seem relevant to the arguments between me, snuffbox, Jerk, & gWIL (et al) in this thread. from atrios

http://politicalinsider.com/2006/12/more_on_warner.html There are rumors on the internets that Mark Warner is reconsidering his dropout...

You forgot Mike Gravel!

Bayh is out.

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews....=rss&rpc=22

This is according to a recent NBC Wall Street Journal poll. "Generic Democrat" beats "Generic Republican" by 18 points right now.

Mid '07. And the ISG didn't call for a timetable. But 2 weeks from now would be okay with me. That magic pony isn't going to suddenly appear in Iraq in '08, either.

TPWW is a good entree into the IWC, IIRC.

Yeah, I think the Vilsack vs. Romney poll is pretty much generic D vs. generic R, considering how unknown the 2 probably are nationally. I also love how everyone thrashes Gingrich, even the still probably fairly unknown Obama & John Kerry. I saw a recent poll on a conservative blog that had Gingrich leading & McCain dead last. I wonder if that's really how the conservative grassroots/base is leaning.

I think Obama is pretty much center-left.

Yeah, there's very few of us TPWWers over here anymore.

Gore basically coasted by on his father's name for the early part of his career too. And I say that as someone who likes Gore.

Here are a bunch of fun, but ultimately meaningless, head to head polls from Rassmussen.

I'm a big fan of anything Joe Rogan does, actually. http://www.joerogan.net/main.php