Jobber of the Week

....And then Republicans say he's weak because he keeps throwing the ball in Bush's court. And if he does nothing about the ads, Republicans say he's weak because he's trying to ignore a pressing matter. There's very little forward-movement in that. Winkwinknudgenudgeknowwhatimean I'm tired of hearing the democrats say, "We want to move on", when the only thing stopping them IS them. If they want to beat Bush (which should have been a slam dunk) then they need to quit acting like children with a chip on their shoulder and go to work. Otherwise they need to drop out of the race and let it be Bush vs Nadar or whoever. Considering my dislike for Bush the politician and his choices of attorney general among others, I was prepared to vote Democratic this year. After what I have seen, I am not voting for either side of this coin. And Mike, you're repeating the same trash I've refuted time and time and time again. First, military service isn't so important in peacetime as it is in wartime. Secondly, that video is a bunch of OOC quotes.

Here's the shocker, sit down for it: Most liberals want to go back to talking about current issues, not Vietnam.

No, it didn't. Judicial Watch baited it on until the Navy had to investigate. That would have happened if Kerry did or didn't talk about his service extensively. These aren't a bunch of old guys who previously supported Kerry who said that now that he's running for office they feel it's important to share another view that drastically contradicts their comments over 25 years. At least that I could vaguely buy. This is an attack squad. This is a bunch of people working for the purpose of putting headlines into newspapers to make people distrust Kerry.

Fault in your logic: I never said anything of the sort. I think this is irrelevant to the issues at hand politically, and I think the Pentagon should start by investigating the Commanding Officer that suddently can't remember before they inspect Kerry. Republicans tried to cut short the 9/11 Comission's work because they thought if it continued into early summer that it would mess with the election. For some reason, the 9/11 Comission could have influenced the election negatively yet it's A-OK to launch a public investigation into one of the candidates in the final stretch because somebody else said "Oh, hey, I don't remember" regarding an event that happened over a quarter of a century ago.

Nah, I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about things like the Veterans groups saying "he [McCain] forgot us" as though he was in Kerry's place doing Winter Soldier testimony. I'm also talking about Republicans for Clean Air.

Altered for a better reflection of the truth.

Oh, well that explains a whole hell of a lot, then.

I don't think we're thinking of the same thing.

This article appeared today in the Opinion section of the Sunday paper. Since the local paper doesn't put these stories online (and most of them are from other agencies) I don't have a link on their site to it. But the little bar of italic text at the bottom says the guy is a senior editor for the New Republic.. I've said it before, I'll say it again: You want to see conservative voting make a comeback, make the Republicans play defense. Bush is a spending maniac and people in Congress aren't willing to break with their party's President to do anything about it. That he even talks about reigning in government spending at the convention is a silent admission that he hasn't done anything about it in the past four years.

It seems to me they did a great disservice to booking in 2002. They should have moved a lot faster. Faster on splitting the belts and faster at making new ones. You want HHH to have the belt, fine. Move the other belt over to SmackDown, have Eric make a HHH vs Whoever match at the next PPV for the new belt, have the match, and after HHH wins he gets awarded with the belt. Then HHH could have turned heel through ego and vanity of being Raw's top guy and having the belt, and we wouldn't have had to put up with that stupid "I turned heel because I got disgusted with the sound of you people cheering for me" shit. Ba-da-boom. You have initial interest in the belt by not showing it right away, you have a match to actually fight over it, and you have an excuse for turning HHH heel instead of "Oh fuck this face run is a disaster."

I cannot stand any more of these outrageous and untrue Bush/Hitler comparisons. For the record... MILITARY SERVICE Hitler: A decorated World War I veteran. Bush: Dodged Vietnam and cannot provide proof of National Guard Service. CAREER Hitler: A self-made man who rose through the ranks of the German civil service and was elected Chancellor of Germany. Bush: Born into wealth; attended Yale on his family name; ran several businesses into the ground; elected President when awarded the electoral votes of a state governed by his brother. PUBLIC SPEAKING Hitler: One of the most well-known orators of the 20th century. Bush: Has trouble pronouncing common words and creating logical sentences. LITERARY ACHIEVEMENTS Hitler: A published author. Bush: Once passed out on the steps of the library.

Sorry, I'm not participating. Technically I can't.

*BUZZER* Ooh, I'm sorry, that was close but not quite.

You guys always keep saying this, but never get the slightest bit suspicious about it. Even when it's happened again (Horton I) and again (McCain) and again (SwiftVets.) I don't think Bush is associated with these ads or SwiftVets' ads, actually. I think the Republican Party is, but I think that's fair enough. But that he never actually speaks out specifically against any ad on his side can't at all look to you like a suspicious wink and nod at these guys to keep running them? This group says: So they think they're speaking out on Bush's behalf. But he will never actually say that said group doesn't represent him, which seems just downright odd because if I was trying to run a clean campaign I'd want to make sure in no uncertain terms that nobody thinks these guys are reflecting on me.

I already mentioned Vince Foster. You lose at Conspiropoly. Give me all your hotels, houses, property cards, and the tinfoil hat you were moving around the board.

Glenn's remark is supposed to be about Goebbels and The Big Lie. He probably just couldn't remember the name. I doubt he's saying Bush = Hitler.

Hulk Hogan got a big pop in Toronto and Vince assumed that instead of remembering the 80s, fans wanted to relive it. That was when it happened IMO.

There's a Bush family tradition of standing around and acting like a pacifist while a politically allied group performs smear tactics. It happened before with the last Horton ad and it's happening again.

This thread has reminded me to un-sub from Digital Premier. Thanks, asses, you removed everything good about that lineup, but I guess it was worth an MTV all-rap station. The weird thing was that they dropped International Channel, a station that was recently bought 100% by Comcast.

kkk, Barron was kidnapped by the Clintons' hit squad and thrown in a freezer with Vince Foster's real corpse.

That's McClane, unless you mean the guy from Arlizonla.

What I'm saying is I guess the reporter had that report already written before the speech. It's not hard to get advance copies of someone's speech, I read along with Laura and George at the convention this week. My guess is the reporter assumed the audience would boo, and George, in the middle of it, would just wait for it to die out (it would be a sticky situation if the crowd turned nasty at mention of Clinton, and the best recourse is to do nothing and wait it out.) That didn't happen, the author didn't delete the line and sent it out over the wire. I wouldn't be suprised if that author was suspended or fired. I think people holding this up as an example of Liberal Media Bias are blowing it out of proportion. For Gods sakes, they withdrew the story.

Owned Gore? He was far more charismatic than Gore, but I woudln't say his actual content was any better. FUZZY MATH! FUZZY MATH FUZZY MATH! What was the question?

I think it's more like "Someone at the AP misinterpreted the response and sent it over the wire." I highly suspect they got advance copy of Bush's comments and expected that would happen, then forgot to edit it away. The story got pulled as it should have. Hm. Life goes on.

I feel it's sad that Ralph and I were the only two guys who noticed that Bush talked about more corporate deregulation like it was an achievement to be proud of. Certainly, more control by Viacom/Disney/Universal/Murdoch/ClearChannel in our lives can only be a good thing.