I can, however, see him crossing out all the words he can’t pronounce.

Keeping America safe, one monosyllabic word at a time…

Fitz!

let’s say he’s one guy I would not want to speechwrite for! can you just imagine the temper tantrums?

The Bush administration sees the “pursuit of force as a faith,” writes Tom Engelhardt, who runs Tomdispatch.com, “a regular antidote to the mainstream media.” In a recent article titled “The Look of a War against Islam: George Bush’s Crusading Scorecard (2001-2007),” Engelhardt provides a scathing analysis of the administration’s continuing miscalculations and its insensitivity toward the realities in Iraq and the religious tones in the conflict.

Engelhardt sees the “surge” bringing more death and destruction to Baghdad, home to nearly a quarter of Iraq’s population. He predicts more suffering: “It’s a formula for catastrophe and — with the possible exception of the president, the vice president, and a dwindling number of hangers on (e.g., Joe Lieberman and the Fox News Channel, the folks Condi Rice “loves”) — the truth is that everyone in Washington, in the world, knows it.”

http://www.niagarafallsreporte.....er298.html

“uh um ugh Turdblossom, I don’t, um, understand half them words in this here thang. I wan’ ya to go over it wit me line buh line so I don’ forgit. uh oh. ya mispelled nuclear. Even I know how ta spell that one. It’s exactly like how it’s spoken.. nu-cu-lar. Git it?”

It sure will be fun to watch. I’m only watching so that I can see Pelosi & Cheney doing the “wave”.

911 terra
911 terra
911 terra

I can see him as a severe editor. He cuts everything down to the point that he can understand it. And that’s not easy.

These clown Republicans putting out this s’t about opposing Bush now on Iraq. What a bunch of stinking cry babies, f’king trying to take the heat that’s coming off their own selfish, political asses. More that 3,000 American soldiers dead. Countless wounded. And probably close to 1,000,000 dead Iraqi’s. Are you listening Hillary, you bag of compromising, Bush cozying (is this a word?) political sewage?

I feel better.

I picture him playing video games between staged events.

Maybe he’ll come up with a new plan for us to put food on our families. I’ve got a few wingnut relatives I’d like to “food.”

Line item veto!

The classic video: Bush’s Speechwriter

I buy it. He has a certain moronic quality to all of his speeches- whichever speechwriter writes em- that show the mark of one single uneducated hand.

“He always wants it to be logical and straightforward,” William McGurn, the chief White House speechwriter, said in a hurried telephone interview on Friday, just four days before the State of the Union address. “That’s his big obsession. I always say I’ve been edited by Bill Buckley at the National Review, Bob Bartley at The Wall Street Journal. And the president is the strictest editor, the most line by line.”

707!!

McGurn was able to keep a straight face when he said that? Comedic genius!!!

Who do they really think they are kidding? Any school age child can listen to five minutes of bush and know he’s not the sharpest knife in the drawer. More like a rusty old silver baby spoon…

Hey Skeptical!

(And Jane wants to be called Loretta, right?)

OK Kiddo-

Sure, Hilary’s listening. She’s having a chat with America, remember? She’s just not listening to you.

After all, do you own a major share of an insurance company? I though not.

Fe @ 2

Keeping America safe, one monosyllabic word at a time…

LOL

His speechwriter confuses “editing” with “foot-stomping and rehearsing.”

George W. Bush is probably the kind of “editor” who tells the speechwriters to make a lot of changes, to do it his way, and then blames them when the speech doesn’t go over well.

he’s had some outstanding speech writers. let’s face it, making him sound smart has to be a monumental task.

this time, however, I don’t think the best wordsmith on the planet can pull his fat out of the fire. He’s way beyond redemption by rhetorical flourish. He’s done.

neurophius- Like a golfer who blames his caddy for his bad shot.

In anticipation of tomorrow night’s presidential flight of fantasy, here are 10 things to look for in the 2007 Bush State of the Union:

1. An Unhealthy Vision
2. Surge Protector
3. Faux Iraq-9/11 Link Redux
4. Sacrificial Sham
5. Culture of Life Redux
6. Energy Shortage
7. Warming to Global Warming
8. The Spend and Not Tax Conservative
9. The New Bipartisanship: The Democratic Deficit
10. Laura Bush: Gang Banger

For the details, see:
“SOTU Preview: 10 Things to Watch.”

Ah thought Sadam had Nu-Q-Lear Weppons.

I think there is a misunderstanding here. Coloring in the o’s in words with crayons is not editing.

“He’s done”

Yer just basin that on the fact that everybody hates him and nobody trusts him…

He’s goin fer broke! Tuesday he’ll be bangin on the podium with a little tent in his trousers–educatin us dumb mericans.

Before I get to read the post and the comments so far, I wanted to ask if anyone has lit a candle for Esten Maxwell. If so, what group name are you using?

Best video is the one where Bush reads during the 911 attacks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI5NKtrPUd0

And Condi Rice will make millions on the lecture circuit and from book deals after Bush is gone.

Hugh @ 27

I think there is a misunderstanding here. Coloring in the o’s in words with crayons is not editing.

How about putting smiley faces and sad faces inside them? What about adding a little heart mushroom cloud over the “i” instead of the dot?

Bush is readin “My Pet Goat- the x rated version”

Bush is an “editor” in the sense of being the “Deciderer” –

“No!”

“Shut up!”

“How dare you say that to ME?”

“See, I don’t have to explain myself.”

“Cut his mic! Cut it!”

“That Adam Clymer, he’s an asshole!”

“Hey you, Keller, you can’t print that!”

You get the idea.

I preached yesterday on the SOTU and the last portion of the sermon was what I’d like to see. Got a good laugh out of them.

The list of great things was followed by this:

“There is much more to do, and things I forgot to list, but this is a start. And knowing that everything that is laid out above is antithetical to who I am as a human being and to the principles adhered to by the current administration, therefore I further announce that I, the Vice President, and the entire Cabinet are submitting our resignations so that a new administration can be elected to carry out this work.”

That’s what I’d like to hear this Tuesday night. Perhaps in my dreams I will. A girl can dream, can’t she?

In reading up for the sermon I found FDR’s Four Freedoms in his 1941 SOTU and read the LBJ 1965 Great Society SOTU. Both are amazing. In LBJ’s, all I could think of was Bill Moyers working it behind the scenes.

I edited the sermon and put it up in the toobz. It felt good.

No to mention, “Gee, it’d be a shame if anything happened to those ‘journalists’ in Iraq. Heh heh.”

That’s the most extreme form of editing.

Looking at the Clinton polls from WaPo on Olbermann. The DLC and these other compromising, so called centrist Demos and ‘third way’, types are Rahmming the Hill down our throats. I resent it.

Mrs. K8 @ 34

Bush is an “editor” in the sense of being the “Deciderer” –

“No!”

“Shut up!”

“How dare you say that to ME?”

“See, I don’t have to explain myself.”

“Cut his mic! Cut it!”

“That Adam Clymer, he’s an asshole!”

“Hey you, Keller, you can’t print that!”

You get the idea.

“Put somethin’ good in here about mah good friend Joe Lieberman!”

As for the Bush speech tomorrow night. I won’t be watching it. I think I can get the analysis I need after ‘the show’ here, and elsewhere.

Do you think Georgie could pass a pop quizz on that goat book?

Oklahoma kiddo @ 39

Do you think Georgie could pass a pop quizz on that goat book?

Nope.

effulgent intellect of our current President

I think it should be effluent

Bush editing:

“Ah don’t think my base likes the word “accurately”- by the way- ya heard any good fart jokes?”

Oklahoma kiddo @ 39

Do you think Georgie could pass a pop quizz on that goat book?

No.

SOTU? You gotta either 707 or put out a 505 . . .

Hugh @ 27

I think there is a misunderstanding here. Coloring in the o’s in words with crayons is not editing.

but how kin ah think outsahd the box if’n it be round?

to use an old britsh slang expression: “pull the other one - it’s got bells on it”

One of small things I am looking forward to when W is no longer president - is not having my intelligence insulted by a constant stream of “Bush isn’t the lazy jagoff dumbass you think he is stories”. Remember the summer reading list? They do think we are stupid.

HEY Gang! Seriously. Can anyone help with this???

Ann in AZ @
28

Before I get to read the post and the comments so far, I wanted to ask if anyone has lit a candle for Esten Maxwell. If so, what group name are you using?

Oklahoma kiddo @ 39

As for the Bush speech tomorrow night. I won’t be watching it. I think I can get the analysis I need after ‘the show’ here, and elsewhere.

suggest you mute the tv, and enjoy Speaker Pelosi looking down over Bush’s shoulder… breath deeply and erase the last memory of Hastert’s bulk up there… progress Kid, progress

Savor it.

My Prayer

Oh mysterious God in Heaven, if you do in fact exist outside the realm of humanity, please please please Oh sweet merciful and powerful God, please STOP Bush from using that fake Texas accent, please make him speak like the rest of his family which bears no hint of that fake Texas accent.

Thank you God!!

Oklahoma kiddo @ 38

As for the Bush speech tomorrow night. I won’t be watching it. I think I can get the analysis I need after ‘the show’ here, and elsewhere.

I want to see James Webb give the response!

Anybody know when that’ll be? Approximate time? (As in, how long will the Deciderer yammer on?)

For that matter, I don’t know what time SOTU is. 8 pm est or 9 pm est?

punaise @ 42

effulgent intellect of our current President

I think it should be effluent

Anything but fluent

This is more of the ongoing spin attempting to make Bush seem to be intelligent. Sure, he’s an ace editor. Uh huh. He reads lots of heavy books with 50 cent words, too. Yeah, I believe it.

BLAST FROM THE PAST SOTUS:

One way to judge President Bush’s 2006 is to look at how much of what he wanted to achieve at the beginning of the year has actually been accomplished. By that measure, Bush did not fare all that well. Of the 14 agenda items he set out to achieve in his State of the Union address:

one got done,

three were ongoing but two of these did not receive the increased funding Bush requested,

on six, legislation was introduced but not passed, and

four were unsuccessful.

http://www.bloggingstocks.com/.....-had-left/

Oklahoma kiddo @ 37

Looking at the Clinton polls from WaPo on Olbermann. The DLC and these other compromising, so called centrist Demos and ‘third way’, types are Rahmming the Hill down our throats. I resent it.

think how surprised they’ll be when she loses Iowa, NH and SC.

…But portraying George Bush as the sort of man who goes line by line in a speech to have it reworked for clarity, consistency and rhetorical dexterity?…

“I am in charge of all decisions-therefore I am the deciderer in chief. If I was anybody else but me right now I wouldn’t be in charge of all decisions to make you people safe to live in your homes because I wouldn’t be the deciderer, which I am, because nobody else is, or can be, while I am.” Cause there’s just one.”

In polisports it appears the Ungrateful American Public has taken a late halftime-inning lead over the Oligarchs. Early action had the Ingrates down by an MCA enabled by their own top players. Fortunately, a late surge of justice knocked one of the Oligarchs main players virtually disabled when the AG was verbally smacked with several rapid Leahys.

…it’s reported that the Cully is still kicking the walls of the penalty box after the Ingrates put him there for being blatantly stupid.

Adie @ 48

HEY Gang! Seriously. Can anyone help with this???

Ann in AZ @
28

Before I get to read the post and the comments so far, I wanted to ask if anyone has lit a candle for Esten Maxwell. If so, what group name are you using?

I have not heard of one.

Bush to speechwriters:

“Nah. Can’t use this one either. Yuh finally got the the words and the ideas right. But it still sounds like bullshit.”

Pach - What you want for the CM, and what the CM wants for the CM are different things. They do their “job” well, just ask them, they just don’t do the job they once did or that some would still want them to do.

ccmask @ 52

BLAST FROM THE PAST SOTUS:

One way to judge President Bush’s 2006 is to look at how much of what he wanted to achieve at the beginning of the year has actually been accomplished. By that measure, Bush did not fare all that well. Of the 14 agenda items he set out to achieve in his State of the Union address:

one got done,

three were ongoing but two of these did not receive the increased funding Bush requested,

on six, legislation was introduced but not passed, and

four were unsuccessful.

http://www.bloggingstocks.com/.....-had-left/

The Failure-in-Chief.

BTW, how are things with your work situation? Have been thinking of you!

I guess this clears up the mystery of how those 16 words got into that other SOTU . . .

MrsK8: Great actually, right now anyway. Me & the widow spent 4 hours with the atty today. Things are loking up–thanks.

I wonder if Joe kisses his *ss this year instead of his lips?

Oh, I believe he’s an editor. He’s got to go through that speech with a nit comb to strip out all the big words he can’t pronounce, all the smaller words he doesn’t know the meaning of, and in general anything that doesn’t “play to the base.” That’s a LOT of editing.

a nit whit comb :))

ccmask @ 54

BLAST FROM THE PAST SOTUS:

One way to judge President Bush’s 2006 is to look at how much of what he wanted to achieve at the beginning of the year has actually been accomplished. By that measure, Bush did not fare all that well. Of the 14 agenda items he set out to achieve in his State of the Union address:

one got done,

three were ongoing but two of these did not receive the increased funding Bush requested,

on six, legislation was introduced but not passed, and

four were unsuccessful.

http://www.bloggingstocks.com/.....-had-left/

And from LBJ’s Great Society SOTU we got Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start, HUD, and the Natl. Endowments for the Arts and Humanities, and probably other things I missed.

And LBJ was a real Texan.

lina @ 55

Oklahoma kiddo @ 37

Looking at the Clinton polls from WaPo on Olbermann. The DLC and these other compromising, so called centrist Demos and ‘third way’, types are Rahmming the Hill down our throats. I resent it.

think how surprised they’ll be when she loses Iowa, NH and SC.

I’m with you, lina. Hil is not going to be the Dem nominee. Obama won’t either. Edwards has only an outside chance.

ccmask @ 59

MrsK8: Great actually, right now anyway. Me & the widow spent 4 hours with the atty today. Things are loking up–thanks.

I wonder if Joe kisses his *ss this year instead of his lips?

Hahahahaha!

With what comes out of his mouth, it amounts to the same thing, no?

I’m so happy to hear you had a good meeting — hope those greedy extortioners get their asses kicked! And I’ll still pray that you and the loyal staff get to keep your jobs — and be happy in your work!

AHAHA!

Richard Clarke on KO - “this administration doesn’t base it’s actions on intelligence”…

if they weren’t talking about spy stuff, it would still be true…

lina @ 55

Oklahoma kiddo @ 37

Looking at the Clinton polls from WaPo on Olbermann. The DLC and these other compromising, so called centrist Demos and ‘third way’, types are Rahmming the Hill down our throats. I resent it.

think how surprised they’ll be when she loses Iowa, NH and SC.

;)

I hope the preznut gets a lot of claps and causes him to gain enough confidence in himself to ad-lib a little.

presque vu @ 60

I guess this clears up the mystery of how those 16 words got into that other SOTU . . .

Libby (and others) wish it was that simple.

Mrs. K8 @ 49

Oklahoma kiddo @ 38

As for the Bush speech tomorrow night. I won’t be watching it. I think I can get the analysis I need after ‘the show’ here, and elsewhere.

I want to see James Webb give the response!

Anybody know when that’ll be? Approximate time? (As in, how long will the Deciderer yammer on?)

For that matter, I don’t know what time SOTU is. 8 pm est or 9 pm est?

I think SOTU is 9p EST. That part’s easy. Promising to watch whole thing so we can give you a cue - not so much, even tho I’d like to help. Sorry.

Actually, I’m almost psyched up to watch, wondering about jr’s fabled temper & attnspan, & wondering if he’d pull some sorta “wonderboy” routine, swivel on his heel, & tell the faceshooter he’s in charge!as.of.NOW!
Then mrc’d wake up, keel over, &, well, I mean, she’s just right there…. POOF! Ooohhh gosh. Where am I? What year is it?

I hope the president doesn’t say anything misleading in the his address to the nation.

1,415 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND..

Citizen Hardin Smith and the Firepup Patriots:

Is it my tinfoil hat imagination or has the corporate media made a special effort ta pump up the Chimp’s image the last couple a dayz. AOL had a header on this afternoon that advertised the fuckwad as “decisive” and “resolute”…do all the corporate news editors read the Whitehouse talkin pointz every AM before coffee??!!

I’m gettin’ a strong feelin’ that somethin BIG (and GOOD) is afoot and that we ain’t gunna hafta wait long after the SOTU to find out what it is. Anyone else gettin’ that feelin’?

KEEP THE FAITH ALL THEY GOT LEFT IS OUR MONEY!!!

Adie @ 72

Mrs. K8 @ 49

Oklahoma kiddo @ 38

I want to see James Webb give the response!

Anybody know when that’ll be? Approximate time? (As in, how long will the Deciderer yammer on?)

For that matter, I don’t know what time SOTU is. 8 pm est or 9 pm est?

I think SOTU is 9p EST. That part’s easy. Promising to watch whole thing so we can give you a cue - not so much, even tho I’d like to help. Sorry.

Actually, I’m almost psyched up to watch, wondering about jr’s fabled temper & attnspan, & wondering if he’d pull some sorta “wonderboy” routine, swivel on his heel, & tell the faceshooter he’s in charge!as.of.NOW!
Then mrc’d wake up, keel over, &, well, I mean, she’s just right there…. POOF! Ooohhh gosh. Where am I? What year is it?

;o)

Hugh @
27

I think there is a misunderstanding here. Coloring in the o’s in words with crayons is not editing.

707!!!

Bush.

Spike.

No, please don’t refer to them in the same post!

Norske - I have that feeling too… did you hear Leahy jump all over gonzo on the Aher (?) situation up in Canada? he was as mad as I’ve ever heard him…

I’m suspecting they’ve had enough.

K-8: It is so sad for her. Her husband was such a great boss. He bought everyone their homes, their cars, paid for funerals and if you went to jail, he bailed you out. He was such a good friend and he was only 59. And to think that these 4 guys (who we actually need to get the product out) did this was such a shock. In Brooklyn, they’d all get a baseball bat to their knees. Anyway, we need to replace them if we can. We’re on top of it now.

NorskeFlamethrower @ 73

1,415 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND..

Citizen Hardin Smith and the Firepup Patriots:

Is it my tinfoil hat imagination or has the corporate media made a special effort ta pump up the Chimp’s image the last couple a dayz. AOL had a header on this afternoon that advertised the fuckwad as “decisive” and “resolute”…do all the corporate news editors read the Whitehouse talkin pointz every AM before coffee??!!

I’m gettin’ a strong feelin’ that somethin BIG (and GOOD) is afoot and that we ain’t gunna hafta wait long after the SOTU to find out what it is. Anyone else gettin’ that feelin’?

KEEP THE FAITH ALL THEY GOT LEFT IS OUR MONEY!!!

I thought the machine was laying the groundwork for him to claim ultimate power by declaring martial law.

According to ABC Nancy Pelosi has 54% approval. Bush has 33%.

That’s 21 points, folks. And remember when the pundits (who now tell us of Hillary’s inevitability) told us that Pelosi was already damaged goods, in disarray and “on probation”, before Congress was even in session?

Heh.

Ed*ard Teller, where are you when I need you???

I think I have a theory about the U.S. Attorneys being canned, need help.

Can somebody give me an update on the status of the investigation into VECO Corp. in Alaska? Heard anything recently?

Any help would be appreciated greatly, thanks!

ccmask @ 69

I hope the preznut gets a lot of claps and causes him to gain enough confidence in himself to ad-lib a little.

That’s always good for a few laughs.

Great to hear things are going better at work.

Ah hope the President gets the Clap too!!

ccmask @ 62

MrsK8: Great actually, right now anyway. Me & the widow spent 4 hours with the atty today. Things are loking up–thanks.

Would be great to hear more details of that meeting, and how things are going. I say, not to worry about being OT. Those managers have all of the characteristics of errr…. certain repug thugs. I’m sure a lot of us are interested and concerned as to how the battle is going for one of our “own”. Heck, I’ve been here a while, and I suspect you arrived at FDL before I did!

p.s. twolf- that video is great, re: Bush speech writer. I have seen it before, but it’s a great take.

I have got to remember to wear my Joe Lieberman kiss button tomorrow for my Republican coworker. Woooooohooooo!

Morris Sheppard @ 66

lina @ 55

Oklahoma kiddo @ 37

think how surprised they’ll be when she loses Iowa, NH and SC.

I’m with you, lina. Hil is not going to be the Dem nominee. Obama won’t either. Edwards has only an outside chance.

I just decided I’m for Richardson. I want someone who has foreign policy experience who didn’t vote for the Iraq war. By process of elimination, that leaves Richardson.

Steve Clemons has floated a rumor that Gov. R. has some of the same sexual proclivities as Hillary’s husband. I haven’t seen any more on that, but that won’t affect my support for him. I don’t care if he wants to mate with farm animals as long as he can fix our foreign policy.

RevDeb @ 35

I preached yesterday on the SOTU and the last portion of the sermon was what I’d like to see. Got a good laugh out of them.

The list of great things was followed by this:

“There is much more to do, and things I forgot to list, but this is a start. And knowing that everything that is laid out above is antithetical to who I am as a human being and to the principles adhered to by the current administration, therefore I further announce that I, the Vice President, and the entire Cabinet are submitting our resignations so that a new administration can be elected to carry out this work.”

That’s what I’d like to hear this Tuesday night. Perhaps in my dreams I will. A girl can dream, can’t she?

In reading up for the sermon I found FDR’s Four Freedoms in his 1941 SOTU and read the LBJ 1965 Great Society SOTU. Both are amazing. In LBJ’s, all I could think of was Bill Moyers working it behind the scenes.

I edited the sermon and put it up in the toobz. It felt good.

Wow. Great preaching. I really like that. Thanks.

This guy tells Olbermann that the Iraqis will have their revenge on our country.

neurophius @ 56

Adie @ 48

HEY Gang! Seriously. Can anyone help with this???

Ann in AZ @
28

I have not heard of one.

Thanks, Adie & neurophius. Since one hasn’t been started yet, I will start one under the groupname EstenM. Please join in; he’s only three and his dad is a friend of ours.

“Farm Animals”

Depends- as long as they are attractive, clean, and well bred- I see nothing wrong with it- but no chickens!!

Lina 87

Richardson is definately in the running. So is Wes Clark (my current fave).

i have to say, this latest casting of our Leader Who Excels At Everything is the most humorous, and certainly a lot less harmless than his new crack at Outgeneralling the Generalz.
even so i find it offensive, seeing as how i know something about the work and find that it requires certain capacities that are absolutely at odds with characteristics other profiles of bush have emphasized.

Adie @
48

HEY Gang! Seriously. Can anyone help with this???

Ann in AZ @
28

Before I get to read the post and the comments so far, I wanted to ask if anyone has lit a candle for Esten Maxwell. If so, what group name are you using?

It may be that a group hasn’t been started yet. If I recall Renee in Ohio started Jane’s group and posted it here. This is the site where I think you can either light one candle or form a group:

http://www.gratefulness.org/ca......cfm?l=eng

I think you can search that site to see if there is a group for Esten too. Hope this information helps.

You guys were great with my problem the other night. I copy and pasted 15 of your observations and sent them in an email. That woke her up, the poor thing. I then spent the weekend doing financial snapshots and then us women went to the attorney.

It reminded me of the movie Mommie Dearest when she goes into the boardroom , snaps open her briefcase and says “Don’t *uck with me fellas”

Yea and we didn’t get no damn Den Ben Foo!

RevDeb @
65

ccmask @ 54

BLAST FROM THE PAST SOTUS:

One way to judge President Bush’s 2006 is to look at how much of what he wanted to achieve at the beginning of the year has actually been accomplished. By that measure, Bush did not fare all that well. Of the 14 agenda items he set out to achieve in his State of the Union address:

one got done,

three were ongoing but two of these did not receive the increased funding Bush requested,

on six, legislation was introduced but not passed, and

four were unsuccessful.

http://www.bloggingstocks.com/.....-had-left/

And from LBJ’s Great Society SOTU we got Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start, HUD, and the Natl. Endowments for the Arts and Humanities, and probably other things I missed.

And LBJ was a real Texan.

Thanks, Adie, for answering my question! I may have it on, but muted. Hmmm….but then how will I know how dismal the applause level is? Decisions, decisions.

———-

Norske, ol’ pal! So good to see you!

Yes, I have the same sense you do. It’s been working that way for a while hasn’t it? And did you notice that gas prices went down this week? Another six cents off a gallon.

Rayne- email me at tenureransom at hotmail dot com and I will send you ET’s addy. I don’t think he’d mind. p.s. I only check this when I am expecting mail. VG

Thanks Teddy. I thought it would be a hard one to write, but it just kind of flowed.

Morris Sheppard @ 92

Lina 87

Richardson is definately in the running. So is Wes Clark (my current fave).

Clark is my favorite for sure. I’m starting to think he’s not running.

Any candidate who doesn’t declare soon is out of the race- the money will dry up…early bird an all that/.

We have so many smart, and talented Democratic candidates for 2008 out there. (I am not speaking here of a certain self-centered NY Demo Senator, naturally)

KO WPITW: Insight magazine, Fox, the Washington Times, and NYPost, for “reporting,” amplifying, and then mis-attributing to Senator Clinton the Obama-madrassah smear.

I hope the preznut gets a lot of claps and causes him to gain enough confidence in himself to ad-lib a little.

been thinking he’s going to start with “Mister Speaker” then turn and give a folksy but sincere apology - heh heh

Oklahoma kiddo @ 102

We have so many smart, and talented Democratic candidates for 2008 out there. (I am not speaking here of a certain self-centered NY Demo Senator, naturally)

Wait, Schumer’s running for President, too?

Re: Richardson. Never heard anything about pecadillos. Arm twisting and patron politics, mebbe so, for sure.

ccmask @ 76

K-8: It is so sad for her. Her husband was such a great boss. He bought everyone their homes, their cars, paid for funerals and if you went to jail, he bailed you out. He was such a good friend and he was only 59. And to think that these 4 guys (who we actually need to get the product out) did this was such a shock. In Brooklyn, they’d all get a baseball bat to their knees. Anyway, we need to replace them if we can. We’re on top of it now.

Homes? Cars? Funerals? Oh. my. God.

And here I thought Mr. K8’s European-born boss was a sweetie….we bought our house on our own….

Seriously, though — your situation made me bring this up with Mr. K8. He, too, works at a great innovative small-ish company with a CEO whose ideas and drive and determination and integrity have made the place what it is. It’s a private company, the boss’s wife (who’s also wonderful) has been fighting cancer for many years now. The boss loves Mr. K8 and has told him he has a job for life, for as long as he wants it.

If something happened to Mr. K8’s boss I have no idea what would happen to us.

You give us important stuff to think about.

ccmask @ 95

You guys were great with my problem the other night. I copy and pasted 15 of your observations and sent them in an email. That woke her up, the poor thing. I then spent the weekend doing financial snapshots and then us women went to the attorney.

It reminded me of the movie Mommie Dearest when she goes into the boardroom , snaps open her briefcase and says “Don’t *uck with me fellas”

CCmask- I can’t remember if Stephen Parrish CPA commented or not, and naturally, I don’t know if he’s reading, but he might be a good resource for you. xxoo

cbl @ 104

I hope the preznut gets a lot of claps and causes him to gain enough confidence in himself to ad-lib a little.

been thinking he’s going to start with “Mister Speaker” then turn and give a folksy but sincere apology - heh heh

You are so right on this. I can already picture it.

Clusterfuck is a moron. God I hope congress cuts off the war funding.

Gov Richardson is interesting. Did a lot of good diplomacy at one time. There are rumours that he has more baggage than will fit in the overhead compartment, but I’d love to hear from some folks in NM who actual experience with him.

Oklahoma kiddo @ 102

We have so many smart, and talented Democratic candidates for 2008 out there. (I am not speaking here of a certain self-centered NY Demo Senator, naturally)

it’s pretty far off, this decision ‘08, but i want to know — what if, and it’s a huge if, what if the dem nominee is in fact h.r. clinton?
what do we think we’re going to get from her? and how do we improve our chances at getting more?

bg @ 103

Re: Richardson. Never heard anything about pecadillos. Arm twisting and patron politics, mebbe so, for sure.

You might want to look at a recent post by Steve Clemons at thewashingtonnote.com.

Funny you should mention pecadillos — that’s exactly what he’s talking about — and pretty bluntly, too (which is odd for Clemons to be so blunt). He really calls out Richardson for his treatment of women. I’m keeping my eye out to see if there’s a response, since it is such a serious allegation.

petedownunder @ 111

Gov Richardson is interesting. Did a lot of good diplomacy at one time. There are rumours that he has more baggage than will fit in the overhead compartment, but I’d love to hear from some folks in NM who actual experience with him.

His reelect numbers were very strong IIRC. He’d probably be a good candidate for Sec’y of State.

RevDeb @ 114

petedownunder @ 111

Gov Richardson is interesting. Did a lot of good diplomacy at one time. There are rumours that he has more baggage than will fit in the overhead compartment, but I’d love to hear from some folks in NM who actual experience with him.

His reelect numbers were very strong IIRC. He’d probably be a good candidate for Sec’y of State.

I agree on the Sect’y of State, but what about as a potential prez candidate? Anyone out there from NM?

I think Hillary would be a pretty good president- just as Bill was a pretty good president..She’d be hard working and effective. She’d figure out the difficult nuances of health car