BT!

The Repubs are almost to the stage of saying “my dad can beat up your dad.” It’s a circus and great fun.

What. The. Hell. Who cares how Willard eats his fried chicken?

well, I happen to agree with the huck, it’s not fried chicken without the fried part of the chicken

therefore, huckabee wins the south

glad that’s settled now

It’s an argument like picking Bush because you thought he’d have a beer with you.

Hi there Blue Texan…

BT, I’ve seen the Willard reference a bunch of times, but have no idea what it refers to — care to enlighten me?

Mitt is hammering Mc Cain for considering running with Kerry.

It’s like that chocolate chip cookie dustup between Babs and Hillary from ‘92.

I can’t say it, but it rhymes with “witch”!

And it’ll probably be the focus of the next Food Network challenge.

How ’bout fried squirrels?

Willard Mitt Romney is Willard’s name.

I prefer Popeye’s myself. I understand it’s fried in Olive Oyl.

Remember the flap in 2004 about whether Kerry knew how to order a Philly Cheez Steak properly.

Hi, all!

Nice to see them debating the most important issues of the day.
Let’s get down to the nitty gritty here,
Crisco or Wesson oil?
That oughtta separate the men from the boys.

I prefer Popeye’s myself. I understand it’s fried in Olive Oyl.

man, when I go off my diet I crave popeys

best fries too, battered with cajun stuff

thing is the restaurant is always dirty and I always feel like I’m taking a chance when I eat at popeys

Don’t you just love it? One of their own candidates insinuating the premise that Southerners make voting decisions based on someone’s eating habits! How inciteful insightful.

Off topic a bit but I tried to register for volunteer work for Alan Grayson after seeing the blogging yesterday and contributing some money to his campaign. I couldn’t do so so notified his staff and got the following: Thank you for pointing out the problem with the online volunteer signup. I tested it out myself, and you’re right — the info isn’t getting through to the database. I’ve brought the problem to the attention of our webmaster, so hopefully it’ll be fixed soon. In the meantime, I’ll update your entry and add you as a volunteer willing to make phone calls and write letters.

If anyone else had the same problem they may want to return to the site to volunteer.

Sibley

Fried squirrels, what the true college student in the south wants to eat. Surprising nobody mentioned bunnies yet.

what are the rubes frying now? can you imagine eating something you or someone else had to strangle and then drop into the deep fat? We are a primitive lot, hm?

Sorry for OT, but EPU’d from downstairs – and we need to KEEP UP THE HEAT!

For you Californians out there, who are tired of the busy signal in DiFi’s D.C. office…

Here’s a list of her regional offices – please call and report back what they are saying!

San Francisco
One Post Street, Suite 2450
San Francisco, CA 94104
Phone: (415) 393-0707
Fax: (415) 393-0710

The following counties are served by the San Francisco office: Alameda, Butte, Colusa, Contra Costa, Del Norte, El Dorado, Glenn, Humboldt, Lake, Lassen, Marin, Mendocino, Modoc, Monterey, Napa, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Sacramento, San Benito, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Solano, Sonoma, Sutter, Tehama, Trinity, Yolo, Yuba.

Los Angeles
11111 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 915
Los Angeles, CA 90025
Phone: (310) 914-7300
Fax: (310) 914-7318

The following counties are served by the Los Angeles office: Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Ventura.

San Diego
750 B Street, Suite 1030
San Diego, CA 92101
Phone: (619) 231-9712
Fax: (619) 231-1108

The following counties are served by the San Diego office: Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Imperial, San Diego.

Fresno
2500 Tulare Street, Suite 4290
Fresno, CA 93721
Phone: (559) 485-7430
Fax: (559) 485-9689

The following counties are served by the Fresno office: Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Fresno, Imperial, Inyo, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, Mono, San Joaquin, San Luis Obispo, Stanislaus, Tulare, Tuolumne.

The South voted for Bush, so it may be true.

“But it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Huckabee Augustus, that the whole world should eat fried chicken with the skin on (even the KFC kind). Yea, verily.”

Coming from Hickabee or Huckabubble or whatever, it just has that biblical ring to it.

but but but!

eating “fried chicken” without the “fried” part is like eating a hot dog without it being hot!

like eating a stuffed artichoke by scraping off the stuffed

like eating a chocolate Sunday by scraping off the chocolate

errr

corn dog without the corn!

ummm

well, I think there are more, will get back to this later

OT / epu’d from downstairs:

In response to bdub78 @ 120
“As an Edwards fan in Missouri, do I vote for Edwards or Obama, who is far ahead of HRC in my opinion?”

I hope you vote for Edwards, as will I. I find it so disturbing to hear and read people say “I am really for Edwards, but I know he is unelectable so I guess I won’t vote for him.” Maybe if everyone who likes him would vote for him, he would be electable and elected! How many months until the convention – and we already feel the need (thanks in part to MSM) to hone down our collective choice to one person? I want Edwards in the race – come what may – we need his message!
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Fried chicken in the south IS a religion.

got it;

like a “jew for jesus” without either the jew or the jesus

there, that one seals the day

It’s an argument like picking Bush because you thought he’d have a beer with you.

That’s what I don’t understand! Here’s a man infamous for making fun of folks and people think he’d be fun to have a beer with. I suppose, while he’s laughing at your tie or your clothes, it might be fun to spew the beer all over him. Of course, this would just be a response to laughing at his jokes, ha, ha!

like shucking the clam and then throwing away the clam

yeah, he didn’t “wiz with”. who knew that would be an important qualifying issue?

Meanwhile, the Big Dawg can sure use some good Southern fried chicken right now:

Ever since his victory in South Carolina’s Democratic primary Saturday night, the good news has not stopped coming for Barack Obama. First, he picked up a Kennedy hat trick, scoring endorsements from Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., and his son Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., as well as Caroline Kennedy, JFK’s daughter. Now, he has scored author Toni Morrison.

Morrison is no slouch when it comes to the world of literature; she has won both the Nobel Prize and the Pulitzer. But when it comes to her influence in politics, what immediately comes to mind is her pronouncement in a 1998 article for the New Yorker that Bill Clinton was America’s first black president.

Hey, maybe Ray was right: “This election is gonna be won or lost on chicken.“

Keep voting for Edwards if you support his platform!! The more votes he gets now, the more influence his platform will have on the ultimate Democratic Party platform in the general election, regardless of whether he gets the nomination.

Bat Buchannan: “John McCain IS yesterday”

What do you expect from a formerly Liberal Republican Governor of the very very Liberal Massachusetts?

This gaffe is far more telling than John Kerry’s, when he ordered a Philly Cheese Steak with Swiss Cheese.

Actually, I peel the skin off of fried chicken — because I like to savor the chicken and the fried skin separately.

In this case, this is obviously a revealing insight into the Liberal heart of Willard Mitt Romney, the son of the very very Liberal George Romney.

Sent my ballot off this morning with a vote for Edwards. Go John !

So just reached the Fresno office and was told that the Senator hasn’t informed her staff as to her vote. I told a woman named “Sarah” who answered the phone that DiFi should vote for the rule of law and for the American people.

ohhh…winer I think

Thanks! The man was my governor and yet I had somehow missed the fact that he went by his middle name. Geez, I always though Mitt was bad, didn’t realize Willard was the alternative.

I’m a born and bred Tennessean and I have NEVER eaten chicken with the skin on it. I just don’t like the fatty taste of the chicken skin. BONELESS SKINLESS CHICKEN FTW.

lol That being said, what exactly is Huckabee implying? “If he can’t handle eating chicken with the skin on it, how can we expect Romney to handle the threat posed by Osama??”

Huck takes the Deep (fried) South

Bay Buchannan: “John McCain is a liburul!”

You men eat your dinner
Eat your pork and beans
I eat more chicken
Than any man ever seen, yeah, yeah
I’m a back door man, wha
The men don’t know
But the little girls understand
Well, I’m a back door man
I’m a back door man
Whoa, baby, I’m a back door man
The men don’t know
But the little girls understand

Nice to see them debating the most important issues of the day.
Let’s get down to the nitty gritty here,
Crisco or Wesson oil?
That oughtta separate the men from the boys.

Excuse me Mr. Bustednuckles, but lard is the most important part. Yessiree, good old-fashioned lard.

Did anyone notice NYT’s MoDough on Meet the Russert yesterday where she mentioned an Onion headline? Everyone just laughed and agreed. The Onion as an understood and accepted part of our political vernacular. Who’d a thunk it? Here’s the article she referenced:

http://www.theonion.com/conten…..im_running

Don’t forget this non-retouched, food-related photo from early in the Romney campaign, from World-o-Crap:

http://thumbsnap.com/v/cI8AQMpP.jpg

Anyone know if JoeLie is in DC?

lol That being said, what exactly is Huckabee implying? “If he can’t handle eating chicken with the skin on it, how can we expect Romney to handle the threat posed by Osama??”

well, at least Osama won’t eat pork rinds…

i don’t think huckleberry lost all that weight eating fried chicken. wonder how he did at the pig roast sunday. this is absurd.

OT – CSPAN 1 started US House coverage. FISA up shortly…

“I can tell you this,” he said, “any Southerner knows if you don’t eat the skin don’t bother calling it fried chicken.”

That does it! No way I am voting for Romney now.

thought the debate was in the senate after morning business, about 3pm?

This bit from the CNN piece damns Huck to infernal Heck:

“Huckabee admitted that he hasn’t eaten fried chicken in a while because of his weight loss program, preferring it broiled or baked instead.”

Ha, next it will come out that he puts some kind of foofy foody French-ified berry sauce or snooty ‘reduction’ on it, or eats it on a bed of frisee (sp?), or baby greens or some such nonsense. Then he will be in Kerry land and be cooked for good. he will be broiled over the chicken hypocracy or flip-flop or fakery or whatever.

ON TO MORE IMPORTANT TOPICS: contacted the Congresspeople this weekend to beat the rush. I hope we see some backbone from the frontrunners and Democratic Congress next few days. Go Dodd! And GO Dodd supporters in Congress, I hope.

CSPAN 2 Harry Reid on the floor

Bay Buchannan: “John McCain is a liburul!”

OMG, I thought she was for him! Is she trying to lose the election for him?

I also vote for lard. Gotta be lard. Lard is magic. Too bad for me I seem to gain wait on distilled water. Good fried chicken is few are far between for me, or I become one fat fat dude. If I lived in the South I would be 400 pounds and on my way to premature health badness within a year.

That is probably why Romney looks as good as he does for 60. Huck has had to completely relearn his eating habits…What was it that he said about Michael Moore????/

CSPAN 1 said one minute speeches and FISA for the house

In no way is she for McCain, judging from THIS interview!

According to T. Harry Williams’s biography of Huey Long and other sources, FDR and Long had a dispute about the proper way to eat potlikker.

Question: In 1930, Governor Huey Long began extolling the virtues of a popular Southern food, calling it “the noblest dish the mind of man has yet conceived.” He also gave explicit directions on how the dish was to be eaten. By the following year, his pronouncements had generated a national debate, with Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York taking an opposing view. What was the food in question, and how did Long and Roosevelt differ over how it should be eaten?

Answer: The food was potlikker, the liquid left in the pan from cooking turnip greens or collards. Long proclaimed that it should be eaten with cornpone, which should be dipped in the potlikker. Crumbling the pone into a bowl of potlikker was strictly taboo. Roosevelt, on the other hand, preferred to crumble his cornpone into the potlikker.

thank you.

I don’t think it was during a campaign, just a trip, but Gerald Ford made big news here in Texas by trying to eat a tamale with the corn husk still on. Folks up north need to dream up some real crap for Huck to eat when touring states up there. What is that gelatenous meat stuff they eat in Pennsylvania? Anyway, it would be fun to dream up stuff and tell him it’s local fare.

the bagels here suck, but I love them biscuits and sausage gravy. Most important meal of the day.

Scrapple. The hard core eat corn scrapple with pork meat, liver, cheese and peppers in it, with maple syrup on top. Yum yum. I got one uncle who goes for that. He has to cook it and eat it himself, everyone else canot allow themselves to participate in any way. That type of scrapple eating is very old school.

Head cheese. Big slices of head cheese.

That’s it. I first heard about it in James Michner’s Centennial. Later had friends from Pennsylvania who knew all about it. Anyway, something like that sounds like just the thing to surprise Huck with to win over primary voters.

I don’t care about that, either. I’d rather a candidate ADMIT he/she doesn’t know how to order a Philly cheesesteak sandwich and stand in rapt attention as it is explained to him/her. That’s real, folks. We’re not all from Philadelphia. Most of us have never been to Philadelphia. We don’t know how to order a Philly cheesesteak sandwich either. Pretending to know by having a handler show you on the bus is such bullshit.

Head cheese?

Sounds icky either way to me.

You guy’s are grossing me out.
Headcheese is SO nasty.

My dad was from Maryland, Mom from key West. For me, Scrapple over grits and a couple over easy on top.

Didn’t Huckabee write a diet book, “Quit Digging Your Grave with a Knife and Fork: A 12-Stop Program to End Bad Habits and Begin a Healthy Lifestyle”.

I mean, if you’re a strong proponent of healthy eating, isn’t KFC deep fried chicken skin sort of off the menu?

Heck, his last step is “STOP Fueling with contaminated food”. I’m no expert, but KFC deep fried batter dipped chicken skin strikes me as about as contaminated as it gets.

He’s named after Williard Marriott.

That’s like getting General Tso’s crispy tofu and taking off the batter!

Ya’ll might feel real good and all, what with being intellectually superior and what not, but if you don’t realize the political power that Huckabee taps when he takes on Northern full o’ shit elites like Mitt Romney, you guys are educated, but none too bright. Just sayin’.

Aside from the breathtaking irrelevance of it all, in light of his book on healthy eating, Huckabee’s comments point out how full of shit the guy is.

Ya’ll might feel real good and all, what with being intellectually superior and what not, but if you don’t realize the political power that Huckabee taps when he takes on Northern full o’ shit elites like Mitt Romney, you guys are educated, but none too bright. Just sayin’.

So we’re not very bright for failing to fully appreciate the mind-blowing irrationality of Southerners?

(Disclaimer: I live in Georgia, and I do enjoy eating fried chicken skin, but anyone whose vot would be affected by such nonsense is a moron, regardless of what part of the country they may be from.)

Thas raght Yankee! Ya eatz ferIIIIId chicken wit da skin sos ya kin getz big n FAT, jes like tha Huckwannabee boys. Course ifin ya eatz nough o it, ya’ll er likly ta hang a stray DAWG by it’s NECK inna NOOSE n throw ROCKS at it till ya SLIT it’s THROAT, jes like the Huckwannabee boy. And then get away with it SCOT FREE, jes like the huckwannabee boy! They don’t call them thar southern boys meaner then rat shit fer nothin ya know…jes like the huckwannabee boys.

Huckabee… ain’t he the hillbilly Fat Ass? I’m no fan of Romney, but maybe the Huck could just take a clue here about how much deep-fried fat is in that frickin’ chicken skin. I’m just saying, you know?