Last November, Obama said the U.S. must make sure “we are not just willy-nilly removing troops” and that it may “take a little bit longer” in some areas where there is less stability.
Last March, Obama said he would listen to military commanders and give their opinions on Iraq great weight.
So now, when he says those things again, why are the presstitutes yammering that he’s changed his position?
Obama suspects that the McCain people are behind it:
Democrat Barack Obama says he’s always been open to refining his Iraq policy but blamed Republican John McCain’s campaign for suggesting “we were changing our policy when we haven’t.”
And the esteemed members of the press wonder why we hate them.
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Happy Independence Day!
We hate them because they suck.
Evenin’, everyone! The hamsters running our servers took the day off, so there was a slight change in plans.
Democracy marches forward! Or something….
Indeed. They ignore the real scandals and instead focus on ginned-up nonsense.
i heard they were holding out for more lettuce
So now, when he says those things again, why are the presstitutes yammering that he’s changed his position?—————–
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why cause they would love to slobber McSames nob for 8 years,and KEEP THEIR EFFING TAX BREAKS on their multi million dollar salaries
Should we feed them?
To what? ;-)
Obama is damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t. So he should.
Yeah, and carrots. They like their carrots. Very very muchly.
Twisty… I like!
1776 on TCM now. If you’ve never seen it, it’s a gem. William Daniels playing Adams is priceless.
PW, I love the graphic.
The founding fathers realized that a free and independent press was the foundation of any democracy. Our modern corporate media have committed moral treason. There will be an accounting.
lots remember the stick but forget the carrots
oh, for a minute there I thought you were talking lime twists, you know to go with the Dos XX bber.
im watching
I watched 7 hours of Adams on HBO today. Abigail stole my heart.
I fucking hope so!
(((Hugs for you Dr.)))
Hey Suz, I napped today so I actually get to play tonight. I sooo miss hanging around Late Nites and 2x Late Nites
from 1776
“One useless man is called a disgrace, two are called a law firm and that three or more become a Congress.”
yup, that’s about right.
comfort the afflicted and AFFLICT the comfortable
nature is indiscriminate
hey ellie.. nice to see ya here in the dark
DrDick,
Yes, there damn well better be.
this one is considerably more fun. May not be as historically accurate, but still more fun. The music helps.
today was a washout. bummer.
Did get to listen to the neighbors set off firecrackers. Hope you -and everyone- had a tasty supper.
and I do look so much better there lol!!
I’m feeling extra large tonight! Could have been the bronto-ribeyes…
me too!
I really want Obama to call Charlie Gibson or Wolf Blitzer or Anderson Cooper on this very topic: “I won’t raise most people’s taxes, in fact I’ll lower them. But yours [insert celebrity media gasbag name here] I’ll raise, no doubt about it.” Right now, everyone hates the media gasbags, and he could score some authenticity points right there.
with teeth
TCM is always more fun, and gay. (This is a good thing!)
Stella?
We went to a couple of local vinyards for tastings and BBQ. The rain didn’t start until later. Somehow over the past week or two all of the storm fronts have floated by to the north or south of us. We’ve missed most of the rain.
Not celebrating anything today. Nothing to celebrate.
Obama really is getting screwed on this one (as opposed to his other “refinements”). Is it possible his campaign is setting up the “flip-flop” charge so that he can charge McSame (correctly) with the identical charge and get away with it as a response and not an attack?
Go Teddy!
and ole anal Rushbo will make nearly a cool 1/2 BILLION smakeroos for hate speach
PW, who is being a wooly baa-lamb about all this, was nice enough to take my slot because I got sucked in to doing research on my post for tonight.
Which will be up tomorrow, I think. Suffice it to say that Sen. Helms has a _lot_ of legacy in the McCain campaign…
A bit off topic, but hey this is late night. This is where I spent the morning. Helps renew my love of this country. Saw hardly a soul until afternoon.
hey julia…. looking forward to reading it tomorrrow.
And put sand in the vaseline.
Waiting with baited breath. ;)
Doh… the suspense, Julia.. the suspense! *g
agreed, altho I sure did appreciate Scarecrow and Christy’s post this morning. Went to bed last night depressed.
and super glue in the lube
Heavy sigh. Aaaahhhhh….
wow!
Hey, yeah, great graphic at the top. Thanks for calling my attention to it. I looked right over it.
They may as well go ahead and name 99.9% of the TV and radio stations WGOP or KGOP. It’s not like the FCC is gonna give a f**k.
Iraq is going to be a mess whether we stay or leave. So we should leave. That pottery barn rule really doesn’t work. The truth is no matter who broke it, it will be up to the people of Iraq because they live there and will still be living there long after we are gone to fix or break it further. The same thing could be said of us and our country.
never going to happen. I think his days of “authenticity” are behind him. He’s got the nomination sewn up and assumes our support so he’s telling us to STFU so he can try to woo people who are never going to vote for him anyway.
Feh.
How wonderful. This is why my son moved to Denver.
nice eye candy dr (pause) dick
Amen!
I can’t think of anything to add…
…’cept maybe razor blades.
word!
Always appreciate Scarecrow and Christy. Always.
gee, it sux to be you Dr *pause* Dick
hey, you.
It’s like watching gangrene crawl up your arm. You just can’t look away. Right now I’m reading an interview with the guy who made the Max Cleland/Osama ad, who talking about how Democrats resent him because he’s able to engage on the issues.
Happy Country, pups! We’re gonna need all the luck we can get.
Sweet dreams and happy pillows to all…
I kid you not, the other night I actually turned on my television and a Prime Time story,
was about the worlds smartest goldfish.
Kiss. My. Ass.
Yep. Nothing like getting a couple thousand feet above it all. The first picture does not really do justice to just how freaking vertical the trail is there (about a 45′ incline) – and for the two miles leading up to it.
or driving by that really bad accident and ya don’t wanna look but find yourself looking anyway
im thinking a lot today of the founding fathers,and doofus in cheif giving his speech at Monticello today,what a desecration of hallowed ground
I demand reparations from BushCo & CheneyCo. & ChalabiCo.
oh, hey, happy fourth.
Oh, damn, that’s too close. I’m causing rubbernecking delays on FDL.
you make it happier fer sure
Hey Wang! Happy 4th!
Anyone else having trouble with Digby’s site causing safari or Newsfire to hang? She’s got a video link that’s causing mayhem on my machine.
not at all julia :)
My son and his pals climbed a glacier last weekend, carrying all their skis, and then skied down the other side. Pics were so great!
And add in Dick Cheney in Boston on the USS Constitution, what a slap in the face that was.
link
It won’t load on Safari. Just OK and let it go, worked for me.
Happy Independence Day, everyone!
makes you kind of want to puke, huh?
Amazing the vessel did not spontaneously combust when he came aboard, given its name.
A second flood, a simple famine,
plagues of locusts everywhere,
or a cataclysmic earthquake,
I’d accept with some despair.
But no, You sent us Congress!
Good God, Sir, was that fair?
Loaded for me, and opened the video in QuickTime.
Dick Cheney always makes me want to puke.
aw. :D
Didn’t for me earlier. Different strokes… ;)
too bad his energizer keeps ticking
Wow! How did 80+ comments slip by…? Ooh, that’s right, my barbie was busy…! *g*
i think ill go catch the Zs…happy 4th all
So what’s on the barbie?
g’nite sadly
I give that bastard swimming lessons every day.
I only hope I live long enough to piss on his grave, if they bother marking it.
Night SY.
Hope you had a good time. Or are you still having it…?
Ipecac for dog-catcher!
My short ribs have finished and the burgers are sizzling, dawgs up next…! Nice to see the Lake up again…! *g*
At some point I am going to have to make a pilgrimage. Helms, Thurmond, Nixon, McCarthy, Cheney. The list just keeps growing.
There you are, where have you been?;)
yep, that or a lightening bolt to the bridge
Have a great feast! Don’t forget the veg and ice cream.
I found it mighty ironic that Mister ‘States Rights’ passed away on our B’day!
Wow. Thought I was the only person mean enough to piss on someone’s grave!
C!
Um, Ken?
I’ve been in the morning *g
But I napped this afternoon so I could play tonight!
Damn. Forgot Reagan. Suppose I should throw in Andy Jackson in honor of my son.
Pasta salad with Coleslaw…! ;-)
Get in line.
i’d wear red to that funeral
I am also an Okie.
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on July 4th, 1826. Wow (I think).
Oh, Teddy, I’m sorry, I commented past you, and just got back – your Helms post is a thing of beauty.
Bet you’d look good! All ready for the big move?
Beautiful.
Yum, where is Betsy?
Yep. Saw it earlier. Within a few hours of each other. A sad day for America. Unlike today.
Adams’ last words were about Jefferson surviving – although (he had no way of knowing it) he’d died an hour before.
hell no… still gotta get through the contingencies period – had home and termite inspection yesterday- monday the septic system gets pumped and inspected – bet st joe is glad he is not there and still under the sign that now reads ’sale pending’
Didn’t John Quincy Adams also die on July 4 (different year, of course)?
dugg and thanks to eg for opening it
But all going well, no glitches (I hope)?
will find out if there are glitches when we get the inspection reports
Dugg! Thanks Suz & eg!
I have yet to visit Monticello, and feel pretty bad about how little of my country I’ve seen. I’ve been so fortunate to visit Europe all the time, due to business, but really need to see more of the United States of America. How about you?
buyer is bringing her relatives up tomorrow afternoon to see it so i gotta really clean it up tonight and make it shine and sparkle so they fall in love with it too
I don’t know.
It was sweet to see Shrub heckled at Monticello, today… He even massacred the pronunciation, surprise, surprise…! ;-)
BOGUS! ORCHESTRATED!
his official time of death was 1:15 or 1:18 am
not to be too morbid, but I found my mother at 10:30 pm and she was no longer alive — but her official time of death was two hours later.
Best of luck, hope you find a place that suits you in Oregon.
Oh! I’ll have to look for that…
Heh, my bad…! ;-)
Hugs.
Good wishes.
I am off to party.
God bless every one of you.
Yeah. Had the audacity to say how great it was that we had free speech in this country as security hauled the protester away.
Busted, have a blast.
btw, some dark night I am going to be in Hawaii, so don’t be surprised to see a firepup on your doorstep. I saw your menu for tonight. *G*
Party hearty, Busted.
il Dunce
Happy 4th Busted
party on busted
Suz, I spent my Fourth washing windows and cleaning like a beast. My feet were killing me tonight!
i h-a-t-e doing windows and the plantation shutters. my back just screams and yells when i do.
Mr.CE was Champ to the job… bless him.
That was my central theme in my post today…! ;-)
So it seems Cheney is trodding on the Constitution at every chance he gets nowadays.
Hey! Happy 4th. Where you been?
free speech zones are not free speech
it really is revolting,
he’s revolting.
hell, they’re enough to make me revolt.
A day or two notice is sufficient, I’m flexible, it may not be the ritz, tho, it is commodious…! *g*
But 75% of the oil refineries will belong to Bush’s American oil buds. We will give their national government 25%. The least we can do. How we help.
Hey CA! How goes it? I never got back to your question about Randy, but yes, he is one of my buddies.
the revolution starts now
Oh OK, it would take me at least that long to get there anyway :)
I wrote about the major failings of our Alaska press corpse yesterday. St. Ted Stevens is one of the many congressmen introducing legislation to attenuate enegy future speculation. The local press covered it like he was some sort of a fucking genius.
It took a few of us bloggers and lefty talk show hosts to point out that Stevens and Phil Gramm introduced the so-called Enron exception back in December 2000, that has made it so that – depending on the month – between 35% and 50% of the price of your motor fuel and heating fuel is soaked by the profits of speculators.
I ranted with both barrels, and have gottn a lot of e-mails today from reporters trying to set up meetings with me, or trying to explain why they haven’t covered this.
Bullshit!
nice stir stick ya got there et.
(FC)C ya and raise you.
Had the audacity to say how great it was that we had free speech in this country as security hauled the protester away.
So I guess that means he pardoned them, right?
it’s a rich man’s war
Damn. That was my next choice.
I’m surprised they didn’t toss Darth overboard, to become the barnacle branch for real.
This issue bothers me so much, I actually felt physically ill yesterday when I started wrapping my mind around it. A friend in Cordova told me of a fisher he knows who just committed suicide because he couldn’t afford to fuel his boat to go catch his next load.
priceless!
He doesn’t give a shit about the constitution. Doesn’t now and never has.
It’s all about business with and for him and his cronies. There will be some champaign popped in this house on the day that he joins Jesse.
Another on topic.
Before the squirrels went on strike, I was wondering whether some WH staffers, after 7 1/2 years of enduring daily loathing, may not be setting up GWB to speak in more places where there are not totally pre-screened audiences, so that he might share some of the “love” they’ve been feeling and encountering for so long….
he prolly doesn’t even wear a flag pin (she adds snidely)
dayam, et. so many are facing choosing between gas to get to work or food
that would be sweet, but it implies tat there are WH staffers who don’t drink kool aid. While they are there under the influence, I would guess that they are true believers.
199 days 12 hours 55 minutes.
Yes, but he uses constitution and flag print toilet paper.
OMG, that’s funny. LOL ROFLMAO :-) :-)
Amazing.
I can’t begin to imagine how you’d go about covering Alaska politics and knowing nothing at all about energy policy.
What do they cover, fashion?
I was griping that there’s a new shopping center going up a block and half away. But now I’ll be able to walk to the grocery store so I’m seeing it in a new light
did I mention I loathe GWB?
Something actually ON topic. From Josh Marshall:
I would guess that they are true believers.
Oh, I’d settle for incompetence; whatever it takes – more speeches in front of real people, please…
199 days 12 hours 55 minutes.
maybe if I took a *really* long nap….
with relish
Sort of. Whenever a reporter covers Gov. Sarah Palin, the comments to the article jump into the hundreds. That’s part of what set me off about the Wednesday story – a Stevens-Palin press conference. Except for a couple of bloggers, all the MSM AK press was all about “are they going to kiss and make up” shit….
I can imagine someone telling Dubya and his response was likely, “Quit throwing that USS Constitution story in my face. It’s just an old wooden boat!”
Sigh.
but who is counting?
(certainly not Marion ;)
Oh ET, what a heartbreaking loss for ——— well —— for our so called first world nation.
Sickening. Sorry, ET.
An early night for me. That was a pretty steep five mile hike to get away from it all this morning (an equally steep, but much easier five mile back down as well) and I am beat. Take care and enjoy the snark.
g’nite dr (pause) dick
Somewhere in Morgan Stanley or the ICE oil market there’s a guy saying, “Gee, that’s tough, but it’s nothing personal, just bidness.”
I’m truly sick of hearing that Irak should pay to rebuild their country. Not sure I want to hear the rationale.
well it was nice to catch you in person for just a moment -for a change
g-nite Dick
g’night, Okie!
If we ever get control back of the govenment, we’ll discover a tape of some oil speculator laughing his ass off as he tells another energy speculator about how funny this all is.
pbs had on the smartest guys in the room – the enron documentary – this week. i was listening to those traders conversations about bilking grandma and got such a bad taste in my mouth. capitalism at its worst.
All should attend in parkas(season be damned)
Perhaps we should spot them that $12 billion we disappeared
By an amazing coincidence, that transfer took place the week before the Iraqis took over and instituted accounting procedures.
do ya suppose Georgie has started on his telephone-book-sized list of pardons yet?
I expect president Obama, unfortunately, to come into office saying essentially – “the past is past – it’s time to move on”.
he prolly all ready has the autopen going on that
But, we still can’t account for it today, either…! 8-(
Well I think we can take this as proof positive that irony isn’t fatal.
willin
Very nice!
To paraphrase jaws, I can see Bush turning to Cheney, saying, “we need a bigger autopen…”
Hey, He’d better not even think of it, Jay…! Obama had better pursue whatever loose ends remain…! After the onslaught of blanket pardons…! 8-(
Jus Cogens!
I’m not talking about them paying to rebuild their country. I’m saying we can’t fix their country. I have serious doubts we can fix our own.
We went hiking this afternoon, up at a nearby area, called Hatcher Pass. There weren’t nearly as many people as there usually are on the 4th of July. Probably stayed home to save fuel money.
Hey ET!
Sockeye bonanza overruns canneries
But I guess you knew that already…
roflmao!!
My cannery did OK too…
Good evening dear friends! I brought you TONS of leftovers from my 4th of July BBQ, picnic, and fireworks potluck.
Perhaps Arthur Anderson, Bahamas, could audit all the Iraq trust funds for us.
lmao, the 2nd shot luks like microwave’d phone.
Hi TexB
Hope you had a tasty 4th, we got rained out here
Aloha, Tex! I’m slicing my watermelon now…! ;-)
Hey, you.
Hey, He’d better not even think of it, Jay…! Obama had better pursue whatever loose ends remain…! After the onslaught of blanket pardons…! 8-(
It may well be academic. I expect a pardon of “any and all persons who ever, in good faith, acted at the direction of any official in any superior capacity within the Executive Branch, including the Office of the Vice-President, against any allegation that the action or actions of such be person is or was, illegal”.
The language is a bit rough yet, but you get the idea.
heh — tastes a lot better, though…
Can’t say as I’ve ever tasted microwaved phone
Been waiting for that shot since last year.
Yum!
No! Hey YOU!
Wow!
…as tw3k holds a frozen Stouffers Lasagna (with meat sauce) up to his ear…
pssssst….. stop by the Treehouse and you can see the parade and the costumes too!
lol, truly a beautiful catch. Did not mean to degrade the eloquence with my humor.
:)
Gonna put the TAG condom-zap YouTube up tomorrow, if Ian can find some time for it. Tis a thing of beauty. Much looking forward to your researched post; mine was just figments of accountability, slapped together to pre-empt the undeserved hagiography.
M’dear, The treehouse is my refuge during turbulent waters at the Lake…! *g*
*hands on hips* since when is late nite turbulent?
Hello all firepups! A brief drive-by by Al The Spook to say thanks for all the kind comments on my dad’s memorial at Ravings. For those interested, I have returned to blogging full force with this post. Enjoy.
BTW, suz, congrats on selling your house! Please stay on at the lake even after you move, ok?
TexB, do you still have your blog?
Alfred!
Happy happy, dude.
Was there turbulence while I was out doing patriotic American things all afternoon and evening?
only gonna be gone while i’m actually moving, al.. thanks
thanks, dude! can’t let the bastards grind you down, as my dear wife used to say!
Both are having their own serious server issues, but I have not been pushing the webmasters to fix them since I have a much larger audience filling in for TRex when he is on vacation.
Of course. Didn’t intend to twist your words, just launching a pet peeve.
good.
late late upstairs
The bizarre thing is that at as evil as it was, at least Helms believed in what he was doing (although he was trying to sanitize himself after he retired).
His campaign operatives don’t believe in a damn thing, and they’re pretty much the entire structure of the party apparatus now.
God help them all, they’re enjoying this.
And they’re pretty much John McCain’s entire operation.
Oh OK, because whe I went to your link today, I got some other guy
but I did know you were over at TRex, btw loved your July4th pic
you so red white and blue *s
In Chicago, when a politician says, “I’m opent to refining …,” the only correct respons is “How much?”
Author? Very funny … but sadly true it seems.
Suppose you were an idiot. Suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. – Mark Twain
that’s from one of John Adams’ songs in 1776. I think most of it is quoted from his letters.
Because they are paid to lie so they can keep their jobs. And to hell with the truth and the rest of us….
Al Queda Names Bush “Man of the Year”
Obama also said during one of the debates last winter that although he wants to end the war as soon as possible, he didn’t want to be tied to a definite timeline because the situation might have changed by the time he becomes president.