Cokie Roberts called going to Hawaii (i.e. America’s Middle Income Paradise) "exotic" even though most of Obama’s significant non-nuclear family lives there. Implying some sort of upper crust elitism the average American cannot understand.
Where was Cokie while Obama was in our 50th state?
Yes, Nantucket, one of America’s wealthiest enclaves — it’s like the Hamptons with less horsecrap.
But apparently no lack of bullcrap.
And it also requires, nay, DEMANDS another thoroughly American tradition be used to sum up this bit of information:
There was an ol’ biddy on Nantucket
Whose Journalism came with a bucket
She could afford a lobster roll
By always playing concern troll
And now, my scorn, she can suck it.
Feel free to add your own limericks about Cokie, just keep them relatively clean — even though that is truly un-American.
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There was a woman name Cokie
who had the respect of my folkies
’til she opened her mouth
spewing vitriol out
and now my folkies
are so over Cokie
Simply put, there’s no such thing as a clean Limerick.
Attaturk!
Jeebus, Cokie looks like shit…
oh, wait…
There once was an anchor named Cokie
Whose opinions we all found quite hokie:
Barak was “exotic”
And Michelle was neurotic
But to Cokie, McCain was okie dokie
Good one, that.
Cokie is appearing here soon for selling of her latest screed. I intend to welcome her with my best Bronx Cheer. She utterly disgusts me. This action is out of character for me, but, colnsidering Cokie, I want to give it her.
Ten years ago, I thought Cokie was a very reasonable person, but I can’t remember why. Has she changed that much, or have I.
(of course, nobody here knew me ten years ago. Be assured, I’ve changed a lot.)
OT
Russian Troops Seize Georgian Port
By GUY CHAZAN
August 19, 2008 5:09 a.m.
POTI, Georgia — Russian troops seized control of the economically vital Georgian port of Poti Tuesday morning, a day after Moscow said it had begun pulling its forces out of Georgia.
[Georgia]
Thomas Dworzak/The Wall Street Journal
An armed Ossetian soldier stands besides evacuated Georgians.
At about 9 a.m. local time, some 70 Russian peacekeeping forces entered the port grounds on seven armored personnel carriers, according to Georgian government and port officials. They detained 20 Georgian soldiers stationed in the port and confiscated their weapons,
http://online.wsj.com/article/…..lenews_wsj
That was reported BBC or The Guardian last Thursday or Friday, they had a video of a Georgian coastguard vessel being blown up. I don’t have the links but that is old news ;-)
It’s now time to tell John “miiltary experience” McCain to put up or shut up. “You and your butt boy have been encouraging this. Now what are you going to do Mr. Presumptive Nominee?”
Here is one from the Guardian, just recall some of the reports are from actions a day previous.
http://browse.guardian.co.uk/s…..ian=Search
Yes, Nantucket, one of America’s wealthiest enclaves — it’s like the Hamptons with less horsecrap.
Isn’t that the place H.P Lovecraft keeps writing about where old inbred types make plots with Ancient Demons to destroy the world when they are not interbreeding with fish monsters?
Lovecraft never once mentioned that they were rich. Cokie’s eyes seem quite fish like don’t they?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft
The inbred upper class really shouldn’t throw stones
It’s now time to tell John “miiltary experience” McCain to put up or shut up. “You and your butt boy have been encouraging this. Now what are you going to do Mr.
Presumptiveimpotent Nominee?”Fixed it.:)
T-Bear the date is today on the article iif it happened friday I was unaware.
I felt the same way about MoDo.
The earliest report had the Poti port being reported as early as 9 August.
George Monbiot has some interesting observations in his editorial today
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comm…..icy.russia
have a good day all
Cookie is coming here I checked the book salon and did not see her name?
Why is she coming here we don’t like her she is just a little lower than Nancy Pelosi.
In good news from the book salon :)
Living Like Ed: A Guide to the Eco-Friendly Life
Author: Ed Begley, Jr.
Sunday, October 5, 2008 5:00pm Eastern
Good catch T-Bear this guy knows how to write.
It’s a novel way to take your own life. Just as Russia demonstrates what happens to former minions that annoy it, Poland agrees to host a US missile defence base. The Russians, as Poland expected, respond to this proposal by offering to turn the country into a parking lot. This proves that the missile defence system is necessary after all: it will stop the missiles Russia will now aim at Poland, the Czech Republic and the UK in response to, er, their involvement in the missile defence system.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comm…..icy.russia
On Thursday 14 Aug. this was reported in The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worl…..ia.russia4
…
…
which may indicate actions taken on Wednesday 13 Aug, the time of the report was 12:30 pm BST
WSJ days late, dollars short IMHO
The US has spent between $120bn and $150bn on the programme since Ronald Reagan relaunched it in 1983. Under George Bush, the costs have accelerated. The Pentagon has requested $62bn for the next five-year tranche, which means that the total cost between 2003 and 2013 will be $110bn.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comm…..icy.russia
In 2007, total national health expenditures were expected to rise 6.9 percent — two times the rate of inflation.1 Total spending was $2.3 TRILLION in 2007, or $7600 per person.1 Total health care spending represented 16 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP).
http://www.nchc.org/facts/cost.shtml
What other military programs can we cut to get health care?
The situation that should be most concerning, is the neocon control of heads of government in Europe; GB, France, Germany, Poland, Italy, (marginally) Ireland are all headed by “reich thinking” neocons. Only Spain doesn’t have a neocon head of the mid-tier sized states. There is no counter balance for the neocon agenda in Europe, only most of the population does not follow the agenda but are in the process of being politically marginalized in the EU.
Back in the mid 70s, the Soviets caved to their military-industrial complex and built a nonfunctional anti-missile system. We did not.
In the early 80s, Reagan re-launched “star wars,” to line the pockets of some of his major supporters. Soviet strategists who emigrated to the west, said “What the fuck is the matter with you guys? We thought you were so smart not falling for this shit. Why are you getting stupid?”
There are just too many counter-measures. Nobody can count on this stuff working, and everyone involved knows it. But there are many megabucks to be made for anyone who can get their governmet to tumble for it.
Would you pleas post some sources for that. Thanks.
It’s not that I doubt you, but I’d like sources to beat my friends over the head with.
That speech by Ike – my kind of Republican.
nite pups
Since becoming a resident of Europe back in ‘94, I found the quality of information to be outstanding. My favorites are the dead-tree but online is equally good. I watch; BBC, The Guardian, The Independent(British), Timesonline, The Irish Times. When I was in Ireland, RTE 1, 2, TV-3, and Euronews (French multilingual international production a la CNN at its best) were the visual sources. Most of the time all basically agreed with differing POV or emphasis. That is a good sign the news is valid.
Google the heads of government for those countries for their background. All, except Spain, have conservative background; do not be fooled by “New Labor” in Britain, they are no more Labor than Clinton was liberal, just operating in that camouflage. Happy searches ;-)
I return you to your regularly scheduled Cokie monster ;-)
Good if the economy crashes as I think it will guess who will get the blame and since any recovery will take years the new government that replaces them will get credit.
Unless they do what Japan did in the 80’s and try and protect their corporations in which case expect a decade or more of slow growth.
Good Morning, Firepups!
It’s clear and mild this morning in central Jersey. We’ve got a another hot day coming up , with chance of thunderstorms, but the rest of the week looks very good [just in time for Mr. NJP and me to tackle another project in our long list for this year–staining the deck].
Cokie’s sister was my mayor before her untimely death. Barbara Boggs Sigmund was mayor of Princeton Borough, and a good one. She had lost vision in one eye from the cancer, and had a collection of eye patches to wear to borough council meetings. Her favorite color was a shade of pinkish purple, and there’s a lovely garden planted in her memory in Princeton, filled with flowers in that same color. She was succeeded in office by Marvin Reed, another good mayor. Still love Princeton, tho’ we don’t live there anymore.
Howard Dean’s emphasis on electing more Democrats is critical for our communities. Are there community boards on which you could serve? Shade Tree Commission could be your first step. Go attend your town council meetings. Get to know your elected officials–and hold them accountable.
Cokie, and the media problem she represents, is a big problem. While I’m thankful for Media Matters and Think Progress and all they do to call out the bloviators and so-called journalists, it’s not enough. The narrative gets set, and nothing that doesn’t conform to the narrative gets reported or commented upon.
Too much to do. Too little time.
I’ve got a big batch of my “house blend” granola and lovely Greek yogurt for breakfast, topped with lots of strawberries and blueberries. There’s ice coffee, hot coffee, and the kettle’s on for those who want hot tea.
Work for peace, every day.
(CNN) — Foreign ministers from NATO members are gathering in Belgium for a Tuesday emergency meeting over the crisis between Russia and Georgia which will also involve U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Rice arrived at NATO headquarters on Tuesday a day after saying that Moscow was playing “a dangerous game” by re-asserting its power across the border.
NATO ministers were expected to discuss what the alliance can do to support Georgia and “deny Russia’s strategic objectives,” Rice said.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/…..pstoryview
Condi had to stop her shoe shopping the End is Near!
Good morning, pups. Today it’s Bobo and Herbert. Bobo typed “The Education of John McCain,” and opines that John McCain and his advisers are running a much more conventional race, the kind he used to ridicule. The inescapable fact is: It is working. Mr. Herbert gives us “A World of Difference.” He says Senator John McCain will tell you outright: “I am a Teddy Roosevelt Republican.” That’s about as elastic as the facts can get.
http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/
The coffee and tea are ready, and the biscuits are out of the oven. Yesterday morning BellSouth was trying to spare us Silly Billy Kristol by taking internet service down in this area, but they also deprived us of Krugman’s column, which is worth reading. Have a great day.
Hi Attaturk, Love your limerick but it’s biddy. If she’s little she could be a bitty biddy. And I looked it up – “a hired girl”, “gossipy”. Ha!
Can’t do limericks so I’ll just say, fuck her! and her super elitist Nanfreakin’tucket island!
JC
Huh, I thought it was with two “t”s for bitter. But you’re right. I’ve got to get more up to date on my old time slurs.
I saw a video clip from a Hawaii TV station where they show Obama visiting the site where he scattered his mother’s ashes. He then visits the gravesite of his grandpa who helped raise him for much of his life. Another report said he visited his grandma, in the exact same apartment they lived in while he went to high school, everyday while he was there. There also has a bunch of video of him hanging out with his kids getting shave ice and doing other things like this around town.
What an elitist! Why didn’t he go to Myrtle Beach, or Branson, MO, where he doesn’t know anyone or have any history!?!?
Jeezus…Cokehead, George Will, and their friends say things on an almost weekly basis that would get a “Liberal” commentator fired or banned from a show. I’m starting to think it’s going to have to be a generational shift, both in replacing the current crop of Conglomerate Media deceivers, and in the audience that is used to these “people” and their “reporting” and are “set in their ways,” as often happens. It’s really difficult to get people to change their habits.
It’s happening though. We in the Liberal blogs have helped this transition along quite a bit and will continue to do so, so looking forward to speeding it up!
In passing. Yes, it is going to be a bit chilly come this winter if the feckers don’t get it right, and get it right the first time, no second chances. Poor Spain (and Portugal), such a long pipeline, so little alternative.
I watched Cokie for years. Originally, I thought she and Sam Donaldson were supposed to be counterpoints to George Will’s admitted conservatism. That was never the case, but it seemed to me that she and the other members of the David Brinkley Show were the first group to dwell almost solely on the horse race, rather than policy. It always seemed to me that Cokie was the most cynical of reporters and I don’t ever remember her giving anyone credit for actually believing anything they said. The only causes she seems to show any passion about are some limited goals of feminism and the Catholic Church.
What is in the air? Just the other day I referred to someone as an old biddy for the first time in some huge fraction of a century.
Cokie for sure is an old biddy. She can take her old nan somewhere and tuck it, or something.
My guess is we’re all being influenced by McThuselah. He sends out such a wave of “old and decrepit” that it’s impossible to resist. Next, we’ll all be waxing nostalgic for the big band sound…
Good morning.
Cokie was 2 years ahead of me at Wellesley, but I didn’t know her. She is certainly showing no sign of her expensive and exclusive education.
The birds are doing a tap dance on my chimney dampers. There were no dampers when the house was built, but when I had the chimneys lined, I was able to have spring loaded metal caps put on top of the liners. Thus when birds congregate on top of the metal caps, the sound reverberates down the chimney. Freaked me out the first time I heard it.
Only $150 billion? does it work yet?
Leave it to W to unwin the Cold War.
That women is so vile. Who could possibly like her and her spew?
All the news on the weather report… Did they cover this?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7569903.stm
An aside, The dollar has “miraculously” recovered significant value in the last fortnight and no visible action to cause the recovery of value. Just wondering if there is support being given through the various central banks (on the QT) to account for the phenomenon. Bigger still, is it a politically motivated move to influence the US elections by reducing the price of petrol? Just curious to know.
You could cut out all the military toys like aircraft, ships, tanks, etc. All that crap doesn’t help with terrists.
Good point we have enough we just need spare parts.
Cokie was 2 years ahead of me at Wellesley, but I didn’t know her. She is certainly showing no sign of her expensive and exclusive education.
Was she a special case legacy enrollment like Bush?
How exotic Cokie. Tell me, do they still speak English on Nantucket? Is a passport required? Do they have churches, or just mosques? You ARE a brave crone, traveling to such a “foreign” island.
The Great Old Ones?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Old_Ones
I look forward to the times Kathy Griffin says, “Suck it Jesus”! Attaturk’s post reminded me of that. Of course, it’s just as funny to say, “Suck it Cokie!”. See? Say it loudly! ;-)
“There once was a woman named Cokie,
Who spends her nights smoking her smokie,
But when she heard Barack was in Hawaii,
She said to her fans,
I’m jealous of that kind of blokie!”
OT- I watched Obama slamming McCain last night. Sorry to say….not effective. Obama’s still defensive and professorial, pointing out all McCain’s lies instead of really attacking him. Remember Liz Cheney saying that John Kerry ‘was not an honorable man’? Well, that’s what I want to hear about McCain. He’s telling more lies than any candidate I can remember, yet Obama often calls him honorable before he lists the lies. Enough of that. Change the rhetoric. He’s not honorable, he’s not honest, he’s deceiving the American people and has a history of favoring lobbyists and corporations rather than the American people. The first line of every speech should be ‘Scandal-ridden John McCain is not an honorable man.”
The US government has become the funnel for tax dollars to the MIC.
Not only that, almost everything that the US gove did is now outsourced at 3x the cost to private industry.
The US gov is played like puppets on a string by corporate lobbyists. Gov works just fine for corporations.
I don’t know if she was a legacy and her wiki doesn’t reveal much on that subject.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C…..Background
Let’s call Joe Lieberman’s offices and ask his Egors if they think Hawaii is an exotic foreign land not associated with America:
Washington, DC Office
706 Hart Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
(202) 224-4041 Voice
(202) 224-9750 Fax
Connecticut Office
One Constitution Plaza
7th Floor
Hartford, CT 06103
(860) 549-8463 Voice
(800) 225-5605 In CT
Directions to State Office
There once was a trolloped pundit
Whose NPR perch was the summit
Her pearls she did clutch
Since Hillary was too butch
But with Rahm she could share a crumpet.
Vacationing again in Nantucket
Telling us just how we’re to cluck it
“Know it or not-ic
Obama’s exotic”
She says as she fills the champagne bucket
It isn’t very good but I only just got up
but I tried
According to the old (1960’s) maps anything west of Cambridge is foreign land.
WASHINGTON JOURNAL
7:30-8:00 DONNA LEINWAND
USA Today
Science Reporter http://www.usatoday.com
Topic: The FBI Monday released additional documentation, detailing the evidence against Army scientists Bruce Ivins. Our guest explains how some remain unconvinced that the investigation focused on the right person.
8:00-8:50 DAVID ROTHKOPF
Carnegie Endowment for Int’l Peace
Visiting Scholar http://www.carnegieendowment.org
Topic: As conflicting reports emerge from Georgia over the status of Russian troops there, our guest examines Georgia’s attempt to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the role NATO expansion played in the current military conflict in the caucuses.
8:50 CANDACE RONDEAUX
Phoner From Islamabad, Pakistan
Washington Post
Islamabad/Kabul Bureau Chief
Topic: Our guest join us with the latest on the registration of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and the impact it’s having on the country.
8:50-9:30 KENNETH BALLEN
Terror Free Tomorrow
President http://www.terrorfreetomorrow.org
Topic: Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf resigned yesterday, creating questions about the succession of power and the future of the war against al-Qaeda in the region.
9:30-10:00 Newspaper Articles/Phones
LOL You make her sound sound uppity and elitist! She’s one of us, Allan. I can feel it. Now, be nice to her before she faints holding a white tissue. ;-)
or how about “He used to be an honorable man”? that way you don’t get slammed for dissing his POWness.
I think the large liberal blogs should start focusing on the fact that the MAVERICK POW HERO is neck-n-neck with his opponent. You’d think by now HIS numbers would be: 88% for the Maverick and 12% for that other guy?
It’s a very good point we need to drive home I think.
I’m not worried about Obama. He is fighting back but it’s the MSM who isn’t reporting it. Last night I couldn’t find a news channel without McTeleprompter’s picture on it. Johnny did say he has the media to help him and he’s right.
It should also be noted that the reason why Johnny McTeleprompter WILL NOT PICK HIS VP BEFORE BARACK, is because Johnny is a coward. He’s waiting for Barack to choose his VP so he can counter it with the right kind of Evilness.
I thought maverick POW’s didn’t wait for their opponents to go first? Wow. Is that what you do in battle? Guess so.
Yeah what kind of person spends years getting tortured is against torture for decades but as soon as George needs a little political cover sells out his principles just to be President.
What profit a man to gain the
whole worldPresidency of the United States of America but lose his soul.Cokie and the others are mere spokespersons…shills and whores for the media overlords. Who are they and how dangerous is their control of the “news?” This dangerous:
Media ownership study ordered destroyed
Sept 14, 2006
‘Every last piece’ destroyed
Adam Candeub, now a law professor at Michigan State University, said senior managers at the agency ordered that “every last piece” of the report be destroyed. “The whole project was just stopped – end of discussion,” he said. Candeub was a lawyer in the FCC’s Media Bureau at the time the report was written and communicated frequently with its authors, he said.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14836500/
“You can’t tell any more the difference between what’s propaganda and what’s news.”
FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein
15 August, 2006
So Cokie, how does it feel to be the enemy of the citizens of America and the Constitution? Is the pay worth it? You are an “accessory.”
Sure it is when your gun shy and nervous about fucking up…again.
The sent Cokie up to Nantucket
To hob nob with snobs and to shuck it
She blathered all day
For the cameras did play
Leaving us all just to suck it
Pay 30 pieces of silver Check
accessory clutched pearls Check
They sent Cokie up to Nantucket
To hob nob with snobs and to shuck it
She blathered all day
For the cameras did play
Leaving all to shuddup and suck it
There once was a couple named Boggs,
Who, in the party machine, made fine cogs,
But their daughter they raised with much money,
So she started to act sort of funny,
And now she has gone to the dogs.
The polls are fake. Any mainstream media companies that are conducting “polls” are ensuring that they conform to their own agenda. Isn’t it ironic (or just a little too coincidental) that the man who tried to take the money out of politics has now become the darling of the very media machine that lobbied so hard against McCain/Feingold?
The Rasmussen poll is bought and paid for by the Republican Party.
No poll conducted by Rasmussen will ever reflect reality.
http://lawprofessors.typepad.c…..t_tru.html
Former Pollster Pleads Guilty to Fabricating Results
Tracy Costin, the former owner of polling company DataUSA Inc., entered a guilty plea to conspiracy to commit mail fraud for fabricating the results of polls the company conduct on behalf of, among others, President Bush in 2004.
http://lawprofessors.typepad.c…..lster.html
BEWARE THE SWIFTBOATING OF EXIT POLLS:
The GOP has employed a firm called Penn, Schoen, & Berland to skew exit poll results in the past in order to achieve their own political ends. They are on Rove’s payroll:
http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=70727
Electoral Fraud Is the First Step on the Road to Tyranny
http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=70456
November 2, 2004: Overcoming a six point exit-poll advantage by Senator John Kerry, George Bush is re-elected President. Several statisticians have calculated the probability of this anomaly as one in a million — in effect, impossible.
EXIT POLLS ARE NEVER WRONG. THEY ARE THE WORST ENEMY OF MCCAIN.
never mind. can’t think of when he was.
note to self: no commenting before coffee.
Flashback to a 2004 posting:
THE SWIFTBOATING OF “EXIT POLLING”
Last night it started. CNN’s Jeff Greenfield was interviewed about the forthcoming elections, and his parting comment at the end of the segment was what would have appeared to be an off-handed disparaging remark about the reliability of Exit Polls.
Greenfield was/is shilling for Rove – and this was a TALKING POINT ordered up by Rove. “Exit Polling” had not been part of the prior discussion, but was something that he slipped in at the end of the segment – as if ordered to do so.
Rove has been interviewed in recent days proclaiming that HIS polling (which he proclaims nobody else has access to and is superior to all other polling data) portrays the key races to be very close, not nearly the blowouts that the REALITY BASED COMMUNITY is seeing.
THIS IS A SET UP.
If you are going to STEAL AN ELECTION VIA VOTE RIGGING – you need to lay the ground work – planting doubt in the minds of the electorate through the media shills.
Exit polling has been a reliable method by which to approximate the result of elections prior to the final votes being tallied. Exit polling has only been called into question in the last two election cycles – but ONLY because the Exit Polling data were not confirmed by the final “official” vote tally. As has now been proven, it was not the Exit Polling data that was inaccurate or unreliable, it was the reporting of the Official Total” that had been tampered with.
It’s time to TAKE THE OFFENSIVE where Exit Polling is concerned and reveal this Swiftboating of “Exit Polling” for what it is – a Rovian sham designed specifically to condition the electorate to disbelieve the exit poll results (which will portray the house and Senate going under Democratic Control), and rather to only believe the “Official” (FALSE) vote count.
The Mainstream Media is fully complicit in the Rovian Brainwashing campaign to discredit “Exit Polling” as unscientific hoohah, when in fact it is the smoking gun EVIDENCE of election fraud used throughout the world. Ask International Elections Observers about the value of Exit Polling.
Not a single caller to WJ believes the FBI case against Ivins.
LOL Exactly!
I agree with ya. The RNC has nothing to run on this year and they have a guy out front who can’t speak a sentence without his teleprompter, so they have to get their buddies at these polling places to dupe the masses into thinking this is a close race!
Besides, it’s much easier to steal a close race than one that is 90%/Obama to 10% McCain.
Cokie’s pic looks as if George Will has just goosed her.
not much to learn from that segment except exactly what you say, nobody thinks much of the FBI’s case.
With holes big enough to drive Mack Trucks thru
Just caught the last of that segment……the USA person seemed to do a pretty lousy job…….did you get that impression as well?
Mark my words, Kaye, Rove has already planned for the full frontal assault against exit polls. The media will do its part, and Exit Polling will somehow be made illegal or impossible between now and election day (no loitering with clipboards and television cameras within 500 yards of polling places, or some such nonsense).
Their readership might like EW then. Still if the FBI has problems convincing the WallStreet Journal’s readers just how do they expect to convince us?
Rove’s “math ” got disproved last election
She did an OK job. Self-described, in answer to a Q about what did she really think, she said she was just a reporter, not her job to evaluate. She’s Justice reporter, not science one, but did pretty well explaining the science. She did note that the case for the defense was precluded owing to Ivins’s death, and also kept stating that there was much that the reporters have not been able to find out yet, like how FBI eliminated the other 99 people who had access to the anthrax.
People of any shade of color I’m sure are going to get hassled voting.
A schmuck came to talk in Nantucket
We forgot to bring all our buckets
Cokie spewed all her crap
For lunch yet another NPR rap
with no place but her face left to chuck it
democracynow doing segment on new Paraguay prez. One of the good things to come out of W admin is that with terrists war sucking all the air of of them, they haven’t had resources to muck about in Latin American politics.
Oh I’m sure, but won’t it be great to say that Johnny McTeleprompter won because as usual…to win…the republic party has to:
CHEAT
STEAL ELECTIONS
MANIPULATE POLLS IN THEIR FAVOR
They can’t run on their morals, values, and ethics because they have none! And if Johnny gets in the White House and there’s a Democratically controlled House & Senate and Johnny can’t get nothing done, well, that will drive the garlic right up the asses of this party once and for all! Besides, it might be fun watching Johnny beg the Congress for more endless wars and then him mistakenly saying at a presser, “And besides! I’ve got secret Israeli death squads in that country who are killing people so we can go to war! I’ve got Halliburton, KBR, and Blackwater breathing down my neck to do some more war profiteering & thieving! So give me this illegal war Congress or else!”.
Scary, but it WILL happen. He already says stupid shit like that now.
There once was a neocon named Cokie
Whose schtick was so bad it was hokie
She said with a grin
As she wiped off her chin
Billy Kristol is so okie dokie
Sort of like this???
http://www.gregpalast.com/obama-doesn’t-sweat-he-should/
this should be seen now!
In swing-state Colorado, the Republican Secretary of State conducted the biggest purge of voters in history, dumping a fifth of all registrations. Guess their color.
In swing-state Florida, the state is refusing to accept about 85,000 new registrations from voter drives – overwhelming Black voters.
In swing state New Mexico, HALF of the Democrats of Mora, a dirt poor and overwhelmingly Hispanic county, found their registrations disappeared this year, courtesy of a Republican voting contractor.
In swing states Ohio and Nevada, new federal law is knocking out tens of thousands of voters who lost their homes to foreclosure.
http://www.gregpalast.com/obam…..he-should/
There was an old gal from Nantucket
Whose pearls she would constantly clutch at
When she thought of Obama
And white women’s pajamas
Up her ass her was firmly stucket
Great Catch T-Bear
Oh, democracynow guest on Paraguay prez is prof at NYU who wrote Empire’s Workshop, all about how Latin America was the U.S. wet test in the 1980s (and earlier) for what W has tried in the Middle East. I read it a couple of years ago. Very interesting.
http://www.amazon.com/Empires-…..038;sr=1-1
One of the fundies just called WashJourno with a rant ending, “The Lord Jesus Christ is coming.”
To which the guest from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace responded, “Well, certainly His coming would solve a lot of problems right now.” Followed by something similar to “IANAT….I am not a theologian.”
I do so love a side order of snark with breakfast. *g*
Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain
How is it that a guy who trashed five US planes is a “hero,” while those who simply did their jobs (better than McCain), and didn’t trash any aircraft in the process, are not?
Thanx, inquiring minds (find stuff)
When Cokie went down to Nantucket
The clams spoke right up from her bucket:
“Barry is just not exotic,
But Johnny McC is neurotic.
Now show us how they pay you to shuck it.”
There once was a poster named Turk
Who wrote about cokie, the jerk
She was once a reporter
Was Hale Boggs daughter
But now she is just one more berk
There was an old hen on Nantucket
with no voice all she could do was cluck it
but she made up so much shit
that she couldn’t carry it
so she had to rent a Mack to truck it.
The corporate media has on approached this story from the scientific aspect (tracing the anthrax back to a particular lab) but no investigation or coverage into the politics of this terrorist attack.
That site is a hate site run by Jim Kiley, who has a personal beef with McCain for an incident involving a sham business Kiley was running at The Wall. The Navy never took any action against McCain for the crashes people seem so fond of citing as incompetence. Aircraft are damaged on the ground and on flight decks and not all of them are caused by incompetence. The Navy does not take kindly to pilots or ground crew damaging their multi-million dollar aircraft, regardless of who their father or grandfather may have been. If the Navy had found fault with McCain over those crashes he could have had his flight status revoked or, in an extreme case, court-martialed. None of those actions occurred. His crashing of aircraft is a non-issue. Except for those who can’t find anything else to bitch about.
She did a terrible job! She made it sound like anyone can whip a batch of Anthrax from the liquid form. What happened to all the remarkably “Floaty” characteristics of the anthrax that was released in the Senators offices. We were told the anthrax was so finely milled to micron size that it could only have been manufactured at an advanced weapons lab, something Ivins supposedly didn’t have access to.
She didn’t mention he couldn’t drive to the Princeton mailbox and get the postmark and get back and have the correct postmark. She was ignorant of a lot of facts or simply chose to omit them.
yeah Cokie she really did fuck up
trying to tell us Obama’s a stuck-up
she said all of that
as she put on her hat
then she jetted off to get a tuck up
It is just my opinion, but there are soooo many lies, flip/flops, delusions with which to cast light on a sad, delusional, wrinkled old has been, not even that, a never was, it is counter-productive to even go there. Leave alone the only thing the man ever did on his own, it is the only thing he has to show for his life, everything else has been handed him. His is not even a full life, his riches belong to another, his position bought for through fraudulent supporters. When he does have to account for his life, he will have precious little in the balance. He hasn’t a shadow to cast of his own.
None of what actions occurred?
She was ignorant of a lot of facts or simply chose to omit them.
I sure caught a wiff of that but didn’t hear the entire segment.
Neiwert’s up
Who Is Orson Swindle And Why The Hell Should We Believe Him
1,738 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…
Citizen SouthernDragon:
“The Navy does not take kindly to pilots or ground crew damaginf their multimillion dollar aircraft, regardless of who their father or grandfather may have been.”
I wonder if you ain’t givin’ the military and particularly the Navy more autonomy and integrity than is deserved…in my brief encounter with the military (3 years and a million miles from reality) I’m convinced that no child of the oligarchy that produces the weapons er commands the dollars and the troops would EVER be disciplined on record.
I think that the Navy at the time could afford ta lose a few men and machines ‘cuz nobody was questioning…kinda like taday, no?
KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION, ALL OF THE BASTARDS NEED A STRETCH IN LEAVENWORTH!!
No action of any kind was taken against McCain by the Navy for his crashing aircraft. Such incidents are not uncommon, particularly on carriers where there are numerous aircraft in confined areas. Equipment failure is the usual cause of aircraft accidents. If you’re looking for something to trash McCain for, find something else. You’re not the first to bring this issue up and since McCain became the presumptive nominee the whining about the crashes has gotten nowhere simply because there’s nothing there. If you consider Kiley’s site a source of reliable information be prepared to be able to provide documentation backing up his claims. The swiftboating of Kerry started with a personal beef by someone who barely knew Kerry. Kiley’s claims are no different and no more reliable.
Cokie should be forced to spend EVERY vacation at Myrtle Beach. Well, until she reaches age 80 — or in 5 years — whichever comes first.
Having spent 14 years in the Navy I stand by my statement. I’ve seen junior officer’s careers ruined even though their father was flag rank and still on active duty. They may get by with minor infractions but even when that happens morale among the command’s officers takes a big hit.
Citizen SouthernDragon:
In my brief experience (12 months out of eternity) with the military in Vietnam, I saw so much waste resulting from incompetence , larceny or jest plain carelessness that I was and am convinced that ANYthin’ was possible because no one was watchin’ and the corporations had contractors in-country ta see that everybody stayed that way.
In-country I agree with you. We routinely stole radios, and the occasional weapon we needed, from the Army and they never knew they were gone and couldn’t have cared less if they did. Yes, there is a lot of waste in the military and I don’t think anybody’s ever figured out a way to stop it completely. In any conflict accounting is thrown out the window but negligence or incompetence will be dealt with. The biggest eye opener I got in those almost 4 years in the Delta was meeting Army personnel who hadn’t been paid in months because the Army couldn’t find the pay records for entire companies. A good portion of our paychecks went to helping those guys out.
While Titian was mixing rose-madder,
His model posed nude on a ladder.
Her position, to Titian,
Rejected Cokietion,
So he climbed up the ladder and had ‘er.
Checking out this latest guest on the Journal. Terror Free Tomorrow’s Advisory Board: John McCain, Lee H. Hamilton, William H. Frist & Thomas H. Kean. ‘Nuff said…
Once a radio reporter by day
Until the TV raised her pay
Now dressed to the nines,
Damn the facts, she opines,
And her parents roll o’er in their graves.
Tune in to that radio station
To the woman who helps raise our nation.
She’ll bake you some cookies
While briefing the bookies
On the best place to spend your vacation.
Citizen SouthernDragon:
The point was and is that there wasn’t and isn’t ANY oversight either by media in-country er in Congress durin’ these times of conflict and the fuckin’ brass get away with ANYthin’…a shavetail Lieutenant ken get wacked fer losin’ his mess kit but the Admiralty won’t discipline an incompetent son of the oligarchy fer blowin’ shit up ‘cuz nobody is watchin’ and if they ARE and report the incident they get wacked too. Durin’ time of war, the corporations and the military command structure work tagether…that’s the modern, post WWII structure called “the military industrial complex” and it’s shit is TIGHT!
By “here” I meant where I currently reside.
I saw this possible confusion this morning when I re-read this thread.
Cokie the most concerned among Villagers
always siding with torturers and pillagers
proclaimed hawaii too exotic
a Black’s campaign sooo quixotic
with such gravitas® no one will speak illager
first cuppa kidz
Yes!
there once was a maven named Cokie
her teabagging skillz were no jokey
she was always concerned
ah those weenies she’s earned
she thinks balls on her face okie dokie !
there . . . much better
I think that I shall never see
A sight more shameful than Cokie.
Her run on PBS was charm’d,
But now her words have truly harm’d
Our one great hope – this one’s not white -
Who’ll lead us from George Bush’s night.
So kindly heed this left-wing pup:
Ms. Roberts, please, STFU.
Now there’s a good’un.
Old Cokie used to be tongue in cheek
But the new Cokie’s become quite weak
All she does now is shills
But hey it pays the bills
Although now she is more tongue in cheeks
Say ‘em out loud and count syllables people. Watch the beat too. It usually doesn’t take too much to fix them up, but you need to do it if you want them to sound right. For example:
There once was an anchor named Cokie
Whose bias we all found quite hokie:
Barak was “exotic”
Michelle was neurotic
But she found McCain okie dokie
– MarkusQ (hitting submit the morning after, Doh!)
Cokie and Libby and Hale
and sister Barbara as well
a democrat family
and liberal homily
that Cokie for some reason failed
Barbara Boggs Sigmund (her sister) was my HS history and sex ed teacher and a role model. She was an incredible person, a great Mayor for Princeton, and a firm liberal democrat. She would have made a great Governor of NJ had she lived. I believe she would have kept her little sister on the right track. It is hard to believe how Cokie has dishonored her family by accepting rethug framing and smearing democrats over the last decade.
Her liberal heritage, she decided to chuck it
Enticed by the ways of Nantuckit
“Let New Orleans drown”
and let the Boggs down for
fame, cash and face…Nip and Tuck it!
Don’t be so hard on poor Princess Cokie. She is a born and bred creature of Washington aristocracy, raised in the shadow of her parents, the legendary Loozyana congressman Hale Boggs and his widdah Lindy, who assumed the throne when he passed on.
She inherited the precious trappings of nobility and seemingly wears the filigreed raiment of entitlement with sublime comfort and confidence. How could anyone expect her to know of the frightening and mysterious world of ordinary human suffering and striving?
Beyond her consorts and cohort in the marbled halls of power and influence lies only an amorphous miasma of filth and stench that no decent habitante of Versailles-sur-Potomac could ever comprehend.
In this context it is understandable that she would proclaim Hawaii to be some sort of “foreign, exotic place”. From her perspective, Philadelphia, Miami and anywhere beyond her favored provinces would qualify in the same category. She undoubtedly knows of Myrtle Beach from her tennis partners in Hilton Head, thus the mention of this locale as a suitable vacation spot for brownfolks and rednecks.
The ossified remains of whatever journalistic integrity she may once have possessed are ashes and deserve a decent burial. Her specter on the screen is but a tortured soul, condemned to wander the airwaves as a gruesome, cadaverous wretch- desperately wailing for a world that is crumbling around her- lashing out at the usurpers with brown skin and new ideas.
For Cokie and her dying dynasty, this is the End of the World. She may not deserve our sympathy, but at least pity her.
Oh, you changed it, you sweetheart! Such a relief to those (me) afflicted with spelling OCD which, come to think of it, might just qualify as biddiness.
Another old time slur we young ones would torment our elderly but not a biddy aunt with was calling a woman a broad. For some reason a major slur. And toots. She’d get really angry with that one. Fun!
JC