Tony Auth - Best Editorial Cartoon I saw all week!

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Lipstick on a mendacious elephant.

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Honest McCain Campaign Poster #31 - Spain Edition

How do they explain this? I mean, come on!

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Robert Benchley, McCain Economic Guru...?

75 years ago, it was the same B.S.

Satire from a master.

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Sarah: Why the cover-up?

If I am the vice-presidential nominee of a major party and I am implicated in some sort of scandal, investigation ongoing since before my selection, I either:

A) Welcome the investigation so as to prove my innocence...

or

B) I obfuscate, obstruct, obtain trial lawyers and otherwise obscure, while making false claims of whateverism, so as to prevent the damning truth of my perfidy from coming out before the election.

Which do you think is the right answer?

Thought so.

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(yes, the picture is a non sequitur, I just think this should be our Ace-in-the hole!)

Honest McCain Campaign Poster #30 - Blackberry Whine

We'd all be better off if McGrumpy were a research chemist in a lab somewhere instead of having a shot at C in C.

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Lying Liars

This beggars belief;

Mudflats:

McCain campaign spokesman Ed O’Callaghan told a news conference Monday that the governor, the Republican nominee for vice president, will not cooperate as long as the investigation “remains tainted.”

AP:

In July, the four Democrats and eight Republicans on Alaska's Legislative Council voted unanimously to investigate the circumstances of Monegan's dismissal. Although Monegan was an at-will employee who could be fired for almost any reason, lawmakers wanted to see whether Palin tried to use her office to settle a personal score with Wooten.

So, if I'm not mistaken, a 2 to 1 party advantage is still not enough to guarantee a "taint-free" investigation.

How do you McSame enthusiasts justify drawing breath?

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Dr. Zaius does it again...

OMG!

Way to go Dr. Z.

Goes with this,

and this.

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Honest McCain Campaign Poster #29

It was good to see Joe Biden escape the "Cone of Silence".

It was good to see Barack Obama show some passion.

It's simply not sufficient. More, please, sir?!?

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It gets down to race...

Photo from Yahoo/AP

From the AP:

Obama Waffles (extremely offensive).

McCain's lead comes from whites.

I hear the mumblings all the time at the neighborhood watering hole.

"Can't see myself voting for him." is as nicely as it gets put.

These are mostly decent people, showing me a side of themselves I've never seen before.

I'm especially dissappointed with the ex Marines. They should know better.

One is a retired Colonel, 30 or so years, works hard to help vets of any service get their full benefits, white or black.

But I heard him say the most disgusting things about a "halfrican-American" in the White House, I scarcely believed my ears.

A dear friend, Jewish, family in Israel, tells me he/she can never vote for a (N-word), especially one who is a Muslim sympathizer.

Even family have let me down.

Don't kid yourself, in the end, McCain will play the race card (and it might work).

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9/15/08 update: It's worse.

Change? Honest McCain Campaign Poster #26

You can trust Johnnie McLame to change D.C. !

He was a POW, you know.

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Driftglass nails it!

At work each day, I write the date many, many times.

With each notation yesterday, my anger grew and grew, to a point I rarely reach anymore.

I was way too angry to blog yesterday.

Thankfully, Driftglass was not paralyzed with rage.

His picture (above) and words express my anger far more eloquently than I ever could.

Thank you, sir.

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Honest McCain Campaign Poster #28

H/T All hat, no cattle.

Sen. McCain should be playing golf in Scottsdale and going to early-bird dinners with Cindy.

He should NOT be in the Oval Office.

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McCain: POW of the GOP? Honest McCain Campaign Poster #27

From the New Yorker...

"I wasn’t in St. Paul, but through the filter of the endless chatter on cable news, here’s how the Republican Convention looked: John McCain became a P.O.W. this week, at the hands of his own Party. It was Sarah Palin’s Convention, not McCain’s....

...This time, though, McCain is collaborating with his captors. By picking Palin he knowingly guided his campaign well over hostile territory and then aimed its nose straight down....

...His capitulation to the latest group of hard-liners to take him prisoner is a lot harder to justify."

McCain has said he'll do anything, run over anyone, on his way to the top. I believe him.

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Palin: Bush in a Pantsuit?

Blogs: Steve Greenberg's Cartoons / Ventura County Star

Says it all.

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Honest McCain Campaign Poster #25

Unfreakingthinkable.

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Badges? Don't give 'em no stinkin' badges!

From Dwane Powell/Raleigh News and Observer

Reform my ass. It's the inmates running the asylum. The only change the GOP is interested in is the change that's left in our pockets.

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Donny Deutsch needs to get out more...

...Like maybe to a trained professional?

Think Progress » CNBC host praises Palin for ‘putting a skirt on’: ‘I want her laying next to me in bed.’ (with video)

“Women want to be her, men want to mate with her. It’s as simple as that,” he said, adding that Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) failed because “she didn’t put a skirt on!”

Excuse me while I go wash my brain out with soap. Ugh!

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McCain Supporters are Idiots !

This poster was thoroughly vetted by the McCain campaign.

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Rodney Dangerfield - Tonight Show Classic

Since I haven't blogged a comic in a while, here's one of the best evah...

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Honest McCain Campaign Poster #23 & #24

I just loved Roger Simon's take on the whole meme.

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By Their Dresses, Ye Shall Know Them - Michelle vs. Cindy

From Vanity Fair:

Cindy McCain

Oscar de la Renta dress: $3,000

Chanel J12 White Ceramic Watch: $4,500

Three-carat diamond earrings: $280,000

Four-strand pearl necklace: $11,000–$25,000

Shoes, designer unknown: $600

Total: Between $299,100 and $313,100

Wow! No wonder McCain has so many houses: his wife has the price of a Scottsdale split-level hanging from her ears.

From the L.A. Times:

This just in. Michelle Obama wore a $148 dress the other day on national TV. And this is a big deal. And lots of other women are reportedly running into the chain store she mentioned. And maybe not cat-fighting yet but grabbing the dress for themselves.

Let's see, the Obamas' are out-of-touch elitists and the McCains' are the salt-of-the-earth folks next-door.!?!?

Teh hypocrisy, it burns!

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Honest McCain Campaign Poster #22

Inspired by tonight's "The Daily Show".

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New on the Blogroll

I visit Skippy all the time, he should have been on the blogroll when I started.

Skippy, the Bush Kangaroo

My bad. (sorry, Skip!)

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Red State on Palin (w/ Bullwinkle!)

Here's a different take...

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Honest McCain Campaign Poster #21

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the GOP vice presidential candidate, has hired a private practice attorney to defend her in the investigation into the firing of her public safety commissioner. (more from AP)



I predict that Ms. Palin will not survive as the GOP Vice Presidential nominee.



The cynical, fly-by-the-seat-of your-pants nature of this pick does not demonstrate the qualities necessary in a Commander-in-Chief. In fact, this choice should make any thinking person disqualify this ticket and party from governance.



And if that is not sufficient, Gov. Palin's association with a group that espouses the violent christian take-over of government should be. What an unholy bargain has been struck between those that wish to control our souls and those that wish to control our labor.

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Honest McCain Campaign Poster - #20

Check out Grandpa McCheater! In public and in front of cameras to boot!

Jeez, do some push-ups, take a cold shower, something.

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A Cautionary Cover - It Could Happen Again

An excellent question and a warning: We must not take anything for granted.

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Palin for Vice President !

The very courageous (POW!), experienced (POW!), patriotic (POW!) John McCain has boldly picked Michael Palin for the lower half of the GOP ticket.

Excuse me. (What? Oh, that's something completely different.)

Nevermind.

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Honest McCain Campaign Poster #19

Or maybe this works better for them?

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Bush Light - Steve Greenberg

Picture worth a thousand words? Yup.

I hope the Dem's get it. Define, deride, dispatch. Quickly!

From Steve Greenberg at the Ventura County Star.

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"Don't Know Much" - Much Better

Better. Now they're getting it.

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Honest McCain Campaign Poster #18

Perfect! This covers EVERY possible angle.

18th time's the charm.

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Send Bill O'Reilly Back to School - Brave New Films

What a hypocrite! A small-minded, heartless hack without a soul, self-destructing before our very eyes.

He could learn alot from kids. He shouldn't be allowed near children but they have much to teach him.

I am pleased to announce that MSNBC has finally taken my advice and given Rachel Maddow her own show. They ignored my advice to get rid of Scarborough, though, and instead got rid of the slowly improving Dan Abrams. Oh, well.

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P.S. for Billo: Malmedy, Mackris, Falafel!

Hillary Clinton - Attorney General

Joe Biden as V.P.? I can live with that.

Turn Hillary loose against the vast right-wing conspiracy as Attorney General?

Priceless.....

I think I would actually pay to attend the hearings.

Three years of putting the fear of god in those "people" and then.....

Supreme Court Justice Hillary Clinton !

I must be hallucinating.

Need rest.

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Honest McCain Campaign Poster #17

Long day, this is all I've got.

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McBush - Could It Be More Clear ?

From Lee Judge at the Kansas City Star.

Why aren't the people in charge of the Democratic campaigns, across the board, hammering on this, the only relevant argument that pierces the BS?

Why is this race even close? Is Obama going to make Gore's mistake?

Make the race about Bush. Who in the hell is better off today than they were, say just 10 years ago? Certainly not me. How about you?

What about:

The economy? The military? National prestige? Juris Prudence? Homeland Defense? The environment? Education? Veteran care? The Bill of Rights?

Puhleez! We could go on, ad infinitum, ad nauseum.

Let's define McCain as Bush and beat the Repugnicants over the head with W, over and over again. And then yet again. Till the last low information (snark) dullard "gets it".

That is all, catch you later.....

The Candidate We Still Don’t Know - Frank Rich - NY Times OpEd

Frank Rich looks at Grandpa McSame's unchallenged narrative:

"...What is widely known is the skin-deep, out-of-date McCain image. As this fairy tale has it, the hero who survived the Hanoi Hilton has stood up as rebelliously in Washington as he did to his Vietnamese captors. He strenuously opposed the execution of the Iraq war; he slammed the president’s response to Katrina; he fought the “agents of intolerance” of the religious right; he crusaded against the G.O.P. House leader Tom DeLay, the criminal lobbyist Jack Abramoff and their coterie of influence-peddlers.

With the exception of McCain’s imprisonment in Vietnam, every aspect of this profile in courage is inaccurate or defunct."...

And yet this demonstrably false meme persists with much of the public and the MSM. Go figure.

Great piece, be sure to read the whole thing.

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Nebraska Republicans Spreading Anti-Obama Propaganda

From the New Nebraska Network:

"It had been a lot of years since Republicans had a booth at the Cuming County* Fair. It's a testament to how much corporate PAC money is flowing through Mike Johanns' Senate campaign that last weekend's fair in the thriving northeast Nebraska community of West Point included a booth for the Cuming County Republican Party.

Overflowing with Johanns bags and yard signs, the booth also included a shrine to Ronald Reagan featuring video of his presidential speeches and a wall full of 70s-era Reagan photos. Nowhere was there any sign of current President George W. Bush, whose own image was so carefully crafted in the same western-style...."

And this:

"...Of course, we're all familiar with the low road tactics of the Republican Party. But, the idea that they've found their way into our local county fairs, playing on such blatant racism and xenophobia to make so childish an attack against Barack Obama, is really just depressing. This kind of attack is degrading to our democracy and an insult to the values at the true heart of our rural communities."

*My ex-wife's people hailed from Cuming County, I've been to their county fair, it's worse than you can imagine. This is a place where, when a local boy returned from Naval service with a Phillippina bride, she became quickly known as (name withheld)'s "nigger wife". I kid you not.

Shameful

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Why doesn't MSNBC just give Rachel her own show and be done with it ?

Rachel grows into this role more fully with every appearance. She's a natural.

Joey the Scar, however, has long ago worn out his welcome.

When will the 'brains' @ NBC get with the program?

Time to make a change, fellas.

As to the Corsi libel; sue 'em, screw 'em and tatoo 'em.

Fuckers

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A Day at the Races - Del Mar, CA.

Too busy to blog today. I have an appointment where the Surf meets the Turf !


Out of the turn they come...

And into the stretch they go...

Charging to the wire...

Does the jockey on MY horse look out of shape to you?

It was, indeed, a most beautiful day. No thoughts of anything consequential, good friends, good food; a welcome respite. Back to general "moonbattery" tomorrow.

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Happy Birthday, Social Security !

Social Security is one of the most wildly popular and successful government programs ever.

So, naturally, the Rethugnicants want to dismantle it.

After all, it is of no advantage to the privileged class.

Happy Birthday! Many Happy Returns!

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Thoughts on Patriotism

"The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair."
--H.L. Mencken

"There are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by the gradual and silent encroachment of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpation."
--President James Madison

"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it."
--Edward R. Murrow

"I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually."
--James Baldwin

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
--President Theodore Roosevelt

These quotes are for a certain anonymous commenter (you know who you are) lacking a fundamental understanding of the duties and responsibilities of a true patriot.

If you need directions to an enlistment center, I am at your disposal.

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John Edwards Limerick - Mad Kane

From Mad Kane.

Dear John, to your run I said, “Yay!”

And I thought you’d go far, come what may.

Then you cheat on your spouse

And deny it, you louse!

But will Coulter stop calling you gay?

Answer: Won't mean a thing to Mann Coulter. Facts have a liberal bias.

Picture swiped from Blue Gal.

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China & U.S. Birds of a Feather?

From The Independent of Britain.

Under the current administration we have become the thing we hate.

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Olympic Opening Ceremony - Creepy, Scary... Orwellian ?

Perhaps it's just me...

It's not even 9:30pm here (PDT) and I'm officially creeped out by the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Summer Olympics.

Ants come to mind.

Who is writing Costas' script? The Peoples Republic of Banal and Un-offensive?

Did the People's Republic of China just give the rest of the world the finger?

I've tried to listen to the broadcast audio but have found, after experimenting with Sirius Sat radio, that the Big Eighties Channel is more apropos.

Banal was in back then, too.

Catch you later (when I'm less creeped out).....

Dennis Kucinich - We Did It!

Go get 'em, Dennis.

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Fiscal Conservatism

Courtesy of the Ventura County Star.

Tax and spend liberals kill the economy, eh?

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Honest McCain Campaign Poster #16

From an idea on tonight's Colbert Report.

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So: There are actually Democrats here? North County Times

Part of an opinion column from my local (Right Wing) paper:

So: There are actually Democrats here?

By JOHN VAN DOORN - Staff writer

It's hard enough trying to observe people, dogs and the fast lane, then form bulletproof opinions, without having to go back over the once-observed and once-sternly-opined-upon because there is new "evidence" or some such.

What is required, if I believe the latest communiques, is a certain flexibility. One must exhibit a willingness to take the views of others into account, to listen closely, and then, perhaps, to alter in some way one's cool and detached opinions, one's observations, and come to the point of ---- I can't believe I am saying this ---- changing one's mind.

But it's come to that.

In this newspaper, thanks to a writer of ours named Gary Warth, I learned on Sunday that the number of Democrats in San Diego County is catching up with Republican numbers. They're this close.

Curses. For years Observer has written, probably because he paid too much attention to the narrow and the pinched in various local governments, that San Diego as a whole was a one-way place, leaning to the right.

It was hidebound conservative Republican, as he said so many times, filled with tycoons and mink-clad nieces, plus Chamber members and retired military men and women (who in most cases arrived at their viewpoints the hard way).

Democrats, if there were any, Observer led himself to believe, met in rooms with the curtains drawn, and spoke in whispers.

They dared not show themselves in public, was my solid viewpoint, lest rich or violent or traditionally misinformed Republicans, from every reach, village and hamlet in North County, would hurl epithets or smite them with bags of water and force them back to their caves.

I am threatened now by the spectre of Opinion Adjustment.

Gary Warth had to get involved with his smarty-pants reporting, his numbers and other reliable bits and shards of information, such as actual party rolls, to show that the split, countywide, is about even, with Democrats closing pretty fast.

For an event of such great moment, Observer is going to take his time. He is not an ideologue, as is widely known, but he is not given to haste, either. Don't look for an immediate switcheroo.

Still, if the numbers of Democrats and Republicans are now just about the same, chances are Observer will soon phone friends and family in the East and say to them: "Come hither. I was misled. It's not as one-sided out here as I have described it. There seem to be significant pockets of liberals ---- well, Democrats ---- in San Diego.

They will be stunned. But they don't call me "Old Ethics and Flex" for nothing.

San Diego county, especially here in the northern end, has for years been a rethugnicant stronghold. The piece above doesn't do justice to the outright hostility to any other point of view than the Grand Old Party line.

I am hopeful that the above mentioned trend continues. But most of the people I hear from around here express a great reluctance to vote for a Democrat, especially for president.

None seem happy with Grandpa Simpson but not so unhappy as to pull the lever for the exotic newcomer. Inexplicable but true.

But maybe, just maybe, we can get rid of Congressthing Issa, at long last.

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Paris Hilton Responds !

Paris Hilton?!?

On MY blog!?!

Oh, the shame, catch you later.....

Britney and McCain Love Bush

From the St. Louis Tribune.

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Rickles, Reagan - Dean Martin Roast

"Our Governor is dumb!"

All these years later and Reagan still creeps me out.

He should have spent time in jail.

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Honest McCain Campaign Poster - #15

Perhaps this is more on target...

Make your own, impress your friends.

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Honest McCain Campaign Poster - # 14

Truth in Advertising!

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McCain Attacks - Jon Stewart Daily Show

If Brian Williams and the "Real" news were doing their job, nobody would be watching the Daily Show or The Colbert Report.

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John McCain is a racist | Capitol Hill Blue

John McCain is a racist-Capitol Hill Blue

John McCain, a member of the House of Representatives in the mid-1980s, often held court at a table near the bar at Bullfeathers, a popular Capitol Hill watering hole, telling jokes and matching hangers-on drink by drink.

"Two dykes are talking at a bar and one leaves. As she walks toward the door, the other watches her leave and says out loud: "God, I'd love to eat her out."
Two men are standing near by and one turns to the other and says: "I'd like to do the same. Guess that makes me a dyke."

As a Capitol Hill chief of staff, I often drank at Bullfeathers and was invited to join the throng at McCain's table one evening. A few minutes listening to the racism, bigotry and homophobia of the Arizona Congressman told me all I needed to know.

"Question: Why does Mexican beer have two "X's" on the label?
Answer: Because wetbacks always need a co-signer."

When he ran for the Senate, I attended a gathering of GOP operatives at the National Republican Senatorial Committee where McCain outlined his campaign strategy:

"I play to win. I do whatever it takes to win. If I have to fuck my opponent to win I'll do it. If I have to destroy my opponent I won't give it a second thought."

Dear ObamaNots,

This is your guy? Your champion?

Your fear of the scary "other" leads you to this?

Shame on all of you.

Catch you later.....

What a Gorgeous Day!

Too nice to blog.

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