Look, up in the sky, it's a stupid man

While out walking The Woof Almighty (aka Harley Reads / aka The Harlequin / aka The Brown Double / aka Montana Slim), she and I, I am pretty sure, saw Marine One stroke by on the way to campus.

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[Editpost motivated by Thinkpol]

Yay! America achieved!

Ouch!

From The Rolling Stone:

In its broad strokes, McCain's life story is oddly similar to that of the
current occupant of the White House. John Sidney McCain III and George Walker
Bush both represent the third generation of American dynasties. Both were born
into positions of privilege against which they rebelled into mediocrity. Both
developed an uncanny social intelligence that allowed them to skate by with a
minimum of mental exertion. Both struggled with booze and loutish behavior. At
each step, with the aid of their fathers' powerful friends, both failed upward.
And both shed their skins as Episcopalian members of the Washington elite to
build political careers as self-styled, ranch-inhabiting Westerners who pray to
Jesus in their wives' evangelical churches.
In one vital respect, however,
the comparison is deeply unfair to the current president: George W. Bush was a
much better pilot.

Another one for the "Heh" Category

With the UN Gathering Fast Approaching, McCain Seizes the Opportunity to Roll Out Palin as At Least Mildly Credible on Foreign Affairs.

Heh, indeed. But ye know what bothers Harrogate even more than the bizarro notion of Sarah Palin meeting with Heads of State and negotiating on our behalf? What bothers Harrogate more is that, consistently in the Polls, McCain is cleaning Obama's clock on the question Who Is Best Suited to Be Commander-In-Chief.

The whole, "National Security is McCain's Strong Suit" meme. How stupid are Americans anyway. After eight years of NeoCon Adventurism wreaking havoc with our security at home and soling our reputation abroad. While also creating corpses by the tonnage. Is the truth of the matter really that difficult to see?

In the event of a McCain victory. Those who vote GOP this time around will have no right to complain or cry if they lose loved ones in the guaranteed next round of ill-begotten wars. They will have brought it on themselves and may even be said to deserve what they get. The truth is a cold dish and there it is.

Those who saw what was coming and got shouted down at the polls, however. And then lost loved ones. Will have but to look around, everywhere they go. To see where the death warrants came from.

Electile Dysfunction

Apparently McCain is computer illiterate because of his war injuries. Yes, his injuries prevent him from raising his arms to a keyboard.

The Obama campaign has sunk to a new low in their attempt to capitalize on this disability. Disgusting.

"let me explain to them what the job involves": Making War and Banning Books

John McCain closed out his speech last night with rousing, Henry V-style calls for America to "Stand up" and to "Fight," words he used over and over again. The convention-goers went nuts. After all the ballons were dropped, at the top of the ticket what we were left with was, Fight, Fight, Fight; Did you know John McCain was a POW? He wasn't scared to fight! Now its our turn to Fight! Always Fight!

Speaking of fighting, in presenting us with Sarah Palin, a red-meat throwing politico who makes George W. Bush seem intellectually curious, John McCain started a big ole fight against our republican institutions as well.

Wednesday night both Rudy (noun, verb, 9/11) Giuliani and Palin made much of her mayoral record as part of her "executive experience." And then Palin, playing the victim, offered to "explain to them what the job" of Mayor involves. But she said nothing about her time as Mayor, opting instead for trashy, snarling, sarcastic derogations of Obama.

But, Harrogate will help Palin out. Her on-record urge to ban books as Mayor will nicely complement McCain's urge to stoke nationalistic fervor and start wars. What a team the McCain Administration promises to be, if we are ignorant enough as a people, to let them in the door.

Palin the book banner link. It also shows how she made abortion a central issue in a small-town MAYORAL race.

This bitch is a nutjob, people. The GOP's kind of nutjob.

But anyway, here's the book-banning blurb. Too bad this isn't a huge story already:

as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into her policy at times. "She asked the library how she could go about banning books," he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language in them.

A good time to summon up some of this feeling right here, the opening seconds of this clip from the third greatest sports movie ever made:



"Ray, I just halted the spread of neo-fascism in America."

Because After All, John McCain Was a POW

Normally Harrogate only posts the one song by this band, the same song, every year. But tonight demands a second one by them, for 2008. It is so fitting it hurts.

"Captive Honour" indeed.