Pat Bukkkhanan

I was talking politics with a stranger today...and he stopped me to ask me who I supported in the Presidential race.

I said "Barack Obama."

He said..."end of discussion," and laughed and started to walk away.

I laughed, too, assuming he was for McSurge. "McCain?" I asked.

Nope..."Pat Buchanan," he said.

I said...."Ummm...you know Pat is not running this year."

He said, "yeah...I know...I'm writing him in." I couldn't think of anything cute to say. End of discussion.

I should have asked him to spell Pat's last name correctly...with three Ks.

Obama/Biden vs. McCain/Palin

Yes...I haven't blogged in some time.

So the Democratic and Republican slates are all set. What have we learned?

Obama picked Joe Biden, a serious and experienced foreign policy expert who has run for President several times himself.

And who did McSurge pick? An anti-choice, pro-fur, pro-drilling, pro-gun, pro-hunting, creationist "hockey mom" with 20 -months of executive experience in one of the smallest states in the country, and who is coincidentally embroiled in an abuse-of-power scandal.

My prediction: This might seem like a race today. But it won't after people realize how clueless Palin is, and how careless McSurge was to choose her. She's Dan Quayle in drag. The thought that she can attract Hillary-voters should be interpreted as an insult to the intelligence of women everywhere.

She's even on record as saying she couldn't back Hillary because of "her whining."

Is she also related to Phil Gramm?

Feingold for VP?!?

I read a rumor that Russ Feingold is the stealth VP candidate for Obama. Be still my heart!

I'd love to see Senator Russ as VP...he's very bright and articulate, as is Obama. He'd be way better than Kaine or Bayh...

The ironic thing is that the GOPers have been painting Obama as "the most liberal member of the Senate" by a wide margin. They have inadvertantly pulled Russ towards the center!

Feingold is one of the folks who McSurge has cowritten legislation with too, and McCain-Feingold still sticks in the craw of the cons and neocons...what better way to remind them that St. John aint "one of them"?

McSurge Is Struggling With His 78 mph Fastball

Forget about losing your fastball, metaphorically speaking. McLame can't even get his 78 mph heater over for strikes any more (scroll to TPMTV "Dazed and Confused" if it is not at the top of the page...)

Senator Grumpy Snaps at a Reporter!

St. John got testy with a Wall Street Journal reporter?!?! What went wrong? Had she given Obama some love? Did she forget McSurge's favorite donut? Did she spill his favorite coffee? Did she tease him about his failing hair?!?!

The look on Lindsay Graham's face is funny, too. Lindsay Graham...a toadier sycophant is harder to imagine.

Shaking Up Dobbs and Novak in a Jar

When I was very, very young...1st grade? kindergarten? a cruel thing my friends and I sometimes engaged in was trapping various ants and other insects in a jar, and then shaking said jar to see if hideous arthropod warfare could be induced.

Now that I am older and more enlightened, I haven't thought about that particular childish stunt for a long, long time. It occurred to me today, though, listening to Lou Dobbs' show, which is pressing on in his summertime absence, that Dobbs has the kind of bottled up anti-immigrant anger that might be unleashed if he was properly agitated in a over-sized jar with Bob Novak, the Dark Lord of the Beltway.

Novak, for those of you who haven't been watching the news, smashed a pedestrian the other day with his black Corvette and fled the scene, only to be caught by a vigilante bicyclist who witnessed the sordid event. BN is a long time racing enthusiast with an anger problem directed at jaywalkers....the poor fellow he hit this time, though, apparently had the walk signal.

Shaking the two of them up in a jar seems like a suitable punishment for both men.

McSame: The Early Years

CNN is running an hour-long puff piece on both candidates...first half hour was Obama, second is devoted to McSame.

For some reason, CNN totally glossed over McSame's first marriage...watching this schmaltz, you'd think Johnny Mac went straight from the Hanoi Hilton to the Keating Five hearings.

Bizarre.

There was one nice clip of him arguing with W, though...must be from the 2000 debates. W is so pissy; McSame so angry.

McSurge Throws Stuff At Walls

Here is the latest argument from Team McSame: Obama is just like...Bush.

Yeah...that'll stick.

McSame's campaign is hopeless; and the candidate is hopeless. Maybe these arguments worked in 1992 Czechoslovakia.