Friday, July 25, 2008

Friday follies

Obama gave a speech before 200,000 folks in Berlin. That's a nice crowd, about twice as many as watch the typical Ohio State vs Michigan football game every November. The American news media are having kittens over it. There's much discussion about how the media are falling out of love with Barry. Quick, Barry ! Send somebody out for a dozen bearclaws, a dozen strawberry, and two dozen cream-filled !

Another trend I'm noticing: at least three conservative columnists on different editorial pages have advanced the idea that our big, big win in Iraq will likely contribute to Ace's defeat in the November election. This notion is some of the fertilizer that we store in this location. First of all, I think the big Iraq win is so much bull-fluff. For one thing, the definition of victory is constantly changing from day to day. And as I've said before, if the war's over and we won, we should be planning to get the hell out of Dodge and quit pissing billions down that rathole. Second of all, I'm not seeing signs indicating Barry is on anything resembling a winning track. He's working harder to get fewer positive results than any man I ever saw.

Any time two or more conservatives start repeating the same general idea, odds are good there's some kind of conspiracy involved. They're trying to pull something with this "We're winning the war, so Ace loses the election" horseshit, but I haven't figured out their angle yet. I'll keep workin' on it, though.

Later that day (11:38 pm): I just finished watching "The McLaughlin Group" on PBS, my usual Friday-night-at-eleven routine. The show has lost something since Fat Tony B. and Pat Buchanan left the panel. The blonde bimbo who's filling that conservative seat, Monica Crowley, makes my skin crawl. She's not quite as deranged as the other blonde Republican bimbos (e.g., Ann Coulter or Laura Ingraham), but listening to her is still like listening to fingernails scraping a blackboard.

Tonight much of the discussion was about Barry's overseas trip this week, and the panel, even Monica, agreed he'd pulled it off flawlessly. You could tell it was really eating at Monica, though. The Repubs envy and resent the fact that Barry gets to make speeches to huge crowds of wildly enthusiatic people. For three years, they've been chained to GW, a guy with the popularity of venereal disease whose audiences are all required to sign loyalty oaths.

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