Well, do you consider Spam to be good food? I know they keep trying to pitch it at ballparks, etc but…
Love it, hate it or laugh at it – at least it’s inexpensive. Sales of Spam – that much maligned meat – are rising as consumers are turning more to lunch meats and other lower-cost foods to extend their already stretched food budgets. What was once cheeky, [...]
Categories: Economy
Proving they don’t think much of Obama…
Obama: Will Sit Down With Iran, But Won’t Visit Iraq
Excellent piece by Jim Geraghty in the National Review Online that points out the idiocy and the hyprocricy of Barack Obama’s previous statements to meet and sit down with Hamas and go to Iran to meet with Ahmadinejad, but won’t commit to meeting US Military Leaders or to visiting Iraq: “You [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Obama
Scott McClellan’s new book, of course! Lead story on all the early morning news shows today, every online news site is featuring it, and the blogosphere is buzzing. The man has a hit on his hands, I’d say!
A Look Back at Scott McClellan’s Greatest Hits
The response from the Bush administration and its amen corner to the blistering charges in former press secretary Scott McClellan’s new book has been quick, brutal and predictable. While his predecessor Ari Fleischer proclaimed himself “heartbroken” over McClellan’s revelations, his [...]
Categories: Bush Administration
Or will it be Sunday morning. And, will there actually be a decision from the Democratic National Committee?
Saturday: A Mess in the Making
As I assume most of you know, the DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee (RBC) will meet Saturday to help decide the fates of the Florida and Michigan delegates and hence the fates of the campaigns of Senators Clinton and Obama. Along with others, I predict [...]
And what excellent timing. All three big network anchors made the rounds of the early news shows this morning, promoting a joint program to raise money for cancer research. Of course, the topic of Scott McClellan’s book came up, particularly about how he chastised the media for not being tough enough on the Bush Administration before and during the Iraq War. Katie stood her ground and made her point.
Network news anchors praise the job they did in the run-up to the war
…While Katie Couric impressively argued that the media did fail to do its job — pointing out that the White House threatened networks which were perceived to be too critical with cutting off access to the war and that anyone who questioned the war was deemed unpatriotic and all of that “affected the level of aggressiveness that was exercised by the media” — the painfully empty-headed [...]
Speaking of McClellan, he’s drawing the ire of some liberal bloggers. That’s right, the left is coming at him, nailing him lying to us all those years!
Scott McClellan Grew a Conscience…For a Price
More than two years after leaving the White House, former press secretary Scott McClellan has grown a conscience. And all it took was a lucrative book deal to convince McClellan to reveal the previously unknown, deeply held secrets of the Bush administration. We learn that George Bush was not [...]
Categories: Health Care · Television
…everybody’s getting together, as planned, in Iraq.
Sunnis Suspend Talks With Iraqi Government
Iraq’s largest Sunni Arab political bloc said Wednesday it has suspended talks on ending its boycott of the Shiite-led government due to a dispute over which positions it would assume, the head of the bloc said Wednesday. The decision was a setback to [...]
Categories: Iraq War
The man has a way with words, I have to give him that.
Top Ten Hagee-isms: New and Improved
Just click and read. It speaks volumes about the man.
Categories: 2008 Election · McCain · Religion
It’s gonna be a rough ride. And I was hoping for a break. No such luck, apparently.
Climate report: Be ready for higher food prices, water shortages
Shocked by rising food prices? Get used to it — and be ready for water shortages, too, says a sweeping new scientific report rounding up likely effects of climate change on the United States’ land, water and farms over the next half-century [...]
Categories: Economy · Global Warming/Climate Change
It didn’t take long for congress to latch onto Scott McClellan. He had to know this was coming, didn’t he?
Wexler: McClellan Must Testify Under Oath Before House Judiciary Committee
…Today Congressman Robert Wexler (D-FL) called for former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan to appear before the House Judiciary Committee to testify under oath regarding the devastating revelations made in his new book on [...]
Categories: Bush Administration · Congress
Okay, critics. You’re being just a bit touchy on this one. As the kids would text, OMG. Stupidity reigns.
Dunkin’ Donuts yanks Rachael Ray ad
Does Dunkin’ Donuts really think its customers could mistake Rachael Ray for a terrorist sympathizer? The Canton-based company has abruptly canceled an ad in which the domestic diva wears a scarf that looks like a keffiyeh, a traditional headdress worn by Arab men. Some [...]
UPDATE: Huffington Post’s story has a pic. It makes the uproar even stupider. The scarf is around her neck, not over her head!
Dunkin Donuts Pulls Ad Featuring Rachael Ray In A Scarf That Looks Too Arab
Categories: Terrorism
Oh, well. It was a fascinating idea. Hanging in there all this time, fighting for the delegates from Michigan and Florida. Leave it to the lawyers to put the kabosh on it. Of course, you could argue that the lawyers don’t have the final word on it, but…
Dem Party Lawyers Say Rules Committee Can’t Seat Full Delegations
In what could potentially be a blow to Hillary’s electoral hopes, such as they are right now, the Democratic National Committee’s lawyers have declared that the Rules and Bylaws committee lacks the legal authority to seat the full Florida and [...]
Clinton, bless her heart, isn’t giving up.
Clinton Makes Case Directly to Superdelegates
The New Yorker sends a letter and memo to every superdelegate, arguing she’s the party’s strongest contender against McCain. “Ultimately, the point of our primary process is to pick our strongest nominee… I hope you will consider the results of the recent primaries and what they tell us about the mindset of voters in the key [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton
….that all of the presidential campaigns have “issues”? Clinton has her “hang in there” syndrome. Obama has his series of gaffes. McCain? Well, let’s just call it a “people problem”…
MSNBC (h/t): “Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain’s national campaign general co-chair was being paid by a Swiss bank to lobby Congress about the U.S. mortgage crisis at the same time he was advising McCain about his economic policy, federal [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · McCain
Where, oh where, to begin! If last evening started off slowly, it ended with a bang! The word began leaking out about Scott McClellan’s new book. The one in which he pretty much eviscerates the Bush Administration. Who’d a thunk it? Scott McClellan? My goodness! Some of his former co-workers have come out swinging:
Move To Discredit McClellan For Anti-Bush Memoir Has Begun (UPDATED)
Then, there’s Keith Olbermann. Critics who claimed he’s been overly tough on Hillary Clinton and excessively kind to Barack Obama just lost another argument. It seems he’s not enthralled with EITHER democratic candidate right now!
On Memorial Day, Senator Obama, trying to show some patriotism and solidarity with the military and Jews (except those in Israel), mentioned his grandfather’s service in the military and his uncle helping to liberate Auschwitz. Apparently, Senator Obama was also seeing “dead people” at the same time. Senator, whatever could you POSSIBLY be thinking? [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Bush Administration · Obama
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