Comments on: McCain’s Impotence, Lynch Mob Edition

By: greenbird4751

greenbird4751 — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:05:01 +0000

“…some old washed-up terrorist…”

unrepentant. domestic. [do not look into AIP, i guess.]

By: LabDancer

LabDancer — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:36:30 +0000

But isn’t all this sort of like getting AG Mukasey to stamp your “Am In Need of Pardon” application?

By: brendanx

brendanx — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:54:28 +0000

Republican men really love her — when they see her, they see a face full of spunk.

By: JohnJ

JohnJ — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:24:35 +0000

And John Cleese noting that Michael Palin is no longer the **funniest Palin*

wow, that worked even without the link, now on to the link!

By: readerOfTeaLeaves

readerOfTeaLeaves — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:15:02 +0000

Well, from my perch at the end of the bar, ‘Don’t be such a stranger’.
Plus, I just got two very fun items over at The Guardian: Roseanne Barr on the topic of White Guys on Viagra running the US. (Okay, I’ll go back into Demure Mode now.)

And John Cleese noting that Michael Palin is no longer the **funniest Palin**, describing Sarah Palin as ‘a parrot’: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worl.....sarahpalin

Figured that given the momentous market news, a laugh or two might be in order.

By: Ishmael

Ishmael — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:50:20 +0000

Per Wikiquote:

“Grace under pressure”
Hemingway’s definition of “guts” as recounted by Dorothy Parker in the New Yorker (30 November 1929)

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hemingway

By: radiofreewill

radiofreewill — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:48:41 +0000

Who is that glittery-eye-shadow wearing preying mantis behind McCain?

By: bmaz

bmaz — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:47:19 +0000

1 am in Fla. is 10 pm here. I am usually up. If you are inclined, leave comments, I may be around. rOTL is often up too. Give it a shot if you are up and have something to say, there are probably a few of us lurking around, you just don’t always see it.

By: JohnJ

JohnJ — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:41:34 +0000

Wow!!!Thanks for noticing everyone!

I never miss a post here, but with my newest underemployment (second shift production QC no less) I can’t reply from work (’don’t want to leave “tracks”). By the time I get “home” (that’s another story as well)it’s after 1am and the conversation is usually finished.

I could have told you guys 6 months ago the crash was happening since it’s been happinin’ on me!

I have the same question as bmaz…I googled “Hemmingway Test” and found many ref’s to failing it, but not a definition. I suspect this is EW’s territory.

By: JohnLopresti

JohnLopresti — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:35:13 +0000

I would suggest the morose minds concocting McCain’s teleprompter script consider the linked syllabus from the professor’s voting rights course at U Chi winter 2002. This is the creation of a mind much more mature than the insults of a failing Republican presidential campaign. Rather, it is a study in bringing people together to discuss intelligently how we continue to make progress to develop our society. Anticivil groups came into existence like water nearing a boiling point, based on ethnicity, socioeconomic degree of deprivation, and other ad hoc theologies during a time of change in US civic landscape over a span of three decades. The changes effected are more salubrious for the course of our people than mud slung near a feeble campaign’s end by Republicans. I doubt many reputable people with conservative views would make the eschatological leap from white unrest to moderate views on voting rights taught in a U Chi seminar. There is no continuum to the fiction the Republcan lobbyist speechwriters are trying to frame for this specific variety of reactionary mud to sling. When they lose because their illogic and inaccurate attributions had a ring of falsehoods, they will return to the colloquy proud, quieted, and begging consideration for funding in their own communities from the new government. Barack Obama has been more circumspect throughout these flailings, and has more to offer. Even McCain knows that, and Palin remains too naive to recognize a wider dialog than her states’ own frontier version of the modern story of America. I would opt to characterize McCain’s control of his organization as perfunctory at this juncture. Future leadership of his party seems pretty nebulous right now, a concern he and his speechwriters likely share, and a vision to which neither the speechdesigners nor McCain himself likely have any response. Adding mud slinging always boosts scores by a percentage point, but too many things have gone sour for the Republican campaign, especially the economic crunch these past five weeks. McCain will go along with the insults incorporated in his scripts on his behalf, but seems fairly clueless where his own party’s future lies, especially if the polls’ current predictions prove true, and some coattail effects begin as Barack Obama’s election ushers in stronger backing with a more substantial majority in congress and statehouses. I keep thinking Biden was a sagacious choice to assure the Democratic party traverses the obstacles the Republicans have left in the path, and begins to build again.