Comments on: McCain’s One Consistent Stance: Admitting the Danger of Erratic Behavior

By: 4jkb4ia

4jkb4ia — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:03:01 +0000

Way EPU’d, but there are more Spanish-speaking Jews than you think. I am distantly related to a former chief rabbi of Mexico.

By: plunger

plunger — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:50:08 +0000

Simply the best visual and written interpretation of the doomed FED/Treasury bailout plan:

http://market-ticker.denninger.....-Hank.html

By: skdadl

skdadl — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:28:22 +0000

You do that very well. You might have scared me if I didn’t know better.

OT: The Canadian election: you win some, you lose some, and some are washed out. I have to resort to that tired old Canadian line: it could have been worse. Harper is back, but still with a minority.

Some good things happened: there’s a New Dem (social democratic) in Alberta, of all places, one in Montreal, and one in Nfld.

By: yonodeler

yonodeler — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 05:57:42 +0000

If we of the masses could only accept the claimed righteousness and blessedness of those who offer themselves to save us from erratic (and worse) evil-doers, we’d not worry about what for lesser beings would be obsessive, stalking, vengeful, utterly selfish behavior. We’d see that the hand that brings the evil-doer to justice, even extralegally, may need to go sans glove, and that a righteous end justifies that the means to it be unfettered by worldly preoccupations with law, ethics, and mores.

By: Hmmm

Hmmm — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:46:56 +0000

OT — CIA Tactics endorsed in Secret Memos.

Looks like Condi got Ashcroft to get the White House to give The Principals exactly the cover she asked for. Should help focus W’s attention ’til January at the very least.

By: kspena

kspena — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 03:09:21 +0000

Now I’m wondering if he was so stricken from the thumping he got from the CBS morning appearance that he took a dive on Rachel’s show, not thinking how his negative remarks to her would appear. Those neocons seem incapable of anticipating the consequences of their behavior.

By: kspena

kspena — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 03:04:19 +0000

The following is from David Frum’s Diary today….again what a prick….Keith said a staff member from the show goes over the topics with the guest the same day before appearing on the show. Frum says Rachel changed the subject???? Afganistan was never to be a subject of discussion…His views of criticism of McCain were…. LIES, LIES and MORE LIES… Those neocons are such cowards, with their fans and even with their spouses….

“Mirror Imaging

One follow up to the post below - and the literally hundreds of emails it has elicited …

Just before I traveled to Afghanistan, I accepted an invitation to appear on “The Rachel Maddow Show” on MSNBC when I returned. This was not something I’d normally agree to do: I don’t watch the show, but I had (or thought I had) a rough idea of what it was like.

But I write a column for The Week, the appearance was booked through them, so I agreed to do my bit.

Big mistake. I watched the show in horror in the MSNBC green room. Maybe I was a bit crankier than usual: I’m still jet-lagged enough that I have been going to bed by 8:30 most nights this week … Anyway I was unprepared for the sarcasm and anger of what I saw.

So when it was my time to go on air - and instead of being asked about Afghanistan I was asked about how awful and hateful the John McCain campaign was - I got a little grouchy. I dont know if there’s a tape visible anywhere.

(My closest relatives insist it was OK. Then again, my wife is a big believer in Judith Martin’s quip that the key to a happy marriage is the ability to say with a perfectly straight face, “I don’t know what you are worrying about darling. I thought you were very amusing last night, and I’m sure everyone else did as well.”)

If I find it, I’ll link.

Now after receiving more than 100 emails from NRO readers (mostly) scolding me for selling out the team by criticizing the McCain campaign on CBS in the morning, I am now sifting through more than 300 emails from (mostly) enraged viewers accusing me of rudeness to Ms Maddow (sorry - her fans call her “Dr Maddow”) for declining to criticize the McCain campaign on MSNBC in the evening …

PS: Here’s the clip …

10/14 06:18 AM”

By: randiego

randiego — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:42:24 +0000

OT Alert.
Fucking lying douchebag fuck. I just saw (On Keith/Rachel) the interview today with whoever it was…

It’s one thing to spout your lies to the mouth-breathers at your rallies. It’s completely different to be asked a question in an interview and FUCKING LIE straight into the camera about whatever you choose to lie about today. Or maybe it isn’t.

This is worse than 2004, with the Swiftboating, and Cheney spouting his BS about a new terrorist attack if Kerry won. This is Worse.

By: behindthefall

behindthefall — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:08:42 +0000

Ever seen Kurosawa’s “Kagemusha”? Commoner acts as a double for a warlord. Survives, and even succeeds to some extent, by being still; ‘kagemusha’ apparently means ‘mountain’, and the warlord exerted his influence through his imperturbability. Reminds me of ‘No Drama Obama’ in the debates, sitting or standing perfectly still, while McCain veers and backs, eventually losing headway and crashing on the rocks.

By: MadDog

MadDog — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:54:58 +0000

Shorter Junya: “Ah lak ta drive inna ditch.”

Shorter McSame: “Ah lak ta drive frum ditch ta ditch.”