I noted the following off-hand comment in an article in the NYT this morning about Obama: “Sure enough, Mr. Obama, wearing a flag lapel pin for the second day in a row, walked out of the building to the announcement of Mrs. Clinton’s victory and headlines calling it a blowout.”

Finally. Don’t get me wrong, the whole lapel thing is just retarded. Who gives a flying fuck if a candidate wears a lapel pin or not? Does he have to wear American flag underwear in order to be considered sufficiently “patriotic”? But that having been said, why let it become an issue? Who…fucking…cares. Just wear the damn pin. If some voters care, then wear it. What’s the cost? Is the principle of *not* wearing it that important to defend? Is it worth the risk of losing an election over? Wear the friggin’ pin. Wear flag ties. Wear flag shoes. Buy a flag hat. Have a suitcoat made out of the flag. Tattoo the flag on your ass. Small price to pay to become the leader of the free world. We have bigger fish to fry, and I don’t have the stomach to listen to that sawed off little Greek asking about it again and again in the upcoming debates with McCain.

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I’ve been pretty pissed with a lot of the bullshit that Jimmie Carville has been spewing of late in his mindless support of Hillary (he is nothing if not, to quote the title of one of his books, a “sticker”), but I was very pleased by something he had to say last night, in conceding that Obama was very likely to be the nominee: “Everybody is going to be with Obama,” Mr. Carville added, referring to the Clinton staff and supporters. “I have an undated check written out for Obama. I’ll send it when this is over.”

Don’t believe the pollsters who tell you that Clinton voters are going to defect to McCain if she doesn’t get the nod. That’s just the frustration and anger of the moment born of their candidate’s loss. At the end of the day, we will all stand shoulder to shoulder to end this eight year nightmare we’ve been living through in order to return sanity to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. (Except for the nudniks who would rather see us launch ourselves right over the cliff, who will vote for that whack job Ralph Nader. “If you won’t love me, NO one can love you!” BANG!)

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I had thought we’d buried Georgia’s Bob Barr for good. But nooooooo. He’s decided that neither party is sufficiently fascistic for his taste, so he’s throwing his hat into the ring. Good luck with that, buddy. We Dems have long memories. I’ll not soon forgot seeing your smug, fat face on the tube spouting your hypocrisy during the impeachment proceedings. You can go fuck yourself, pal. No true Libertarian would vote for you. You need to join hands with Ralph Nader and walk in front of a fucking bus.

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It’s a foregone conclusion that Hillary can’t win the nomination. Unless word were to leak suddenly that Obama is a transvestite and has had a love child out of wedlock with Laura Bush, he will be the nominee. Hillary Clinton is a smart woman and has to know that. So why, then, is she staying in the race? And spending millions of her own dollars in order to do it? It was the desire not to throw good money after bad that ultimately drove Mitt Romney from the Repub’s primaries, and he has a fortune even more vast than the Clinton’s hundred million bucks. The only answer that I can think of is that she actually *does* want to be asked to join Obama on the ticket. Staying in, and dialing down the negative attacks, add up to a candidate looking for a Veep nod. Disagree? Post a comment and tell me why I’m wrong. But be rational, and don’t use the C word in your post or we’ll friggin’ delete it.

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Remember when John McCain said that he wanted an honest, issues-based campaign, free of any scandalous advertising, push-polling, stuff like that? Well, add another flip-flop to the ever growing list. As of last week, he decided rather than take the high road and not comment about Obama’s pastor when baited, he decided to bite. Specifically, he brought up Rennick’s “comparing the United States Marine Corps with Roman legionnaires who were responsible for the death of our Savior” and saying that “Al Qaeda and the American flag were the same flags.” He also mentioned that “It’s clear who Hamas wants to be the next president of the United States.”

What a classy guy, that McCain.

It’s probable that he’s under some pressure from the GOP to go negative. But that speaks to his character, doesn’t it? I mean, if he’ll cave under pressure from the GOP after initially declaring he’s not going to go dirty, can we trust him to do ANYTHING he says he’ll do on the campaign trail? It doesn’t seem like it.

Oh, and one other thing. When you live in a glass house, you really shouldn’t throw stones. That’s a lesson people usually learn in the third grade. It’s possible that McCain’s memory is a little fuzzy these days, so I’m inclined to cut him some slack on the elementary lessons. However, what I’m not prepared to give him a pass on is the fact that he has now courted two controversial pastors of his own, and has been very proud to declare that they support him for president. There is, of course, the whole deal about John Hagee, who called the Cathoic Church the “Great Whore,” but there is also Reverend Rod Parsley, who has some kind of vendetta against Islam. He also has some tasty words for homosexuals, Planned Parenthood, and the whole concept of the separation of church and state. The question now is, does McCain also support a full war on Islam? He has called Parsley, “a spiritual guide.” So what say you, John McCain? Seems you have two pastors in your “supporters” list who have some pretty hateful things to say about certain groups of people. Do you share those views? Or are you just going to criticize those who support your opponent? Please get back to us on that, because the press certainly doesn’t seem interested in it.

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I am loving this latest kerfuffle on the Huffington Post website: Huffington as well as two actors from the West Wing have gone on the record asserting that McCain told them at a party that he had not voted for Bush in 2000. Now, frankly, this would be one reason why I might actually like something that McCain said or did, but he and his campaign are indignantly demanding that the story is false, and that McCain had, “of course,” voted for Bush.

Nice goin’, John! You get handed this perfect opportunity to put a little distance between you and the most disapproved president in our nation’s history, and instead, you give Bush a huge bear hug and tongue kiss to show your fealty and devotion. This is why McCain will lose the general election. Jeremiah Wright may be a world class nudnik, but he hasn’t been directly responsible for the loss of thousands of Americans and trillions of dollars in our frolic and detour in the middle of the fucking desert. On top of all of the other bone-headed bullshit that Mr. Cocaine has perpetrated over the last eight years. Now there’s a guy that you want to loudly declare as your A-hole buddy.

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