Sunday, August 31, 2008

WHO THE F*CK IS SARAH PALIN!





































Okay, okay - let's everyone repeat it: "Sarah Palin (aka "Joe" Stalin). Actually - the "a" is pronounced a long-A. But it would be fine, otherwise!

Well, let's listen to what Steven Colbert has to say on the newly selected GOP vice-presidential running mate to John McCain:






I just think I'll let Steven Colbert have the "last say" on all this. I can only add that she grew up and never left her hometown --- Wasilla, Alaska - about an hour north of Anchorage. And that: (1) Sarah Palin was Miss Wasilla High 1984; (2) Ms. Alaska Runner-Up (1984); (3) city council member of Wasilla; (4) mayor of Wasilla from 1996-2007; (5) then, Governor of Alaska since 2007. Wow!

By the way, her maiden name - for anyone interested - is "Heath".

Remember, Alaska has only about 215,000 registered voters - Ms. Palin got about 115,000 of those! Not exactly an overwhelming political endorsement to be a "heart-beat" away from the Highest Office in the Land!

You decide.

Welcome to John McCain's - "Twilight-Zone" - where experience (aka Obama) is inexperience and inexperience (aka Palin) is really - EXPERIENCE.



Pete/Marin

Saturday, August 23, 2008

SAY IT IS SO, JOE! OBAMA PICKS BIDEN!!!






















God, the wait is finally over! And the winner is ...... JOE BIDEN, Democratic Senator from Delaware. Well, we now have a Democratic vice-presidential running mate for Barack Obama. And a good one at that. While there may be doubts about Biden's sometimes locquaciousness and tendency to embellish the facts a bit (his 1988 presidential run cut short by plageurism), still in all he has solid foreign policy credentials and is known to be his own man and speak his own mind. He doesn't waffle like the Mighty "Citizen" McCainster.

A short video of both men's remarks at Springfield, Illinois this afternoon follow:

The following is an excerpt from Biden's hometown paper - The Delaware Journal:

"This guy gets the big picture more intuitively and intellectually than anyone I've worked with," said the 36-year senator. "So hopeflly I can help fill in some of the blanks. Hopefully I can fill in some of the details."

"The one thing I'm convinced of is that Barack Obama is actually looking for somebody to be a partner in the sense that, someone who when the door's closed will give him his honest unvarnished opinion and who will the support the judgment he makes," he said. "I look forward...to a great relationship."

The McCain campaign immediately launched an attack ad within minutes of the news of the selection of Biden as the Democratic vice presidential running mate.

In the words of the McCain campaign:

"There has been no harsher critic of Barack Obama's lack of experience than Joe Biden," McCain campaign spokesman Ben Porritt said in a statement. "Biden has denounced Barack Obama's poor foreign policy judgment and has strongly argued in his own words what Americans are quickly realizing — that Barack Obama is not ready to be president."

That may be so, but as we all know Hillary Clinton has been saying that about Barack Obama all along and at a far more prodigious rate.

Obama and Biden will be off on a 5-state road tour of the midwest starting later on today with the intent of launching the Fall campaign off in a big way through the crucial swing-states of the upper midwest.

One thing that John McCain cannot afford to do is go overly-critical of Joe Biden because John McCain may very well pick Mitt Romney for his vice-presidential running mate and we know what Romney said about McCain during the primaries.

All in all the democrats look extremely well positioned for the Fall election and barring a collosal breakdown between now and November the White House should witness an incoming Democratic administration along with -hopefully - a veto-proof Senate to quickly undo the damage done by the worst presidential administration in U.S. history.

Bye, bye to the McCain "straight-talk" express and hello to the "just-in-time" presidency of Barack Obama.