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Joe Biden's pretty happy with himself for avoiding any major gaffes recently. "You know, I'm sort of a gaffe-free zone right now, you know," he told CNN's Ed Henry in an interview airing today. Biden's been particularly careful to avoid verbal slips recently. After almost taking a shot at Dick Cheney in a recent interview with reporters, Biden caught himself and backtraked. "Yeah, yeah, I know. I can see the headline now," he said, according to a pool report. "I’m getting better, guys. I’m getting a little bit better, you know what I mean?" Biden's foot-in-mouth disease has caused Obama...

- Fanklin Roosevelt going on TV after the crash of 1929! - No Coal for you, Pennsylvania! - Obama ad not fair to McCain, oops I forgot I was on the ticket! Bill said that Hillary wasn't interested in Veepee, so my question is, If Joes leaves then who?? "Stand up, FDR!"

I mean, the truth of the matter is that, that the—America’s—this administration’s policy and the surge are a failure, and that the surge, which was supposed to stop sectarian violence and—long enough to give political reconciliation, there’s been no political reconciliation. The reality is that we’re supposed to, as you said, stand up American—or stand up the Iraqis so the Americans could stand down. We’ve been hearing that for five years. We’re nowhere near being able to do that. The reality is that, although there has been some mild progress on the security front, there is, in fact, no, no...

Say what? The 2008 presidential campaign theme could be "Oops! What I meant was ..." Just about every Republican and Democrat has flubbed an answer to a question or made a borderline inappropriate comment — some so uncomfortable they make you cringe — only to take back the remarks or seek to clarify them later when under fire. This month alone, Republican Mitt Romney backtracked from a comment about his sons' lack of military service. Rival Rudy Giuliani retreated from his suggestion that he spent as much time as Sept. 11 rescue workers at the ground zero site and was...

SEN. BIDEN SHOCK INTERVIEW: OBAMA FIRST 'CLEAN' BLACK IN MAINSTREAM... 'I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy'...

Chairman Joe Biden of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was trying to uphold two resolutions yesterday: one criticizing the [...]administration's Iraq policy and the other Biden's own resolution to himself -- to stop talking so much.[...] Biden's other resolution failed, by a voice vote -- Biden's voice.The Delaware Democrat and presidential hopeful ran the hearing more like a talk show host than a chairman: inviting the other senators to speak and then commenting on each senator's remarks.He opened the hearing with a 3,000-word statement in which he used the word "I" 88 times, including a lengthy discussion of the types...

The following remarks were prepared by Rep. Tom Tancredo for a speech at the Miami Rotary Club that he was forced to cancel because of threats of violence. Thank you for the kind introduction. Your own congressional representative, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, wanted to be here and was the first Miami resident to invite me to visit. I would love to have her visit Colorado, but first she has to do or say something controversial. If, for example, she would propose new federal legislation that prohibits Californians from emigrating to Colorado, she would be very popular in Colorado. Probably Denver Rotary or...

The Corner is reporting that John Kerry will hold a news conference at 2PM to discuss his recent comment.

Democrat Ned Lamont's campaign manager said he will send an apology to the mayor of Waterbury, Conn. for describing the city that backed his opponent, Sen. Joe Lieberman, as a place "where the forces of slime meet the forces of evil."

Sen. Conrad Burns has issued a written apology for having an "altercation" at a Billings airport last weekend with members of a hot shot firefighting crew about the management of a 92,000-acre blaze in eastern Montana. Jennifer McKee of the Lee State Bureau broke the story on Thursday, reporting on an account from state firefighting operations that Burns criticized a member of the Augusta Hot Shots from Virginia for doing a "poor job" and not listening to ranchers. Today, Lee's Chuck Johnson reports on the Burns apology and includes this little nugget of a quote from Burns in the original...

A Spanish news agency apologized for a report that described a Republican gubernatorial candidate's proposed work program for illegal immigrants as "concentration camps." The story last week caused an international stir when EFE, a national news agency of Spain, quoted candidate Don Goldwater as saying he wanted to hold undocumented immigrants in camps to use them "as labor in the construction of a wall and to clean the areas of the Arizona desert that they're polluting."

Four days after the killing of top terrorist Abu Musab al Zarqawi brought the U.S. its most stunning military success of the Iraq war, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee is calling for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to be fired because the military effort is failing. "I don't think we're succeeding militarily," Rep. Jane Harman told "Fox News Sunday." "Continuing the same course, you know, is not getting us anywhere," she insisted. "What would help with doubters - and there are doubters in both parties all over the country - [would be] if the president decided that Rumsfeld...

See for example this thread first. The latest gaffe from Howard Dean about gays puts him squarely between the Christians, who say "You can't marry, you're gay!" and the folks who say "God save the QUEEN!"

See for example this thread first. The US is breaking the law Says somebody, flapping his jaw It's Kofi Annan who shows once 'ag-ain' that he's like the U.N.'s Lord Haw Haw.

LONDON (AP) -- One of the world's most flamboyant advertising gurus has left his job after reportedly telling an audience that women made poor executives because motherhood made them "wimp out." Marketing giant WPP Group PLC said Friday it had accepted the resignation of Neil French - a one-time debt collector, trainee matador and rock-band agent who served as the group's worldwide creative director. The firm, which is based in London and New York, told Britain's Press Association news agency that French had offered his resignation, and it had been accepted. WPP could not immediately be reached for comment by...

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) - Ukrainian regulators on Tuesday ruled there was no collusion among Russian oil companies earlier this year during a fuel crisis that caused gas prices to rise sharply and filling stations to run dry. But the Anti-Monopoly Committee fined British-Russian oil company TNK-BP 50,000 hrynvas ($9,980) for distributing unreliable information in connection with the crisis, which prompted the government to briefly impose price controls. Regulators had been considering anti-monopoly cases against the large Russian oil companies, including Lukoil, that dominate the Ukrainian gasoline station market.

Well, they went and did it.The Republicans look like they will wimp out, not exercise the so-called Nuclear Option, and Harry Reid will PERMIT two judges to be approved and disapprove four others. Does anyone think for a second the Democrats won't "go nuclear" in a heartbeat if the roles were reversed?This seals the deal for me. I am a Republican no more. It seems it does not matter if I vote Republican anyways, all I get is more liberalism. I am a man without a political party. I am a conservative without a home.Between Bushes enthusiastic embrace of illegal...

THE FROZEN TUNDRA OF... LAMBERT FIELD? [08/26 08:05 PM]

WOULD-BE first lady Teresa Heinz Kerry reinforced her reputation for telling it like it is yesterday by admitting her husband was not qualified for the Oval Office. "I think nobody is truly qualified to be president of the United States," she said in an interview with Reader's Digest. "I mean, are you qualified to run the world ... not run it, but have that influence? No, nobody is." It was another example of the plain speaking that has become her trademark, and a possible liability for John Kerry's campaign. She did not elaborate on her comments, leaving Reader's Digest to...

U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown of Jacksonville was rebuked and risked being forced into silence by House members Thursday after suggesting Republican members "stole the election" in 2000. In a seemingly rare vote, Washington officials said, the House decided, 219-187, to strike the "stole the election" statement from the congressional record. But they decided not to ban Brown from the House debate that day, as rules allow when members' reputations are impugned. Afterward, Brown told the Times-Union she stood by her statements. She at one point said, "I would have clarified it." Asked how, she paused and replied, "The truth of...

The wife of vice presidential hopeful John Edwards is defending Whoopi Goldberg after the potty-mouthed comedienne attacked President Bush with an X-rated monologue at Thursday night's Kerry-Edwards fundraiser in New York. Rejecting calls for her husband's campaign to apologize for Goldberg's outburst, Mrs. Edwards said Friday that the anti-Bush tirade was justified. "A lot of people are going to be angry - there's a lot to be angry about," she told reporters at a fundraising breakfast on Manhattan's West side. "It's a free country and people are going to express that anger."

Army paratroopers accused of beating, taunting and humiliating jounralists detained in Iraq have been given a refresher course on proper handling of detainees, even though an investigation cleared them of abuse, a spokesman said Thursday. Reuters said three Iraqis working for the news agency were physically abused and forced to put shoes in their mouths during their January 2-5 detention at a military camp.The news agency decided to make the incident public when the US Military said there was no evidence of abuse after news broke about the mistreatment of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prision in Baghdad.Division spokesman Major...

Sometimes I pause to reflect how the events of September 11 have changed American culture. The reverberations of that event will continue for quite some time, if not forever. Consider, for example, what is acceptable humor. It's graduation season. Were it not for the attack on the World Trade Center thirty two months ago, high school and college graduates-to-be might be listening to "If I Were a Terrorist (I'd Bomb Your Graduation)" by Something Corporate. She's out of school again But she won't be calling from where she is going the lines are jammed this time what could a girl...

Program aims to keep school jokes from going nasty Anyone who's ever attended elementary school knows that children love to tell jokes. Knock-knock jokes, in particular, are a favorite among the 11-and-under crowd, along with those that make a silly play on words. Q: Why did SpongeBob put a clock on the stove? A: He wanted to see time fry. At a certain age, though, innocent joke-telling has a way of developing into making fun of others. A funny haircut, a few extra pounds on the belly, an unusual accent or unfamiliar religious beliefs -- it's all fodder for the...

For those who missed it earlier today, Neil Cavuto slaps John Kerry around pretty good. He's up at the bottom of the hour.

WHY JOHN KERRY IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA(a NEW virtual john kerry talks series) Kerry's Imaginary Leaders Foreign & Domestic   Mia T, 4.2.04        (viewing movie requires Flash Player 6, available HERE) http://johnkerryisdangerousforamerica.blogspot.com   

  link to movierequires Flash Player 6, available HERE CLINTON TURNED DOWN SUDAN'S OFFERS OF BIN LADENHEAR CLINTON'S SECRETLY TAPED "ADMISSION" NOW by Mia T, 3.28.04   "The Sudanese wanted America to start dealing with them again. They released him [bin Laden].At the time, '96, he had committed no crime against America, so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him, though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against America.So I pleaded with the Saudis to take him, 'cause they could have; but they thought it was a hot potato. They...

CLARKE WITNESSED FIRST-HAND THE CLINTONS' UTTER FAILURE TO FIGHT TERRORISM "If Clarke's plan had been implemented, [i.e., if clinton had responded to the bombing of the USS Cole, a clear act of war, militarily instead of telephonically!] al Qaeda's infrastructure would have been demolished and bin Laden might well have been killed. Sept. 11, 2001 might have been just another sunny day" [So the real question that requires answering is this: Why did this legacy-obsessed president miss a golden opportunity to secure his legacy for all time by wiping out terrorism, then in its incipient stage and stoppable? Was...

WHY JOHN KERRY IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA(a NEW virtual john kerry talks series) Kerry: "Call me irresponsible."(Call it: "Putting my out-Deaning Dean ahead of the troops.")     Mia T, 3.17.04    (viewing movie requires Flash Player 6, available HERE) johnkerryisdangerousforamerica.blogspot.com    ne•o-ne•o•lib•er•al•ism n. neocommunist political movement, a tipsy-topsy, infantile perversion of the Marxist-Leninist model, global in scope, beginning in the post-cold-war, unipolar 1990s, led by the '60s neoliberal baby-boomer "intelligentsia," that seeks power without responsibility, i.e., that seeks to dilute American power by concentrating power in said '60s neoliberals while yielding America's sovereignty to the United Nations, i.e.,...

ALERT! CLINTON-WAS-AN-UTTER-FAILURE Containment Team Scheme team is reactivated and in high gear... March 20, 2004 Clinton Aides Plan to Tell Panel of Warning Bush Team on Qaeda By PHILIP SHENON ASHINGTON, March 19 --Senior Clinton administration officials called to testify next week before the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks say they are prepared to detail how they repeatedly warned their Bush administration counterparts in late 2000 that Al Qaeda posed the worst security threat facing the nation --and how the new administration was slow to act. They said the warnings were delivered in urgent post-election intelligence briefings in...

WHY JOHN KERRY IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA(a NEW virtual john kerry talks series) Kerry's flip-flop opportunism(Bush tweaks Kerry; Kerry tweaks Bush's anti-Kerry ad)     Mia T, 3.17.04    (viewing movie requires Flash Player 6, available HERE) johnkerryisdangerousforamerica.blogspot.com    ne•o-ne•o•lib•er•al•ism n. neocommunist political movement, a tipsy-topsy, infantile perversion of the Marxist-Leninist model, global in scope, beginning in the post-cold-war, unipolar 1990s, led by the '60s neoliberal baby-boomer "intelligentsia," that seeks power without responsibility, i.e., that seeks to dilute American power by concentrating power in said '60s neoliberals while yielding America's sovereignty to the United Nations, i.e., while surrendering to...

WHY JOHN KERRY IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA(a NEW virtual john kerry talks series) Kerry's flip-flop opportunism   Mia T, 3.17.04    (viewing movie requires Flash Player 6, available HERE) johnkerryisdangerousforamerica.blogspot.com    ne•o-ne•o•lib•er•al•ism n. neocommunist political movement, a tipsy-topsy, infantile perversion of the Marxist-Leninist model, global in scope, beginning in the post-cold-war, unipolar 1990s, led by the '60s neoliberal baby-boomer "intelligentsia," that seeks power without responsibility, i.e., that seeks to dilute American power by concentrating power in said '60s neoliberals while yielding America's sovereignty to the United Nations, i.e., while surrendering to the terrorists, as it continues the traditional '60s...

WHY JOHN KERRY IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA(a NEW virtual john kerry talks series) Kerry's Vietnam Quagmire   Mia T, 3.16.04    (viewing movie requires Flash Player 6, available HERE) http://johnkerryisdangerousforamerica.blogspot.com  The Bush administration is so enthralled by the idea of preemption and American military might….This is the consequence of a policy that regards legitimacy as largely a product of force and victory as primarily a triumph of arms. But as we discovered in Vietnam, success on the battlefield, or even in a series of battles, can often be the beginning and not the end of a conflict. John Kerry...

BUSH KNEW: yesterday's outmoded, outré idea, tomorrow's rage by Mia T, 3.12.04 Not unexpectedly, the web appears to have been wiped clean of that image. Anyone have pic of Hillary holding up "BUSH KNEW" headline in Senate?   very fashionista understands the capriciousness of style. Yesterday's outmoded, outré idea can become tomorrow's rage. Literally. And at the drop of a hat. In 2002, within a day of brandishing the New York Post BUSH KNEW front page like an uzi on the Senate floor, missus clinton, no doubt animated by overnight polling supporting our Commander-in-Chief, quickly disarmed and retreated; and the...

      Kerry's(?) Veep Short List by Mia T, 3.11.04 ALL Double, trouble TOIL for HUBBELL; Fire burn and cauldron bubble. THIRD WITCH (a stealth Conservative) Scale of BONIOR, tooth of WOLF, HILLARY'S memory, maw and gulf A ravin'd salt-sea shark, Ears of the MARTINS digg'd i' the dark, Gall of BILL, and McCURRY'S slips "Noes" of LANNY, and HUBBELL'S lips,Finger of ICKES ditch-deliver'd by a drab, Make the gruel thick and slab:Add thereto a Chinese squadron, For the ingredients of our cauldron. ALL Double, trouble TOIL for HUBBELL; Fire burn and cauldron bubble. SECOND WITCH: Cool it with...

clintonCREEP: Just who is in charge of the Kerry campaign anyway?(Elect Kerry (or any Dem) AND YOU GET THE CLINTONS) by Mia T, 3.9.04 NEW! hillary talks: VEEP CREEP (viewing movie requires Flash Player 6, available HERE) missus clinton's REAL virtual office updatehttp://hillarytalks.blogspot.comhttp://virtualclintonlibrary.blogspot.comhttp://demmemogate.blogspot.comhttp://www.hillarytalks.ushttp://www.hillarytalks.orgfiendsofhillary.blogspot.comfiendsofhillary.usfiendsofhillary.orgfraudsofhillary.com by Mia T, 3.7.04   Uber Democrat Sen. Hillary Clinton is warning all-but-certain presidential nominee John Kerry to back off if he's thinking about replacing party chairman Terry McAuliffe before the election. Asked about rumblings that the Kerry camp wanted to toss McAuliffe over the side, Clinton told the New York Times on Friday, "Terry has...

Kerry VEEP: Hear hillary(White-House Zipper-Hoist2 Attempt?) by Mia T, 3.8.04 NEW! hillary talks: DEEP VEEP (viewing movie requires Flash Player 6, available HERE) missus clinton's REAL virtual office updatehttp://hillarytalks.blogspot.comhttp://virtualclintonlibrary.blogspot.comhttp://demmemogate.blogspot.comhttp://www.hillarytalks.ushttp://www.hillarytalks.orgfiendsofhillary.blogspot.comfiendsofhillary.usfiendsofhillary.orgfraudsofhillary.com by Mia T, 3.7.04   Uber Democrat Sen. Hillary Clinton is warning all-but-certain presidential nominee John Kerry to back off if he's thinking about replacing party chairman Terry McAuliffe before the election. Asked about rumblings that the Kerry camp wanted to toss McAuliffe over the side, Clinton told the New York Times on Friday, "Terry has helped the Democratic Party move into the 21st century to compete against the incredible...

NEW! hillary talks:DEEP VEEP (viewing movie requires Flash Player 6, available HERE)   Uber Democrat Sen. Hillary Clinton is warning all-but-certain presidential nominee John Kerry to back off if he's thinking about replacing party chairman Terry McAuliffe before the election. Asked about rumblings that the Kerry camp wanted to toss McAuliffe over the side, Clinton told the New York Times on Friday, "Terry has helped the Democratic Party move into the 21st century to compete against the incredible interlocking institutional powers of the other side." "A lot of plans have been laid, a lot of infrastructure put in place,...

<p>"Darling, a sponge fits in anywhere."</p> <p>So went the exchange between Barbra Streisand and the late great Kay Medford in "Funny Girl."</p> <p>BARBRA STREISAND'S admiration for Bill Clinton hasn't wavered, despite the fact that he is no longer president. Streisand was like a giddy school girl at a chi-chi dinner for California's Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, last week in L.A. (At the Pacific Palisades home of venture capitalist David Fisher.) Clinton, still wildly popular with Democrats, attended, and Barbra was starry-eyed, protective and affectionate with him.</p>

People don't write letters much anymore. Too bad. A personal letter from a friend is one of the good things in life. In the last few days I've received hundreds of letters that were not from friends and weren't so good. In response to a statement I read about Pat Robertson saying he'd heard from God, I said on "60 Minutes" that God had called me, too. According to Pat, God told him that President Bush was going to be re-elected "in a walk." I quoted what God had said to me about both Pat Robertson and Mel Gibson. For...

the post-Saddam "plight" of the Iraqi woman What missus clinton said Sen. Hillary Clinton said this week that Iraqi women were better off under Saddam Hussein, arguing that when the brutal dictator ran the country women were at least assured the right to participate in Iraq's public life. In comments that went unreported by the mainstream press, the former first lady told the Brookings Institution on Wednesday that since Saddam's removal from power, Iraq's post war governing councils had engaged in "pullbacks in the rights [women] were given under Saddam Hussein." Sen. Clinton noted that while Saddam had been...

the clintons: leftist anti-Semitic chic avant garde (Will "dummy" prove more damaging than "bigot" to the missus?) by Mia T, 2.28.04   The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract. Oliver Wendell Holmes t used to be said that anti-Catholicism was the anti-Semitism of the intellectuals. Today anti-Semitism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectuals. Not all intellectuals, of course. And the seepage of this ancient poison into the intelligentsia -- always so militantly modern..., which has leaned left for two centuries. Here the term...

Once again it is awards season in Hollywood, where hardware is handed out and acceptance speeches filled with the ramblings of elites who forget to pay homage to those who truly are responsible for their immense wealth and success, the regular Joe’s and Jane’s who pay to see them on the big and little screens. Oft times these award events are used as pulpits for the political rants and diatribes against our current administration, policies, and Americans who are supportive of them. In honor of this award giving season I will now announce my first annual “Foot in Mouth” awards,...

neo-neoliberalism Mia T, 2.24.04 ne•o•ne•o•lib•er•al•ism n. neocommunist political movement, a tipsy-topsy, infantile perversion of the Marxist-Leninist model, global in scope, beginning in the post-cold-war, unipolar 1990s, led by the '60s neoliberal baby-boomer "intelligentsia," that seeks power without responsibility, i.e., that seeks to dilute American power by concentrating power in said '60s neoliberals while yielding America's sovereignty to the United Nations, i.e., while surrendering to the terrorists, as it continues the traditional '60s neoliberal feint: (1) concern for social justice, (2) distain for bureaucracy, and (3) the championing of entrepreneurship for the great unwashed.       If Act I...

Bush Country: How Dubya Became a Great President While Driving Liberals Insane Editorial Reviews From Publishers WeeklyOver the past three years, liberals have been far from shy in expressing their distaste for George W. Bush. Now conservative commentator Podhoretz (Hell of a Ride) offers up a thorough defense of the president as well as a scathing attack on his most vocal detractors. Podhoretz takes a series of the more popular attacks on the president--"what he calls "crazy liberal ideas"--"and debunks them one by one. These include "Bush is a moron," "Bush is a fanatic," "Bush is Hitler" and "Bush is...

"War as the Last Resort" The Democrats' Fatal Flaw   Mia T, 2.18.04 "I voted for a process by which war would be the last resort." John Kerry Kerry hits out at Bush over IraqAdam Blenford and agencies Monday January 26, 2004 ohn Kerry's characteristic flatulence aside, his too-literal if demagogically tortured parsing of President George W. Bush's war-as-the-last-resort pledge reveals a fundamental--and fatal--misunderstanding of America's situation. When terrorists declare war on you…and then proceed to kill you… you are, perforce, in a war. At this point, you really have only one remaining decision to make: Do you fight...

"WAG THE DOG" revisited Mia T, 2.14.04   hillary talks: On Military Tactics WHEN TO BOMB (viewing movie requires Flash Player 6, available HERE) Lopez: You sorta defend Clinton against "wag the dog" criticisms in regard to that infamous August 1998 (Monica times) bombing of a pharmaceutical factory in the Sudan and some bin Laden strongholds in Afghanistan. That wasn't the problem, was it &emdash; that we fired then? Miniter: Certainly the timing is suspicious. The day before the East African-embassy bombings, Monica Lewinsky had recanted her prior affidavit denying a sexual relationship with Clinton. The sex scandals kicked into...

hillary talks: On Military Tactics WHEN TO BOMB (viewing movie requires Flash Player 6, available HERE)missus clinton's REAL virtual office updatehttp://hillarytalks.blogspot.comhttp://virtualhillary.blogspot.comhttp://virtualclintonlibrary.blogspot.comhttp://www.hillarytalks.ushttp://www.hillarytalks.orgfiendsofhillary.blogspot.comfiendsofhillary.usfiendsofhillary.orgfraudsofhillary.com

Dems’ charge against Medicare ads boomerangs; ad firm has Dem ties By Sam Dealey Democratic lawmakers renewed their calls yesterday that Bush administration ads touting changes in the Medicare law enacted last year be halted until their propriety is investigated. The minority lawmakers question both their timing and accuracy, and point to a Republican-oriented firm’s production of the ads as evidence that the media campaign is merely an extension of President Bush’s re-election drive. “The administration chose to use the media team that is part of the Team Bush re-election,” said Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) at a press conference. “They...