"A President Like My Father"

Caroline Kennedy: "For the first time, I believe I have found the man": "Sometimes it takes a while to recognize that someone has a special ability to get us to believe in ourselves, to tie that belief to our highest ideals and imagine that together we can do great things. In those rare moments, when such a person comes along, we need to put aside our plans and reach for what we know is possible."

..."As parents, we have a responsibility to help our children to believe in themselves and in their power to shape their future. Senator Obama is inspiring my children, my parents’ grandchildren, with that sense of possibility."

..."I have never had a president who inspired me the way people tell me that my father inspired them. But for the first time, I believe I have found the man who could be that president — not just for me, but for a new generation of Americans."

I'm down with Caroline's every word. She is so right. As "The New York Observer" said, Obama is "transformative".

Ted Kennedy Invented the V-2 !!!!

Jonah Goldberg to Base! Under Attack by Commie-Nazis!: "Here's the Goldberg Thesis:

Liberals are like Fascists because Fascists told people to do things and so do Liberals. The End."

This rodent's thinking process is a very messy and wholly unordinary procedure akin to masturbation. It's not really very dangerous - I mean, nobody dies, but nothing ever goes very well either. Of course there's no proof of this, except for his own words.

Chrisball - No Strikes, No Balls

Chris Matthews Bends Over For The Paycheck; Meanders, Eventually Apologizes: About Hillary Clinton, Chris Matthews recently stated on MSNBC's Morning Joe program that, "The reason she's a U.S. Senator, the reason she's a candidate for President, the reason she may be a front-runner, is her husband messed around. That's how she got to be Senator from New York. We keep forgetting it. She didn't win it on the merits..."

A clammy, amazingly harsh and judgmental stab - a near psychiatric example of one individual's furious, unhealthy need to spew bile at Hillary Clinton.

Then, in the words of fictitious observers, "the phone rang; the money was mentioned, camera access was mentioned, and all the hallway doors slammed shut but for two: Fix-It and Unknown.

Bobbin' an weavin' like a squirming piglet angling for his spot at the teats, he acted quickly to remove anything in the way of his access to the money and the fame."

"On the particular point, if I'd said the only reason John McCain has come so far is that he got shot down over North Vietnam and captured by the enemy, I'd be brutally ignoring the courage and guts he showed in bearing up under his captivity. Saying that Senator Clinton got where she's got simply because her husband did what he did to her is just as callous, and I can see now that it comes across just as nasty. Worse yet, just as dismissive.

Finally, if anyone doesn't know this, I love politics. I love politicians. I like and respect people with the guts to put their name, their very being out there for public approval so that they can lead our country. And that goes for Hillary and Barack and John and all the rest who are willing to fight to take on the toughest job in the world."

Upton Sinclair offered more than a hunch, saying, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

The Anti-Chrisball Vote

Speaking From Chris Matthews' Ass:

"The reason she's a U.S. Senator, the reason she's a candidate for President, the reason she may be a front-runner, is her husband messed around. That's how she got to be Senator from New York. We keep forgetting it. She didn't win it on the merits..."

"They’re blaming Chris Matthews":

"PAT BUCHANAN: This is an astonishing development. Look, the pollsters were dead wrong. They were predicting 7-8 to a dozen points for Obama. The press was dead wrong. We had virtually canonized Obama and said he had been born in Bethlehem and now you’ve got a race where Hillary Clinton is running three or four points ahead of this fella. Something has happened. There is a hidden vote here somewhere, or my guess is this: The New Hampshire voters said, look, the press has been telling us Obama’s the second coming. We don’t think so. The press has been telling us she’s gone, and the women came out and said, no, she’s not. What New Hampshire did was stand up and body slam the national establishment, the press corp., the pollsters, the whole bunch that came in here as well as Barack Obama’s folks who must be in a state of shock tonight.

RACHEL MADDOW: Pat, I will tell you that on the influential -perhaps influential on the left — Web site, talking points memo today, do you want to know who they’re blaming for women voters breaking for Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama? Who they’re blaming for this late showing for Hillary Clinton? They’re blaming Chris Matthews. People are citing specifically Chris not only for his own views but also as a symbol for what the mainstream media…

MATTHEWS: What Web site?

MADDOW: Talkingpointsmemo.com."

Donna Brazile Pissed at Bill

...And For Good Reason: "I could understand his frustration at this moment. But, look, he shouldn't take out all his pain on Barack Obama. It's time that they regroup. Figure out what Hillary needs to do to get her campaign back on track. It sounds like sour grapes coming from the former commander in chief. Someone that many Democrats hold in high esteem. For him to go after Obama, using a fairy tale, calling him as he did last week. It's an insult. And I will tell you, as an African-American, I find his tone and his words to be very depressing."

We lost the Silver, we lost the Gold

Time to Think Again: Stanley Fish writes that the humanities and arts "“restore the wonder which those who have glimpsed the human condition have always felt, and which our scientific civilization, with its gadgets and discoveries, obscures.”"...

"...Kronman is not so much mounting a defense of the humanities as he is mounting an attack on everything else. Other spokespersons for the humanities argue for their utility by connecting them (in largely unconvincing ways) to the goals of science, technology and the building of careers. Kronman, however, identifies science, technology and careerism as impediments to living a life with meaning. The real enemies, he declares, are “the careerism that distracts from life as a whole” and “the blind acceptance of science and technology that disguise and deny our human condition.” These false idols, he says, block the way to understanding. We must turn to the humanities if we are to “meet the need for meaning in an age of vast but pointless powers,” for only the humanities can help us recover the urgency of “the question of what living is for.”

The late Pope John knew full well that reverence for - and the pursuit of, the arts and the humanities is part of our holy life. I loved that he knew that.

Jacking-off In A Rush

Limbaugh Wants To Find 2 Guys That Masturbate: "We're going to find out... !!":
"We're going to find out where your kids go to school. We're going to find out who you knocked up in high school. We're going to find out what drugs you used. We're going to find out where you go to drink and do -- we're gonna find out how you paid for your house. We're going to do -- and we're going to do exact -- and we're going to say that, you know what? You are no different than Al Goldstein. You both masturbate."

There are very few things more instructive than watching a Faberge Balloon insult a dime-store hatpin.

What's interesting is not the ridiculousness of the confrontation. It's realizing yet one more time that not enough of us use the power we have to bring down a tyrant.

Ron Paul / Google / Yuk

Ron Paul is Anethema - Don't Sleep Until He's Off The Stage: "The New Hampshire Attorney General has determined that anti-Mormon push polls employed earlier this fall were organized by the polling firm Moore-Information, Inc.

Moore Information has not yet confirmed the sponsor of the poll, but the firm lists presidential candidate Ron Paul as one of its clients. Paul is the only presidential client listed on Moore's website."

Google this creep and learn of the kind of thinking he employs. Read the Ron Paul newsletters. Read the bills he sponsored in Congress. Stay away from this man.

Let's Take The Fork In The Road

Arianna thinks Bill took Hillary down: "Bill Clinton has privately told friends that if Hillary didn't win, it would be because of the two weeks that followed her shaky performance in the Philadelphia debate..."

"...But it wasn't those two weeks. Indeed, if we were to pinpoint one decisive moment, it would be Bill Clinton on Charlie Rose, arrogant and entitled, dismissive and fear-mongering."

Maybe, but for me it was definitely those 2 weeks. They were a kiss of death. I was completely amazed at how she did almost nothing to counter the negative aftermath of the Philadelphia debate. It was an absolute disaster for her to appear so defeated and unable to react - and it stayed like that for an incredibly long time, as if she were paralyzed.

Peggy Gets With Obama

Peggy Noonan: "He did it with a classy campaign, an unruffled manner, and an appeal on the stump that said every day, through the lines: Look at who I am and see me, the change that you desire is right here, move on with me and we will bring it forward together."

Stunning, and nearly transcendently beautiful. It is hard to resist the longing she so clearly evokes.

But with Hillary, the view is more prosaic: "There's something about her that makes you look, watch, think, look again, weigh and say: No.

She started out way ahead, met everyone, and lost."

"My Heart Is With the Big Cats"

An Emotional Quagmire - Zoo opens to tourists and curious onlookers: "'I came to mourn the death of Tatiana,' said Susan Pettitt, a Santa Clara resident who has visited the zoo each week for the past three years. She brought a card, a stuffed tiger and three photos she had taken of Tatiana, and placed them in front of the statue.

'She was a fun-loving tiger who would greet you when you came,' Pettitt said. 'It's going to be weird that she's not here. I know today I won't see them, but my heart is with the big cats.'"

Booze, Cigarettes and Tons of Grass

Why booze and cigarettes are essential for good journalism - Slate Magazine: "please do not bring any alcoholic beverages into the newsroom."

I'm from the rock world of years ago and I have never had to take a drug test. I'd like to think I would pee on their shoes instead, but I've never had to face the choices - job or grass, because, well, I was raised right. Back in '69 we smoked dope at the job; all day. We turned out some of the best recordings ever made by humans, and we loved life a lot.

Over the years the idiots took over the country and the Security-Guard mentality seeped into family life and into the souls of otherwise great individuals.

Of course, I can't stand to talk to any of them because they're lying to themselves likkity-split, their kids are nervous wrecks, and all I see is that nothing good can ever come of resisting the breadth of life.

Go for the higher law and do what you know you must do, because if we don't live our life, nobody will.