From One Miserable Creature To Another

Bob Dole Dumps: "'There are miserable creatures like you in every administration who don’t have the guts to speak up or quit if there are disagreements with the boss or colleagues. No, your type soaks up the benefits of power, revels in the limelight for years, then quits, and spurred on by greed, cashes in with a scathing critique...

...When the money starts rolling in you should donate it to a worthy cause, something like, 'Biting The Hand That Fed Me.' Another thought is to weasel your way back into the White House if a Democrat is elected. That would provide a good set up for a second book deal in a few years...

...You’re a hot ticket now, but don’t you, deep down, feel like a total ingrate?

Bob Dole"

What Kind Of Weave Is This Webb ?

Is Jim Webb World-Wide Ready, Or Too Good For All This Leadership Stuff?: "Webb, an idiosyncratic, free-thinking, independent-minded politician, is being pushed for a position that steamrolls those qualities. Worse, he's being pushed for the position because people love what an idiosyncratic, free-thinking, independent-minded politician he is. It's like celebrating a former alcoholic's sobriety by taking him out for a drink."

You don't take a Scot-Irish brawler out for a drink, period, unless maybe first you take him out to the prairie and make him pound rails before first call.

But Webb may be a polished jewel of a human and we should probably keep our eyes pealed - he may be the real thing: the natural turn of the page.

The Admiral's Son

Some Vietnam POW Activists Called Him ‘Songbird’ McCain and ‘Manchurian Candidate’:

This needs to get clearer, real quick - left alone, it will be a stink machine.

"Dr. JAMES LUCIER, former U.S. Senate Chief of Staff: But We do know that when he was there [in the Vietnamese prison], he cooperated with the communist news services in giving interviews there, ah, not flattering to the United States.

USRY: Information shows that he made over 32 tapes of propaganda for the Vietnamese government. Certainly, you do what you need to do to stay alive. Nobody would fault anybody for that. But there comes a point in time when enough is enough.

TERRIBLE ACTOR AND REPUBLICAN U.S. CONGRESSMAN ROBERT "B-1 BOB" DORNAN: They made those transcriptions, and in the transcriptions, I heard a POW who heard them comin’ into his cell and said, 'Oh, my God, is that Admiral McCain’s son? Is that the admiral’s son? Is that Johnny — telling us that our principal targets are schools, orphanages, hospitals, temples, churches?' That was Jane Fonda’s line. Where are those transcriptions? Believe me — they’re in the archives of the museum, the bragging military phony museum in Hanoi. McCain could not have wanted those [to] turn up in the middle of a presidential race."

"They call McCain 'Songbird,' and say he received special treatment. Some in the POW community even believe he was brainwashed like Raymond Shaw, the character played by Laurence Harvey in 'The Manchurian candidate,' who was used as a tool by the communists to destroy America from within..."

... ... ...

The reek of the leader's son anchor's many stories throughout history - including the vast Bush Soap Opera in which we have all lived as hapless extras.

I'm not in the least interested in going through the blasphemy of Admiral McCain's son.

Farcical Fred - Not Yet A Thetan

Fred Thompson was whacking material for righties - another movie star from the Republican Worship Collection.

Every unscripted word that came out of his mouth was predictable, ordinary, and drenched in adolescent bile.

He should become a star on Hollywood Boulevard - and be stepped on often.

McCain - Master of the Hole

I am sick to death of false pride and dishonorable honor and the mumbo-jumbo of men like McCain. He is anethema, paddling furiously, yet stuck on a sawyer forever.

To value his contribution is to mistake popping corn for the sudden rush of ideas. Sure, it's fun to watch, but so is porn.

I Wonder What My Father Knew

Toni Morrison is a National Treasure: "Song of Solomon should be required reading for all African-American boys. How did you know what is in our heads?" asks Ira Levi from Tulsa, Oklahoma.

"That was a leap for me. I really wanted to do that book, about the education of a middle-class black man, about his ancestry, and I couldn't. And then my father died, and it was earthshaking for me. I remember saying to myself, I wonder what my father knew about these men? And I have to tell you, I felt access. I knew I could get there if I thought about him."

McCain - Welcome To The Charming Years

John McCain - How Far He's Fallen: "'McCain wants to stay in Iraq until no more Americans are getting killed, no matter how long it takes and how many Americans get killed achieving that goal -- that is, the goal of not getting any more Americans killed. And once that goal is achieved, we'll stay.'"

Thanks for keeping this alive. McCain lies as easily as he pisses and I'm glad you aren't letting him get away with it.

AND, special high-fives for cross-referencing that little rodent Mark Salter with the very startling presentation by student Jean Rohe at a New School commencement ceremony some time ago. His written reply to her remarks - and to the entire graduating class, was the height of small - and wrong as only the right can be, including his assholian zinger that "Very Unlikely Any Of You Will Ever Possess...One Small Fraction Of The Character Of John McCain".

It comes down to this for me: McCain's a mean little man that killed for country A. He killed for no decent reason. He killed against the teachings of his religion. He went to another land and killed people he didn't know. He killed people who were not trying to do anything but stop him from being in their country and killing them.

Nothing worth anything can come from this man.

Let's Do Something Subversive

Cusack aims to offend: "'There's hopefully an exuberance to the movie because I think being subversive should feel good,' Cusack said. 'It should be fun to throw a brick.'"

"'I think the movie should be kind of offensive,' Cusack told Reuters about the film, which will be released in New York and Los Angeles theaters on May 23."

"John Cusack is outraged over the Iraq war, so the U.S. actor channeled his anger into a low-budget political satire -- complete with a chorus line of scantily clad female amputees -- that he hopes will offend."