Hominid Views

From Politico comes the Seven Deadly Sins Of Being Obama:

Obama is spending too much and doesn’t seem to care about it.
Obama is too cool for school — too Spocklike — unable to make Clintonian emotional connections on key issues.
Obama’s political team is insular and mean; Chicago-style brawlers.
Obama doesn’t push hard enough; he doesn’t follow through; [...]

My family is packed with police officers. My father and his brother, now both retired, spent most of their adult years as Chicago police officers. My father’s second wife (my stepmother) did too. And one of their daughters (my half-sister) is still a Chicago cop. So I really, [...]

Ever since Attorney General Eric Holder demanded that American Justice prevail upon terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammad (KSM), Republicans, representing the incompetent fringe of American embarassement have been campaigning steadfastly for us to take on the dumbest, most inane of options, reminescent of high school “loser” ideology: Do what’s most likely to result in setting terrorist [...]

I couldn’t easily follow Bill Clinton during his first year; I left the country to live in Bangladesh on Dec 31, 1992, and, without phone, internet, or TV for a year, I couldn’t really follow the nitty-gritty inside Washington stuff.
I was around for George Bush’s first year. He seemed on the [...]

Psychotalk: Rush, virgins, and those little blue pills.
GOP Purity Test:

Reagan fails the Purity Test
Young Turks: Reagan and Bush fail Republican purity test.
Headzup: Reagan fails the Reagan Purity Test.

The belated role of the news:
Headzup: Holy Joe runs from Rachael Maddow.
Amy Goodman’s odd Canadian border experience.
Tuesdays with Moron: figuring out terrorists and trials and [...]

The trick is on us. It was Senator Lindsey Graham who made “bad history” during last week’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, not the Attorney General, Eric Holder. Quite to the contray, in fact. While Graham’s trickster antics seems to have fooled everyone, including NPR’s Frank James, who observed, “The exchange started with [...]

Via Think Progress:

Canadian comedian Mary Walsh (playing the character of Marg Delahunty) attended a Sarah Palin book signing in the United States last week and asked the “thrilla from Wasilla, the Alaskan Aphrodite” if she had “any words of encouragement for the Canadian conservatives who have worked so hard to try to diminish that kind [...]

(Or if you do concede and then unconcede….)
Try, try again.

Gosh…I don’t know. The State Ethics Commission’s charges against Gov. Mark Sanford (R-SC) seem pretty trivial to me. It sounds like he needs to reimburse the state for the difference between first-class and cattle-class for some flights. Perhaps he had state aircraft ferrying him around for questionable functions. [...]

Yeah…this is an old theme. Bush and friends lied and launched the U.S. into an unnecessary and very expensive war. The price for the lies and deception were paid by John McCain, a bunch of congresspersons, the American taxpayer, 4,000+ dead U.S. soldiers, 30,000 wounded U.S. soldiers, and hundreds of thousands of dead [...]

The Senate health care reform achieved the first of several critical milestones on the road to passage tonight: The bill achieved the 60 votes needed to move forward to debate:

At its core, the legislation would create insurance exchanges beginning in 2014 where individuals, most of them lower income and uninsured, would shop for coverage. [...]

Pap Attack: Teabaggers and Boomers don’t matter.
Headzup: Glenn Beck and the Nutters:
Liz on a Dick Cheney run for 2012.
Jon does VP Joe Biden (via Leftinabotie).
Once again…Bill-O the Clown doubles up as Worst Person in the World!
Teabaggers get punk’d (via HorsesAss).
Papantonio and Headzup’s Matt Filipowicz on Crazyman Fred Phelps.
Newsy: Gitmo, Illinois.
Young Turks: Utah politician’s [...]

The term seems apt for the apparent majority of Republicans who believe that ACORN stole the 2008 election for Barack Obama.
Seriously. The original poll results are here:

Q5 Do you think that Barack Obama legitimately won the Presidential election last year, or do you think that ACORN stole it for him? If [...]

Via Ben Smith:

The president does not have the will and determination to do what’s necessary to win it. His heart’s not in it, and never has been. The Taliban knows it. Al Qaeda knows it. Our allies know it. And the American people know it.

I don’t entirely disagree with Thompson’s analysis, but it seems to [...]

These FAUX News “errors”, like a couple of recent episodes of the wrong video from an old Palin event suggesting a larger crowd at a recent event, happen with such frequency now, it is becoming increasingly difficult to believe they are all accidents.
Previously, FAUX News went through a streak of party misidentification [...]