What’s on your mind this Saturday?
Here’s a GREAT piece on Hillary Clinton in Vogue magazine, by Johnathan Van Meter. Part of the article is nonsense, in that Van Meter thinks he knows the real story on HRC becoming Secretary of State. No one outside the inner Clinton circle knows that story. Van Meter falls for the lines he’s given about HRC “answering the call to public duty”, which is indeed what truly does motivate her 90% of the time. But, we maintain the other 10% had to include consideration of what staying in the Senate would have meant for her in terms of being forced to vote for all sorts of things she’d have forever on her record afterwards.
So, Van Meter deals with the HRC side that’s doing what’s best for the country and knowing she’d be one of the few grown-ups in this administration, but he ignores the political calculations that went into this move.
As we remind all of you who say things like “she should have stayed in the Senate”, we are thrilled she’s not in the Senate and does not have to cast votes for Cap & Trade, Utopiacare, and all the other craziness that’s been forced through this body right now.
Van Meter does a good job describing his trip through Africa with Clinton, including the memorable day a student in the Congo asked her to channel her husband and tell them what President Clinton was thinking. We love that she smacked back on that point…and love that Van Meter captures a lot of what HRC is really like.
Looking back on 2008, we realize how blessed we were to see HRC in person about once a week for several months straight during the primaries. There were times when we got to be in a room with her that had few other people in it and we saw how she acts when she’s just around her friends and Chelsea. Words fail us when we try to talk about this: but it’s like being able to travel back in time and see Eleanor Roosevelt in action like that, or to be in a room with George Washington.
She is an incredible American…but more than that, she’s a very nice, funny, and caring person. We will never forget a breakfast we went to with her in July of 2008, after she suspended her campaign, and she walked around a small room comforting the peolpe who had volunteered so hard for her. Here, she had the nomination given to someone else, and she had to realize that he would now be president instead of her — and yet, SHE was the one who was comforting other people. Her spirits were up, and she was propping everyone else up too. It was incredible. She was radiant in her bright canary yellow pantsuit, like Hera come down from Olympus, and she was so kind, so warm, so inspiring.
We. Love. This. Woman.
Love her as Secretary of State, but can’t wait for her to get into politics again some day because there are few joys in life greater than hitting the campaign trail for our champ.
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UPDATE on the Levi Johnston Playgirl pics, which is probably the last we will say about these. There is a site that has these pics up now — the real ones, not a joke of ours — called Dudetube, that you can click over to and see for yourself — but fair warning, it’s a site with lots of full frontal male nudity on it, even if Johnston’s johnson is not amongst it. The shots of Levi are from behind, and show a troubled young man who should have done a lot more squats before agreeing to pose nude. They aren’t sexy or erotic photos in any way — but are pathetic and sad, much like Levi himself. The pics up at Dudetube are from the “shower photo shoot”, but not the “hockey rink shoot” that also apparently took place.
For Levi’s own sake, we were hoping these photos were going to turn out better. The kid threw everything away with these pics. Not only did he forever alienate the Palins with his behavior of the last several months, which will make life very difficult for his son Tripp, but he cut himself off from any help the Palins may have been able to give him to get his life on track and make the changes he needs to make to grow up.
The Palins are good people, and after everything he did, we bet they still would have forgiven him and helped him if he asked them to.
But, after exposing himself in Playgirl like this — and the photos aren’t even any good — well, that must be the dumbest thing anyone’s done in a great, great while.
It’s going to be really hard for even MSNBC to use Levi to attack Palin now. ”Nude model” does not have much heft when it’s below your name on a TV screen, if you’re up on a panel trying to inflict harm on your child’s grandmother. ”Lackluster nude model” comes off even worse.
The saddest and most pathetic thing about all of this is that you can just see in his eyes he has no idea the harm he’s doing to himself with these pictures. No idea whatsoever. What. A. Joke.
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If you don’t read AintItCoolNews.com, you’re missing out on some good scoop about movies and TV shows…but you are also missing out on the vulgar, Leftist, misogynistic, and sexist comments that are left on most articles over there. We like the site for the movie and TV news and admit to checking it every day, but cringe any time the site gets into politics. The commenters there are very low-information, and we’ve seen the phrase “she should be raped” used more than once for any woman the 38 year olds in their mothers’ basements don’t particulary care for. They are, by and large, Obots in Austin, Texas as a rule.
Today they’re wondering who is going to portray Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live from now on — a show we didn’t even realize was still on the air. Apparently, Tina Fey has said she’s not going to do the Palin caricature anymore, but Tina Fey says a lot of things (she also keeps promising to write and star in a funny movie, but that hasn’t happened yet either).
If Palin is going to run a successful campaign in 2012, she has a unique challenge ahead of her that none of her male peers will have to face: how to overcome the damage Saturday Night Live will continue to do to her. SNL seems to have promised the White House to treat Dr. Utopia with kid gloves. So, the attacks for the next three years will be solidly on Palin.
Knowing this, it’s up to Palin’s supporters to turn those attacks into a net positive somehow. Palin needs to come out and mock those who mock her…to be funnier than they are. She can’t allow their attacks to go unanswered, but can’t show that they bother her, either.
Saturday Night Live needs to be marginalized, as does Tina Fey.
What really needs to happen is for a national Misogyny/Sexist Brigade to form similar to Al Sharpton’s RAAACISM! wailers. If SNL or any show does any joke that’s remotely RAAACIST!, they know the next morning Sharpton will be outside their offices hooting and hollering and mooning anyone who walks passed, screaming about RAAACISM! this and RAAACISM! that.
People should stand up for women when SNL whips out the sexism and misogyny, too. Hillary supporters know how damaging SNL can be to a campaign…and now Palin supporters see it too.
Together, maybe we could all find a way to render SNL irrelevant.
November 21, 2009 at 3:13 pm
We are literally losing our nation. Dems (neo marxists) have 60 votes to proceed. So something will pass and we are fucked. Trillions more dollars down the drain.
November 21, 2009 at 3:16 pm
This is the vote to open debate. Then they all leave for Thanksgiving break. Unless Reid does the “nuclear option”, which if he does that, I fear for our country. People are getting more and more disenfranchised.
November 21, 2009 at 3:37 pm
It’s sad. Very very sad.
November 21, 2009 at 3:49 pm
Even if this is just a procedural vote, statistics show that at least 80% of the time, this leads to an actual bill of some form being signed, sealed, and delivered.
This is bad… very bad. But I heard there was some language in the bill that this won’t go into effect until after 2012. We start paying for it now, but the “benefits” won’t be there for close to 4 years.
November 21, 2009 at 3:51 pm
I’m looking at my pitchfork ready to use it for more than hay.
November 21, 2009 at 4:57 pm
That’s right. No benefits until 2013, I think. They have to raise money first, then after a few years they will run out of money, and you-know-what will hit the fan. Of course, Utopia plans on being elected before anything goes into effect. Question: If it is so important that everyone be covered, why do these poor folks have to wait for three years?
November 21, 2009 at 6:46 pm
Just to be positive, if statistics show that this leads to a bill 80% of the time, that would represent a “typical” or “average” bill. Given the scope and content of this bill, it would definately qualify as an outlier, therefore it could be part of the 20% that doesn’t pass.
November 21, 2009 at 4:40 pm
But it does not matter that it is just to open debate. Whether the public option survives or not it will exist DE FACTO as the government creeps in more and more. In conference the dems will put anything they want in. If they wanted to stop the bill, they could have now. the “moderate” dems are all liars.
November 21, 2009 at 5:24 pm
I wrote Ben Nelson a blistering email yesterday after reading that he was going to vote “yes”. Don’t know if it’ll do any good. I have the feeling that good ol’ Ben’s more afraid of Nancy, Barry and Harry than he is of the voters back home.
November 21, 2009 at 10:40 pm
I’m sure it didn’t, but we have to try don’t we. It’s obvious that no one in Congress supporting this bill or the House bill is paying any attention to the country because the majority of Americans are not for this type of reform.
November 21, 2009 at 5:44 pm
A sign of Dem’s dreams of America’s future……
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_f98opUNuVXc/Swe4giTH9SI/AAAAAAAALho/ahTdFn4887M/s1600/Chicken.jpg
from “Nothing to do with Arbroath” blogspot.
November 21, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Proposition – Gay Marriage – A solution in which everyone wins!
I am a straight guy who is Christian in the spiritual sense and not necessarily in the religious sense. Yesterday afternoon I was discussing HillBuzz with a good Christian English friend and co-worker who is a literalist with the Bible. I was explaining to him about how my views on the subject of gay marriage were changing. I quit looking at the body but at the spirit and soul and from that perspective I felt that it should be allowed. Now this is derived from two charges for Christians: (1) Ye without sin, cast the first stone and (2) Judge not lest ye be judged yourself. Strip the sexual issue from the debate and love becomes love. Ian informed me of the history of marriage after which an apparent solution where everyone wins popped out.
Ian explained that original marriages were actually contracts between families for the marriage. Love choices had no bearing. The contract was actually called the Covenant of Marriage. I believe that the majority of Christians do not have a problem with the Gay community having the legal rights of marriage but use of the term “marriage” is the irritant.
The Ian initiative:
Churches and Religions will be conducting the Covenant of Marriage whereas the state sanctions and controls Legal Marriage. No longer the same thing.
Pastors, Reverends, Rabbis, Imams etc will no longer have the ability to “legally” marry couples. The Covenant of Marriage they will perform within the constraints and dogma of their religion.
Legal Marriages are sanctioned by the state and legal system.
A Covenant of Marriage and Legal Marriage can occur at the same time but a duly appointed state representative must be present as witness.
Legal Marriages are licensed and conducted by state authorities.
Benefits:
Covenant of Marriages do not require Legal Marriages:
Can file taxes as individuals versus married
Not “living in sin” in the eyes of the Church
Gay Churches can have their own Covenant of Marriage based on their tenements and dogma
Separation of Church and State:
This approach de-links Church and State.
The Church cannot be forced to perform Gay Marriages-This is key to support from the religious communities
The Winners:
Gays can legally marry with all the rights!
The Religions are not forced to marry Gays by the State!
The war ends between the Gay Community and the Religious Community – allowing both to focus on core issues involving the state where commonality exists
I don’t know how this plays with everyone but it sure made sense to me! I think it’s a winner. Ian even said he could support it even with his traditional Bibical Views. Would this type of approach be acceptable to the Gay Community? Would Rick Warren and other religious leaders support this concept?
November 21, 2009 at 4:51 pm
I believe that in France you must first be joined by the state at your local city hall (I think they call it mariage), then you can be married in the church.
What you are proposing is similar to that, I think.
November 21, 2009 at 5:29 pm
It’s that way in the Balkan states also. Kinda fun (from relatives pictures) Everyone goes en masse to the ‘court house’ (whatever it’s called there) in their outfits and then leaves to go off to their separate religious ceremonies or home.
November 21, 2009 at 6:15 pm
It’s called a civil union in France, and there are 3 different versions of it, depending upon how you want the assets acquired during the union ultimately distributed.
Marriage, meaning a religious ceremony, comes afterward and is optional.
November 21, 2009 at 5:47 pm
In medieval Europe, the Catholic church blessed “marriages,” i.e., unions between men.
What went wrong?
November 21, 2009 at 6:10 pm
In general its not a bad idea except for one small problem, your getting the bureaucracy directly and deeply involved in the process, this is NEVER a good idea. When you go down and apply for a marriage license you are entering into a public civil contract which is is consummated and comes into full legal force only at the end of the marriage ceremony. Remove the ceremony from the contract requirement and allow the contract to come into force on the payment of fee and signatures of both involved parties. If you want to formally marry hike your butt over to the justice of peace, preacher, wiccan high preistess or whatever floats your boat.
November 21, 2009 at 6:25 pm
I object to the notion of the State being the first authority on “marriage”.
Marriage is a covenant, as you say. A pact, a commitment between two people to be lifelong partners. The government has NO BUSINESS injecting itself into that union.
The ONLY role of government in the issue of marriage, in my opinion, is to RECOGNIZE them as performed by churches. Everything else is a “civil union”.
For me, that’s the distinction. “Marriage” is performed by a member of the clergy, and everything else is a “civil union”.
I can’t fathom a system by where “legal marriage” and “covenant marriage” could co-exist in that terminology and everybody would understand it.
The HB guys have it correct — so long as the gay community insists on defining their own unions as “marriage”, people will come out in droves to attack it because they FEAR what will happen when the government has the power to DEFINE marriage instead of just to recognize it.
November 21, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Larry Sinclair running for Congress:
http://www.larrysinclairforcongress.com/
November 21, 2009 at 3:50 pm
The leaked emails from the leading scientists behind “Climate Change” showing that they fudged data to make sure that analysis kept with the narrative.
A good read – http://www.powerlineblog.com/
http://www.climatedepot.com/
This is the biggest story you won’t hear about if you rely on the main stream media for information.
November 21, 2009 at 4:53 pm
I sent the link this morning to my rep – Mark Kirk. He was one of the 8 Republicans to vote for Crap and Tax.
November 21, 2009 at 11:57 pm
Great move!
November 21, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Finally got to hear the Palin interview on Rush. So we had eight years of Bush, who was a garbled public speaker but you got his meaning, if you could listen to it (liked the man, but hard to listen to for me). We’ve had 10 months of Obama who, on teleprompter, is a fluent public speaker (I don’t call him a good speaker, he has annoying and contrived cadences and those horrible “S”’s).
This Palin…this is what she is. She is not a garbled speaker. She is not a fluent speaker. She is a conversational speaker, but not in a talk show kind of conversation way. She sounds like a friend you’d chat with over coffee. They may not have the perfect word at the tip of their tongue, they may pause in the middle of sentences, but that is how conversations go.
It’s not what she says, it’s that you can imagine talking to her, and her talking to you, and there being a dialogue there. Even when she was ticking off the issues she wanted to cover, coming back to the phrases she wanted to use, she just sounds like someone who is talking about something in their own words.
That just doesn’t happen in politics. At bottom, I think that’s why the “regl’ar” folks get her. She. Is. Talking. To. Them. She is not talking to them with someone else’s words (Bush). She is not talking down to the them with someone else’s words (Obama).
If Palin runs in 2012, I think she will skool the current President in a debate. I’m not talking who will get the “win” on a tit for tat policy debate, but on the perceptual take away. I hypothesize that a majority of Americans already tune him out, even if they don’t admit it. We get it, you “sound good” but signify nothing. She will make people take note because she sounds like she is having a conversation.
November 21, 2009 at 5:09 pm
I agree. I don’t feel like she is trying to bullsh** me when she is speaking. I’m from MN, so when she speaks, I’m home.
November 22, 2009 at 11:12 am
I can’t listen to Barry talk. All that hissing, and whistling out his S’s just makes my skin crawl. I can’t look at him either.
As far as Sarah goes, yes I can listen to her and totally get what she’s saying. I have read some transcripts of her speeches, and they are impressive, but it’s her inflection and her folksiness that makes it seem like she is talking about something unimportant, while she’s actually talking about important issues. It’s such a relief to hear her talking to us, as opposed to down to us.
Oh, and there’s that major plus. She doesn’t stick her chin up in the air and look down her nose either.
November 23, 2009 at 12:57 pm
lol. I hear the Gollum, my pressshhhhuuussss. Thanks for the Monday pick me up.
LU
November 21, 2009 at 4:28 pm
There’s only one thing on my mind. I’m so sad for the death of American Exceptionalism. Next up: Solve homelessness by forcing everyone to turn in their unique homes for a standard-issue, government-approved, not-too-fancy-now, houses that everyone is required to buy, whether they like it or not. Yay diversity! Yay, America! Yay! We’re all the same now and mowed down to size!! Then, we’ll solve the problem of kids coming to school without a lunch by buying huge blenders that all children must put their lunches into and which will serve up the slop nice and even so that everyone shares the “wealth.” Let’s not stop there! I’m sure the grocery stores wouldn’t mind becoming managed by the government! That could solve the problem of hunger lickety-split.
The big problem is that government isn’t God and never will be.
God help us!!!
November 21, 2009 at 4:50 pm
The Uppity Woman blog referred to jail as the public option. That’s basically the end result of socialism.
Tina Fey ended up being especially loathesome in this. She was a hard core Hillary supporter. There was the famous “I’m a bitch” speech on Weekend Update. I saw her in the aftershow curtain call and she was wearing a “Leia in ‘08″ shirt after her first crime against women. I don’t think she particularly cared for Utopia, but was convinced by fellow liberals like Alec “you’re a pig” Baldwin to do her duty.
Now that she knows how awful Dr. U is, I doubt she wants anything to do with Palin impressions. And I say screw her anyway. Get informed next time instead of getting regretful.
November 21, 2009 at 4:57 pm
What is “Leia in ‘08″?
November 21, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Near as I could tell, it was a protest of some Hillary supporters who wanted a woman president. Apparently, a woman Vice President from a different party just wasn’t good enough.
November 21, 2009 at 7:46 pm
Well, it’s not!
November 21, 2009 at 5:06 pm
Amazing article and a story about an inspiring woman who is the first black minister in Sweden. She admires Margaret Thatcher. Read about her and you will likely agree that she is someone to watch. I’d love for Sarah Palin to come to know THIS woman.
http://www.bookerrising.net/2009/11/nyamko-sabuni-on-her-im-not-feminist.html
November 21, 2009 at 5:11 pm
My husband and I are sitting in here in shock as we read that the Dems have the votes for the monstrosity that is Obamacare. This is truly terrifying for all that it means to the private economy. Do we have an exit plan? No. But I really want one right now. We’ve written all of our senators and reps and luckily for us they are against it but it feels as though we are beating our heads against the wall b/c so many are for it and much of the public has no idea what is being voted on.
November 21, 2009 at 5:34 pm
I think we need to bombard their emails and write letters. If they know that there is support for Palin they might bother to try to do a real portrayal of her: as an Obama-huntin’ version of Lara Croft.
November 21, 2009 at 5:39 pm
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/11/obama_bungle_produces_worst_us.html
November 21, 2009 at 5:56 pm
I guess I’m a little curious as to why the Hillbuzz boys would be so enamored with Palin. I’m guessing on the social issues, they’re paradigms apart. I can see generally supporting her for various reasons, including increased political competition, supporting people of genuine convictions (and not odious ones), etc., but while I can see the enthusiasm for Dick Cheney, I’m not seeing it for Palin. Help me out here.
November 21, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Lurk moar. Do some reading here (it’s highly entertaining and makes you love humans again anyway).
The Boys like Palin because (1) they highly support a woman in the White House; (2) were disgusted by the sexism against their homie, HRC, during the last campaign and saw it reflected in the coverage of Palin; (3) agree that BHO is an unmitigated disaster as President, and that Congress is out of control and unchecked; and (4) really speak better for themselves than I can, so back to the lurk moar comment.
I was not much of an HRC fan, I’ll admit. But the Boys have spent a lot of time with her, and have seen her probably in a variety of stressful situations. Their good opinion of her has made me reconsider my own. I’ll admit, I’d prefer she were at the helm of this boat than the current arugula eating ciggie smoking incompetento we currently “enjoy.” Cheers!
November 21, 2009 at 7:50 pm
Did you read the article in Vogue that the boyz linked to above? It is a bit long, but this guy has a knack for showing the real Hillary Clinton.
November 21, 2009 at 6:37 pm
Which social issues would you be referring to?
It might surprise you to learn that VP Joe Biden and Sarah Palin have the exact same opinion on gay rights. That is, like “ice cream Joe”, she is opposed to “gay marriage” but supports equal protection under the law for gay couples in other regards.
November 21, 2009 at 7:44 pm
actually Palin and Obama’s position on gay rights is the same. While HRC and Dick Cheney’s is also the same. Politics makes for interesting bedfellows ( no pun intended ).
November 21, 2009 at 7:00 pm
Did you know that Palin vetoed a bill, in the Alaska Assembly, that would have taken away legal rights from gay couples in civil unions. She’s against Gay Marriage but for Civil unions and supports gay couples having all the leagal rights of married couples.
November 21, 2009 at 6:19 pm
Poor Levi. I think he just needs a good man.
November 21, 2009 at 6:40 pm
When the State legislature of Alaska passed a bill to deny benefits to same-sex couples, Palin vetoed it, saying that it was unconstitutional. Palin was not afraid to honor the constitution, and to do what was right.
November 21, 2009 at 7:06 pm
Just noticed that Sarah Palin sold 300 thousand copies of her book on the first day. GOOD. FOR. HER.
Off Off Topic, I was thinking Goldman Sachs should be refered to as Wolfram and Hart. (Or Wolf, Ram, and Heart). Shout outs to all the Buffy and Angel fans out there, I’m sure you’ll get the reference.
November 21, 2009 at 7:35 pm
That 300,000 doesn’t include the pre-orders does it? I don’t think it does.
November 21, 2009 at 7:06 pm
Hot Water for Anthropogenic Global Warming Supporters?
Were some of the numbers kind of cooked and massaged to support the conclusion that was drawn before the reasearch?
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/11/20/do-hacked-e-mails-show-global-warming-fraud/
Yep, sounds like real solid science behind AGW. I mean, could the Profit Gore be taken in by such things?
Oh! do a search for “gore and oxy oil.” Kind of interesting.
November 21, 2009 at 7:33 pm
You mean they “Global Warmed” the numbers?
That stinks!
of cabbage and Al Gore!
November 22, 2009 at 1:56 am
Yeah, it looks like AGW is in hot water.
Of course, you won’t see much about this in the main stream media. And, what you do see will likely be spin on it to say they are just reasonable adjustments, not trying to cover up inconvenient facts.
November 21, 2009 at 7:15 pm
Michelle Obama has been chosen to replace Oprah in a show called Michelle O
Tina Brown said on GMA that Michelle O is the only possible replacement for Oprah. I imagine what a Michelle O show would look like.
November 21, 2009 at 7:54 pm
It would look like an O with a hole in it.
November 21, 2009 at 8:07 pm
LOL! MO can barely hide the cranky-mean-rude-selfishness as it is when in public. On a talk show??? She’d have guests leaving in tears.
November 21, 2009 at 9:43 pm
I once had a job where I had to work with a black woman who reminded me of Michelle Obama. She was a total affimative action bitch.
She was the meanest nastiest, most vile, evil human being I ever met in my life. I still have nightmares thinking about her.
I see the same anger and viciousness in Michelle Obama’s eyes and expressions. Who the hell would watch that?
November 22, 2009 at 12:11 am
I think I just threw up in my mouth. Tina Brown is an idiot.
November 21, 2009 at 7:17 pm
Ok. I’ve been informed. (The site is a bit hard to search/read due to the layout.) The irony is that I’m a LGF’er regular. That’s a secular-conservativish type of site and Palin is definitely and regularly trashed over there. What I do like is that, unlike under where I, President wants to take us, we still have lots of choices when it comes to what to think and whom to read.
November 21, 2009 at 7:46 pm
Don’t cry for me America…the route we are on.
http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2009/11/21/dont-cry-for-me-america/
November 21, 2009 at 7:59 pm
Wow, what a great read from Vogue. I have defended Hillary so many times it could make someones head spin. All during the primaries people, especially woman, would say how much they hated her. They would spew out such horrible things about her, like how she is only out for herself, she’s a b!$#h, she’s ugly, nobody likes her, she’s never done anything to help people, and well, we all know the rest.
Now I will refer people to this article because I think this guy captures Hillary. Hillary the person who gives so much, and Hillary the politician who gives even more. I am heartbroken all over again that the nomination was stolen from her, and she as president was stolen from us.
November 21, 2009 at 9:14 pm
Don’t worry…cream always rises to the top.
November 21, 2009 at 8:13 pm
Entertainment Weekly gave Sarah’s book a C.
http://shelf-life.ew.com/2009/11/17/sarah-palins-going-rogue-the-ew-review/
By the comments at the link, I see why they pander their reviews to the cheeto crowds who ruin every discussion board they’re on…grrr.
On the cover of their print copy, huge headline at the top “We read Sarah Palin’s book. (So you don’t have too). WTF? I’ve never seen a book review headlined before on EW. On the upside, it will remind folks that Sarah has written a book!
November 21, 2009 at 8:25 pm
If the book is so terrible and proves Sarah Palin is a nut… wouldn’t the liberal left and the lame stream media want everyone reading a copy to see how crazy and dumb she is?
But instead they’re going out their way to try to encourage people to NOT read her book. Shady much?
I believe if every independent and republican who voted for Barack Obama had read his book before casting their ballot, McCain would have won the election. I wish everyone would read his book and see what he has to say about racism and Marxism/radicalism… it would put everything in a whole new perspective for a lot of people.
November 21, 2009 at 9:16 pm
don’t bother. its a tedious read and really not all that good.
November 21, 2009 at 9:52 pm
I saw where someone put a paragraph from Obama’s book on a board and said it was from Sarah’s. Well the comments just flew that it proved how dumb, can’t write, boring SP was.
Then the guy told them it was from Obama’s Dreams of My Father.
LOLOLOL.
November 21, 2009 at 9:26 pm
That’s because ET reviewers can only read one-syllable words Denise!
November 21, 2009 at 8:30 pm
Sen. Mary Landrieu sold out the people of LA, after saying that she would vote against the health care bill. The people of LA made it known to her that we are against the federal government being involved with our health care, & she was swayed by promise of money for the state.
November 21, 2009 at 9:09 pm
Must take Mary a long time to get dressed for work, considering she has to slap makeup on two faces every morning.
November 21, 2009 at 9:30 pm
Don’t give up yet. It seems as though a few Senators voted for cloture just to get it to the floor for a vote. It doesn’t mean they are going to vote yea. It just means that this way here, Reid can’t ram it thru on the end of a budget bill with only 51 votes needed for such a thing. It is much, much better to do it this way, as they will now need the 60. Sixty is not a given, but the 51 was.
November 21, 2009 at 9:07 pm
How to render SNL irrelevant?
“Hillbuzz, The Musical!”
Anybody old enough to remember
“That Was the Week that Was”? TV, late 60s/early 70s. Political snark at its best and way ahead of its time, considering the troubling era it aired. Cast/writers stuck it to any famous person (pols, mostly) who’d made the news for pulling some boneheaded stunt the previous six days, so the material was fresh. Any wonder it was canceled?
November 21, 2009 at 9:24 pm
I used to watch that program all the time. Phyllis Newman, Buck Henry,Henry Morgan. Loved it!
November 21, 2009 at 10:19 pm
I found the footage of Jonathan Van Meter talking about his article on SoS Hillary Clinton. He is very cute in the way he talks about her, and you can tell he is quite taken with our ‘champ’
http://pumapac.org/
November 21, 2009 at 10:38 pm
Hey, everybody – I love this site. Been reading here for a while, but have never posted. Just wanted to tell you that I sent Ms Blanche (Lincoln) and Ms Mary (Landreau) a blistering email tonight about their big cave-in and asked Mary about her being bought off with the $100 million payoff in the bill for Louisiana – told her now we know her price, guess we can call her the oldest known profession in the world. Also, asked Blanche if it was really that important for her to be re-elected – so important that she would sell the hard-working middle-class people and their children and grand-children down the road, give up her integrity and lose her soul and put Party over country – all to remain in office. Such a disgrace. And these people won’t even be involved using the government healthcare they’re pushing for. I’m mad as hell!
November 21, 2009 at 10:51 pm
Steel Magnolia, indeed! WELCOME!
November 21, 2009 at 10:43 pm
My fave parts of the VOGUE piece about HRC:
Excerpt 1:
…I asked one woman in Cape Town why she loved Hillary Clinton. “Because she is an African woman,” she said. “She stayed with her husband, she works hard, and she keeps her family together.”
One of the refrains I kept hearing from reporters was Condi would never do this. Clinton, a woman from politics, knows how to work a crowd. Sometimes her motorcade would arrive and she would jump out and just plunge right in, getting out ahead of her security team, who often looked a little panicked. She danced her funky little dance at the dinners held in her honor (as seen on YouTube). In Cape Town, she threw a party for the press and drank with the best of us, talking for more than two hours, into the night, with surprising off-the-record candor about everything from her husband to her disdain for certain world leaders. She’s fun. She laughs at herself. And she is full of surprisingly sharp, pointy little retorts, barbs, and comebacks. On several occasions she drifted to the back of the plane, allowing zesty debates to flower, often asking, “What’s your take?” of different reporters, who hung on her every word. One of them told me his opinion of Hillary had completely turned around: “My parents hated her, and I thought she was a bitch who surrounded herself with horrible people. But she’s nice! She’s really frank and blunt and funny. One time she said to me, ‘We need China.’ Condi would never do that. I like her.” Condoleezza Rice, I was told, almost never even came out of her cabin….
Excerpt 2:
…”So many women feel like I’m on their side,” she says. “I somehow, through my life or their perception of me, give them courage to do things. And I think it’s also that, whether I am meant to or not, I challenge assumptions about women. I do make some people uncomfortable, which I’m well aware of, but that’s just part of coming to grips with what I believe is still one of the most important pieces of unfinished business in human history—empowering women to be able to stand up for themselves.
“I try to live my life in a way that I think has meaning,” she continues. “I was raised to believe that I have to give back, that I was incredibly blessed to be an American, to have a good education, to have an intact family with two parents who encouraged me. I never felt in my family that I couldn’t do anything I set my mind to because I was a girl, which was unusual even when I was growing up. I have a great partner who has been enormously supportive to me. I have a wonderful daughter. I have a 90-year-old mother who lives with us. I have so many blessings. And yet I know how hard it is even for people in today’s world who have all of the attributes of education and income. Life is challenging for everybody.” She takes a deep breath, leans back, and looks at me with those bright-blue eyes. “That’s the best I can come up with!”
I LOVE THIS WOMAN!
November 21, 2009 at 11:24 pm
Palin can see Russia from her house; Obama can see no further than his nose.
November 22, 2009 at 12:09 am
HB
Pigs are flying.
I know you don’t watch SNL, but in addition to their Palin2012 diss, they also skewered Obama in the cold open. The premise was Obama and a Chinese leader in joint press conference and the idea that we are screwing them because we will never pay them the zillions of dollars we owe them. Catch it on NBC.com tomorrow or Monday.
Also, on MSNBC, (which I saw on HuffPo), looks like Tingles is starting to turn on O. Check it out.
November 22, 2009 at 12:35 am
That SNL open was hilarious.
“I like to be kissed before you make sex with me!” Ha ha!!
None of the blogs are talking about it yet, but I bet it’ll be all over the place tomorrow.
November 22, 2009 at 10:39 am
It was funny and I am seeing it on HotAir.com and elsewhere. It was a definite diss on Obama and the billions of dollars we are borrowing from China and it even dissed the healthcare bill.
November 22, 2009 at 9:12 am
Keep calling and writing your representatives. That’s what we can do now. In 2010 we can vote the bums out who voted for it. If this bill passes you can kiss the democratic majority goodbye. There is a groundswell going on against this administration. People are finally realizing this guy is a lot more like Hugo Chavez than they realized. Yes there is cheating and gaming and Obots flooding the internet but I guarantee you the people know what’s going on and they don’t like it. Anything they do we can change back. We can reverse and tweak the changes. It’s in the constitution that you cannot change government without the next government allowed to change it back. That’s the only thing that keeps me from insanity at this point. We have to believe that We, The People have the power. Not some socialist radical with his staff of mafia crooks. Rahm Emmanuel has a date with karma coming to him.
November 22, 2009 at 10:52 am
SNL is starting to make fun of Obama:
http://msunderestimated.com/2009/11/21/snl-obama-jintao-press-conference-in-beijing-video/
November 22, 2009 at 11:04 am
OMIGod! It’s brilliant! Now, how long before CNN does an entire show to prove that SNL was wrong (like they did the LAST SNL not-so-nice-to-Obama-skit).
Sounds like at least the writers are paying attention.
November 22, 2009 at 1:07 pm
Hmm SNL’s Hu Jintao expresses my own sentiments very well.
Do I look like Mrs. Obama? rofl!