A Mistake???????

Somehow, I don't think so.

Obama Backs Larry Craig? Change We Can't Believe In!

Just as Dewey defeated Truman, Barack Obama supports Sen. Larry Craig (R-Men's Room).


A la the Chicago Tribune's famous "Dewey Defeats Truman" headline, folks all across Idaho are howling over a snafu that put presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama on a political button with Larry Craig, who isn't even running for reelection in Idaho on account of his arrest in an airport men's room sex sting.



The unlikely pair appear together on a button under Obama's signature campaign banner: "Change We Can Believe In."


But that kind of change is too much for anyone to believe in. Even if the conservative Idaho senator were running again, rest assured, Obama would not be lending his name to that reelection effort, or his face on an Obama-Craig button.


Suffice it to say, the button was a mistake. The button maker, Tigereye Design in Ohio, got the wrong Larry. The face they meant to put on the button was that of Idaho Senate Democratic candidate Larry LaRocco.



At least they got the name correct. Underneath the photos of Obama and Craig, the button reads: Obama for President/LaRocco for U.S. Senate.



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Tigereye Design, which makes buttons for unions and other Democratic causes and candidates, seemed mortified by the mistake. "First, let us apologize to the Larry LaRocco campaign for the dark cloud we have placed over their efforts," says Justin Hemminger, the political coordinator for the button maker.


However, Hemminger says Tigereye cannot be blamed. Here is the explanation he provided: "When our designer sat down to make this
button, he positioned his mouse pointer over a photo of Larry LaRocco. This particular designer uses a fairly wide pointer arrow, which may have been in contact with a photo of Larry Craig."


A wide pointer arrow, eh? Is that like a computer's mouse's equivalent
of a wide stance?

Why are mistakes about Obama always negative?

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So, unlike David Vitter and Larry Craig, Spitzer is quitting

i don't have a dog in this fight, but i was secretly hoping spitzer would stonewall it and continue right along serving his term like craig and vitter... i do believe that resigning is the honorable thing to do but i don't see any reason why spitzer should be any more "honorable" than those other two slimeballs...

Spitzer Aides Say Governor Will Resign Today

Gov. Eliot Spitzer, reeling from revelations that he had been
a client of a prostitution ring, will resign today, some of
his aides said they have been told, though the precise timing
remains unclear.

don't do it eliot... the r's are in high dudgeon over this and maybe their elevated blood pressure will cause a few aneurysms...

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Talking Senator Larry Craig Action Figure - "I am Not GAY"

Talking Senator Larry Craig Action Figure

do ya suppose THIS'll do him in...?

Four gay men, willing to put their names in print and whose allegations can't be disproved, have come forward since news of U.S. Sen. Larry Craig's guilty plea. They say they had sex with Craig or that he made a sexual advance or that he paid them unusual attention.

They are telling their stories now because they are offended by Craig's denials, including his famous statement, "I am not gay, I never have been gay." Those words, spoken on live national TV on Aug. 28, are now memorialized on a just-released-for-Christmas Talking Senator Larry Craig Action Figure.

the article comes complete with audio clips of David Phillips, Mike Jones, Greg Ruth, and Tom Russell, talking about their sexual encounters with the senator, AND this disclaimer...

Audio clip disclaimer: Some of the audio interview excerpts contain explicit descriptions of sex not appropriate for children and listeners who find such content offensive. The Statesman provides the excerpts so Idahoans can hear these accounts and decide for themselves about accusations against Sen. Craig.

c'mon, larry... 'fess up... you'll feel SO much better about yourself...

(thanks to john at americablog...)

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Where do YOU fit in on the anti-gay continuum?

mark fiore, too long absent from this blog...


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Larry Craig's b.s.

aw, c'mon, larry... fercryinoutloud... pleading guilty on the basis of a promise not to inform the media and then expecting us to believe you're innocent...? puh-le-e-e-e-eze... just how dumb do you think we are...?

The Idaho Republican wrote in a sworn statement that he never engaged in "offensive, obscene, abusive, boisterous or noisy conduct" in the restroom at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport on June 11, when he was arrested in a sex sting that led to demands from many Republicans that the three-term senator resign. Craig has said that if he cannot overturn the guilty plea by a self-imposed Sept. 30 deadline, he intends to step down.

Craig's attorneys filed motions in Hennepin County District Court asking for a speedy hearing and arguing that the plea should be waived because the undercover officer who arrested Craig had promised the senator he would not call the news media -- a major concern to Craig because the Idaho Statesman newspaper had been investigating his sexual orientation after allegations from a gay rights activist.

"Deeply panicked about the events, and based on [the officer's] representations to me regarding the potential outcome, my interest in handling the matter expeditiously, and the risk that protracting the issue could lead to unnecessary publicity, I did not seek the advice of an attorney . . . and I made the decision on that date to seek a guilty plea," Craig said in his statement filed with the court.

as i've said before, with all the more important things going on, i've deliberately stayed away from this story, but such direct attacks on our intelligence beg to be refuted...

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"The importance of timely action in terminating the Bush-Cheney administration is brushed aside as ... crazy"

it's far from crazy, and, for anyone with a clear-thinking head on their shoulders, it's the single most important issue the united states has ever faced... i'm glad robert parry has the huevos to step out and say what desperately needs to be said...

If one were simply considering what was “good for the country,” a reasonable idea might be to arrange a choreographed Agnew-Nixon pas de deux, with Cheney stepping down first (as Vice President Spiro Agnew did in 1973), a replacement vice president quickly getting approved, and then Bush bowing out (as President Richard Nixon did in 1974).

Since Virginia’s 80-year-old Republican Sen. John Warner has just announced he is leaving the Senate, he might make an excellent candidate for “caretaker” president, someone who could finish up Bush’s term and implement a bipartisan strategy for extricating U.S. forces from the Iraqi quagmire.

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In a nation that cared more about its soldiers and its long-term interests, the news shows and the political class would be exploring how these present-and-future disasters might be averted or reversed, how Bush and Cheney could be presented with “an offer they can’t refuse,” either resign or face the humiliation of bipartisan impeachment.

But the United States, circa 2007, doesn’t appear capable of acting expeditiously on behalf of its citizens or its national interests.

The importance of timely action in terminating the Bush-Cheney administration is brushed aside as unworthy of discussion, impossible, crazy. It is far simpler to condemn Larry Craig for his stall-to-stall footsie with a plainclothes cop than to hold Bush and Cheney accountable for an illegal war and a variety of other high crimes and misdemeanors.

So the drift toward the precipice continues with almost no one taking note of the chasm below.

god willing, some of those who REALLY have the good of the country at heart will step forward and tell 'em they gotta go...

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Paul Craig Roberts should just chill, it's only the CONSTITUTION

he's getting shrill again...

The media is silent, Congress is absent, and Americans are distracted as George W. Bush openly prepares aggression against Iran.

US Navy aircraft carrier strike forces are deployed off Iran.

US Air Force jets and missile systems are deployed in bases in countries bordering or near to Iran.

US B-2 stealth bombers have been refitted to carry 30,000 pound "bunker buster" bombs.

The US government is financing terrorist and separatist groups within Iran.

US Special Forces teams are conducting terrorist operations inside Iran.

US war doctrine has been altered to permit first strike nuclear attack on Iran and other non-nuclear countries.

Bush's war threats against Iran have intensified during the course of this year. The American people are being fed a repeat of the lies used to justify naked aggression against Iraq.

golly gee... what's "distracting" us...?

Meanwhile the US media focuses on whether Republican Senator Larry Craig is a homosexual or has offended gays by denying to be one of them. The run-up for the public's attention is why a South Carolina beauty queen cannot answer a simple question about why her generation is unable to find the United States on a map.

oh... THAT... but, doggone it, sex in public toilets is just so FASCINATING, so TITILLATING, so, so... and being able to poke fun at a dumb blonde... i mean, how AMERICAN can you get...? isn't that kind of thing what we watch all those reality shows for...? c'mon, roberts... lighten up... it's the dog days of summer, fercryinoutloud... oh... what's that you say...?

Whatever form of government Bush is operating under, it is far outside an accountable constitutional democratic government. Bush has transitioned America to caesarism, and even if Bush leaves office in January 2009, the powers he has accumulated in the executive will remain. Unless Bush and Cheney are impeached and convicted, there is no prospect of the US Congress and federal judiciary ever again being co-equal branches of government.

there we go with that CONSTITUTION business again... what're we s'posed to do about it...? i mean, what's gonna happen is gonna happen, right...? no use getting all hot and bothered about something we can't do anything about anyway... which reminds me, i need to go get another cuppa coffee...

p.s. please note... i believe this post is the first time larry craig has been mentioned on this blog...

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