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Cheney was near a terrorist bombing and survived. I can’t overexaggerate how much this disappointed me to hear. About the surviving I mean. That and a Republican memo and W’s stupid wife, now on Ill-literates.com!

First on the Stepford Wife. Laura has already shown us just how vapid and useless her brain is but on Larry King last night she gave us more. Here’s a sampling:

And many parts of Iraq are stable now. But, of course, what we see on television is the one bombing a day that discourages everybody.

Isn’t 1 enough? These aren’t multivitamins you prick. And 34 of them have actually gone off this week. Apparently she’s as good at math as her husband is at human speech. And even when just one goes off people die. But we wouldn’t want her to get too negative would we?

When asked how she and W cope with Iraq this ivory tower whore had this exchange with the always insipid and vastly overrated interviewer, King:
We go to church. We exercise together, we watch movies together. We do all the other things that — watch baseball on television, for instance — that we both find relaxing.

KING: Do you — do you talk about it a lot?

BUSH: We talk about it a lot. I mean, we live it.

NO YOU DON”T!

People actually there live it. Their families live it to a large extent. You are living nothing but the closeted life of your mother in law who among other contemptible proofs of her isolation and disregard once said that the New Orleans refugees were living the high life getting out of all those lousy areas they come from.

I guess you have to be a bit daft and clueless to live your life alongside His Impedimence, incurious George, but just shut up. At least Hillary had a clue what was going on while being married to the President. Just be Mrs Stupid, nod and smile at foreign dignitaries at balls and galas, and then go home and masturbate to Michael Moore.
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Mitt Romney is running for Pres on the Republican ticket. If you ever had any doubts about how politicians are handled, how phony their campaign spiels and images are, or how conservatives don’t really believe in anything, take a look at these power point presentation slides recently leaked from the Romney campaign. They detail his campaign strategies and pitfalls to avoid that include his hair being too perfect. Quotes are from the Boston Globe

The plan, for instance, indicates that Romney will define himself in part by focusing on and highlighting enemies and adversaries, such common political targets as “jihadism,” the “Washington establishment,” and taxes, but also Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, “European-style socialism,” and, specifically, France. Even Massachusetts, where Romney has lived for almost 40 years, is listed as one of those “bogeymen,” alongside liberalism and Hollywood values.

And Romney has already been out there echoing his handlers suggestions. Even on the France thing. France? Think about that. Using the name France and referencing how screwed up they are is actually a part of his strategy to get elected. You expect Hillary and liberalism. Hack right wing classics of diversionary strategy. BUt let the France thing go already.

The tell him the talking points studies show will give him a chance and he repeats them. He’s already been at echoing some of these.

The blueprint also describes political assets and vulnerabilities of McCain and Giuliani, who lead Romney in the polls.

McCain is described as a war hero and maverick with a compelling narrative and a reputation for wit, authenticity, and straight talk. But he’s also seen as “too Washington,” “too close to [Democratic] Left,” an “uncertain, erratic, unreliable leader in uncertain times.” “Does he fit The Big Chair?” the document asks. The plan calls McCain, 70, a “mature brand” and raises questions about whether he could handle the rigors of leading the free world.

“Brand.” It’s all product and it’s about buying and selling. Not only do they say what they are supposed to say but the people who tell them what to say don’t give a damn about anything but selling product.

Giuliani is called an outside-the-Beltway rock star and truth teller who earned the nation’s trust for his leadership of New York City’s response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. But he is described as a one-dimensional Lone Ranger whose social views — he supports abortion rights and civil unions for gay couples — could destroy the “GOP brand.” “We can’t disqualify Dems like Hillary on social issues ever again” if Giuliani is the nominee, the document states.

The plan also touches on what it calls Giuliani’s ethical issues, including his relationship with Bernard Kerik , former New York police commissioner who withdrew from consideration to become US homeland security secretary amid allegations of improprieties. It raises Giuliani’s “personal political liabilities,” an apparent reference to his three marriages and bitter public divorce from his second wife, Donna Hanover.

There’s that brand word again. And notice how “truth teller,” almost sounds like a curse word coming from these guys?

It is clear that Romney’s campaign operatives plan to make sure that voters are familiar with the perceived weaknesses of McCain and Giuliani and conduct opposition research on the candidates. But the campaign, according to the blueprint, also wants to avoid attacking either man too directly or harshly, in part because Romney wants their supporters to ultimately shift to him. At a campaign stop in New Hampshire last week, he called McCain and Giuliani friends and national heroes.

Even when they’re nice it’s calculated.

Enmity toward France, where Romney did his Mormon mission during college, is a recurring theme of the document. The European Union, it says at one point, wants to “drag America down to Europe’s standards,” adding: “That’s where Hillary and Dems would take us. Hillary = France.” The plan even envisions “First, not France” bumper stickers.

Hillary = France? Did Laura Bush do these calculations?

But this is my favorite part of this Republican’s strategy to succeed Bush:

Like every Republican in the race, Romney faces the delicate task of how to talk about President Bush, whom the country gives low job-approval ratings .

But the plan lists two ways Romney can set himself apart from Bush. The first says, simply, “Intelligence.”

That’s pretty funny right there.

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Huffington Post. Cheney made an unscheduled visit to military base in Afghanistan. And the Taliban tried to blow it up. Reportedly, at least according to the Taliban whom on a Web site used by militants said “a mujahid … carried out a suicide attack in front of the second gate of the Bagram Air Base. … The target was Bush’s vice president, Dick Cheney.”

“We knew that Dick Cheney would be staying inside the base.” “The attacker was trying to reach Cheney.”

Makes me kind of want to go all John Walker Lindh.

Say what you want about the Taliban: They’re harsh on women, controlled by a hateful religion, have bad hygiene, whatever. But these guys know how to choose a Vice Presidential target to try and kill. If only they were better at it.

I’m not kidding.

When I heard this I jumped out of my seat waving my arm out of frustration because someone got close but failed. But I should have known. He’s immortal. It’s part of his deal with The Lord Of Lies. But it’s unfair to tease me this way.

DAMN YOU TALIBAN!

How you tease.

Cheney said they tried to blow him up because, “I think they clearly try to find ways to question the authority of the central government.”

I think he’s wrong here. I think they want to find ways to blow Dick Cheney up. They are not alone and I think in this shared common ground perhaps many Americans who would also like to blow Dick Cheney up and the Taliban can come together. We have this bond now. They’ve been humanized just a bit and that’s the first step towards working out your shit with people.

They didn’t actually come that close but they did kill a bunch of other people Just how many is under dispute. Afghani officials say 23 people were killed, including 20 Afghan workers at the base. Another 20 people were injured, they said.

NATO’s ISAF said initial reports were that three people were killed, including a U.S. soldier, an American contractor and a South Korean soldier.

AP reporters at the scene saw 12 bodies.

A Major there noted that Cheney’s overnight stay occurred only after a meeting with Karzai was canceled because of bad weather and that the Taliban couldn’t have been targeting Cheney. “The vice president wasn’t even supposed to be here overnight, so this would have been a surprise to everybody.”

If had been worse for Dick do you think he would have pulled a Dante and been all, “I wasn’t even supposed to be here today?”

By the by: When Bush was told the first thing he asked was how Cheney was. This according to Tony Snow. Snow did not say whether or not Bush expressed interest in anyone else dying.

In another example of the Brits being better than us Prince Harry is going to Iraq. He’s following in the tradition of his father and grandfather who served in similar capacity. This differs from our tradion of chickenhawk pieces of shite like Cheney, one of a long line of warmongers using the military to further their political agendas while they and their families evade service.

Harry probably won’t see major action but he is a Troop Commander and has trained to command 11 soldiers and four Scimitar tanks so I don’t think he’ll be hiding in a bunker either.

This comes on the heels of Britain announcing a drawdown of troops leading to getting out in 2008. Latvia and some of other smaller countries like poland are following suit. Kindasleezy Rice said this was a sign of how good things were going in Iraq.

You know? That they felt they could leave now. Just not enough to do anymore what with the end of civil war and sectarian violence, the lack of ethnic cleansing, the draught between soldiers dying, the autonomous Iraqi police force running so efficiently, and the fully functioning democracy.

Nothing to see here people.

I bet she tells boyfriends she’s never masturbated too.
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Click here
to see a compilation of Faux News propaganda attempt to get an early start at undermining and mischaracterizing Obama. They’ve been going on about such things as his middle name being Hussein, his smoking cigerettes, and his time in Muslim school which they exaggerated.

I think maybe they’re a wee bit scared.

But they are laying off Hillary who herself seems more focused on criticizing Obama than the Bush administration or war. Besides this making her more dead to me than she was, and I think ultimately hurting her already doomed campaign, I think this is because Faux feels the same way I do about her chances. They want her clearing the Democratic field because like me, despite her overwhelming lead in the polls, Faux has gotten one thing right. Hillary Clinton has a snowballs chance in Dick Cheney’s office of getting anywhere near the White House ever again.

Unlike me I don’t think they believe she will be decimated in the Primaries. No one believes that. She has a huge lead in the polls I hear. Clear frontrunner. Obama is the only one with a shot and he’s still far behind if gaining.

Forget all that. She will barely get out of Iowa and N Hampshire a year from now. I’m probably going to be wrong about this but I’m sticking to it. Her campaign is an illusion.

And it seems Hollywood is very torn between her and their new wonderboy Barack. All this glitterati attention he’s been getting lately might actually hurt rhim. He’d better cut down on the gala fundraisers and hanging out with Spielberg and Aniston. Or Steviffer. Remember there are alot of loony hypocrits in the South and Midwest who hate Hollywood and all it represents even as they go see its mostly lousy movies and mimic fashions and trends hollywood advertises. So do the rest of us but we don’t then run around giving them the evil eye because they’re cock blocking Jesus.

But accept for the Hollywood stuff all this does kind of make me want to root for the guy. Even CNN pulled that Osama instead of Obama thing. So alot of people are scared of him. Of course that could mean he’ll wind up like MLK or Bobby Kennedy if he does get the nomination and looks like he could win.

But even that could be a nice wake up call for this country that sooner or later will get its reason to do as LBJ once feared they would and jump the fences and lynch their President.

But check out the link above. Amazing and important issues raised there like “would you vote for a smoker?” And Faux News is the self imposed “Home of the 2008 election,” as the disgusting puss brained blonde on the video points out at least twice.

[image:221:l] Not surprisingly Dick Cheney has again revealed himself as a detached, arrogant dick of Mobian proportions.

From Huffington Post

Satan’s gruff handmaiden and partner in inconceivable moral indecencies was on with the Wolfman on CNN and responded to criticism, indeed the thought of anyone even criticizing him regardless of content, thusly.

Wolfy stated and asked the following?

Here’s what Jim Webb, senator from Virginia said in the Democratic response last night — he said, “The president took us into this war recklessly. We are now, as a nation, held hostage to the predictable and predicted disarray that has followed.”

And it’s not just Jim Webb; it’s some of your good Republican friends in the Senate and the House are now seriously questioning your credibility, because of the blunders and the failures. Gordon Smith…

CHENEY: Wolf, Wolf, I simply don’t accept the premise of your question. I just think it’s hogwash.

He doesn’t accept the premise of the question therefore he doesn’t have to engage in rational defense, of which he knows he can’t win. Plus in the mind of this elitist, ceo sodomizing, half human-half avatar of unpronouncable evil of lore hybrid, crticism is just hogwash. Forget the content, and definitely forget a reasoned response. he doesn’t have to have reasons. He’s Vice president with a capitol V for vice and a master of treachery and deceipt. It’s what he does. It’s who he is. Don’t question him.

On not finding Bin Laden he had this to say. “Well, he’s — obviously, he’s well hidden. We’ve been looking for him for some time…he’s not putting out videos, the way he did oftentimes in the past.”

So if he were say a porn star we’d have him? Or maybe getting airplay on VH1? Oooh he’s hiding. The most advanced technological and surveillence backbone any nation has ever possessed just can’t deal with a man playing hiding and seek. Oh yeah and we were more concerned with oil in Iraq. Fuck 9-11.

Some other nuggets of pathological evil from Satan’s better half.

CHENEY: We have successfully defended the country for over five years against any further attack. They’ve tried, we know, repeatedly — the president talked about it last night in his speech.

Then of course it’s true. Just like when in last years speech Bush said we’d never raise troop levels in Iraq.

We know they tried last summer to capture airliners coming out of the UK and to blow them up over the United States or over the Atlantic. There have been numerous attacks have been disrupted.

Yeah but not by us or our half-assed Homeland Security dept. And of course there’s no proof of most of the other claims of thwarted attacks.

If you had asked, shortly after 9/11, what the odds were that we could go better than five years without another attack on the homeland, I don’t think anybody would have been willing to take that bet.

Really? Considering there had been only 1 other, both at the WTC, in hundreds of years, I think I woulld have taken that bet. Actually I predicted we’d seen the last of it in America for at least a few years right after 9-11 when everyone was panicking and letting Cheney run rampant over civil liberties and Iraq.

On Hussein:

CHENEY: He had corrupted the entire effort to try to keep him contained. He was bribing senior officials of other governments. The Oil-for-Food Program had been totally undermined. And he had, in fact, produced and used weapons of mass destruction previously, and he retained the capability to produce that kind of stuff in the future.

Only when he had English and American help. But let’s forget that and make sure it doesn’t come up in his trial by not trying him for most of what he did since it would embarrass us and our chief ally.

BLITZER: How worried are you of this nightmare scenario, that the U.S. is building up this Shiite-dominated Iraqi government with an enormous amount of military equipment, sophisticated training, and then in the end, they’re going to turn against the United States?

CHENEY: Wolf, that’s not going to happen. The problem is, you’ve got –

BLITZER: They’re — warming up to Iran and Syria right now.

CHENEY: Wolf, you can come up with all kinds of what-ifs; you’ve got to be deal with the reality on the ground. The reality on the ground is, we’ve made major progress. We’ve still got a lot of work to do. There’s a lot of provinces in Iraq that are relatively quiet.

If they dealt with reality on the ground this wouldn’t be happening because it was they who didn’t listen to all the what-ifs to begin with.

But the biggest problem we face right now, is the danger than the United States will validate the terrorist’s strategy, that in fact what will happen here, with all of the debate over whether or not we ought to stay in Iraq, where the pressure is from some quarters to get out of Iraq, if we were to do that, we would simply validate the terrorist’s strategy, that says the Americans will not stay to complete the task –

Again, it’s the weak-kneed liberals fault if we fail. Just like in Vietnam. Amazing how that always works that way.

CHENEY: That we don’t have the stomach for the fight. That’s the biggest threat.

Oh my fucking god!

BLITZER: Do you think Hillary Clinton would make a good president?

CHENEY: No, I don’t.

BLITZER: Why?

CHENEY: Because she’s a Democrat.

You’re the Socrates of our time Dick. What a reasoned debate.

On John McCain:

BLITZER: He said, the other day — he said, “The president listens too much to the vice president. Of course, the president bears the ultimate responsibility, but he’s been very badly served by both the vice president and, most of all, the secretary of Defense.” That was John McCain.

CHENEY: So?

Touche Dick. Touche.

BLITZER: He said, about the former Defense secretary, “Rumsfeld will go down in history, along with NcNamara, as one of the worst secretaries of Defense –”

CHENEY: I just fundamentally disagree. You heard my speech, when Don retired. I think he’s done a superb job.

You heard me. I said he was good. Therefor he’s good. I’m the Vice president. I’m filthy rich. Who are the critics to criticize me. If I say something that should be the end of it.

BLITZER: You know, we’re out of time, but a couple of issues I want to raise with you: your daughter, Mary. She’s pregnant. All of us are happy she’s going to have a baby. You’re going to have another grandchild. Some of the — some critics are suggesting — for example, a statement from someone representing Focus on the Family, “Mary Cheney’s pregnancy raises the question of what’s best for children. Just because it’s possible to conceive a child outside of the relationship of a married mother and father doesn’t mean that it’s best for the child.” Do you want to respond to that?

CHENEY: No.

BLITZER: She’s, obviously, a good daughter –

CHENEY: I’m delighted I’m about to have a sixth grandchild, Wolf.

And obviously I think the world of both my daughters and all of my grandchildren. And I think, frankly, you’re out of line with that question.

BLITZER: I think all of us appreciate –

CHENEY: I think you’re out of line.

BLITZER: We like your daughters. Believe me, I’m very sympathetic to Liz and to Mary. I like them both. That was a question that’s come up, and it’s a responsible, fair question.

CHENEY: I just fundamentally disagree with you

In other words it’s not something he can reconcile with his base so like anything else he can’t handle talking rationally about, most things that is, he doesn’t want to talk about it. He’ll continue to use that base who do nothing but talk about it though when it comes to other people and galvanizes right wing voters.

Let’s wind up with the soft stuff (ph)– Nancy Pelosi. What was it like sitting with her last night as opposed to Dennis Hastert?

CHENEY: I prefer Dennis Hastert, obviously. I like having a fellow Republican in the Speaker’s chair. Nancy’s now the speaker of the House. We had a very pleasant evening.

Translation: I hate her for being different and I raped her until she bled and begged for mercy. If she talks we’ll kill her children.

[image:188:l] In an effort to destract myself from the embarrasment of the Mets pathetic albeit predictable NLCS showing here’s some political ranting I’ve been meaning to do.

Dick Cheney said the war in Iraq is going “remarkably well.” Rick Santorum compared our efforts in Iraq to the Lord Of The Rings with terrorists being the eye of Mordor and Iraq being the decoy drawing attention from Frodo and Sam making their way to Mount Doom.

Disconnect anyone?

And how about Mark Foley, Dennis Hastert and the rest of NAMPLA (North American Man Page Love Association)?

More proof that conservatives care more about fetuses than actual children or teenagers?

Or a Republican attempt to capture the heady atmosphere of the ancient Greek philosophers who appreciated the aesthetic qualities of the young male form?

Now Foley is playing the great American game of poor me trying to play the victim and whining about being sexually abused by a priest and having alcohol problems. I’m so sick of this bullshit. More and more we are a nation of crybabies who can’t stand up and take responsibility for their actions. Molested by a priest?

Get the fuck in line sissy boy.

Everybody who does anything wrong has issues in their past they could blame. You’re like 50 fracking years old. Get a handle on your shit and don’t screw with other people. Come on people like this are just weak and gutless and lack the desire to change or overcome their shit. They prefer to wallow in it and use it as an excuse to do whatever pleases them for the moment.

He’s about to tell the archdoicese of Miami the name of the guy who filled him with the holy spirit, if you know what I’m saying, thusly creating a new focus of shame to replace himself. This pussy boys attorney said, “This is all part of the healing process for Mark Foley. He thinks it’s important to go ahead and bring this information out and hope and encourage other people who have been similarly abused to go ahead and come forward.”

And we’re all about the healing process of Mark Foley the guy who has abused his political position as a Congressman to harass and exploit underage kids.

As long as you’re ok Mark.

Little prick.

The attorney also had the nerve to tell us that those who have doubted Foley’s history of being abused are going to regret it. “It’s going to be very clear in the coming days that it is a fact as opposed to any possible allegations that it was a fantasy or something made up for political purposes,” Richman said.

As if it alters what he did.

It’s just another lawyer/politician ploy to recast the story in their terms. Instead of it being about his transgressions it becomes about whether he can prove there were transgressions against him. If the priestly vestments fit we must acquit.

But it shouldn’t matter. And Hastert and the others didn’t know about his past anyway. And how do we know he wasn’t asking for it?*

I mean come on. A young boy hanging around priests? He knew the risks.*

And then the GOP hate machine tries to infer that not only is this somehow Democrats fault because the timing is just too coincidental, but also suggesting that they couldn’t deal with this appropriately because they were afraid to appear homophobic.

THEY FRACKING BASE ONE THIRD OF THEIR POLITICAL PLATFORM ON BEING GOD DAMNED HOMOPHOBIC!

Now I feel as much sympathy for the abused as anyone. I consider myself a student of the mind and its many levels and understand that we are products of our past. I’m certainly no fan of priests in general much the pigs who molest children. It’s all very sad. But any reasonably educated, mature adult has no excuse to continue the cycle of abuse, or to visit their pain on others no matter what was done. There is a point where you have to suck it up and deal with it. Get over it or put a bullet in your head. Whine about it in the night if you must. Do some hallucigenics. Overeat. Self flaggelate in the name of Jesus.

Whatever.

But keep the pain to ourself or your therapist.

Foley’s an ass and he wants our sympathy now.

He’s not getting mine because he knows better and he didn’t care until he got caught.

Of course the Foley fall out is not helping the Republican mid term efforts as we near election day. But there are alot of close races still in contention and I remain cautiously optimistic that the Dems can get a enough seats to start throwing some weight around in 07. Of course the pussies won’t move for impeachment, but maybe some more hearings of an embarrasing nature. Round up all those generals who are fed up with this administrations** incompetence. Maybe a hearing or two on the increase of disease and asthma and its environmental connections. The White House ties to Jack Abramoff. Whatever. Just put more heat on.
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Why the hell are people getting on Madonna’s case about adopting that kid from Malawi? Now there is talk of legal action as social service and other agencies question the legality of the adoption. They are concerned she didn’t go through all the normal steps and that her and her hubby Guy Ritchie weren’t evaluated to see wheather or not they’d be able to proved a suitable home.

Yeah let me see if I understand this. They’re not sure Madonna can provide a better, safer home than an orphanage in Africa?

Michael Jackson could do better by this boy than he’d likely get staying where he was. His own fatehr knew that and wholeheartedly supported the move. If I have any criticism it’s in leaving the dad behind.

Set him up in London. Let him be in the picture with the agreement you and the director nobody cares about do the primary childrearing. Seems kind of cruel to use his spawn and let him wallow in misery.
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Bill O”reilly said women are in no danger during pregnancy under any circustances so there are no grounds for abortion in any case.

He continues to live on as proof to the contrary.
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*Just kidding.

**This is my one thousandth use of the words “this administration,” in the past 6 years.