Wonkette
- Meet David Plouffe, the eerily quiet mastermind behind Barack Obama’s winning primary campaign. [Wall Street Journal]
- Israeli military exercises held over Greece and the Mediterannean signaled that the Israelis will be able to bomb Iran even if George Bush pusses out. [New York Times]
- Jim Webb sends a signal of his own, co-sponsoring a bill supporting exploration for natural gas off Virginia’s coast while the presumptive Democratic nominee says “a pox on your drilling.” [The Hill]
- Small midwestern towns wonder whether to rebuild or throw in the towel after recent tornadoes and floods. [Los Angeles Times]
- Michael Gerson would like to point out that Barack Obama is a SECRET LIBERAL. [Washington Post]
- Barack Obama has ruined the public financing system forever. [New York Times]
Plouffe is 41? I’d have guessed younger. He has that unsettling yet adorable man-boy thing going on (a la Johnny Edwards).
And they quote him in the article as saying, “Now let’s go win this f- thing.” How much do you wanna bet be actually just said “eff” and couldn’t bring himself to say a naughty word?
Quiet my ass. I get more emails a day from Plouffe than I get from people trying to sell me midget incest beastiality porn.
‘I didn’t want a screamer,’ Barack Obama says in lauding campaign manager David Plouffe’s low-key style.
Must…resist…too-easy joke…
There’s oil off the coast of Virginia? The only oil I can think of is cheap suntan oil skimming off the undulating flesh of Virginia residents at one of their many Heehaw beaches.
Oooh Mikey Gerson. You’re so scary. A secret LIBERAL. What secrets will the Bush (not the good variety) licker reveal? I hear that Barry’s half black.
You can fuel a battle group for a year with the oil floating around Norfolk and Newport News.
Spot the logical fallacies in this sentence:
“But Mr. Obama’s decision to opt out of public financing — along with the ability of the Internet to let candidates raise large sums of money from small donors — may do more to shatter the system than all of the loopholes it has spawned.”
RuperttheBear:
Don’t get me started.
JSDC007:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/52985
Hey Jimbo, why would you want to put gas rigs right smack in the middle of one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world? Applying your thinking, we can move your desk to the middle of the DC beltway.
SuperRounder: You took the words right out of my mouth.
“Flea season?”
Cool. But during his bass solos, will he be sporting Y-fronts or be au naturel?
I’m asking for a.. gay friend. Yes, I have a friend. He is gay. He will wish to know whether Flea will be tucked or free-balling.
SuperRounder: “…midget incest beastiality porn.”
Huh? All I get are e-mails from nice Nigerians with poor grammar but lots of money. And a comeon from the whores on Seventh Avenue. Oh… no, that wasn’t me. That was Paul Simon. But not the one who ran for President.
Life can be so complicated.
apropos of nothing, check out Larry Sinclair going nuts on this couple
http://themitchandnanshow.wordpress.com/2008/06/20/the-new-branch-laridian-police/
…who apparently were the ones who tipped the po-pos where that douchetard Sinclair was going to be.
Pluff can haz internets tradtions smarts. Numb3rs can no lye like Hils & MacNomonee.
RuperttheBear: Obama’s reliance on small donations is a danger to our loophole-based Republic.
Well, the Plouffe is in the pudding. What a contrast to HRC’s team. If Barry can put together a cabinet as well as this campaign team, he’ll make a fine, fine president. Just keep him away from the cigs and blow and things will be cool. Cold. Icy.
The midwest, despite floods, tornados, declining population (and possibly an invasion of Furries, not that there’s anything wrong with that *cough*) will keep on keeping on. After all, Global Warming will swallow the coasts, so there’s that. Blub.
4tehlulz: Letting people with no money give! An outrage! It’s like gambling addiction, “STOP ME BEFORE I DONATE TO OBAMA…AGAIN!” But…just one more…10-spot…for Hopey.
“Small midwestern towns wonder whether to rebuild or throw in the towel after recent tornadoes and floods”.
What the hell is wrong with you mid-western pussies? Start rebuilding right now, like the people of New Orleans did. Sure, god destroyed a few of your towns, because you were sinning too much, but you should have seen that coming. Knock off the ass fucking and get to work! Donations will be pouring in at any moment from all of the huge evangelical mega-churches (assuming you start killing off or imprisoning all the queers and liberals that brought gods judgement down on you). So cheer up and…well, you know, pull yourselves up by your own boot straps, whiners!
TGY: It’s true. Letting “voters” donate what they can may give them ideas about having influence; this is dangerous, as it represents a shift away from one of the founding principles of American democracy - that only the monied and well-lawyered can influence our representatives.
masterdebater: The preznit looked on them from an ae-ro-plane too. Don’t they realize they lost the election? What do they expect? I mean, losers have get back to behaving like losers. Otherwise my cake just doesn’t taste the same.
On the Bomb-Iran rehearsal by our Israeli overlords:
“There’s a lot of signaling going on at different levels.”
Larry Craig will be involved. Very comforting.
Somebody ought to tell Gerson that Obama has spent less time crossing the aisle because he’s on the RIGHT FUCKING SIDE OF THE AISLE TO BEGIN WITH!! In addition to which, I think it’s fair to say that generally Republicans are a lot less willing to work with Democrats than vice-versa.
nhunter: Gerson better be careful or he’ll be accused of being separated at birth from David Brooks.
We could all do a half hour of snarking on “liberal congressional overreach.” Overreach is what the Repubtards have done to their constituents. And “basing his candidacy on manifest weakness”? Sounds like at least he’s sticking to Harriet Christiansun’s talking points. Will he show up on Hopey’s Smear page next?
Fascinating how the right is turning their long held fear of the black man as sexual deviant into one of powerlessness. Dream on.
no shit it’s flea season. with two outdoor cats burning through the front line plus like it’s wash-n-go shampoo i’m walking around looking like i’m wearing pink polka dotted socks.
and fuck Jim Webb. is anyone still crazy enough to want him on the ticket with Barry?
Canuckledragger: I am surprised. Cuz, as I recall, you got your Wonkette 1.0 star with all followers, “no friends”……. You cool thang, you.
I’m just amazed the Gerson et al have the b***s to lecture anyone after f***ing up the world so completely over the past eight years. Don’t these people have any sense of shame?
Iggy Plop: I think it’s obvious by now that JW is not Obama’s VP candidate.
DoctorCulturae: Yea, I know I will sound like an America hater, but sometimes…just once in a while mind you…I get the feeling that Bush just doesn’t give a shit about his people. There, I said it. I mean, come on, those are red state people that are getting all wet. Stop fucking off at the ranch and get ‘em a towel George, for crisakes!
Iggy Plop: I found a flea on my dog last night. As she’s my first dog, that was also my first flea. I guess there will be more in 7-10 days.
Dr. Spaceman: you see one flea, you know then there roiling hordes under the surface. beware. beware.
DairyStateMom says it best:
As I posted over at Eric’s roundup…
DairyStateMom says it best:
“Okay, let me get this straight. John McCain has 527s who he “can’t control,” and takes all kinds of money and help from lobbyists, is a good guy because he supports public financing — except when he doesn’t want to follow the spending limits in the primary season, even though he opted in to public financing so he could get a loan to spend more money than public financing would allow him to spend.
“Barack Obama has a whole bunch of little donors, which is supposed to be the whole point of the public financing system, making little money more important than big money, and has expressly said he doesn’t want 527 ads or lobbyists’ money or help — and Obama is the sharp-elbowed Chicago political operator who’s throwing principle under the bus to get elected?
“I’m sorry, what planet are people living on?!?!?!?”
DairyStateDad: Dammit, I need to sign up for that remedial class in copying and pasting when I spam the comment-sphere with my wife’s brilliance!!!
“Small midwestern towns wonder whether to rebuild or throw in the towel after recent tornadoes and floods.
Well, these are red-staters, so you know they won’t take any government handouts. Big sale on bootstraps!