Wonkette
- Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama gave each other golden showers of praise in a show of unity yesterday. [Washington Post]
- It’s still not clear how and if Barack Obama will be dealing with Bill Clinton and his Clinton Legacy. [Politico]
- North Korea esploded a big tower at its nuclear power plant in an awesome display of international comity. [New York Times]
- In March’s presidential election, things were looking pretty good for Zimbabwe. Today, that has all turned to crap as voters are escorted to the polls in a “run-off” that does not include the opposition candidate. [Washington Post]
- Why won’t Thabo Mbeki, the South African president, do anything about this sham election? Because he believes he can persuade Robert Mugabe to do the right thing because they are such great pals, or something. [New York Times]
- And in a final bit of tragic Friday news, a levee holding back flood waters in Missouri broke. [Reuters]
Thank you Sara. The image of the Demrats giving golden showers has made laugh and feel queasy at the same time. I can only admire the depths of depravity of your mind.
BTW, I think that if it did happen, David Vitter and probably more than a few Repubs would not request but demand a front row seat.
It may have been symbolic, but I sure likes me a good asplosion.
And sorry, can’t snark on Zimbabwe. All shall worship Mugabe and despair.
Only a leader like Katherine Harris could bring Zimbabwe back together.
ThreeFingersNeat: Now the world is that he Mugabe supporters will beat the shit out of anyone who doesn’t have a purple finger on election day (because, of course, anyone who doesn’t vote supports the opposition).
Don’t you just love it when a voting security measure gets co-opted for political and criminal ends.
Which race or ethnicity is going to serve Hollywood as the embodiment of pure tear-the-wings-off-flies evil once we lose our beloved North Koreans, boo-hoo? Can’t use the Albanians, ChiComs or Libyans any more. Hey, what are the Germans up to these days?
Dear Bill Clinton: Stop being such a sullen attention whore. Seriously.
This pretty much underscores that it wasn’t *sexism* that did the Clinton Primary run in, it was how the Clinton dynamic wears on everyone in their needs to be so important to the point in which there is a silent backlash; ways people undermine the CLintons until they fail. Who in their right mind like emotional blackmail? That’s the CLintons’ M.O.
Can you imagine if Obama did lose? Would people be wondering how Obama feels or whether he is being treated fairly or what can they do to massage him into helping out with the party?
Clinton: Is this about the country or you? The country or YOU?
Who cares? Gwenn Ifill! I needs more of an EYEFULL! Most of my questions for Gwenn revolve around her undergarments, or lack thereof.
Perhaps the third time will be the charm for the Army Corps of Engineers ( snicker ) and the imbeciles that build homes on the riverfront.
Hah! SKS is too innocent-looking for the ‘golden showers’ line. This arouses my suspicions yet again that SKS is really Ken in disguise.
Also, Bill Clinton sulking somewhere in a huff is probably better for Barry than Bill Clinton on the campaign team. ’cause, you know, he did such a great job for Hills.
Can we bribe other people to do what we want like the North Koreans? It probably costs less than building weapons to kill them, which is the fundamental drive of capitalism.
The Real JR Revisted: This is yet another reason why she shouldn’t be on the ticket. It’s all about her…me, me, me (& Bill). The Clintons have just about worn moderate Dems out. With 8 years of the scandals in the 1990s to all the drama in this primary. The past couple weeks with nary a mention of either Clinton was so nice! They just annoy the hell out of me. They pretty much have left me snarkless this morning.
The fact that this Zimbabwean election is referred to as a “one-person run off” is one of those laugh/sob facts.
TGY: For example, if the Nestle could make more money by killing people and taking their goods than selling them chocolate, our lifespans would be short indeed. Chocolate is a cheap price to pay. Mmmm.
The Real JR Revisted: Bill answered that question in 94. It’s about him.
Why can’t we blow up Mugabe and Bill Clinton and let Barry O and Hilz put out the fire with their golden showers?
Brutus Harlot: yes, and and Hillz are really the stereotypical bad Baby Boomers: self-centered, huge sense of entitlement, stuck in the past, hypocritical about just about everything, out of touch with reality, very good at revisionist history, etc etc. There are lots of Boomers who are not like that, but these two are really the poster children for why it is time to move on. The 1990s are over, and they were not as great for everyone as the Clintons would like to believe. I don;t think he will, but I still have middle-of-the-night paranoia that Barry will ask Hilz to be VP. Pleasepleaseplease nooooooooooooo.
and, you know, maybe we should have had Bill ride the Red Line more often during his wife’s campaign. He might have been distracted enough by the Metro whores and Brazilian sex trips to STFU.
Quandary? The Clintons are like Cousin Eddie and Katherine from the “Vacation” movies. You just intentionally forget to invite them because they define obnoxious behavior. That shouldn’t be a quandary. The so-called Clinton legacy imploded when the true values of stocks became visible, thereby exposing the mechanism responsible for the “good times”. Fuck the Clintons. I wouldn’t even let them serve hors-d’ouevres.
Golden showers, meh. Did they exchange terrorist fist jabs?
Doglessliberal: I thought it was set that it would be Bayh, but obamabayh08.com no longer directs to Obama’s website. I guess they had a little fight.
On the North Korean story. Click through to the related piece entitled ‘Bush Rebuffs Hard-Liners to Ease North Korean Curbs’. It features Ol’ Man Cheney having one of his snarling tatrums and a picture of Condi in a sensational blue pants suit doing the ‘Happy, Happ, Joy, Joy’ dance
Apparently the Reagan administration decided that the best way to evaluate whether levees should be reinforced was to institute a cost verse benefit ratio of 1:1. It’s just that simple! Ronald saved the government tons of money by not not having to pay for all that unnecessary construction.
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977380685
Brutus Harlot: oooh a fight between teh prettehs!
Monsieur Grumpe: I hate that man more and more with each passing year
NotUrEvryDayWEzl:
Just imagine after 20 years what hellish catastrophes will be attributed to the current dumb shit in charge.
Yes, yes, all the peeing and mutual fisting is very nice, but it’s still not enough for me to feel good about Hilz. Let me say this, though–I will totally and enthusiastically support the Dem “Dream Ticket” if Madame flies to Zimbabwe and gives Afrihitler a messy steamer.
Damn, I was was psyched for a minute because the one liner made it sound like North Korea was kicking it Chernobyl style instead of just announcing that they will now work on nuclear weapons in secret bamboo meth labs instead of in public. Not that I like human tragedy, but apocalyptic desolation always makes me a little wet.
WadISay: I have a feeling that once Mugabe gets the screws in a little deeper, we’ll just sell him weapons, lie that he harbors terrorists 6 months later, and then bomb the shit out of him up until the day Hopey gets inaugerated.
Doglessliberal: It’s like our “two party” system!
Thank God It’s The End Days!
WIDTAP: Mr. Mbeki and company took a thriving industrialized nation and wrecked the economy and supporting systems. I’m not sure he is the one to help out in the election, this should be a total african affair. Left to their own devices it is frightening.