Wonkette
- After the May earthquake in China that killed thousands of children in collapsed schoolrooms, parents started complaining. And now we don’t hear anything about it because the state threw some complainers in jail and started a big propaganda campaign to get it out of the news. [New York Times]
- Bigwig Democratic donors are tired of being hit up for cash for both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. [Washington Post]
- RNC fundraising far outpaces DNC fundraising, but Barack Obama has personally raised lots more money than John McCain, and now McCain’s people argue that Obama will need to raise $200 million in the next four months. [The Hill]
- The number of Mexicans who became US citizens last year increased by nearly 50 percent. [Los Angeles Times]
- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s stock prices have taken a serious dive, leading to even more concern over the health of the mortgage market. Most people believe the government will step in if Fannie and Freddie’s situation gets really dire. [Los Angeles Times, Washington Post]
- John McCain might be a secret Panamanian after all. [New York Times]
DAILY BRIEFING
Looks like we’re gonna need some Activist Judges to ignore the clear text of the Constitution and retroactively declare Juan McCain eligible to be president.
Who knew that grieving parents of dead kids would take their complaints to the government?
As McCain’s supposed money advantage, he needs to outspend Obama 3 to 1 just to keep up with all his positions on the same subject.
ALIVE!: Nah, they’ll just move the Arnold Amendment through faster.
These GODDAMNIT Mexskins and Central “Americans” POURING over our southern border! TAKING OUR JOBS! Playing their GODDAMN Panamaian “music” and eyeballing OUR white wom . . . .
What?
It’s McCai . . . .
GODDAMNIT! Somebody call Faux News, quick!
“This (public) money will be ready for us to spend on day one,” Geez get you own unsuccessful slogans, Walnuts. BTW, someone at them CATO Institute just vomited in their Cherios.
Our Red Chinese overlords are the current Olympic gold medalists in making people disappear. Former winners include Argentina, Chile, and the Mexican Mafia.
I’m sure Carly Fiorina will cut his campaign coffers in half like she did to Hewlett-Packard’s stock. Money is a moot point because Insane McCain will die from a stroke in October.
I’m waiting for the tinfoil hat crowd to chime in that this is a conspiricy to put Nancy Pelosi in there.
The analysis, by Prof. Gabriel J. Chin, focused on a 1937 law that has been largely overlooked in the debate over Mr. McCain’s eligibility to be president. The law conferred citizenship on children of American parents born in the Canal Zone after 1904, and it made John McCain a citizen just before his first birthday. But the law came too late, Professor Chin argued, to make Mr. McCain a natural-born citizen.
“It’s preposterous that a technicality like this can make a difference in an advanced democracy,” Professor Chin said. “But this is the constitutional text that we have.”
Ah, how lucky to be white in America. If John McCain were a brown skinned Democrat, born of Hispanic-American parents working abroad in Panama, does anyone seriously believe there’s a snowball’s chance in Hell that conservatives would give him the same pass?
speaking of Fannie and Freddie: why not throw a bone to all of us that DIDN:T go bankrupt, get foreclosed, or get indicted? like, shave a quarter point off my mortgage or something?
thanks,
A Bitter
if one were a conspiracy theorist, one would imagine that Hillary’s secret plan to destroy Hopey’s chances is to suck all his money away to pay her own debt. If she cannot have the office, HE sure won’t.
But seriously, I was afraid this would happen. If people are giving to bail her out, they are not giving to him; and you know he is going to need it to counter the he’s-a-Muslim-terrorist ads that will be coming. This is not good.
I’ve kind of lost hope that Obama will win in November…
Deport Juan McCain!
If Fannie Mae died, do I still have to give her the money?
If Fannie Mae dies, do I still have to give her the money?
ALIVE!: By using the term “natural-born citizens” the founding fathers meant to prohibit test tube babies from becoming president.
It’s good to see sound legal research ratifying the correct appellation for the presumptive Republican candidate for president: “Panamanian strongman Juan McCain.”
There are two aspects of effective money management: acquiring it and then spending it wisely. Barry knows how to do both. Even if he underperforms on the first count, he’ll be just fine.
Twinkle Twinkle Lil Star: Juanito will always have a warm, comfy room and attendants, plus one square a day, in Hanoi.
Yeah, of course we don’t hear much about the destroyed schools in China.
I was watching one of those NHK programs on PBS, and they said that the Chinese Government forced its TV stations to air the same footage of Hu visiting the area over and over.
V572625694: My favorite nickname.
Has anyone noticed that McCain is looking more and more like Casper the Ghost??
Now if we could just get a copy of Obama’s actual birth certificate instead of that 2007 computer print-out abstracting information from a cert that was apparently “filed” but not “accepted.” Was Barry actually born in a home for unwed mothers in Canada?
Bob Barr may be the only natural-born American on the ballot in November.
Gormogon: Why go that far? Half the country doesn’t think Hawaii is part of the US anyway. I’d say there’s even money on more people in the 48 believing Ontario is a US state than Hawaii.
Somewhere out there, Karl Rove is looking at how the Chinese handled PR for the earthquake and cursing himself for not thinking of it right after Katrina.
Guppy06: Most people in the U.S. who have heard of Ontario think it is an airport in Southern California. Others think of the former NFL running back and unsuccessful Whizzinator user. There is Amerikkka, Canada and Messico and the last two are just places out there that we might have seen on a map back in grammar school.
Which is why we give it those cool place names like Toronto, Canada.
John Mc Cain III’s Secretly Panamanian Debut > The Wrens’s Secret Canadian Comeback
/but I’m still not voting for him
//hates the Wrens & John Mc Cain
///I imagine the first, more than the second, will further prevent me from getting in Megan Mc Cain’s pantaloons