Wonkette
- Remember how this was going to be a substantive presidential campaign based on the issues rather than moronic attacks on character? Well, forget that. [Politico, The Hill]
- Now that everybody in California is broke and homeless, demand at food pantries has increased dramatically. [Los Angeles Times]
- Meet the Ford Flex, the most comically awkward-looking automotive hybrid since the Subaru Brat. [Wall Street Journal]
- For many black voters in the South, “racial solidarity with Obama does not automatically trump apathy or despair.” [Washington Post]
- Three suicide bombers killed 28 people in Baghdad as Shi’ites flooded the city for their annual pilgrimage to the Kadhamiya shrine. [Reuters]
- Now even healthy businesses can’t get loans from the bank, on account of the credit crunch. [New York Times]
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like we did last summer!
Yeaaah, let’s twist again,
like we did last year!
Do you remember when,
things were really hummin’,
Yeaaaah, let’s twist again,
twistin’ time is here!
McCain’s attacks are cheap, shallow, tacky and at their core very dishonest… which means he may finally have hit on the perfect formula to excite the Republican party’s base.
>>Remember how this was going to be a substantive presidential campaign based on the issues rather than moronic attacks on character?
It was? The only surprising thing is that WALNUTS is playing the treason card himself.
How long before Mccain just flat out screams at a press conference: “Good God, people! That man is black!!! What more do I have to say?”
I admire that “get out the vote” volunteer’s tenacity at registering the old guy at the bus stop, but if it takes you several efforts to get him to register, do you really think he’s going to get himself to the polling place and vote on election day?
Warren Brown liked the Flex — I was appalled at its ugly design. It looks like a very pregnant Honda Element.
Re: the Ford Flex. Quoth Ford’s design chief J Mays, Ford wanted a vehicle that provided family transportation but “didn’t smell like diapers.” I guess that means David Vitter won’t be buying one.
You know, that Ford Flex looks frighteningly familiar. Back in my day, when Eddie Murphy was funny and Michael Jackson was black there was a vehicle called a Station Wagon. It was used to haul kids and crap all over the place and didn’t cost an arm or a leg to fuel up and oh so common.
Yeah, Wall Street. Way to fuck things up. Instead of choking on credit, you’re now cutting off the flow of bucks. Unlike the 1930s, this time can you just run the angry mob of fat bitters armed with pitchforks, torches and lots of rope run amok up and down the “street” to thin out the herd?
Nice Mad Men shout out!
Now even healthy businesses can’t get loans from the bank, on account of the credit crunch.
Maybe this will warn the world’s corporations against using Black magic. Did no one see The Craft? Everything you send out comes back to you three times!
The Ford Flex looks like the kind of car that, if I were ever to buy it, or would ever think it would be okay to buy it, it would indicate my need to commit seppuku to regain my honor.
I predict the Flex will see every bit of the success of the mighty Pontiac Aztek.
Political Addict: I love Warren Brown!
You missed William Kristol’s “piece” in the NYT this morning?
He’s still a douche bag. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/28/opinion/28kristol.html?ref=opinion
THE world will end on January 20.
RuperttheBear:
OMG… he’s trying the “I’m not a dweeb since I like baseball” play that was perfected by George Will. Face it Kristol, you will never be as cool as George Will… which is a pretty pathetic thing to say, if you think about it.
I predict the Ford Flex will be a huge hit among McCain voters, who have no desire more pressing than to ride in a hearse.
This morning, John McCain stated: “My friends, the Flex is a nice car and a step in the right direction. However, I will continue to drive my REO Speedwagon. It is large and can carry much applesauce. I too would like a new car, but I’d rather get a new one as President.”
That nice small businessman who couldn’t get a loan in the NYTimes piece was trying to finance a robot army to enslave us all! The banks saved us. Once again.
The Ford Flex reminds me of the car Homer Simpson designed.
the Flex looks more like a hearse than the PT Cruiser, both horrendous looking cars.
RuperttheBear: That “column” made me actually feel better about voting for the hopemeister…
Did anyone else watch McCain being all nasty on This Week? Despite the loony attacks and snide demeanor the really disturbing thing about the interview was the fact that flies were literally buzzing around McCain’s head the whole time. Do we need any more proof that the man is a reanimated corpse? It not as clear on the internet video, but check out part 1 around 5:43…
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video_log/2008/07/mccain_on_this_week_3.html
the Flex looks more like a hearse than the PT Cruiser, both ugly cars.
With the Flex, Ford proves once again that what American wants to buy what Ford wants to build is cars with great fuel efficiency horsepower.
All hail the new Ford hybrid.
With the Flex, Ford proves once again that what American wants to buy (what Ford wants to build) is cars with great fuel efficiency (horsepower).
I miss submit preview .
PoliticalGraffiti: I wouldn’t be caught dead in one.
Generally speaking, I think it’s a bad sign when you lay off hundreds of workers before the vehicle really even gets out for sale. They had already cut a production shift six days before that WSJ article was published.
From July 22:
http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/story.html?id=88f4ed4b-45bd-46cb-acea-4f71b76b9bbd
Ford curbs Flex production
500 jobs evaporate as third shift cancelled
CHCH News
Published: Tuesday, July 22, 2008
HAMILTON - Ford confirmed it is suspending plans to create hundreds of jobs in Oakville, Ont., cancelling a planned third shift to create the new Flex vehicle, the company confirmed late Tuesday afternoon.
The Canadian Auto Workers said they feel as though they have been hit with a sledgehammer and described the news as being blindsiding.
Hundreds of people were scheduled to start working in Oakville next week to begin production on a third shift for the Flex line….
Wow. Later in the article:
CHCH-TV reported Tuesday that since Flex production began in the late spring, Ford has sold approximately 500 of the 13,000 or so that were produced.
RuperttheBear: Correction. Kristol’s world will end on January 20. And not a minute too soon.
queeraselvis v 2.0: No, I’ll be there to stroke his hair and dry his tears. “It’s all right, William. It’s all right.”
I just made myself sick.
Endowed with one of the silliest names in the U.S. auto market, the Flex is an automotive platypus.
If they made one, I would buy a Toyota Platypus!
Oooh, our girl Monica Goodling is back in the news this morning. Turns out one really shouldn’t select Justice Department employees based on their views of G.W. Bush, sexual preference, and views on abortion and all. Regents University Law School must have not taught employment and civil rights law.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/28/AR2008072801007.html?hpid=topnews
When they build the border fence with mexico, the entire state of california should be on the mexican side of the fence. It is time to give it back to the mexican’s, we’ve raped and pillaged all we can get out of it and I don’t want the californian’s moving to my state with there hands out.
NedPepper: spelling———–their