Wonkette
- Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf addressed the nation on television and said he would resign today. He’ll stay on until they find another President, which must happen in the next 30 days. [New York Times]
- The Russians haven’t left Gori even though they said they would begin withdrawing today. Nobody seems to be holding their breath. [Washington Post]
- While the Georgian army was busy in South Ossetia, it couldn’t defend the Kodori Gorge, a key territory in the other separatist region (Abkhazia) that they used to control. [New York Times]
- Senator Claire McCaskill said John McCain was undermining the president by sending Joe Lieberman to Georgia. [The Hill]
- Barack Obama will probably announce his running mate this week (Biden, if you watch the Sunday news shows). [Politico]
- According to John McCain’s definition, pretty much nobody in America is “rich.” [Los Angeles Times]
Russia is like the ininvited guest who stays too long. You ask if they are leaving and they keep saying yes but never actually move toward the door.
Joe Biden, really? I guess that will lock up the votes of chicken farmers, the DuPont family, and folks who own lots and lots of barges.
Sometimes I wonder if King George and his fishing buddy, Czar Putin, contrived this crazy scheme to simultaneously boost pride within Russia and again use fear to garner GOP support for the upcoming elections.
Old Pervez is resigning?
Gesh, why doesn’t he go out In Style, i.e., in “Benzair Bhutto Road Rallye” style?
There must be a spare Land Rover around someplace. And suicide bombers are a dime a dozen in WhackyPakiLand.
“Goodbye, Pervez! We Hardly Knew Ye!”
By almost any standard except maybe the ones of the Waltons, Warren Buffet, the Sultan Brunei and Bill Gates, Walnuts is rich (well Cindy is.)
He’s just doing the old eelight scam of “I don’t feel rich.”
As $250K a year, that’s pretty good. If you can’t do well off that then one of two things. Either you live in Downtown Seattle/SF/NYC/Miami or you’re pretty shitty with money and living well beyond your means. In most cases it would be the 2nd option.
Servo: Bring in the Russian sturgeon and some blinis. Yum.
Sorry, ‘Ossetia’ makes my mind wander and then you said fishing buddy. . .
McCain thinks no body is rich because like him they all have to live on government paychecks and three government penisons.
Hey, it turns out McCain wasn’t in the cone of pine scent during Obama’s interrogation by Luciano Pavarotti’s retarted brother. CHEATER!
And now John McCain, former POW, is incensed that the Obama campaign would suggest that McCain, a former POW, would cheat, when he’s a former POW.
Did Pervez Musharraf say “you won’t have me to kick around any more?”
A few words on Cindy McCain. According to Wikipedia, “By 2007, she had an annual income of over $400,000 from Hensley & Co. and an estimated net worth of $100 million.[21] She also owned at least $1 million worth of shares of Anheuser-Busch stock.”
Now let’s go to the Wiki for John Kerry’s spouse: “To date, Teresa Heinz has declined to disclose her personal tax returns, citing family trusts and privacy. She is estimated to be worth between $750 million and $1.2 billion. According to her most recently released income tax of 2003, the Kerry and Heinz paid an effective federal income tax rate of 12%. Most of her income was derived from tax-free municipal bonds, which explains the low rate.
Both Teresa and her husband live an affluent life. Together they enjoy five homes at notable addresses. These include a six-floor, $7 million townhome in Boston’s Beacon Hill neighborhood, a $9 million ocean-front home on Nantucket, a $5 million ski retreat in Idaho, a $4 million estate in Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania near the Heinz family’s home base of Pittsburgh, and a $5 million home in Washington, D.C.’s Georgetown neighborhood. The couple also owns a $1 million yacht and a $35 million Gulf Stream Jet; it should be noted that the Heinz family owns most of these properties.”
Just sayin, you know? There’s lots, LOTS to criticize John McCain for, but the attack on Cindy McCain’s money is not warranted and looks hypocritical if one remembers John Kerry’s wife.
C-SPAN ran an interview with Ben Stein a few times this weekend. I watched about half of it. In it, Stein talks about his seven homes and one lot in California, plus his home in Idaho, and how he doesn’t have to go to a regular job because he doesn’t need to. But he said, “I’m not rich.” “What?” cried Brian Lamb. “Even with all those properties, you’re not rich?” “Well, I’m upper middle class,” said Stein, demonstrating that he’s probably about as out of touch as you could possibly be.
Stein is the kind of guy they refer to when they talk about out-of-touch Coastal elites. Yet the Republicans won’t call him on this, what with Stein being a Republican and all. A Republican who supports Ralph Nader, of all things. I mean really…
Political Addict:
But John Kerry didn’t advocate tax cuts for the rich.
Political Addict: Actually, you’re wrong: attacking Cindy McCain’s money is SO warranted. And she’s a drug addict. Also, a trollop.
Political Addict: Just sayin, you know? There’s lots, LOTS to criticize John McCain for, but the attack on Cindy McCain’s money is not warranted and looks hypocritical if one remembers John Kerry’s wife.
I see. So it’s not hypocrisy to attack Kerry for Teresa Heinz’s fortune and then turn around and expect the Democrats to lay off a Republican with a multimillionaire wife? This is confusing, but that’s probably why I have trouble forgetting that all Republicans are above criticism.
Cindy McCain also raped a duck.
A DUCK, FOR CHRISSAKES.
Ah, yes. The self-humbled ‘working-class’ crusaders that live in $500,000+ homes and never knew adversity. I lived amongst hundreds of them in New Hampshire and always had the deep desire to repeatedly slam their fingers in the doors of their Escalades just to remind them of their place.
Servo: Whoa. I totally read “fishing buddy” as “fisting buddy.” No more morning tequila mondays for me.
federated:
Well…coupla good-ol’-boys…in a boat…nobody watchin’…so…..
I’m trying to imagine exactly what a “cone of silence” looks like.
Servo: You can’t slam their fingers repeatedly in the doors of their Escalades. Not by yourself, anyway. If you ever get one cornered, let me know. I’ll hold them in place for you while you do the slamming. I’m just down here in Boston, so New Hampshire’s a short drive away. Unless you’re in Berlin or Dixville Notch or somesuch. Then I’ll need more notice, since that would be more of a drive.
Actually, John McCain’s rambling “definition” of rich sounded rather like a Hallmark card. It went something like: “The richest woman I know is an old lady who scrapes by on Social Security checks and lives in a $350.00 a month room she rents overlooking a convenience store in Harlem. I came across Ida Himmelfarb on the campaign trail and she told me ‘My son comes by every morning and brings me breakfast and fresh flowers. At my age that’s the only thing I want. I think in some ways I’m richer than the richer than Bill Gates.’ My friends, why does Barack Oabma want to raise this “rich” woman’s taxes to pay for the drug habits of able bodied crack addicts on welfare?”
Larry McAwful: If you want to slam some fingers in Escalade doors, hop into your environmentally friendly Subaru Legacy wagons and drive down to my house in Fairfield County, Connecticut, the richest county in the wealthiest state in the most flush nation in the world.
And we will slam some fingers in some Escalade doors.
How will you find me? Easy. Just get off I-95 in Fairfield and ask someone where “the poor folks” live. My car is the only one with an “Obama” sticker on the back, and it’s parked out front.
Political Addict: ooh is John Kerry running again!?! What about John Edwards isn’t he as relevant?
Political Addict:
Just sayin, you know? There’s lots, LOTS to criticize John McCain for, but the attack on Cindy McCain’s money is not warranted and looks hypocritical if one remembers John Kerry’s wife.
It’s not Democrats who portray their opponents as out-of-touch elitists. Until the GOP drops that stupid line of attack it’s absolutely legit to point out that Cindy McCain’s last manicure cost more than the house Barack Obama was raised in.
loquaciousmusic:
Do your neighbors come by from time to time with a half eaten casserole explaining: “We thought you might enjoy this. Keep the dish as long as you want. We’re in no hurry to get it back.”
Larry McAwful:
Thanks for the invitation. Unfortunately, the evaporation of the tech industry and the unrealistic cost of living in the area forced me to relocate. I wish I could have moved to Berlin, Gorham, or even Errol, but I can’t see myself living in servitude to leaf-peepers.
“In responding to Warren’s question Saturday, McCain sought to broaden the discussion, saying that “some of the richest people I’ve known in my life are the most unhappy” and that rich should be defined “by a home, a good job and education and the ability to hand our children a more prosperous and safer world than the one we inherited.”"
I really can’t believe he fucking went there. I feel nauseous.
HollowBrain:
“some of the richest people I’ve known in my life are the most unhappy”
Well he’s speaking from personal experience. Hint, Cindy, hint.
HollowBrain:
Yeah, I didn’t know McCain was a fan of Mexican Soap Operas.
“some of the richest people I’ve known in my life are the most unhappy”
I, too, must post this, even though we’ve seen it twice, because the democrats need to hang this around his neck and never let anyone forget McCain said this. And yes, it is no doubt all about his wife.
loquaciousmusic: I’ve got a filth-belching 1997 Chrysler Sebring. Massachusetts plates, Obama sticker. (Also a Deval Patrick sticker, but I’m thinking of removing it for certain reasons I won’t bother with right now.) I’ve been to Fairfield County. My wife is from there. I think.
The benchmark for rich is $5 MILLION? Hell, welfare for all!
regisgoat: So let’s tax them into happiness!
I can think of many places to send Joe Lieberman.
Dear John McCain,
In re: classification of the rich - please eat enclosed bag of dicks after paying the $5 mil COD charge. Also, please have Cindy send more Stella Budtois and caviar via private jet as partial payment.
Thanks in advance,
TGY
Serolf Divad: Starring John McCain as Don Juan de Walnuts
Political Addict: 1.) It really is possible to bitch about how much money the McCain’s swim around in every night without being a Kerry supporter. Really!
2.) I don’t care how you cut it, $400k a year is a fuckload of blow. Seriously, many of us would be pretty happy if they got 1/10 of that.
My wife said “McCain said that because the only people he knows are rich people.”
Is this $5 million stuff from McCain really supposed to be funny? Yeah, he’s a riot, Alice: http://www.entertonement.com/collections/2183/John-McCain-Defines-The-Rich
More good times: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7567703.stm