Thursday, March 13, 2008

Tired to the bone

The news the past few days has greatly increased my fatigue level. The focus on Eliot Spitzer and his call girls lost my interest after an hour or so. The gutter-crawling in the Democratic presidential campaign has been tiresome since it started.

A top honcho in Hillbillary's organization allegedly made a comment that Obama is unelectable and can't win in November. Pardon the expression, but this is an instance in which the pot's calling the kettle black. I'm not sure why the Dems can't figure out this crap amounts to doing McCain's work for him.

Speaking of Walnuts, he's making a bad habit out of getting cozy with the most repulsive of the evangelunical extremists. First, he got the endorsement of bottom-feeder John Hagee, who thinks bad thoughts about the Catholics. Whenever I see a picture of that fat POS, I'm reminded gluttony is one of the seven cardinal sins.

If cuddling with Hagee weren't sickening enough, now McCain has designated as spiritual advisor an Ohio televangelist with the unlikely name Rod Parsley. This dude's contribution to the betterment of society is a conviction that we should wage war on Islam (a false religion) and destroy it. Another example of why we need separation of church and state. McCain hanging around with Hagee and Parsley indicates he's a bigger whore than those girls making 5000 bucks an hour. Let's say Walnuts has been a damned disappointment and let it go at that.

One thing Repubs understand better than Dems is the reality that if you repeat something often enough on television, a majority of the people in this country will eventually believe it's true. The classic example is the number of people who still believe Saddam Hussein was behind the 9/11 attack. In USA Today, there's an article about a recent poll in which 40 percent of the sample thought invading Iraq was a good idea, and that we're either winning or have won. The 40 percent was made up largely of affluent conservative Republicans so maybe the result shouldn't come as a surprise, but a few months ago even a lot of Repubs were ready to wrap it up over there.

Jonathan Turley is a law professor who also writes commentary on political issues. Last week, one of his columns in the Los Angeles Times dealt with what he called The Mukasey Paradox, referring to US Attorney General Michael Mukasey.

Mukasey has essentially taken the position that the president can't be charged with criminal conduct if he's acting on legal advice from his lawyers, and his lawyers can't be charged with criminal conduct if they're acting at the direction of the president. Mukasey also announced that W can ignore any law passed by Congress if he decides it's in the interest of national security to do so. What it boils down to is that the law doesn't apply to W and his advisors, who can do anything they damn well please in the name of national security. Remember this is the precedent if somehow either Hillary or Obama is elected in November.

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