wfalda's Comments (34)

“I don't know who to believe any more. I don't know if these bailouts are right or wrong. I don't know if these bailouts are the only way out of this nightmare. I yearn for some solid economics certainties that I can wrap my arms around and build some sort of foundation for some hope that we are going to get out of this gawdawful mess. Does any one out there share my frustration being whipsawed back and forth by competing commentaries?”

“If cheering is a perfectly acceptable way of showing approval, then logically there must be a way of demonstrating disapproval. To say it's impolite to show disapproval by booing is absurd.

Any reasonable person should feel cheated. Bush and Cheney will live in luxury for the rest of their lives. We must deal with the wreckage. Many of us have lost our retirement savings. Many of us have lost our jobs. Some of us have lost family members who were killed thinking they were serving their country in Iraq.
Bush and Cheney will join an unrepentant Rumsfeld who merely floated out of Washington to live in high style and comfort in a gated community, surrounded by wealthy Republicans living a lavish lifestyle.

The rest of us suffer amidst the carnage. And it's impolite to boo? Preposterous.”

“George reminds of the loser in high school who thinks he ran with the "in crowd." He even has the picture from 1962 to prove it. You know, the picture where - at the last minute he jumped into the group of good looking jocks and popular girls just as the photographer was saying "One, two, three."

George pulls out the picture often just as he is trying to wedge himself into the photo of great presidents who had to act boldly at a time of crisis. Democratic presidents: FDR, Truman.

"There's Bobby standing next to me. He ran 98 yards as time expired to beat Central High." I gave him room to get into the picture. "There's Tommy in front of me. Scored 58 points . . . " Mary - National Honor Society. Went to Notre Dame."

There's Franklin Delano. There's Harry. And there's me."

Cliff Claven never knew he was a loser. Gleason's Poor Soul did.”

“Nay!”

“Yes, KarelS. The emotionally disturbed will be with us always. They have walked among us, since our species first learned to walk upright. They burned the library of Alexandria, destroyed civilizations, hacked apart Tutsis with machetes, beat Emmett Till and Matthew Shepard to death, and slammed two jets into the World Trade Center. Unfortunately, it takes a catastrophe, like 8 years of George Bush, for decent people to rise up, put aside prejudices and return America to its ideals. But, we have unfinished business to attend to. We have another election in two years in which we can pound the final nails into the coffin of the old Nixon Moral Majority coalition. The 2010 'off year' elections will take place without the racism and the bigotry that kept decent Americans from getting rid of all of the worst offenders. Yes, Elizabeth Dole was repudiated by the good people of North Carolina. She was the most obvious offender. There are more lurking in Congress as well as in city halls and town courthouses. Let's not rest now.”

“Electoral College
Obama 356 McCain 182

Senate
Dem 60 Repub. 40

House
Dem. 252 Repub. 183

Minnesota

Franken 50
Coleman 48
Barkley 2

Just for fun: Obama 70 million popular vote McCain 54 million popular vote”

“Good thing she knows how to field dress a moose. She will be doing a lot of that after she is deposed as the governor of Alaska. I can see reporters knocking on her cabin door in Frostbite Falls, Alaska ten years from now do write one of those "Where is she now?" stories.”

“I will cast my vote for Obama/Biden on Nov 4 with pure revenge over the way Republicans have painted Democrats as anti-American. Retaliation will be sweet. For years, Republicans have called Democrats unpatriotic, godless, effete/elite, weak/wimpy and goodness knows what else. On Nov. 4, I will have my sole opportunity to strike back. Now what was that again about the Bradley effect?”

“I will cast my vote for Obama/Biden on Nov 4 with pure revenge over the way Democrats have been stabbed by Palin and her ugly slurs. Retaliation will be sweet. For years, Republicans have called Democrats unpatriotic, godless, effete/elite, weak/wimpy and goodness knows what else. On Nov. 4, I will have my sole opportunity to strike back. Now what was that again about the Bradley effect?”

“"Some want only to teach intelligent design, some only want to teach evolution. I think both views are wrong, as a parent." Bobby Jindal.”

“Boris was way ahead of his time. He had it right 40 years ago: "Mooseansquirrel."”

“Boris was way ahead of his time. He had it right 40 years ago: "Mooseansquirrel."”

“I remember shoveling horse manure when I was 9 years old. It nauseated me. I did my job, got paid 25 cents, and got out of the barn fast. True story. I am reminded of this 51 years later because I see McCain - and Palin especially - shoveling horse manure to the adoring Republican base. If their evidence is so overwhelming and compelling that Obama pals around with terrorists or engages in surreptitious anti-American activity of some kind, then why are they not coming forth with the hard evidence of what would be a clear case of treason? Why are they instead just making stump speeches that are merely suggestive of anti-American activity? Could it be that McCain and Palin are making their indirect innuendoes before their adoring crowds because they know what they are shoveling is horse manure? It looks like McCain wants to get off the stage as fast as I wanted to get out of the barn. Sarah seems to like it though. If the evidence if irrefutable, then it should be leaked to the press. There isn't a reporter in America who would walk away from a certain Pulitzer Prize after having exposed Obama's "terrorist agenda" as they call it. In the absence of such a blockbuster, the Republican base is saying there must be a huge conspiracy on the part of the MSM to keep the truth away from the American public (their words). I just report the facts. You decide.”

“Sarah Palin - the two-legged Comedy Writers Employment Machine - ought to be spending her time going just a tad deeper into root causes of the current economic crisis instead of spouting words of wisdom that, gosh, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac “were starting to really kind of rear the head of abuse.”
However, she shouldn't consult with John "Don't Know Much About Economics" McCain but should go right to the guy whose policies set the whole mess in motion, Alan Greenspan. Palin is really starting to annoy me. She keeps trying to wed Barack Obama with William Ayres (though she says she's against gay marriage), though they hardly know each other (talk about a shotgun wedding, so to speak). And she never once mentions the Wall Street bigshots who should go to jail for bringing our country to the brink of ruin. Sigh. Be sure to be with us for our next episode of "mooseansquirrel" entitled "Will Palin be Pallin' with Alan?" OR "Hail, Hail the Chain Gang's All Here." Did you know that William Conrad, was the announcer for The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show?”

“Pretty dumb post, Pepper14. Was that supposed to be an insightful commentary? Watch SNL and Tina Fey next week in the weekly "Mimic the Gimmick" installment. If you are going to go down on Nov. 4. go down laughing. I'm on tenterhooks: how will SNL use Palin's remarks yesterday that Obama will pal around with terrorists? Stay tuned.”

“I'm Catholic, Bibbo. And I am ashamed of you. First of all, please capitalize Roman Catholic. Sister would rap your knuckles with a ruler 10 times if she found out your identity. Also, it's "I guess" not quess. I could go on, but you really do represent the Republican base, the 27 % who still think highly of George W. Bush. So McCain will get that 27% and maybe 10 or 15 % more from other fringe elements of the Homo sapien species living on soil arbitrarily called "America." That gives your McCain/Palin ticket 37-42 % of the vote on Nov. 4. You are going to lose in a landslide. Do yourself a favor and remove yourself from the political arena. Go to confession. Say your penance. Ask God to make you a better person, and a better speller, too.”

“I don't agree totally with your assertion that Republicans try to "shift the political conversation from substance to frivolity." It's worse than that, Barbara, by far. Sarah Palin just told a crowd that Barack Obama would pal around with terrorists. GOP voters will no doubt pick up the chant - just as they have for years as Limbaugh would spoon feed them their talking points. When backed into a corner, they now raise their voices and try to talk over you just as O'Reilly does when somebody attempts to make a valid point. He might even shout "Shut up!!" So now McCain, Palin, Limbaugh, Coulter and O'Reilly are not only telling the blind how to respond, they are telling them how to behave. Act surly. Get dirty. Lie if you have to. Make gross distortions of your opponents record. No! Make gross distortions of your opponents character. Steal votes, if you must. Myself, I am voting for the only two adults running for president and vice president. The GOP culture of ugliness, now deeply ingrained, is disgraceful. Surely, there is something upstairs that is wrong with these people.”

“George has been looking particularly glum these days. I understand that earlier in the week he was fitted for his prison suit.”

“OK, I'll take the bait. I'll fast forward to 2012. And all I see is "where-is-she-now?" stories about the once Republican vice presidential candidate who lost the governorship of Alaska in 2010. Described as a fluke, an oddity and John McCain's 'gimmick,' reporters finally tracked her down in the deep woods in full camo, her rifle resting on arm. Perky and self-confident she tells reporters that she is not an aberration but is thinking of running for presidency of Alaska, once Todd - her likely VP candidate - succeeds in getting the state to secede from the union.”

“She can't get out of her cave. There is a vicious dinosaur outside trying to eat her.”

“Hey, there is an upside to all of this: we are no longer getting that infuriating smirk from George W. "Everything-I-Touch-Turns-To-S**t" Bush.”

“It's true: McCain is 72 years old - meaning he has orbited 72 times around the sun. He also has had skin cancer. All true. But there are hundreds of more substantive ways to question whether McCain is fit to lead a nation. So, in a way, I agree with Bill O'Reilly that there are many, many other reasons why McCain is one shaky dude and we should not attack his age, or his medical history. Remember "Tricky Dick" and "Slick Willie"? If this guy gets elected, he'll flop around like a dying fish on a dock.”

“I wouldn't ask John McCain for the time of day without double-checking with my wrist watch afterward.”

“Thank you, ShesCute, for that marvelous insight. I am curious: How did you arrive at these thoughts? Did you have this flash of genius as you were contemplating other deep thoughts with Jack Handy? Did it come as a 'bolt out of the blue' as you were pondering what would happen if you raced so fast you caught up with a beam of light? By what neurochemical method were you able to string your 4 sentences together? Yes, let's stop the election and award the presidency to John McCain. Newports. Yes, Newports.”

“Just to lighten things up for a sec.

Check out the Borowitz Report. Funny as usual.

http://www.borowitzreport.com/

. .. now back to our regularly scheduled evisceration of McCoward”