In Today’s New York Times, K.A. Dilday tells of how she always knew that black people would vote for Barry Obama, even though he is a different kind of black person. I know this, because my grandfather used to get together with his Country Club friends and dance around in blackface, and I think that makes me a little black. I also know this because it’s like how all those half-Irish, quarter-Irish, and non-Irish motherfuckers always come out for St. Patrick’s Day (as long as they’re not gay - then they’re not invited). When people can either choose to spill cheap beer on your green shirt all day or vote for Hillary, most of them are going to pick the alcohol-fueled party parade that is the Obama campaign.

This of course, is good for Obama, because it justifies his decision to run as his black half.

Also, have you guys seen that Yes I Can video? Guess what? A black person made that.  They do love him!

When a civil rights leader backs your campaign it’s a good day. When a civil rights leader, switches his support to your opponent after pledging it to you… well, that’s a bad day. And that’s the kind of day Hillary Clinton is having.

Oof.

At this point, we’re actually starting to feel bad for her. Seriously, and for rills.

Prominent Superdelegate Switches From Clinton To Obama [Below the Beltway]

This morning, in the midst of penning what was probably an sharply crafted, intelligently argued but head-explodingly off-base column, William F. Buckley, Jr., a founding father of the modern conservative movement, was called to join his compatriots Joe McCarthy, Barry Goldwater, and Ronald Reagan in that great No-Jews-No-Blacks-Men-Only Country Club in the sky.

Buckley deeply understood the power of the idea whose time has come and, admirably true to form, Buckley has kicked off as the movement he built begins to crumble and rot at it’s very foundation. He couldn’t have chosen a more approproate time to go, lest he had chosen, say, sometime in the 1930s.

Please voice your sorrows in the comments and may you find comfort in the shared grief of your peers.

William F. Buckley, Jr. is Dead at 82 [New York Times]

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Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-TX), who is being suggested as a running mate for the Confused Old Man^TM, is a Bush-enabler of the first order. She has a 100% rating from the Christian Coalition. She’s apparently dumber than a bag of hammers as well. She said:

that Sen. Russ Feingold’s bill to begin an Iraq withdrawal within 120 days puts “a bullet right in the hearts of our troops who are there.” Politico reports that Hutchinson’s staff backtracked from her comment, arguing that she meant to say “bull’s eye.” Accepting that claim, Hutchinson meant to say Feingold’s bill puts a “bulls’ eye in the hearts of our troops,” a statement which makes no sense.

Maybe if KBH had voted for body armor for the troops (instead of siding with the Dear Leader and the Dark Lord) some of those soldiers would survive that Demrat fire.

[Politico via Think Progress]

John “Gates of Hell” McCain campaigns at the actual gates of hell: a defense contractor’s hangar, yesterday.

Just as we were busy picking out our cabinet positions in the Barry Obama administration, we woke up this morning only to find ourselves back through America’s impossibly retarded looking glass. Exhibit Y: an item from this mornings Los Angeles Times. We’ve only read the headline (”McCain has Edge over Democrats”) and the subhead (”The GOP candidate is rated ’strongest leader’”) and can not summon the emotional will to proceed further into the stories inky depths on account of what can only be described as abject, crippling fear, but we will ask the following question to the respondents of this poll: what imaginary, crazy America in what what parallel bizzaro universe do you people inhabit? Read the rest of this entry »

I’m on vacation in the mysterious Orient this week, but I ran across something in Tokyo today that was so good I had to come online and write a post. While picking up some delicious canned coffee at a convenience store in Tsukiji, I spotted an anime comic about George Bush and 9/11. I don’t speak any Japanese, but it’s pretty clear from the cover art and the pictures inside that this manga is full of 9/11 conspiracy theory craziness. Now, I hate the President as much as the next guy and there’s a lot of fishy circumstances surrounding 9/11, but this comic is clearly insane. In addition to Dubya & Co., the manga somehow manges to tie Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Donald Trump, and the KKK to September 11th. Since it’s anime, there are also titties. Hopefully a Japanese language expert will write in and help us make sense of this thing. Photos of all the paranoid manga madness after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

Senator Larry Craig is looking for summer interns. I’m guessing I wouldn’t make that, um, short list. Fuck, the jokes write themselves. Abortions for some and blow jobs for all! Larry needs some help with his really big stick! Don’t mess around with big green sticks! Danny Boy here has all the “qualifications” Larry’s looking for!
Also, I’m betting Harry Potter does indeed have a really fine ass. If you Google search for Daniel Radcliffe with your Safe Search function off, well, you can feel as dirty as I do right now.

Some have suggested that the massive stroke Ariel Sharon suffered in 2005 was God’s punishment c for abandoning Gaza to the people who, you know, live there. We imagine God probably had more important things to worry about. In any event, today is his 80th birthday. So happy birthday, fella.

Bloggingheads, which features purportedly intelligent people talking about stuff in a split screen special effects extravaganza, features a recent discussion between David Frum of the National Review and John Judis of the New Republic. The most important thing they discuss is Barack Obama’s political ancestry. I thought his political ancestry was just Kenyan-cryptoIslamic fundamentofascism, but apparently, Obama is most like either, William Jennings Bryan, or Adlai Stevenson, two dead white guys who also knew the style of pretty talking that Obama’s so good at. We’re past talking about Kennedy and Reagan, and we’ve moved on to discussing how much Obama is like people that no voter has fucking heard of. Read the rest of this entry »