I’m about to head out the door for my first real day of law school orientation, but I just felt the need to remark that this may be the worst bit of non-Myspace writing the internet has seen in months. Brutally tortured metaphors, horrifically constructed sentences, the prospect of a rain-soaked checkers-playing celebrity-king…
I tried to find an image to fit this post, but “confused pile of shit”, while evocative as a phrase, doesn’t pull up what I need on Google.
ADDENDUM: This is entirely unrelated to the above, but the talking heads have been periodically lamenting that they got played by the McCain camp on their Clinton ads which, uh, aren’t being aired anywhere. It’s rare that they actually acknowledge this, but reporters get played like this constantly. Republicans are masters of running an ad once during the 6 PM news in St. Louis and using that as a pretense to get media to cover it.
I understand that the last thing you want to do as a news channel is be the last to cover the breaking news that Candidate A doesn’t think Candidate B should be elected, but have any of them ever thought of actually doing some reporting and figuring out if/when an ad is being aired before giving it hours of screen time?
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Since I already sacraficed some braincells over there, I borrowed the idiot’s piece so nobody else has to suffer…
Obama Caught In Perfect Storm Of Events
A series of events are coming together to create, perhaps not a perfect storm, but certainly in-climate weather for Barack Obama given that he hoped to capture lightening in a bottle with a rhetorical whirlwind Thursday night at Invesco Stadium.
The first wave was Hillary Clinton, who endorsed an agenda last night in Denver which included at least slight personal praise for John McCain, yet yielded no such thing for Barack Obama. The second big wave to crash into him is coming tomorrow with Hillary’s, even if sometimes inappropriately engorged, lessor half.
Then after two nights of Clinton convention domination, Obama will still not have Thursday evening entirely to himself. While the speech will certainly dominate political coverage it isn’t really news. And as we saw with Obama’s Veep circus, the media will be forced to speculate, spy and continuously ask who is John McCain going to be rolling out as Veep come Friday afternoon.
DENVER — John McCain is planning to rollout his vice-presidential nominee in three battleground states this weekend, with large-scale rallies planned for Ohio, Pennsylvania and Missouri, according to aides and advisers.
The GOP nominee-in-waiting will move to immediately change the campaign conversation from Barack Obama’s football stadium acceptance speech Thursday to the new Republican ticket, to be revealed at a noontime Friday rally in a Dayton, Ohio, basketball arena. McCain and his running mate will then travel by bus to Pennsylvania, where they’ll hold an outdoor event at a minor league baseball stadium in Washington County, just southwest of Pittsburgh. On Sunday, the duo will head to suburban St. Louis for another event to be held at a minor league baseball stadium, this one in O’Fallon, Mo.
If I might slip my metaphor here, one almost senses John McCain and, to some extent, the Clintons are playing Chess while Obama is left to play Checkers - jumping up on to a podium so some number of Democrats can crown him king, thereby feeding into the very celebrity meme McCain has been beating him up with for weeks.
I wonder how much the Obama camp would give to have scheduled the event inside, assuming there’s enough humility and experience in the lot to think clearly these stormy days?
And to think, this was his big chance to shine. All that’s needed now is a cloud burst Thursday night, which, if nothing else, would at least hide the tears generated as a result.
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I would say enjoy, but, well, you know…