If anyone is “a little bitch” it would be the person who is supposed to be at the head of the GOP ticket.  Why couldn’t McCain face Obama and say words such as “terrorist” and “traitor” or whatever when he was right in front of the supposed terrorist and traitor?  If he really thinks Obama is a terrorist, then only “a little bitch” would not say so in front of a huge television audience.  His failure to do so only emphasizes the fact that his side’s dangerously-deranged rhetoric is full of crap.

By letting Palin (the self-professed Pit Bull with Lipstick, which may or may not make her a medium-sized bitch) say those words, McCain had to either own up to those phrases or denounce them.  When your attack dog bites someone, you have to take responsibility.  McCain didn’t, hasn’t, and won’t.

I admire Obama all the more for not overreacting to all this crap.  I’m used to Democrats underreacting.  I was itching for Obama to go on attack.  But I am glad to see that this calm, thinking, strategic thinker will be in charge and not McCain’s Mr. Clean figurehead leading a bunch of assholes, cronies, sycophants, and powermongers.  When the world is heading into a shitstorm, you want the guy who was smart enough to pack goggles rather than the guy who angrily kicks up more crap.

So wait, let me get this straight. As a liberal, I’m supposed to respect Sarah Palin’s oodles of executive experience and her ability to deter Putin when he rears his nasty Russian head over Alaskan airspace/the narrow maritime border, but a conservative radio host can diminish her to a “smoking hot chick from Alaska” that Obama can’t stand up to because he’s a little bitch? Respect my token hottie but I’ll make veiled racist claims about your candidate, who is substantially smarter?

Sigh.

And he still had to throw in a comment about Palin’s looks….in fact he reduces her to her looks.  Granted, I’m against everything this woman stands for, but it’s pretty hilarious every time the McCain campaign cries sexism from liberals and the media when it’s conservatives who are panting over her like that wolf in the old cartoons.

Will Palin soon mention that McCain spent last night palling around with a terrorist?

I mean, this—this guy Baker—this guy is—he’s a—he’s an idiot is what he is.

Somebody is going to make a hell of a lot of money writing books examining the psychological deficits laying at heart of the Reichwing political movement.

Bob Altemeyer already wrote a few; I don’t know if he made any money, though.

See also John Dean’s “Conservatives without Conscience.”

Actually, shit like this makes me happy. I think it means that the ‘conservative movement’ is getting more and more desperate.

The danger, of course, is that if the conservative movement gets really desperate, they will resort to violence on a large scale. So we should prepare for that too.

But Palin, married, many children, dressed fairly conservatively, has that teacher/librarian/mom vibe going on that adds whole new dimensions to the sickness.

Amanda analyzed the concept already

You want to be the president of the United States, and you won’t even stand up to a smoking-hot chick from Alaska?

There’s a fair-to-middling chance that Governor Smoking-Hot has never been introduced to a black person in her life,  and I wish I was kidding.

I agree with jon. Having your employees accuse Sen. Obama of close ties with terrorists and then failing to confront him and call him out on the alleged terrorist cavorting doesn’t make me question Sen. Obama’s character. It makes me question Sen. McCain’s.

[T]his little bitch needs to stand up for himself. Sorry, I can’t stand this. You want to be the president of the United States, and you won’t even stand up to a smoking-hot chick from Alaska?

Amazing.  This idiot manages to be both racist and sexist in a single sentence.

Even disregarding all the slurs and smears, WTF is this guy talking about?  He’s saying both that Obama complained about Palin’s comments, which I don’t think happened, and that he didn’t stand up for himself, which, if he complained, he did.

Pam I love you but this guy is nothing but a concern troll with a mike.

He better not keep it up, or this might happen:

American expelled: The author of a book criticizing Barack Obama was kicked out of Kenya this week for not having a valid work permit. Jerome Corsi, an American neoconservative writer, was in Kenya to launch his book, Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality, which alleges that the Democratic presidential candidate is a Muslim and has murky links to Kenyan politics. Such charges go over poorly in Kenya, where Obama’s father was born and where Obama is a national hero. Once government authorities learned of Corsi’s presence in the country through the newspapers, they found a pretext to deport him—saying that presiding over a book launch constituted “employment,” which requires a permit.

Once government authorities learned of Corsi’s presence in the country through the newspapers, they found a pretext to deport him—saying that presiding over a book launch constituted “employment,” which requires a permit.

So, yes, Corsi is apparently kind of a moron.

What is this supposed to mean to us, in your mind?

Once government authorities learned of Corsi’s presence in the country through the newspapers, they found a pretext to deport him—saying that presiding over a book launch constituted “employment,” which requires a permit.

So, apparently Sugar Ray is under the impression that people write books and publishers publish them out of the goodness of their hearts, and they distribute them for free to all and sundry without ever expecting to see a dime in return, so therefore someone who’s on a book tour isn’t selling a product, they’re on a lovely vacation.

Oh, my aching sides.  Ray has got to be the funniest troll we’ve ever had.

What’s really funny to me about the Corsi story is that apparently no one looked into visa requirements before he traveled there.  Before my two bosses traveled to Germany, I doublechecked the visa requirements even though Germany is a visa waiver country with the US (US and German citizens can travel to each other’s countries for up to 90 days without a specific visa).

It turns out that they were fine, because they were just going to a museum opening with some of our artwork on display.  However, if they’d gone there in order to sign a contract—even a contract where they were not immediately paying money or immediately receiving something in return—they would have needed a business visa to do so.  So I’m wondering which idiot at Regnery didn’t double-check to see if a special visa would be required in order to do business (ie sell and promote your book) in Kenya.

This wuss-bag needs to stand up for himself and answer the questions about his relationship with Bill Ayers and other terrorists and terrorist sympathizers.

He did ... something like 6 months ago.  It’s not his fault Palin’s too freakin’ daft to realize that.  The best approach Obama can take is to just let her keep yappin’.  The more incendiary, the better.

Did I miss something here?  Did Obama have something to do with Corsi’s failure to be allowed into Kenya?  Does he have some kind of ties to Kenyan customs that have remained hidden from the rest of us?  Does he control who does and does not enter Kenya?  What does that have to do with this post anyway?

Wasn’t there a thread on Corsi and Kenya earlier? 

Is total irrelevance the new Republican method of debate?

Is total irrelevance the new Republican method of debate?

William Horton sez, “New?”

This Baker guy has actually been on my radar for a few weeks now after saying that women aren’t worthy of holding political office (while insulting Nancy Pelosi’s appearance), women shouldn’t vote (we’re too emotional), he noticed Palin’s panty line during the debate, and now yesterday that Obama’s mother is “trash.”

On the one hand, he’s just another angry idiot with a talk show, but get this…

...he’s going to be a guest at a Susan G. Komen “Laugh for the Cure” benefit.  I wrote the organizers to let them know how hateful and anti-woman this guy is.  They wrote back and informed me that their event was non-political and that since breast cancer doesn’t discriminate, neither do they.

I’m not objecting to this guy’s politics, I’m objecting to his outright hate for women (or men who he deems woman-like = Obama the “little bitch”).

Re: the lack of a Kenyan visa.

How would a Republican react to finding out someone from Kenya was traveling around America promoting a book without a work visa? I’m thinking deportation would be their mildest reaction, with a sizable percentage favoring sending him to Gitmo.