OT, but this is tempting me to do something that will both be against my religious beliefs and make me sick (tomato allergy):  have a big ol’ slab o’ BBQ pork-ribs.

Does this mean John “BBQ” McCain is anti-Semitic?  By “GOP logic” I think it does.

They also used to say King George III didn’t REALLY want to crush the colonies with his army, he was just being mislead by evil, evil advisers.

Dammit, Jesse- I’ve lost over 20 lbs and you show RIBS?? Sick bastard… (goes off to munch celery angrily)

Seriously, either way McCain is showing himself to be utterly incompetent for duty as POTUS. But unless something happens to expose the McCain commercial attacks for the crap that they are, Ma and Pa Kettle are gonna elect that nice young white man…

I knew Andrea Mitchell was too good to be true last week. The only way she could have said that McCain was being dishonest last week was to come back this week and say it isn’t really him doing it.

If we were talking about a certain other presidential candidate, the possibility that he hired a staff “full of people who are openly and purposefully lying to him in order to embarrass him in public” would be used as evidence that he maybe shouldn’t be president.

Louise-

McCain is *young*?

I have the same question for the media now as I did when I was hearing about how Bush had good intentions but things just kept going wrong for him, and he was being let down by his people:

How on earth is it better for America to have as it’s president an incompetent manager who can’t separate truth from fiction, is bad and deciding who to get advice from and who to trust, and can’t do anything right or run anything the way he really wants to?  I’m supposed to trust that such a person would be good at running the country?  Good and incompetent or competent and evil, it makes no never mind to me.  I’m not judging their soul, just their results.

How on earth is it better for America to have as it’s president an incompetent manager who can’t separate truth from fiction, is bad and deciding who to get advice from and who to trust, and can’t do anything right or run anything the way he really wants to?

It isn’t. But for some reason the burden of proof on the “stupid or lying?” question has always fallen on us. “He is either stupid or lying, and neither of those qualities are presidential” has never been a sufficient answer for Our Media Stars, going back at least to Reagan.

Reagan? Hah! Hes just a lightweight celebrity who gives pretty speeches, running against an experienced former naval vet.

Only to the Ma and Pa Kettles, Ben D… my dad thinks McCain is just the most wonderful candidate.

Oh, did he give our matching Obama bumper stickers a loooooooong look when he came to our house last week (for the first time in a decade). But said nothing.

Don’t I know it, hon!

Am down to nodding politely and keeping me mouth shut when I see the family; hard as hell somedays.

Only to the Ma and Pa Kettles, Ben D… my dad thinks McCain is just the most wonderful candidate.

My Rush-Limbaugh-loving father has lived in Arizona for almost 20 years now and he HATES McCain.  With a passion.

For all of the backbiting in the Democratic Party, there are way more Republicans who hate McCain than Democrats who hate Obama.

OT, but this is tempting me to do something that will both be against my religious beliefs and make me sick (tomato allergy):

Fear not, for I have the solution: tomato-less BBQ ribs. Use a dry rub (5 parts brown sugar, 3 parts salt, one part each cumin, chile powder, garlic powder is a simple rub) instead of basting with sauce, and then make a Carolina-style BBQ sauce: brown mustard, cider vinegar, sugar, applesauce, and some chile powder ought to get you started. (I add tequila for a little kick.)

Well, that solves the tomato problem, anyway. As for your religious beliefs - I dunno, try atheism? A religion that gets in the way of BBQ pork ribs is no religion you want to be part of, IMO. I mean, what’s next? No premarital sex?

Bob Novak used to do this all the time for Bush the Elder. When Bush did or said something lame or stupid, Novak would rush into print with another column about how unnamed “advisers” were leading him astray. What a pair of whining wusses, the both of them.

So, who was the advisor on the “Keating” thing? I KNEW it was some kind of blindside ambuscade at the time, because… because there’s never been a real estate scandal in Arizona, since… well, since the Gadsden Purchase…  ^..^