Big Girls Don’t Cry

Is it okay for anybody to use the N-word? Probably not, but I am more concerned about why Elizabeth Hasselbeck gets soooo emotional about it.

RNC vs CafePress

“If you want to say ‘GOP’ and design an elephant that’s similar, want to design an elephant that’s not precisely the same as ours, that’s fine. Our elephant is specific. It’s stylized, it’s blue and red, it has three stars across its back that are tilted. They’re using that precise elephant.” RNC chief counsel Sean Cairncross told Politico.

I’m not sure what to make of this. It seems a little petty to me, but then again, if someone were using my copyrighted material to work against me I may be a little bit mad too…Check out the whole story here.

Pot Meet Kettle…

First we heard Hillary Clinton make a big deal about Barack Obama not using his chairman position on a subcommittee to do more about the situation in Afghanistan. Like many of Hillary Clinton’s attacks on Obama, this one has been recycled and tested out by John McCain.

Joe Biden, who is the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee had a plausible response, which was that he likes to hold hearings at the full committee level.

On the other hand, I wonder what plausible response John McCain will have for attending ZERO hearings on Afghanistan in the last two years…

Check out the full story on John McCain’s absence(s) here.

Somebody Needed to Say It!

“You know, God bless him, bless his heart, president of the United States, a total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the economy, on the war, on energy, you name the subject,” Pelosi replied. She then tsk-tsked Bush for “challenging Congress when we are trying to sweep up after his mess over and over and over again.”

Somebody doesn’t sound to happy with our nation and its leadership! How can the president defend himself from such truths? Find out here.

Obama/Clinton

The other Clinton answered a few questions today.

Q: When will you campaign with Obama?

A:”Whenever he asks… We had a good talk… He’s busier than I am on politics anyway.”

I guess that means all the talk of Bill Clinton being mad at Obama or not liking Obama was just that-talk?

We’ll see, but I think that for Bill Clinton’s legacy, and Hillary’s too, he’ll do the right thing.

See other questions Bill Clinton answered here.

Wanna Go to Denver?

Received this in my inbox today, could be an experience of a lifetime…check out the details below…

YouTube Asks: Why are you a Democrat?

We have one simple question for you: why are you a Democrat in 2008?

Actually, we have a few more questions for you…

Would you like to receive paid travel and hotel accommodations to attend the Democratic National Convention, held August 25-28 in Denver?

Would you like to opportunity to present your thoughts at the Convention hall in front of thousands of delegates, guests, and media?

Oh, and one more question – would you like to spend the day in the presidential campaign press pool, documenting a day in the life on the campaign trail?

Interested? Just create a short video explaining why you are a Democrat in your community. Submit the video at www.youtube.com/demconvention, and you could be chosen to travel to Denver!

Not so funny…

 

In order for people to laugh at a joke it has to be funny. I think that’s rule number one for joke telling, but I’m no comedienne. I have heard of some of John McCain’s jokes, and rather than make me laugh they make me angry. For instance, how can someone really joke about Chelsea Clinton being ugly? Whether you support Hillary Clinton or not, I think we can all agree that politicians’ kids should be off limits. In addition to that, how can your sick sense of humor allow you to joke about killing innocent Iranians with cigarettes? That’s just not funny! We may all tell off color jokes to our families and close friends, but we know for the most part how they will react. John McCain, a presidential candidate, needs to watch his humor, as it could eventually turn people completely off to him…

Ben Smith @ Politco has an interesting take here.

Oh No He Didn’t!

So, Jesse Jackson seems to be upset by Barack Obama’s appearances at black churches where Obama criticizes black fathers for being absent. I’m not old enough to really remember Jesse Jackson’s agenda back in the day, but wasn’t he pushing for some of the same responsibility and change in the black community? Shouldn’t Jesse Jackson be happy to pass the torch to a new generation, to someone who has embraced the black community and wants to move it forward? I don’t get it, it just makes me want to ask Jesse Jackson one critical question. Jealous much?

More background and details of the drama…

…Reverend Jackson is reported to have said that Senator Obama was “talking down to black people”, and referred to blacks as “niggers” when he said Senator Obama was telling them “how to behave”.

The network declined to release the full transcript of the July 6 show and did not air the comments.

Mr Jackson – who is travelling in Spain – apologised in a statement yesterday for “hurtful words”, but didn’t offer specifics. “I am deeply saddened and distressed by the pain and sorrow that I have caused as a result of my hurtful words. I apologise again to Senator Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, their children as well as to the American public,” he said in a written statement.

“There really is no justification for my comments and I hope the Obama family and the American public will forgive me.

“I also pray that we, as a nation, can move on to address the real issues that affect the American people.”

Apology accepted? Read the rest here.

It’s All in Your MIND!

Gas is not really $4 a gallon. Bread does not really cost $.10 more today than it did last year. You can still sell a house a make a decent profit. The same $20 will still get you the same amount of groceries at the store today as it did last year. Buy that SUV, splurge a little, you can afford it. I keep fighting these thoughts in my mind, it’s kind of hard dealing with financial things mentally. Maybe I should be diagnosed with something? Not anxiety, PTSD, or depression…Maybe I’m just stuck in a mental recession???

Check out the latest round of foolishness brought to you by none other than Phil Gramm…

“You’ve heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession,” he said, noting that growth has held up at about 1 percent despite all the publicity over losing jobs to India, China, illegal immigration, housing and credit problems and record oil prices. “We may have a recession; we haven’t had one yet.”

“We have sort of become a nation of whiners,” he said. “You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline” despite a major export boom that is the primary reason that growth continues in the economy, he said.

“We’ve never been more dominant; we’ve never had more natural advantages than we have today,” he said. “We have benefited greatly” from the globalization of the economy in the last 30 years. 

Read the entire interview here.

Cindy McCain

“I am a illiterate that has to rely on my wife for all of the assistance I can get.” -John McCain, after being asked whether us uses a Mac or a PC.

 

Cindy Lou Hensley was born in Phoenix, Arizona, to James Hensley, who founded Hensley & Co. in 1955, and Marguerite “Smitty” Hensley (née Johnson). She grew up as an only child in affluent circumstances. She was named Junior Rodeo Queen of Arizona in 1968. She went to Central High School in Phoenix, where she graduated in 1972.

Hensley received a Bachelor of Arts in education and a Master of Arts in special education, both from the University of Southern California. At USC, she was a cheerleader and a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. There she participated in a movement therapy pilot program that laid the way for a standard treatment for children with severe disabilities; she published the work Movement Therapy: A Possible Approach in 1978.Declining a role in the family business, she then began a special education teaching career working with children with Down syndrome and other disabilities at Agua Fria High School in Avondale, Arizona.

Read the rest here.