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That’s why I’m ignoring you.  Well, that and the fact that I couldn’t access a damn self-hosted of MU Wordpress blog for the past week or so.  Craptastic stupidity I tell you!

Anyway, I still don’t have much to blog about.  My sister and family have gone back to France.  I got a new phone. I’m crackdicted to plurk. And I still need to use my plane tickets in the next 3 weeks.

To make it worse, nothing of interest has happened politically in like 3 weeks. Not a damn thing.

I’m bored.

I want these fools to pick their running mates already so that I can start mocking the bad choice.  I think that McCain is going to go with Gov. Crist, just based on his most recent stupid shallow comments on
what his VP should look like.  And now that I’ve found that Gov. Crist has gotten engaged to his beard, I wouldn’t be surprised to see a quick wedding before the end of August.

Other than that it’s all McCain saying something stupid, the media ignoring it, McCain surrogate saying something stupid, media almost ignoring it…Media is obsession on how to cover Obama says a lot more about their inherent ignorance and racism than any of the stupid articles from the spring could have.

So, blah, blah, blah….I’ll probably post some of my silly 12seconds.tv clips out of boredom.

You’ve probably heard that the California Supreme Court has overturned the ban on gay marriage (YAY!) and since it’s an election year, we get to hear what the candidates said. I think that the LGBT community will appreciate Obama’s statement:

Barack Obama has always believed that same-sex couples should enjoy equal rights under the law, and he will continue to fight for civil unions as President. He respects the decision of the California Supreme Court, and continues to believe that states should make their own decisions when it comes to the issue of marriage.

Did you hear it? Ha! It was loud, huh?

Sweet.

Back at the nursing home, McCain babbled something into the speakerbox:

John McCain supports the right of the people of California to recognize marriage as a unique institution sanctioning the union between a man and a woman, just as he did in his home state of Arizona. John McCain doesn’t believe judges should be making these decisions.

Uh…the only problem is is that the CA Surpreme Court was responding to a suit. How the hell can a decision be made in a suit without the judges?

John McCain = nitwit.

Digging for ponies.

Sigh.

What does that mean? John McCain first used it on April 12th, then again today. Atrios has video of today’s reference:

The DNC’s blog mentioned it on the 12th and the author has something of a probable explanation.  Super Blogger Oliver Willis used the expression last year, so maybe he can shed some light.

From NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell
Campaigning in Connecticut today, McCain pledged to have a news conference once every two weeks if elected president.

“You’ve gotta have a conversation with the American people,” he said.

Oh my goodness.  The suicide rate in this country would skyrocket if McCain forced himself on the American people every two weeks.  People don’t even want to listen to him now.  My YouTube videos would get more coverage than McCain [s]newsers.  He’s not even half as interesting as Abe Simpson either, so it would be more painful than anything.

I won’t even touch the dunderheadedness of “you’ve gotta have”.  Ugh.

h/t to Poplicks…here is a pro-campaign video that is actually worse than any of those horrid pro-Clinton videos:

I’m trying to figure out what was worse: the message or the singing.

When I first read about it, I kind of threw up in my mouth.  That’s just nasty.  I read the article and there’s nothing there, so yawn.  And I don’t ever want to think about McCain’s dick.

On the other hand, at least it’s a different kind of scandal for a Republican.  It’s a hetero-scandal.  That’s refreshing and puts the Straight Talk Express in a new light.

Thanks Cheeseheads for not paying attention to the negatively lame attacks from the Clinton campaign.

Yes, so that makes it 9 for 9, Obama.

Numbers to come later. Eyes on Hawaii next.

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Got MSNBC on an Chris Matthews must be off his meds. He’s talking “looking at the autopsy” and checking “the entrails of this campaign”.

Let’s get some facts cleared up here.

There was no pledge.

Read this to see what Old Man McCain takes as a pledge:

But was it a pledge? That’s some people’s recollection of Obama’s exchanges with McCain and the FEC in February, when Obama asked — and got — FEC approval for preserving the option of a publicly financed general election, a scenario in which he’d return general election contributions.

I first pressed Obama’s camp on this particular point more than a year ago, on Feb. 7, 2007, when they first floated the notion. And they deliberately preserved some wiggle room then.

“We’re looking to see if we can preserve the option,” spokesman Bill Burton said, when asked if the campaign was committing, conditionally, to public financing,

I asked Burton again today if this was a “pledge,” and he repeated that it’s an “option.”

How has anything changed? I mean besides Obama raising $1M a day–you know, the public financing him, and Clinton losing to him 8 states in a row? I know that McCain is worried that he’ll not be able to raise as much money as Obama (legally at least). What kind of idiot would he be to commit or not commit right now, when he’s not the nominee. It’s disingenuous the role the media is playing in this schoolyard fight. It’s sad to see people sucked into and regurgitating the quarter-truths they hear on TV.

Keep in mind that the McCain campaign said this:

Mr. McCain’s advisers said that the candidate, despite his signature legislative efforts to restrict the money spent on political campaigns, would not accept public financing and spending limits for this year’s general campaign.

You also want to read this interesting article in WaPo.

What makes it all just a little bit more sad is that now the Clinton campaign has stolen a so-called attack from the McCain campaign and is going after Obama. What purpose does that serve except to inject themselves into this non-story? Or is this another way of showing that Clinton is experienced? Just wrap your head around that: The Obama campaign says, “I’m not the nominee yet. Let’s discuss this later.” The Clinton campaign, who hopes to be the nominee, doesn’t ignore the non-story, they jump in with both feet to “attack”, instead of saying, “Why does is matter? We’re going to be the nominee in Denver.”

No, this attack from the Clinton campaign doesn’t make them look presidential, it makes them look desperate to fling anything at Obama. Just note that no matter what, the Obama campaign has not mentioned or alluded to any of the bajillion Clinton scandals. Maybe there was an agreement that it wouldn’t be discussed. Whatever, they should thank their lucky stars on that not even Obama surrogates are doing it.

As for me, I don’t think that Obama should accept public financing unless he gets McCain to agree that pro-GOP Fox and CNN are off limits for interviews and such and they’ll do all their debates on PBS or C-SPAN.

File this under the And Cats and Dogs will Lie Down Together category:

ABC News’ Teddy Davis Reports: On Wednesday, a top adviser to John McCain said more definitively than he has in the past that he will step down from the Arizona senator’s presidential campaign if the presumed GOP nominee faces Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., in the general election.

“I would simply be uncomfortable being in a campaign that would be inevitably attacking Barack Obama,” said McCain adviser Mark McKinnon in an interview with NPR’s “All Things Considered.”  “I think it would be uncomfortable for me, and I think it would be bad for the McCain campaign.” (Politcal Radar)

What kind of adviser is that?  That doesn’t even make sense.