The poor local pol\’s answer was instructive (and accurate): “Well, I’m not going to be able to name you specific items of legislative accomplishments.”

Accurate? Yeah, sure. And I’m Elvis Presley\’s love-child!

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Pedestrian, I did the same thing, and I still don’t believe it.

I’m praying that Jon Sanders is playing an Alan Sokal style prank on Townhall, to show how lax their standards are.

For those of you who don’t click through to read every entry, not only is that shorter summary completely lacking in exageration or humorous paraphrasing, Jon manages to make his case even worse by the quote he uses to make his point:

“But, you know, there’s something deeper in this argument we’ve been hearing about inspiration. It really has to do with the meaning of peanut butter. Some of you know I talk about peanut butter a lot. And it’s not surprising, because, if you think about it, the odds of me standing here are very slim.

And so I talk about peanut butter. I put peanut butter on my signs. I gave a speech in Boston at the convention about peanut butter. I wrote a book called The Audacity of Peanut Butter.”

That’s what he leads with: A quote where the term “hope” does, in fact, have an obvious, specific meaning that’s inherent to the story Obama is telling.

Cripes.

That Times biography confirms that opinion for me.

And please spare us the “Not Qualified” for the job shtick? I’ve already stated my beliefs on that subject.

Our voting choice has so many variables that I think people tend to make it much more simple, and let emotions make their decisions. Take Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Conservatives might have basic needs met but don’t feel safe and secure. (It’s an authority thing.) Liberals feel safe but don’t have as strong (and cultivated) sense of belonging, which might be a factor in Obama’s popularity; he gives them that. There’s nothing fascists or religious about that; it’s just that both also take advantage of that need. (Jonah gets it wrong, but he should be used to that.)

Some people make it to the top, but many don’t.

Oh well done.

Barack Obama is an opportunist, a divider, and more importantly he is not qualified for the office of President of the United States. I believe that he may win the nomination, but I know that he will not win the Presidency. If you think that I will gloat when he lose, you don’t know me as well. I love my country, and my party, but we are making a huge mistake, and the Republicans will capitalize on it in November. When the Obama camp cry racism at least it will truly be justified time. The Republicans will not wait for lunch, they are going to eat his breakfast.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/05/us/politics/05clinton.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Um, yeah.

He’s a stealth-Moslem non-Moslem fascist communist Christian atheist liberal terrorist appeaser of terrorists, is what I’m gathering from all I hear. It gets hard to keep track.

“According to the strict interpretation of Islamic law Barrack Hussein Obama born of a Moslem father is an apostate from Islam: a capital crime punishable by death as Obama is a practicing Christian. According to Islamic law Obama’s Moslem father obligates him to practice Islam and no other religion. This makes Obama an enemy of Allah and his prophet, a repudiation of fundamental Islamic values and beliefs. In other words, an Obama presidency would be seen as an affront and insult to Moslems worldwide and be exploited by Jihadists to energize their movement and win over new recruits.

“Worse still, with the Iranian parliament on the verge of passing an Apostate Law-making apostasy a capital state crime in accordance with Sharia-there is no way that the mullahs could hold direct, open talks with Obama or any member of his administration. For such talks would be seen by the Moslem world as legitimizing Obama’s apostasy thus bringing ridicule, contempt and shame upon the mullah regime. As the mullahs are trying to win over Moslems to its brand of Shiite Islam negotiations with Obama would defeat their purpose and be a public relations disaster.

“To be sure, if Obama should win in November his inauguration will be marked by massive anti-US demonstrations in all major Moslem cities calling for the death of the US and its newly elected president. As US relations with Islam is bad enough we simply cannot afford four years of Barack Hussein Obama.”

Funniest thing I’ve read all day.

That’s a fine piece of short fiction, and very deep.

I’m with Dan on this, weird, funny, odd, in places, but compared to some of his other books, not too much of an effort. After over a year I am still struggling through Gravity’s Rainbow. Don’t get me wrong, its good stuff, but hells bells, its an effort.

Redbeans and rice on one side, red cabbage slaw on the other, with cajun bbq sauce and ‘Vampire’s Blood’ for dippin’…. not a b-sprout in sight, and a nice, complex, lingering spice in the mouth that faded pleasantly under the several microbrews we had later at a friend’s housewarming party…. we believed in a better world, for a while.

At least until I woke up to Charlie Sykes on my TV machine and Townhall on my laptop.

Ewww. Can I exchange this country? I think it’s gone bad.

No, the gumshoe/”Homeward Bound” incident, has the distinct feel of one of those “parental anecdotes” that a parent tells over and over and over and over again to prove some salient point. Usually, it’s to illustrate a essential personality characteristic of your child. In his case, it appears to illustrate an essential grievance he has against the rest of the world.

I like your work. Then and now.