Asshats
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
By
Rob
on July 22, 2008 at 02:41 pm
An interesting exchange from an interview between CBS’ Katie Couric and Barack Obama which will appear tonight: Couric: But talking microcosmically, did the surge, the addition of 30,000 additional troops…...
By
Rob
on July 22, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Andrea Robinson, the Director of Sustainability & Greening for the DNC (I can’t think of a more Orwellian-sounding job title) who is in charge of all those ridiculous policies about…...
By
Rob
on July 22, 2008 at 11:09 am
Yesterday we learned that Obama had issued a “dress code” to female reporters traveling overseas with his campaign encouraging them to, among other things, dress conservatively while in Israel and…...
By
Rob
on July 22, 2008 at 09:29 am
Veteran NBC reporter Andrea Mitchell is not impressed with Barack Obama’s treatment of the press on his trip overseas. Here’s video of Andrea Mitchell discussing the matter on Hardball: Transcript…...
By
Rob
on July 22, 2008 at 09:00 am
Because kids don’t deserve to live under a Republican President! “We have one candidate who essentially is telling us every day that the world as it is just fine. That…...
By
Rob
on July 22, 2008 at 08:55 am
Good grief. Obama is “bad ass?” What’s he done to be bad ass, put on a pair of sunglasses? Choppered around a war zone that’s only been made safe for…...
Monday, July 21, 2008
By
Rob
on July 21, 2008 at 06:55 pm
North Dakota’s oil industry is booming. Because of that, North Dakota needs workers. Which means that North Dakota Governor John Hoeven needs to appear to be doing something to bring…...
By
Rob
on July 21, 2008 at 02:15 pm
Attendance for the opening weekend of the fair was up about 3,000 from last year. A fair official is quoted as saying that attendance must have been up because gas…...
By
Rob
on July 21, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Gore, being the artful politician, takes it in stride: Gore says he’s “doing” his “part,” but if we’re on the verge of a climate change apocalypse as he and his…...
By
Rob
on July 21, 2008 at 12:26 pm
When Obama was sitting on his June fund raising numbers I speculated that it was because those numbers were lower than expected just his fund raising for April and May. …...
By
Rob
on July 21, 2008 at 12:10 pm
First Obama sent his past criticism of the Iraq surge down the memory hole. Now he’s deleted his past support for public campaign financing. You couple that with Obama’s picking-and-choosing…...
By
Rob
on July 21, 2008 at 11:56 am
Obama’s been really picky about what journalists he talks to lately. Not only is he not talking to any foreign journalists, his campaign gave the boot to the New Yorker…...
By
Rob
on July 21, 2008 at 09:37 am
They didn’t have any problem publishing Obama’s though. What’s perhaps most amazing, though, is how Opinion Editor David Shipley told McCain that he should write a piece that “mirrors” Obama’s.…...
By
Rob
on July 21, 2008 at 08:24 am
Or, more accurately, some of our allies. Allies that aren’t liked by his extremist, left-wing base. If you were President of the United States, how would you treat a staunch,…...
By
Rob
on July 21, 2008 at 08:18 am
Apparently the Colombian army personnel who rescued those hostages from the FARC terrorists blended in with the terrorists by donning those Che Guevera t-shirts you see college kids and anti-war…...
By
Rob
on July 21, 2008 at 07:47 am
And only 25% think that political reporters are going to offer an unbiased view of the election. The belief that reporters are trying to help Barack Obama win the fall…...
By
Rob
on July 21, 2008 at 07:09 am
Spotted by airplane fanatics at Midway. Meanwhile Barack Obama would like you guys to turn down your thermostats and sell your SUV’s so you quit hogging so much energy. ...
By
Rob
on July 21, 2008 at 06:43 am
Ain’t that the truth.
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By
Rob
on July 21, 2008 at 06:28 am
Obama would like the reporters traveling with him to refrain from wearing fingernail polish and open-toed shoes while visiting Israel and Jordan so as to not offend the locals. Oh,…...
Sunday, July 20, 2008
By
Rob
on July 20, 2008 at 08:41 pm
Anyone else having a hard time believing that we’re on the verge of an economic apolcalypse, as the liberals and the media tell us, while a movie about a caped…...
By
Rob
on July 20, 2008 at 08:19 pm
Over a year ago Democrat South Dakota Senator Tim Johnson suffered stroke-like symptoms from brain bleeding that left him hospitalized. About eight months after he first fell ill Johnson’s supporters…...
By
Rob
on July 20, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Making it not exactly an ideal place to celebrate “historic” relations between America and Germany, which is how the Obama is billing the event. Once again the Obama campaign’s grasp…...
Saturday, July 19, 2008
By
Rob
on July 19, 2008 at 07:06 pm
Because the jail there pretty much looks like a fancy resort. The place looks nicer than the dorm I paid to stay in while I was at college. Update by…...
By
Rob
on July 19, 2008 at 07:03 pm
Well, he already had a personalized Presidential seal made up for himself, so maybe a library isn’t far behind. But whether he’s got a library in the works or not,…...
By
Rob
on July 19, 2008 at 03:28 pm
NPR has a story up about a mother and daughter in Ohio who can’t find jobs, don’t have the money to buy gas to go out and find jobs and…...
By
Rob
on July 19, 2008 at 01:41 pm
We all know what happens when Barack Obama has to get down from the podium and make statements that aren’t scripted and rehearsed in advance. He usually puts his foot…...
By
Rob
on July 19, 2008 at 12:51 pm
...there’s this: Next up: “Hope you can be hopeful for.” Is the image photoshopped? I don’t know, but it’s believable that this could be a slogan that emerged from Obama’s…...
By
Rob
on July 19, 2008 at 12:28 pm
That’s what Reuters is reporting: BERLIN (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told a German magazine he supported prospective U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s proposal that U.S. troops…...
By
Rob
on July 19, 2008 at 11:37 am
As I was sitting at the North Dakota State Fair parade today watching the small contingent of Barack Obama supporters trudge up the street while my daughter booed them and…...
Friday, July 18, 2008
By
Rob
on July 18, 2008 at 07:52 pm
According to Jerry Pournelle: The purpose of modern government is to take money from the folks who save and pay their bills and live within their means, and use that…...
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