Gas Bag
I'm gonna concur with Josh Marshall that Hillary Clinton has now taken her demagouging of the gas tax issue over the edge of any reality.
Now she promises to not only impose a levy on the oil companies this summer (somehow over the head of George W. Bush and the opposition of her own party and every "elite" economist in America) but now she's vowing to break-up the OPEC cartel.
To be honest, I'm actually pleased that Clinton is taking this tack. The longer she extends the race, the more she exposes herself -- and Slick Willie-- for the hack politicians they are. It's actually kind of wonderful to watch them burn up and exhaust the entirety of their historical reserves.
So much for all the lofty crapola of the last 25 years about needing a village, building bridges into the next century and yada yada. In the end, Hillary's trying to win the nomination by shaving the delegate seating rules of her own party and by promising poor people she's gonna bash the OPEC Arabs and save every American a nickel a gallon. All this while her husband, once dubbed by puddingheads as the first black president, is now dedicated full time to rallying the Bubbas to block the first black from being nominated. Don't you love it?
May 5th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
“All this while her husband, once dubbed by puddingheads as the first black president, is now dedicated full time to rallying the Bubbas to block the first black from being nominated. Don’t you love it?”
The “puddinghead” who called Billly C “the first black president” would be none other than Toni Morrison, who currently favors Obama.
And what about all of the career feminists who favor a white woman over a black man? Did they not get the memo explaining why race trumps gender?
As for “rallying the Bubbas,” where do we find the memo on the worth of the “hillbilly” vote versus that of the “soul” vote.
Would there be some sort of calculas involved, like, 3/5 of a poor American Southern Scots-Irish vote equals 1 of an African-American vote?
Are we getting post-racial and post-gender here, or what?
May 6th, 2008 at 4:50 am
Samuel:
Your comment sent a thrill up my leg.
May 6th, 2008 at 5:36 am
Maybe you two should get a room.
May 6th, 2008 at 7:22 am
Hillary is going to personally make nuclear fusion a reality to power American automobiles.
May 6th, 2008 at 11:40 am
This is kind of sad…
Terry McAuliffe is on a roll today, telling MSNBC: “(Hillary) loves to sit, throw ‘em back. So to me this is nothin’ new. We all hear about the story that she and John McCain actually had a shot contest, I think in the Ukraine or somewhere around the world. And she actually beat John McCain in a shot contest. She’s a girl from Illinois who likes to throw ‘em down with the rest of us.”
May 6th, 2008 at 11:46 am
>beat John McCain in a shot contest
Yeah, but could she have beat GWB?
May 6th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
I wish Hillary would have a shot contest with Dick Cheney.
May 6th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
>I wish Hillary would have a shot contest
>with Dick Cheney.
Hard to set odds based on past stats. She is a deadly shot with an imaginary 30-06, he’s a lousy shot with a real 20 gauge.
May 6th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Don’t forget that Hillary Clinton kills cats.
May 6th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
The coincidence of Indiana and North Carolina campaigns really worked well for Hillary. In most of Indiana and most all of North Carolina, she could drop her gs safely, and not worry whether or not she was presently in a state that appreciated that sort of thing. It is pretty funny hearing her goin’ after them oil comp’nies, droppin’ gs and th’owin’ back shots on the porch swing in the evenin’ after a morning round of formal American English. I’m hoping for a couple of days of Mississippi right before a tour of South Dakota and/or Oregon to really th’ow her off.
May 6th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Actually, try as she might, Hillary may never top the interview with Brian Williams, where she said she wasn’t carin’ what no fancy-pants economists had to say. I must confess that I’m a hopin’ that my home folks in southern Indiana are offended enough by her condescension to vote for the shooting guard.
Btw, if Terry McA thinks Hillary can knock em back, I wish she could cross paths with my Uncle Stan in Paris Crossing and try some of his fabled ’shine. If Stan were still with us, it might have happened, because a recent state Democratic chairman was one of his regular customers.
May 6th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
>Don’t forget that Hillary Clinton kills cats
everyone has some redeeming virtue
May 6th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
The Clinton camp is so overcome with love of the common people that even Terry McAuliffe is droppiin’ his g’s.
May 6th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Samuel where on earth did you get that Maya Angelou was supporting Clinton - she has said on many ocassions that Hil is her girl and had her own anti Obama prot Clinton ad in NC.
Dang do some research - you would like this is the LA Times.
New Clinton ad stars Maya Angelou
Posted: 11:50 AM ET
CNN
Watch Clinton’s new ad called Maya.
(CNN)—Legendary poet Maya Angelou appears to have increased her role in Hillary Clinton’s campaign over the past week — first releasing an open letter touting the New York senator’s character and now staring in a new 60 second television ad.
In the ad called “Maya,” Angelou touts Clinton’s mission of reaching out to working class voters.
“Hillary Clinton is a prayer of every American who really longs for fair play,” Angelou says. “Working men and women have had their jobs snatched from underneath them, their homes snatched away from them. And what we need, I think, is a person, a President who can make a difference in our country.”
The ad is airing in North Carolina, less than a week before the states primary on May 6.
May 6th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Unforutnately Sam since the constitution says otherwise and the ex black prez is stroking the racial fires with glee what do you think my vote is worth?
As for Maya Angelou to dispense with the PC-ness is a puddinghead for supporting someone who encaging in tactics that help to continue the marginalization of African-Americans.
There is a facinating generation shift going on in the African-American community, which will ultimately hurt the Dems if they continue to think that we don’t need to work for the black vote, that is a given.
If the Rebublican we’re so clueles they would be capitilizing on this, but they are too afraid to loose the Bubbas they picked up during the late 70’s and 80’s.
May 6th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
This is rich… Maya Angelou of the faux autobiograpy is supporing Hillary of the faux snipers.
May 6th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Whoops… my bad… got Maya mixed up with
what’s her name….
May 6th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Angelou wrote “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings.” Sigh… I’m getting more and more like reg… typing without thinking.
May 6th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
World’ most over-rated poet endorses world’s most over-rated United States Senator.
May 6th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Bob Williams says:
“Samuel:
“Your comment sent a thrill up my leg.”
Kendali says:
“Maybe you two should get a room.”
Bob Williams, honestly, I think “Kendali” intends to be dismissive, not engage arguments, and maybe even tar us with the brush of that kind of love that “dare not speak its name.” But, judging by your comments, I bet you are pretty damn cute. Please IM me with a sexy picture ASAP. If things work out, we might even be able to get a room a bill it to the guberment!!!!
May 6th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Chuck Schumer is the most overrated senator. To begin with, he inflicted Hillary on us.
May 6th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Here here on Schumer.
May 7th, 2008 at 4:37 am
Randy is right… but don’t forget that the majority of folk posting in this blog comments section were also supporting hillary in 2000.
May 7th, 2008 at 6:30 am
Not me. I voted for her opponent in the Dem primary and left that spot blank in the general election. I may be one of the few posting here who actually had the chance to vote for her in 200.
May 7th, 2008 at 7:36 am
“Cute” doesn’t even begin to describe me.
May 7th, 2008 at 10:12 am
The following article talks about how Morrison’s (unwise) comment has been generally taken out of context. http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/01/28/first_black_president/