Do you always use someone elses lawn to take a dump?

Marc Cooper’s hapless skills at sizing up character
take another hit from Mike Huckabee today, who’s radio
show defines the bottom of this barrel thus far. During the
campaign we read of Huck’s “fundamental decency” from
Marc Cooper, who was cutting him a break for releasing
a murdering rapist(who murdered and raped again) under
pressure from nutball Clinton haters in Arkansas.

I just love those all inclusive statements.

via email from a sort of step brother announcing the memorial for his 96 year old mother/wife of my late father.

Her wish was for any memorial donation to go to the Wellstone Action org.

Huffington Post: What Would Mary Jo Kopechne Have Thought of Ted’s Career?

We don’t know how much Kennedy was affected by her death, or what she’d have thought about arguably being a catalyst for the most successful Senate career in history. …Who knows — maybe she’d feel it was worth it.

Would Mary Jo Kopechne have thought that Ted Kennedy killing her would have helped his career and would she feel that her death was worth it?!!!

Yeah, worth it about as much as Sharon Tate thought furthering Charles Manson’s career was worth her death.

You liberals just fall all over yourselves so much for phonies that you can’t help but look stupid.

I said: I hoped I was wrong. And that I was basing my opinion on intuition. I did qualify my remarks. I then looked at his website and was utterly dismayed on how hoakey (hokey?) it was. Not a word different than any other candidate going on in windy terms with little substance or innovation.

My point about Franken is that given his background and supposed wit– the kind most political satirists have–behind that is often a radical form of common sense and ability to coin ideas– to get to the point. I don’t see that in him. Nor did I in that one adolescent book about Bush calling him a liar. I am sure he is sincere he is burning with the need to do something. I don’t doubt he is capable of studying the issues and an able to articulate them. I just dont see him as being effective. I only see him as someone who wants to play with the big boys. A kind of inflation.

I will qualify again: there is something about him that turns me off and my intuitive hunches are usually right.

I hope I am wrong in this case and will gladly eat humble pie.

Back in March, the Democratic National Committee was indignant: “Today Rush Limbaugh yet again crossed the line saying: by the time the debate on President Obama’s health care plan is over, ‘it’ll be called the Ted Kennedy Memorial Health Care bill.’ It is outrageous to demonize a patriotic Senator who has spent his life fighting so that every person has the opportunity to live the American dream.”

Ya think ?

To match the brazen idiocy of the ridiculous Inhofe, you’d really have to find a Senator or Congressman who baldly stated, “I haven’t read it, I don’t have to read it OR KNOW WHAT’S IN IT. I’m going to vote for it anyway.”

Yes, that would be the same thing.

I don’t know Franken myself, but I know a lot of people who know him and worked with him, and the universal report is that he’s the real deal. I certainly don’t know how he’ll turn out as a Senator, but he was going to Minnesota to stump for candidates and raise money long before he was running himself. He ponied up when it counted and when he wasn’t getting anything out of it.

He’s also been described to me by various sources as serious about the job, and always prepared on the issues.

Like I said, the jury’s out, but I don’t share your pessimism, and don’t think you have any basis for your prediction at this point beyond the bile you have for all things not radical.

Coming from someone like Woody, the master of projection, that’s a compliment.

I am already angry about the eulogy and it hasnt happened because someone should come out with something as eloquent and passionate as many of the speeches delivered by the Kennedy’s.

Ted Sorenson should be asked to write if not give the eulogy. RFK Jr or Jo Jr should give it if not Sorenson. Don’t know how good of speakers TKs kids are. RFK jr despite a speech disability is very articulate and impassioned.

One wants to see some anger one wants a little John the Baptist if not the Jesus of Matthew.

reg, you obviously never saw some of the footage of Kennedy howling on the senate floor.

I am more interested in the whole man…the complexities. and I make my judgments based on moments one can get a feeling there is a human being at work.

Franken’s website is shite, reg. there was nothing well thought out i could find just more of the worst sort of political wind and corny to boot. I would have expected a guy like him to at least have some snappy prose. be concise and to the point. his campaign site just a cookie cutter version of the same old embarrassing rhetoric. Already says he is no different from anyone else. fuck him. he will do nothing. trust me. he will have no allies and will only make incremental progress by having go along with the big boys and vote the way they tell him to curry any bit of favor or access.

Jesus said “I am come not to bring peace but a sword.”–Matthew 10:34

The more sophisticated Biblical scholars interpret this to mean that he advocated doing battle against the likes of Woody.

Jesus and I are on the same page.