This was on Salon's Video Dog today. Director David Guy Levy and writer/actor Wyatt Cenac (who plays Obama) give us a message from the candidate on launching a Presidential campaign.
It's always sad to see old folks lose there grip on reality. Take this piece in the Washington Post. Looks like former Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, is convinced that Pope George has a secret plan to end the war in Iraq. Take a listen...
"I am convinced, but I cannot base it on any necessary evidence right now," Kissinger told the senators, "that the president will want to move toward a bipartisan consensus" to stabilize Iraq through diplomacy.
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) was suspicious of such assurances. "Is there any place that you're familiar with where the administration has articulated this strategy?" he asked.
"I don't know any place where the administration has articulated this particular strategy," the octogenarian diplomat admitted. But he added: "From my acquaintances with some of the people, I think it is possible that they will come to this strategy."
Obama asked Kissinger if "you are suggesting that they have some secret strategy that we have not been made privy to."
"I would be disappointed and surprised," he reiterated, "if they did not accept some of the elements of what has been discussed here."
Colbert on O'Reilly. O'Reilly on Colbert. Not sure if you caught this, but Salon has a few snippits. Not sure who got the better of whom, but I think one of them should have worn a goatee.
I know I keep harping on this, but it bothers me, and the press [or at least the headline-writing lackeys] don't seem to pick up on the subtleties of our president's so-called frankness. Take this story in yesterday's Washington Post... please!
President Says His Iraq Policy Was Failing
This was the headline, but what our president really said was...
"I had a choice to make," Bush said. "Do what we're doing -- and one could define that maybe a slow failure. Secondly, withdraw out of Baghdad and hope for the best. I think that would be expedited failure. And thirdly is to help this Iraqi government with additional forces -- help them do what they need to do, which is to provide security in Baghdad."
"One could define that maybe a slow failure..." one could, not I, George Herbert Walker Bush, define that as a slow failure. And, not definitely... one could define that maybe as a slow failure.
His reluctance to admit his own fallibility is frightening. Hmmm... Pope George.
The more one thinks about it the further one could maybe be driven into madness.
I first saw this and thought, "Wait! Did we declare war with Germany while I wasn't paying attention?" Then I realized that after 4 unsuccessful days in the Middle East, Condoleezza moved on to Germany where the administration assumes its "peace by whatever means necessary" strategy will be more palatable.
Ok, so I was listening to NPR yesterday in my office and caught this piece about Barack Obama forming his exploratory committee. It's a pretty straight-forward story, save for the fact that Obama sounds like DARTH VADER!! What's up with that?
Follow the link, click on listen and tell me that Barack has not gone to the dark side.
This from today's Washington Post. Good thing our president doesn't like to read, he might get ideas. Not just about silencing his critics either... I mean he might get an idea about anything.
A Moroccan court convicted a magazine editor and a reporter Monday on charges of defamation for printing heard-on-the-street jokes about religion and politics, the latest case in which journalists here have been punished for trying to make readers laugh.
After including his four terms in Congress, a two-year stint at an investment banking firm in the early 1960s, and all the volunteer work he did in college, Rumsfeld said he simply "ran out of room" to mention the high-ranking Cabinet position. Instead, the second-longest-serving Defense Secretary in history only indirectly addresses the past six years under the "Skills" portion of the resumé, touting his extensive experience with "strategic policy, international conflict management, and PowerPoint." He also mentions several awards he won in 2003.
Ok, you've no doubt already seen this, but I only just came across it on Wonkette. Monday night after our president's address NBC returned viewers to their regularly scheduled programming already in progress. The result was much better than any rebuttal Dick Durban could have come up with.
"Every American has an inalienable right to free speech and self-expression," Bush said. "Nonetheless, I call upon the American people to hold off on it for, say, 60 seconds. Just long enough for me to get this all sorted out in my head."
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