West, Donavon West

Huh?

Note that this is NOT a re-touched photo, but an actual picture taken after the third and final debate. Rather representative of how the race is going, don't you think?

The McCain camp has no problem stretching the truth. Following her selection last month as John McCain's running mate, aides said Palin had traveled to Ireland, Germany, Kuwait, and Iraq to meet with members of the Alaska National Guard.

As it turns out, Palin never visited Iraq and made only a refueling stop in Ireland.

WTF! Stop lying about everything! Palin is unqualified to be President of the United States and if Republicans were honest with themselves, they would admit it.

Source: Boston Globe

If you saw Barack Obama’s victory speech last Tuesday, you may have seen this. Michelle gave her husband a celebratory “fist bump” (or fist pound) before leaving the stage.

But Fox News see this differently. They call it a “Terrorist Fist Jab”. That’s right. “Fair and Balanced” Fox News is suggesting that Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Michael Jordan, Charlie Sheen, Dick Cheney, New York Yankees pitcher Chien-Ming Wang and catcher Chad Moeller, Harry Connick Jr and his daughter Sara, golfer Billy Mayfair and his caddy, Anna Kournikova, George Bush Sr, the Pope (as I’ve always suspected), President Bush, me (Donavon West) and quite possibly even you, may all be terrorists! Quick! Where’s the Duct Tape?

Watch the YouTube video:

On a day when Washington was abuzz with the news that former White House spokesperson Scott McClellan had published a tell-all memoir, President George W. Bush offered his personal reason for not reading it.

"I have no intention of reading Scott McClellan's book," Mr. Bush told reporters, "because it's a book."

Mr. Bush said he was "surprised" that Mr. McClellan had written a book to criticize him because "if you're trying to communicate some criticism to me, a book is pretty much the last place you'd put it."

The president said that he thought the chances of his someday reading Mr. McClellan's book were "zero," adding:

"If I didn't read the Iraq Study Group's report, I really don't think I'm about to read Scott McClellan's little book."

The above from The Huffington Post.

This would be funny, except for the fact that this is our President we're talking about here! This may be the end of days.

Hillary Clinton continues to spend other people's hard earned money on a futile effort to stay in the race. While she "loans" her campaign $20M, she shamelessly begs for people to "give" money to her campaign during every stump speech that she delivers.

She even accepted $440 from 11-year-old Dalton Hatfield of Kentucky. That's right, she took money from a young boy who sold his bike to help her campaign. When the campaign is over (and she looses, as is expected), a woman who reported $110M on her joint tax returns over the last 7 years will likely get her $20M loan repaid (through high priced speaking engagements). But Dalton and other "hard working Americans" are SOL.

There was also talk a week or two ago about Obama's campaign absorbing the Clinton campaign's debt in return for bowing out of the race. Personally that make me sick. As an Obama contributor, I don't want to see my money going to pay back Bill and Hillary Clinton.

And now there's this...

What a bonehead statement for an otherwise intelligent person to make. In her "apology" she stated:

I regret that if my referencing that moment of trauma for our entire nation and in particular the Kennedy family was in any way offensive. I certainly had no intention of that whatsoever.

Ok, you have the nation and the Kennedy family covered. What about apologizing to Sen. Obama for suggesting that he may be assassinated?

I understand the whole "we need to let her play out her hand as to not alienate her supporters" thing, but this is getting ridiculous. Enough is enough. Super delegates need to step in and do what they were designed to do: keep someone from ruining the Democratic party.

I know this is old news by now, but I just love the battle that went on between Hardball's Chris Matthews and his guest, right-wing radio host Kevin James.

James was invited on to defend President Bush’s comments comparing Barack Obama to Nazi appeasers because he favors talking with our enemies. James compared Obama to Neville Chamberlain, about whom James could only cry: "He’s an appeaser!"

Matthews pressed James at least 19 times over five minutes to simply explain what Chamberlain had done in 1938 and 1939 to make him "an appeaser." James could only shout his talking point over and over, prompting Matthews to threaten to end the interview:

MATTHEWS: You don’t know what you’re talking about, Kevin. You don’t know what you’re talking about. Tell me what Chamberlain did wrong.

JAMES: Neville Chamberlain was an appeaser, Chris. Neville Chamberlain was an appeaser, all right? […]

MATTHEWS: I’ve been sitting here five minutes asking you to say what the president was referring to in 1938 at Munich.

JAMES: I don’t know.

MATTHEWS: You don’t know, thank you.

Watch the video below:

Matthews rebuked his clueless guest — and the entire Bush administration — for being “blank slates in terms of history”:

You don’t understand there’s a difference between talking to the enemy and appeasing. What Chamberlain did wrong, most people would say, is not talking to Hitler, but giving him half of Czechoslovakia in 1938. That’s what he did wrong. Not talking to somebody. Appeasement is giving away things to the enemy.

(from ThinkProgress)

Mike Huckabee was speaking at an NRA rally in Louisville, Kentucky along with John McCain and others.

While on stage, there was a loud noise and interrupting his speech. Huckabee said: "That was Barack Obama. He just tripped off a chair. He's getting ready to speak and somebody aimed a gun at him and he — he dove for the floor."

Even if this was not racially motivated (I'm willing to give Huckabee the benefit of the doubt), who makes a joke about a presidential candidate being assassinated?

*** UPDATE ***

Later Friday, Huckabee issued a statement saying:

During my speech at the N.R.A., a loud noise backstage, that sounded like a chair falling, distracted the crowd and interrupted my speech. I made an off hand remark that was in no way intended to offend or disparage Sen. Obama. I apologize that my comments were offensive. That was never my intention.

I'm not making this up. A while back I found the following in one of those catalogs that you get in the mail. Someone is actually trying to sell you twigs. Seriously, who would spend $22 for a couple of sticks?

Note that they are made in the USA. Outsource the labor to China and you could probably get these babies for under a buck.