Slouching Towards Bethlehem

The kindness of strangers:

Here’s something strange. I was doing my regular Google News search for “Obama,” “McCain,” and so on, when I came across an article from the Times Online titled “Democrats desert Barack Obama and turn towards the Republicans.” I clicked on it, but the page is missing from the Times Online website. (This is the link.)

The link to the article is still there on Google News as of this writing, but it might disappear, so here’s the proof:

I did a search for “Jessica Goral” on the Times Online website, but, again, nothing.  So I did a Google search for the name, and I found this. (Just to give you an idea of what kind of site it is, one of the comments on the article is: “Barack: “Where de white women at?” =D”.) The link at the end of that excerpt to the whole article on the Times Online website is also dead. So, at some point, the article was there, but now it’s gone…

This looks interesting.

Thank you, Jon Stewart.

The most amazing thing about McCain’s choice of Palin, however, is this. Even if you concede that Obama lacks experience, he’ll have Biden there if he needs advice. They’re a team, right? If Palin ever needs McCain’s advice, it’ll be because McCain is dead.

Let that sink in.

John Stewart keeps emphasizing that the Democrats aren’t going to win by being nice.

But they always are. Here’s a screen shot of the McCain website blog post on Palin’s speech. The very first comment: isn’t that nice? Aren’t Obama supporters nice? Makes you feel all fuzzy inside. Good luck, Senator McCain!

(They need to fix their HTML–the comments went way of the screen to the right.)

It’s as though a lack of forethought were required to be in the McCain camp. Debra Bartoshevich, a pro-choice, ex-Democrat PUMA, has made a commercial for McCain. It turns out she thought McCain was pro-choice. D’oh!

Going back to 1999, John McCain did an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle saying that overturning Roe v. Wade would not make any sense, because then women would have to have illegal abortions.

Thing is, Debra isn’t wrong. McCain did give that interview, and did say those things. So is Debra stupid or just uninformed? Either way, it’s pretty pathetic. I wonder if she’s going to back-paddle on this. I’ll keep an eye on Debra and the other SHREWs PUMAs.

Palin didn’t oppose the bridge to nowhere.

Beauty pagents are pretty well photographed, right? So where are all the pictures of Palin in the competition? They obviously exist, because we’ve already got one: