Obama, Dictator of Ohio
Barack Obama gave a speech in Toledo, Ohio, the other day, and behind his podium were several American and Ohioan flags. Not exactly newsworthy stuff.
The problem is, Ohio’s flag features a prominent, large “O.” Obama’s right-wing detractors didn’t know this, and assumed that the Obama campaign had created its own flag to stand alongside the American flag. Conservative activists and talk-show hosts had a bit of a freak-out. Here’s a hilarious example.
On the October 15 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Bob Grant said: “[W]hat is that flag that Obama’s been standing in front of that looks like an American flag, but instead of having the field of 50 stars representing the 50 states, there’s a circle?” He then said: “Is the circle the ‘O’ for Obama?
Alfred E. Smith dinner
For anyone who hasn’t seen it yet…here are Barack and McCain ‘roasting’ each other and having a little laugh at the Alfred E. Smith dinner last night.
Obamas best lines (imho):
“My greatest strength would be my humility. My greatest weakness is that it’s possible I am too awesome.”
Many of you know that I got my name from my father. “Barack” is Swahili for “That one.” I got my middle name from somebody who obviously didn’t realize I would run for president.”
McCain was pretty good too, his best line was:
“I can’t shake the feeling that some people here are voting for me.
Too stupid to live
You wonder why the GOP is going to get its ass kicked this fall? It’s because they are too stupid to hide their racism in their own campaign literature.
via Sullivan
Batman vs. McCain
Amazingly prescient footage from 40+ years ago. Amazing. Hat tip to Ambinder and Olbermann.
Sarah Palin stops at Wal*Mart for diapers
Carrying her poor little kid in with her, as people scream and shout and basically mob her. You would think that she could have someone do that for her, yeah? I’m sure that the developmentally challenged infant wasn’t affected at all.
Political caffeine
First, I think it’s awesome that this company produced it, but next I think it’s hilarious that my employer ordered some after I pointed it out.
:)
This is not a joke, part two
http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=66550&catid=2
A guy in East Tennessee (shocking) named his newborn baby “Sarah McCain Palin’.
A new father has secretly named his baby girl Sarah McCain Palin after the Republican ticket for president and vice president.
Mark Ciptak of Elizabethton put that name on the documents for the girl’s birth certificate, ignoring the name Ava Grace, which he and his wife had picked earlier.
“I don’t think she believes me yet,” he told the Kingsport Times-News for a story to be published Tuesday. “It’s going to take some more convincing.”
Ciptak, a blood bank employee for the American Red Cross, said he named his third child after John McCain and Sarah Palin to “to get the word out” about the campaign.
“I took one for the cause,” he said.
This is not a joke
But yet I am laughing so hard that my insides are hurting and I think I just ruined my fancy office chair.
:(
On a small stage in the middle of a sea of red t-shirts at the Richmond International Raceway in Virginia this afternoon, Williams stood a few feet from Republican vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin to sing the Star Spangled Banner. But it was his next song that was a surefire hit in this conservative crowd.
“The left wing liberal media … most American people don’t believe ‘em anyway you see,” Williams intoned.
The tune seemed to be entitled “The McCain-Palin tradition” and was sung to the tune of Williams’ song “Family tradition,” a song with lyrics about drinking and smoking marijuana.
