“Barack Obama is inspiring us like a desert lover, a Washington Valentino,” Lili Haydn wrote in the Huffington Post. “Couples all over America are making love again and shouting ‘Yes we can’ as they climax.”

Apparently related…

It’s the new black!

“And I approve this message”.
Heh. “Paris Hilton might not be as big a celebrity as Barack Obama, but she obviously has a better energy plan.”

McCain holds a clinic on political campaigning in America;

“As you may know, not long ago a couple hundred thousand Berliners made a lot of noise for my opponent. I’ll take the roar of 50,000 Harleys any day,”

The backfire you just heard didn’t come from a V-Twin.

Senator John Reporting-For-Duty Kerry*



*the French-looking Massachusetts Democrat who by the way served in Vietnam and lost the 2004 Presidential race to George W. Bush
(h/t Jason)

Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?

…a Maariv spokesperson says that publication of the note was pre-approved for international publication by the Obama campaign, leading to the conclusion that the “private” prayer was intentionally leaked for public consumption.

Is there.. ah… nothing …. ?

Via Stop the ACLU

Verily, it is said – there is nothing that the O-Child can’t do!

The Child was blessed in looks and intellect. Scion of a simple family, offspring of a miraculous union, grandson of a typical white person and an African peasant. And yea, as he grew, the Child walked in the path of righteousness, with only the occasional detour into the odd weed and a little blow.
When he was twelve years old, they found him in the temple in the City of Chicago, arguing the finer points of community organisation with the Prophet Jeremiah and the Elders. And the Elders were astonished at what they heard and said among themselves: “Verily, who is this Child that he opens our hearts and minds to the audacity of hope?”

Related – “Funny. That ass doesn’t look very much like Keith Olberman.“

“We have seen over the winter and the spring more and more interest for federal politics and more and more appetite for an election so we will see what will happen in the coming months,” Dion told reporters in Ottawa.

Update – Appetizers are being served!

Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?
(h/t to Ed S.)
“Ich bin ein Beginner” *
Update – He said, “This is THE moment.” Sixteen times.
And –

Never put a small man on a big stage. It just makes him look smaller. Watching that thing in the office, there were more than a few uncomfortable snickers. It looked ridiculous, even to those here who were considering him.
He’s not JFK standing for freedom against the partition of Germany. He is not Ronald Reagan putting a metaphorical dagger in the heart of the Soviet Empire. He’s just a guy trying to scramble onto their shoulders. He looked silly doing it.”

Is there nothing Obama can’t do?

“Now, in terms of knowing my commitments, you don’t have to just look at my words, you can look at my deeds. Just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, which is my committee, a bill to call for divestment from Iran, as a way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don’t obtain a nuclear weapon.”

h/t.
(Note – a publishing error on my part resulted in a duplicate of this post appearing a few hours later. I apologize for the deletion of the comments that occured when I removed it, and you’re welcome to repost them on this thread).

Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?

The Politic has good advice and it’s long overdue;

…you’re not in the opposition anymore, time to drop the childish taunting (and poor design) and act like the government.

Here’s some more.
There exists a persistent misconception inside political/media circles that the political interweb is the domain of “tech savvy twenty-somethings”. The Conservative’s website has, in all likelihood, been influenced by this ridiculous assumption and that means it’s time to fire some of the high-priced help. If your web people haven’t even a remedial understanding of their audience demographic, they have no business being involved in your communications strategy.
Here is your demographic. Start talking to them instead of non-existent college kids.
But hey – but what do I know about web based communication? I’m just a commercial artist, living in backwoods Saskatchewan.

is there nothing that Obama can’t do?

The stunning comments from Democrat Sen. Barack Obama that the United States needs a “civilian national security force” that would be as powerful, strong and well-funded as the half-trillion dollar United States Army, Marines, Navy and Air Force have mysteriously disappeared from published transcripts of the speech.
In the comments, Obama confirmed the U.S. “cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set.”

So the trip to Germany is just a fact-finding tour!
There’s more. Or to be technically accurate, there isn’t.

His state legislative office records may have been thrown out, he told us.
He’s never released a specific list of law clients, instead giving a list of all of his firm’s clients, numbering several hundred each year. His campaign will only confirm representation when the media comes to them with a specific case.
He won’t release his application to the state bar. He’s never released any legal or billing records to verify that he only did a few hours of work for a nonprofit tied to Tony Rezko.
He’s never released any medical records, just a one-page letter from his doctor.

Ottawa Citizen;

Mr. Stelmach and Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall scuttled any hope of a unified cap-and-trade program, making it clear they consider the policy a thinly disguised attempt to share in the billions generated by western oil and gas.
“There’s only one inter-regional transfer of wealth in this country and it’s called equalization,” Mr. Stelmach said. “There won’t be another one from the province of Alberta. And that’s as straight an answer as I can give.”

Well, we’ll see. Hopefully, someone has Peter “The Great Capitulator” Loughheed locked up somewhere far from Stelmach’s ear.
Meanwhile, there’s a half-decent game of “spot the weasel words” in the story itself – for example:

Mr. Wall and Mr. Stelmach cast aspersions on the viability of cap-and-trade … Saskatchewan is home to a CCS project that claims to have saved 10 million tons of CO2 …

… and what the hell are “green credentials”?

Mr. McGuinty has dialed down his expectations — saying beforehand that a consensus is unlikely — while at the same time shoring up his green credentials…

And bonus points if you can spot the scare quotes!

Meaning “fight” is a metaphor for something else? Or, that they don’t really mean it?
(And remember: Ontario has a manufacturing “industry”, the West has oil “riches”.)
Gawd, I love Ottawa “journalism”.

Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?

Obama spokesmen now say everyone knew that President Bush’s troop surge would create more security. This is blatantly false. Obama said in early 2007 that nothing in the surge plan would “make a significant dent in the sectarian violence,” and the new strategy would “not prove to be one that changes the dynamics significantly.” He referred to the surge derisively as “baby-sit(ting) a civil war.”
Now that the civil war has all but ended, he wants to claim retroactive clairvoyance. In a New York Times op-ed laying out his position, Obama credits the heroism of our troops and new tactics with bringing down the violence. Our troops have always been heroic; what made the difference was the surge strategy that Obama lacked the military judgment — or political courage — to support.

h/t

Suddenly, the left gets huffy about tastelessness in political satire. Is there nothing that Obama can’t do?

A lone, honest Liberal crawls out of the woodwork…

The Liberal Party’s Green Shift announced on June 19th marked the most aggressive anti-poverty program in 40 years. The ‘shift’ will transfer wealth from rich to poor, from the oil patch to the rest of the country, and from the coffers of big business to the pockets of low-income Canadians. […]
I invite and encourage everyone to visit thegreenshift.ca to see how this comprehensive plan will benefit low-income Canadians. I will continue to work collaboratively with my Liberal colleagues towards a fairer, richer, greener Canada.

Ken Boshcoff’s “Canada” would be the one with a new boundary drawn somewhere west of the Ontario/Manitoba border.
h/t Charles Adler
Update: Editorial response to the fallout from Boschcoff’s commentary at the Netnewsledger.

Is there nothing that Obama can’t …. oops!
(link fixed – oops, indeed!)