Oh, Dear God, No…
Yesterday, I blogged about my relief that James Webb was out of the Obama veepstakes…but my relief is short-lived. If there is one person in the entire world that would perhaps overtake even Webb in my least-desired category, it’s phony-baloney Mr. “Two Americas” himself, John Edwards. Yet the possibility is raising its very ugly (ghastly, even!) head:
Escaping for a few moments from the tyranny of the War Room and my laptop, I happened to hear a portion of NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” show, featuring an interview with John Edwards.
Asked, predictably, about his willingness to serve as Barack Obama’s running mate, Edwards clearly said he’d do it — or anything else — if Obama asked him.
It was couched in the usual “don’t expect it, haven’t pursued it” disclaimers, but unless I’m missing something, this represents a change from Edwards’ previous line that he’d “seriously consider” an offer if tendered.
If there’s one thing worse than watching a populist sell the snake oil of class resentment, it’s an extremely wealthy populist doing same…four years of Edwards is a dismal prospect, indeed…
Eh, how bad could it be? Worse than Dan “You’re no John Kennedy” Quayle? I think not, but probably just as entertaining! I mean, Edwards made his pitch to the people and didn’t measure up – he fools no one.
I wouldn’t worry. It’ll be some DINO like Sam Nunn. Obama is proving nothing if not completely cowardly.
I think you’re right, the only thing Obama gains from selecting someone like Edwards is to shore up his support from the solid/far left as he skips toward the center.
He HATES you, Mark.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/07/05/john-mccain-i-hate-the-bloggers/
How funny. Ha ha ha. He can’t rightly say “I hate the media”, can he? Hmmm.
–Responding to a question about a survey that shows increased exports to Iran, mainly from cigarettes, McCain said, “Maybe that’s a way of killing them.”–
Presented without comment.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=14&entry_id=27972
Presented without comment.
Obama was eight years old when Woodstock occured. Is this the best they can do?
Ryan, no doubt about it, McCain needs to stay away from his ‘humor’. Neither well-publicized joke about Iran was in good taste – furthermore (and worse!) they didn’t even have the saving grace of being funny…as to McCain hating bloggers, eh…who cares? If you haven’t noticed, I’ve become a bit ambivalent about blogging myself. Where McCain errs is to equate blogging in general with the hard-core partisan tripe that is most popular on both sides of the aisle…for every nutjob, there are five or ten very earnest bloggers who are doing it mostly for love, but they their combined audiences are dwarfed by the hardcore, who always play to the bleachers by throwing out the red meat…
It’s a simple rule really, the more offensive the content the funnier the joke needs to be. McCain needs to give it up; some people are joke tellers, other are not, he is not.
Mark: Agreed regarding bloggers.
TMS: That’s right, McCain is a straight-talker…not a joke-teller. He says so himself.
Come on, the cigarette joke is funny.
Bob: It’s only funny when the man saying it doesn’t potentially have the power to actually kill Iranians in a few months. It’s no way for the possible future “leader of the free world” to speak publicly.
It’s just as funny as this:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/2277298/President-George-Bush-‘Goodbye-from-the-world’s-biggest-polluter’.html
And this is good too:
“The White House apologised for what it called “sloppy work” and said an official had simply lifted the characterisation from the internet without reading it. ”
In other words: “oh, we plagiarized it…no big deal…just “sloppy”". Good times.
oops. Quote killed link.
Bob, it’s not even slightly funny. He’s joking about killing Iranian civilians. It’s not even a war joke – it’s a genocide joke.
I can imagine what wingnuts like you would be saying if Ahmadinejad had something about how he hopes Americans all drink themselves to death. You’d be calling him a reckless maniac. (And you’d be right. See if you can figure out my implication.)
Depends if it was a funny joke or not.
I never said it wasn’t in bad taste but it was funny. Bad taste doesn’t bother me too much in jokes.
By the way, Ahmadinejad is a reckless maniac. Someone who actually states, (in formal state speeches, not jokes) that he favors genocide.
That’s ok, save your hatred for GOPers if it makes you feel better.
Maybe McCain ought to pick Howard Stern for his VP?
It certainly would make for an entertaining election.