I had to give up Cooties, all of the legs got broken in moves. [Now that’s an obscure popular reference.]
Kryten, haven’t you heard that using their real name is one of the ways you invoke demons. You need to be careful about that.
They did cover his grandmother’s passing, but as a breaking news item when it was announced. It will take them a while to write an actual story as they are so busy annoying people trying to get on with their lives by stopping them and asking election questions. They would get nervous about presenting a story in the eve of the election as editors would have to decide if it was prejudicial to McCain. The “fair and balanced” thing is a real PITA.
These are media conglomerates, not news organizations, so everything has to be approved by the legal department. Fortunately no major figure in the entertainment world has been arrested, and there are no young white women in peril or the election would be totally dropped to cover that 24/7. In general the US media has the attention span of a three-year-old on a sugar high.
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I was was wondering what rock Ann Coulter was hiding under.
BTW, Obama’s Grandmother passed away from her cancer. It seems that the press around the World are more interested than the US media. That’s hate for you.
Our ABC had a report:
Tearful end to Obama’s day, McCain still campaigning
That headline says it all. You can see that McCain, and the Republicans generally, truly epitomize hypocrisy. I could hope that Americans are sane and intelligent enough to realize that finally… But I wouldn’t bet $1 on it.
Yep, Hate. It’s now as American as Apple pie used to be, and rapidly becoming the global way. *shrug*
]]>john mccain has more cooties than obama, wright, ayers, and khalidi combined. mccain might still have more cooties even if you throw rezko into the mix, but i’d have to think about that one.
… holding up the State of Florida as your example of good government …
since when has campaigning = government?
]]>– Badtux the Snarky Penguin
]]>It has just been going on too long. This is like the 1980 election with Ted Kennedy running against Jimmy Carter for months. If the economy hadn’t tanked we might have had the same kind of result – apathy that resulted in Reagan.
The elections are too long and too expensive. Hundreds of millions going to media companies is not my idea of a good investment in government. Florida doesn’t have its primary election for all of the state offices until August, and that’s soon enough.
]]>So in this case, at least, the process seems to have worked. Not perfectly, but as someone who is basically conservative I’m not willing to throw out the baby with the bathwater just because John McCain’s whole campaign this past couple of months has been, “my opponent has cooties”.
– Badtux the Pragmatic Penguin
]]>There are thousands of political appointees who have to be replaced and thousand of crimes, large and small, that have to be investigated. It took 8 years to get into this mess, and it will take more than 8 to get out if people really start to work in earnest in January 2009, which I don’t expect to happen.
No one knows what either of these guys is actually going to do, and there certainly hasn’t been any concentrated effort to find out. I fully expect to hear a major gasp in January when whoever gets a look at the real books of the country. I’m guessing that auditing will be a growth industry for some time to come. I hope all those newly minted MBAs are paying attention in accounting class, because those are going to be jobs with a future.
At this point I just can’t believe the trivial crap people are fixated on.
We really need to have a serious look at ways to shorten the election cycle because the current system is a monumental waste of money and time. The rest of the world does this in a couple of months, not years. The candidates were expecting national security issues and got blind-sided by the economy.
McCain’s whole appeal is national security, so he lost as soon as the economy took the center stage. If he hadn’t been such a total jerk lately, I would feel sorry for him. He would have been a pretty good candidate in 2000.
]]>On the other hand, I’m not a big-time blogger, so my investment is more personal than political…
I don’t know where the fix is going to come from; it’s fun to pick at the other side, but the political atmosphere has become so poisonous that the whole idea of winning and controlling has supplanted any understanding of why you should want to win. …
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