2008 January « Tethered Swimming

Archive for January 2008

Obama-McCain > Clinton-Romney

“Bob, I’m thinking of running as a Republican.” – Duke Phillips “That nomination is mine!” – Bob Dole Note: I originally tried to embed a couple of Daily Show clips but it looks like you can’t embed video from the Daily Show site, so I’ve gone with plain old links instead. Second Note: While [...]

Posted 30 January 08 by Zeno Amerikanos in Barack Obama, Democratic Presidential Primary, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Republican Presidential Primary, The Art of the Possible

Tagged with Barack vs John is a Hollywood fairy tale with a happy e, Go Barack Go!, Go John Go!, Hillary vs Mitt is like Alien vs Predator - whoever win, victory margins matter

One Love in the Palmetto State

“Sir, the polls show you’re doing great with voters across the board, except women.” – Phillips Lackey “Do they vote?” – Duke Phillips “Yes, we do.” – Alice Tompkins “Really?” – Duke Phillips The very real possibility of Hillary Clinton becoming the Democratic nominee, a prospect that I considered little more than a media fantasy [...]

Posted 27 January 08 by Zeno Amerikanos in Barack Obama, Democratic Presidential Primary, Hillary Clinton, The Art of the Possible

Tagged with Go Barack Go!, Gods of politics I beseech thee – anyone but Hillary, men are pigs, nothing wrong with a little white guilt, racism is bad mmkay?, sexism is bad mmkay?, South Carolina

Imperial Folly Is an Expensive Vice

“Oh, don’t thank me. Thank an unprecedented eight-year military buildup.” – Bart Simpson Two related stories crossed my screen yesterday. The first was this AP story about the first confirmed combat death in one of the military’s new Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles (MRAP in government acronym-speak). The second was Chalmers Johnson’s latest at TomDispatch [...]

Posted 23 January 08 by Zeno Amerikanos in Afghanistan, Iraq, Sophomoric Imperialism

Tagged with a trillion dollars doesn’t buy what it used to, pointless bitching, we ought to replace “E Pluribus Unum”, with “Buy Now Pay Later"

Please Don’t Nominate This Woman

“It’s just…it’s, it’s the same old tired gags, isn’t it? I mean, let’s give the audience some credit.” – Bumblebee Man I long assumed Hillary Clinton’s campaign was going to implode on itself, and it looked like that might be the case right up until the New Hampshire primary. But she keeps winning things, and [...]

Posted 20 January 08 by Zeno Amerikanos in Barack Obama, Democratic Presidential Primary, Hillary Clinton, The Art of the Possible

Tagged with dynastic politics frighten me, Hillary Clinton, save us Barack Obama

Screw Super Tuesday

“Actually this is one of the nine states where Mr. Bush claims residency.” – Lisa Simpson Mitt Romney lived to fight another day last night. One of his three home states, Michigan, popped for him to the tune of almost 40%, allowing Romney, and his fire hose of money, to continue to bless the advertising [...]

Posted 16 January 08 by Zeno Amerikanos in Democratic Presidential Primary, Republican Presidential Primary, The Art of the Possible

Tagged with I wonder who got paid to print those worthless Democrat, make the bastards perform, Michigan Primary, the mitten saves the Mittster, what was the point again?

Please Nominate This Man

“You’re not just putting the new newspapers over the old ones, are you?” – Marge Simpson On Tuesday John McCain won the New Hampshire primary for the second time this decade. There has been much fretting on the left that, in the national race, he would be the most formidable opponent the Reds could nominate. [...]

Posted 13 January 08 by Zeno Amerikanos in Iraq, John McCain, Republican Presidential Primary, Sophomoric Imperialism, The Art of the Possible

Tagged with false dawns, John McCain, there’s still a war going on remember?

If Everybody’s Wrong It’s Nobody’s Fault, Right?

“I’m gonna need a bigger drill.” – Homer Simpson Many conclusions will be drawn from Hillary Clinton’s surprise victory in New Hampshire yesterday. The one I’m choosing to draw is that there is no point in following US election coverage. I’ve long said that you can ignore political campaign coverage that happens months before any [...]

Posted 9 January 08 by Zeno Amerikanos in Barack Obama, Democratic Presidential Primary, Hillary Clinton, The Art of the Possible

Tagged with Congrats to Hillary, I still hope she loses, if you were this bad at any other job you’d be fired, lousy Yankees and their stupid -, New Hampshire Primary, paging Madame LaRue

Dissention in the (Republican) Ranks

“Screw you guys. I’m going home.” – Eric Cartman Do you smell that? On Thursday actual non-media citizens expressed their preference for our leaders, on Tuesday it’s going to happen again and the country is going smell like democracy all week. What a refreshing change from the usual odor of contorted analysis and posturing outrage. [...]

Posted 6 January 08 by Zeno Amerikanos in John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Republican Presidential Primary, The Art of the Possible

Tagged with he who has the gold makes the rules, Jebus can only save your soul not your political party, John McCain, just won't go away, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, one of them has to win right?

Yes, This Really Is How We Choose Our President

“Aw Dad, it’s just a popularity contest.” – Bart Simpson “Just a popularity contest! Excuse me, what’s more important than popularity?” – Homer Simpson Tomorrow is the Iowa Caucuses, and we can finally drop the idiotic idea that the minor differences between health plans and immigration plans put forward by each candidate, most of which [...]

Posted 2 January 08 by Zeno Amerikanos in Democratic Presidential Primary, Republican Presidential Primary, The Art of the Possible

Tagged with election year is finally here, Iowa Caucuses, it's not fair to the rest of the country - get over it, somebody's gotta be president right?

Tethered Swimming Cynical optimism with a sense of humor…