Political Bloviation

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

Hard to believe that Sully actually wrote post titled “A Clinton Masterpiece” without sarcasm. Bill’s speech was undeniably good and had the classic Clinton delivery. I kinda missed this guy. Much better than that jackass he was during the primaries.

Until we find out if Hillary supporters are bitter enough to sabotage the convention and throw the election to McCain. Would four more years of disastrous Republican rule be sufficient catharsis for those cry babies?

The right and men who live off their second wives’ inherited wealth - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Take a look at Greenwald on the GOP attack machine circa 2004 widely proclaiming Kerry a gigolo for marrying a fabulously wealthy 2nd wife. Who might that remind you of in the current campaign?

Oh wait, apparently we do:
Dan Froomkin - A Timetable By Any Other Name - washingtonpost.com
In agreeing to pull U.S. combat troops out of Iraqi cities by June, and from the rest of the country by 2011, President Bush has apparently consented to precisely the kind of timetable that, when Democrats called for one, he dismissed [...]

The Associated Press: Iraq demands ‘clear timeline’ for US withdrawal
Seems to take the wind out of the sails of the “how about 100 years” crowd.

McCain campaign manager was for McCain’s record before he was against it - The Carpetbagger Report
Who would have thought it was possible? Hot damn mark the calendar, it’s a red letter day! I wonder if Roger Ailes will reprimand Wallace for not living up to the network’s standards and not being a complete GOP sycophant?

Iraqi Budget Surplus | The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Comedy Central
Let’s hear more about this from the media and the Obama campaign.

Drill Now (pushback)
The domestic drilling issue in a nutshell.

If Obama is the anti-Christ, then shouldn’t the far right religious zealot wingnut crowd support him to bring on Armageddon? The best possible response to this kind of idiocy is merciless mocking. “I fart in your general direction.”
This Week in God - The Carpetbagger Report
the McCain campaign released a web video eight days ago, [...]

No competence, no ideas, no nothing..
Op-Ed Columnist - Know-Nothing Politics - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
Republicans, once hailed as the “party of ideas,” have become the party of stupid…
What I mean, instead, is that know-nothingism — the insistence that there are simple, brute-force, instant-gratification answers to every problem, and that there’s something effeminate and weak about anyone [...]

The driver for Bin Laden gets a sentence of 5 whole months, after already time served. We debased our constitution for a 5 month sentence against a driver? It’s sad and Sullivan explains why:
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
If the administration had stuck to the Geneva Conventions, given all captives POW status not full, [...]

Hit the wrinkled old dude with his own words and tar him as the wealthy elitist:
McCain “wouldnt know a tire gauge from a Web page”
On McCain, the Obama people are missing a golden opportunity with this tire pressure thing. Hit McCain back in the teeth. “Of course he wouldnt understand, Millionaire McCain hasnt driven in [...]

By way of Paul Krugman.
I know it’s asking a lot I’d like to see the mainstream media actually report the truth when they show McCain mocking Obama for suggesting conservation and developing new sources of energy like solar and wind. The Energy Dept. reports that expanding drilling will on the continental shelf add a whopping [...]

Jesus’ General: A man with a plan

Maybe once we’re done with the side show in Iraq, we can actually fight the terrorists who attacked us in the first place.
McClatchy Washington Bureau | 07/25/2008 | Commentary: Back to the future in the war on terror
An outgoing American commander said it was his opinion that a total force of more than 400,000 troops [...]

The iphone dev team reports that winpwn has been released. Check http://winpwn.com for details. So get rocking the new App Store goodies on spanking new 2.0 firmware!

Fannie/Freddie Rescue Could Cost $25 Billion - Politics and Government * US * News * Story - CNBC.com
A billion here a billion there and pretty soon you’re talking real money.

I found a copy of a pwnd 2.0 firmware and got it flashed to my iphone. Jailbroken and unlocked with firmware from the iPhone dev team and winpwn 1.0.0 RC1 and iliberty+. The app store looks cool. I grabbed the wordpress iphone app and a few others. Looks very cool. I did this post with [...]

blog.iphone-dev.org | Safe code….
Sounds like their in final bug killing mode and it should see the light of day shortly. Go Hackers!!!!

It seems bizarre that it’s necessary to explain why torture is bad. I found this Rolling Stone piece via Andrew Sullivan on the path taken by a 15 year old prisoner from the early months of the action in Afghanistan. What happened to him at the hands of Americans is flatly, obviously torture. They took [...]