The Airing of Grievances

Why Do You Hate Michelle Obama?

Editor's note: The following is a guest grievance, courtesy of Ocho Ocho.

Like it or not...Michelle Obama is better than you.

I recently had a discussion with a distant relative in law.

It went as follows:

Now There, Be A Good Girl And Eat Your Soup

The Soup Anthem.  I see most of the Children of The Corn there.  But where are Malachai and Isaac?  BTW, at about the 2:48 mark Ricky Williams stands up to stretch.

UPDATE:  Apparently, this whole Soup thing has some legs. Buy! Buy! Buy!

Slimeball

(courtesy: fishbowlDC)

How cute.  Concerned Youth of America is interviewed on Hardball to discuss our national debt problem.  According to these students, who pay little or no taxes, working people need to sacrifice more.  Oh and if you missed it, they are a non-partisan group.  Right.  No political leaning whatsoever.  Anyway, the icing on top of this shitcake is that the first girl interviewd from CYA is Chris Matthews' daughter, even though neither he nor MSNBC discloses that.  Ah, journalistic standards are overrated.  Did I mention they are a non-partisan group?  Okay, good.  Non-partisan like Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann.

Finally, for good measure:  this is the same Chris Matthews who said in reference to an Obama speech a few months ago: "My, I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don't have that too often."   Well Chris, that's why we have Asian massage parlors.

Chiles Looking For Bailout Lowdown

The kid is overseas and, very thankfully, the kid has not been following the news at all. That said, the kid is quite interetested in this bailout stuff. What's the lowdown? What happened? How should I feel about my portfolio? The kid did try to do a little personal diligence but You Go Girl!!! Sarah! did not help. What's the dealie Greivers? (Gracias, Ocho)

Either Way, the Blacks are Going to Riot

The Freepers are doing their thing and doing it and doing it and doing it well. That is to racism what Terri Schiavo  was to comas.

Nice find by the Sportsfrog Swamp's Bobby Pentagonz.

We need to settle these negroes down before it is too late.

A Good Showing

It was clear that Obama had his hands full tonight being a first time contender he let up on few opportunities in the beginning with the economic issues.  He could've pounded the hell out McCain on his pro-industry record and "the stunt" but he seemed to let him off the hook like he was a bit nervous.

McCain definitely came out swinging and cornered Obama early on with the surge success and his lack of contact with military commanders in theater.  He looked cool, calm and steady and I thought he had Obama on the ropes right off.

But as the discussion turned to foreign policy you could see the cracks starting to come through on both sides.  McCain repeatedly calling Obama inexperienced and looking more and more perturbed.  Obama holding fast to the diplomacy angle.  McCain playing the cold-war warrior when dealing with rogue states, Russia, North Korea and Iran.  Obama coming out with new ideas and pragmatism.   

I won't cheerlead but I will say I'm glad McCain decided on showing up and I'm looking foward to the next one.  To me, it was clearly an Obama victory, as I expected, but it was also a debate that really showed just what's at stake.  The real test will be on the domestic issues.

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Man-Up You Pussy

So it's obvious that Bush is trying to shield McCain from the inevitable (that being the debate tomorrow night) by tying up both campaigns with this idiotic White House meeting.   And if the McCain campaign is really suspended then why are the attack ads still running and why his staff being interviewed on news outlets all over the country AFTER he made the announcement? 

from nytimes today:  "But lawmakers in both parties said that few substantive differences and no major obstacles remained. They said the bill would authorize the full $700 billion requested by President Bush, but that Congress was intent on disbursing the money in installments." 

OK, so Congress has, for all practical purposes put a bill together to deal with the corporate welfare package and life can go on.  That means as long as McCain hasn't lost his flight reservation to Old Miss we can watch these two guys finally square off- that is, if McCain has the will.  Jim Lehrer will be asking questions on foreign policy AND the economy.  Both candidates were informed of this last week.  Let's get on with it! 

And now it looks like Rep. John Boehner of Ohio, House Republican leader, is trying to shield McCain by tying up the legislation.  Scumbags.  And then there's this.

I Suck So Bad

Last night after watching the prez inform me that we are in fact in some sort of economical downturn, the David Blaine special came on which I normally wouldn't watch but that whole "Dive of Death" thing actually sucked me in. If there was a chance of Blaine dying on live TV, I wasn't gonna miss it. Apparently, Blaine had been dangling upside down from a rafter in Central Park for the previous 60 hours and when that time was up he was to jump from like 45 feet in the air onto a platform below. I'm not really sure how dangling upside down would have made this more difficult but before this I sat through two hours magic! Highlights included...

- Card tricks. All kinds of card tricks. Also coin tricks and dollar tricks. 90% of the time, his audience was either a family of backwoods, redneck hicks...always performing on their front porch, or a street gang...both of whom were extremely impressed with Blaine.

- He took a couple of punches from Kimbo Slice in the gut...a stunt I first saw from Johnny Knoxville about 8 years ago. Incidentally, per Blaine this is how Harry Houdini died. Blaine also inexplicably visited the man's house in Brooklyn. Not that one though... this one.

- He caught a bullet from a 12-gauge in his mouth but prior to showing it he had to come on and inform the audience that many magicians have tried this and died but there is nothing to fear because it's just an illusion, which begs the question...if it's an illusion, how did all those magicians die? He goes on to say that if you try this at home, you will probably die. He caught the bullet according to my eyes.

-After the jump, what you've all been waiting for...

Let's Put the Dicks Down Until We Solve This Financial Crisis

Grievers, a special guest post today from Florida governor Charlie Crist after the click.