Needlenose

This precisely summarizes the lunacy of extremist gun enthuiasts:

An eight-year-old boy accidentally killed himself while firing a Uzi submachine gun under adult supervision at a US gun fair.

What kind of “adult’ puts an Uzi in the hands of an 8-year old?

*Update* More wrong-wing freaks that wanted to kill Obama

Shortpacked! today:

(Tip of the ‘Nose to Eli at Multi-Medium)

2000:

2008:

Robert Draper’s attempted dissection of the schizophrenic McCain presidential campaign in the New York Times magazine is an amazingly rich source of anecdotes — some insightful, some dubious, and some just plain weird.  This story told by pseudo-strategist Steve Schmidt to Draper may fit in all three categories:

The smartest bit of political wisdom he ever heard was dispensed by George W. Bush one spring day at the White House residence in 2004, at a time when his re-election effort was not going especially well. The strategists at the meeting — including Schmidt, who was directing the Bush campaign’s rapid-response unit — fretted over their candidate’s sagging approval ratings and the grim headlines about the war in Iraq. Only Bush appeared thoroughly unworried. He explained to them why, polls notwithstanding, voters would ultimately prefer him over his opponent, John Kerry.

There’s an accidental genius to the way Americans pick a president, Schmidt remembers Bush saying that day. By the end of it all, a candidate’s true character is revealed to the American people.

Leaving aside that this obviously wasn’t true for Dubya (although it may be proving that way for McCain), what are we supposed to make of a so-called strategist who says he got the best political advice of his life from George Bush? Isn’t that like taking performance advice from Howdy Doody or Charlie McCarthy?

Then again, I suppose that’s what Sarah Palin did.

Case in point CongrAssClown Robin Hayes of NC tells a crowd of John McCain supporters that “liberals hate real Americans.”  These fucking reactionaries aren’t even bothering to use code words anymore.

*Update* And what about this evil CongrAssClown Michele Bachmann R Minnesota, calling liberals anti-American, and calling for an witch hunt in Congress for Reps with ’Un-American’ views:

Obama rally in St. Louis (2008):

Kerry rally in Oregon (2004):

Remember, it ain’t over till it’s over.

Found on Flickr (larger size):

The Dems are fighting back the Repug attempt to disenfrachise voters in swing states.  They won a minor battle to restore some registrations in Michigan and surprisingly of new voters in Ohio - surprisingly because the legal fight went up to the SCOTUS which ruled against the Greasy Old Pigs!  Guess Shrubya’s buddies don’t care for McCain.