Leftover brains, found in the back of the 'fridge.

[elfs]

Feel Their Pain

It's going to be very hard psychologically for these people. I talked to one guy who had to give up his private jet recently. And he said of all the trials in his life, giving that up was the hardest thing he's ever done.

You can feel for him, right? I mean, that's hard.

John McCain blames obesity on... political correctness!

It couldn't happen at a better, or worse time. In an article in Contingencies magazine, John McCain lays out his healthcare policy. Along with this howler:

Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation.

we get this:

Parents who don't impart to their children a sense of personal responsibility for their health, nutrition, and exercise--vital quality-of-life information that political correctness has expelled from our schools--have failed their responsibility.

In other words, kids are fat because parents have absorbed the "politically correct" message that guiding (which sometimes involves criticizing) your child's food choices is "wrong" somehow.

When was the last time McCain tried to raise a child by himself?

NYT: McCain's campaign manager received $2 million from companies seeking bailouts.

Senator John McCain's campaign manager was paid more than $30,000 a month for five years as president of an advocacy group set up by the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to defend them against stricter regulations, current and former officials say. The article tries very hard to play "even stevens" by claiming that both Obama and McCain have "ties to these industries," and McCain is trying to tie Obama to a disgraced ex-Fannie Mae executive, but come on: Rick Davis is taking money these companies never had and that they now want to be "saved" by taxpayers. McCain has some 26 Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac lobbyists on his campaign staff. Jesus, could these people lie to you any faster?

McCain loses George Will

I suppose the McCain campaigns hope is that when there's a big crisis, people will go for age and experience. The question is, who in this crisis looked more presidential, calm and unflustered. It wasn't John McCain who, as usual, substituting vehemence for coherence, said, 'Let's fire somebody.' And he picked one of the most experienced and conservative people in the administration, Chris Cox, and for no apparent reason, or at least none that he vouched safe, he said, 'Fire Chris Cox at the SEC.' It was unpresidential behavior by a presidential aspirant. ... John McCain showed his personality this week, and it made some of us fearful.

John McCain won't release his medical records

The article is highly speculative, but worth a perusal, and the photograph is fabulous, even if the photographer in question has made herself very unpopular by bragging about the deceptive manner in which she got it.

John McCain is, in effect, applying for the job of the most powerful position on the planet. Whether or not he is going to die in office, or have a cancer remission (the treatment for which will render him utterly unable to perform his job duties), is a critical question that must be answered BEFORE we "hire" him by voting him in. As Kathy Geier points out in yesterday's G-Spot article, "For years, releasing a candidate's complete medical records has been standard practice for major party presidential candidates. The way the McCain has dealt with the medical records issue is highly unusual, to say the least.

Why does the economy perform so badly under Republican Presidents?

Chris Carroll at Roubini Global Economics analyzes the data, presents his correlations, and concludes that it is attitude, an inherent skepticism of the market rather than blind idealist belief in its power, that makes Democrats better stewards of our economy.

McCain's Freudian slip reveals much

Rachel Maddow on Friday made fun of McCain mis-identifying the FEC as the SEC. And while everyone else was wondering why McCain wanted to fire someone he doesn't have the authority to fire, Empty Wheel recalls that firing the FEC chairman was probably much on McCain's mind. FEC Chairman David Mason was dropped from his position after he proposed investigating a little more deeply into McCain's baroque strategy of borrowing money for his campaign against his expected "winning" of public funds should he win the nomination.

McCain knows the military, at least... right?

McCain claimed that Track was in the Alaska National Guard. Track is in a Stryker brigade, an Army unit. You'd think he'd remember the right branch for a fellow soldier, ne?

McCain campaign insider recommends "uppity"

Yes, if we get people to think in racially charged ways, they'll flee the scary black dude.

The tactics that got [the McCain campaign] to mid-September in a tie are not going to get them to 50 percent plus one in November. They need ... an eye toward driving out the range of contrast that makes McCain different from Obama (action-oriented rhetoric v. grand prose; accessible v. uppity; humble servant of country v. arrogant).'

Comments

Obesity and Political Correctness

[lisakit.livejournal.com]

Right. My obesity has nothing to do with Fibromyalgia and Diabetes. It's all my lack of accepting responsibility. And it has nothing to do with birth defects, experimental drugs when they figured I was dying anyway or being so poor so much of my life that I couldn't afford the health care back when I could have really used that ounce of prevention.

Suuure.