Message to the BBC

Here is a short comment I submitted to the BBC regarding the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota.

"Since it was announced that the Republican Convention was to be held in St. Paul I have dreaded the day that the city would start going into lock-down. There have been thousands protesting with nearly all doing so peacefully. A few have caused trouble and have been arrested, rightly so, for breaking windows, etc. But the scenes of a police state are becoming more apparent. House raids, arrests of journalists and the tasering of people not resisting arrest is all well documented. Permitted events have been shut down as well. It is rediculous that the republican party needs millions of dollars and thousands of police, troopers and national guard to simply nominate John McCain as the Republican nominee for president."

And the Floodgates are Open

After Hillary Clinton's unbelievable comments at the end of last week, the gates are apparently now open wide for people to call for the assassination of Barack Obama. If unsure of what I am talking about, see Keith Olbermann's special comment and thorough haranguing of Clinton in the 10 minute youtube.com clip from Countdown. Not more than a few days later on Fox news we have people endorsing the idea that it would be "great" if Obama were to be assassinated. Holy Shit. Just think about that for a minute. It's OK for people to kill politicians they do not agree with. That is the idea endorsed on and by Fox News. I am completely floored. And the person responsible for this is a Democrat. One I have lost complete respect for, for the rest of my life: Hillary Clinton.

Fred Thompson: Booo Teachers!

Yay Fundamentalist Christians! On the way to work this morning I was listening to the radio (NPR) say that Fred Thompson is down in South Carolina trying to pry the evangelical votes away from Huckabee. The way he is doing this is to say that he had won the National Right to Life endorsenment and Huckabee only had the endorsement of the NEA.

Republican politics in this campaign are laughable. Thompson, the guy who got 1% in NH, the guy who was billed as the Neo-Reagan poster boy, came into this election thinking he would be the saviour of the Republican party. Best part is that he is no worse than the top tier candidates, but doesn't stand a chance. As I recently read on the Daily Kos frontpage, the front runners are a guy who doesn't believe in science, a guy who is OK with staying in Iraq for 100 years and a plutocrat attempting to purchase the presidency.

Dropped

It only took me 4 days to be proven wrong about the Colbert presidential run. I'm gonna hang up my political punditry hat for now.

Colbert Run is for Real!

This could quite possibly be the greatest piss taking of the MSM-picks-the-candidate presidential campaign ever. While the Daily Show's Indecision '04 and Clusterfuck to the Whitehouse are funny and satirical on a high level, Colbert is coming close to genius every night on his show and in his run on the South Carolina ticket (to/on which he has officially applied). The top tier dems were asked about Colbert in a recent debate and Obama responded that he didn't even know he was from South Carolina and challenged Colbert to a grit off. When the camera came back to Colbert he was shovelling grits into his smirked mouth. There was also a nice snubbing of the republican party when he said he"just can't bring myself to write a $35,000 check to the republican party." It costs $2,500 to apply to the demcratic ballot.

I am well looking forward to seeing where he takes this campaign. I hope he cranks it up a notch or two (if that is possible) because there is a lot of work to do to combat the influence on the major news networks.

The Biggest Red Sox Fan

While dancing around the living room in my pajamas over the Iowa Hawkeyes 2nd OT victory over the MSU Spartans, the next ESPN sporting event began immediately. When I began to pay attention to what was being said I heard, "and now we go to *some sports pundit* who is with one of the biggest Red Sox fans ever" and so I thought, what's Rudy Giulianni doing on ESPN?

The New Candidate

Stephen Colbert for President, 2008!!!