I have given a name to my pain, and it is Batman.

Because what everyone needs to hear is more about what Karl Rove thinks.

-You think it’s hard to read that teleprompter now Johnny boy, wait till you see what you look like in the monitor.

McCain ‘08!

McCain’s policies are in line with Ronald Reagan’s successful conservative economic plans; of the two Presidential candidates, it is Obama’s plan that is more like those practiced by Bush. - Bob “treason in defense of slavery” Owens

In short:

• McCain will raise taxes
• McCain will triple the deficit
• McCain will sell arms to Iran
• McCain will grant illegal aliens amnesty
• McCain will incite terrorism against the U.S.

Way to shore up the base there, Bob. Sad thing is those morons will eat it right up.

Riffing of Randel and Ron Nasty’s posts…

Update: More “judgment” from John McCain

Oy. They’re at it again…

Tuesday, May 27, 2008 17:22 EDT
Obama and the Holocaust

In remarks he made on Memorial Day, Sen. Barack Obama reached back to some old family history. “I had an uncle who was one of the, um — who was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps,” Obama said. “The story in our family was that when he came home he just went up into the attic and he didn’t leave the house for six months.” (Video follows at the bottom of this post.) There was just one problem with this story: American troops didn’t liberate Auschwitz — the Soviet Union’s Red Army did.

The comments, and the mainstream media’s treatment of them, sent conservative bloggers into a tizzy. The right has been focusing a lot of attention recently on alleged gaffes by Obama, and complaining that the media doesn’t treat him the same way Republicans are treated in similar situations, and this added fuel to the fire. At the National Review’s Campaign Spot blog, Jim Geraghty wrote, “Dan Quayle gets defined by one foolish moment where his (sic) misspells ‘potato,’ and George W. Bush is forever mocked as a dunce for his (admittedly classic) ‘Too many OB-GYNs aren’t able to practice their love with women all across this country.’

“If the MSM would either A) be more forgiving of Republican officials who they don’t like or B) be a little tougher on Democratic officials they do like, the world would be a better place.”

McCain’s grasp of the differences between Sunnis and Shiites, Arabs and Persians, appeasement versus diplomacy, they should be ignored, you see. They’ve nothing to do with pressing foreign policy issues that the next President will be dealing with. Instead we should seize on Obama’s gaffe in relating a little family history. Not so fast:

…according to the Obama campaign, all this outrage may have been just a little premature. It admits that the Auschwitz part of the story wasn’t true, and that it was in fact Obama’s great uncle he was referring to, not his uncle, but according to Obama spokesman Bill Burton, there’s an innocent explanation. In a statement, Burton said, “Senator Obama’s family is proud of the service of his grandfather and uncles in World War II — especially the fact that his great uncle was a part of liberating one of the concentration camps at Buchenwald. Yesterday he mistakenly referred to Auschwitz instead of Buchenwald in telling of his personal experience of a soldier in his family who served heroically.”

Burton also provided a link to the Web site of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, which has a page dedicated to the division the Obama camp claims Obama’s great uncle belonged to, the 89th Infantry Division. That division is officially recognized as a liberating unit. In 1945, it liberated Ohrdruf, a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany.

I will give the conservative bloggers one thing. They’re right that it was easy to check Obama’s original story, and that the reporters who mentioned it in their stories on the speech could have — and should have — checked Google to see who liberated Auschwitz. But then, by the same token, conservative bloggers could have — and should have — seen if there was another explanation before they launched their accusations against Obama.

Sloppy, yes. But Auschwitz could in no way be conflated with Tuzla, let alone McCain’s myriad of misrememberings. If this is the best the wingnuts got, Obama should be preparing his victory speech for November.

Haven’t done one of these in a while…

• When you’re tagged, answer the question on your blog, with a trackback to the original post.
• Ask an additional million dollar question — and tag 3 bloggers with answering.

The million dollar question is, “If you found out there was a reward for turning in a family member to the police, would you do so for $1 million?“

Short and sweet. Nope.

My million dollar question goes to:

Navyswan

Jason

And, Aaaron.

and it goes a little something like this…

Would you feel comfortable if someone offered you a million dollars to leave America and never come back?

Surprise surprise: World’s Worst Debate Also Most Popular Debate

The elitist assessment of that terrible debate last night is pretty much, Oh my god, they let that be broadcast on the teevee?” So, obviously, it is the debate “Regular Americans” loved most, because ABC just announced that no primary debate has ever had so big an audience. Take that, Lincoln-Douglas Debate! Suck it, Kennedy-Nixon Debate!

More than 10 million people watched at least part of the idiotic spectacle, the New York Times reports, making it the biggest hit of this endless primary campaign. It even beat other “reality shows” such as Big Brother — but not American Idol. When that hit karaoke show came on, everybody turned off the dumb debate so they could sing along with the stars.

I posted this the other day at Agitprop, but…

…Fell in love with a girl.