Watched Futurama earlier this evening and spent most of the time since editing the following clip from that episode.

Remind you of anyone? Think “28-percenters”.

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Kal David & Mike Finnigan
“Sweet Sixteen”

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In her latest ad, Hillary goes for a Indiana two-fer: Make big oil pay for your strife and to point out that Obama absolutely HATES your average working class.

(H/T: TPM Election Central)

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If the warmongering, Bush-wanna-be John McCain wins in November, you have to wonder just how high this number is going to climb in the next four years. You have to wonder where WE will be in four years!

Bush details $70B war funding request

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush has sent lawmakers a $70 billion request to fund U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan into next spring.

Friday’s request fills in the details of the $70 billion placeholder that the White House asked for when it sent its budget to Congress in February.

Congressional analysts say Bush’s request would bring the total spending to fight terrorism and conduct the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to $875 billion.

The bulk of the money, $45 billion, would fund combat operations, but there’s also $3 billion to deal with roadside bombs and $2 billion to cope with rising fuel costs as a small freebie to his Big Oil friends.

(emphasis mine)

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A round of applause for our dear leader…

Bush Disapproval Rating Makes History

WASHINGTON (May 1) - A new poll suggests that President Bush is the most unpopular president in modern American history.

Highest Disapproval Rating: 71 percent (CNN) | 69 percent (Gallup)
Dates of polls: April 29-30, 2008 (CNN) | April 18-20, 2008 (Gallup)

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And a big part of the problem is the ongoing Clinton-Obama fight. Many a person has said it matters not. I think they’re wrong.

McCain supporters are laughing their asses off.

DNC coffers dry amid flood of Dem cash

In an election year marked by jaw-dropping Democratic fundraising, one key political player isn-t so flush: The Democratic National Committee.

Despite record hauls by Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, the DNC has raised less than half the amount taken in by the Republican National Committee. [...]

The story was equally grim in 2007, when the RNC raised a total of $83 million to the DNC’s $50 million. “The general election has started; we should be raising $15 million a month,” said one senior DNC official who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The committee is raising less than $6 million each month.

“It’s a little nuts that we are spending so much money fighting each other instead of Republicans,” the official continued. “We should be doing things that start defining McCain our way instead of his way. And if we had more money we could do more.”

(emphasis mine)

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Rev. Wright… WHO?

Via Wonkette:

In steps Mickey Kantor, the chairman of Bill [Clinton’s] campaign, to express his views on the good blue-collars of Indiana. They are not only the pride and soul of America, according to the subtitles, but they are also “shit” and “white niggers.”

(emphasis mine)

What Clinton’s People Really Think About Indiana

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Note: Kantor denies claim

** UPDATE **

Some progressive sites, (one in particular which I won’t link to), are saying that it is wrong to show this video… that we should be taking the high road. Well I’m tired of taking the high road. Look what the high road got us in 2000 and 2004.

So many people in politics love to fling poo. The Rev. Wright story is a prime example. In no way does this man dictate what Barack Obama does, yet for weeks we were told it mattered. IT DOES NOT MATTER! Just poo-flinging to make Obama look bad.

But, congratulations. It worked as planned.

** UPDATE II **

Maybe it is a hoax after all:

In an interview with the Huffington Post’s Sam Stein, Kantor said, “I’ve never used that word in my entire life, ever, under any circumstance, ever … If you look at The War Room, this is not the way [James] Carville or George [Stephanopoulos] interpreted my statement. This is frankly libelous … My parents would come from the grave and kill me if I used that word.” In his report on the interview, Stein concluded, “A review of the original copy … is virtually inaudible. The sound suggests, if anything, that instead of saying ‘How would you like to be a worthless white n****r?’ Kantor says, ‘How would you like to be in the White House right now?’”

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We could all use a little love right about now. Sing along!

Discovery Channel: I Love the World

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Just when you thought the cold war was gone and forgotten…

If republicans, through Saint Ronnie, can take credit for ending the cold war, will they also take credit for it when Saint McCain brings it back?

What’s McCain thinking when he says boot Russia from G-8?

WASHINGTON - John McCain dropped a little-noticed bombshell into his March foreign-policy address: Boot Russia from the G-8, the elite club of leading industrial democracies whose leaders try to coordinate economic policies.

One major problem: He can’t do it because the other G-8 nations won’t let him.

But the fact that he’s proposing to try, risking a return to Cold War tensions with the world’s second-largest nuclear power after 20 years of prickly partnership, raises questions about McCain’s judgment. It also underscores that many of his top foreign-policy advisers are of the same neo-conservative school that promoted the war in Iraq, argue for a tougher stance toward Iran and are skeptical of negotiating with North Korea over its nuclear program.

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This was the point I was trying to make the other day. I don’t care for negative campaigning. It’s shitty, and the people that instigate it are shitty (just look at 2000 and 2004 for proof on that!).

The last thing this country needs now is another shitty president getting elected.

Pro-Hillary 527’s Spending On Anti-Obama Indiana Ad Now Tops $1 Million

The American Leadership Project — the 527 put together by big Hillary-backing unions and major donors — sank another $200,000 today into the ad they’re running in Indiana attacking Obama on the economy, ALP spokesperson Jason Kinney just confirmed to me.

That brings the total spent on the ad to $1.1 million, Kinney says. [...]

The massive total expenditure — by far the group’s biggest buy yet — underscores yet again the extent to which Hillary allies view Indiana as an absolute must-win.

I would rather the group had spent the money on finding something positive to say about Hillary. The ad:

(DISCLAIMER: This in no way makes me pro-Obama. I know shit when I see it and I’m just pointing it out.)

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Rick Perlstein of The Campaign for America’s Future/The Big Con been so busy recently he needs his own roundup. If you missed it, he’s posted some selections from his discussion with David Frum on Blogging Heads TV (via C&L). The usual pattern is: Frum spins away, states a falsehood, Perlstein calls him on it, and Frum will try bluster his way through, issue an irrelevant qualifier, or pretend that being wrong doesn’t affect his argument at all, and try to move on. It’s really pretty funny (and educational) stuff. As I’ve commented, I think it perfectly captures the wonk versus hack divide, but I wish it played out like this more often.

Perlstein explores the dilemma of how to deal with folks like Frum:
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