Huckabee, Oh, My God - A Response

Thanks to Crooks and Liars for this video.

As the Good Mike knows, while the Lord hath a commandment against lying, there is no commandment against spinning.

Slate: Debunking Experience

Timothy Noah at Slate has an article debunking the myth of Hillary, She-Of-All-That-Experience.

Key Quote:
"...various colleagues have argued (see here, here, and here) that Clinton has sufficient experience under her belt to be president. I agree, but that's not the right question. The more urgent question is: Where the hell does she come off claiming superior experience?"

Italics mine. It's the key issue she has run the base of her primary campaign on. Timothy argues, as I have frequently, that being First Lady doesn't count as experience, at least not as she argues it. I'm not denigrating the position or her gender, but fast forward some years, would anyone buy that Laura Bush is an acceptable candidate because of her experience?

Political Ads, Al Franken Style

Since one video is never enough, here's Al Franken's new campaign ad.

Predictably funny, but how will it play?

Wexler Calls for Cheney Impeachment

Note the time in the top right corner. If Madam Speaker wanted any importance attached to this request, maybe she would have slotted it for sometime during regular business hours?

Further Evidence of Why I Won't Believe in an NH Conspiracy

Ars Technica, probably one of the greatest sites for real tech analysis on the web, has a great post on why the NH Conspiracy theories need to take a rest.

Money Quote 1:
"The Internet is full of people who have four things that make them dangerous, both to would-be election fraudsters and (paradoxically) to the larger cause of election integrity: computers, intermediate math skills, a mix of patriotic and entrepreneurial zeal, and the ability to publish in the blink of an eye."

Money Quote 2:
"The larger the cloud of numbers and statistical analyses grows, the less inclined reporters will be to actually download a spreadsheet and tackle the data themselves. They're just going to report what this or that group has uncovered, especially if it's juicy."

Bloggers blogging about other bloggers blogs, still the knock against most online "reporting" being taken seriously as anything other than mass published op-ed (yours truly included).

Huckabee, Oh, My God.

No, really.

I tried to come up with a joke. Pretty hard actually. Some of them were even fat jokes.

But jokes are what I made about Bush being a Born Again Delusionist (I mean Christian) the first time around, and no one every took me, or them, seriously. So let's just start taking a persons superstitions, oops...religion, into account when they are running for the highest office in the land.