Lord knows he needs it.

I've come to be downright proud of having been called that by him, in retrospect :-)

Maybe it's just Harry's bias getting in the way...whatever it is...it's a Netflixer for me.

Bush found out about my being there along with another reporter, and he didn't like it that we were with non-corporate media. You could say that both of our news outlets were "alternative" even though there's a bit of a negative connotation to that term. I can vouch that the outfit I was with certainly had a rep for hard-nosed investigative journalism, but that wasn't why I was there. I got an invitation courtesy of a Republican official who was glad to have me there.

Then Bush found out we were there and apparently didn't want unquantifiable reporters who might possibly ask him really hard questions. I heard later that his words were "haul those assholes out of here". One of his goons confronted me, asked for my invite and tore it to pieces. He threatened me with violent reprisal unless I left, and the other reporter and I were soon escorted off the premises at gunpoint (courtesy of the local gendarmerie, on orders from the Bush Campaign goon squad).

That night opened my eyes. I told people beginning then that this country would not resemble anything we had come to know, if Bush became President. Eight years later, it saddens me that that estimation was spot-on.

For what it's worth, I'm non-partisan to the extreme. And I don't have a dog in this year's hunt either. Not one of the major parties has demonstrated that they are after anything but power. And having not only voted since I was first eligible but also having run for office and been the treasurer of a state-wide campaign, I think I'm more than qualified to make that observation. But what Bush has done in the past eight years, has been far and away the most irresponsible administration in living American memory.

Mi ght have been the first time in history that anyone ran for school board by using the Death Star :-P

I'm not joking or trying to be snide. I am just seriously curious to see if there is any media capturing such a time in your life. And if so, PLEASE SHOW US!

I'm sure I will see it eventually but it kind of bugs me how much this just seems like a cash grab.

read for yourself:

http://tinyurl.com/54cs8c

As Patton Oswalt says, Bush fans are like Creed fans. At this point there's just no defense, it's just embarassing.

Oh and BTW, where was Bush when Katrina hit? Oh that's right, eating cake with John McCain.

Like I said, it's not supposed to happen in America. Had the politician in question been a Democrat, it would have bothered me just as much. It's well past time that we stop trusting these people solely on the basis of their having an "R" or a "D" stamped next to their names on a ballot.

Just kidding, Harry. We all love you really.

I don't give a shit about his personal struggles with Jeb, the bottle, Papa Bush and his mommy, just as they don't give a shit about the people they governed or had killed.

Laura's a fucking robot. I miss the Oliver Stone who made Wall Street and JFK. RIP that guy.

"As someone who works for the government, regardless of the political leanings of the administration, I'm going to politely say that you'd have been a fat, miserable fucking failure."

As someone who works for the government? So let me get this straight....you attack Harry for stating his personal opinion of Bush and then proceed to state why Harry isn't qualified to do so being a fat, unsuccessful movie writer bla bla bla. So Harry (a citizen of the U.S.) is not qualified to speak on the job Bush has done for the past 8 years, yet you are qualified to speak on the success or failures of Harry's life? Because you are "Someone who works for government" ? Hahaha. Thanks for the laugh man, you hypocritical piece of shit. For one thing it is pathetic you feel the need to drop your credentials to add weight to your post. And the very notion of someone taking the time to post a rant in defense of Bush is just disgusting and painfully hilarious.

If you don't like Harry's political leanings to the left-- then here is some advice. Fuck off. Develop a scorching case of Melanoma and swallow a mouthful of my sweet urine while on your death bed, you stupid fucking TWAT.

(As the Republican Government is busy nationalising almost every failing business in sight) ...

Either way-- you're a dumb fuck. Your words are like period blood and I can give a fuck what you think about me. Hope you enjoy the next four years under President Obama.

A crowd spread across the parking lot of Richmond International Raceway, and scores of people on the outer periphery more than 100 yards from the stage could not hear.

"Louder! Louder!" they began chanting, and the cry spread across the crowd to Palin's left. Some pointed skyward, urging that the volume be increased.

Palin stopped her remarks briefly and looked toward the commotion.

"I hope those protesters have the courage and honor to give veterans thanks for their right to protest," she said.

Some in the crowd tried to shout toward her what was really being said, but she couldn't hear them.

On a sunny day in which many had stood in place for more than three hours without shade, at least 25 people collapsed from heat-related illnesses and three were hospitalized, according to the Henrico County fire department.

PARIS (AFP) - Dennis Hopper, the US actor-director perhaps best known for the 1969 road-movie "Easy Rider", is praying for victory by Barack Obama in next month's elections, he said on Monday.

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"I voted for Bush, father and son, but this time I'll vote for Obama," he told journalists at the opening of a show on his life and work at the Paris cinematheque.

Hopper is to be handed France's order of Commander of Arts and Letters by the culture minister later Monday.

"I was the first person in my family to have been Republican," he added. "For most of my life I wasn't on the left."

"I pray God, Barack Obama is elected," he said, criticising the current administration's many "lies."

The exhibition on his life includes his films as well as paintings and photographs, and works from his own art collection, including pieces by Andre Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg and Roy Lichtenstein.

Fuck off.

A nice big FUCK OFF.

By Patrick Oppmann

CNN

TAMARAC, Florida (CNN) -- "Schlep."

A Yiddish word meaning to pull, yank or tug, schlep is a good way of describing what it took for Mike Bender to persuade his grandparents to vote for Sen. Barack Obama for president.

Bender's grandparents, Kenny and Selma Furst, 90 and 87 years old, should have been an easy sell to support the Democratic nominee for president.

Like many of the estimated 650,000 Jews living in Florida, the Fursts are lifelong, passionate Democrats and a crucial vote for any Democratic candidate hoping to win the battleground state.

But when Bender -- who is not affiliated with Obama's campaign but supports him -- brought up the idea of voting for Obama over Thanksgiving dinner last year, he was met with an uncharacteristic silence.

"Their reaction was, as they said, 'I'm a little meschugah,' " Bender said, adding that the expression meant "crazy."

For Selma Furst, voting for an African-American for president seemed unthinkable. Watch a "few little known Jewish facts" on Obama »

"I grew up with Jewish people and Italian people, but I never lived in a neighborhood that was black," she said. "Somebody said to me, 'What do you object to about him?' I said, well, truthfully, our colors are different."

Overcoming the prejudices of his grandparents' generation would be difficult, Bender realized. But he was not going to be alone.

Ari Wallach, co-executive director of Jews Vote, a Jewish advocacy group, also said he saw reluctance among some older, traditionally Democratic Jews to support Obama.

But Wallach said it wasn't just a question of race. He cited a months-long misleading Internet campaign that aimed to convince voters that Obama is a Muslim or that he would reverse the United States' policy of supporting Israel. Obama is Christian and says he backs a strong U.S.-Israel relationship.

"The older demographic particularly were being hit with tons and tons of Obama smear e-mails," Wallach said. "If you really want to talk to them in a way that will bring them over to the Obama side, you want to do it one to one, ideally with people they love. And grandparents love no one more than their grandkids."

And so the Great Schlep was born. The idea was that young, Jewish Democrats would flood Florida and convince their elders that voting for Obama was OK.

To get the word out about the Great Schlep, Wallach and his colleagues turned to comedian Sarah Silverman. Silverman makes the case for Obama in a Web video in which she attempts to show similarities -- some tenuous -- between an African-American man and an older Jewish woman. She raves about the Democratic candidate's brisket and points out that Barack comes from the Hebrew word for "lightning." Watch the Great Schlep »

The video ends with Silverman advising Obama supporters to let their grandparents know that should they fail to vote Democratic in the presidential election in November, maybe they shouldn't expect many more family visits.

The Silverman video quickly became a Web sensation, garnering about 2 million hits in the two weeks since it was posted on thegreatschlep.com, organizers said. Thousands of people pledged to call their relatives in Florida and more than 100 people volunteered to pay their own way to travel to the Sunshine State to campaign for Obama among Jewish voters, Wallach said.

Bender saw the Silverman video on YouTube in Los Angeles, California, where he works as a writer. Despite the humor of Silverman's call to schlep, the video's message resonated with Bender because of the difficulty he faced convincing his own grandparents.

"I thought it was brilliant," Bender said. He decided to go to Florida and try one more time.

When Bender recently returned to his grandparents' retirement community in Tamarac, Florida, near Fort Lauderdale, he was greeted with several surprises. Months of telephone conversations and his trip had paid off: His grandparents told him shortly after he arrived that they were going to support Obama.

The next surprise was that his schlep had generated interest around their retirement community. A lot of interest. So many other seniors wanted to hear about Obama that the venue for a meeting on the subject had to be changed from the Furst's living room to a ballroom in the community's clubhouse.

An hour before Bender started to make his case about Obama on Sunday, groups of senior citizens were staking out space in the ballroom. Soon there were more than 100 people and no more chairs.

Sporting an Obama T-shirt with Hebrew writing on it, retiree Morty Brill said, "The economy, the war, you think you can trust Republicans to fix them?"

If there were any people in the room with reservations about Barack Obama, they kept those doubts to themselves.

As Bender told the crowd that Obama was not a Muslim and that Obama was a staunch supporter of Israel, he was met with heads nodding in agreement throughout the room.

However, Bender felt the need to drive the point further. If Obama was elected, he said, then Bender would not worry so much about politics and "would have more time to find a nice Jewish girl to marry."

Whether Mike Bender's schlep really changed any minds is anyone's guess, but the applause from the crowd was deafening.

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http://www.variety.com/VR11179 93933.html

October 14, 2008 02:49 PM

William Timmons, the Washington lobbyist who John McCain has named to head his presidential transition team, aided an influence effort on behalf of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to ease international sanctions against his regime.

The two lobbyists who Timmons worked closely with over a five year period on the lobbying campaign later either pleaded guilty to or were convicted of federal criminal charges that they had acted as unregistered agents of Saddam Hussein's government.

During the same period beginning in 1992, Timmons worked closely with the two lobbyists, Samir Vincent and Tongsun Park, on a previously unreported prospective deal with the Iraqis in which they hoped to be awarded a contract to purchase and resell Iraqi oil. Timmons, Vincent, and Park stood to share at least $45 million if the business deal went through.

Timmons' activities occurred in the years following the first Gulf War, when Washington considered Iraq to be a rogue enemy state and a sponsor of terrorism. His dealings on behalf of the deceased Iraqi leader stand in stark contrast to the views his current employer held at the time.

John McCain strongly supported the 1991 military action against Iraq, and as recently as Sunday described Saddam Hussein as a one-time menace to the region who had "stated categorically that he would acquire weapons of mass destruction, and he would use them wherever he could."

Timmons declined to comment for this story. An office manager who works for him said that he has made it his practice during his public career to never speak to the press. Timmons previously told investigators that he did not know that either Vincent or Park were acting as unregistered agents of Iraq. He also insisted that he did not fully understand just how closely the two men were tied to Saddam's regime while they collaborated.

But testimony and records made public during Park's criminal trial, as well as other information uncovered during a United Nations investigation, suggest just the opposite. Virtually everything Timmons did while working on the lobbying campaign was within days conveyed by Vincent to either one or both of Saddam Hussein's top aides, Tariq Aziz and Nizar Hamdoon. Vincent also testified that he almost always relayed input from the Iraqi aides back to Timmons.

Talking points that Timmons produced for the lobbyists to help ease the sanctions, for example, were reviewed ahead of time by Aziz, Vincent testified in court. Proposals that Timmons himself circulated to U.S. officials as part of the effort were written with the assistance of the Iraqi officials, and were also sent ahead of time with Timmons' approval to Aziz, other records show.

Moreover, there was a major financial incentive at play for Timmons. The multi-million dollar oil deal that he was pursuing with the two other lobbyists would only be possible if their efforts to ease sanctions against Iraq were successful.

I could say 6 words and with those words, you would be an expert on me, my opinion, and would also be able to "know" everything I say and think. You'd know my life history with just a simple sentence. You'd know whether or not I love America or hate America. You'd know whether or not I want to blow up America with my terrorist buddies or if I wanted to incarcerate all Muslims for being terrorists. You'd know right away if I want to take all of your money and give you a nickel allowance per week or maybe that I want to take my money and go kick some homeless people in the teeth. You'd know if I hate baseball, apple pie, and fireworks on the Fourth of July. You'd know if I love NASCAR, the military, and country music. You'd know at a glance whether or not I'm a racist or a sexist or a religious zealot. You'd know in a moment that I was a fellow parishioner or a devoted comrade. You'd know without asking that I'm a Godless fool worthy of pity or a lost soul in need of spiritual guidance. You'd know right away if I thought the surge worked or if I think Saddam Hussein was training Al Qaida operatives in norther Iraq prior to September 11, 2001.

And you'd know whether or not we were friends or adversaries. With just a sentence. 6 words. I bet you already know all the things I mentioned...and I didn't even have to say those 6 words.

It would mean the Dems could now easily carpet bomb states with attack ads showing this association to Saddam Hussein as a response to all the Ayres stuff.

Hey BSB maybe that's ALSO why Conservative Bill Krystal called for the firing of the McCain Campaign ?

---FIRE THE CAMPAIGN---

By WILLIAM KRISTOL Published: October 12, 2008

It’s time for John McCain to fire his campaign. He has nothing to lose. His campaign is totally overmatched by Obama’s. The Obama team is well organized, flush with resources, and the candidate and the campaign are in sync. The McCain campaign, once merely problematic, is now close to being out-and-out dysfunctional. Its combination of strategic incoherence and operational incompetence has become toxic. If the race continues over the next three weeks to be a conventional one, McCain is doomed.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008 /10/13/opinion/13kristol.html? ref=opinion