Maureen Dowd Home Run!

Read Maureen Dowd in today's New York Times. Sometimes I find her satire ineffective, but today's column is hilarious!

Jim

Hard Hittin' Hillary Gets Nowhere

Hard Hittin' Hillary was on the warpath last night in the debate, but she got nowhere in her attempt to smash Obama. Here's Maureen Dowd, in today's New York Times:

By threatening to throw the kitchen sink at Obama, the Clinton campaign simply confirmed the fact
that they might be going down the drain.... It’s a hard sell for Hillary to
say that she is the only one capable of leading this country in a war when she
helped in leading the country into that war. Or to paraphrase Obama from the debate here, the one who drives the bus into the ditch can’t drive it out.

I think it's time for her to go, to paraphrase Al Gore's comment about poppy Bush eight years ago.

Jim

Mitt's Religion Speech - No JFK He

“J.F.K.’s speech was to reassure Americans that he wasn’t a religious fanatic...Mitt’s was to tell evangelical Christians, ‘I’m a religious fanatic just like you.” - author and authority on Mormons Jon Krakurer as quoted by Maureen Dowd in the New York Times.

PHOTO: One last beautiful fall 07 shot of these fiery maples along the path of our morning walk in Fairmount Park.

Jim

Oh No! IMUS IS Back!

Starting December 3, 2007, Don Imus will return to the airwaves on WABC in New York City. This station is the home of Rush Limbaugh, Paul Harvey, John Gambling, and makes no pretense about being balanced. It's a right wing bastion. According to Rev. Al Sharpton, the station has not made any overtures to the Black Journalists Association, which is what Sharpton feels should happen if the revived Imus show is not to contain the same sort of racist material as led to Imus' firing in the Spring. Some things never change, or maybe they will. Let's see which of his former cronies and guests return. Will Tim Russert, Frank Rich, Maureen Dowd, and a whole host of liberal politicians who were once mainstays on the show return in December? It will be interesting to watch this play out.

Jim