Tag: 2008 Election

Change You Can Strikethrough

Jonathan Martin at Politico notes that Barack Obama’s campaign went through and purged all of the statements on its website where Obama criticized the Surge (when did we start naming military operations after energy drinks, anyway). This is pretty standard for most politicians who sometimes get upset when you try to actually hold them to the actual content of what they’ve said rather than blindly accepting their politically convenient position of the moment. But, of course, Obama was not going to be just another political clone. And if you believed that . . .

Anyway, just wait until bloggers realize that the Obama campaign also went through and deleted all the press releases at their site that mentioned Violet Blue. When that comes out, expect the mud to really fly.

Mitt Romney’s Silly Remarks in Detroit

So Mitt Romney showed up to pander to the Detroit Economic Club with a plan to save the automotive industry,

If we are going to be the world’s greatest economic power, we must invest in our future. It’s time to be bold. . . .First, I will make a five-fold increase – from $4 billion dollars to $20 billion dollars – in our national investment in energy research, fuel technology, materials science, and automotive technology.

So Mr. I-Know-How-To-Run-A-Business would throw billions of tax dollars at businesses that have become long-running failures in the marketplace. That sort of thinking certainly explains his newfound reflexive fear of illegal immigrants (positions where Romney makes a moron like McCain resemble a Mensa member.)

And even the token libertarian in the Republican race this time around turns out to be either a flaming racist. If I actually bothered to vote, I think I’d write in Timothy Leary for president. Sure Leary’s been dead for almost 12 years. I think that’s actually a positive against the current slate of Republicans.