I now know way more about PLL's than I ever thought I'd know.
The Olympics are in full swing, and I found my new favorite Olympic sport that no one in the US follows: Handball!. It's only available online, because if your sport is not beach volleyball, swimming, or gymnastics, you don't exist on NBC.
Speaking of gymnastics, do the Chinese women not look like they are all 16 year old or is it just me? I guess it's not just me.
And now for another daily helping of Obamarama.
Here's a handy website to send to people claiming Obama is some sort of far left uber-liberal. It covers everything from abortion (which is my biggest policy issue disagreement with him), income taxes, and all sorts of Muslim falsehoods. Remember, knowledge is power!
Speaking of falsehoods, there was a book released this week, at #1 on the New York Time's best seller list, that was supposed to be an "expose" on the *real* Obama. Unfortunately most of it is completely made up. Alas there is no fact checking in the book publishing world, which is why sometimes you just have to go source with a 41 page point by point rebuttal of all the lies and inaccuracies in the book. Very very impressive...
Not too surprising is that this book is from the same author who made an anti-Kerry book in 2004 accusing him of making up his war heroics, which was also found to be completely false. Not exactly a great track record for truth there.
Oh and notice the McCain quote at the beginning of that section claiming he condemned those lies as dishonorable? That didn't stop him from hiring one of the organizers of that lie as part of his own "Truth Squad". Oh how the head spins... I want my McCain of 2000 back!
And apparently I'm not the only one, as this columnist point out, that in an election where the candidates hold very different views on foreign policy, taxation, health care, government action, energy, and more, McCain didn't feel his policies and experience would let him win, so instead his campaign decides to insinuate Obama doesn't actually care about America with his slogan "Country First". Because if you can't win on policy or facts, lets just scare the beejeesus out of people and make them vote for the other "safe" choice.
This is also seen in the attack ads that are factually false and spend most of the commercial showing that people actually like a candidate for once instead of choosing a choice between the lesser of two evils. And then ending with "Hot chicks dig Obama"? WTF? I feel like I'm in a 6th grade class president campaign instead of campaign for the most powerful nation on Earth...
Heaven help us when people are actually excited about politics and a candidate for once. I wonder if this happened to JFK and FDR. Heck a lot of people like Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein, I guess they didn't know anything either. And people of all stripes still gush over Reagan, I guess he was just a faker as well. This is what's so frustrating about politics, because anyone can turn what should be a positive thing into a negative thing, just by framing it differently. This whole "celebrity" argument is so annoying because it doesn't mean anything unless you want it to.
It's like the whole elitism attack, when McCain is the one who only got into Naval Academy due to nepotism because his dad was in the Navy, and then proceeded to finish second to last in his class. Meanwhile Obama had to earn scholarships based on his grades to attend his schools, and had thousands of dollars in student loans until finally making good money on a book he wrote, because instead of jumping to the first law firm he saw, he decided to work in the poor streets of Chicago to help the people there, and got into politics for that reason.
Meanwhile McCain marries a model, and cheats on her when he finds out she got in a car accident and was disfigured and crippled while he was captured in Vietnam. As is quoted by his ex-wife, it ended because he "didn’t want to be 40, he wanted to be 25." So he decided to go after a woman 18 years younger than him. He then gets a marriage license while he was still married to his first wife. and uses his new wife's fortune to launch his political career. Now THAT's an American story.
Too bad there is no way they can refute that Obama really was born a Muslim since there's the birth certificate to prove it. That whole "official" one is so not real just because I know in my heart it's not, and who needs facts and reason!
Come to think of it, where's McCain's birth certificate? He could be French!
And here's some Youtube fun!!!!
Sure there's Rick-rolling, but now you can Barackroll!
And finally, a video that neatly sums up in 1 minute why McCain will likely lose this election:
