Top 10 Political Turkeys (REAL WORLD VERSION)

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Thursday November 27, 2008 · 6:23 PM PST

2008/11/27 · 18:23

CNN's Bill Schneider once again proves why nobody should trust the mainstream media after this election. His top 10 political turkeys list includes two Obamas and no Palin and Bush references.

So, to clear things up, here's the real-world list of top political turkeys.

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Dick Cheney

12 votes

Michele Bachmann

17 votes

The Mormon Church

12 votes

John Edwards

4 votes

Sean Hannity

2 votes

Cokie Roberts

1 vote

Saxby Chambliss

3 votes

Norm Coleman

1 vote

Ralph Nader

4 votes

America, Obama, and Jews: Perfect Together!

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Wednesday November 05, 2008 · 8:43 AM PST

2008/11/05 · 08:43

For months now we’ve seen fretting over the meme that Jews would be scared into voting for McCain--that Jews would abandon the Democratic party because of fears over Israel, fears over Jeremiah Wright, paranoia over Muslim rumors, love of Lieberman, Pennsylvania Republican mailers, etc. Caley Ben-David worried that the "rock-solid Israel-supporter" McCain might "surpass the Jewish-vote record for a GOP presidential contender– especially if his opponent is Barack Obama." Well, funny thing is . . .

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Wednesday September 10, 2008 · 8:05 PM PDT

2008/09/10 · 20:05

Like the "uniter" George W. Bush before him, John McCain is a maverick only when it comes to the truth. The word maverick, Wikipedia tells us, entered the English lexicon from Samuel A. Maverick, who refused to brand his cattle.

"Maverick's stated reason for not branding his cattle was that he didn't want to inflict pain on them. Other ranchers however, suspected that his true motivation was that it allowed him to collect any unbranded cattle and claim them as his own."

And so one of the definitions of "maverick" in the Oxford English Dictionary is this:

C v. 1 v.t. . . . take possession of without any legal claim; steal.

In this sense John McCain truly is a maverick. He wants to steal the presidency with the kind of lies that make even politicians blush. And the closer to the election, the primaries teach us, the more he’ll lie. Remember how he won Florida and so the primaries? He out-sleazed the sleazy Romney by, you got it, lying his way to victory.

And just wait until you hear what Republicans had to say about him.

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Tuesday August 19, 2008 · 6:12 AM PDT

2008/08/19 · 06:12

All right, I don't hate Hillary. But I did hate her campaign, and I hated it in a big, big way. I could list all of the horrible tactics pursued in the Penn/Rovian playbook, but I don't want to invite Hillary supporters to unload on Obama's shortcomings, so I'll stay mum. "They're horrible people," I think, was my comment in the midst of the campaign's end. Let that speak to my deep animosity toward the Clintons for their campaign.

So why in the world would I be excited, even overjoyed, to see Hillary get the VP nod?

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Wednesday March 19, 2008 · 7:02 PM PDT

2008/03/19 · 19:02

Lost in the admiration of Obama’s stunning speech on race was the emerging MSM consensus on Jeremiah Wright: the preacher's comments were too political, the pundits tell us, too inflammatory, and uniquely out of bounds for a preacher–-an anomaly, something freakish in the history of the Christianity. On CNN, a shocked Tony Perkins told us that Christianity makes us respect our government and respect authority. This isn’t the religion of Christ or the prophets, of course; it’s the religion of Karl Rove, whose specialty is crucifying others, not getting crucified for others.

So in the interest of marshaling a defense of the prophetic, I'm providing a sourceblog of "inflammatory," prophetic Christian quotes so that we can set the record straight on the history of Christianity in this country. Feel free to comment in any way on this diary, but I’d love it if you could supply some good quotes in your comments, so that I can update the diary as a source for all of us to defend the prophetic voice of religion from getting snuffed out by the Karl Roves of the world.

This is a diary to set the record straight.

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Tuesday March 18, 2008 · 11:46 AM PDT

2008/03/18 · 11:46

Dear John,

I was your supporter in 2004, and I remember you coming to Georgia with a couple of Hootie and the Blowfish band members just before you dropped out of the race with Kerry–the comet’s tail still barely burning in your inspirational candidacy. I remember how impressed I was and how moved I was when I heard you speak frankly about the history of race in the South and your participation in that history. I had never heard a candidate speak so authoritatively and so honestly about the problem and politics of the racial divide in America, and you did it in the heart of Georgia! You were the only candidate in 2004 to directly address the problem of funding schools through the property tax, and you were the only candidate to go to the South to directly challenge all of us on race. You were my candidate in 2004. You were courageous and you were honest and you were hopeful (except, sadly, on the war).

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Saturday March 15, 2008 · 1:06 PM PDT

2008/03/15 · 13:06

Fox's Sean Hannity interviews Paul of Tarsus, transcript below:

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Monday February 12, 2007 · 10:36 PM PST

2007/02/12 · 22:36

Mitt Romney is preparing to kick off his presidential campaign at the Henry Ford Museum. This is not parody. And of all of the places to begin a campaign, why kick it off at the museum honoring Ford unless you want to burnish your nativist credentials in the face of fundamentalist questions about Mormonism? Romney’s campaign will symbolically play the anti-immigration card even at the peril of being associated with anti-Semitism and Nazism.

From the AP story:

Romney will use The Henry Ford museum in suburban Detroit tomorrow as a backdrop for his presidential announcement.

The National Jewish Democratic Council say doing so goes against Romney's rhetoric of inclusiveness and understanding of all people.

The group noted Ford's history of anti-Semitism. Adolph Hitler bestowed Ford with the Grand Service Cross of the Supreme Order of the German Eagle.

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Monday January 29, 2007 · 11:07 PM PST

2007/01/29 · 23:07

Call me a heartless bastard (really, I don’t mind), but should a horse’s death lead to more coverage than the death of a soldier or Iraqi citizen? Have we ever received the amount of information about a soldier killed as we have about Barbaro–pages upon pages of the most intimate details of Barbaro’s tragic equine life, from birth until death? Has the death of even one American soldier been compared to a national "horror. . . a vivid streak across our consciousness"? What soldier’s death has been called "stunning," "gut-wrenching" or "life-changing" for an entire nation–the sort of death where "you know exactly where you were and what was happening when [it] occurred"? What soldier’s death will have a "resounding effect that over the years will only grow larger and more phenomenal"? Will any?

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Saturday January 27, 2007 · 6:52 PM PST

2007/01/27 · 18:52

There was no cartoon bounce for Bush this week in the world of editorial cartoons, with cartoonists lampooning Bush as Richard Nixon, an idiot lifeguard, a bizarro-world train engineer, and, of course, a mini cowboy.

The top ten editorial cartoons of the week after the jump.

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Thursday January 25, 2007 · 11:58 AM PST

2007/01/25 · 11:58

I have to admit, when I read this diary and the accompanying *Rolling Stone* article begging Gore to run, and don't forget this diary, and this diary, and this diary too, I start feeling swoony about the prospect of a Gore candidacy, just as I do whenever I read the giddily delusional Gore diaries that daily grace Dailykos. He's a deeply committed, decent, moral person (as is Tipper), and he is the perfect President for these times--both idealistic and pragmatic, experienced but now free, wise and self-effacing. Damn-it, he SHOULD be President!

But I sometimes wonder if we want a Gore candidacy because he's not running. Because let's face facts in the middle of our collective swooniness. . .

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Monday January 22, 2007 · 4:12 PM PST

2007/01/22 · 16:12

I’ve posted the ten most ass-backwards-lame cartoons from the last week after the jump. To earn the ass-backwards-lame award, you have to deftly combine the unfunny with the hideously stupid in one cartoon. These Bush apologists will amaze with their tenacity, their undying commitment to avoid anything smacking of self-criticism, their consummate skill at resourcefully seeking out the vicious Democrat who is causing the world’s disasters unbeknownst to thinking men and women everywhere. You’ll admire the rigor, the creativity, and discipline of these cartoonists as they methodically sift through skyscraper-sized haystacks of truth to find one needle of delusion. So kudos, most ass-backwards cartoonists, for doing the impossible: making the lie a hero and the truth a goat. Welcome, Dailykossacks, to cartoon bizarro world. Follow me to the "other side."

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