Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Monday, September 29, 2008
Churchill's wisdom
"The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter."
"Americans always do the right thing, but only after they've exhausted all other options".
"In a democracy, people get the government they deserve."
- Winston Churchill
Constructive criticism for Obama
Maureen Dowd, columnist for the NY Times, offers some excellent advice for Barack Obama. Click here for the entire column.
Here is an excerpt:
McCain kept painting Obama as naïve, and dangerous, insisting that he “doesn’t quite understand or doesn’t get it.”
Obama should have responded “Senator, I understand perfectly, I’m just saying you’re wrong.”
On the surge, he could have said that McCain was the arsonist who wanted to be praised for the great job he’s doing putting out the fire he started.
When Obama took quiet umbrage at McCain’s attack about troop-funding, he could have pounded the lectern and said with real anger: “John, I am sick and tired of you suggesting that I would take funds away from our brave soldiers. I no more voted for that than you did when you voted against our funding proposals that would have imposed a timetable. And unlike you, I did not vote against funding increases for the troops that have come home with devastating physical and mental injuries.”
Tina Fey hits a home run
Make sure you watch the Couric-Palin interview before watching this outstanding SNL parody.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Off to California
I'm off to California for a week. Inside Patrick's Mind will return Friday, Sept. 26.
Monday, September 15, 2008
Russia by osmosis
I love the writing of NY Times columnist Maureen Dowd.
"I’ve been in Alaska only a week, but I’m already feeling ever so much smarter about Russia."
Read the rest of her Sunday column here.
Really, Karl Rove?
When Karl Rove is saying your political ads have gone too far, you know you must be doing something dishonest. The former Bush chief strategist, appearing on Fox News Sunday, said that John McCain had stretched the truth in his recent round of attacks against Barack Obama, in the process opening up the Arizonan to a round of effective counter-attacks.
Friday, September 12, 2008
Thursday, September 11, 2008
AP Analysis: McCain's claims skirt facts, test voters
The "Straight Talk Express" has detoured into doublespeak, according to an AP story Thursday. Republican presidential nominee John McCain, a self-proclaimed tell-it-like-it-is maverick, keeps saying his running mate, Sarah Palin, killed the federally funded Bridge to Nowhere when, in fact, she pulled her support only after the project became a political embarrassment. He accuses Democrat Barack Obama of calling Palin a pig, which did not happen. He says Obama would raise nearly everyone's taxes, when independent groups say 80 percent of families would get tax cuts instead.
Even in a political culture accustomed to truth-stretching, McCain's skirting of facts has stood out this week. It has infuriated and flustered Obama's campaign, and campaign pros are watching to see how much voters disregard news reports noting factual holes in the claims.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Bob Woodward's latest Book
Reading Bob Woodward's The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008, is like reading raw transcripts of documents and interviews from a sensational murder trial: you know what happens, and you know who the victim and the perpetrator are. But to read their actual words is chilling. It's the In Cold Blood of national security journalism.
Bill Maher's latest New Rule
New Rule: Republicans need to stop saying Barack Obama is an elitist, or looks down on rural people, and just admit you don't like him because of something he can't help, something that's a result of the way he was born. Admit it, you're not voting for him because he's smarter than you.
Click here for more.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Funny tales...by Doctors!
It's usually not polite to joke about medical conditions, but I saw some of these funny anecdotes here and couldn't stop laughing.
One day I told a wife that her husband had died of a massive myocardial infarct. Not more than five minutes later, I heard her reporting to the rest of the family that he had died of a ‘massive internal fart.’
A man comes into the ER and yells, ‘My wife’s going to have her baby in the cab!’ I grabbed my stuff, rushed out to the cab, lifted the lady’s dress, and began to take off her underwear. Suddenly I noticed that there were several cabs, and I was in the wrong one.
At the beginning of my shift I placed a stethoscope on an elderly and slightly deaf female patient’s anterior chest wall. ‘Big breaths,’ I Instructed. ‘Yes, they used to be,’ replied the patient.
New T.V. I'm ready for
I watched "True Blood" on HBO Sunday and I am looking forward for the Fox show "Fringe" tonight.
Monday, September 8, 2008
It's easy to see why people trust Jon Stewart
It's easy to see why people trust Jon Stewart. He tells it straighter with comedy than politicians with sarcasm and hate.
Is this who anyone wants for VP?
Sarah Palin continues to avoid the media. Rick Davis, campaign manager for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., just told Fox News Channel's Chris Wallace that McCain running mate Gov. Sarah Palin won't subject herself to any tough questions from reporters "until the point in time when she'll be treated with respect and deference."
Friday, September 5, 2008
Propaganda of the worst kind
How tasteless. This video was shown at the Republican National Convention this week. This politics of fear is reprehensible.
I love sarcasm
Roger Simon at the Politico:
On behalf of the media, I would like to say we are sorry.On behalf of the elite media, I would like to say we are very sorry. We have asked questions this week that we should never have asked. We have asked pathetic questions like: Who is Sarah Palin? What is her record? Where does she stand on the issues? And is she is qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency? We have asked mean questions like: How well did John McCain know her before he selected her? How well did his campaign vet her? And was she his first choice?Bad questions. Bad media. Bad.
Fore more, click here.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Don't mess with community organizers
The Republicans attacked and mocked the job "community organizer" during some Republican Convention speeches Wednesday night. Some community organizers have responded here.
Ouch , McCainites
Might want to put a bag over Karl Rove, Dick Morris and Bill O'Reilly, John McCain.
Republicans' favorite trait: the ability to lie
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and her Republican supporters held back little Wednesday at the Republican National Convention as they issued dismissive attacks on Barack Obama and flattering praise on her credentials to be vice president. In some cases, the reproach and the praise stretched the truth.
Click here for some examples.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
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