Clever Foo

After the last 8 years of partisan ideological extremism one can almost lose sensibility to such zany behavior.

Could my beloved America really go from Bush to a duo that’s worse than Bush?

[url]http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/us/politics/14palin.html?hp[/url]

Always ingenious, John Stewart delivers one of the best reviews of what went on this week with McCain’s campaign reaching for new lows with their attack adds aimed at painting a picture of an “elitist Obama”

Update: Priceless comment from reddit:

[url]http://www.reddit.com/comments/6uis9/jon_stewart_mccains_celebrity_attack_add_is_the/c04wkkx[/url]

======”Flip-flops are only worn by girls and gay guys. On John McCain it’s just beach wear.”======

Original here: [url]http://reddit.com/info/6kas2/comments/[/url]

This might turn out to have the same effect to Mike Huckabee’s bid for the White House as Howard Dean’s now infamous “rahhh!”.

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/15/579265.aspx

Now, to be clear, I’m not putting Howard Dean’s deranged scream in equal footing with Mr. Huckabee’s comments but I do see a parallel that could lead to the same kind of political turmoil.

Fundamentally, I see two things wrong with Huckabee’s stance:

a) He manages to display complete lack of respect towards the US Constitution and the principles in which it was based
b) He shows a lack of insight into the complexity of Christianity and how one must quantify what “God’s standards” mean in light of the different interpretations of the Bible (I must say this one is extra troublesome coming from a “minister”)

Well, enough said. Let’s all seat back and watch.

I’m convinced that Mike Gravel is by far the most interesting candidate in the presidential race.