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Musharraf
Everyone's sort of wasting their time pretending that talking about Obama's running mate a lot will somehow make him announce it earlier, and as a result a slightly more interesting story sort of slipped through the cracks:
After former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday declared that he had no plans to flee to some other country and wished to stay in his home country for the rest of his life calling Pakistan as his "first love", Washington changed its earlier stand and said that it was ready to consider his asylum bid, if any.According to the Daily Times, a US State Department spokesman said that though so far the US had not got any asylum application from Musharraf, but will study it and might consider it, if made by the ex-president.
"We haven't been asked to provide him with any asylum or place of residence. If he chooses to take up residence somewhere ... we would obviously look at it," the paper quoted the spokesman Robert Wood as saying.
I suppose in the long run it's not a very important story, as I imagine it would never happen in a million years, but that something like that is even considered by Rice and the rest of the State Department is really a perfect example of just how broken the people in this administration are. In case you forgot, last week we ruled in court that a guy who gave Osama bin Laden a ride in his car has to spend the rest of his life in solitary confinement. On the other hand, a brutal dictator who allowed bin Laden to hide in Pakistan after murdering 3,000 Americans will be offered tips on where the good schools are.
Random thought of the evening
Anyone else think it would be wildly hilarious if Obama sent the phone/text message announcement of his running mate at 3:00 AM?
"Whiny Baby Political Report"
It amazes me how infuriatingly full of themselves the rabid dead-enders for Hillary Clinton are. The most disturbing irony is that they are obsessed with insisting that the only way they'll "allow" (as if it's their right or something) Barack Obama to be the nominee is after they have their asses sufficiently kissed, and yet it is them, not Clinton herself, that makes the idea of ever voting for Hillary Clinton as palatable as eating my own dung.
I'm at the point where I really considered how profitable a market would be for selling "Hillary '08" pacifiers at the Denver convention. I don't understand how the Clintons themselves tacitly endorse the actions of their whiniest worshippers by not only refusing to condemn their making crap threats and demeaning Barack Obama but saying stupid things like how "catharsis" is needed by wasting a lot of time at the convention celebrating the person who lost the primary. The only reason I can't reflect on Hillary Clinton's ego is that a handful of whiny, infantile bloggers' and pundits' dwarf any she herself might have.
Better pandering, please
Look, I know McCain is desperate to toss as much raw meat to the right wing as he can, but this is ridiculous:
Rick Warren, doing his best impression of a TV news interrogator, asked both candidates an interesting question: Which current member of the Supreme Court would they not have appointed.For Obama, it was Clarence Thomas.
He was "not a strong enough jurist or legal thinker," Obama said.
McCain had four, two nominated by a Democrat and two by a Republican: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, David Souter, John Paul Stevens.
So, McCain believes that all four of the SCOTUS justices who most frequently disagree with the conservative majority shouldn't have been nominated. Got it.
You'd think, naturally, that McCain would have made this declaration during at least one of the confirmation votes for either Ginsburg, Breyer or Souter, all three of whom he voted in favor of confirming. But of course, you would then have to ignore the vitally important issue that McCain is allowed to vote three times in a row for Justices he personally feels shouldn't be on the bench because he was once a prisoner of war.
SOLD
I'm trying to think of a show with a better title than "Secrets of the Dinosaur Mummy" and I'm failing miserably.