Saturday, January 7, 2012

The Shiny Object Tour '12

++Wired reports that there is a new conspiracy involving President Obama. Two people allege that they were Chrononauts--Time-Travelers--with a young Barack Oabam and they travelled to Mars on a secret mission planned by the C.I.A. to neutralize earth-destroying weapons on that planet. Obama was recruited while he attended Occidental College in California. The White House actually denied the claim. A little too fast from my opinion.But it might account why conservatives can't get a hold of his grades.

++Orly Taitz is celebrating the fact that a Georgia judge has OK'd hearing her birther claims about Obama's elgibility to be on the ballot this year.

++Ron Paul paid to win the Idaho straw vote today.

++Rick Santorum, not aware of Obama's Chrononaut history, accused the President of being a "tyrant" and "an elitist" for proposing that everyone should be able to go to college. Santorum, a coal miner's son, claims that working with your hands is an honorable way to make a living.

++President Obama lost a key constituency--the Nevada brothels. The Nevada brothels were disappointed that President Obama allowed horses to be slaughtered for meat. They now proudly sport signs "Pimping for Paul", having been won over by the 76-year old sweetheart.

++Obnoxious bloggers note that Willard Romney always quotes "America the Beautiful" which was written by a progressive Lebsian Katherine Lee Bates.

++Rick Perry has named Sheriff "Pink Panties" Arpaio, who is under investigation by the Justice Department for brutality against Hispanics and neglecting a rash of sex crimes under his jurisdiction, as his campaign manager in Arizona.

++Willard Romney denied he was a "Wall Street" person today, saying he never worked there. He went on to say that Obama has brought "big,bad things" to the country like the Dodds-Frank legislation ro regulate banks and Wall Street.

++Rick Santorum looks like he might even pick up Bill Kristol's endorsement so he's doomed. Kristol has given up getting another candidate into the race. Santorum is on a roll with ideas. He wants to abolish the estate tax, cut the corporate tax in half, and triple the child deduction. He also wants to abolish the courts that are "too powerful". Does that mean the Supreme Court? He also said that "gay marriage was like polygamy". This was a clever shot at Romney's religion, which all the Christian Right equate with polygamy.

++Jon Huntsman answered a question at a town hall meeting about whether corporations are people. "Of course, not, corporations are not people. Who would ever say a thing like that, especially if he was running for President." Willard Romney, for one.

++Depending on your source, did Ron Paul or Jon Huntsman's campaign itself show the ad criticising Huntsman for adopting daughters from India and China? Unlike Karl Rove's trick of planting ads against McCain showing he had a "dark child", an Indian daughter adopted by Cindi, this ad was shown in New Hampshire, a state not known for racism. Rove used it to good use in South Carolina.

++Salon. com posted an article today that Romney's Free and Strong America PAC paid over $1.3 million for some 35 political endorsements, including from South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley. I suspected something was up when Christine O'Donnell, "I am not a Witch", endorsed him weeks ago. It was typical of Romney to believe her endorsement would bring the Tea Party along.

++While The Republicans are campaigning, President Obama is huddled at the White House to discuss "insourcing", companies bringing jobs home to the United States. this has been another unsung accomplishment for the Administration.

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