CHERIE Blair. Laura Bush is quite cute. Nancy Ray Guns. Brrrrrr. Hillary CLiton. Grrr. Michelle Obama… Says Sand Monkey:
I want you to think about this: There is a theory that states that the wife of any successfull political candidate has to be uglier than him or at the very least in the same realm of attractiveness, because if she is prettier than him, then for some reason women won;t vote for him. This is why John McCain will lose, because his wife is too pretty for him (and a heiress, of a beer empire, that motherfucker lucked out), while Obama will win, because he is a good looking dude and Michelle, well, she looks pretty busted. She looks-as one of my friends so eloquently put it- as if her face was hit by a bus. Women who look like that are the reason why we have dentists.
SAYS the email from Hillary Clinton (remember her?):
“Summer is a time for simple pleasures: family vacations, baseball games, and dinner out under the stars. At least it is if you aren’t running for president!”
PSSST! Want to know how to save money on your political campaign?
The US Presidential race is an expensive affair: Republican agonist John McCain has total receipts of $100.4 million for the whole campaign, less than half of Barack Obama’s total of $266.6 million since January 2007.
Hillary Clinton’s failed campaign to secure the Democrat Party’s nomination cost $212 million.
Big money.
But it could have been all decided for less, much less. No, not by a game of Russian Roulette, rather by aping the New Labour project.
The Deal, Stephen Frears’ “prequel to The Queen” is having its “world theatrical premiere” at an American Cinematheque screening at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood on July 23.
Did Google use its network of online services to silence critics of Barack Obama? That was the question buzzing on a corner of the blogosphere over the last few days, after several anti-Obama bloggers were unable to update their sites, which are hosted on Google’s Blogger service.
The bloggers in question, most of them supporters of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, and all of them opposed to Senator Obama, received a notice from Google last week saying that their sites had been identified as potential “spam” blogs. “You will not be able to publish posts to your blog until we review your site and confirm that it is not a spam blog,” the Google e-mail read.
In an article that appeared on Bloggasm.com, the reporter Simon Owens spoke with some of the affected bloggers, who said they believed that Google had fallen prey to a campaign by activists supporting Senator Obama. According to the bloggers, the Obama supporters had clicked on a “flag” on the anti-Obama blogs alerting Google that they were spam.
[T]he former president’s rage is still so great that even loyal allies are shocked by his patronising attitude to Mr Obama, and believe that he risks damaging his own reputation by his intransigence…
But his lingering fury has shocked his friends… “He’s been angry for a while. But everyone thought he would get over it. He hasn’t. I’ve spoken to a couple of people who he’s been in contact with and he is mad as hell.
“He’s saying he’s not going to reach out, that Obama has to come to him. One person told me that Bill said Obama would have to quote kiss my ass close quote, if he wants his support…
This news just as Hill backs Obama. Bill and Hillary are as united as ever. Or is Hillary being less then genuine? See picture…
Bill Clinton came to Hollywood for Thursday’s American Film Institute gala to pay tribute to Warren Beatty, but the former President didn’t miss the chance to play peacemaker among warring Democrats.
While Clinton commiserated with Hillary-backers like Jack Nicholson, he also reached out to Obama-backers, like vicious Clinton-basher David Geffen. Said WJC to Beatty: “We all have to get behind Barack now.”
Does Barack Obama need Jack Nicholson in his camp to appeal to, well, who does Nicholson appeal to?
Better if all celebrities who backed the losers had their celebrity status removed and were barred from talking about anything other then their new film, rehab and how they are move fanciable than Mick Hucknall.
FORMER President Bill Clinton’s alleged former mistresses Paula Jones and Gennifer Flowers have gone into business together.
The two started a site callled GenniferandPaula.com. Interested parties can go and pay to watch videos of them talking about their sexual misfortunes with Clinton. Here’s just some of the names of the videos you can purchase:
“Hillary Running For President”
“Paula and the Presidential Penis”
“Gennifer’s Story and the Presidential Penis”
To Manhattan, where artist Yazmany Arboleda is launching his new exhibition: The Assassination of Hillary Clinton/The Assassination of Barack Obama.
Says Mr Arboleda: “It’s art. It’s not supposed to be harmful. It’s about character assassination — about how Obama and Hillary have been portrayed by the media. It’s about the media.”But the spooks are unhappy. Show over. Mr Arboleda explains: “The Secret Service had to do a whole questionnaire with me. It was about an hour of questioning. They asked if I owned guns, if I was a violent person, if I had ever been institutionalized.”
Were the working out if he was capable of offing Obama, or up to the job?
Gloating, unshackled sexism of the ugliest kind has been shamelessly peddled by the US media, which - sooner rather than later, I fear - will have to account for their sins…
OVER on the Daily Kos the  woolly thinking ai that a no vote for Obama is a vote for war. You may recall Tony Blair’s ethical foreign policy and his subsequent wars…
If you’re going to help McCain get elected, you need to take responsibility for your actions. This election is bigger than you. It’s bigger than Barack Obama. It’s bigger than Hillary Clinton. Lives will be saved or lost depending on who is elected in November, and if you’re going to willfully help prolong the war, it’s time to do the honorable thing and enlist.
Click here to locate a U.S. Army recruiter in your area.
“Senator Clinton is a beautiful, strong and inspiring woman, and I wanted to make a poster that reflected that. Rather than putting a slogan on the poster, I chose to put her name, because she is surely the only leader at this level with whom we are all on a first-name basis, and to me, that reflects her personal warmth and connection with ordinary Americans.”
- Tony Puryear
It’s the Snow Lion Flag of a free Tibet meets China’s man of the year…
In the interests of fairness, here’s an increasingly familiar picture of Barack Obama…
Salgado, 28, owner of the Ill Skillz (4948 N. 5th) tattoo parlor, Philadephia, has just got a portrait of Clinton inked on his leg at a tattoo convention in Baltimore.
Artist Buffalo Bill, of Sunbury, offered a free Hillary tattoo to any takers because his daughter Sarah Taby is a big Clinton supporter and thought the tattoo would give Clinton good exposure… “Hell, yeah,” Salgado says, when we asked if he voted for Clinton recently.
He likes “her experience, her motivation and the fact that she doesn’t bite her tongue.” We asked a Clinton spokesman for comment on whether the New York senator would respond in kind and get a tattoo of Salgado, but there has not yet been a reply.
CAN their handwriting teach us about the characters of the US Presidential candidates?
Obama is very much his writing — fluid, graceful. McCain’s is angular and intense; he’s a pit bull. And look at the perfectionism in Hillary’s — straight up, precise. She is persistent and is not going to give up until she absolutely has to,” said Imberman, a court-certified graphologist based in New York.
SO enlightened are the Democrats that the party’s two stars - Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama - have managed to the campaign into a vote based on race. It’s more like the Socialist Workers’ Party over there, albeit with less women:
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton won a lopsided victory on Tuesday over Senator Barack Obama in the West Virginia primary, where racial considerations emerged as an unusually salient factor. Mrs. Clinton drew strong support from white, working-class voters, who have spurned Mr. Obama in recent contests.
