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You Must Be Joking: Too Fit to Be President?

01 Aug 2008 No Comments

by ryanin Politics Tags: idiocy, Obama, Politics

Seriously, this is what Rupert Murdoch is going to do to the Wall Street Journal?

But in a nation in which 66% of the voting-age population is overweight and 32% is obese, could Sen. Obama’s skinniness be a liability? Despite his visits to waffle houses, ice-cream parlors and greasy-spoon diners around the country, his slim physique just might have some Americans wondering whether he is truly like them.

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“I won’t vote for any beanpole guy,” another Clinton supporter wrote last week on a Yahoo politics message board.

What? WHAT?! This cannot be in the (formerly) well-respected Wall Street Journal. This cannot be an actual issue in the election for the President of the United States. Shame on Amy Chozick, shame on the WSJ for running this yellow journalism. And shame on us for ever allowing something like this to get traction.

If you think this is anywhere near to being a consideration for who you should vote for, you’re an idiot. Sure, you should consider the health of the candidate, but make it real health concerns, not someone’s height. If anything, maybe we shouldn’t vote for the guy who would become the oldest sitting President, if elected. Maybe the WSJ’s efforts would have been better spent talking about potential Vice Presidential candidates.

Better yet, let’s weigh the candidates on issues, ask them the hard questions (and demand answers), pin them down on positions we’ve allowed them to squirm away from with double-speak.

But this kind of crap is beneath the WSJ. Or, at least it was until Murdoch and Co. took over. It appears now, voters will have to wade through another Fox News-like medium to get to real stories.

Update: It just gets better and better. The “source” for the earth-shattering story about whether Obama is too fit to be elected? A Yahoo message board response (Google cache of the thread). Read the non-cached version for the deserved mockery and derision that follows.

Too Fit to Be President? – WSJ.com.

One More Time, Let's Review

14 Jul 2008 No Comments

by ryanin Politics, Signs of the Horsemen, Uhm... yeah Tags: magizines, New Yorker, Obama, Politics, satire, whoring

This is satire. It’s also ham-fisted (thanks J–) and stupid for a cover, but satire nonetheless. If When you encounter someone who thinks it’s prescient or insightful or whatever, you have my permission to smack them upside their idiotic skull*. ‘Grats to the New Yorker for the best attention whoring of the election season so far.

* Note, my permission doesn’t mean crap in any court, workplace, or household, including my own.

Memo to Democrats: THIS is How You Should Sound

18 Jun 2008 No Comments

by ryanin Politics Tags: 9/11, Obama, Politics

“I refuse to be lectured on national security by people who are responsible for the most disastrous set of foreign policy decisions in the recent history of the United States. The other side likes to use 9/11 as a political bludgeon. Well, let’s talk about 9/11.

And there’s a lot more. If someone, anyone, had spoken like this when Congress bent over and gave the administration everything they wanted, maybe we’d actually be fixing some crap around here and getting the hell out of Iraq. And bravo to Senator Obama for not taking that BS 9/11 crap from some pandering Bushie.

This is why West Virginia Doesn't Matter

19 May 2008 No Comments

by ryanin Politics Tags: Clinton, democrats, election, ignorant, Obama, Politics

One rally and 5% of a state’s registered votes turned out for it. 75,000 people came out to see Barak Obama at one event.

According to CNN, WV cast 337,045 votes in the Democratic primary spread between the two candidate. The rally attendees in Oregon represent 22.3% of cast votes in the WV primary. And Oregon has 52 delegates at stake, almost twice as many as West Virgina.

There’s still a glimmer of hope that the ignorant won’t decide this next election. Fingers crossed.