Matters Arising

TONY and BARACK

(TONY, CEO if British Petroleum and  BARACK, POTUS, are on a couch in the White House.  In front of them is a large bottle of scotch).
 
BARACK
I hear you’ve got the well capped.
 
TONY
It would appear that way.
 
BARACK
What does that mean?
 
TONY
Well, by all appearances, it appears that we’ve capped the well.
 
BARACK
So… is it capped or isn’t it?
 
TONY
Oh indeed it is.  Indeed.  The well, as it is, is quite definitely capped.
 
BARACK
And no oil is leaking?
 
TONY
Oh.  Oh…  no…  no…. I didn’t say that…  wait…  are you by any chance referring to the well, per se, as in the well that we drilled, when you ask about oil leaking?
 
BARACK
Of course… what else would I be referring to?
 
TONY
Well – there is the ocean floor itself…   the sea bed itself… for example, around the well.
 
BARACK
Oh.  
 
TONY
Yes.
 
BARACK
So…  you’re saying that there is oil leaking from there?
 
TONY
Me?  No not all… so far I haven’t said anything of the sort.
 
BARACK
I see.
 
TONY
That’s quite a large bottle of fine Scottish whiskey you have there.
 
BARACK
Yes.  Yes it is.
 
TONY
Perhaps we should have some?
 
(The End)

George Bush’s New Year’s Resolutions for 2009

1. Move out of White House

2. Send out forwarding address cards.  Avoid sending one to Cheney.

3. Make sure liquor bottles are thrown out.  And that stash of coke in the panel inside the desk.  Get rid of that.

4. Give Condi a good-bye present.  If you know what I’m sayin’… and I knowz you do.

5. Write one of them books -  Point out casualties in Iraq decreased in 2008, so the surge must have worked.  Avoid mentioning casualties are up in Afghanistan.  Who goes to Afghanistan anyhowz?)

6. Buy some land up there in Canada, in case this global warming thing turns out to be true.   

7. Avoid dad and all of his “I told you so’s”.  He can be so annoying.

8. Avoid travel - don’t want to get arrested as a “war criminal.”  Crazy international people and their international law.

9. Work on Presidential Library.  What is a library for - do people actually go to these things?  

10. Check 401K.  Consider moving $$ out of Lehman Brothers.

11. Re-Read biography of Herbert Hoover.

12. Write the Obaminator a good-luck note.  Haha boyz will he needz it. 

clinton as secretary of state

Ok how can the Obaminator spend the entire Primary Season pointing out how wrong Hillary Clinton was on Iraq….   essentially winning the nomination by impugning her Foreign Policy judgement.   And then.  Once elected to be President.  Selecting her to be SECRETARY OF STATE of all things.

I mean

That makes zero sense.

Speak to the Son

So it turns out that Vice Presidential Candidate Palin has a son.

Her eldest son.  His name is Track.

Track Palin joined the army on September 11 of last year… or around seven months before his latest sibling was born.

He got out of town.

I’m thinking that this guy Track knows the deal, and that someone should chat with him.   So… yeah…

There’s this other thing about this guy Track…  when the Anchorage newspaper ran the story about him joining the Army, they said he did so for “undisclosed reasons”. 

So perhaps some enterprising reporter can track down Track, and see what he has to say about things.

Medical Records

Are the members of the press going to scrutinize Vice Presidential Candidate Palin’s Medical Records?

Will they determine whether she is in fact the mother of her claimed fifth child?  There should be more than just a Birth Certificate.  We need to see the full history of this pregnancy.

Oh, and who really boards an airplane AFTER their water breaks, to travel for several hours, to then go off into the woods or whatever, and to give birth alone.

I mean, who does that?

Medical Records.  

The only real proof of parentage by the way is the DNA.

Yeah, let’s see that. 

McCain and Presidential Judgment

Presidential Candidate McCain used to have quite a powerful argument against his challenger candidate Obama.

McCain pointed out that he had a lot more experience, and opined that this greater experience therefore clearly indicated that his judgment as President would be better.

Perhaps due to this matter, when it came time for his first Presidential decision, choosing his running mate, candidate Obama did not make a hasty choice.  Obama and his campaign staff went through what has been described as one of the most thorough vetting processes ever.  They asked for a mountain of documents.  They took their time.  

And then, when they were done, the Obama campaign came up with Senator Biden, a man who had run for President a couple of times, and who was found to be Presidential…  a guy who complemented Obama’s perceived weaknesses….  a choice people seem to have found to be sound.

Then came McCain’s turn.  If anything, McCain could have argued that the choice of Biden simply highlighted the original matter about lack of experience, since Obama went out of his way to find such an experienced, inside-the-beltway person.

But instead of highlighting the matter, McCain negated it by choosing someone with even less experience in Governor Palin - someone who has been governor of an almost unpopulated state for less than two years.

Okay that is a point - but perhaps you can still argue that the Obama deficit is worse, since he is actually the Presidential candidate.

But.

Then.

All of these revelations have come out about Palin.   First Troopergate.  Then the fact that her daughter is currently pregnant.  About five months pregnant.  And this had not been previously revealed.

And now, you have to ask, what kind of vetting did McCain do?  

According to reports, now much of a vetting.  No one can find a Republican in the state of  Alaska who was queried concerning Palin by the McCain campaign.

And it’s not like there are that many people to talk to.  Maybe there are 11 people.

So this is no longer a Palin thing.  It is a McCain matter.   This choice of a Vice Presidential Candidate, when you are 72, and have had cancer 4 times, and have to really really be careful that your choice could function as President… and when you are trying to make the point that you know how to make decisions whereas your opponent does not…   this choice matters.  It matters a lot.   So how could McCain make the choice without even the most basic vetting?  

That is the matter.  

So it seems McCain no longer has his best argument against Obama, that he is better at making Presidential-level decisions than his challenger.  

He is worse.  A lot worse.

Really not so good.