Dick Cheney tells a Wyoming paper, via Think Progress, that he can't understand why people don't like him:
How do you explain your low approval rating? "I don't have any idea. I don't follow the polls.
Perhaps we can help the veepster out by offering a few hints:
Top Ten Reasons People Don't Like Dick Cheney:
10. Shoots his 'friends' in the face.
9. Smells of sulfur.
8. Actually I like him just fine. Now please stop the torture.
7. Cheats at scrabble. Gitmo is not a word.
6. Cloven hoof thing creeps most folks out.
5. Not into Skynrd.
4. Known to be a worse mean drunk than Brian Williams.
3. Leaves the seat up.
2. Enjoys the taste of blood.
1. Go fuck yourself.
Casey and I decided to hop in the car and head down to Monticello yesterday morning. I had never been to Mr. Jefferson's house even after 8 years here in DC. Among the things I learned was that Thomas Jefferson loved vanilla ice cream. Somehow the image of a young Jefferson pondering the rights of men, and the future of a nation while slurping a big bowl of ice cream appealed to me. While I suppose all great men have feet of clay; this great man also had a sweet tooth. I think that makes him more real, and for just a moment yesterday in the weak November light on that small Virginia mountaintop.... I could almost hear Tom Jefferson saying: Mmmm.
CNN) -- Some aides to Sen. John McCain say they weren't happy that running mate Sarah Palin went off script Sunday and turned attention back to the controversy over her wardrobe.
The Alaska governor on Sunday brought up the recent reports regarding the Republican National Committee's $150,000 spending spree on clothing and accessories for the Palin family.
Palin denounced talks of her wardrobe as "ridiculous" and declared emphatically: "Those clothes, they are not my property."
"Just like the lighting and the staging and everything else that the RNC purchased, I'm not taking them with me," she said at a rally in Tampa, Florida.
A senior McCain adviser told CNN that those comments "were not the remarks we sent to her plane." Palin did not discuss the wardrobe story at her rally in Kissimmee, Florida, later in the day.
A Palin aide, however, told CNN that the governor clearly felt like she had to say something to defend herself, because "that's really not who she is."
Over the weekend, sources told CNN that long-brewing tensions between Palin and key aides to McCain were on the rise.
Several McCain advisers suggested that they have become increasingly frustrated with what one aide described as Palin "going rogue."
A Palin associate, however, said the candidate is simply trying to "bust free" of what she believes was a damaging and mismanaged roll-out.
McCain sources say Palin has gone off-message several times, and they privately wonder whether the incidents were deliberate. They cited an instance in which she labeled robocalls -- recorded messages often used to attack a candidate's opponent -- "irritating" even as the campaign defended their use. Also, they pointed to her telling reporters she disagreed with the campaign's decision to pull out of Michigan.
A second McCain source says she appears to be looking out for herself more than the McCain campaign.
"She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone," this McCain adviser said. "She does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else.
"Also, she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party. Remember: Divas trust only unto themselves, as they see themselves as the beginning and end of all wisdom."
From The Wires:
Terrorist strikes on four American cities. Russia rolling into Eastern Europe. Israel hit by a nuclear bomb. Gay marriage in every state. The end of the Boy Scouts.
All are plausible scenarios if Democrat Barack Obama is elected president, according to a new addition to the campaign conversation called "Letter from 2012 in Obama's America," produced by the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family Action.
The imagined look into the future is part of an escalation in rhetoric from Christian right activists who are trying to paint Obama in the worst possible terms as the campaign heads into the final stretch and polls show the Democrat ahead.
Although hard-edge attacks are common late in campaigns, the tenor of the strikes against Obama illustrate just how worried conservative Christian activists are about what should happen to their causes and influence if Democrats seize control of both Congress and the White House.
So Ok... it's been a while. Guess what.. I'm back with a desire to write again. It seems like this may once again be a place I can ...
