JABbering Stooge

One definition of insanity is attempting the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

Or as the Obama campaign put it:

John McCain stubbornly insists on continuing a dangerous and failed foreign policy that has clearly made the United States and Israel less secure. Here are the results of the policies that John McCain has supported, and would continue. During the Bush Administration, Iran has dramatically expanded its nuclear program, going from zero centrifuges to more than 3000 centrifuges. During the Bush Administration, Iran has expanded its influence throughout a vitally important region, plying Hamas and Hezbollah with money and arms. During the Bush Administration, Hamas took over Gaza. Most importantly, the war in Iraq that John McCain supported and promises to continue indefinitely has done more to dramatically strengthen and embolden Iran than anything in a generation.

Confronted with that reality, John McCain promises four more years of the same policies that have strengthened Iran, making the United States and Israel less safe. He promises to continue a war in Iraq that has emboldened Iran and strengthened its hand. He promises sanctions that the Bush Administration has been unable to persuade the Security Council to deliver. He promises a divestment campaign, even though he refused to sign on to Barack Obama’s bipartisan divestment bill, refused to get his colleagues to lift an anonymous hold on the bill, and willfully ignores the fact that trade and investment between Iran and Iraq continue to expand. He stubbornly refuses to engage in aggressive diplomacy, ruling it out unconditionally as a tool of American power.

Instead of recognizing reality, John McCain continues to run on a platform of doubling down on George Bush’s failed policies, while carrying on his divisive brand of politics. The United States and Israel cannot afford four more years of an unwillingness to change course.

Exactly.

MSRNC: FEMA to reuse toxic trailers.

Any of you Hill-bots still think that McBush would be a better president than Obama?

Apparently the geniuses running the wreckage of the former retail giant have decided that appealing to those who believe in lying for Jesus is a good business model (via ThinkProgress):

Whether she is lounging around the house, going to practice, or doing her chores. These soft athletic style crop pants will keep her comfy. Perfect for wearing with her favorite sweatshirt or tee. These athletic pants boldly proclaim just where she stands by pointing out that “True Love Waits” in a large screen print on the front and back of these pants.

No word yet on whether or not they plan on following the Wal-Mart model of hawking misogynist panties or the David & Goliath model of hawking shirts that denigrate women’s intellectual acumen or make some sick joke about rape. No wonder why K-Mart had to declare bankruptcy back in 2002.

The answer, my friends, is blowin’ in the wind:

On March 16, 2003, on the eve of the United States’ invasion of Iraq, Pastor John Hagee took to the pulpit to warn of the coming Antichrist. In his sermon, “The Final Dictator,” Hagee described the Antichrist as a seductive figure with “fierce features.” He will be “a blasphemer and a homosexual,” the pastor announced. Then, Hagee boomed, “There’s a phrase in Scripture used solely to identify the Jewish people. It suggests that this man [the Antichrist] is at least going to be partially Jewish, as was Adolph Hitler, as was Karl Marx.”

*snip*

But Lieberman stayed the course, declaring in a prepared statement, “Pastor Hagee has devoted much of his life to fighting anti-Semitism and building bridges between Christians and Jews… I will go to the CUFI Summit in July and speak to the people who have come to Washington from all over our country to express their support of America and Israel, based on our shared eternal values and our shared contemporary challenges in the war against terrorism.”

*snip*

Perhaps these Hagee allies could not fathom that a zealous “supporter” of Israel like Hagee could also be an anti-Semite. They may have believed, as conservative Jewish columnist Jeff Jacoby apparently did, that Hagee’s remarks on the Holocaust, as jarring as they were, were theologically correct, and therefore excusable. “As anyone even fleetingly familiar with the Hebrew Bible knows,” Jacoby wrote, “it is not ‘crazy,’ let alone anti-Semitic, to believe that Jewish suffering can be a punishment from God.” [Sounds a bit like battered spouse syndrome to me… — Ed.]

The answer is blowin’ in the wind…

* With apologies to Bob Dylan. Especially since that last bit probably doesn’t scan as well.

Oy vey! This primary season is getting waaaaaaaay out of hand. Seriously. Case in point, two whacked-out kooks proselytizing on behalf of their respective candidates this past week.

Fr. Michael Pfleger, preachifying “for” Obama:

Wow. That’s some ugly sexism there! Get a whiff of that Grade-A bullshit sexism! Whew!

But then there’s Harriet Christian, who’s drunk waaay too much of the Clinton Kool Aid for her own good, if you ask me.

Is the primary season over yet? Oh, dear Zombie Jesus, no!