‘Medaling’ With Free Speech at the Olympics

by Walter Brasch

President Bush sounded just like a liberal.

Yes, you read that right. Bush. Liberal. Same sentence.

At the new U.S. embassy in Beijing on the opening day of the Olympics, he said, “All people should have the freedom to say what they think.” Without even blinking, he also told the world, while directing his comments at the Chinese, “We strongly believe societies which allow the free expression of ideas tend to be the most prosperous and the most peaceful.”

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Ha ha ha. She is a GENIUS! This is a history-making publicity stunt. I am assuming that democrats.com is a commercial operation, not any kind of official party extension. This is really hysterical. You can see the two of them making a sex tape. And it bites deeply into the basic issue of the race. RACE. Who are we fucking kidding?
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The faces on the money quote referred to this McCain ad:

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Georgia: Town Buys Strip Club

(AP) The town of Lavonia has bought a strip club, but it is not planning to get into the adult entertainment business. The town, 90 miles northeast of Atlanta, could have used nearly $1 million to pay off the bond fund for a water treatment plant upgrade.

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It could be a change in snake venom, a change in the snakes themselves or something altogether different.
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The Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University, where researchers have tracked network news content for two decades, found that ABC, NBC and CBS were tougher on Obama than on Republican John McCain during the first six weeks of the general-election campaign.
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“If it was $10 a gallon,” he says, “we’d still be out there.”

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Becky Lee, 39, a Manhattan photographer, declined when a friend asked her — and five other attendants — to have their breasts enhanced.
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“I think it’s a pretty good timetable,” Mr. McCain said Friday in an interview on CNN’s “The Situation Room,’’ before adding that it should be based “on the conditions on the ground.’’

Go to original by Michael Cooper in The New York Times