Barack Obama is about to choose a running mate, and he wants you to be the first to know. "You have helped build this movement from the bottom up, and Barack wants you to be part of this important moment."
Sign up with The Senator/44th President and he'll send you an email announcing his running mate. You can also text VP to 62262 to receive the text message on your mobile phone. ---o0o---
"SEX, MORE LIES & VIDEOTAPE "The ENQUIRER has uncovered bombshell new details about the John Edwards sex scandal after the former presidential candidate finally admitted he'd cheated on his cancer-stricken wife Elizabeth!Edwards' headline-making admission confirmed The ENQUIRER's blockbuster world exclusive reports detailing his affair, in articles Edwards brazenly called "completely untrue" and "tabloid trash" while running for president and afterward."
"John Edwards is still lying!" a close source told The ENQUIRER. "He lied to his wife Elizabeth, he's lying to Rielle and he lied all the way through his TV interview!"
"And now The ENQUIRER has uncovered that Edwards' political operatives are still paying his mistress Rielle Hunter - and she was whisked away on a private jet two days before he confessed their extramarital affair on national TV! The ENQUIRER has also confirmed that Edwards secretly visited Rielle and their love child three separate times at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles this year - a fact that proves he is still lying to America and his wife."
"ENQUIRER reporters caught Edwards, 55, making a late-night visit to 44-year-old Rielle and their daughter at the hotel on July 21 - which prompted us to release the first-ever photograph of him with his love child last week. "Read the entire story here. ---o0o---
Another one of my favorite pop-rock anthems - Running on Empty by Jackson Browne.
Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields In sixty-five I was seventeen and running up one-on-one I don't know where Im running now, I'm just running on
Running on - running on empty Running on - running blind Running on - running into the sun But I'm running behind
Gotta do what you can just to keep your love alive Trying not to confuse it with what you do to survive In sixty-nine I was twenty-one and I called the road my own I don't know when that road turned onto the road I'm on
Running on - running on empty Running on - running blind Running on - running into the sun But Im running behind
Everyone I know, everywhere I go People need some reason to believe I don't know about anyone but me If it takes all night, that'll be all right If I can get you to smile before I leave
Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels I don't know how to tell you all just how crazy this life feels I look around for the friends that I used to turn to to pull me through Looking into their eyes I see them running too
Running on - running on empty Running on - running blind Running on - running into the sun But I'm running behind
Honey you really tempt me You know the way you look so kind I'd love to stick around but I'm running behind You know I dont even know what I'm hoping to find Running into the sun but I'm running behind
In a scene from one of my favorite (but deeply flawed) movies, at a big fundraiser, Senator J. Billington Bulworth grabs the mike, goes out into the well-heeled audience and starts rapping:
One man one vote Now izzat really real? The name of our game is Let's make a deal.
Now people got their problems The haves and the have-nots. But the ones that make me listen Pay for 30-second spots!...
I ain't getting' it in South Central I'm getting' it in Beverly Hills. So I'm votin' in the Senate The way they want me to and I'm sending 'em my bills.
But we got babies in South Central Dyin' as young as they do in Peru. We got public schools that are nightmares We got a Congress that ain't got a clue...
We got factories closin' down Where the hell did all the good jobs go? Well. I'll tell you where they went -- My contributors make more profits Hiring kids in Mexico.
The mainstream media hung fire when it was a "National Enquirer story," but now that he's let the cat out of the bag, those very same journalists seem to be rather enjoying the drawing and quartering of John Edwards
Much thanks for this one to Dean Ericksen, who, along with Jeff Clinton, constantly feed me excellent political, UFO/Grey, bizarre news, and other nuggets for All This Is That.
The photo is obviously from a Reagan inauguration. This quote by President Reagan is from his fairly recently published diaries, edited by Doug Brinkley and published by Harper Collins.
"A moment I've been dreading. George brought his n'er-do-well son around this morning and asked me to find the kid a job. Not the political one who lives in Florida; the one who hangs around here all the time looking shiftless. This so-called kid is already almost 40 and has never had a real job. Maybe I'll call Kinsley over at The New Republic and see if they'll hire him as a contributing editor or something. That looks like easy work."[From THE REAGAN DIARIES - entry dated May 17, 1986]
By Pablo Fanque, All This Is That National Affairs Editor
"Don't move back Mr. President. I'm getting a chubby."
According to a story in the Financial Times by Stephanie Kirchgaessner, Joe Lieberman, former Democratic vice-presidential nominee/Democrat turncoat, who endorsed John McCain for President, is being vetted as a running mate for the Republican presidential hopeful an unnamed McCain advisor said.
From an All This Is That staff artist, two years ago - August 9, 2006
"John, he's all yours. You can have the P.O.S."
The Senator at a Press Conference with Donald Rumsfeld
Although Democrats haven't exactly been buying McCain’s tarnished image as a maverick politician, Mr. Lieberman’s support for the presumptive Republican nominee has the unfortunate effect of making McCain seem more palatable, as a bi-partisan legislator with friends on both sides of the aisle. Lieberman, could also help Mr McCain win over Jewish voters with his steadfast support for Israel.
But you know what? No one likes a rat, and in the end, what is Joe Lieberman but a sawed-off Neo-Republican apologist for Israel who turned his back on his Democratic brothers and sisters in their hour of greatest need? Sure, you'll use a rat; you'll exploit him to get to the next stage, but in the end, a rat is a rat is a rat. People will trust him as far as they can throw him (what is the record for dwarf-tossing, anyway?).
The odds of John McCain surviving two terms in office are not specifically all that good. Eight of 43 Presidents have died in office, and he will be the oldest President ever. Even if he seems palatable as a running mate, not many people on either side of the aisle are ready for a Lieberman Presidency. The republicans know he has certain liberal tendencies they may find unpalatable. The Democrats know he is an unprincipled weasel who shouldn't be trusted with even an obscure subcommittee chairmanship. McCain will come to his senses once this trial balloon is laughed off the table. McCain will come to his senses and pick a nice, bland running mate who can carry one important state, and do no collateral damage.
Politico.com put the John Edwards confession of an affair with Rielle Hunter into perspective. Not only did he cheat on his wife, and lie, but he risked sinking the entire Democratic party:
"Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, who cast himself as the most electable of Democratic presidential hopefuls, admitted Friday that he held — and lied about — a secret that could have destroyed his campaign and his party’s hopes for the White House.
"Edwards’ confirmation of an extramarital affair with a woman he met in a New York bar shakes the public persona of a man whose image was deeply linked to his role as a devoted husband. It effectively rules him out as a vice presidential nominee, and it may cost him a prime-time speaking slot at the Democratic National Convention — though Edwards is still considering a convention appearance."Jump here to read the full Politico.com story.
"Former Democratic presidential candidate [and All This Is That favorite] John Edwards on Friday admitted to an extramarital affair while his wife was battling cancer.
"The story is false, it's completely untrue, it's ridiculous," John Edwards, October, 2007.
He denied fathering the woman's daughter. Edwards told ABC News that he lied repeatedly about the affair with 42-year-old Rielle Hunter but said that he didn't love her. " Jump here to read the sordid story. ---o0o---
