Losing Friends

Funny:

Mayor John DeStefano stood proudly by Ned Lamont at the Bethel AME Church Tuesday, receiving a big jolt in his gubernatorial campaign as civil rights champions Jesse Jackson (and Al Sharpton, in similar joint appearances earlier in the day) endorsed both candidates. "Ned is full of passion and presents an important choice for all of us -- thanks for being here, Ned," said DeStefano of the man seeking to oust three-term U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman.

Wait a second, mayor, didn't you endorse Joe?

...

Speaking to a crowd that had just stood on their feet for a pro-Lamont speech, DeStefano didn't mention the senate race. He focused on a theme of change: Election day is about choices, "more of the same, or doing something different," such as universal health care, an issue on which he and Lamont agree. He led the crowd to repeat: "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a better result." That's why, said DeStefano, you should vote against Gov. Rell and Dan Malloy.

Wanker of the Day

Patterico.

Hail Mary

Nice try:

Embattled Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman - facing a possible primary defeat Tuesday because of his strong backing for the Iraq war - yesterday launched a Hail Mary attack on the Bush administration's handling of the war.
"I supported our war in Iraq but I have always questioned the way it was being executed," Lieberman said.

"This administration took far too many shortcuts. We continue to suffer the consequences, as do the Iraqi people."

What happened to:

It's time for Democrats who distrust President Bush to acknowledge that he will be the commander in chief for three more critical years and that in matters of war we undermine presidential credibility at our nation's peril.

Lying Dan Gerstein sez:

Lieberman's campaign said the senator's attack on the administration was nothing new. "This is one of those great myths that the Lamont campaign have been able to peddle," said spokesman Dan Gerstein. "He's been critical [of the handling of Iraq] since the war started."

but but but just a couple of weeks ago Joe Klein couldn't get anything out of him:

After his AFL-CIO speech, I asked the Senator, "If you believe that winning this war is so crucial, why haven't you been tougher on the Bush Administration's inept prosecution of it?" Lieberman replied, mildly, that he had criticized the Bush Administration in the past. And then he did a curious thing. "I think we may have wasted the first year in Iraq," he offered, then retreated, "Well, that may be a little hard ... Maybe I should say we lost opportunities," and then, noticing that I was about to splutter with indignation, he retracted his retraction. "No, we wasted it." To say the least!

some critic.

Bush in Crawford?

Oy. That never ends well.

Nedrenaline!

New Quinnipiac poll has it at 54-41 for Lamont.

Still, with Lieberman getting support from Tom DeLay, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, David Brooks, and David Horowitz we've got a lot of work to do.

For Those Confused by Borat

Borat the Movie

Tomorrow I see it.

Late Night

Enjoy.

Region Free DVD

Kevin asks:

Second: does anyone make an inexpensive DVD player that plays discs from multiple regions? Can anyone offer a recommendation?

I've had this one for awhile and haven't had any problems. Like all sub-$50 DVD players there's an element of buyer beware, but mine works fine. You can kill the region coding and it also converts PAL to NTSC.

Ani on Conan

Free legal .mp3 of Cd version here.

Going Green

I'm sure these people all have the progressive agenda in mind.

Loser

Lieberman's gonna sack his team if he loses on Tuesday. Odd he refuses to sack himself.

Supposed to be a new poll out tomorrow AM...

Meanwhile

In the other crisis in the other Middle East:

AGHDAD - Two U.S. servicemen were killed in action in Anbar on Wednesday, the U.S. military said. One was a marine, assigned to the 1st Brigade, 1st Armoured Division. The other was a soldier assigned to the 9th Naval Construction Regiment.

BAGHDAD - Two roadside bombs killed at least 10 people and wounded 13, mostly young soccer players, in the western Baghdad district of Amel, a police source said. He said the bombs had been planted near a soccer field opposite a police station.

MADAEN - Fifteen insurgents and three policeman were killed in fighting near Madaen, south of Baghdad, Iraqi police said.

QAMISHLI - The bodies of two blindfolded men with their hands bound were found on a rural road in Qamishli, south of Baghdad, police said.

NEAR DIWANIYA - A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi army convoy exploded on a main road between Simawa and Diwaniya, south of Baghdad, killing one soldier and wounding three, police said.

SUWAYRA - The bodies of 11 men with their hands bound were pulled from the Tigris river near the town of Suwayra south of Baghdad, a police source said. They had been shot and also showed signs of torture.

College Republicans for Joe

Hilarious.

Oh My

We are truly ruled by idiots.



(via mydd)

817

Lieberman only has about 6700 signatures to go before he joins the Lieberman for Lieberman party. It seems town clerks have to verify signatures before passing them to the SoS, and they're all due by Wednesday, so they'd better hurry up. These things take time.

Katie

I'm not entirely sure why Katherine Harris's train wreck of an existence isn't providing me with more amusement, because it certainly is amusing.

Oh My

This reminds me of this.

The Clenis

I know it's supposed to be all powerful but I've long been puzzled by the notion that 9 months after he left office he was still supposed to be running the defense of this country.

Rumors

I'd love to see how they play this one. As recently as a couple of weeks ago Lieberman couldn't offer up any criticism of the war to Joe Klein, and a month ago at the debate he still was saying things were getting better in Iraq.

If a primary challenge drives this man of principle to change his mind on his principled support for the principled Iraq war, then I'd really like someone to explain to me, finally, just what principles motivated the goddamn support in the first place.