I don't think that his first wife harbors many illusions in that particular regard . . .

I made a wrong turn in Knoxville, Tennessee and ended up in Kentucky on Wednesday. A lot has been made about the struggles of the coal mining belt, and I ended up driving through Harlan County, USA (the place where that crazy documentary was filmed in the 70s.)

I've seen poverty before, but there's something real chilling about seeing a middle class family in their relatively new SUV selling all of their family clothes and furniture on top of their cars. Then another 2 miles, and another family. Then another 2 miles, then three families together. All the same thing, clothes on top of their cars.

I counted 30 families selling their clothes on that road. The ones that have a few people (mother-in-law, daughter-in-law, daughter, friend,) tend to focus on each other, and don't watch the cars going by. The ones that don't have anyone, and the ones that can look you in the eye when you're going by, they're the ones that shake your guts.

It was the closest that I've ever come to seeing the people packing up all of their belongings on a horse and cart and riding out to California during the Dust Bowl.

That's unreal. The sad thing is that a lot of those communities will still vote for McCain.

I missed this yesterday, but Webb has declared himself out of the running for VP.

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Last week I communicated to Senator Obama and his presidential campaign my firm intention to remain in the United States Senate, where I believe I am best equipped to serve the people of Virginia and this country. Under no circumstances will I be a candidate for Vice President.

Given the senate situation, I definitely think this is a good thing, despite feeling that he would make a good Veep.

On that same drive, over the Virginia border in the southwest corner, there were nothing but Webb and Kaine signs that were still up. I wonder what role Mudcat Saunders will have in Obama's campaign, because that man is a genius.

there was an interesting story in the sunday tribune at the weekend, I don't know if it was linked to here earlier but there's a book coming out called the Real Mccain next month. in it there is a story from 1992 where cindy teases John about how he's going bald in front of three reporters, who were a little surprised when he snarled at her "At least i don't plaster on the make up like a trollop you cunt."

Which is nice.

That article sort of collapses under its own weight, doesn't it?

Stay classy, pt 94:

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U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain, who once sang in jest about bombing Iran, on Tuesday reacted to a report of rising U.S. cigarette exports to the country by saying it may be "a way of killing 'em."

McCain, known for acerbic comments and for sometimes firing verbally from the hip, was responding to a report that U.S. exports to Iran rose tenfold during President George W. Bush's term in office despite hostility between the two states.

A rise in cigarette sales was a big part of that, according to an Associated Press analysis of seven years of U.S. trade figures.

"Maybe that's a way of killing 'em," McCain said to reporters during a campaign stop in Pittsburgh. "I meant that as a joke, as a person who hasn't had a cigarette in 28 years, 29 years," he added, laughing.

It's funny because killing foreigners is funny.

No shit. See ObWi for a more detailed discussion of quite how dumb Jonah's article is, even beyond his issues.

Just straying a bit on the Wonkette blog, I found this picture of what looks like Huckabee's family:



http://wonkette.com/400965/huckabee-obama-sucks-now-because-hes-not-jesse-helms

The whole clan is clad in mom jeans, which don't even look that good on mom. Nice touch on the striped shirts though, very slimming.

IIRC, that was their Christmas card.

It's like that family out of Absolutely. But fatter.

Why is the wife strangling the dog?

I heart Wonkette. The finest snark around.

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MTV and Rolling Stone, known furnaces of the radical leftist slave mentality