Change you can believe in
So, after prodding from a Saturday Night Live skit, the media finally decides it’s time to stop lobbing softballs at Obama and asks him hard questions about some lies he’s told. I guess it really took a parody to wake the real media up to how ridiculous the situation was.
Obama can’t hang, makes excuses, and cuts pressers short. And Hillary picks up a couple of big wins.
In other news, I caught Hillary on The Daily Show. She seemed not at all like a robot and was not entirely unpleasant. She must have taken a class or something.
Huckabee left the race. No one tell him but the race left him a bit back.
Ron Paul won! His district primary, that is.
I have a feeling my original beer bets will be winners.
March 5th, 2008 at 11:20 am
You have no idea how tempted I was to copy your entire post and title it “Change you can Xerox.”
I still love that line.
March 5th, 2008 at 11:40 am
I missed it. When did the skit happen? Perhaps I can snag it on youtube.
What is even more troubling is what seems to be your claim that it took the press asking non-softball questions before the rank and file voters realized that with Obama, there’s no there there.
And damn it feels funny to root for the one with baggage, just because you think she would be easier to defeat by the loser picked by the GOP.
March 5th, 2008 at 11:47 am
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3836243472880113011
my google-fu is mighty.
March 5th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Totally off topic, but if you are going to dump 17 posts on your blog all at once in the morning, you may wish to go into the setting of your blog and increase the number of posts that are reflected in your feed from the default 10 to perhaps 20 or so at a time.
March 5th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
how do you do that?
March 5th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Hillary tried crying, and it worked. So then she had her people call Obama by his middle name, and it worked. Then she has her people show a picture where he is dressed in tribal garb, which looked pretty Muslim, and it worked.
Hillary’s got it. Who needs wrestling when there is a Democratic Presidential Primary?
March 5th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
wordpress admin panel :: options :: reading
scroll down to Syndication Feeds
change “Show the most recent: __ posts”
March 5th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
just did it.
March 5th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Thanks. My RSS aggravator is set such that it polls your feed every 101 minutes. It’s nice to know I’ll not be missing anything. It was strange finding a post today that wasn’t on your feed long enough to be picked up by my aggravator. I don’t think the solution is to DDoS your blog every five minutes.
# curl https://www.saysuncle.com/feed/|grep ”|wc -l
31
30 ought to be plenty.
March 5th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
I’m torn on this. On the one hand, I prefer Obama on policy. On the other hand, if Clinton wins the nomination, Uncle owes me a beer…
March 5th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Oh, and on Obama being soft on substance, he’s got some substantial civil libertarian street cred. I know you folks generally view gun rights as the only civil liberties worth anything, but disagreeing with the guy on guns is a far cry from “there’s no there there.”
March 5th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Actually, we’d be even.
March 5th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
SNM, odd your comment went to spam. I just happen to catch it now. Let me know if it happens again.
March 6th, 2008 at 12:43 am
Ok, t, tell us where the there is. Like Obama, I’m all ears.
March 6th, 2008 at 1:32 am
Unc: I think I just posted too many comments too quickly. I was going to switch IP address or try some other mischief but I figured I’d worry about it later.
Tgirsch: Sorry, I can’t get past the mandatory, must pay universal health care.
I do agree we won’t go anywhere with him being on the Joyce Foundation board.
Civil libertarians usually speak out against restrictions on “hate speech” and “politically incorrect” speech.
They also are usually for ending the war on (some) drugs.
I’d like to also here him say something against the red-light money cameras too.
Finally, I think I could actually get behind his immigration and strong borders policy if he didn’t have wishy-washy disambiguous language regarding building a fence all the way across the border, Canada and Mexico included.
I will admit that perhaps some of the “no there there” comes from the softball shit from the press.
March 6th, 2008 at 9:20 am
She must have taken a class or something.
I’m thinking happy pills. The heart is still black.