The San Francisco Chronicle and the New York Times report on the latest campaign trend — silly names for candidate events and tours.
Obama’s “Stand For Change” tour is okay, though I think he could have rocked the Gen X vote had he called it the “Time To Change” tour.ÂÂ
My favorite may be the John Edwards “America Rising: Fighting for the Middle Class†tour.
But I have to think Edwards would have had even better titles had he been able to keep Amanda Marcotte on staff. With the new MSNBC/McClatchy poll showing a last-minute surge for the Silky Pony, who could have resisted the “John Edwards: White Hot and Sticky” tour?
â€ÂJohn Edwards: White Hot and Stickyâ€Â?
Oh, I don’t know. I sort of prefer the “John Edwards: Justify your misogyny” tour. It sort of ties the wife/cancer, girlfriend/pregnancy thing together – Biblical style, while getting the Madonna crowd all hot and bothered. Takes from Romney, Huckabee, and Hillary, all at the same time. And no more of teh ghey!
“America Rising: Fighting for the Middle Classâ€Â
I guess teh Poor didn’t make the cut in the Two America’s competition, eh? I suppose a rich shit heel like Edwards would consider the middle class of the US to be the peasantry most in need of his enlightened guidance…
Well, perhaps “America: Paying Your Fair Share”, Major John. Because having bankrupt that middle class and having coddled the poor — thereby creating the poor; justdon’tcallitoppression — the rich are all we have left to make pay six or ten or twenty times the rate everybody else used to pay or whatever it is.
I understand the Left is really preemptively pissed that in his upcoming book Goldberg dredged up all the lovely Socialist tendencies in the Third Reich. Fighting for the middle class indeed, Edwards. Kindly take a look at every single damn domestic policy trainwreck enacted by Washington, you miserable fraud.
America Rising? I hope it doesn’t get all poofy.
I think Obama’s tour could have been better described as Bend Over for Change.
American Fascism— oooh, sounds good. Man, didn’t he start writing that book forever ago? I think I need to preorder.
JHoward – who’s been talking about the book? I love reading panties-in-a-wad stuff.
“America Rising: What’s In It For Me†tour.
“America Rising: Wait, Did I Just Hear An Ambulance?†tour.
“America Rising: The Channeling Dead Babies†tour.
“America Rising: Does My Hair Look OK?†tour.
“America Rising: Fighting for My Bankbook†tour
“America Rising: All Your Money are Belong to teh Government” tour.
“America Rising: Which America Are We In Today?”
Carin,
Jonah’s book is getting discussion at The Corner, natch. You may be disappointed by the NYT review.
“America Rising: More Money For Dramamine!”
Well, there you go. I haven’t read in the corner in eons. SadlyNo had plenty to say about the book.
The SadlyNo piece apparently based on the premise that you can judge a book by looking at the cover. Very progressive.
The Corner is creepy and dorky I think. I don’t know why that Mark Steyn hangs out with them cause he seems like he could make cooler friends if he wanted.
BTW, Hillary Clinton is done with “listenening tours.” She’s now on the “I’m Not Listening” tour.
I think Mark Stein is trying to educate the corner dwellers, or at least raise the level of discourse. He will probably give up on them eventually.
Perhaps she will follow that up with the, “I can’t hear you!! La la la la la,” with her fingers stuck in her ears tour.
Silky ’08 – Trying to keep your America out of my America for decades.
he SadlyNo piece apparently based on the premise that you can judge a book by looking at the cover. Very progressive.
Spoken like a true fascist, KKKarl. Just because you can’t gleen the nuance of a book by looking at it’s cover doesn’t mean your betters cannot.
As long as the press continues to be the submissive bottom to Hillary’s strap-on, does it really matter what slogan she chooses?
America Rising: What is Cloverfield ?
Maybe Mark Steyn hangs out at The Corner because it’s one of the few blogs to have highlighted the Canadian Islamic Congress’s war on Steyn and Maclean’s magazine.
Cinton ’08 – After making Barack and Silky my little poofters, the American taxpayer is next !
Carin, scroll down the Amazon Page for Liberal Fascism and you’ll find the forums. Chock fulla berserker goodness, lots of it dinging Wingnut America for preempting the Liberal Fascist’s preemption of Wingnut America about a book that’s not on the stands yet.
To the faction that masquerades public envy as a high ethic and centralized theft as benevolence, I suppose it makes sense.
I know Karl but he was there before that. I think he likes them.
“America Rising: 28,000 Square Feet of Clear-Cut Social Justice”
Wow, JHoward. That is a dark, dark hole of hate. I feel all dirty just skimming. I suppose it would be too much to ask for an intelligent counter-argument to Goldbers’s premise.
happyfeet,
Yes, just noting that would be a reason for Steyn not to withdraw.
Hey, I like the Corner.
Jonah put one of my jokes up there a while back.
Just ‘from a reader’ of course.
But, still.
It’s ok for people to like the Corner I think. In doses. I’m more than happy to click on a link to something specific, but the way they have it set up there you pretty much can’t help but keep scrolling and scrolling and then scrolling until there’s the ineluctable realization that these people are not like me. They’re different.
America Rising: In my pants.
sorry, but that just sounds icky, and I felt the need to take it further. probably too many James Bond movies the last few days. we’re through Live and Let Die so far.
Karl
Not only has Hillary! decided not to sully herself with actually talking with voters, but Chelsea has been showing up as set decoration and even told a nine year old to take a hike.
Classy bunch, eh?
maggie,
Kananga ’08!
Darleen,
Noted that because my Dad had wondered what Chelsea’s role was this year.
Never too early for a Clinton to start stonewalling.
JHoward
Dr. Helen and Glenn did a podcast with Goldberg on his book … put on the hipwaders and look at the hysterical (both definitions) reactions of the Left on Dr. Helen’s post. The vitriol and ad hominim aimed at her is boggling. Sample:
figures he’s a Rethuglican! that is too bizarre, Karl. seems his site is down though, this blog mentions it.
ugh, it ate my link. let’s try happyfeet’s method.
http://obrienart-hartford.blogspot*.com/2007/08/iowa-straw-poll.html
“For her part, Sydney looked a bit crestfallen after Chelsea turned her away. But luckily for Hillary Clinton, Sydney’s mother has made up her mind to caucus for the former first lady.
“I like her position on family values and health care. And I think it’s time we have a female president,” Robyn Rieckhoff said.
Unbelievable.
Yeah, it’s not clear whether yaphetkotto.org is really his site.
Bonus factoids: Kotto is the son of a Cameroonian Crown Prince. He would also be the first African American and first Jewish president.
B Moe,
Remember, for the Clintons, it’s all about the children. It takes a village to stonewall a child.
“America Rising: Born to Run in the Darkness on the Edge of Town by the River.”
I loved Kotto as Giardello on “Homicide: Life on the Streets.” We share a birthday!!
Postmodernism, Darleen. If it’s still rank, it still ranks.
Actually I can’t blame Chelsea. She doesn’t want to be in play. I can understand that.
happyfeet,
I would agree, if it wasn’t a nine-year-old interviewer. Blowing her off had the exact opposite effect, made Chelsea part of the story.
Bonus: Parade magazine polled “Who is the hottest Clinton?”
Good point, but still… Chelsea wants so far it seems to be mostly a non-entity beyond token support for the power-mad beast who spawned her and I support that. Chelsea as Grendel doesn’t really work for me. I think it has a more Mommie Dearest feel.
Or maybe Flowers in the Attic without the incest and stuff.
“Actually I can’t blame Chelsea. She doesn’t want to be in play. I can understand that.”
Then she needs to stay home. I don’t think she has any choice in that, and I don’t think she is allowed to answer any questions. Mommie Dearest perhaps, but she is 27 years old, and knows exactly who and what she is helping, which mitigates any sympathy I may feel for her.
happyfeet
Chelsea is an adult. She can either stay home (ala Rudy’s offspring) or she can be campaigning for mom (ala Mitt’s sons)
But she cannot have it both ways … and the sheer stage-managing..!!! Reporters have “been told” not to ask her questions and handlers wave ’em off??
Is Hillary! expecting an oath of office or a coronation in Jan 09?
Ok. But I don’t think she’s an adult same as people who had normal parents. I think inside she’s screaming.
“I think inside she’s screaming.”
Check out Ric Locke’s latest in the Pub. It is a family tradition.
You’ve got to say it with a Sean Connery accent:
America Rising: In My Pants, Trebeck.