Cool Designs and other topics

Cool Designs: hat tip to Shalini.

Liberals Must Die:

Sets us Straight.

Of course, George Lackoff has a nice response (hat tip to Crooks and Liars):

“Aw you liberals just hate America.”

No. We love democracy and we want to return it to America.
You want a presidential dictator.
We love liberty and we want to return it to America.
You want to tap our phones.
We love equality and we want to return it to America.
You think some people are better than others.
We love honesty and we want to return it to America.
You love lobbyists and corruption.
We love fairness and we want to return it to America.
You want to oppress the powerless.
We love openness and we want to return it to America.
You love secrecy and hiding the facts.
We love nature’s glory and we want to return it to America.
You love the profit that comes from destroying nature.
We love community and we want to return it to America.
You want everyone to fend for himself.
We love public education and we want to return it to America.
You want to destroy public education.
We love civilian control of the military and we want to return it to America.
You want to militarize America.

Barack Obama: Peoria Pundit has an interesting comment here.

n Althouse has this quote from Barack Obama:

“Sen. Clinton is claiming basically the entire eight years of the Clinton presidency as her own, except for the stuff that didn’t work out, in which case she says she has nothing to do with it,” said Barack Obama.

“There is no doubt that Bill Clinton had faith in her and consulted with her on issues, in the same way that I would consult with Michelle, if there were issues. On the other had, I don’t think Michelle would claim that she is the best qualified person to be a United States Senator by virtue of me talking to her on occasion about the work I’ve done.”

Amen, brother. Sen. Clinton constantly mentions her experience. What experience? She entered the Senate at the exact same time as Barack Obama. Before that day Obama was a legislator concerned with the business of governing. Senator Clinton, on the other hand, had never served in any elected office previously. Her political work basically involved setting the cause of universal health care back 20 years [...]

Ok, I don’t really agree with the last claim; my take is that we, as a country, didn’t have the political will to get it done at that time.

True, she entered the U.S. Senate at the same time that Obama entered the Illinois Senate. So, she has more U. S. Senate experience. But, one can point out that he was elected under his own steam.

Obama on education:

Fred Thompson: says that Fox News is biased against him.

In a somewhat contentious interview with Chris Wallace on FNS this morning (similar in tone to the Wallace/Clinton interview some months ago), Fred Thompson accused Chris and Fox News of skewing polling information and highlighting his negatives in their promo for the spot. Money quote from the clip:

THOMPSON: (snip)…So I understand the game of build-up and I understand the game of take-down. And we all go through it. And I’m perfectly willing for you to do that with regard to me as you do the other candidates.

WALLACE: I was going to say, Senator…

THOMPSON: But you have the right to put in your one side, and put in the Fox side, and I have the right to respond to it. And thankfully, you’ve given me that opportunity.

I had mentioned in an earlier post here, it’s becoming almost conventional wisdom now that Fox News is all about Rudy. Previously Romney and McCain had bitched that Fox would not allow them to use debate footage for their campaign ads and now Freddy takes issue with the Rudy bias as well. Good on ‘em all! Fox can’t go around calling itself a legitimate news organization while continuing to promote the agendas of hand-picked politicians and issues.

Video:

Note: Mitt Romney is evidently no fan of Fox News, as he effectively torpedoed the planned Fox News debate.

A senior GOP official in Iowa tells us that Mitt Romney has decided not to attend the Fox News GOP debate in the state that was set for December 4 — effectively killing the debate, according to this official.

Chuck Laudner, the executive director of the Iowa GOP, says that he got word of Romney’s decision two hours ago. He claims that other leading GOP contenders were waiting to see what Romney was going to do — and now that Romney won’t be attending, the others will pull out too.

“With no frontrunner, there’s no debate,” Laudner said, adding that many Iowa GOPers would be upset with Romney’s decision — a potential blow in a state where Romney is facing an aggressive insurgent challenge from Mike Huckabee. The Iowa GOP had been heavily promoting the debate, the first one to be broadcast by Fox News in the state.

“It’s disappointing,” Laudner said, adding that Huckabee, John McCain and Fred Thompson had said they’d be showing up and that Rudy was waiting to see what Romney did. “We’re losing a statewide 2000-person event. It’s a huge, huge event. We had county chairs raising money off of it. They’re not gonna be too happy.”

There is another GOP debate scheduled for Dec. 12 in Iowa sponsored by the Des Moines Register.

Romney spokesman Kevin Madden confirmed the campaign’s decision. “We have received invitations to a number of debates in the month of December,” he emailed me. [...]

Fluff: when are extra-marital fantasies bad? I’ve stumbled upon this blog and will check it out for a while.