The Wikipedia approach to conspiracy research

This World Net Daily article highlighted on Andrew Sullivan's blog is fantastic. Headline:

Obama's MySpace page: I'm 52 years old, not 48
Would place president's birth during time Hawaii was a territory

This is your evidence? His MySpace page also lists Obama as male...and you can't be sure about that one either...at least not on MySpace.

The best passage is:

But a multitude of other records that also have not been released would shed light on the president's past, including his kindergarten records, Punahou school records, Occidental College records, Columbia University records, Columbia thesis, Harvard Law School records, Harvard Law Review articles, scholarly articles from the University of Chicago, passport, medical records, files from his years as an Illinois state senator, Illinois State Bar Association records, any baptism records and adoption records.

Dude. Published articles in the Harvard Law Review hardly need to be "released."

Belly up

A potbelly is the new hot accessory, according to my very favorite NYT style writer, Guy Trebay. The editor of Details speculates that Brooklyn hipsters are reacting to our uberfit president by "proudly rocking a gut." But I blame it on all that PBR.

Graham Proposes "Barack Hussein Obama Park"

Council member Jim Graham (D-Ward 1) introduced a resolution today to rename Girard Park in Columbia Heights "Barack Hussein Obama Park." (WP)

Watch out, Jim, this will just draw out the loonies who want to name everything after Reagan!

L8er

From TNR blog.

WOOOOOO! GO AMERICA!!!

*tears*

Final pre-election post

Knocking on wood continuously for the next 48 hours.
LOLbama courtesy of Jezebel.

Credit where credit is due, or, The Audacity of Bullshit

I'm sure you've already seen this EPIC FAIL on the part of sometime Weekly Standard editor and current McCain campaign spokesman Michael Goldfarb.



Seriously, how does one show up for a live interview on national TV so unprepared? But lost in our guffawing is the gutsiness of Goldfarb's bullshitting maneuver here. Not enough to make up for being a clueless twit, but executed with total, balls-out gumption.

Sanchez: You said [Obama] hangs around with people who are anti-Semitic. You--OK, we've got Khalidi on the table, give me number two. Who's the other anti-Semitic person that he hangs around with that we, quote, "all know about."

Goldfarb: Rick, we all know who number two is.

[Pause.]

Sanchez: WHO? [Pause] Would you tell us?

Goldfarb: No, Rick, I--I think we all know who we're talking about here.

Sanchez: Somebody who's anti-Semitic who he hangs around with?

Goldfarb: Absolutely.

Sanchez: Well SAY IT!

Goldfarb: I think we all know who we're talking about, Rick.

What would William F. Buckley think?

The National Review's "The Corner" blog just gets nuttier and nuttier this election season.

There is a cult-like atmosphere around Barack Obama, which his campaign has carefully and successfully fabricated, which concerns me. The messiah complex.--Mark Levin on "The Corner"

What the hell is a writer for a magazine that has twice endorsed George W. Bush for president doing complaining about anyone's "messiah complex"??? This blog post--like Lisa Schiffren's "Obama is a Communist" post previously noted here--is just bizarre. As David Kurtz quips at Talking Points Memo,

Barack Obama is noted for his powerful intellect, but I don't think he gets nearly enough credit for the mental dexterity it takes to be simultaneously an Islamic theocrat, atheistic communist and national socialist while posing as a center left candidate.

Guess what: I'm wearing pants right now!

I still don't understand the obsession with "Hillary's pantsuits."

ABC News: A Look Back at Hillary's Year of Pantsuits
Glamour Magazine Salutes Hillary Clinton's Rainbow Coalition of Pantsuits

You know, technically, Obama always wears "pantsuits." Not that he doesn't have the legs to carry off a tasteful above-the-knee hem.

And no one ever writes about those.

The Clinton/RFK flap: just one more reason I want this election to be over

This has just gotten silly. I'm not even a Clinton supporter, per se, and it was immediately clear to me that her mention of the June assassination of Bobby Kennedy was meant simply to illustrate her point that Democratic nomination races have, historically, continued into the summer.

The assassination was not mentioned as "a reason to stay in the race," as Eugene Robinson misleadingly writes in his column this morning, or a suggestion that either Democratic contender might be assassinated for heaven's sake. This was Clinton picking her brain for a good example of a long nomination fight and failing to screen the results. Even Obama says so.

I hope Senator Clinton has learned her lesson about choosing historical examples a little more carefully, and props to Bobby Kennedy, Jr. for his classy response to the hubbub.

My 2 cents on Bittergate

Sigh. When will candidates ever learn? What you say to your bosom buddies and supporters in public at fundraisers has got to be ready for prime time America as well. How many macacas must be uttered before this simple fact hits home? Everything you do is tracked and recorded. If I were running for president, I would not sing in the shower without first running the lyrics through my messaging people. 'Cause that shit could well end up on YouTube.

Do you ever wonder why sociology professors rarely get elected president? You have your answer, Mr. Obama!

Barack Obama is coming for our precious bodily fluids

Did you know that the next president of the United States might be a...Communist?

According to Lisa Schiffren on the National Review's "The Corner" blog*, it is highly likely that Barack Obama is a certified "red diaper baby." How can she be sure? Because he was born to a black father and white, reputedly Jewish** mother in the early 1960s, thats why. And we all know how those people are!

Are you serious? This is hilarious. I can't believe it actually made it onto the (web)pages of the National Review. It sounds like a rant from somebody's crotchety, bigoted, 85-year-old aunt. Calm down, Mildred, and have a sherry.

Watch out--if Mr. Obama succeeds and the Communists take over, they might attack our civil liberties, imprison people without cause, and trash our economy.

Just remember, as Schiffren writes,

Political correctness was invented precisely to prevent the mainstream liberal media from persuing the questions which might arise about how Senator Obama's mother, from Kansas, came to marry an African graduate student. Love? Sure, why not? But what else was going on around them that made it feasible?

*Via Wonkette, of course.
**When she wasn't being Muslim