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Now that Hillary Clinton has ended her presidential bid and endorsed Barack Obama, I’m wondering why I am supposed to now change my mind about him. I came to the conclusion a while back that he would make a really poor choice for President. Having Hillary Clinton now drop out of the race doesn’t change that.

It wasn’t a decision I came to lightly. It wasn’t a decision I enjoyed making. On February 12, I voted for Barack Obama in the Maryland primary. I felt good about doing it. I had never felt that good about voting for a candidate. Truth be known, I usually vote against someone instead of voting for someone. For example, in 2004 I was voted against George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. I did this by voting for John Kerry and John Edwards. I was holding my nose when I voted for these two men to be President and Vice President. Continue Reading »

Tags: Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, John Kerry, Tony Rezko, William Ayers

Formal Presidential hopeful John Edwards got off the fence and is now endorsing Barack Obama. Not that I’m surprised that the guy who enjoys $250 haircuts and owns his own squash court is endorsing the fella that likes to bitch about the high cost of arugula.

What a surprise!

If you’ve been following my ramblings on this blog, you know I never have been a big fan John Edwards. He always pegged the red on my internal fake-o meter.

I don’t have much respect for personal injury lawyers. Though I am more then willing to admit that they serve an important function in society, that doesn’t mean I admire a man that made millions because a young girl had her lower intestines sucked out by a faulty pool filter. I admire millionaires that made their fortune by building something or creating something. Two things had to happen for Edwards to make money; A doctor had to make a mistake and a patient had to suffer because of it.

Edwards dropped out of the race over three months ago. Why did it take this long to pick a bandwagon to jump on? Good thing he came in third-place for the Democratic nomination. Making quick, decisive decisions obviously ain’t the man’s thing.

Unless of course it’s about where to get a haircut.

Tags: Arugula, Barack Obama, Guys That Own Their Own Squash Court, John Edwards

Hillary Clinton got some more good news this week. Not only did she win the New Hampshire Democratic primary, Senator John F. Kerry announced that he was throwing his support behind Barack Obama.

I’ve got to admit that I like Barack Obama, but if a turd like John Kerry is going to endorse him, perhaps I need to rethink my position. Maybe there is something I’m not seeing about Barack Obama.

Maybe I need to reconsider my opinion on Hillary Clinton.

What’s really odd about this is that John Kerry picked John Edwards to be his running mate in 2004. He evidently though John Edwards would make a swell vice-president. Why does he think Barack Obama would make a better president then his own former running mate? If so, I think he’s got some explaining to do.

Kerry and Obama are as different as you can get. Kerry is a dull and wooden. Obama is not. The first time most Americans heard Obama speak was at the 2004 Democratic Convention. His speech that night only made Kerry look more dull and more wooden then we already thought he was.

Tags: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, John Kerry, New Hampshire

• What does all the software I enjoy using and ATI video cards have in common? ATI video cards won’t work with Fake UNIX (Linux).

• Producers of the The Comic Book Haters podcast have announced the first annual Schooly Awards. Voting ends June 31 and people of Irish decent are discouraged from participating.

• Steve of Steve Likes to Curse has weighed in on the controversy surrounding the MySpace page of Deryk Schlessinger, son of conservative radio fake psychologist Laura Schlessinger. In case you haven’t heard, young Deryk is a soldier stationed in Afghanistan fighting the enemies of freedom. When he’s not doing that, he evidently is posting cartoon depictions of rape, murder, torture and child molestation on MySpace. Has any good ever come from MySpace? I hate MySpace. Make sure to checkout my MySpace page. It’s awesome!

• Marvel Comics is at it again. The cover of HEROES FOR HIRE #13 features three young women wearing tight revealing clothing with their hands chained above them on a stone pillar. There is some kind of tentacle creature feeling them up. Who’s calling the shots over at Marvel, Deryk Schlessinger?

• Some kind of massive outage hit XM Radio yesterday. I thought it was my radio. While driving home from work I was constantly losing the XM signal. I even stopped at one point to see if my antenna was still where it was supposed to be. It would have been nice if the good people of XM Radio could have perhaps made an announcement that they were having problems. It wasn’t like it was constantly down. Instead I had to learn about it later from reading the Internet. My opinion of XM Radio has really taken a dive lately.

• John Edwards currently running for third-place for the Democratic Presidential nomination is calling for mandatory military service. He said that we should have some level of mandatory service so that everybody in America and not just poor kids are serving this country. What a hypocritical prick. Edwards never served in the military. Who is he to call for mandatory military service?

Tags: Deryk Schlessinger, John Edwards, Linux, Marvel Comics, XM Radio

I was reading an article about the guy living next door to John and Elizibeth Edwards. His name is Monty Johnson. He is the man Elizabeth Edwards referred to as a “rabid, rabid Republican.” She also said she didn’t want her children anywhere near him because of his love for guns.

In the article, Monty spoke of first seeing the Edwards:

The day they looked at their property, the couple and several Secret Service agents parked on his land and walked across the street into the woods.

Johnson approached the agents and asked what they were doing on his property. “The Secret Service let me know it wasn’t my concern,” he said.

Did they use The Force? Like Obi-Wan telling the stormtroopers, “These are not the droids you are looking for.”

Why would Edwards even have Secret Service protection? I thought that only happened when a candidate actually won his (or her) party’s nomination. Edwards would have had such protection while running for the Vice President in 2004, but in another article written in January of this year it states that they recently moved into this home.

Would the Edwards even have time to go house hunting will running for Vice President?

Tags: Elizabeth Edwards, John Edwards, Secret Service, The Force

• The person that created the anti-Clinton “Vote Different” YouTube ad styled after the old Apple 1984 ad has been identified. He used to work for the company that does Internet work for the Obama campaign. He wrote a post over at at The Huffington Post explaining his motivation for the ad. Big shocker, he is an Obama supporter. Who would have thought that? He also explains that he made the ad without his employer’s knowledge. In fact he was fired for making the ad.
• Elizabeth Edwards once again has cancer. It’s incurable, but it’s treatable. I’m not sure I understand that, but I usually don’t understand medical things until I see it in an episode of House. Her husband John Edwards will continue his campaign for the Democratic Presidential nomination. You would think with his wife facing such a serious medical problem, he would want to focus on her instead of his pursuit for third place.
• Once again, that longed haired hippy Sanjaya Malakar escaped getting kicked off American Idol. When will he finally get voted off the show? Do I have to pick up the phone and actually vote for someone? Someone who’s name is not Sanjaya? His singing was so bad this week that he actually made a retarded girl cry. If this keeps up, I will begin to doubt the musical integrity of the show. I do not like Sanjaya Malakar.
• Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy has weighed in on the topic of gay marriage. He says that he and Jesus are against it. That’s ironic, because many gay people in committed relationships think the Colts suck.
• Apple launched their newest product today. It’s something called Apple TV. Oddly enough, they chose not to put a pretentious lowercase “i” in front of the name. Apple claims that it will enable you to put audio and video content from your iTunes library to your widescreen hi-def TV. It will allow you to watch movies, TV shows, podcasts, and porn pictures from your computer. It uses wireless to sync up to 6 computers to your TV. It costs $299. If you have a video iPod, you can simply buy a patch cable from Apple for less then $20 that allows you to basically do the same thing.
• The SCI FI Channel has increased its episode order for the fourth season of Battlestar Galactica to 22 up from the original 13. If you ever wanted to realize just how much the last ten plus years of Star Trek sucked, watch an episode of Battlestar Galactica.
• Sean Hannity first challenges the mayor of Salt Lake City to a debate on Iraq and impeachment, then chickens out. Hannity being the douche that he is then blamed the mayor as being the one to back out.
• Speaking of Sean Hannity, has anyone ever seen Hannity and Nathen Lane at the same time? Those two look so much alike that I’m starting to think they might be the same person. Look here to see a comparison.
• A study shows that 75% of all Blogspot blogs are spam blogs. That’s a shame because many of them are very good.

Tags: American Idol, Barack Obama, Battlestar Galactica, Elizabeth Edwards, John Edwards, Nathen Lane, Sanjaya, Sean Hannity, Tony Dungy

Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Ann Coulter said:

“I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the word ‘faggot,’ so I — so kind of an impasse, can’t really talk about Edwards.”

People in attendance actually cheered.

They do know what the word “faggot” means, right? It really makes me wonder. It’s a derogatory term for someone who is homosexual. Clearly John Edwards is not homosexual. So called “conservatives” know this, right? I will admit in all honesty that John Edwards is not my idea of an ideal presidential candidate.

That doesn’t mean that I think he is gay.

It’s hard to take conservatives seriously sometimes. They say peculiar and outlandish things and expect the rest of us to react with a straight face. Things such as that Ronald Reagan was a great president or that global warming is a hoax. Now we are to believe that John Edwards is gay.

Do conservatives even know what homosexuality is? We have always assumed that they do, but what if they really have no idea what it really means? If so, it certainly begs the question as to why we allow them to have their way in matters pertaining to gay people. Such as the issue of gay marriage.

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Tags: Conservative Political Action Conference, faggot, John Edwards, Ronald Reagan

Democrat John Edwards talks a lot about his humble beginnings. He likes to talk about there being two Americas. One that’s rich and one that is not. The above is a aerial photo of John Edward’s home. Guess which America he is in?

His recreation building contains a basketball court, a squash court, two stages, a bedroom, kitchen, bathrooms, swimming pool, a four-story tower, and a room called “John’s Lounge.” Maybe instead of announcing his candidacy for President from the ninth ward in New Orleans, he should have made it from John’s Lounge. That at least would have been honest.

The guy is a fake. He’s a hypocrite. It’s not even as though he actually built his wealth with the sweat of his own brow. It’s not like he invented something innovative or spectacular. He didn’t build anything. He didn’t create anything. He didn’t even amass his wealth the old fashioned way by being born into it. No, he made his millions being a personal injury trial attorney. Two things had to happen for Edwards to make money. A doctor had to make a mistake and a patient had to suffer because of it.

The Edwards empire was built on the misfortune and misery of others.

Now he wants to use the economic misfortune of others to propel his presidential aspirations. Not that this is new. He used this same tactic the last time he tried to be President.

I don’t think some guy with his own personal squash court has any business lecturing anyone that there are two Americas.

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Tags: Democrats, John Edwards, New Orleans, Politics, Squash Court, Two Americas