May 4, 2011

No gory Osama pictures

Obama says he will not release photos of the world's current celebrity corpse. Well decided, Sir. A picture will change no conspiracy-saturated minds (Fake! Photoshopped!), and there's no reason to further inflame the primitive psyches of Osama lovers.

What, you, of all people, defending His Obamaness?


Sure, though I can't imagine doing it often enough to win a night  in Abe Lincoln's bed.

Besides, I'd even defend Harry Reid  and Al Gore if they said something sensible. Fortunately, that pledge is unlikely meet  a practical test.

Tears on Krypton

Superman's birth home falls to the wreckers.

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May 3, 2011

John Davis, already a winner; Iowa Caucuses 2012

In the TMR tally of candidate cliches, John Davis of Grand Junction,  BackSlope, is the hands-down champion. No other statesman/woman competing for Iowans' attention has a prayer of closing the gap.

Among his revelations: "My family has lived in this town for six generations and I can’t imagine living anywhere else. " (That's also the site of his entry in the cliche contest.)


Which is misleading.  He clearly can imagine moving to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, a long slog from his Colorado lumber yard.


That's how he has earned a place on your newly updated, handy-dandy, list of  GOP luminaries  practicing to say aww shucks and you bet.


He brings the total back to 19, and let it be added that there's no reason to think a lumber yard guy would do a worse job of running the country than a neighborhood organizer.



Obama now unbeatable

You don't have to be listening hard to your electrical teevee to hear that Obama is now "unbeatable" because our spies and our SEALS took out bin Laden.

Uhh-huh.

His Obamaness is enjoying a giddy pop in the polls, but fickle, thy name is the American electorate.

My pal Fred invites our attention to the flighty nature of our voters with this.

By November of next year you might have to interview one Hell of a lot of voters to find one  who remembers why we got so excited about the shootout at the Abbottabad  Corral.