No offense because you're a very clever writer and all but do you actually have more than one tool in your toolbelt when it comes to making a point?

Which has to do with what?

Tu quoque

in the real estate biz it's "always be closing," -- abc. in teevee infotainment land it's "always provoke a catfight,"--apc.

Unfortunately, Michelle will not crack on Cindy. She's too classy. She should say something completely passive-aggressive such as "poor thing, she must be withdrawing to say something like that. I'll pray for her." That would be awesome.

@5 is right.

Michelle is classy.

Cindy's still a rich whore.

...and a trollop. Can't forget the trollop part....

We don't know why he said was he said, but we are glad he did.

We are a little concerned that if we make those newly energized young voters Obama has attracted mad, they may stay energized. But if some fag in liberal Seattle adopts our tactics we feel there is a good chance that a significant number of them will get bored with "change" and just stay home with their video games in November.

Thanks; The Swift Boat Veterans For Truth

ohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseOHPLEASE!!!

Say, how about a debate? It is goingto be fun watching Obama eviscerate Ol Man McCain, but Barack isn't even the smartest one in that couple. Michelle would annihilate that vapid old crow.

Hmmm....
McCain doesn't know why Obama said that.
Hmmmm....
Might it have something to do with the fact that the personal, intellectual and cultural experience of a black woman might produce a view of her country which is more cynical than the experience of a fabulously wealthy white heiress who has been cosseted by the system even when she was a crime-committing drug addict?
Hmmmm.....
Nah. I'm sure it couldn't be that.

Nicely put, seeker.

@10: Cosseted? "To be made a pet of, as a newborn lamb". Seriously, thanks for the new word!

The Obama people are not going to mention drugs at all. You start a conversation about Mrs. McCain's pill habit and it'll end up being about Mr. Obama's coke habit.

At least I don't trowel on make-up like a trollop.......

"Junkie. Pothead. That's where I'd been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man. . . . I got high [to] push questions of who I was out of my mind." - Barack Obama "Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance"

In the book, Obama acknowledges that he used cocaine as a high school student but rejected heroin. "Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though," he says.

And that is why we will not be talking about Cindy's pill popping past.

That, and his ongoing addiction issues... Poor guy just can't kick the cigarettes.

And if Michelle is so damn smart why would she say something so damn stupid at such a damn public event?... (Yeah, real intelligent...)

Just saying...

why would she say something so damn stupid

She didn't, dumbfuck. She said something actually thought provoking. If you would bother to listen to more than 10 seconds of the clip, you would know that.

The editors at Faux News reduced it to something stupid. And you, apparently, bought it.

@19: She was dumb enough to give them what they needed to do it...

Lets look at the actual outcome of what she actually said and how it was actually distributed (net loss to her and her "baby daddy").

A smart woman would not have given them the opportunity... In a sound clipped world nuance does not play well on the evening news. An intelligent woman would realize this.

And true or not, justified or not, if your running for first lady, its a pretty stupid move to imply (or make any statement that could be so very very easily misconstrued to imply) that you had never, before now, been proud of your country.

She will prove to be a liability to Obama (and could be his undoing).

I'd betcha money that he wound up in Reverend Wright's church (and loaded with it's baggage) because, as so often happens, he let his wife choose the congregation they would attend...

Another brilliant move on one of their parts...

It's easy to confuse discipline and education with intelligence. (I think she has two of the three but lacks the third.) He has the hat trick, and they are both VERY charming... (I am inclined to distrust charming people.)

YGBKM, what about honest people? Michelle was being honest when she made that proud-of-my-country comment, Barack was being honest when he talked about his drug use. Do you trust honest people?

@22 It depends on their motives.

It's possible to go after Cindy McCain on the drugs and theft thing: just focus on the theft and the absolutely sweetheart deal she got afterwards, which I'm sure had noooooothing to do with the fact that she was rich, white, powerful and the wife of one of the most prominent senators in the country. Nothing at all.

The addiction we can and do have sympathy for. We can even approve of the treatment she received: many such drug addicts would, if treated humanely , be able to return to their position as functioning members of society as she has. What we can and should attack is the fact that she got this treatment and pretty much nobody else does. Ask yourself this: if this had been Barack or Michelle Obama back in the 1990s and this happened, where would they have gone? Jail. Would they have been treated so courteously and humanely by the prosecutors. Not bloody likely.

Perhaps an ad along the lines of: "Democrats: We believe in drug treatment. Not special treatment."