Unforced Errors
Posted at 9:17am on Mar. 7, 2008 Always being taken someplace twice...
The second time, to apologize.
By Moe Lane
(With my own apologies to Diane Duane for using the reference.)
Huh. Odd. I was under the general impression that the primary qualification you looked for in a foreign policy adviser was the elementary wisdom not to blurt out embarrassing statements abroad:
Earlier, clearly rattled by the Ohio defeat, Ms Power told The Scotsman Mrs Clinton was stopping at nothing to try to seize the lead from her candidate.
"We f***** up in Ohio," she admitted. "In Ohio, they are obsessed and Hillary is going to town on it, because she knows Ohio's the only place they can win.
"She is a monster, too – that is off the record – she is stooping to anything," Ms Power said, hastily trying to withdraw her remark.
Ms Power said of the Clinton campaign: "Here, it looks like desperation. I hope it looks like desperation there, too.
(via the Corner, although I don't think that they salt their popcorn properly.)
The Senator's already had to apologize, which is both: funny; and no doubt a disappointment for his acolytes, who expect him to come out swinging against the lies and slimes of the Clinton Smear Machine (or whatever the phrase is). Ms. Powers has, too, saying that "These comments do not reflect my feelings about Sen. Clinton, whose leadership and public service I have long admired."
(pause)
This has just been a marvelous week, hasn't it?
Read on.
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Posted at 4:07pm on Mar. 2, 2008 So, Senator Obama, when did we start rounding up Arab-American families?
Terrifyingly, the ad below was thought to be a *good* idea.
By Moe Lane
Were you doing that Sliders dimension-hopping fanfic/cosplay thing again?
(Originally via Riehl World View, although the comments section gave me pause.)
Anyway, when did we start doing this? In fact, why did we start doing this? Even if the current Presidential administration actually had taken the rather insensitive and bigoted assumption that Arab = Islamist (note suffix) terrorist/terrorist sympathizer (which, might I note, is a very difficult charge to make against the Bush administration while still keeping a straight face, much to the disappointment of various and sundry progressive masochism fetishists), it remains true that the vast majority of Arab-Americans are not Muslims, and that the vast majority of American Muslims are not Arabs. I somehow doubt that the government can be simultaneously dumb enough to carry out a boneheaded policy of rounding up Arab-American families, while at the same time being clever enough to simultaneously keep it off of the nightly news and not manage to round up Maronites by mistake.
(pause)
Look them up, Senator. Then explain the difference to your acolytes. It apparently doesn't register with them unless you say it.
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