NEWT GINGRICH DOESN’T UNDERSTAND DIPLOMACY

There is a difference between dialogue and giving in. Neville Chamberlain gave in to Adolf Hitler. Barack Obama will attempt to establish a dialogue with Hugo Chavez. We are unsure of whether that was the first meeting. I doubt it. Will all be reconciled in one meeting? Of course not. But there is much more to be gained than lost from engaging in talks. How much worse could relations between the U.S. and Venezuela have been under George W. Bush?

REPUBLICANS GONE WILD: RNC ROUNDUP

As you know, the Republicans met earlier this week to formally select Senator John S. McCain as their presidential candidate. However, before that could happen on the final night, many Republicans gave speeches that attempted to villify McCain’s opponents, the Obama-Biden ticket. This strategy is no different from the one used by Democrats the previous [...]

THE GAUGE ON MY IRONY METER JUST EXPLODED

In what my Dad would call a “senior moment,” Presidential candidate John McCain delivered this irony to end all ironies yesterday as he addressed the Russia-Georgia Crisis:

“In the 21st century, nations don’t invade other nations.”
Oh. My. Sweet. Baby. Jesus.
Does anyone remember comedian Dave Chapelle’s skit about the black-white supremacist, Clayton Bigsby? [...]

I DIDN’T REALIZE THAT AMERICANS ACTUALLY CARED ABOUT GEORGIA

The video below shows a somber John McCain at one of his rallies addressing the Russia-Georgia Crisis, and at the end he declares that “Today we are all Georgians”:

I have an idea, let’s go out and poll Americans and ask them to point to Georgia on a map (we’ll have to [...]