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Stranahan says, “John McCain can turn the economy around…he’s done it before!”

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As Andrew Sullivan pointed out, if Karl Rove was a Democrat, you would surely see an ad like this.

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It certainly would seem to be fair (and balanced) to apply the same standards of negative campaigning to McCain that he has employed against Obama. I’m truly sick and tired of mean-spirited attack ads, no matter which candidate or party it is — on the national and local levels. But, this parodying attack ad seemed appropriate for the man who has set the new standard for ridiculousness and mean-spiritedness in presidential candidate attack ads.

Does John McCain not have anything that would make a positive campaign commercial? Is he really so desperate that he’ll do anything to be president, even violating his own professed standards? Is the only way he can win is to tear down his opponent with smears, distortions and outright lies rather than sell the American people on himself?

Each day, he’s looking more and more like the current occupant of the White House. I just can’t stomach four more years of the same.

I’ve always loved peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I still eat them for lunch often. Aside from the great taste, they are easy to fix and can last all day without worrying about it spoiling. Now I have one more reason to keep on eating those PB&J’s: it reduced my carbon footprint and helps fight global warming. So says The PB&J Campaign:

Each time you have a plant-based lunch like a PB&J you’ll reduce your carbon footprint by the equivalent of 2.5 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions over an average animal-based lunch like a hamburger, a tuna sandwich, grilled cheese, or chicken nuggets. For dinner you save 2.8 pounds and for breakfast 2.0 pounds of emissions.

Those 2.5 pounds of emissions at lunch are about forty percent of the greenhouse gas emissions you’d save driving around for the day in a hybrid instead of a standard sedan.

If you have a PB&J instead of a red-meat lunch like a ham sandwich or a hamburger, you shrink your carbon footprint by almost 3.5 pounds of greenhouse gas emissions.

Pretty impressive! And it tastes great too! In fairness, it’s really not just PB&J sandwiches that will make a different.

Any plant-based meal you eat instead of something based on meat, fish, eggs, or dairy products can have a big impact.

But wait! There’s more!

You’ll conserve water at lunch too! How about 133 gallons of water conserved at lunch versus the average American lunch? To put this in perspective, five PB&Js or other plant-based lunches per month would save more water than switching to a low-flow showerhead. If you’re replacing hamburgers, it should take you just three lunches to conserve more water than the low-flow showerhead.

Still not satisfied? There’s more still!

Don’t forget the land you save from deforestation, over-grazing, and pesticide and fertilizer pollution: about 24 square feet at lunch.

I’m happy to help out. I’ll do my part to fight global warming. Eat more chicken PB&J’s!*

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*This does not mean that I will completely give up hamburgers and other animal-based meals. I simply can’t cut out delicious, fresh-off-the-barbecue grill hamburgers… or steaks… or porkchops… or marinated chicken… mmmmmmmmm, grilled marinated chicken… (drooling)

UN—[CENSORED]—BELIEVABLE!

For the second time this week (that I know about), Oklahoma is again in the spotlight. Earlier this week, it was about a church giving a way an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle at a youth conference. Now, it is one of our own county commissioner’s insane campaign materials garnering attention from those outside the state… again …

Oklahoma County, Oklahoma Commissioner Brent Rinehart is facing a tough reelection campaign.  He’s been accused of abusing his office for personal gain, and will go on trial in the fall on felony campaign finance charges.  But apparently, this is all a conspiracy of homosexuals, liberal do gooders, and good ol’ boys to force Rinehart out of office.  Rinehart lays out his case in a comic book he’s sending out to voters, which—you may be surprised to learn—he wrote and illustrated himself.

Are you ready for this?

For those outside our community who may not have all the background, Jim Roth who is mentioned in the cartoon was one of Rinehart’s fellow county commissioners before he was appointed to the state corporation commission, and he is openly gay. Rinehart, being the close-minded bigot that he is, made this an issue during the time they served together and he is certainly making it a major issue now. Meanwhile, as he points out all the faults of others, he faces felony charges for illegal campaign contribution schemes.

“Let him who is without sign cast the first stone.” Rinehart should definitely drop all those rocks he’s been hurling. You can read more about it here and here.

Unfortunately for the rest of us who call Oklahoma home, there are a sufficient number of idiots, bigots and hatemongers around to make this a regular feature. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Oklahoma, it really is a great place to live and be proud of; we just have more than our fair share of morons crapping on our parade with their idiocy, lunacy and tomfoolery.

Another gem from JibJab, this time with a special guest star… see if you can figure out who it is!

Stumbled across this (via Andrew Sullivan)…

Why? Because George W. Bush is God’s president, according to this website …

Yes, we can vote for George W. Bush in 2008. We have the right to write in the name of our chosen candidate, regardless of whether or not he is officially on the ballot.

We know that George Bush was God’s Candidate in 2000. We know that George Bush was God’s candidate again in 2004. And George Bush has been God’s president for the last 8 years.

Trust in God and vote your faith. Keep America safe. Write-in George W. Bush for President in 2008.

McCain team actions seem to confirm the message of an “offensive” sign that led to its carrier, 61-year-old librarian Carol Kreck, to be expelled from John McCain’s town hall meeting in Denver, CO, today. What did this sign say?

“McCain = Bush”

I can see why that would be considered so offensive to warrant expulsion from an event billed as “open to the public.” You can watch the video of law enforcement dealing with the “threat” to John McCain.

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Says Amanda at Think Progress:

McCain has apparently taken a page from the Bush playbook. In 2005, the White House had three activists expelled from a Denver public forum with President Bush because it was the administration’s policy “to exclude potentially disruptive guests from Bush’s appearances nationwide.”

After watching some of the coverage of yesterday’s “Unity” event with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, it left me with a generally good feeling about the whole reconciliation thing between the two former rivals. It even made me reconsider my position on a … <gasp> … Obama/Clinton unity ticket. (I couldn’t believe it either.)

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It’s one thing to be opposed to a particular political candidate — even strongly and passionately opposed. It’s quite another thing to be absurd about your opposition, making outlandish claims and suppositions, and generally resorting to hysterics.

While politics will still remain a small fraction of what I write about here, for the remainder of this election season, I will regularly share a post that exposes some of the more outrageous and outlandish rhetoric and political posturing that we see during this excruciatingly interminable campaign. Today’s spotlight is on the right-wing radio darling Hugh Hewitt:

By the way, I — I’m still trying to find two tickets to the Ohio State-USC game. And none of the USC people will give up their tickets to me. I’d pay fair price. They — they know Ohio State’s gonna slaughter the Trojans. They know that they’re gonna slaughter the Trojans, and therefore they do not want me there at the bloodbath, since it’s probably the last football game we’ll ever get to see before the United States gets blown up by the Islamists under Obama.

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More Hewitt hysterics here.