Secret Thoughts: From a Frog to a Prince

Satire by Eddie Griffin

Thursday, September 04, 2008

When they turn the frog into a prince, we’ll have to fight like hell to keep him from becoming king and taking the throne. Frogs don’t go on to become king. He is a frog.

Why eight is enough? Is eight years of deepening depression enough? Is eight houses enough? If eight is enough, then we have one Supreme Court Justice too many.

Read my lips: No new war.

White man speaks with forked tongue. Peace pipe, no work magic!

Who do I hate today? The Viet Cong? The American Indian and other related savages? The Japanese because of Pearl Harbor? Al-Qaeda because of 9/11? How about the Communist Chinese? Or, the Russians? I know, today I hate the Taliban, tomorrow the Palestinians? I hate Mexicans that sneak across the border. I hate the African-American hip-hop low lifes. Tell me, who do I hate, today?

Surely, the frog is wise enough to know. As a prince, he will give me a hate list, enlist me in his army, and send me out to fight the enemy of the day… as long as the enemy is not the white man, upon whose shoulders he would build his castle… as if eight is not enough.

Did Phil Graham have a part in the Sarah Palin selection?

Matthew Benjamin and Laura Litvan write in Bloomberg:

At today's event, Gramm also defended McCain's selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to be his vice presidential running mate.

“We went through a process of vetting all possible candidates,” narrowing it down to three before choosing Palin, he said.

When asked later whether he still has a role in the campaign, Gramm said, “I'm a supporter.”

I thought Phil Graham had resigned from John McCain’s campaign.

Gramm, 66, a vice chairman of UBS Securities LLC, stepped down as a co-chairman of the McCain campaign in July after telling the Washington Times that the U.S. is a “nation of whiners” facing a “mental recession”.

And, I thought John McCain distanced himself from Graham because of the comment.

After Gramm's July comments, McCain said, “Phil Gramm does not speak for me. I speak for me, so I strongly disagree.” People are not whining, he said, adding that “America is in great difficulty.

Could it be that Phil Gramm resigned only in word and continued to advise John McCain behind the scene? If so, he lied. If John McCain sought his input on his VP selection, then he is a hypocrite.

Governor "Abstinence-Only" Palin has 17 Year-Old Pregnant, Unmarried Teen Daughter

John Sydney McCain has chosen Governor Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate, even though Governor Palin's 17 year-old daughter, Bristol, is pregnant while the Governor herself vociferously opposes sex education. The Governor says that Bristol and her sex companion, Levi Johnston plan to get married, which will make everything alright for this teenage pregnancy.

This seems to be yet another example of where Republican ideology and reality refuse to accommodaate one another, and so reality wins and ideology is embarrassed.

Palin backed abstinence-only education during her 2006 gubernatorial race. In an Eagle Forum Alaska questionnaire, Palin gave this response to the following question:

Will you support funding for abstinence-until-marriage education instead of for explicit sex-education programs, school-based clinics, and the distribution of contraceptives in schools?

Palin: Yes, the explicit sex-ed programs will not find my support.

*** UPDATE *** NBC's Abby Livingston adds that a McCain spokesperson in May 2007 said the Arizona Republican supported abstinence-only education, too. "Sen. McCain believes the correct policy for educating young children on this subject is to promote abstinence as the only safe and responsible alternative. To do otherwise is to send a mixed signal to children that, on the one hand they should not be sexually active, but on the other here is the way to go about it.

As any parent knows, ambiguity and equivocation leads to problems when it comes to teaching children right from wrong. Sen. McCain believes that there are many negative forces in today’s society that promote irresponsible and dangerous behavior to our children. The public education system should not join this chorus of moral equivocation and ambiguity.” MSNBC

Well, at least in the case of Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston, abstinence-only education doesn not seem to have prevented this pregnancy as well as a condom and foam might have.

Sarah Palin: Tar Baby?

Eddie Griffin urges Caution

Friday, August 29, 2008

Who would have thought that John McCain would make a “steal your thunder” comeback, after Barack Obama hit it out of the park last night? No sooner had the confetti settled, John McCain shocked the world by selecting Alaska Gov.
Sarah Palin.

OMG, we were still hung over from last night’s jubilation and, WHAM!

“Wow. This is like a knife to the jugular for Obama and the Dems,” writes Sylvia.

Gina blogs: For those who read and contemplate political strategies, everyone is buzzing about Senator John McCain’s running mate, Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska, and the first ever female GOP VP pick… This was a game changer. McCain is taking all of the oxygen out of the newsrooms this morning.

Gina observes that there was only the appearance of Hillary Clinton voters reconciled and unified with the Barack Obama supporters. What people see as festering in this deep seated wound in the Democratic Party provides opportunity for John McCain to tap into former Hillary supports.

Baratunde writes: - this is a big move by mccain, but i don't like to throw the word brilliant around lightly, and this is not brilliant. it is big. it is desperate. it is also risky.

- oh, and as for a group of political reporters believing this was a game changer, that's fine. but that doesn't make it so, and it doesn't say which way the game will end. political reporters, especially groups of them, have been known to be wrong again and again and again. if anything, their unanimity makes me suspicious.

RESPONSE FROM: Eddie Griffin

It is my habit to work from the “worse case scenario”. If we can find the solution to the worse case situation, all other problems become feasible for solutions.

What problem does Sarah Palin present to the Democratic Party? None, I see. Other than being the first female GOP Vice President candidate, she is a non-factor and a potential “tar baby”. If the Dems fight against her, they can only become entangled.

I subscribe to the Theory of Self-Destruction, as in John McCain being his own worst enemy. The less you bother, the more inclined to self-destruct.

McCain Says Construction Workers Under Stress Because They Won't Pick Lettuce for Fifty Dollars an Hour in Yuma Valley

In the above video, John McCain insists that lettuce pickers in Yuma valley earn fifty dollars an hour "for the whole season". He tells a construction worker that he wouldn't do the same work, even for fifty dollars an hour, "because you can't do it, my friend."

I found the above video over at DailyWhitosphere. The user who posted this video hasn't got a single minority link on his entire user bloglist. That's why, as much as this participant might want to work against McCain s/he is bound, tied, and neutered by her/his own inability to join with others, regardless of skin color and ethnicity, in the fight for human and economic rights for all.

Has JiSM Physically Abused his Wife?

AgentX has left a new comment on your post "McCain Uses the "Tar Baby" Phrase":

Ugh...Some people never change.

Angles I'm working on this week:

1) McCain may have beat/attacked his wife. Those arm injuries and her excuse don't quite seem to match. Although there's no clear proof uncovered yet, a lot of people aren't necessarily buying the excuse of "enthusiastic supporters".

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/comments_blog/2008/08/a-handshake-ind.html

If you recall, she was in crutches early in the campaign.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/09/04/cindy-mccain-on-crutches-at-campaign-stop/
as a result of a twisted knee. She says it was a accident.

It would be nice to believe her if it weren't for Cunt-gate or her husband's voting record or her own habit of lying (forgot about her siblings on TV).

2) McCain has/had houses under assumed names.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/0808/The_GOPs_2008_nominee_isEldon_Smith.html?showall
3) McCain has no decent picks available to counter Biden.
4) McCain's lobbyist buddies may have been responsible for the War Within Georgia. Still waiting for a tip on that front.
5) McCain flipflopped on the draft, again. See the Field Negro blog for info on that.
6) How does the deal with Iraq to exit troops by 2013 affects McCain- I see some meat here if it gets signed.

So, is McCain physically abusive to his wife, in addition to the emotional abuse of calling her a "cunt" in public. Well, let's just say that she's clearly "accident prone."

McCain Uses the "Tar Baby" Phrase

Hat Tip to the University of Dayton.

When John S. McCain uses the phrase "Tar Baby" in public, I think I know what words he uses in private.