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White Queen Takes Black Knight

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Labels: barack obama, campaign 2008, hillary clinton, john mccain, media, political correctness, presidential campaign, propaganda, racism, religion

Weekend at Fidel's

Castro's tip: Clinton-Obama the winning ticket

Says the Ouija board.

You KNOW this guy is dead. If you're going to make his mouth move, make it say something useful, okay? Like his memoirs.

That said, the English translation of the essay reveals no such endorsement. This is his statement on the subject:

Today, talk is about the seemingly invincible ticket that might be created with Hillary for President and Obama for Vice President. Both of them feel the sacred duty of demanding “a democratic government in Cuba”. They are not making politics: they are playing a game of cards on a Sunday afternoon.

The media declares that this would be essential, unless Gore decides to run.

Could someone read the original and tell me if this is what he said? I think it is, but my college Spanish is rusty.

Hoy se habla de que un ticket al parecer invencible podría crearse con el binomio Hillary presidente y Obama vice. Ambos se sienten en el deber sagrado de exigir "un gobierno democrático en Cuba". No están haciendo política; están jugando a las barajas un domingo por la tarde.

Se afirma por los grandes medios que esto sería imprescindible, excepto si Gore se postula.

Sounds like he says they're dilettantes, not political powers. I guess that might be good for Cuba though. If it's true. It is by no stretch of the imagination an endorsement, however. Nice try, neocons.

Labels: campaign 2008, cuba, fidel castro, hillary clinton, obama, presidential campaign, snork

Okay, Rupert, we're getting the hint

Guess what the new season of 24 is going to feature?

Female President Next for Fox's '24'

Jones' term will coincide with Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential bid, but Fox Entertainment Chairman Peter Liguori said fiction and real-world politics will not intersect.

Mmright. It's the news that intersects. And news...is politics.

For six seasons -- well, five; the first season, being experimental, was relatively free of it -- people have called 24 on its parallels to current events and its fear-inducing political slant.

Evil Middle Easterners. Evil Mexicans. Drugs. Nukes. Bioweapons. Conflict with Russia. Conflict with China. Capture and torture. Oh, yes, and, last season, a bad guy named Fayed, just in time for the tenth anniversary of Princess Diana's death.

And now a female president.

Which will our Hillary-surrogate be: the villain or the potential disaster?

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