Obama Administration Refuses to Release Teenage Guantanamo Prisoner Forced to Confess by Torture

cross-posted at Katalusis

One gets tired of repeatedly calling to account the “liberal” punditry trailing after the multitudes of rapidly defecting Obamaphiles across the land. But still it’s hard not to point out yet again to NY Times columnist Bob Herbert that he used his platform to help seduce the electorate into handing the presidency to one of the most inexperienced candidates to ever run for the office. For future reference, Americans need to be reminded that he of the thin resume was inaugurated during a worldwide financial meltdown, two wars, and a multitude of other global challenges.

To be fair, Herbert’s column in today’s NY Times is not the first he’s written in which he unveils his disillusionment with the One. In response to his most recent painful acknowledgement of reality titled, “How Long is Long Enough,” 193 astute readers with their humanity still intact recommended this comment by Solla Carrock of Portland, OR:

I knew there was a child at Guantanamo. I wondered whether he had been released. I didn’t know that he was among those who had been tortured. How could anyone do that to a child. How can we continue. Is he one of the ones who are to be kept indefinitely because he cannot be tried in a court of law. President Obama, is this the change you promised, because I am beginning to lose my faith in it. If someone can’t be tried then they need to be released. The dignity and rights of human beings, every human being, is the basis of our country, and if we cannot even protect children, what are we about.

Yes, Solla, this is the change President Obama promised.

In summary, Mr. Herbert points out: Mohammed Jawad was captured as a teenager in Kabul and tortured in American custody. Now administration lawyers are blocking efforts to secure his freedom.

Here’s the deal:

No one seems to know how old Mohammed Jawad was when he was seized by Afghan forces in Kabul six and a half years ago and turned over to American custody. Some reports say he was 14. Some say 16. The Afghan government believes he was 12.

What is not in dispute is that he was no older than an adolescent, and that since his capture he has been tortured and otherwise put through hell. The evidence against him has been discredited. He has tried to commit suicide. But the U.S. won’t let him go.

Herbert reports:

Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld of the U.S. Army Reserve, a recipient of the Bronze Star, among other commendations, was named the lead prosecutor on the case in 2007. By then, Jawad had already been held for nearly five years. Colonel Vandeveld assumed that the case would be uncomplicated and that a conviction could be easily secured.

Jawad had confessed to the attack and, according to the charges against him, had acted as a member of an insurgent group called Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin.

As Colonel Vandeveld began a diligent effort to assemble what he assumed would be the evidence that would convict Jawad, he became increasingly distressed and ultimately dismayed. It turned out, as a military judge would later rule, that Jawad’s Afghan captors had obtained his confession by torturing him. Then the boy was taken by U.S. authorities to Bagram Air Field, the main U.S. military installation in Afghanistan, where he was held before eventually being transferred to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

Herbert concludes:

There is no credible evidence against Jawad, and his torture-induced confession has rightly been ruled inadmissible by a military judge. But the Obama administration does not feel that he has suffered enough. Not only have administration lawyers opposed defense efforts to secure Jawad’s freedom, but they are using, as the primary basis for their opposition, the fruits of the confession that was obtained through torture and has already been deemed inadmissible — without merit, of no value.

Colonel Vandeveld is no longer on active duty and has joined the effort by military defense lawyers and the American Civil Liberties Union to secure Jawad’s freedom. Six years of virtual solitary confinement, he said, is enough for someone who was not much older than a child when he was taken into custody.

I’ve omitted the parts detailing the torture Jawad has endured (it’s no wonder our neophyte president won’t release the remaining photos); you can read the entire column here.

Tidbits ~ Things You’d Be Better Off NOT Reading!

First, one long ass article from Vanity Fair, on all the reasons you should hate Sarah Palin:

It Came from Wasilla

Despite her disastrous performance in the 2008 election, Sarah Palin is still the sexiest brand in Republican politics, with a lucrative book contract for her story. But what Alaska’s charismatic governor wants the public to know about herself doesn’t always jibe with reality. As John McCain’s top campaign officials talk more candidly than ever before about the meltdown of his vice-presidential pick, the author tracks the signs—political and personal—that Palin was big trouble, and checks the forecast for her future.

Second, one mind twisting, bigoted homophobic, defense of Sarah Palin from a McCain supporter attacking a mind twisting bigoted Wonkette article:

‘It takes small people to stoop this low’

Says Professor William Jacobson regarding Wonkette’s despicable treatment of Sarah Palin’s year-old son, Trig. And I would amend the professor’s sentiments only to improve them by saying, “It takes gay men to stoop this low.”

Yeah, I just wrote that. And put it on the Internet.

Third, a bigot on morality:

Sally Kern Returns To Blame America’s ‘Economic Woes’ On ‘Same-Sex Marriage’ And ‘Abortion’

Kern is now pushing a “Oklahoma Citizen’s Proclamation for Morality” that blames America’s “economic woes” on “abortion, pornography, same sex marriage, sex trafficking, divorce, illegitimate births, child abuse ,and many other forms of debauchery”:

WHEREAS, we believe our economic woes are consequences of our greater national moral crisis; and

WHEREAS, this nation has become a world leader in promoting abortion, pornography, same sex marriage, sex trafficking, divorce, illegitimate births, child abuse, and many other forms of debauchery;

It’s amazing how homophobia and sexism/misogyny go hand in hand, isn’t it??

And It Came to Pass in the Age of Obama

cross-posted at Katalusis

In the months following 9/11, George W. Bush squandered soaring personal popularity as president both at home and abroad by pursuing policies in the name of national security that compromised the constitutional rights of Americans and alienated international allies.

Candidate Barack Obama accused John McCain of representing a third Bush term. Since Obama’s inauguration as president, however, his Bushian decisions have continually dismayed his devout supporters, while the rest of us can only shake our heads as we watch a rerun of a popular president leading the country down the same disastrous road.

The fact that Obama, a non-tenured track lecturer, padded his thin resume by claiming to have been a constitutional law professor ought to have alerted the electorate. But those were the days of Obama-luv when even the more staid types spoke in hallowed terms of “the age of Obama,” as if we were anointing a pharaoh or king instead of electing a president.

Martin Garbus, trial lawyer and author of six books on constitutional law, summarizes at Huffpo what has come to pass in the age of the faux professor:

Denying the public information, rejecting the public’s free speech “right to know” has become a pattern of this administration. Obama has become radical in his commitment to secrecy, not totally unlike the Bush administration.

Late Friday, June 26, 2009:

1. Obama announced a plan to draft laws to detain terror suspects indefinitely.
2. Obama announced it would be done by exec order so as to bypass Congress. The Washington Post article which caught the events was entitled “Executive order of detainees would sidestep Congress.”
3. Obama’s Attorney General told a federal judge that the suit by the families of the four detainees who committed suicide at the Guantanamo Bay prison should be dismissed because the issue is “fraught with political and military concerns” and Cheney, the government lawyers and the others have immunity from prosecution.
4. Obama’s Attorney General again delayed release of a 2004 CIA report which paved the way for detainee waterboarding, sleep deprivation and physical abuse. An extraordinary article by Luke Mitchell in this month’s Harper’s Magazine shows we are continuing that torture.
5. Obama’s Attorney General delayed, again, turning over 35 Bush Era defense documents to Judge William K. Hellerstein, a New York federal judge on a suit filed by the ACLU.

Garbus concludes:

Hasn’t he learned.

We see the similarities between the two administrations; similarities Obama promised us we would never see.

The First Amendment requires the government to be transparent. It requires the people be told exactly what the government is doing in their name. That is what democracy is about.

Obama’s attempt at secrecy, continued torture and repression of speech must be stopped.

This reader’s comment following Garbus’ post would be funny it were not so pathetically tragic:

Lochmon

For the first few months, I thought Obama was playing third-dimensional chess, or stalling for time, or something….

Now I no longer believe he means what he says regarding transparency. His stated preference to “look forward, not back” regarding the constitutional abuses of the Cheney/Bush years was bad enough, but his administration’s refusal to launch investigations (and criminal prosecutions where appropriate) has mutated into an actual protection of the previous admin… going so far as to, with a straight face, offer ridicule by late-night comics as a rationale for concealment. Obama has become an accomplice to the Bush years, not that that will buy him any “bipartisan” friends.

Even when I believe he’s telling the truth about what he intends–preferring a public option for health care, for example, or wanting stronger regulation of the economy–it looks like he’s too willing to roll over and trade it all away for the sake of compromising with people who prefer to destroy everything we elected Obama for.

I’m done with supporting this guy, unless and until he grows a backbone and gets serious about the promises he made. “Politics as usual” isn’t going to cut it.

Tidbits ~ Disputations

Reading the blogs today there is controversy everywhere? Most of it not meaning much in the realm of things, in my humble opinion but that won’t stop me from making a blog post about it. People feel compelled to discuss these issues. Here’s what I’m reading out there on the blogs:

Did Michael Jackson molest young boys?

Yes, he admitted to sleeping in the same bed with them. Also, he settled a case where he was accused of molesting a young boy two decades ago.

No, Michael Jackson was a child at heart and his emotional growth was stunted at the age of 12 because of his horrid upbringing. Michael Jackson settled the alleged molestation case on the advice of his lawyer to make it go away. Michael never admitted any guilt. He was the victim of extortion.

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Should a 9 year old boy be returned to his father in America? Watch the two videos to get yourself up to speed if you are not familiar with this international custody battle:

Biological Father:

Brazilian Family:

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Should the elderly be allowed to drive? This tragic accident in Oklahoma this morning has got everyone discussing whether the elderly should be able to drive. What say ye? The driver of the tractor trailer truck is responsible for the accident and is 76 years old.

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Was Billy Mays the best pitchman ever? If not, who is/was?

Barack Hoover Obama: The Liberal Media Finally (Kinda) Gets it Right

Graphic by Mr. Fish

I subscribe to Harper’s Magazine. Although the editors and contributors drank the Kool-Aid many moons ago, it is still a genuinely left-leaning publication, with a left-leaning perspective and many fascinating articles for us librul types to peruse. Imagine my shock when the July issue arrived in my mailbox, with the words “Barack Hoover Obama: The Best and the Brightest Blow it Again - By Kevin Baker” displayed prominently on the cover.

Intrigued, I started reading. (Apologies to non-subscribers, but the link is pay-only.) The usual nauseating, opinion-masquerading-as-fact, obligatory fawning and drooling ensued.

Three months into his presidency, Barack Obama has proven to be every bit as charismatic and intelligent as his most ardent supporters could have hoped. At home or abroad, he invariably appears to be the only adult in the room, the first American president in at least forty years to convey any gravitas. Even the most liberal of voters are finding it hard to believe they managed to elect this man to be their president.

Obama, The Savvy World Leader

Oh, really, Kevin? You call THIS gravitas? Although I agree with your last point: being among the most liberal of voters, I am having a REALLY hard time believing that this man has been elected President.

In any case, after lifting my head weakly from the vomit bucket, I read on, and I was glad I did so.

Obama’s failure would be unthinkable. And yet the best indications now are that he will fail, because he will be unable—indeed he will refuse—to seize the radical moment at hand.

Every instinct the president has honed, every voice he hears in Washington, every inclination of our political culture urges incrementalism, urges deliberation, if any significant change is to be brought about. The trouble is that we are at one of those rare moments in history when the radical becomes pragmatic, when deliberation and compromise foster disaster. The question is not what can be done but what must be done (emphasis mine).

We have confronted such emergencies only a few times before in the history of the Republic: during the secession crisis of 1860–61, at the start of World War II, at the outset of the Cold War and the nuclear age. Probably the moment most comparable to the present was the start of the Great Depression, and for the scope and the quantity of the problems he is facing, Obama has frequently been compared with Franklin Roosevelt. So far, though, he most resembles the other president who had to confront that crisis, Herbert Hoover.

Well, hallelujah. The insult to rationality and reason that results from comparing this puppet of the oligarchy/ patriarchy to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a man who had the courage to tell the bankers to go to hell and set up a social safety net that still holds, although rather shakily, even today, well, let’s just say it makes me really, really peevish.

Morning Widdershins: Cue Sound, Fury

“It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”

—Macbeth, William Shakespeare

Last week, Obama again failed the republic for which he says he stands. At a Tuesday, June 23 press briefing, Obama replied directly to inquiries about his stance on the Iranian uprising. He finally made a tepid statement condemning the government brutality in beating protesters, but only referred to Neda’s death.

“The United States and the international community have been appalled and outraged by the threats, beatings and imprisonments of the last few days,” Obama said Tuesday, adding that he strongly condemns “these unjust actions.”

There have been many more. 450 protesters reportedly were arrested last weekend. Homes were invaded. Confessions are being tortured out of the imprisoned protesters. Last Wednesday, June 24, 2009, hundreds of state police in riot gear waited in a mosque for the protesters to arrive. Then they viciously attacked and beat them bloody, resulting in broken bones, cracked heads, saving the most brutal attacks for women who dared to be in public to voice their opposition. By some accounts, they wielded axes and threw people off bridges.

And we thought this would be different than Tienamen Square. And we (well not us, but you know who) thought that Obama would be different than George Bush I, who remained silent as unarmed Chinese protesters were slaughtered or jailed.

The president lied outright, and no one called him on it. He answered a question from Fox News’ Major Garrett who followed up on Obama’s regrets by asking a tough question (Shock!): Were Iranian government officials still invited to US Embassies’ Fourth of July celebrations? (Here at 8:19) Given the repressive government crackdown on its unarmed citizens, shouldn’t Obama make a statement about it by uninviting them? Obama replied, quite haughtily I might add, that the US does not have diplomatic relations with Iran, (so they would naturally not be included). However, contrarily CNN reported that Obama contacted “Supreme Leader” Khamenei before the election, and that invitations for the 4th celebrations had been extended. CNN reports that these invitations have not be rescinded.

(CNN) — U.S. President Obama sent a direct message to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei weeks before this month’s disputed election, Iranian sources said Wednesday.

“See, I can use my middle finger just like your guy.”

The letter requested dialogue and engagement between the two nations, the sources said.

The sources said that Khamenei has yet to reply to the letter but that nonetheless it “had set the negotiating table in order for both sides to sit around it after the election.”

The White House refused to “get into the specifics of our different ways of communicating,” a senior Obama administration official said.

“We have indicated a willingness to talk for a long time and have sought to communicate with the Iranians in a variety of ways,” the official said.

It’s like Obama is trying to make friends with all the tyrannical countries and leaders who don’t like us, as if he’s trying to win the love of his father who treated him like crap. It’s like now we’re experiencing Bizarro Bush III. But instead of bullying bad agents, he’s rolling over and acting submissive.

Khamenei made an indirect reference to the letter in his sermon on Friday at Tehran University.

“The U.S. president said that we were waiting for a day like this to see people on the street,” the Iranian leader said. “Some people attributed these remarks to Obama, and then they write letters to say we’re ready to have ties, that we respect the Islamic Republic, and on the other hand, they make such comments. Which one should we believe?”

And this is the country our president courts? Well, we can see where they’re at. CNN continues:

One Iranian source said, “We thought President Obama would send congratulations to President Ahmadinejad,” and before the election, his senior advisers prepared a response to the anticipated note, which never came.

The Iranian source said the election dispute is wasting time on the issue of starting U.S.-Iranian negotiations. Watch how the reported letter is part of a new policy of engagement »

Following Amanpour’s coverage of this at the above link, you can hear the sad account of a woman who was part of Wednesday’s protests.

“The longer it is delayed,” [an Iranian official] said, “the less likely [U.S.-Iranian talks] will happen.”

Another Iranian government official said there is still “no trust” between Iran and the United States.

Say what? What invitations? I don’t got no stinking invitations.

But the administration’s tack toward Iran may be changing, as senior officials in Washington said the Obama administration is seriously considering not extending further invitations to Iranian diplomats for July 4 celebrations overseas. Some invitations had been sent and will not be rescinded, senior administration officials said.

The officials said intense discussions on the issue were taking place, but the final decision had not been made.

UPDATE Oh, wait. There were invitations:

6/24/09 WASHINGTON (CNN) — The Obama administration has decided to rescind invitations to Iranian diplomats for July Fourth celebrations overseas because of violent crackdowns against protesters in Iran, the White House said Wednesday.

Look at who really rescinded the invitations. Not this guy.

He didn’t even make the statement. He was the obfuscator. It was this guy:

“July Fourth allows us to celebrate the freedom and the liberty we enjoy: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to assemble peacefully, freedom of the press,” White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters. “Given the events of the past many days, those invitations will no longer be extended.”

The administration had decided to invite Iranians to the celebrations at overseas posts as part of the president’s policy of engaging the Iranian regime.

In late May the State Department sent a cable to its embassies and consulates worldwide informing them they “may invite representatives from the government of Iran” to their July Fourth celebrations.

Who is the person that evidently felt the pain of the protesters and actually gets it? . . . Guess who-ooo?

67th US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

But in a fresh cable sent to all embassies and consulates Wednesday evening, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ordered posts “to rescind all invitations that have been extended to Iranian diplomats for July Fourth events.

“Unfortunately the circumstances have changed and participation by Iranian diplomats would not be appropriate in light of the Iranian government’s continued violent and unjust actions against its own people,” said the cable, obtained by CNN.

“For invitations which have been extended, posts should make clear that Iranian participation is no longer appropriate in the current circumstances. For invitations which have not been extended, no further action is needed.”

A senior administration official said Clinton made the decision, and then informed President Obama.

One senior administration official said Wednesday the reconsideration of the July Fourth invitations is consistent with Obama’s comments Tuesday, in which he said he was “shocked and appalled” at the violence against demonstrators.

President Obama on Tuesday toughened his stance on Iran’s crackdown on protesters.

Post script: Here’s a line from CNN’s article that I omitted. I like it better in.

The source said he is waiting for “real change” even though the Iranian government welcomed the change in tone of the Obama administration before the current election turmoil in Iran.

About that “. . . waiting for “real change” thing. Yeah, buddy, get in line.

[cross-posted at Lady Boomer NYC]

Back from Aruba Open Thread

Yes, I Took This Picture For Reelz

Helloooooo Widdershins! Didja miss me, huh, huh, didja?

So many things happened while I was gone. I mostly tried to avoid the news, since the morning paper we got delivered was an all-AP publication (you can only imagine the spinning!). But Iranian women are trying to overthrow the mullah system; Obama is continuing his fervent embrace of the oligarchy-patriarchy and more Kool-Aid drinkers are switching to Arnold Palmers; Republican adulterers are dropping like flies; both Michael Jackson AND Farrah Fawcett passed away; and last night, I had a dream about writing an opera. The theme: Obama having an affair and being caught by his wife. (The big aria “Yes, Michelle, It’s All His Fault,” sung by Obama’s mistress, promises to become a huge hit.)

All snark aside, I hope you’re all well. Here is a link to my pictures on Flickr, and as promised, I have changed my WordPress gravatar. Surprise, I have hair!

Aruba 2009

This is an open thread.

“All Americans” Includes the 51% Who are Women and the Members of the LGBT Community

A well-written article by Bill Clinton published in the June 26th issue of Time Magazine triggered flashbacks to the 2008 campaign. From the day Barack Obama announced his run for the presidency, he and his supporters joined the fringe on the right and their media allies in maligning Bill Clinton personally and the record set by his administration. Taking down both Clintons was the aim in order to clear Obama’s path to the Democratic Party’s nomination.

One had to be stunned by the hypocrisy of the Obama camp in its fawning adulation of the womanizing Kennedy brothers, Jack and Ted, while even Michelle Obama was heard to make self-righteous snide remarks about Hillary’s relationship to Bill. So-called feminists have long attacked Hillary for keeping her marriage and family together over the years while I’ve not once heard anyone criticize the Kennedy wives or for that matter, the long-suffering Coretta Scott King, wife of the philandering MLK, Jr., for choosing to do the same.

No, in 2008, it was time to tear the Clintons apart with every sleazy tactic in the book including desperately trying to smear both Bill and Hillary as racists.

Today the Clintons continue to serve their country well. Hillary’s job approval as secretary of state holds steady above 70% and the former president remains as popular as ever. Their trials and tribulations over the years have no doubt given each of the Clintons a solid core of inner security that can withstand the assaults from vicious detractors from either the left or the right. (Left wing detractors, including the Obama camp, have since tripped over John Edwards and righties are now stumbling over Mark Sanford.)

His hard won inner security is evident in Bill’s Time Magazine piece; his generosity toward Obama is a credit to the former president’s statesmanship. He begins:

My grandfather was a dirt farmer with only a sixth-grade education. During the Depression, he eked out a living selling blocks of ice. But in those days, even though he was poor, he knew someone special: from listening to the fireside chats on the radio, he knew Franklin Roosevelt. And he believed that Roosevelt knew what his life was like — and cared about it too.

I grew up listening to my grandfather’s tales of what it was like to live through the Depression and the war and what Roosevelt meant to him. When I was President, in another time of change and uncertainty, I often looked at the portrait of F.D.R. in the Roosevelt Room and remembered my grandfather’s stories.

Besides having a deep personal connection to ordinary citizens, Roosevelt got the big things right. When he came into office during the Depression, he saw that the ills of the country could not be addressed without more aggressive involvement by the government. He ran for President as a fiscal conservative, promising to balance the budget. But unlike his predecessor, he quickly realized that, with prices collapsing and unemployment exploding, only the Federal Government could step into the breach and restart the economy.

In conclusion, Clinton writes:

The Depression gave F.D.R. the chance to use the power of government to complete the work his cousin had begun: to build a great middle class, help the poor work their way into it and give Americans a modicum of security in old age. His leadership during World War II and the plans he made for the U.N. and a permanent leadership role for the U.S. on the world stage cemented his legacy as one of our greatest Presidents. I thought of both Roosevelts when I told Americans that we needed a new social contract for the 21st century, one that would keep us moving toward a “more perfect union” in a highly interdependent, complex, ever changing world.

That is the challenge President Obama has inherited. I believe he will succeed in his efforts at economic recovery, health-care reform and taking big steps on climate change. Along the way, I hope he will be inspired by F.D.R.’s concern for all Americans, his relentless optimism, his penchant for experimentation, his relish for spirited debate among brilliant advisers and his unshakable faith in the promise of America.

Let’s continue to remind our current president that “all Americans” includes the 51% who are women and the members of the LGBT community; equal rights for the majority of the country’s population cannot wait until Obama’s priorities are met and his re-election is assured.

Bwahahahahahah!!!! On Edit ~ Not So Funny Anymore – Action Item – read below!

Sarah Palin shoots back at John Kerry for his remarks where he laments it wasn’t she who was missing!

Sarah Palin took her revenge on Sen. John Kerry — who’d expressed a wish that she, not Mark Sanford, had vanished — speaking to Alaska National Guard soldiers in Kosovo:

“He looked quite frustrated and he looked so sad — I just wanted to reach out to the TV and say, ‘John Kerry, why the long face?’” she said of watching Kerry’s jab.

P.S. Have I mentioned lately that John Kerry makes me sick!?!?!

EDIT TO ADD 12:48pm est:

I had commented to not delve into the sexist comment pit at politico via the link above and here. But I have re-thought this. I have to post the ugly comments for when the lefty sexists deny they ever said such a thing, or that they would never ever utter such disgusting words. Please use the feedback to Politico at the bottom of this post and tell them to remove those comments. They are responsible for the content on their site. These are the comments Ben Smith allows to stand on his blog at Politico!:

This b-tch got jokes. Hey Sarah, why the crabs infested snatch?

Posted By: | June 26, 2009 at 11:09 AM

I don’t know Sarah, why do you have a wrinkled six foot long labia totally covered in herpes sores? What, are you trying to be the first person in the world with their own built in parachute? And why does your face look like a salmon head? hmm?

Posted By: | June 26, 2009 at 11:13 AM

This B I T C H really does not understand this is not helping her cause…really Sarah Heathe “I can see Russia from my house” Palin. Tacky or Track or whatever your son in Iraq’s name will never be 1/8th of the military man John Kerry was…idiot.

Posted By: | June 26, 2009 at 10:54 AM

Sarah speaks! Hey Sarah – how is that retard kid of yours doin?

Oh, and before you assume it’s someone it’s not, I was referring to Bristol.

Posted By: not David Letterman | June 26, 2009 at 11:22

The only thing Palin knows about is how to treat the herpes. We need more than that in a leader.

Still, I do respect her overcoming her affliction and the heartbreak of herpes to become governor…even if it is BFE Alaska.

Posted By: Belladonna | June 26, 2009 at 11:24 AM

Hey Sarah – how is that b@stard grandchild of yours doing?

Oh, and before you make any assumptions about who I am talking about, I do mean Trig.

Posted By: not David Letterman | June 26, 2009 at 11:29

Sarah Palin gave me herpes, the crabs, the drip and syphilis. What a dirty s-k-a-n-k.

Posted By: Todd’s best friend | June 26, 2009 at 11:31

The only thing Michelle knows about is how to treat the herpes. We need more than that in a leader. Still, I do respect her overcoming her affliction and the heartbreak of herpes to become first tramp…even if it is Washington.

Posted By: | June 26, 2009 at 11:31 AM

Hey Sarah – why the long, droopy, stretch-marked breasts?

Posted By: a wonderbra | June 26, 2009 at 11:34 AM

Sarah is in Europe having her ****** tightened up. I got tired of tying a 2X4 to my bu*t. I seriously hurt myself the last time I fell in.

Posted By: Todd Palin | June 26, 2009 at 12:02 PM

Here is a link to their feedback page. Let em have it! Leave your remarks in a comment here!

It’s amazing how one little come back can elicit this type of response. These boys ego’s are thinner than a Listerine Breath Strip!

Tidbits:

Kerry Pushes For Public Option Trigger In Closed-Door Meeting

In a closed-door meeting of Senate Finance Committee Democratic members and their staff Wednesday evening, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) suggested that the committee bill include a ten-year delay between passage of health care reform and the implementation of a public option that Americans could buy into, according to two Democratic aides.

Under the plan floated by Kerry, a public health care option would only be triggered by private insurance companies failing to meet certain criteria after ten years. Known as the “trigger” in legislative lingo, the idea is vociferously opposed by health care advocates who consider it the death of reform.

Senator John Kerry Wants To Be A Movie Producer

Lots of former presidential candidates, Barack Obama, Al Gore and George W. Bush included, get the chance to see their names on credits crawls in theaters. Now, the Federal Election Commission may be all that stands between Sen. John Kerry and the film “Keeping the Faith.” Though no one has green-lit a biopic about the Massachussetts senator, he appears to have an interest in executive producing the new movie.

John Kerry’s cheap shot at Sarah Palin

It was “Open mouth, insert foot” time for Democratic U.S. Sen. John Kerry on Tuesday when he made a disparaging remark about Republican Gov. Sarah Palin.

Kerry made the following remark to a group of left-leaning business and civic leaders in Washington while discussing the disappearance over the weekend of another Republican governor, Mark Sanford, of South Carolina.

“Too bad if a governor had to go missing it couldn’t have been the governor of Alaska. You know, Sarah Palin.’’

Have I mentioned that John Kerry makes me sick?

Politics of personal perfection

Let’s be honest: Barack Obama is better than you are.

He’s a better father — taking breaks from running the world to cheer on his daughters at soccer and basketball games.

He’s a better husband — zipping his wife off for dinner in New York and Paris.

He’s got a better diet — nibbling on vegetables from his homegrown garden to keep his love handles in check.

And he’s got a terrific jump shot.

You? Not so much.

Sanford will reimburse for government trip

“As noted by the Department of Commerce, I attended a trade mission with the Department of Commerce last June. As the agenda notes, the mission was spent meeting with government and private business officials in both Brazil and Argentina. This trip was handled very professionally by the Department of Commerce, and I’m proud of their work there.

“However, while the purpose of this trip was an entirely professional and appropriate business development trip, I made a mistake while I was there in meeting with the woman who I was unfaithful to my wife with. That has raised some very legitimate concerns and questions, and as such I am going to reimburse the state for the full cost of the Argentina leg of this trip,” Gov. Sanford said.