This Week In The news
This week, the President travelled to Europe where he made an unexpected concession regarding his own conduct in the Iraq war: "I think that in retrospect I could have used a different tone, a different rhetoric," Bush said. Phrases like "bring them on" and "dead or alive," he said, "indicated to people that I was, you know, not a man of peace." Upon hearing the President's comments, V.P. Dick Cheney immediately dispatched an elite military unit to Europe, where the President was hooded and hussled aboard an unmarked DC-3 that took him to a detention facility in Guantanomo Bay Cuba. There, the President was forced to wear a flight suit and secured to a chair while the entire back catalog on the neo conservative magazine Commentary was read to him by a David Horowitz impersonator. By week's end, Cheney had recommended the President be tried for "treason against himself" and stripped of his membership in the Super He Man Foreign Policy Club.
This week, reports surfaced that Republican Presidential Candidate John McCain may be considering current Secretary of State Condelezza Rice for his running mate. One source close to the campaign noted, " The Senator is attracted to the fact that Rice is seen as smart and reasonable; however she never exercises those gifts in any way that could impede even the most ill thought out venture. I mean, at critical points in the last seven years, Rice has offered only a confident "You Da Man" response. She stood firm in the face of unmitigated mediocrity. She has the whole sycophant-enabler thing down. She could make a great spaniel ... I mean Vice President."
This week, the NYT ran an article asking how race will impact white voters should Sen. Barak Obama win the Democratic nomination. Not to be cowed by the Grey Lady, TWN hit the road to interview some white voters and ask them, "how black can Barak Obama be without losing your vote?" Chuck Long of Dubuque Iowa stated, "As black as he wants as long as he does not try to blame me for anything. I hate feeling guilty and as far as I'm concerned being an American means never having to say your sorry." Lynn Niery of St. Paul Minnesota said, "Not too black at all. I like my politicians more on the pink side. Like that Condi Rice. Why she just got rid of any trace of individuality and fit right in. Could have been Dick Cheney's daughter." Stanley Sizemore of Cleveland, OH offered, "I kind of wish he looked more like black folks I know from television and the movies, you know James Earl Jones, Will Smith, Bill Cosby. " Paul Rentera of Eua Claire ,WI said, "I really don't care. I mean, when Sen. Obama sounds brainy and articulate I am just going to call him a liberal elitist. If he ever tries to go populist, I'll say he is playing the race card. So the guy is not winning either way with me."
This week, Sen.John McCain's campaign released an ad inwhich the Senator calmly reassures Americans that he hates war. Asked if it was a danger sign that his campaign had to convince people that he was not a war monger, an aide to the Sentaor noted, "Not really. We just thought it was a time to start letting American know that John is about more than armed conflict. Even though that is the only part of his biography that we emphasize, and even though it is all the Senator likes to talk about, to the point that he jokes about his ignorance in other areas -- war is not all he is. This is all part of a larger plan to let people know some more about John, his hobbies, his personal life." Asked what hobbies the Senator enjoyed, the aide replied, "Orinthology, leggy blonds, being verbally abusive... mostly guy stuff."
This week, Senator John McCain made another about face and stated that he now supports oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and expanded drilling off the American coasts. McCain previously opposed such efforts. According to the Senator rising gas prices have "forced our hand." Asked to define his approach further, McCain simply offered that "We need to turn the spigots on. I mean, my campaign has not seen dollar one from the major oil companies. A Republican without Big Oil is like.. like .. like somebody being without something they usually have. That and the country needs oil."
This week, reports surfaced that Republican Presidential Candidate John McCain may be considering current Secretary of State Condelezza Rice for his running mate. One source close to the campaign noted, " The Senator is attracted to the fact that Rice is seen as smart and reasonable; however she never exercises those gifts in any way that could impede even the most ill thought out venture. I mean, at critical points in the last seven years, Rice has offered only a confident "You Da Man" response. She stood firm in the face of unmitigated mediocrity. She has the whole sycophant-enabler thing down. She could make a great spaniel ... I mean Vice President."
This week, the NYT ran an article asking how race will impact white voters should Sen. Barak Obama win the Democratic nomination. Not to be cowed by the Grey Lady, TWN hit the road to interview some white voters and ask them, "how black can Barak Obama be without losing your vote?" Chuck Long of Dubuque Iowa stated, "As black as he wants as long as he does not try to blame me for anything. I hate feeling guilty and as far as I'm concerned being an American means never having to say your sorry." Lynn Niery of St. Paul Minnesota said, "Not too black at all. I like my politicians more on the pink side. Like that Condi Rice. Why she just got rid of any trace of individuality and fit right in. Could have been Dick Cheney's daughter." Stanley Sizemore of Cleveland, OH offered, "I kind of wish he looked more like black folks I know from television and the movies, you know James Earl Jones, Will Smith, Bill Cosby. " Paul Rentera of Eua Claire ,WI said, "I really don't care. I mean, when Sen. Obama sounds brainy and articulate I am just going to call him a liberal elitist. If he ever tries to go populist, I'll say he is playing the race card. So the guy is not winning either way with me."
This week, Sen.John McCain's campaign released an ad inwhich the Senator calmly reassures Americans that he hates war. Asked if it was a danger sign that his campaign had to convince people that he was not a war monger, an aide to the Sentaor noted, "Not really. We just thought it was a time to start letting American know that John is about more than armed conflict. Even though that is the only part of his biography that we emphasize, and even though it is all the Senator likes to talk about, to the point that he jokes about his ignorance in other areas -- war is not all he is. This is all part of a larger plan to let people know some more about John, his hobbies, his personal life." Asked what hobbies the Senator enjoyed, the aide replied, "Orinthology, leggy blonds, being verbally abusive... mostly guy stuff."
This week, Senator John McCain made another about face and stated that he now supports oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and expanded drilling off the American coasts. McCain previously opposed such efforts. According to the Senator rising gas prices have "forced our hand." Asked to define his approach further, McCain simply offered that "We need to turn the spigots on. I mean, my campaign has not seen dollar one from the major oil companies. A Republican without Big Oil is like.. like .. like somebody being without something they usually have. That and the country needs oil."
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