Obama Baby Mama -- Fox News

I'm so pissed at this one it's difficult to type while I sit here and shaking my head, mouth wide open.

Oliver Willis sends along this screen capture of the vile Michelle Malkin on Fox News along with a suitable suggestion or two for Fox in their future endeavors.

I really thought the media couldn't do worse than the disrespect they showed towards Hillary Clinton over the years. But true to form, Fox shows there is no bar too low, no hole too deep that they won't dive in head first, hoping to find a single drop of GOP water they can carry.

Turkana at The Left Coast notes that it's going to be a long, lean 8 years with all the bigots that'll be exposed there, requiring replacement on a regular basis.

Let the purges begin.

Sweet Jesus I Hate Bob Novak

If you ever had a doubt that Kool-aide Drinking Hillary Supporter Armando (Big Tent Democrat) has completely sold his soul to the dark side, his jumping all over a bit of the usual unsourced gossip by Novakula should relieve you of such wishful thinking.

"Close-in supporters of Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign are convinced he never will offer the vice presidential nomination to Sen. Hillary Clinton for one overriding reason: Michelle Obama."

Please explain to me what retard inside Camp Obama is giving Bob Novak the time of day.

One thing we know, it ain't Michelle.

"My wife does not talk to Bob Novak on a regular basis," Obama told the reporters gathered around him, who included The Times' Robin Abcarian.

Does the very idea of how ludicrous is would be for any prominent Democrat to confide in a Wingnut propagandist like the CIA agent-outing Novak even begin to penetrate the walking, typing talking-point Open Left has become?

Uhh, nope:

... petty nonsense ... Obama will lose in November ... [blah, blah ... blah] ... juvenile ... heartily disgusted ...

And of course, [speaking only for him and the horse he rode in on], in the typical method most of right wing Blogistan has adopted, he once again closes his post with the epithet, "Comments closed."

Aren't ya glad this guy's on our side fellow liberals.

Huckabee, The GOP's Edwards

David Sirota noted that Governor Mike Huckabee is the only candidate other than Edwards in the 2008 presidential race running explicitly on economic populist themes.

Mind you, he's still a Republican, and no matter how authentic he might be, I firmly believe the world will be a much better place if his friends spend a generation or two wandering in the wilderness. But that observation, coupled with the new interest in his campaign since his strong showing in the Ames, Iowa Straw Poll made me pay more than the usual attention to yet another comment by yet another conservative presidential aspirant commenting on the Clintons' personal life -- especially since it sounded much more forgiving than anything I've heard from the right side of the aisle since 1996.

"But they kept their marriage together. And a lot of the Republicans who have condemned them and talk about their platform of family values, interestingly, didn’t keep their own families together." -- Mike Huckabee, quoted by NPR, praising Bill and Hillary Clinton. (via Political Wire)

Mike, it's not just Republicans who think the Bill and Hillary's marriage is fair game. Maybe he didn't catch this catty quote from Michelle Obama.

Our view is that if you can’t run your own house, you certainly can’t run the White House,” Mrs. Obama said.

As I recall, noting the relative peace and prosperity of the 1990's, the Clintons did a decent job running the White House despite the constant harassment from people spewing exactly that kind of nonsense the First Couple's way, let alone the disorder, pain and humiliation "Teh Clenis" must have caused them on a personal level.

That, sadly, is in a nutshell why John Edwards is the guy for me. I can't stomach any more hate-filled invectives hurled towards Bill and Hill, and the eagerness with which Barack (and now Michelle) Obama embrace GOP framing and tactics is repulsive.

Not to mention I'm one of those economic populists kinda guys. If this thing should by some twist of fate end up a contest between Obama and Huckabee, I'm going to have a real problem choosing. A Republican who seems sincere and wants to speak for the little guy without sounding like a butthead, or a naive Democratic compromiser who refuses to do what must be done to the GOP -- bury it. Yikes.