Memeorandum Goes Fox News

Is it just me or has the Google search engine equivalent for political news known as Memeorandum gone all right wing politics like Fox News? Granted the latest news cycle is all about things happening in the right side of the political aisle but my thoughts are that the news from Memeorandum has been hijacked. Spin is spin and it is what it is.

It almost seems that every post that they point you toward lately is and has been extremely right wing. Just saying. I’ll be looking for a new source for political news. I hear that Real Clear Politics is good. Checking them out and will keep you posted.

Papamoka

U.S. to Collapse in 2010

Psst… According to a high ranking former KGB operative, all of our mailing addresses in the United States of America are going to change in 2010. Proffesor Igor Panarin of Moscow is predicting the U.S. Government will collapse and the states will be divied up like economic war prizes. Alaska is going to revert back to Russian control…ROFLMAO! Did anyone ask the US oil companies about that possibility...LOL? All the fashionistas of California and west coast will have to don state approved clothing only and swear allegiance to China. All of you in Texas will now face south to Mexico to salute your new capital. (I'm going to pee my pants laughing) All of you in the midwest will have to learn how to speak Canadian and end all of your sentences with “Aye?” As for all of us in the northeast and southeast down to South Carolina, we get to finally be French, German, Dutch, English, or Spanish and join the European Union. I do hope we don't have to learn all of their languages because the English language is supposed to be the hardest.

Over at the Wall Street Journal they have this to say on it…

DECEMBER 29, 2008, 1:54 P.M. ET
As if Things Weren't Bad Enough, Russian Professor Predicts End of U.S.
In Moscow, Igor Panarin's Forecasts Are All the Rage; America 'Disintegrates' in 2010

By ANDREW OSBORN

MOSCOW -- For a decade, Russian academic Igor Panarin has been predicting the U.S. will fall apart in 2010. For most of that time, he admits, few took his argument -- that an economic and moral collapse will trigger a civil war and the eventual breakup of the U.S. -- very seriously. Now he's found an eager audience: Russian state media.

In recent weeks, he's been interviewed as much as twice a day about his predictions. "It's a record," says Prof. Panarin. "But I think the attention is going to grow even stronger."

Prof. Panarin, 50 years old, is not a fringe figure. A former KGB analyst, he is dean of the Russian Foreign Ministry's academy for future diplomats. He is invited to Kremlin receptions, lectures students, publishes books, and appears in the media as an expert on U.S.-Russia relations. – Wall Street Journal

Getting into the meat and potatoes of the article I quickly realized that Professor Panarin is on crack cocaine. Just for the sake of argument, the guy has no clue as to what America is all about. He has no clue that we are a migrant society among our states. Most of my own family is in Florida while I freeze my butt off up in New England. And yes my brothers do call when the temperatures are ten degrees up hear and they call from the outdoor patio.

Then we have to consider that American Patriotism thingy. Red state, Blue state, it all comes down to the fact that we are all purple. We are all the offspring of the purple people eater and we all wave the same red, white, and blue flag. So I dare to say that if Professor Igor Panarin is not on crack then he has tipped the old vodka bottle one too many times.

Just to be on the safe side I will be calling Governor Deval Patrick of MA to plead the case that Massachusetts is to be taken over by the Bahamas. I so want to call my brothers in Florida and give them an in your face call. It can be ten degrees outside but my mailing address is the freaking Bahammas!

Papamoka

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Cheney Endorsement Sinks McCain

I don’t know what idiots are running the McCain for President campaign are doing but McCain should fire all of their asses. I’m just an outside observer on this election but if President Bush has a 28% approval rating and the Vice President is lower than that, then you do not want them speaking up for you or endorsing you publicly in any shape or form. This election is not going to be won by any single political parties base but it can be lost by playing to that extremist base. Having Dick Cheney endorse John McCain publicly this late in the race for President was tantamount to tying an anchor to his right leg and pushing him off the pier. Who in their right mind thought this was going to swing moderate and independent voters? Or for that matter Democrats? How the hell is Dick Cheney and his endorsement going to sway the opinion of any Democrat considering McCain for President? Somebody went to morons and politics classes and didn’t even take notes over at the McCain campaign.

This opens up a huge talking point for Barack Obama and CNN has this on it…

Earlier Saturday, Sen. Barack Obama also hit key swing states, campaigning in Missouri, Colorado and Nevada and taking a jab at that day's endorsement of McCain by Vice President Dick Cheney.

At an event in Laramie, Wyoming, Cheney said he will vote for the McCain-Palin ticket.

"This year, of course, I'm not on the ballot, so I am here ... not to vote for me, but I want to join daughter Liz, who is with me today, join us in casting ... our ballots for John McCain and Sarah Palin," Cheney said.

Obama started his day with a morning rally in Henderson, Nevada, before heading to Pueblo, Colorado, and Springfield, Missouri.

"I'd like to congratulate Sen. McCain on this endorsement, because he really earned it. That endorsement didn't come easy," Obama said at the Pueblo rally.

He added that Cheney "knows that with John McCain, you get a twofer: George Bush's economic policy and Dick Cheney's foreign policy. And that is a risk the American people cannot afford to take." - CNN

If your mind is moderate or even independent in this election for President then the last thing you would want to see is any connection to the Bush administration in your candidate for President. This is supposed to be an election on change is it not? We know that Obama has consistently talked about change and that Senator McCain has gone 180 degrees on change in the last couple of months. John McCain has almost morphed into a Democrat to try and win this election. He is willing to say and do anything for votes and that includes accepting the endorsement of the Teflon Vice President Dick Cheney? AKA Valdermort. Was it not Cheney that pretty much outed Valerie Plame, a covert undercover CIA agent? Didn’t Scooter Libby go down in flames and to jail over this issue to protect Vice President Cheney? It is worth mentioning that Dick Cheney was the CEO of Halliburton, Brown and Root aka HBR that received to many to count no bid contracts to service our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Then they padded the bills, screwed the troops over, packed up shop and moved their headquarters to Dubai from Houston Texas! Is that what Dick Cheney’s endorsement of John McCain means? This candidate will screw over anyone and everyone to get what they want done. And if they have to do it by busting the Constitution with signing statements then so let it be written and so let it be done. You have to love the movie The Ten Commandments. Yule Brenner was great in the role of extreme dictator and Pharaoh over the lost tribes of Israel. Omnipotent and untouchable till he pissed off the one true God. George Bush isn’t Pharaoh and Dick Cheney isn’t even close, but they think that they are and that is what pisses most independent and moderate voters off.

John McCain would be a fool to accept this endorsement or even brag about it. Just the simple fact that Cheney is backing him is not something he wants to put on his political resume. Matter of fact, it is probably the last nails in the coffin to the McCain campaign for President.

In my own political thoughts, John McCain is desperate and grabbing at anything that might just keep some red states red and grabbing the coattails of Dick Cheney is like a drowning man being thrown a cinder block as a life preserver.

Papamoka