AFLAAAACCCCC!!!

The AFLAC duck registers to vote, from Chip Bok via Townhall.com:

Attacking Palin, In Haiku

She kept her baby?

One time, her husband drove drunk.

Lipstick on a pig!

Motion Sickness

From The People's Cube:

The Definitive Obama Puff Piece

Leave it to The Onion to nail the media adoration of Barack Hussein Obama.

NEW YORK—Hailed by media critics as the fluffiest, most toothless, and softest-hitting coverage of the presidential candidate to date, a story in this week's Time magazine is being called the definitive Barack Obama puff piece.

"No news publication has dared to barely scratch the surface like this before," columnist and campaign reporter Michael King wrote in The Washington Post Tuesday. "This profile sets a benchmark for mindless filler by which all other features about Sen. Obama will now be judged. Just impressive puff-journalism all around."

The 24-page profile, entitled "Boogyin' With Barack," hit newsstands Monday and contains photos of the candidate as a baby, graduating from Columbia University, standing and laughing, holding hands with his wife and best friend, Michelle, greeting a crowd of blue-collar autoworkers, eating breakfast with diner patrons, and staring pensively out of an airplane window while a pen and legal pad rest comfortably on his lowered tray table.

According to political analysts, the Time piece features the most lack-of-depth reporting on Obama ever published, and for the first time reveals a number of inconsequential truths about the candidate, including how he keeps in shape on the campaign trail, and which historical figures the presidential hopeful would choose to have dinner with.

In good humor there is at least a grain of truth. And the obsession with the Drive By Media to avoid any real hard reporting on the Chocolate Jesus but rather to aid and assist in anyway his inevitable coronation makes it a solid target for satire.

Too bad the late night comics still can't find anything funny about a man who's a virtual parody of himself.

Do Facts Matter?

Excellent column by the brilliant Dr. Thomas Sowell on whether facts even matter any more in the political debate.

In an election campaign in which not only young liberals, but also some people who are neither young nor liberals, seem absolutely mesmerized by the skilled rhetoric of Barack Obama, facts have receded even further into the background than usual.

As the hypnotic mantra of "change" is repeated endlessly, few people even raise the question of whether what few specifics we hear represent any real change, much less a change for the better.

Read the whole thing.

New Party Game

I just thought of a great new party game: Pin The Flag On Obama!

Can anybody get their hands on a poster-sized photo and a random assortment of flag pins (any country) for the next Drinking Right on May 13th?

The 3 AM Phone Call

Who answers it?

Apparently in the eyes of a campaign advisor to Barack Hussein Obama, neither the Chocolate Jesus nor the Hildabeast are ready to answer that phone.

Said Susan Rice:

He hasn't, and he hasn't claimed that he's been in a position to have to answer the phone at three o'clock in the morning in a crisis situation. That's the difference between the two of them. Hillary Clinton hasn't had to answer the phone at three o'clock in the morning. And yet she attacked Barack Obama for not being ready. They're both not ready to have that three a.m. phone call. The question is, and what Barack Obama raised, is when that phone call is received for each of them for the first time, who's going to make the right judgment? Who is going to make the right decision?

Says El Rushbo:

Obama's campaign advisor says neither Obama or Hillary are ready for that phone call which redounds to the benefit of who? McCain.