Nightly Ramble: Why the Holiday, Yet?; 3rd Place; Reax to Palin; More

Holiday weekend, so this will be a short one… essentially a nod to the Ramble Tradition.

• As to the holiday itself, let me say this clearly: Labor unions have outlived their usefulness, and have evolved to the point where they

If you want the honest truth, I never figured this to go down any other way.

Hillary Clinton gets up and makes her speech last night, introduces herself as a ‘proud Obama Supporter’. She makes a plea for unity.  And

Ben Smith over at The Politco writes:

The executives of a gay sex site are apparently more concerned about the perception that they’re associated with John McCain than McCain is about the association with them.

The chairman of the board

Paris Hilton has responded to John McCain’s campaign video by issuing her own campaign video and announcing her own energy plan.   Ben Smith, Politcio, has the both the story and video.

Short McCain campaign reponse:

[D]rilling. Paris Hilton

You really can’t make this stuff up.

Obama, fist bumping with a terrorist in the oval office.  (Gee, didn’t the most recent Democrat president, Bill Clinton, do that, where the terrorist was Yassir Arafat? ) A flag burning in the

We see by way of Ben Smith this monring that Idiot Wes Clark still can’t keep his mouth shut, apparently referring to bury himself by what comes out of it. That’s bad enough. But now, by way of Q&O and

In war, and politics, everything is expendable.  It one time, BO needed the Trinity Baptist Church to establish his political blackness.  Well BO got his blackness and he has now thrown the Trinity Baptist Church under his campaign bus:

ABARDEEN,

“We’re going to go right at OPEC,” she said. “They can no longer be a cartel

Ben Smith.

Sure Mre. Clinton.   While you are at, why don’t you repeal that pesty law of gravity.   Serious times, require serious presidents.  

You know, Barack Obama’s involvement with Bill Ayers ought to be enough for every reasonable person to heave them both over the metaphorical side.  That’s bad enough.

If I were Obama, though, I would be wishing hard for the Revvin’

Mrs. Clinton appeared on Poutdown with Keith Olberman.  So question, which one, the interviewer or the interviewee, was the sane one?   Allah Pundit, Hot Air, links to the video.   Ben Smith has a partial transcript.

The problem for

After the debate last night, I noted a whole lot of traffic… all asking questions about Obama and Ayers, apparently following up on Hillary Clinton’s questions during the debate itself. (Yes, I know it was Stephy who asked the questions,

• Has anyone noticed? Ace did… Obama’s back to wearing a flag pin. Boy, I could make a whole seperate post on the stuff we have on file from when this subject first came up. So does Ben Smith. My

With a tip of the ballcap to Ben Smith:

OBAMA: I will be honest with you that I didn’t have that many conversations with him over the last year just because I have been so busy. I haven’t been going

Ben Smith is saying that Florida’s congressional delegation is standing up against a revote of any kind in their state.

OK, NOW what?

I can’t imagine that’s going to go over well with about half of Florida Democrats.

Jonah Goldberg, whose book I have really got to sit down and read, remarks yesterday:

‘Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.”

This excerpt from William Ayers’ memoir appeared in the New York Times on