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Why am I not surprised?
How could we find that out? Say we find out it's made in China - could we attack John McCain for not even using American products to attack Obama with? That'd sure be one way to provide even a trivial bump to someone here in need of a job - use American made tire gauges.
I know it's small but...
to the hydrofoil!!
Cokie=Not American
named after a hard drug.
Is everyone at that joke of a network on the GOP payroll? I'm beginning to think that is the case. I lost respect for George Stephanopoulos and Charles Gibson months ago.
Damn fools!
I wouldn't trust her either.
"He's a real American," she says.
However, reading your comment makes me even more suspicious about why the polls are still so close. I really think something is brewing and I think it's ugly. Hope I'm wrong.
True story, a few years ago I was about to pay a bill and decided to toy with the clerk while doing it. I said, "Oh, I'm out of one's. If you don't mind I'll have to pay you in Hawaiian money." The clerk freaked out and almost yelled, "Hawaiian money? No you can't. I don't even know what they use for money in Hawaii."
I said, "You realize that Hawaii is our 50th state and is part of the US?" She said, "I don't care, you have to use American money because we don't accept foreign currency."
Amazing. Absolutely amazing how they do bask in their collective ignorance.
How discredited to you have to be before they won't give you airtime?
I find this extra galling that this happens in the same week that the media is lining up to spit on John Edwards because of his personal life. Edwards might be morally flawed, but his politcal stances are good. Rove, on the other hand, is known as someone with a history of creating whisper campaigns, push-polling, and other shady dealings. Yet, somehow the media have no qualms about booking him on their shows for some "expert commentary".
Sheesh.
Especially when she says he should go to Myrtle Beach instead.
What? It's more American to play golf and wear a white belt and shoes in South Carolina than bodysurf in Hawaii?
Or is it more white?
I live in Hawaii and was at Obama's rally in Honolulu, and he looked so radiant, relaxed and happy to be back among friends and family. THIS IS HIS HOMETOWN! His elderly grandma who can't travel is here, and she was the first person he went to visit. He hasn't seen her since 2006! Is he not supposed to see her?! His sister, brother-in-law, and niece are here. His school friends are here. His grandfather's grave at Punchbowl is here. He spent MOST of his childhood years here - not in Indonesia, as the right wing would have you believe.
To say he's shouldn't come here because it "looks bad" and is not politically smart is heartless, cynical and utterly ridiculous.
"Cokie" is about like the equivalent in toxic
"Media-radiation" to a dose of
about 200 REM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_poisonin...
of Hawaii.
As ghostly white as Cokie is,she probably thinks their exotic,from a purely ignorant point of view? Beauty isn't limited to a particular ,Cokie!~
Really, they have to go, or we should move the Nation's capital to the Midwest somewhere.
Maybe we could have an official "Wing Nut Atlas" so we'll know what is and what is not in America. I'm in California, so if they want to let us opt out, we would certainly consider it. Can we take Oregon and Washington and Hawaii with us?
http://vacations.travelzoo.com/hawaii-vacations...
An even better bargain: elitist Maui for $501, including airfare, & groceries thrown in for free (no kidding!)
http://pts.get2hawaii.com/ots/Index.do?promotio...
Actually, in L.A. I've never bothered to go to Hawaii, not exotic enough for me (I'm already in a semi-tropical place, not enough culture shock), for vacation prefer the elitist Old Europe. Even my brother in Miami, can't be bothered with Hawaii -- for him the Far East is the preferred exotic vacation.
Hawaii exotic and foreign? Pffft, and we're not even elitist and big money TV talking heads.
I would not want to be there in the winter however. It makes the worst winters in New England look like So Cal in August. Now that is what I call exotic and foreign. Very cool even in the summer, and air so clear it was hard for this city boy to breath for very long my lungs started hurting.
I be skeeeered now. Really skeeeeered!
What a bunch of MSM idiots.
Wasn't there some idiot in Congress who made a remark about New Mexico being part of Mexico and foreign soil?
Someone please ask Cokie if she's ever heard of Pearl Harbor, and whether or not the attack of '41 occurred on American Soil.
When did China become a state?
Why do these folks want to be chipped?
Egads, after all of these years, the idea that anyone actually listens to this tin eared condescending press sycophant is hard to stomach. Cokie has family in da biz, thus she got a foothold where she most likely would never have if she had to come up like most in the field.
Please, can't we discuss REAL journalists? Oh there aren't that many anymore are there? OK, well then let's just remember that the blogs will take over where the journalism elite have left off!
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/newsfull.php?newi...
Myrtle Beach is named for the wax myrtle, a shrub that grows abundantly in the area.
A shrub! The game is revealed!
I suppose if your wife cannot afford to build you a lake on one of the 9 or 10 properties you own....you have to actually go on vacation to fish and relax
Funny thing is right now on ABC...Extreme homes is in Hawaii...and they were showing all the poor families living there and the shacks they live in.
She made a fool of herself....and more and more shows she's a hack for the GOP.
Typical GOP helmethead hairdos the GOP woman wore back in the 90's
Actually she could use a more "exoctic" hair do.
Take your BMW over the scenic
Pacific Freeway from Los Angeles to Waikiki!
It starts right at the end of the Santa Monica pier,
just keep right on driving...
You have to TRUST, Cokie!
(relating to politics, that is, not those cheezy salesmanship booklets)
Oh yea, was it that woman who was running for the Democratic primary.
You know, the one who said she was going to win...that one.
"Waaaaait a minute. We've been trailing Bush down to boring, dreary, dusty, hot, dry Crawford for eight years now. For the next four to eight years, we'll be following Air Force One either to Arizona - or to HAWAII!"
And they'll adjust their coverage accordingly. Count on it.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A...
Late last week, CPB's board declined to renew the contract of its chief executive, Kathleen Cox, a veteran administrator at the agency. She was replaced by Ken Ferree, a Republican who had been a top adviser to Michael Powell, the former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. The Ferree appointment followed the dismissals or departures in recent months of at least three other senior CPB officials, all of whom had Democratic affiliations.
we also forget that Colon Powell's son got a sweat heart job as head of the FCC. Colon of course has no idea why his nit wit of a son got the job. Maybe it was quid pro quo. You talk up WMD and we give your shit head son a nice job.
A would-be star in the Army until serious injuries from an end-over-end jeep accident on a German autobahn cut his military career short, in just a few short years Powell has hopped from a coveted court clerkship to a prestigious law firm to a chief of staff at the Department of Justice, all with the aid of A-list Beltway mentors from both major parties
http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/08/0...
seems he can't drive any better than he can run the FCC. His big cause celebre was censorship. he went after Janet Jackson's breast and fined Howard Stern numerous times.
Cokie is just another Catholic shill for the right. She and Peggy Noonan need to be exorcised. Silly oafs that they are.
It's fun to say "Cokie."
So, yeah, Cokie, pot, kettle.
Maybe she would have been placated had Sen. Obama's family opted to vacation in West Virginia or Kentucky.
What a silly twit. Or something like that. I always get confused by vowels ;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHsDa9_HSlA
Cokie Roberts is a coconut head. A Cokienut.
South Carolina
Casualties: 50
Population: 4,407,709
Casualties per capita: 1/88,154
Hawaii
Casualties: 20
Population: 1,283,388
Casualties per capita: 1/64,169
Anyhow, Obama wanted to vacation in Kansas, but it was booked.
Jules: Good. Looks like me an Vincent caught you boys at breakfast. Sorry about that. Whatcha havin'?
Brett: Hamburgers.
Jules: Hamburgers! The cornerstone of any nutritious breakfast. What kind of hamburgers?
Brett: Ch-cheeseburgers.
Jules: No, no no, where'd you get 'em? McDonalds? Wendy's? Jack in the Box? Where?
Brett: Big Kahuna Burger.
Jules: Big Kahuna Burger. That's that Hawaiian burger joint. I hear they got some tasty burgers. I ain't never had one myself. How are they?
Brett: They're good.
Jules: Mind if I try one of yours? This is yours here, right?
[Picks up burger and takes a bite]
Jules: Mmm-mmmm. That is a tasty burger. Vincent, ever have a Big Kahuna Burger?
[Vincent shakes his head]
Jules: Wanna bite? They're real tasty.
Vincent: Ain't hungry.
Jules: Well, if you like burgers give 'em a try sometime. I can't usually get 'em myself because my girlfriend's a vegitarian which pretty much makes me a vegitarian. But I do love the taste of a good burger. Mm-mm-mm. You know what they call a Quarter Pounder with cheese in Hawaii?
Brett: No.
Jules: Tell 'em, Vincent.
Vincent: A King Kamehameha Royale with cheese.
Jules: A King Kamehameha Royale with cheese! You know why they call it that?
Brett: Because of the metric system?
Jules: Check out the big brain on Brett! You're a smart motherfucker. That's right. The metric system. What's in this?
Brett: Sprite.
Jules: Sprite, good. You mind if I have some of your tasty beverage to wash this down?
Brett: Go right ahead.
Jules: Ah, hit the spot.
Plain and simple, the woman is a professional liar.
Would Cokie Roberts please tell me the type of drugs she is scoring, because the comments she made about the Obama vacation in Hawaii could only have been made under the influence of a very powerful narcotic. Or rampant stupidity, which Ms. Roberts has proved she possesses in spades. Hey, Cokie, when are you going to buy that furnished condo in Myrtle Beach for Obama's grandmother so he doesn't have to visit her in that "foreign" state of Hawaii?
They must be catching a lot of flak about her comments, because I tried to send it 5 times and each time it wouldn't go through.
Roberts' comments illustrate why you cannot trust the traditional media during this election. Roberts, Broder, Scarborough, Matthews, Brooks - none of these bloviating dinosaurs has any idea whatsoever about the average American and their situations in this time of Bush. They are so entrenched in the political life of D.C that they can't see beyond the Beltway. Thank goodness for the Internet! We finally have a way to make them eat their words - look what happened to Milbank, who is quietly on his way to becoming a non-entity because of his elitist attitude towards his critics.