Quote of the Day (June 3, 2011)

Sullivan Uses Palin’s Child as Partisan Political Prop… Again
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P.J. Salvatore at Big Journalism:

“Andrew Sullivan — with the help of some MSM allies — is always on the lookout to weaponize Sarah Palin’s own children as political weapons against her. It’s an obscene tactic and also an unprecedented one... According to Andrew Sullivan and those who accept this tactic, the children of politicians are no longer out of bounds. Do we really want to live in that world?”

- JP

Yes, Andrew, Trig was born at Mat-Su Regional Hospital

Is anything preventing Sullivan from making that call?
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We've expressed some rather pointed criticism of David Weigel in the past, but today we have to give him due credit. Weigel is proving what a fraud Andrew Sullivan is:

I called up Mat-Su Regional Hospital, where, according to contemporary media reports, Trig Palin was born. I was patched through to the family birthing center.

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Why'd I call the hospital? One of the original concerns Sullivan had with the Trig Palin story -- one that's based on an absent fact, and not on innuendo -- was that Mat-Su Regional did not list Trig Palin's birth on its website. There's a portion of the web site, the baby nursery, where newborns are listed. Trig, born on April 18, 2008, is not there. And that's somewhat curious. So: Is every baby born at the hospital listed on the web site?

"No, it's not automatic," said the clerk. "Truth be told, we do take security photos of all the babies, but if the parents want their babies listed on the web site, they can request it. We're really sensitive about it, though. I think the hospital took up the policy not to publish names automatically because of possible baby kidnapping issues."

The clerk, realizing that Washington, D.C. reporters don't typically cold call her hospital, asked me if this call was about "our former governor." It was. Was Trig Palin born there?

"Oh, that's not even a question," she said... "Yes. Everybody here remembers that. Yes, this is where the Palins come -- this is their family hospital."

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Is anything preventing Andrew, or one of the Daily Dish's assistants, from making that call? ... The current tone of his Trig-blogging is horribly meta -- "just asking questions," without asking questions of the people who can answer all of this stuff.

[More]

- JP

Quote of the Day (January 5, 2011)

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Pejman Yousefzadeh at A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days:

"The Apocalypse is upon us. Sarah Palin did something, and Andrew Sullivan professes to not giving a hoot. What’s next? An admission that Trig is Sarah Palin’s son? Stock up on the canned goods, and shotguns, people. The Seventh Seal is about to be broken, and the Cubs might win the next World Series."

- JP

Quote of the Day (November 26, 2010)

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Stacy McCain at The Other McCain:

"Let me suggest to Sarah Palin a campaign promise that will unite the GOP coalition: The first thing you do, after completing the oath of office on January 20, 2013, sign an executive order for Andrew Sullivan’s deportation."

- JP

Dance of the moonbats at The Daily Dish

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Guest blogging for lunatic Andrew Sullivan, disgraced former WaPo blogger David Weigel tries to talk some sense into Sully:

Trig Palin is Sarah Palin's son and it's irresponsible to suggest otherwise.

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All of the evidence indicates that Trig Palin is Sarah's son, and none of it suggests otherwise. I paid close enough attention to this in 2008, and realized pretty quickly that the countervailing theories made no sense. Too many people watched Palin announce the pregnancy and saw her come along until she went into labor, prematurely, while attending a National Governors Association event in Texas. Here in Alaska, people tell me that Palin fans (who at one point made up 85-90% of Alaskans) held "baby showers" for her, and she'd drop in to thank them.

The other Trig theories seem to be based on vapor -- that she wasn't "showing" much in some photos, that her campaign was less than 1000% forthcoming when asked about it. I don't generally trust politicians, but I know the difference between a "dodge" and an answer given to ward off annoying tabloid stories. The answers on Trig were in that latter category.

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I do think that he's made a huge mistake by indulging this. Politicians suffer when they're called out on things they've done. They thrive when they're called out for things they haven't done, for stories they can call "conspiracy theories," and for stories they can file under "politics of personal destruction." Obsessing over Trig, as much as it annoys the Palins -- and I see why it does -- is one of the best ways of propping her up. It gives her fan base proof that its hero is constantly battling unfair personal attacks that the media won't debunk. It convinces them that critics focus on this nonsense because they've got nothing else to criticize Palin about. She has taken advantage of this impression.

The Trig obsession has also, I'm sad to say, damaged Andrew Sullivan's reputation.

Gee, Dave, ya' think?

Weigel is trying real hard to sound like the voice of reason here. But make no mistake -- he cares not one whit for the Palins, Trig or common decency. What has Weigel and others on the left with more than two functioning brain cells to rub together worried is the damage Stuck-On-Stupid Sullivan is doing to their side. And worried they should be.

Liberals are in the political minority in this country, representing only about one-fifth of the electorate. If the left can't persuade significant numbers of moderates and independents to vote with them, they'll be out of power. And the trend we've been seeing for months now is one of independents running away from the left's politics. They gave the Democrats a chance after becoming disgusted with George W. Bush Republicans who called themselves "conservatives" but spent taxpayer money like the most liberal of Democrats. But now the real Democrats have reminded independents and moderates why they bailed on the Dems back in 1980 to send the incompetent Jimmy Carter back to the peanut farm. Democrats are even more under the thumb of their more radical elements now than they were then, and independents want nothing more to do with them.

So David Weigel, who realizes all of this, is trying to reign in Sullivan in hopes of halting the rightward exodus of independents and moderates. But it's difficult to take Weigel seriously when he tells Sully to back off on Sarah Palin and her family. Dirty Dave's words ring hollow when he defended Joe McGinness and was exposed for, among other things, applying to Gov. Palin one of the filthiest of epithets, one which begins with the letters "r-a-t."

Ah, Sully's too far gone to listen to Weigel, anyway. He can't hear anything but his bong singing to him, and the smoke has clouded his vision. Take it back to MSNBC where you belong, Dave.

- JP

Quote of the Day (June 30, 2010)

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Andrew Breitbart:

"Sullivan’s disgusting, ends-justify-the-means obsession with the personal family life of Sarah Palin breached every ethical and journalistic boundary known to the cosmos. Between airing Palin’s hacked private emails and making a cottage industry out of challenging the maternity of her son, Trig, sometimes the word 'irony' or 'hypocrisy' is not descriptive enough."

- JP

Quote of the Day (June 9, 2010)

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Andrew Sullivan, in one of his rare, more lucid moments:

"Those who believe that Sarah Palin has quit politics or does not have a future in elective office have some 'splaining to do... She owns the GOP base."

- JP

What's the latest leftist smear tactic against Sarah Palin?

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The Left's latest grand scheme to try to take out Sarah Palin? In a reach that defies the imagination of more stable minds, the rabid moonbats are attempting to associate her with the guy they were all gushing over just a year ago. Yes, they would have normal folks believe that Sarah Palin is the same as their former idol John Edwards. Here are excerpts from Peter Collier's report:

In the New York Times Timothy Egan sees them as a pair of ethically similar “grifters” using populism to con the American voter–“playing to outrage while taking care of themselves.”

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The comparison between the pair is asymmetrical and tendentious. Egan doesn’t consider Edwards’ banality of evil—notably the lying treachery committed against wife and family, and friends and supporters. But while Palin’s failings, notably her “incoherence” and her lack of response to Glenn Beck when he asked about her favorite founding father, are not in any way equivalent to Edwards’ evil, they are more fully explored. It’s clear by the end of his piece that Egan isn’t really comparing the two at all, but using Edwards’ nastiness to make Palin seem sleazy by association.

Andrew Sullivan posted a nuttier but more interesting piece on Palin and Edwards on his blog on Thursday titled “My John Edwards Failure.”

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The bottom line is that he made a mistake “in making an assumption of a baseline of decency in public officials” and won’t do it again. Of course this assumption never did apply to Palin whom Sullivan has been lighting up—especially on the circumstances of Trig’s birth–during all those months when he was studiously ignoring Edwards.

The comparisons are liberally ludicrous. Sarah Palin has never been an ambulance-chasing lawyer, and she never suggested that fetal stem cells would help the late Christopher Reeve get up out of his wheelchair and walk. And Sarah Palin never "channeled" a dead baby, as Edwards did in a courtroom during one of his trials.

Also, perhaps if Sully's ruined brain wasn't so soaked with THC he would realize that Sarah Palin is a private citizen and hasn't been a public official since July. We suspect that Egan and Sully are scoring the dope they're smoking from the same source.

- JP

To The Atlantic: Your rotting garbage stinks; throw it in the dumpster

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Terminally unhinged conspiracy theorist Sicko Sully's attacks on Sarah Palin and her family have always been petty and mean-spirited, but the dope-smoking blogger has hit a new low by charging that the name "Trig" given their Down Syndrome son was chosen by Todd and Sarah to mock their own baby:

"The medical term for Down Syndrome is Trisomy-21 or Trisomy-g. It is often shortened in medical slang to Tri-g."

At the Washington Examiner, Mark Hemingway placed a wake-up call to The Atlantic's editors:

"At what point does Andrew Sullivan's derangement over Sarah Palin and his bizarre conspiracy theories about how her son was really birthed by her daughter become an issue for an otherwise respectable publication such as The Atlantic?"

All Palin supporters should add their voices to Hemingway's and call for the employers to take immediate action against the piece of filth named Andrew Sullivan who blogs under their banner. It's far past time for this maniac to go. Contact information for The Atlantic is here, and the masthead is here.

Update: For those not offended by strong language, Ace carves up Sully like those chefs do meat in Japanese steak houses here.  Boom! Taste his ginsu stick...

- JP

Sullivan stalks Arctic Fox; comes up empty (again)

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Poor Andrew Sullivan. Having made himself a laughing stock thanks to his obsession with the birth of Sarah Palin's youngest son, Silly Sully decided it was time for a new approach. So the Wyle E. Coyote of the blogosphere took a shot at the former governor on the issue of energy and suffered an FTF (FAILURE To Fire).

The deranged daily disher served up another howler when he tried to tout the "expertise" of his go-to guy on energy:

"Lie after lie after lie after lie. Don't take my word for it. That's the analysis of Richard Fineberg, whose credentials are as follows..."

Oops! Don't take Sully's supposed expert guy's word for it, either. As Dan Riehl points out:

"Fineberg's credentials include being an anti-oil advocate, posting at the utterly ridiculous Mudflats blog, giving $450 to Obama and here he is discussing energy policy with George Soros."

Where did Sully ever find this Fineberg guy anyway -- in the Acme catalog? Sheepdog Riehl wins. Coyote Sullivan gets nuttin'.

- JP

Quote of the Day (December 8, 2009)

Christopher Johnson:

"Seriously, Sully. Get help. Now. Because your obsession [with Sarah Palin] is officially WAY beyond creepy."

- JP

Yes, but how does Stacy McCain REALLY feel?

Andrew Sullivan used the word "normal" in one of his posts. Heh. He also used the word "earnestness" in such a manner as to provoke this response from Stacy McCain:

"Earnestness"? You complain about being accused of earnestness, you demented poofter? After you've spent more than 15 months pushing that lunatic Trig Truther nonsense?

You are a dope-smoking, contagion-spreading menace to society, Andrew Sullivan, and you ought to be immediately deported.

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You sick freak.

Stop pulling your punches, Stacy. Tell us how you really feel!

- JP

McCain's advice for Sarah Palin

A man named McCain has some advice for Sarah Palin. No, not the McCain that was her former running mate, but journalist/blogger Stacy McCain, who writes for The American Spectator and his blog The Other McCain.

One piece of Stacy's advice seems to us to be a no-brainer -- Ignore Andrew Sullivan:

Dr. Andrew Sullivan, M.D., OB-GYN, excecutive director of research at the Atlantic Memorial Center for Republican Obstetric Investigation, accuses Palin of being obsessed with him.

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Having ridden his lunatic hobby-horse to self-indulgent glory -- the rodeo hero of Palin-haters everywhere -- now Sully goes for the championship buckle by issuing a ridiculous "challenge" to Palin. (Note the Charles Johnson-like gadfly approach: Sullivan arrogates to himself the authority to decide what subjects Sarah Palin must address.)

What should Palin do about Sully? For now, do nothing. Or, rather, don't do much.

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There's a right way and a wrong way to deal with the annoyances of a gadfly. The important thing is to maintain the strategic initiative: You decide when, where and how to respond.

Perhaps the former governor should simply send Sully Levi's cell phone number. Since her there-but-for-the-grace-of-God-almost-son-in-law rather hatefully turned down her invitation to come to Thanksgiving dinner with the family, Ricky Hollywood and Doc Sully could get together on Turkey Day and share some dressing.

The Other McCain's other advice -- is that Sarah Palin should seek out Dick Armey and listen seriously to the FreedomWorks Chairman's advice.

Armey recently caused a bit of a stir when he criticized the former governor for being a "cheerleader" for the TEA Party movement at a time when it is looking for a "captain." Armey also commented that Mrs. Palin doesn't appear to him, at least, to be doing a very effective job of rehabilitating her image.

Actually, we believe that the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate is taking steps to address both of Armey's two major criticisms of her. Sarah Palin's appearances on The Oprah Show and her many-segmented interview with ABC's Barbara Walters are in our opinion designed to do much more than just sell a lot of books. She intends to show women who aren't part of movement conservatism that she isn't the ogress that the Left and the media have painted her to appear to be. Moderate and independent women are a key segment of voters and precisely the demographic with which Mrs. Palin fared worst in 2008 election exit polling. She doesn't need to make Palinistas out of these women, and indeed that would be an impossible task. She only needs to soften her image with them. There's plenty of time to take the next step, which will be to show them that she understands the issues which she has been talking about on her Facebook Notes page, in op-eds she has written and will continue to write for such media outlets as the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, and in stump speeches she will deliver for congressional candidates who will seek and garner her support.

Sarah Palin has also moved to address Armey's other concern by saying "yes" to the chairman's own TEA party movement. She has accepted an invitation to keynote the first TEA Party national convention, which will take place in Nashville in February. This seems to us to be an ideal way to begin the transition from cheering on the sidelines to joining Armey's army and fighting with them on the field of battle. From there, time will tell if she will seek out and earn her captain's bars.

Can she win over Armey? We wouldn't count her out. Not all of what the chairman says about her is critique. He has acknowledged that Palin is probably a person of greater ability and possessing of more sense than what she's been given credit for. He has also praised her for being a self-made woman and for her proven ability to draw crowds. Again, time will tell.

Stacy also recommends that Sarah Palin not pass up opportunities to appear at some smaller-town rallies and call some local radio talk show hosts. We doubt that either of these tasks would be a problem for The Arctic Fox. She certainly did plenty of small-town venues on the campaign trail in 2008 and seemed to really enjoy that part, at least, of the race. She also has a history of calling local talk shows, which she did before the campaign. Her Team McCain handlers prevented her from making a large number of such calls, but she did manage to sneak a few in when they weren't looking.

We think that in time Sarah Palin will show women who are swing voters, the TEA party troops and even Dick Armey that she has the right stuff. Heck, she'll most probably even let Stacy have the credit for taking his good advice, too.

- JP

Iowahawk FTW: Dial 'M' For Maternity

A quick preview from from the new Mike Loads gyno-mystery by Andrew Sullivan:

"It's not everyday a stranger drops by my office packing fudge."

"This assortment from the Chocolate Shoppe? Try some, Loads. It's divine."

"Slide a couple of those truffles across the desk nice and slow, pally. Then start making with the banter."

"Whatever you say, Loads. Suppose we start with a little story about a certain baby-snatching dame named Palin."

I let the Ruger down slowly and put on the safety. Ma Palin was a Northside moll who had worked her way to the top of the Christianist syndicate. She was too violent and stupid for the Ivy League, but she was an expert at the two things that got you made in her gang -- shooting guns and making babies. I had long suspected some of those babies were fakes. If I could prove it, it would spark an internal war among the Christianist -- and bring down their iron-fisted control of the marriage rackets.

Not family-friendly, but a rolling-on-the-floor-laughing-your-a##-off-and-scaring-the-cat riot! You just gotta read the whole thing.  

- JP

Moonbat Obsessions

Charles Johnson, of LGF infamy, is moonbat-manure insane. He is as obsessed with Stacy McCain as Andrew Sullivan is with Trig Palin, which leads us to wonder if CJ gets his dope from the same dealer where Sully scores his stash. Must be some wicked weed, that -- the stuff from which psychotic reactions arise:

"Hypomania, with persecutory delusions, auditory hallucinations, withdrawal, and thought disorder, was observed in four Jamaican subjects who had increased their use of marijuana."

Persecutory delusions might make a blogger come to think other bloggers are out to "get" him, and cause him to banish them forever from his site.

Thought disorder might lead one to believe that Sarah Palin's book was ghostwritten, yet recoil in anger at the mere suggestion that Bill Ayers could have penned a Barack Obama memoir.

Auditory hallucinations would be the voices in CJ's head which seem to have persuaded him that the same conservatives who admire Justice Clarence Thomas, Professor Thomas Sowell and former Congressman J.C. Watts are somehow racists. 

Hey, don't snicker. Those same voices convinced Sully, a devout homosexualist, to become an armchair gynecologist. Now that's power! To be a paranoid moonbat conspiracy theorist, you don' need no steenking evidence, mon. All you need to do, dude, is hit some thermonuclear reefer, let your mind float and listen to the voices. The voices will explain everything. The voices will tell you what to do. The voices... The voices... The voices...

- JP

How to pwn a moonbat misogynist

JammieWearingFool shows how it's done:

When last heard from, Andrew Sullivan was trying to finagle out his marijuana bust on Cape Cod. That provided enough amusement. Now the deranged former "conservative" with the very unhealthy obsession over Sarah Palin is shocked -- shocked! -- Mrs. Palin managed to churn out a 400-page book in a scant four months. I think his problem is it will be a huge bestseller, far outpacing anything he could ever dream of.

Let me guess. Is Sullivan planning a book compilation chronicling the past year's bizarre, incoherent ramblings about Trig Palin?

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Whatever the case, these upcoming 400 page probably give new meaning to Sullivan's pathetic existence. Look at all the fresh material there will be for him to obsess over.

Maybe when he's done with that he can check up on who the ghostwriter for Barack Obama's books [was].

Sativa Sully is one of those nasty atheists who is not content to simply not believe in God, live and let live.  No, he's a pot-smoking amateur gynecologist who is driven to trash those who do. Since Sullivan is so fond of using the term "Christianist," it shouldn't bother him to be called a homosexualist, then, should it?

- JP

Quote of the Day (September 28, 2009)

Dan Riehl, on dope fiend Andrew Sullivan's demand that he produce evidence proving Bill Sparkman was a child predator:

"The man spent an entire year channeling the womb of Sarah Palin... now suddenly he wants evidence before one is permitted to speculate?"

- JP

Andrew Sullivan and the death culture of the Left

Food for thought from Craig Carter:

Andrew Sullivan thinks he has a knock down argument against social conservatives. So what is this terrible and horrifying thing of which social conservatives are guilty? He argues that statistics show that more fundamentalist teens give birth. Horrors! Don't those mothers have the decency to take their daughters to the abortionist and then get them on the pill like upper middle class liberal mothers do?

Continuing his pathological Sarah Palin obsession... Sullivan is so caught up in glorious raptures over the culture of death that he thinks that promiscuous, sterile sex and abortion are preferable to the struggle of parenting. And his charge against us social conservatives is that we presume to disagree with him. This is pathetic, to put it mildly. I'm afraid he will have to come up with something a lot worse than giving birth to a new, unique, human being made in the image of God to hurl as an accusation against social conservatives to prove how evil we are. If that is our worst fault, we are not doing too badly, all things considered, especially considering the alternatives.

If that's all there were to it, we would have the table set for a good debate. But Sullivan bends the rules. According to Patterico (Warning: some discussion after the jump is not family-friendly):

When Sullivan’s penchant for seeking cheap sex from strangers was revealed, he pontificated that it was proper to ignore the controversy:

The truth is: no-one’s legal, consensual, adult private life should be plundered and exposed for political purposes.

I ignored the requests for comment because there was nothing to comment on... I was asked to confirm a story presented anonymously, the only salient details of which I believed to be untrue. Why should I answer?

But when it came to Sarah Palin’s son, Sullivan was only to happy to press Palin to answer a story presented anonymously, the only salient details of which were untrue. Did Sullivan think Palin should answer? Naturally, that was different:

Why not kill this rumor with Palin’s medical records? A 43 year old woman’s pregnancy with a Downs Syndrome child would have been intensely monitored, and the records must be a mile long. Just release them, ok?

One standard for me, another for thee. If there is any point on which Sullivan is consistent, that is it.

The Left and their double standards. So much for intellectually honest debate...

- JP

Trig Truther Andrew Sullivan Busted for Dope

Andrew Sullivan was arrested this summer for dope. No, not for being one, but for having it in his possession. From Moonbattery:

Andrew Sullivan, the Perez Hilton of The Atlantic monthly, was arrested for possession of marijuana earlier this summer.

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His insanity culminated in his embracing -- obsessively -- the nutjob, soap-opera conspiracy theory that Sarah Palin was not really Trig Palin's mother.

So, is drug use to blame for his insanity?

Good question. We wouldn't think that weed, while it's definitely not good for you, would have that drastic an effect. However, if Silly Sully is a heavy user, it might 'splain a few things. From Health Aspects of Cannabis by Leo E. Hollister, as excerpted at Marijuana.com:

"Very high doses of cannabis may evoke a toxic delirium, manifested by marked memory impairment, confusion, and disorientation."

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"A variety of psychotic reactions have been ascribed to cannabis use. Many are difficult to fit into the usual diagnostic classifications."

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"Hypomania, with persecutory delusions, auditory hallucinations, withdrawal, and thought disorder, was observed in four Jamaican subjects who had increased their use of marijuana."

"Memory impairment" would explain why Sully obviously can't remember that he was supposed to have been a "conservative" at some earlier stage of his life. "Thought disorder" and "auditory delusions" might account for his having taken up the hobby of amateur photovisual obstetrics. The voices in his head told him to do it.

More from that Other McCain and from John Hinderaker.

- JP

Memo to Obama: Sully for Flag Ettiquette Czar

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He says it's not a big deal to him, but Sully can't pass up an opportunity to criticize Sarah Palin. So he posts this.

I wonder if Andrew Sullivan, that great defender of flag etiquette, would have bothered to spare the bandwidth to call attention to Joe Biden's treatment of the flag at the DNC:



According to Sully's flag etiquette link:

"The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property."

Perhaps the upside-down flag at Biden's feet was a warning of the "extreme danger" to the United States that the Democrat victory in the 2008 election would bring.

Oh, and Sully? We have your brandishing of kids as political pawns right here.

Bloody hypocrite.

- JP