BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

I have never liked Rush Limbaugh or any of the Right Wing Pundits. I don't like pot-stirrers but Rush is the most selfish, bloviating jerk of them all. I am a talk-radio addict, but the sound of this rhino's voices makes me cringe and hit the button on my Sirius reciever faster than Rush swallows Oxycontin. Granted, Obama and Rahm don't thrill me either but it looks like Rush really allow them to put a big steamin' pile right under him and then proceeded to step in it. You can always tell when the Right Wing gets clipped too close because of their over-the-top reaction (I call it "pathological rage"). Thank goodness Rush is a too much of a coward to do this debate for real. By the way, anyone sending any "support the troops" monies to this drug-addicted whale lately? LOL Rush Gets Played by Rahm By Jon Taplin Here is the contest the the DNC is running. You send in a slogan for a "Message to Rush" --the winner will be placed on a billb...

Didya see the Palin/ Biden Debate? I did. And Palin cleared wiped the floor with Biden. I was fearful that Biden's suppsed experience and expertise would make Palin look like the Bimbo they keep trying to paint her as or the harpy they painted Hillary as. I was wrong! PHEW!! But then... I decided to listen to some talk radio. Both on the Right and The Left. All I can say is, "OMG are we all on the same planet? Did we all see the SAME debate?" My head is spinning from the spin. I need to lay down. PIT BULL KICKS WONK BUTT by Charles Hurt Joe Biden tiptoed out on stage last night wondering whether he'd face a lady pitifully out of her depth or the lipstick end of a pit bull. He found out real fast. Biden's striped-pants Washington wonk talk ran into a regular American who looked like a lady, talked like a hockey mom and smacked him around like a cat playing with a mouse. "Oh, man, it's so obvious that I'm a Washington outsider and someone just n...

Gosh I hope this is true! Now if the press would just stop giving the disingenuous McLame a free pass! Obama's honeymoon over, and it shows by Michael Goodwin It seems like ancient history now, but not long ago Hillary Clinton argued that Barack Obama was getting a free pass from the media. Those days are over, with moderators, a private citizen and Clinton herself peppering Obama on Wednesday night with a barrage of the kind of tough questions he escaped for more than a year. He answered some better than others, and some not at all. But the mere fact that at least five damaging issues were thrown at him within 30 minutes was testament to how much the race has changed in the six weeks since anti-American remarks by Obama's pastor, the Rev. Jeramiah Wright, became public. That was the high-water mark of Obama's campaign, and now the cracks are showing. My bet is that his ineffective answers on Wednesday night will mean more doubts among voters and more concern among Democra...

WHEN DAILY KOS MET THE DLC - THINK FOR YOURSELVES! A family member recently wrote the below for Daily Kos. It sparked a very lively "conversation" amongst bloggers & armchair pundits. Iddybud makes a great point on her site about political bloggers: A lot of our success, in blogging, has come from the simple fact that we are informed. We commit ourselves to being informed and that, alone, is a powerful tool because it allows us, individually and on a daily basis, to challenge the rhetoric that once slid past the ears of most people and left the discussion concerning the political realities to political junkies and concerned citizens on isolated barstools, street corners, and sitting rooms. Mr. Ford (DLC Chairman) again, went for the lowest common demoninator and continue the spin that so many have actually believed, that says "Daily Kos bloggers are anti-Jewish." Spare me. That's patently false and a smear campaign by the Neocons to keep the Jewish vo...

When the Right Breaks the Barrier, How Should a Spiritual Left Respond? Rabbi Michael Lerner, Editor of Tikkun Magazine At the private, progressive, Christian grammar school called Far Brook Country Day in Short Hills, New Jersey to which my parents sent me in the early 1950s, there was a beautiful Christmas play each year in which all of us students reenacted a New Testament account of the birth of Jesus. In early grades I was one of the “townspeople” who came to worship the baby Jesus, and then later a shepherd who heard the angels proclaim the imminent birth of “our savior.” As one of the very few Jewish kids in this school, I knew better than to complain, and in any event the story seemed beautiful and inoffensive. Each student was also asked to paint a religious scene on our classroom window, and my fifth-grade teacher, a progressive and tolerant Christian, suggested I do a Chanukah scene. As I was completing it, my classmate Dickie Holden came over to me and slugged me in the fa...