Pat Dollard

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7:21 A.M.

We’re drenched. Everything is darkness and lightning, clouds, the whip of rain at our skin and vision, and strange flashes of light in the near distance of the wrecked downtown skyline: impossible explosions of bombs without sound. Nothing seems real, we’re confused, what we see can’t be, bombs make a loud familiar roar we know as well as our own names. I hear automatic rifles, .50 cal…everything is now through a veil….my eyes are black holes, and I’m burning away…I see a ghost on the street below, in the spot where most of our killing is done because too much has been done there to us…a round whizzes over our heads, and I realize I lit a cigarette in this angry ocean of night, on a roof below taller buildings, in the capital of satan’s snipers. Froio is ready to kill me, to do what I failed to do to myself, or almost did to him. More lightning, the crack of the loudest thunder in history – that at that second IS a bomb to us – the rising shriek of the wind, and suddenly more silent orange explosions rip the smashed and crumbling city below. “We’re dead. He got us. That’s why nothing makes sense”, I say. “Don’t say that!” he seethes back, his eyes flashing startled terror, his face as quickly a mask of the same. The notion has really disturbed him. The act of speaking it, just as badly. We pray to God and chance and superstition out here. In the moment, any rope will do.

10:06 A.M.

It was weird, but it was exactly what he wanted, so he’s entirely responsible for all of it. It’s not like things changed in process from his original intentions, or any of his actions and words were misunderstood, or anyone kept him from getting about 95% of everything he wanted. And as the over-arching concept, what Hussein definitely wanted was to have the world – the American voter in particular – see what he would look like if he actually were President of the United States. He literally jetted about as if he were. And therein lies the problem. You just can’t play act being President of the United States on the stage of reality, using word leaders as props. It’s strange, it’s inappropriate, it’s arrogant, it’s weird, it’s narcissistic, it’s presumptive, it’s offensive in its steamrolling nullification of an electorate yet to cast their ballots, it displays a keener instinct for acting in the theatrical sense than in the sensible sense required for action, and everybody notices all of these things just like those notice a glowing neon sign on his forehead that said “idiot”.

And so he will indeed pay a price. And in a very poetically just way, no one but the real Hussein will be responsible. At least the real one has finally appeared.

NYT:

“In terms of raw politics, in the short-term there’s just as much downside as upside to a trip like this, even when it’s well executed,” Mr. Obama said in an interview as he flew here from Paris on the final leg of his trip. “People at home are worried about gas prices, they’re worried about mortgage foreclosures — and for a week they’re seeing me traipse around the world? It’s easy to paint that as somehow being removed from people’s day-to-day problems.”

Leaning forward in his chair aboard a campaign plane freshly emblazoned with his logo, he added, “We thought it was worth the risk.”

In many ways, as his journey ended here on Saturday, the answer to that question may prove crucial in gauging what effect, if any, his ambitious overseas trip will have in the final months of the presidential race on the people who will decide the election.

This is one area where Republicans see an opportunity, if only a glimmer of one. While the country’s mood may favor Democrats, there has been no detectable flurry of swing voters rushing to Obama.

With the Normandy coast coming into view through the windows of Mr. Obama’s campaign plane as he left France, he smirked when asked to respond to criticism that he was on the cusp of measuring the White House drapes. Turning to an aide, he said, “Have you been measuring the drapes?”

“We don’t buy our own hype,” Mr. Obama said.

Sunday July 27, 2008

6:48 A.M.

Actually a pretty budsy news morning…Iran wants a seat on the United Numbskulls Security Council. When I think security, I think Iran. Their missiles should be able hit our shores soon enough, given that no one wants to take out a punk-ass dirtbag third world country of cult members of what may be the most evil cult of all time, a box for souls turned to , most before they had a chance, called Islam.