Odds and Ends

Funny... but true, from Trex at FDL:

Every time I am forced to listen to George W. Bush speak, I can feel my I.Q. dropping. His speech is a kind of thought-killing force field that emanates his mouth. Watching him attempt to complete a sentence or to speak off the cuff is like watching a drunk carry a crate of broken glass across an icy street. He doesn’t so much speak English as mud-wrestle it.

Some strong and effective ads by Dem candidates:

Sheldon Whitehouse - RI

Joe Sestak - PA

VoteVets.org (anti) George Allen - VA

Stacey Tallitsch - LA

Jimmy Carter had this to say about Joe Lieberman during an interview on Larry King Live.

He's been strongly in favor of the Iraqi war from the very beginning. He was one of the originators of the public statements that misled the American people into believing that the Iraqi war was justified. He's been an undeviating supporter of the war from the very beginning and still is. He's joined in with the Republican spokespersons by saying that Democrats who disagree are really supporting terrorism. So for all these reasons I've lost my confidence in Joe Lieberman and don't want to see him re-elected.

Atrios reports that Tammy Sun responded by calling Carter a liar.

Lieberman spokesmannequin Tammy Sun just issued a statement to CNN regarding Carter's statements:

[I]t is entirely false to suggest that Joe Lieberman in any way equated dissent about the war with supporting terrorists.

However, here's Joe Lieberman:

If we just pick up like Ned Lamont wants us to do, get out by a date certain, it will be taken as a tremendous victory by the same people who wanted to blow up these planes in this plot hatched in England. It will strengthen them and they will strike again.

As Jon Stewart might say: Mr. Lieberman, you're pants are on fire.