Joe sixpack, Joe the plumber and Creepy Joe™ the traitor

Just when you think Creepy Joe™ Lieberman has reached the zenith of his creepiness, he goes and says something even more outrageous.

Now he's calling Barack Obama a socialist:

"I mean there's ways I suppose you can make the argument that there's some similarities between with what Senator Obama is talking about, a classic what used to be known as socialist theory. I just think you have to state it directly: Senator Obama wants to raise taxes and Senator McCain does not."

If callback elections were allowed for senators, Lieberman wouldn't be doing any of this. Let's hope Democratic leaders can muster the backbone to invite him to leave the party permanenty.

In Kenya it's fraud, in Ohio it's a miracle

A Courant headline on a McClatchy report in today's paper reveals possible fraud in the Kenyan elections:

Exit Poll In Kenya Implies Election Fraud

Funny that when the exact same thing happened in Ohio during the last US presidential election, I don't recall a newspaper that ran a headline or story claiming election fraud. Stranger still, while fraud has been all but proven in those Ohio elections, even now, no one seems to care.

And, in New Hampshire last week, there was a discrepancy between exit polls and the final count. Not only were there no cries of fraud, but commentators openly scoffed at the idea that vote count fraud could have take place.

One must also wonder at a Republican organization monitoring the vote in Kenya. If that isn't irony, I'll turn in my magnet.

Have I jumped to the wrong conclusion

Earlier today I jumped to the conclusion that inaccurate polling methods, and a press corp which is lazy and incurious has given us eight years of bullshitting president, and now, an inaccurate read on the next election.

Now, some have raised the possibility (without any real evidence, mind you), that perhaps, the polling firms were not wrong, and that, like in Ohio in 2004, it's the Diebold voting machines which should be called into question.

In the minds of most Americans, this will fall into the category of crackpot conspiracy theory, but I personally, am done with dismissing these theories out-of-hand, when so much in history has proven these odd tales to be true.

Shouldn't I be in New Hampshire?

With a sister in Milford, and a sister-in-law in Peterborough, I wondered, aloud, this morning, why I hadn't arranged a visit to New Hampshire to witness Obamania, myself. Then both sister and sister-in-law phoned to talk about 20 minute traffic jams in their little burghs, and Mark Masselli, who took his kids to Nashua to hear Obama speak, and found a line ahead of him with several hundred people (I won't reveal how Masselli scammed his way through the National Press gates to find good seats for his clan), and I thought, "all this to see a politician?" Now if I thought I was going to bump into Bruce Springsteen, or even a New Hampshire folkie like Bill Morrissey, maybe it would be worth it.