It's really the most I can afford, but today, literally a minute after I heard Hillary throw her complete support behind Obama, I went to http://www.barakobama.com and put 100 bucks on my credit card to contribute to Barak Obama.

Oh please let us move into the general. PLEASE...but while we are forced to wait by Hillary "toe to toe" Clinton, perhaps you might help me come up with some catchy new names to call the Rethuglican nominee...

Please everyone, can I have your attention....below the fold.

I'm sure I'm not the first, and I certainly won't be the last, to predict that Obama will be #44 (Thanks in LARGE PART to Howard Dean!). After all the events of today, I feel like we can FINALLY come out and prognosticate the general this fall...more below...

from the jaws of victory.

With the complicity of the MSM, there is a credible threat that the Dems will be in trouble in the fall, in an election that is their's for the losing...if AND ONLY IF, they screw up even more than John Kerry did in '04 (Howard Dean supporter here).

Sorry to be so late with this, but this is COMEDY PLATINUM!

Even blowhard windbag is having fun playing along, and really, he is getting stifled.

I'm sorry KO to turn off your show, but that was awesome, and I'm staying on to see the post interview recap.

Remember everyone, self-important putz will be on The Colbert Report tonight. It should be even better than this interview...which was awesome.

I mean, c'mon, it's so obvious that he has thought about this long enough for this to be a foolproof plan...I'm completely and utterly serious...just follow me below the fold.

OK, well, this is a short diary. I suck at diaries. But, my god...I just can't stop thinking in the most cynical manner that I can...it's this breaking news about Airstrikes in Somalia against Al-Qaeda.

Follow the short and cynical follow up below.

Hi all,

TDS/TCR is on holiday until JANUARY 8th! What am I gonna do for THREE WHOLE WEEKS?!?!?!

I mean, it's only been 24 hours and such, but Bush and company continue to say stupid things, and do stupid things, and basically ignore reality and common sense...

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Now that new House Speaker Pelosi has made her speech, there's something important that just happened...below the fold.

Foley's clone just conceded....and I can FINALLY say it. THE NIGHTMARE IS OVER!

SPEAKER PELOSI!...

A few days ago, I popped up a quick diary about the whole Kerry thing. Sorry, but, though I voted for him, I've always been a Deanie. The Dean campaign brought me into the KOS fold all those years ago. I held my nose, voted Kerry, and well, the rest has been history.

I pulled the diary quickly, because, well, it was obvious no one wanted to deal with NEGATIVE blogging about Kerry. Well, amazingly, the Kerry thing is already over!

More below the fold.

Not to take away from our daily thread here at KOS...but today is the one year anniversary of the Colbert Report.

I want to start this thread just to give people the opportunity to say thanks to Stephen (and Jon Stewart, the show's producer) for introducing "truthiness" among other things, to our pop culture...more below the fold.

TDS - Kevin Spacey - actor, "Superman Returns!"

TCR - Christopher Noxon, author, Rejuvenile: Kickball, Cartoons, Cupcakes, and the Reinvention of the American Grownup!

TDS - AL GORE! President of the United States. Schmoozing with his film buddies.

TCR - Um...Robert Baer, Ex-CIA Agent. And now, below the fold.

Rush is a druggie, the Israelis/Palestineans are going at it again, and the penguin is offended by the NYT. Some things change, and some things stay the same. Rrreeghh, I'm offended. Rrregghh. He should apologize to me for being in the way of my birdshot. Rregghh.

Last week, I called BS on the Miami "terrorist" arrests, and tonight Jon does the same by showing the Gonzales news conference about the event. Jon ripped them all new ones.

Honestly, summer is a quiet time and all, but the idiocy in Washington continues unabated. How much more can we take?

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November is just around the corner, so what better time to prepare than to put out this red herring about the raids down here in Miami.

Check below the fold for more fun.