“I guess it means I’m running for president. So thanks for the endorsement.”

By John Charles Reedburg

Maybe she can teach Monica Lewinski a thing or two.

And this time around, it’ll probably be on tape. LOL!

PARIS HILTON who was thrust into the US presidential election campaign in an ad by Republican candidate John McCain, on Tuesday gave president-elect Barack Obama’s performance so far the thumbs up.

“I think Obama is doing a really good job. Maybe it will be my turn one day but for now let’s leave it to Obama,” the famed hotel heiress told reporters in Madrid when asked if she planned to run for president one day.

In August McCain, 72, launched an ad that dismissed his Democratic rival as nothing more than a celebrity candidate which used images of Hilton and another blonde celebrity, pop star Britney Spears.

Hilton, 27, quickly responded with rebuttal ad where she appeared lounging in a bathing suit in a pool chair talking about “that wrinkly, white-haired guy” who used her image in his campaign ad.

“I guess it means I’m running for president. So thanks for the endorsement white-haired dude,” she added in the ad, which ended with a shot of an American flag and the name “Paris” superimposed over it.

Hilton’s mother Kathy called the ad a “complete waste” of time and campaign money. Kathy Hilton and her husband Rick both contributed to the McCain campaign before it ran the ad featuring images of their daughter.

Hilton was in the Spanish capital to promote a new social networking Internet site.

More than three out of four Americans approve of how Obama has handled his transition so far, according to a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll published on December 2, nearly a month after his historic November 4 election win.

McCain has called on Bangladesh’s political parties to accept the outcome of the upcoming parliamentary elections that will end nearly two years of emergency rule

By John Charles Reedburg

Arizona’s already screwed.

Why bother rest of the world?

Former U.S. presidential candidate JOHN McCAIN has called on Bangladesh’s political parties to accept the outcome of the upcoming parliamentary elections that will end nearly two years of emergency rule.

The Arizona senator praised the military-backed interim government during a visit to Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, Wednesday. He said the United States appreciates the job the caretaker government has done to strengthen the foundation of Bangladesh’s democracy.

But McCain said the government’s job is not yet complete. He said it is now time for an elected successor to continue the reform process and build democracy for Bangladesh’s people.

McCain said it will be equally important for everyone to accept the results of the December 29 elections and work together in the interest of the country.

The elections are intended to restore democracy to Bangladesh nearly two years after the army imposed emergency rule to end political violence.

The main political parties are demanding the state of emergency be lifted before the election. Authorities have said it might be lifted after the nominating process.

McCain, who has an adopted daughter from Bangladesh, also urged the country to play a role in defeating terrorism in the region, following last week’s attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai.

McCain is traveling in the region with fellow U.S. senators and members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham. They arrived in Bangladesh from India on Tuesday.

By John Charles Reedburg

This will definitely make you — LOL!

Politics makes so much more sense in 8-bits (1:07).

By John Charles Reedburg

Is it me? Or is that cutout of Sarah Palin in the photo above creepy as hell? LOL!

Republican presidential candidate John McCain concedes defeat to Sen. Barack Obama and urges all Americans to unite under the new president-elect.

“There is fear on the part of many senior leaders …”

By John Charles Reedburg

But how afraid should we be?

National security issues loom large for the next president: He will have to manage the draw-down of thousands of American troops in Iraq, oversee the deployment of thousands more in an increasingly violent Afghanistan, and assess whether to grow the military to cope with the war on terrorism.

On these issues, the advantage might seem to be all on the side of Senator McCAIN, a war veteran.

But former defense officials, as well as active-duty and retired officers, say that the military – whose rank and file are perceived to vote Republican – sees positives and negatives in both candidates.

McCain’s big advantages are his experience and his familiarity with the military, but Senator Obama’s may be a greater willingness to listen to Pentagon advice.

That could be important because the past eight years under the Bush administration, especially the decision to invade Iraq, has left some Pentagon officers feeling ignored.

“Senior military officers have carried out orders they didn’t agree with all their professional lives,” says Dennis Blair, who retired as a four-star admiral in 2002 and who served in senior defense jobs during two administration transitions. “All they want is for their best military advice to be considered, and then they will salute and execute their orders. It’s pretty easy for an incoming administration if they are smart enough, to give them a chance.”

McCain’s high military credibility

McCain’s strengths in the national security realm could be a weakness if he comes at the Pentagon with too many preconceptions, say former defense officials. The Pentagon may also be an ideal place for him to display his “maverick” approach.

“He is a reformer, and he will try to make sure there is a minimum of bureaucracy and a maximum of efficiency,” says Rep. Duncan Hunter (R) of California.

OBAMA, perceived as a “listener,” is considered a national security neophyte who will need to make forceful decisions based on the advice he receives to establish his credentials within the Pentagon.

“He seems like a very good listener without a fixed national security agenda, but he doesn’t seem soft,” says Mr. Blair. He adds that Obama will have to find the balance between taking military advice without being dominated by it.

Key to the next president’s success as commander in chief will be his approach to the Pentagon. President Clinton famously stumbled with the military when he made an ill-fated attempt to allow homosexuals to serve openly in his first days, which was also when the peacekeeping operation in Somalia turned ugly.

In 2000, the military had high hopes for George W. Bush based on his father’s success during the first Gulf War and on the appointment of certain senior leaders. But then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld came to be perceived as heavy-handed and dismissive of military advice if it didn’t comport with his own thinking.

McCain’s military service and war hero status naturally give him credibility with today’s military. But it will only get him so far, say many officers.

Some worry that McCain would be more inclined to carry out his own ideas about what the military should do. Experts outside the military with knowledge of the campaigns indicate McCain’s camp, which has been struggling to establish itself against the economic crisis, has largely ignored military issues, sending a signal to some that a McCain administration might come into office with its own agenda.

“He would start out on Day 1 saying I know the issues, I know the personalities, and there is probably some anxiety along those lines to be blunt,” says Barry McCaffrey, a retired four-star general who frequently consults with senior officials in Washington.

McCain is also more likely to follow the advice of Gen. David Petraeus, who presided over the “surge” of forces in Iraq and will within days become the head of US Central Command in charge of operations in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

“The McCain camp will be less skeptically inclined and be more trusting of Petraeus,” says a staffer for a senior senator on Capitol Hill.

Obama brings an open ear, fresh eye

The perception that Obama is a rookie on national security issues both hurts and helps him with the military, say those inside and outside the defense establishment.

Both candidates have expressed the desire to change the dynamic in Afghanistan, but Obama may be inclined to shake it up more.

“The fact that he doesn’t have a wealth of experience allows him to call for a strategy review in Afghanistan that wouldn’t be seen as naive but as using fresh eyes to look at the problem,” says Dan Fata, a senior policy secretary who left the Pentagon last month and is now vice president at the Cohen Group, a Washington-based consulting firm.

The military may expect an Obama administration to be less inclined to use them for international saber rattling, says General McCaffrey.

“I think there is fear on the part of many senior leaders to see McCain in office,” he says. “It’s almost counterintuitive, but there is a bit of me that says they would be happier to see Obama.”

On Gates, common ground

Both men will want to put their own fingerprints on the Pentagon in time. But this will mark the first change of an administration during wartime since Vietnam, and most analysts bet that either candidate will keep Robert Gates on as defense secretary.

How long either would keep him is unclear. But Richard Danzig, a former Navy secretary and Obama’s chief national security advisor, has said Gates is a good Pentagon chief and would be “an even better one” under Obama. Gates is equally popular among Republicans, who may urge McCain to keep him for the first months of his administration.

Could this be the future of our democracy

By John Charles Reedburg

The only thing needed for the ballot is butter and jelly.

At the Feel Good Bakery in Alameda, California, they’re now stenciling on the faces of presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain, and letting patrons decide which loaf they’d like to take home. According to Rick Kellner, the owner of the bakery, the Obama loaves are outselling McCain loaves by 8 to 1.

We humbly suggest the Feel Good Bakery move into breakfast fare: Barack Bagels and McCain Muffins would allow us to be politically active and also keep our blood sugar up in the mornings.

This mirrors 7-Eleven’s promotion with McCain and Obama coffee cups, Every Cup Counts, which lets the convenience chain customers pick their next presidential choice by choosing between a McCain and Obama cup. According to that method, Obama is winning, 60 percent to 40 percent.

In our ultra-consumerist society, this could be the future of democracy. Voting means you have to register, go wait in a line in a depressing place and talk to old people working the polls, and at the end all you get is a sticker and maybe a free donut.

But what if instead we voted by buying stuff? We could vote for change by picking up an Obama LCD HDTV.

Now you can see every blade of grass on the field — that’s change you can believe in, or with a McCain riding lawn mower (”Country first, and a well-kept lawn a close second”).

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Fend your lives as they move towards the hills

By John Charles Reedburg

OK! This one have me shaking my boots.

Happy Halloween!

By John Chares Reedburg

This is so funny I can’t stop laughing.

LMBAO!

This is something that I always felt. The nation’s newest celeb Joe the Plumber is a fraud.

JOE WURZELBACHER, an Ohio plumber, thrust into the national spotlight after he was mentioned 24 times during the final Presidential debate by Senator JOHN McCAIN, isn’t even a licensed plumber.

State licensing agencies in Ohio showed no license registered under his name. Nor is he a member of the plumber’s union he claimed to be enrolled in on his MySpace page. His name is listed in the telephone books as “Samuel”.

More amazingly, this “Joe” may be a Republican plant with deep ties to a scandalous past.

Joe Wurzelbacher is the son of Robert Wurzelbacher – the son-in-law of Charles Keating – The Charles Keating of the Keating 5 scandal – for which Sen. John McCain was reprimanded by the Senate for his part in attempting to illegally influence government regulators, according to The Huffington Post.

Robert Wurzelbacher was an exec of American Continental Corp., the parent company of Charles Keating’s Lincoln Savings. That’s the bank that failed causing many to lose their life savings and cost US taxpayers $4.3 billion.

As a result Joe the Plumber’s dada, Robert, pleaded guilty to misappropriating $14 million, serving 40 months in federal prison.

“Congratulations – you’re rich! You betcha!”

Meanwhile the real plumbers union — United Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters have endorsed Democratic candidate Barack Obama.

That’s called turning the screw or lug nut.

Away goes trouble down the drain…………

There shouldn’t be any humor found in such a serious issue.

A display of the two presidential candidates in one man’s yard is causing a stir and attracting attention.