Keyes rants, Bush surrenders, McCain forgets

Keyes compares Obama and McCain to infectious diseases

Say what you will folks, but no one brings the crazy like Alan Keyes. In a 10,000 (!) word essay at the Worldnutdaily, Keyes, the perpetual losing candidate for every office imaginable, drops this gem:

In terms of the conservative constituency of the Republican Party, Sen. McCain is an opportunistic infection that threatens to ravage and destroy its defenseless body. Tragically for America, in the larger context of our national political life he still plays the role of the AIDS virus, masquerading as a Republican while opening the way for Barack Obama, the opportunistic infection that will ravage the defenseless body of our republic. If we accept the McCain/Obama choice, we resign the republic to its demise. I guess the “lesser of evils” crowd will take comfort in the notion that though infected with HIV, the patient actually died of pneumonia. Unfortunately, this is false comfort, since the choice they make increases the virulence of the opportunistic infection.

Stay classy, Alan. Keyes’ new campaign slogan: “Vote for me. Why accept the lesser of two evils?”

And the gold medal for stupidity goes to…

Iran! AP reports:

An Iranian swimmer pulled out of the Olympic Games men’s 100m breaststroke heats on Saturday, just minutes before he was due to compete against an Israeli rival.

Mohammad Alirezaei’s lane one was empty when the field left the starting blocks while Israel’s Tom Beeri, starting in lane seven, finished fourth…

During the 2004 Athens Olympics, Iran’s judo world champion Arash Miresmaeili, one of the country’s prominent gold medal hopes, refused to compete against Ehud Vaks of Israel in the first round out of solidarity for the Palestinian cause.

Miresmaeili, twice a winner of the flyweight world title, still received a 5,000-dollar award the Iranian National Olympic Committee had promised to medal winners and he was hailed by former President Mohammad Khatami for his stance.

“We’ll show those evil Zionists! We’ll give up our chance to compete in the Olympics! That’ll teach ‘em!”

Bush preparing to cut and run in Iraq

The AP reports on negotiations for an American withdrawal from Iraq:

Iraq and the U.S. are near an agreement on all American combat troops leaving Iraq by October 2010, with the last soldiers out three years after that, two Iraqi officials told The Associated Press on Thursday.

Hmmm. October 2010? That’s 21 months after a new president takes office. That’s pretty close to the 18 months that Obama says he wants as a time frame to get the troops out. But wait, wasn’t that time frame a “surrender” that would “embolden the terrorists”? So much for that position, I guess. It was bad enough for McCain’s argument when Maliki endorsed the idea; now that Bush has too, I’d say it’s dead in the water.

By the way, guess what the big sticking point is in the negotiations? I’m sure this will come as a shock to you all, but it’s the Bush administration’s obsession with making sure no law ever applies to anything they do:

But differences over immunity could scuttle the whole deal, the Iraqis said. One of the officials described immunity as a “minefield” and said each side was sticking by its position.

One official said U.S. negotiator David Satterfield told him that immunity for soldiers was a “red line” for the United States. The official said he replied that issue was “a red line for us too.”

The official said the Iraqis were willing to grant immunity for actions committed on American bases and during combat operations –but not a blanket exemption from Iraqi law.

What does Maliki think he leads, an actual sovereign government that gets to make their own laws? Clearly he hasn’t been paying attention.

Reality 1, McCain 0

McCain: I supported the establishment of a holiday honoring Martin Luther King’s birthday.

Reality: not so much.

Gay scientists identify Christian gene

From the incomparable Onion News Network:
VIDEO: Gay scientists identify Christian gene