A Strong Message To McCain and Obama – Think America First – Stand Up TOGETHER on the Iranian Crisis
SUGGESTION TO OBAMA AND McCAIN – Get together and decide to issue a joint statement, possibly with the President, letting the Iranians know that there may be differences in approach, but that Americans, and the candidates are united on two fronts: preventing Iran from getting the bomb, and defending the rest of the Midde East fron Iranian blackmail. NOW WOULDN’T THAT BE A MESSAGE TO WAKE UP THE IRANIAN EXTREMISTS WHO THINK THAT THEY CAN PLAY WAR AND MIND GAMES AGAINST US DURING A PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN?????? C’mon guys – put your differences aside and send a REAL MESSAGE. This could be a special moment in both of your careers. It’s a no-brainer.
Are Americans whiners? John McCain says of course not. He didn’t say it. Phil Gramm, ex -Senator and McCain economic adviser SAID IT, saying Americans complain too much about the bad economy.McCain was forced to renounce Gramm, On the other side, Jesse Jackson jested into a microphone that he would like to do damage to Barack Obama’s mid section because of Obama’s comments that some black men need to be more responsible to their families. Jackson apologized. Obama accepted. But Jackson’s son. a popular Congressman, repudiated his father.
This is a hard edge campaign and the candidates are finding that their own supporters can do real damage or, in Jackson’s case, think about it.
Watch the situation in Harrisburg carefully. The initial arrests are described to us as the “tip of the iceberg.” Look for even bigger names and more shocking revelations. This investigation will also cover ground never covered before – state bonuses for more than just “political” work.
Back in Philadelphia, Friday’s accident, fatal, and paralyzing on I-95 , was reportedly caused by an aggressive and drunk driver. How often do we hear this ugly combination? How often do we drive with “crazies” on our backs? I’ll say it again – people behind the wheel can be just as dangerous as people with loaded guns. Philadelphia has a real problem, because speed is rarely enforced.
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Larry, maybe McSame could reprise his “Bomb Iran, Bomb Bomb Iran” song. Bush knows that one, too.
If news coverage were balanced, Gramm’s comment would get as much coverage as anything Wright said. John McSame has said numerous times that our economic problems are “psychological.” A competent press corps that actually dug deeper than “he said, she said” trivialities or sensationalizing comments would recognize the pattern in McSame’s various statements on the economy and have the guts to ask him “Do you think the American people are hallucinating when they see higher gas prices, rising unemployment, and declining home values?”
One word on the scandal in Harrisburg: No VP slot for Ed Rendell.
Larry, is you beef with speeders or aggressive drunk drivers who tailgate? Maybe Philadelphia should set up FREE AIR stations as a lure, and then the noble police could give breathalyzer tests to everyone who pulls in. Enforcing laws against drunk driving would seem to be a better goal than enforcing laws about speeding if you want to get drunks off the road. Of course, then jr wouldn’t be able to drive anywhere.
Larry,I think your suggestion to the candidates is a good one,it will show Iran that we are truly united.As for Phil Gramn I always found him to be an irrirating man and I’m not surprised by his words.Jesse Jackson,I kinda feel sorry for. He worked his whole life for civil rights and most if not all the priviliges that obama has is because of Jesse Jackson,and here comes this untested,inexperience upstart,who is likely to be president,taking away his dream. I’d be upset too,in fact, I am upset,my dream was to see a woman president in my life time and since I am old ,I doubt that will happen now,So, go easy on old Jesse.
Tony Snow is dead, Larry. Do you think he regretted being part of the Bush whitewash that Scott McClellan has written about?
Also, haven’t McCain, Obama, and Bush all already made it abundantly clear that they oppose Iran’s quest for nuclear (or nukular in Bush’s case) weapons and that they will defend Israel and our interests in the Middle East? Why flog a dead horse?
Larry, your idea on Iraq is an excellent one! This could shift the political balance of power in Iraq in a moderate direction.
Graham is right about politicians and pundits whining about the economy.
The debt crises, public and private has been building since the late 1970s.
Unrealistic expectation about housing values and houses as saving accounts began in the 1970s also.
The government has been irresponsible about promoting home ownership as a form of wealth creations. Our tax code, even now, discourages savings,and investment.
Then Uncle Sam has been spending money, to paraphrase John McCain like a drunken sailor since 2001.
Finally we have the growing cancer of credit cards. This is like financial heart disease.
Larry, good to see you up and around.
Your thoughts on Iran are noble but let’s peel back the onion a bit. Obama is for complete pullout in Iraq as quickly as possible. How serious is Iran going to take his threats/promises? Bush has Iran in a holding/prep period waiting for Dems to take over. Once Bush is out of the way, look out Israel and moderate MidEast states. Game is on!
4 months before a Presidential election, neither Obama nor McCain is going to agree to a joint policy statement. What do they personally have to gain? That’s all they (or their parties) care about at this point.
As long as no one blinks in the next 4 months, everyone will just wait for the Obama Administration to begin direct dialogue with Iran. What a joke. Negotiating with terrorists…
Larry, does this mean JR and your Team Viagra can call off the cycling search?
CT, can we at least wait until after his funeral before we bury Tony Snow? Tony Snow was a good guy and a fair reporter. He didn’t work for one of the hack networks with a clearly liberal agenda. Taking a job in the Bush Administration may prove to have been a bad career move but don’t throw him under the bus with the rest of them.
FAFL, I come to bury Tony Snow, not to praise him. He worked for a hack network all right. He did so before and after he worked as Minister of Truth for the White House. I don’t think that means he deserved to die. It is sad that he was afflicted with cancer.
Aside from that, everyone knows we aren’t whiners. We just want free air.
Larry, I got two message from you, one said find another blog and the other invited me back, please advise. In the meatime I can’t help but delight in the fact that Jesse Jackson exposed himself on tape as the Race Husler that he’s always been. Obama’s Father’s Day message scared him to death because his cottage industry of taking the learned helplessness of certain blacks and using it to high-jack the white establishment might be endangered because Obama repeated Bill Cosby’s, Shelby Steele’s, and Thomas Sowell’s messages regarding certain truths within the black community. These are three very insighful and well educated black men who get the deal. They understand that there is baggage from slavery and oppression and blatant discrimination, but at some point its time to get about yourselves take personal responsibilty for the obvious thing that are destroying your opportunities and that you can change whitout help from the dominant white culture.
Anyway Larry, let me know which it is and I will abide by your wishes,after all it is your blog!
Larry,I’ve got three words for you-Strait of Hormuz.I believe that’s how it’s spelled.Anyway,any attack on Iran by us or Israel will result in the strait being blockaded & gas going to about $12 a gallon.That might make Nancy Pelosi happy but probably not many others.President McCain will have to find a way to co-exist with the Iranians,as distasteful as that is.
As for speeders,the PPD is somewhat reluctant to make routine traffic stops.They too often spiral out of control.Just part of the breakdown in “The Next Great City “.
CT, Fox News is far less a hack network than the other unless you believe the liberal babel they espouse.
George, ditto on JJ
Hormuz for those playing at home.
A tad optimistic calling McCain the President, YAP.
Is it just me, or is a Sunday morning BM after two cups of coffee particularly enjoyable?
George, the difference is that you can read the paper and enjoy it on Sunday. Every other day of the week you have to rush it thus not thoroughly and completely enjoying it. Apparently it is a “guy thing” because women don’t seem to get that same sense of satisfaction.
Ahoy Maties! Just finishing up some grogs aboard the Moshulu.
LB, how do you plan to spend your last day as a free man? Once you are hauled off on slander charges, you may be going up the river for a few years.
Arrrrgh
CH, I know it’s tough to study law when you’re out at sea under the Jolly Roger and constantly chasing young lads that you want to stab with your sword, all while being pursued by a crocodile, but when you put in at port check out a law library and read up on what constitutes “slander.”
And FAFL, Faux thought the Lincoln-Douglas debates were between Abe Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, with a graphic showing the two of them to boot. You can’t get much hackier than that, unless you’re Kerri Lee-Halkett on Fox local and you pronounce “embed” emmmed. TelePromTer genius! Falafel. Loofah.
George, I love you and hate you all at once. Let’s talk over dinner.
LK
Arrrgh Matie. Man-love from Sir Larry. Get a room guys. Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh.
LB, maybe Frederick Douglas will defend you today in your slander suit. That would rattle JR. At least Fox news won’t get your name pronounced correctly when you are hauled in. Good luck with all that. I’m sure you’ve lost sleep the last couple nights.
What does Larry mean when he says he “may have to reset my readership” ? (Last post on Meehan story )
jr-Have you seen the jury pools at City Hall or the CJC lately ? You might want to ask for a change of venue.
Arrrgh YAP. JR is resting up. Tough weekend of leading Team Viagra cycling team in search of Larry on Saturday. He spent all day yesterday deleting ‘files’ off his hard drive. Now he has a big court appearance today. Go easy on our hero.
Larry, the pirates have taken over. What’s an Irish guy to do? Why am I asking you?
I rode in the ACS Bike-A-Thon yesterday. I saw no pirates, and I saw no terriers riding bikes.
Driving back to Pennsylvania, however, I did encounter one of Larry’s tailgaters. A woman on her cell phone in a white Lexus. She was right on my bumper. She ended up passing on the right and cutting me off, even though there was no way for me to speed up because of the line of traffic in front of me in the left lane. I yelled, “Larry is gonna settle your hash, bee-otch!” I felt empowered.
LB-She may have been in a hurry to get to the station in Marlton that was giving away FREE AIR.On the legal front,do you have good representation ? These suits can be tricky,just last week Mrs.Yankee was in court & her financial well being depended on the 8 citizens who could barely stay awake during the mind numbing testimony.But the story had a happy ending since the greedy wannabe pirates had to settle well below their intent.Good luck.
Ahoy YAP! Welcome aboard. There was a time that pirates ruled the seas. Now we rule this lame blog. Oh how the mighty have fallen. Arrrrrgh
Larry and Leo, you sound like a couple of old men. If you can’t take the crazy drivers, stay off the road.
Larry, did you see the cover of The New Yorker? I say it’s a hilarious send up of the right wing slurs that people like jr, et al., perpetuate against the Obamas. By aggregating the slurs and depicting them in a hyperbolic fashion, the cartoon marginalizes those who make the slurs; anyone who perpetuates the slurs after this looks ridiculous for perpetuating them.
And it offers a good criticism of the way in which television news and the 24 hour news cycle has deprived us of any discussion of real substance; it’s all just focus on attacking and who’s offended by what, because that drama sells.
What are your thoughts, Larry?
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The cartoon cover is very funny,this opens the door for SNL and other comedies to play the terrorist in chief skits.
Larry, since you are the senior statesman of the Phila. anchors, when are you going to step up and explain to these retards reporting the news that their only job is to read the teleprompter. Calling out cops, reading others emails and keying the sides of cars is not in the job description. When did Phila become the home for out of control TV anchors?
Where has everyone gone?
Left for good or just waiting for new blog?
Larry, if you included a link to the Americus Times – Recorder.If you did, we’d all know about the 1th Annual Plains Peanut Festival in September.
12th
We all need to get closer to Jimmy Carter.
LB-The serious tone of your post indicates how threatened you must feel about the impending law suit.If you need an attorney,just check the next SEPTA bus.The real good ones advertise there.
Where do thing stand on the campaign for free air? Now that Rendell is assuming leadership of the national governors’ group, will he use that pulpit to lobby for free air? If we get free air, will Obama take note?
Fast Eddie is sulking back in Harrisburg these days. His VP spot is all but gone. Corruption investigation underway at capital. The tide has turned on Fast Eddie.
Not sure we want him championing our Free Air campaign. He may serve more to deflate the situation.
JR has locked onto Leo’s ankle. It may take the jaws-of-life to remove him. Leo may need shots.
I guess the blog is on hiatus until:
1) Larry finds his groove
2) Leo and JR settle out of court
3) The pirates return to Larryland
Why don’t we discuss the Vagina Monologues until one of the three above events occurs?
Ahoy Maties!
The pirates are back! Let the blogging and plundering begin!
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!
I don’t get the current pirate motif of my readership’s comments.
The pirates need to take a break from being so “clever” and find a new blog.
I definitely need to reset my following.
LK
Larry, me thinks you doth protest too much.
Besides, when you let the blog get too old and stale, your bloggers digress to personal attacks, “cleverness” and pirate play.
No one will accuse you of being clever on this blog, Larry.
Change the blog routinely and you’ll see more straight talk and less digression, Matie. Perhaps you are the one with the ticking clock and crocodile chasing you.
Yeah. Give me something I can sink my tooth into before I get scurvey and it falls out.
Larry-Speaking of Insider Info,we’d all be impressed if you could get a copy of jr’s filing.I’m not sure if he filed Civil or Criminal so I can’t tell you where to look.The clerks in the records room are generally very helpful though.Did I leave out articulate ?
YFBP, rabid dogs lack standing to sue in court. There is no suit. Besides, I called animal control, and they got lawyer Atticus Finch to shoot him dead in the street. I imagine they’re taking samples of his brain tissue now to record the progress of the rabies and to determine how far advanced it was.
Larry, what do you think about this road rage incident on Roosevelt Blvd.? Was there tailgating involved? Speeding? Or was it the result of teens who couldn’t cough up $1.00 to inflate their tires properly?
Harper Lee is probably spinning as fast as Richard Condon.
Speaking of which, did you see that more records of brainwashing of Amercian POWs are emerging from Asia? One of the tactics involved getting servicemen to reject their spouses upon return to the U.S. and then to “marry” Communist sleeper agents.
Hmmmmm……I’m sure you don’t have anyone in particular in mind.
It’s obvious: John Kerry.
Kerry burned villages, cut off limbs, severed heads….
George, he also got in trouble on the Group W bench when he disclosed that he was there for littering.
Good morning everybody. Did you see that all star game last night? Man major league baseball doesn’t get much better than that. Bud Selig knew what he was doing when he eliminated the tie. I can’t think of anything more captivating then sitting in front of your TV for five and a half hours watching baseball. All those former all stars in attendance would agree this was an unprecedented all star game. Yogi Berra unfortunately didn’t make it to the end. Quote Yogi “its over when its over” Ernie Banks said “lets play two”. Hank Aaron stated “it took me 17 years to get 3,000 hits, this game seemed longer.