Thursday already! Put-out-the-garbage night in my neighborhood. But first, some headlines:
- Death Toll From Tornadoes Nears 300 (NYT) — We sort of dodged a bullet on that one in SC, although there were some twisters reported.
- Shandon shooter was wearing homemade explosives (thestate.com) — Columbia still reeling from this. I spoke with a cop a little after lunchtime today who had still not been to sleep since this happened early yesterday.
- Obama names Petraeus as CIA head (BBC) — Meanwhile, NPR says, “President Obama’s picks to head Defense and the CIA suggest continuity of policy.”
- India Snubs U.S., Russia in Jet Deal (WSJ) — And after all that R&D we’ve invested over the last few decades. Guess the Indians thought the Eurofighter just looked cool.
- GOP pivots on ‘birther’ questions, blames Obama for media attention (WashPost) — Wow. Wow. Actual quote from Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Preibus (with a name like that, I’d like to see HIS birth certificate): “It’s maddening and I just wish the president would engage in the real issues that are affecting America.” Really. And I see Sarah Palin’s been talking to Doug Ross, because SHE said, “Media: admit it, Trump forced the issue. Now, don’t let the WH distract you w/the birth crt from what Bernanke says today. Stay focused, eh?” Previously, she had called the birther nonissue “fair game.”
- Prince greets fans before wedding (BBC) — It’s almost over! It’s almost over!
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WTF? GOP blames Obama for media attention?
I heard Donald Trump on TV this week congratulating itself for credit forcing Obama to release his birth certificate. [The use of “itself” is intentional.]
On the way home, I heard on WVOC’s Keven Cohen show, a woman caller that said she saw, on the Internet, a birth certificate signed by a Kenyan woman in Kenya about Obama’s birth.
There are kooks and there are kooks out there. That woman that called into WVOC is a kook. Sarah Palin is a kook. Donald Trump is a kook.
If Sarah Palin and Donald Trump are the GOP’s best hope for president, then the GOP is in deep doo-doo.