Who is "Buckhead" for the WBEZ tapes?

Remember 2004, Dan Rather, the "fake but accurate" memo, and a poster on Freerepublic.com named "Buckhead" who was the first to spot the fact that something was not quite right about that memo?

Well, now we have the tapes of Obama, Ayers, et al., in the WBEZ (Chicago National Proletarian Radio) archives that, as far as settling the issue of Barack 0bama being a socialist, are like the punchline to the old joke, the one where the guy asks the girl if she'd sleep with him for a million dollars, and she says, "Sure!".

Then he asks her if she'd sleep with him for a quarter, and her indignant response is, "What kind of a girl do you think I am?"

He replies, "We've already settled that question, now we're just negotiating the price."

But I digress.

I first saw this on one of the PUMA blogs, but the problem with the blogosphere is frequently in trying to figure out just where something viral originated.

So I'm asking, "Who found this first?"

BTW, I still maintain that we haven't seen youthful enthusiasm like this in a political campaign since McGovern in 1972.

And we all know how well *that* worked out, don't we?

I predict McCain/Palin will win big.

And many, many thanks to the PUMAs.

They are more high-spirited now than a good number of rather dour Republicans are at this point.

Palin hits *another one* out of the park (Henderson, NV)

I posted this on reclusiveleftist and thought it worth putting up here.

Violet:

Thank you.

Palin hits one outta the park. Again.

Methinks the 0bamaBots have “misunderestimated” Sarah Palin.

Either she wrote it herself or somebody’s writing for her who *really* knows her “voice”.

Frankly, I think that the McCain campaign has finally “turned her loose” as either they think they have nothing to lose by so doing, or [here's what I *really* think]:

The internals are telling *both* campaigns something different that what we’re seeing in the publicly released results.

Obama is expending resources and travelling to states that supposedly he has “locked up”.

McCain and Palin are going to states that have supposedly fallen into the “solidly blue” category.

Either both campaigns have suddenly gone stupid or something’s up, which, from the looks of things, doesn’t look good for the 0-man.

I said months ago regarding the 0bama campaign:

“I haven’t seen this much youthful enthusiasm since the McGovern campaign of 1972.”

And we *all* know how well that one worked out…

Thanks again, and best regards,

YZ

Memo to Sen. McCain

Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

--- H.L. Mencken

The time is now.

SNL is doing a few Really Funny Political Sketches.

On the bailout.

I was amazed.
They actually put blame on the Democrats, and named Frank as a culprit.

The Vice-Presidential debate.

I swear, Fey does a better Palin that Palin does.

It's almost eerie.

The sketch knocks both Biden and Palin-- Palin a bit more, but that's to be expected.

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And a heartfelt thank you to my friend [I guess I can say that as she hasn't banned me yet, hehehe], Ms. Violet, who runs the place.

My take on the Vice-Presidential debate

IMHO Advantage Palin.

Whether she whupped his ass or not, depends upon whether you read Democratic Underground or Free Republic.

I noticed a five-minute period in the middle of the debate where Palin had Biden either so upset or so flustered that he couldn't complete a sentence.

I believe that the reason she didn't bring up the things that could have eviscerated Obama/Biden with: Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac/Dodd/Frank/Waters; Obama/Wright/Ayres/Wright/Davis- was that her coaches instructed her not to do so, as that would have given an entirely new and possibly interpretable as "bitchy" to her persona, which they were in dire need of resurrecting.

I regret saying that because it sounds sexist, but that's what I think.