Presidential C-list Candidates in the News
Tommy Thompson appeared before the Jewish group the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism and said this:
“I’m in the private sector and for the first time in my life I’m earning money. You know that’s sort of part of the Jewish tradition and I do not find anything wrong with that.”
He later reiterated, after the audience became testy, that “What I was referring to, ladies and gentlemen, is the accomplishments of the Jewish religion. You’ve been outstanding business people and I compliment you for that.”
Tommy Thompson later appeared before the NAACP, where he said, “I want to thank all you nappy headed hos.” When the audience booed, he gave an annoyed expression, and demanded “What?”
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Dennis Kucinich has made it known that he is going to file Articles of Impeachment against Dick Cheney. I’m afraid that this isn’t terribly uncommon — a lone congressman (someone from Texas, I’d have to look it up) filed one against George Bush. A Populist Congressman did the same against Grover Cleveland. I’ve never read or seen the book, but the newly published book The Genius of Impeachment probably has others. Nobody remembers either one, they were mocked by the media — if mentioned at all — and swiftly disappeared — a footnote to a footnote in history.
The focus on Cheney does solve the stupid question of “You can’t impeach Bush, because then we’d get Cheney!” It is a repeat of the Nixon shield of Spiro Agnew, except that, of course, you never saw Spiro Agnew floating around in the Bushes behind Nixon.
At any rate, this should be enough to catapult Kucinich in those “Presidential Power Polls” from #7 to #5. But I already had him there anyway. (Who the hell are Chris Dodd and Joseph Biden?)