If someone starts rubbing that disinfectant on their hands after shaking yours, it probably doesn't mean anything.

Last Friday evening Mary Jo Kilroy, Dem candidate for Ohio 15th congressional district sent a body double in her place to the Plain City Steam Thresher parade.

Not a note of apology for being unable to attend. A "tired campaign staffer" who sat in the back of a car with her name pasted on the side, waving to the good people of Plain City.

Follow the links to the comments at NaugBlog who picked up on this, and check out the classy non-denial denial from Kilroy's communications director Brad Bauman.

The GOP's video and YouTube label accuses this unidentified woman of being a body-double for Kilroy.

Kilroy communications director Brad Bauman was asked by PolitickerOH.com this morning whether Kilroy was at the parade early this morning -- before the YouTube video was circulated and before being told about the ORP's accusation that the campaign was using an impostor.

"No, she was not, our staff was though. We had a staff of about 9 or 10 at the parade," Bauman said.

When Bauman was told of the accusation, he was outraged.

"That has to be the most laughable f------ thing I have ever heard," he said.

Outrage? Nooooooo, opportunity!

Jaleel White, call your agent pal. Trust me, this is the big one.

h/t mesablue, a moron-blogger with garishly large hands.

I'm just sayin.

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Earlier I blogged about Obama canceling a scheduled trip to meet troops stationed in Germany. The reason given was his campaign was paying for this part of his trip so it was somehow inappropriate to visit the troops. As I noted, he could have avoided turning it into a political event by ditching the press.

It turns out the reason he canceled might be because he couldn't bring any press.

One military official who was working on the Obama visit said because political candidates are prohibited from using military installations as campaign backdrops, Obama's representatives were told, "he could only bring two or three of his Senate staff member, no campaign officials or workers." In addition,

"Obama could not bring any media. Only military photographers would be permitted to record Obama's visit."

The official said "We didn't know why" the request to visit the wounded troops was withdrawn. "He (Obama) was more than welcome. We were all ready for him."

The idea that someone running for President might see American troops, including some wounded in battle, as nothing more than props is infuriating but about what one would expect from the left and its poster boy.

It's too bad Obama isn't going to meet these troops with the press in attendance. I'd like to see if he has the balls to tell them to their face they had nothing to do with the improvements in Iraq.

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The deuce you say, Sir!

Are you somehow implying that Captain Bullshit says one thing and does another?

I won't stand for that kind of loose talk, Sir. Why, it has a subterranean twinge of racism to it.

In related news, Islamist thugs performed non-homosexual homosexual acts upon each other. One quoted Oscar Wilde -- "The best way to avoid temptation is to give in to it" -- and then noted that Wilde was a "fag."

Then he blew his buddy Achmed.

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Lovely base you 'ave 'ere, Guv'ner. Would be a shame if something were t' 'appen to it.

Details are only now starting to reach the outside world, and it looks increasingly like sabotage was responsible for devastating a military convoy as it travelled through Khavarshahar. The company responsible for moving the equipment, LTK, is owned by the Revolutionary Guards and is suspected of being involved in shipping arms to LebanonÂ’s Hizbollah Shia Muslim militia, which is trained and funded by Tehran.

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But what really concerns IranÂ’s leadership is that the incident is the latest in a long line of unexplained explosions.

In May, officials blamed British and American agents for an explosion at a mosque in Shiraz that had just finished staging an exhibition of IranÂ’s latest military hardware. Last year more than a dozen Iranian engineers were killed while trying to fit a chemical warhead to a missile in Syria.

A few months earlier, a train reported to be carrying military supplies to Syria was derailed by another mysterious explosion in northern Turkey. It is highly unlikely that these incidents are unrelated, which has only served to deepen the mood of fear and suspicion gripping the Revolutionary GuardsÂ’ leadership.

Tensions have been running high in Tehran since Seymour Hersh, the respected American investigative journalist, revealed in the New Yorker magazine last month that President George W Bush had authorised up to $400 million to fund a major escalation in covert operations to destabilise the regime.

Having contended with IranÂ’s attempts to undermine the Iraqi government over the past five years, British and American military commanders are more than happy to undertake covert operations in Iran, and there have been unconfirmed reports that special forces "militants" are operating undercover in the country.

Corrected that "Special Forces" mention for ya. Here's some other suggested terminology:

SEALs = Amphibious insurgents

Delta Force = Delta Clerics

CIA Paramilitary Death Squads = disaffected youths

The notion that we might be conducting devastating stealth raids in Iran fills me with shame, despair, and raging red boners.

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A picture from the crowd in Germany -- note the picture one woman is holding up.
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Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

Islam sure seems to have a lot of, errm, sexually confused and angry young men to its credit, doesn't it?

You want to know what Islam really needs? Not humanitarian aid. Not a religious reformation. Not even military opposition.

What they really fucking need -- what will cure 95% of all their problems -- is Erasure.

You dig the beat, yes? You will groove down in decadent bi-curious discos, yes? You will tell yourselves it's not gay if he's the guy who winds up having to pop a breath mint, yes?

Inshallah, my super gay-conflicted homosexual-panic brothers. Inshallah, and Make it work.

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Maybe you can -- but if you can, it's only because you remember the dumb song:

A: "We can't go on pretending day by day that someone, somewhere will soon make a change."

B: "This is the moment we must help answer the call."

C: "But if you just believe there's no way we can fall."

D. "The world will watch and remember what we do."

E. "Let us realize that a change can only come when we stand together as one."

F. "We cannot afford to be divided."

G. "These now are the walls we must tear down."

H. "This is the moment when we must come together."

I. "They'll know that someone cares, and their lives will be stronger and free."

Check your answers at Geraghty's.

Making the distinction between We are the World and Obama's fatuous Depak Choprak motivational speech is the fact that Obama was backed by Steven Stills, Cyndi Lauper, and John (Hall and) Oates, who harmonized "Ahhhh, children" at every line-break.

Speaking of 80s pop: Take back Barack Obama/Take back Rahm Emmanuel/Take back Nancy Pelosi/Give them all someplace to go...

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...and give Congress hell:

Bush needs to do what Truman did in 1948. He needs to call a special 11-day session of Congress over the summer recess and force the Congress to come back to Washington (the recess is Aug.11-Sept.5th).
Bush could then deliver a message where he asks Congress to do their jobs - legislate (!!), for example:

(1) address the energy/gas crisis (i.e, offshore drilling and/or nuclear); and/or

(2) pass a budget — they have yet to pass one appropriations bill this year because as Pelosi and Reid admitted — they are waiting for Obama to become president to do a budget, which btw — is simply irresponsible and wrong.

I believe that the Democrats would whine and not pass a thing. Then Bush and McCain could hammer them for being a "do-nothing Congress." Moreover, McCain has the experience legislating to show up Obama in the Senate during a special session — it's his turf and I think he could make Obama look foolish.

More on the cold-sweat nightmares Reid and Pelosi are having over oil at Instapundit.

Photoshop thanks to the great Slublog.

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No doubt they're feeling a bit spurned and abused at the hands of their paramour.

But, as I learned from What's Love Got to Do With It?, a woman in love will take a lot of abuse before giving up on her man.

Around midnight on July 16, New York Times chief political correspondent Adam Nagourney received a terse e-mail from Barack Obama's press office. The campaign was irked by the Times' latest poll and Nagourney and Megan Thee's accompanying front-page piece titled "Poll Finds Obama Isn't Closing Divide on Race," which was running in the morning's paper. Nagourney answered the query, the substance of which he says was minor, and went to bed, thinking the matter resolved.
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But, the next morning, Nagourney awoke to an e-mail from Talking Points Memo writer Greg Sargent asking him to comment on an eight-point rebuttal trashing his piece that the Obama campaign had released to reporters and bloggers like The Atlantic's Marc Ambinder and Politico's Ben Smith. Nagourney had not heard the complaints from the Obama camp and had no idea they were so steamed. "I'm looking at this thing, and I'm like, 'What the hell is this?' " Nagourney recently recalled. "I really flipped out."

Later that afternoon, Nagourney got permission from Times editors to e-mail Sargent a response to the Obama memo. But the episode still grates. "I've never had an experience like this, with this campaign or others," Nagourney tells me. "I thought they crossed the line. If you have a problem with a story I write, call me first. I'm a big boy. I can handle it. But they never called. They attacked me like I'm a political opponent."

Okay, so if you write a story he doesn't like, he sics the nutroots on you. I can accept that. But it seems to me that Obama is extraordinarily thin-skinned and will sic the nutroots on you for just about anything. He expects the press to faithfully report his Message of the Day, every day, and gets angry when his lapdogs don't comply.

I find this unlikely:

As tensions escalate, the risk to Obama, of course, is that reporters will be emboldened to challenge his campaign ever more aggressively. At the same time, McCain has demonstrated a longstanding ability to deftly manage the press. After all, it wasn't long ago that McCain, short on cash and trailing in the Republican primaries, re-launched his campaign in New Hampshire by courting the press, "my base," as he once proudly put it. In June, the McCain camp unveiled its redesigned campaign plane, a Boeing 737 that recreates the Straight Talk Express bus, so reporters can assemble with McCain and shoot the breeze.

Now, Obama may be handing McCain a shot at winning back his "base." Of course, making ads that paint the media as Obama's stooges may not be the best way to accomplish that. But the press wants to put its love somewhere, and, right now, that love is up for grabs.

But who knows. If even Katie Couric can rouse herself to ask the Lamb of Chicago a few hard questions, maybe other members of the press can remember they're reporters, and not webmasters at the Official Barack Obama Fan Club website.

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Vacuous, fatuous, and insipid like every other goddamned thing he says, and that complaint, as always, comes with the subterranean twinge of racism.

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