Aw, Poor Bobby Jindal...

Graphic: Gurman Bhatia/Poynter

Wait, what I am saying ?  Fuck that guy.

Left: 'Official' Portrait of Gov. Bobby Jindal/Right: Some Random Brown Dude

Chart, h/t TBogg

The Iowa Straw Poll

So no more Iowa Straw Poll in American Presidential elections ?  Well although far less welcome news than actually ditching the 'tradition' of small states like Iowa & New Hampshire having disproportionate influence on elections by running caucuses & primaries ahead of everyone else, that's good news I guess.

Although it means perhaps no more delightful images like these of candidates (& S/O's) guzzling corn-dogs and the like.

Actually, on that basis alone, thanks Iowa Republicans !  You just can't unsee that can you ?



And how's the media covering this ?


Time ?

The Iowa Straw Poll that measured the intensity of the state’s most conservative activists and their love of free ice cream—and little else—was declared dead Friday at the age of 36. The cause of death was irrelevance.

HuffPo ?

R.I.P. Iowa Straw Poll, 1979-2015

NPR ?

A once important political event, which has seen its influence diminished by pay-to-play allegations, breathed its last breath Friday morning.

State Republicans voted to kill the Iowa Straw Poll in a unanimous vote — reversing themselves from a unanimous vote in January to continue it.

Politico ?

The Iowa straw poll — which gave life to Ron Paul, stole it from Tim Pawlenty and offered hope to Rick Santorum — was pronounced dead Friday. It was 36 years old.

Mother Jones ?

The Iowa Straw Poll, a fundraising event for the Republican Party of Iowa that advertised itself as a pivotal proving ground for the first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses, died on Friday. It was 36.

Daily Beast ?

The Iowa Straw Poll was taken off life support on Friday after losing its battle with relevance.  It was 36 years old.

Hmm...I'm sensing a theme here...  So, what the hell...

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Today in The Prescott Bush Dynasty News

Of course he did.  Gotta get that all-important Hispanic vote after all.  Not like you could just promote, cough, Marco Rubio, cough, some random extremists, cough, Ted Cruz, cough, within the party to blatantly pander to the mentally challenged...

And in 'baby-bump' news...

Uh, I'd forgotten she even existed, but yeah, thanks for that.  I should totally send them a card or something.  Take heart banksters & hereditary pol's, you're only slightly being out-bred by the browns.  And 'Today correspondent'. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...

Wonder what ever happened to that Chelsea chick, huh ?  Keeping a low profile and living out her life far from the public eye ?

Fuuuuccccccck...

Obama on the Israeli Elections and the Deal, Good/Bad/Otherwise with Iran

Obama Regrets Not Closing Guantanamo Prison 'On The First Day'

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama said Wednesday that if he could go back and do his presidency over again, he would have immediately shut down the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

"I think I would have closed Guantanamo on the first day," Obama said to applause at an event in Cleveland, Ohio.

Obama went on to say that he didn't rush to close the military prison when he first took office because there was already bipartisan agreement that it should be closed. He noted that his GOP presidential opponent Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) had also called for shutting it down.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.  That is all.