And from the “Pardon Me For Breathing” Department:

Fred Thompson uses his Tennessee beginnings as if they were a Hollywood setting, but today Fred Thompson will use the Volunteer State as his personal ATM and an excuse to withdraw from the Florida Values Voters debate.

“Tennessee is too important and too pivotal in the 2008 presidential election to be used as a backdrop or a checking account,” said Tennessee Democratic Party spokesman Wade Munday.”

These times are too perilous to have an actor parading around the state, portraying a presidential candidate, and avoiding serious debate for serious times,” Munday continued. “Fred Thompson has yet to offer a substantive response to our military friends and families in Iraq, but he’s willing to raise money using their sacrifices as a political soundbite.”

Aside from the financial withdrawals, Fred has withdrawn from debate after debate on account of some rather unimpressive campaign appearances. Now he uses Tennessee as an excuse to withdraw from a debate on values, because he has yet to memorize those lines.”

J-Ger sez, “How dare Fred Thompson… raise money for a presidential campaign! He should be like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and John Edwards, and never hold any fundraisers at all! Why doesn’t he act like Hillary and rely on nice men like Norman Hsu to give him money!

My reaction? Man, but Tennessee Donks have had the Fear of Fred put into them.

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The nutroots have a new hero.  I also understand the object of their Bushophobic affection has ”requested” to bring Tehran’s annual “gay pride” parade to New York so he can have some time to himself.  And, you know, still get that wreath-laying loose end tied off.

Ya learn something every day.  For example, even Jimmy Carter’s lone claim to fame - the Camp David Peace Accords - were a fraud, as far as his role in that glorified photo op.

If the latest Clinton fundraising scandal has a lifespan correlative to the bottomless Hsu pun pit - and it sure looks like it does - this story may actually outlast even the Hillary Junta to come.

Mr. Ahmadinejad went to Columbia, and performed at least one genuine public service: to quote J-Ger:

That prospect [of direct bilateral negotiations with the mullahgarchy] looks a little different after watching the man talk about God, the angels, the prophets and Islam for twenty-five minutes straight at Columbia University, and then follow it up by contending his country has no gay people. It took… how should I put it… the willing suspension of disbelief to contend that face-to-face meetings with Ahmadinejad seemed like a productive avenue to pursue.

But not much more than it will take for a majority of voters to put Hillary Clinton back into the White House, and start the whole sorry, dangerous process in motion.

The two kind of go hand-in-glove, don’t they?