Great moments in the history of presidential ass-kicking

In keeping with the Commander-in-Chief's new tenor in handling the Gulf oil spill, we will be offering a series of great historical moments of ass-kicking.



In 1984, during the run-up to the elections, Vice President George Bush, out on the campaign trail was picked-up by a boom-mic, saying off-camera that he was looking forward to "kicking a little ass".

Whether or not she was sincere in her umbrage regarding that remark, Vice Presidential candidate, Geraldine Ferraro, thought that it was directed at her and in a specific anatomical sense.

A minor kerkuffle ensued, leaving Bush to scratch his head and wonder just what all the fuss was about since he was just using an "old Texas high school football" term.


Beers with Demo is proud to have brought you this great moment in presidential ass-kicking.

Is There a Pill You can take for This sort of Thing?

The Democrats race and gender-based ritualistic self-mutilation continued today as Geraldine Ferraro stepped down from her position in Hillary Clinton’s finance committee over comments she made that suggested Clinton’s opponent, Barack Obama, was successful because he was black. Story here.

This follows on the heels of Obama foreign policy advisor Samantha Power resigning her position after using the “M”-word.

We think we share the feelings of many Americans (including many Democrats) right now by saying: “What is with these people?”

If you’ve followed this site for any amount of time, you know we have spared our own default party of registration no quarter if any of its members have strayed too far from our Reagan Youth ways or just plain common sense and this extends in spades to the Republican Party’s own presidential nominee, John McCain.

But one of our most consistent criticisms of the Democrats over the years aside from any ideological differences has been what we feel is a complete and abject un-seriousness to how they conduct business.

How can we take them seriously when they do not behave in a serious manner themselves?

So while the Democrats are stumbling all over themselves vying for the honor of “most aggrieved”, we wonder when it is that these people will wrench their focus away from their gender and race-centric navels and propose how it is they are going to fight the war on terror, succeed in Iraq, secure the borders, improve our shaky economy and fix our failing public education system. We’re waiting.

How to cope with all this non-sense? Not to worry. Mr. Styles aka Dr. Street Legal has got a little sumthin’-sumthin’ here that should fit all our budgets.