Even greater news: 37 million people get to say "WTF? But I saw that TelePrompter! Three friggin' times!"

Posted at September 4, 2008 4:30 PM in response to Palin's Speech Watched By Nearly As Many As Obama's Acceptance

Even greater news: 37 million people get to say "WTF? But I saw that TelePrompter! Three friggin' times!"

Posted at September 4, 2008 4:19 PM in response to Palin's Speech Watched By Nearly As Many As Obama's Acceptance

Yes, it's strong and risky stuff. But why should we be unwilling to talk about it? That McLingLing might very well have some unresolved issues post-POW, and was a hothead pre-POW, is certainly something that a responsible citizenry ought noodle over while deciding if he should have access to the football, no? But, no one's supposed to discuss it because it's, what, mean?

As Greenwald might say, that's not to Serious.

Posted at September 2, 2008 10:23 AM in response to New Movie Quotes Fellow McCain POW Saying McCain Not Fit To Be President

Remember, it will be impossible to dump her once she's nominated and accepted.

Actually, that's not true. The RNC can name a new nominee after the convention if the already-elected nominee should become "unavailable." And, I think that's exactly what's going to happen: McCain names Palin to placate the wingnuts at the convention and to avoid a nasty televised convention floor fight (and the inevitable comparisons between that happenstance and Obama's brilliant handling of the PUMA/Clinton(s)/Unity melodrama)... and then Palin drops and his main man Lieberman is named his running mate (thereby making him "doubley" mavericky and bi-partisan to boot). And, in the meantime, he hopes, Palin will be so beateb up by the press and the public that those women still smarting over Clinton's failed run will be less inclined to vote for Obama. And, unless Palin is in on it, she might very well decide to not play along, to run, and to wait the old coot out. How else would she become the POTUS?

Posted at September 1, 2008 7:24 PM in response to The Palin Meltdown in Slo-Mo

I think it's Meg Whitman.

Posted at August 29, 2008 10:36 AM in response to Election Central Morning Roundup

Discuss? How 'bout we not. Any discussion about race-baiting will only backfire on Obama's campaign (since the worst thing in America isn't to be the victim of racism, but rather to be accused--however rightly--of being a racist).

Posted at August 12, 2008 11:12 AM in response to Counting The White Women In McCain's "Hot Chicks" Ad

It seems then, that by comparing Nader's foolishness to your high school experiences, you're actually missing the point.
Nader opines that Senator Obama's supposed failure to discuss poverty "enough" is in fact an attempt to hide his "blackness." You see, following Nader's argument, the only "authentic" black experience is one rooted in poverty (and, I would suppose, victimhood), and African Americans have nothing valuable to say about anything else: energy policy, health care, national defense, etc.
It's part and parcel of the same supposed liberalism that seeks to limit African Americans to a minstrel show of "oh-woe-is-me-ism" and "we-shall-overcome-osity."
One that you (I hope, unwittingly) further when you refer to a Jesse Jackson as a pimp, or accept a narrative that African American vernacular English is, ipso facto, unproper and therefore "bad," or offer up your "you're acting white" experience thoroughly de-contextualized from the social criticism of 1970's African Americans who witnessed the first generation of "affirmative action babies" running as quickly as they could from their culture in an effort to gain the acceptance of recalcitrant white racists in the classroom and on the job.

Posted at June 25, 2008 12:49 PM in response to Nader To Obama: You Want To Talk White?

I don't even understand why anyone is having these conversations with these financier's about HRC's campaign debt.

She says that she has 15 million supporters... ask them each to donate a buck and some change to the cause and be done with it.

Asking the big $ boys for fundraising help just perpetuates the fiction that they matter.

Posted at June 25, 2008 12:20 PM in response to Obama Making Private Calls Appealing To Hillary's Top Fundraisers -- And Sometimes Hearing Criticism In Return

Yaaawn.

Please. Like this is the first time Cindy McCain has stolen something.

Wanna get my attention, Cindy? How about a brownie recipe that incorporates that Vicodin that you do love so much. Sweetie.

Posted at June 16, 2008 4:12 PM in response to McCain Camp Cribs Recipe For Cindy -- Again!

I always thought that Barack would win NC (the highly educated Research Triangle, together with Triad and Charlotte Metro just screams Barack Country... as does Northern VA). I think he'll make a play for the I-85 corridor between Charlotte and ATL, will take VA with the DC suburbs and the Hampton Roads area, and will make McCain compete up and down the Front Range and throughout the Rust Belt (Appalachia be damned...).

He'll of course win Bos-Wash, LA, Northern CA, Seattle, the Willamette Valley...

Might be a little tougher in the Sunbelt and South Florida, though, and he'll need to watch the Latinos in the Texas Triangle, but does anyone not think that he's gonna win with at least 55% of the popular?

Barack's a 50-state game changer.

Posted at June 12, 2008 2:02 PM in response to Poll Suggests Obama Is Putting North Carolina In Play