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Election Over
Based on this Dick Morris column, Barack Obama will win the votes of every woman in America. I’m consistently amazed at the ways our punditariat has of explaining why every good thing for the Democrats is actually bad. Hillary giving a good speech is bad for Biden and Obama. Biden…
Funkdaddy Supreme’s House O’ Speech
Barack Obama is apparently going to have his acceptance speech in front of a mockup of the Parthenon or something, an act of hubris unrivaled in modern times. Of course, there is no backdrop that Obama could have for his speech that wouldn’t play into Republican attacks on his “celebrity”…
The Hillary Speech
Initial review: great speech that did largely what it needed to do, and raised my hopes that Clinton does a joint ad with Obama at some point. Morning after: somehow, all the coverage has turned this into a potential indictment of Joe Biden and Barack Obama’s speeches. And the scattered…
Speak On It, Blake Chinwag!
There’s apparently a new definition of “earning” that means “someone else doing the work and you getting the fruits when they die”. Mitt Romney on the houses of McCain and Obama: Former governor Mitt Romney, perhaps continuing his audition to be John McCain’s running mate, attacked Barack Obama today for…
Explanations Are In Order
The New York Times joins the “stop telling us what you’re going to do, start telling us how you’re going to do it, and don’t bother us with any of that ‘policy’ crap” train. Senator Barack Obama goes into the Democratic convention in Denver with a clear challenge: to match…
Yes, But How? And Then What? And Then How Again!
Ezra notices the start of one of my favorite election year tropes: sure politicians have all these goals, but how are they going to accomplish them? But will Obama, amid the pulsating theatrics, also attempt the less glamorous and more difficult task of explaining specifically where he wants to move…
Obama/Biden
That’s the ticket. (I got the text at 3:29 AM.) I was enthused by precisely none of the candidates, and Biden brings with him some baggage that I worry about (mainly the history of saying bizarrely offensive things), but as these things go, it’s a not-awful choice. The Republican oppo…
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Barack Obama: John McCain is out of touch because he has more houses than a sultan, rides around in golf carts and thinks that $500,000 a year is apparently enough to classify as working poor. John McCain: Inky file footage says that Barack Obama will RAZE UR TAXES. This is…
Bamboozled! Led Astray!
FactCheck goes and looks at Barack Obama’s birth certificate – the real, live thing that they can hold in their hands. Because they are not fucking nuts, they conclude that the document is, in fact, a real birth certificate which certifies Obama’s birth in the United States on August 4,…
Obama responds to John ‘I don’t know how many homes I own’ McCain
Jesse already broke the news to all of you pathetic homeowners out there with only one domicile about John McCain’s inability to recall how many houses he owns. The next time you see some GOP swill about Obama being an elitist, think about McCain, who’s so wealthy (or so far…
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