McCain gets tough questions fron the Crimson Tide (my alma mater). UPDATE: CNN has more. UPDATE AGAIN: Watch it….
I Like This, From John Edwards
A good idea: Passing "Brownie’s Law," so agencies like FEMA get the job done: Edwards will enact a new requirement – "Brownie’s Law" – ensuring that senior political appointees actually are qualified to perform the job to which they are appointed. Brownie’s Law will require that heads of executive agencies and other senior officials have demonstrated qualifications in the field … Read More
Just When I Start To Warm Up To Her…
…she goes and says something like this: "It’s a horrible prospect to ask yourself, ‘What if? What if?’ But if certain things happen between now and the election, particularly with respect to terrorism, that will automatically give the Republicans an advantage again, no matter how badly they have mishandled it, no matter how much more dangerous they have made the … Read More
More Like This Please
"Nice guy" Edwards goes on the offensive, and takes a subtle swipe at Hillary today in Hanover, NH: Real change starts with being honest — the system in Washington is rigged and our government is broken. It’s rigged by greedy corporate powers to protect corporate profits. It’s rigged by the very wealthy to ensure they become even wealthier. At the … Read More
Law-Breaking Pastor Calls On God To Smite His Accusers
Wiley S. Drake recently used Church letterhead — and his talk show broadcast directly from his First Southern Baptist Church of Buena Park, CA — to endorse Mike Huckabee for president. But some atheist jerks at Americans United for Separation of Church and State ratted him out to the IRS, who are now investigating the church’s tax-exempt status. How did … Read More
Quote Of The Day
The John Edwards campaign has issued a statement on the departure of Karl Rove from the White House. Here it is, in full: “Goodbye, good riddance.”
Marie Jon Apostrophe Thinks It Is Stupid To Focus On Hillary Clinton’s Cleavage; It’s Better To Focus On Her Ass
Poor Marie. She so badly wants to write an article with insightful political analysis about Hillary Clinton, the current Democratic frontrunner for President ’08. But she just can’t. Or can she? Just say no to socialized Hillary Care Ah, well, that’s a good start. A thought-provoking critique of Hillary’s plan for improved health care. Let’s see how far Marie can … Read More
Clinton v Obama
It’s a minor skirmish in my eyes, but it has had "legs". Obama recently gave a tough speech about combatting terrorism: Obama said if elected in November 2008 he would be willing to attack inside Pakistan with or without approval from the Pakistani government, a move that would likely cause anxiety in the already troubled region. "If we have actionable … Read More
Court Case Of The Day
The Ninth Circuit has held that vote-swap sites are protected by the First Amendment. What’s a vote-swap site? The Ninth Circuit explains: Appellants created two websites, voteswap2000.com and votexchange2000.com, that encouraged people to “swap” their votes and provided email-based mechanisms for doing so. The vote-swap mechanisms enabled third-party supporters in a swing state such as Florida or Ohio to agree … Read More
’08 Guide
I’m intentionally avoiding Election ’08 blogging, because it’s all going to change a lot over the next few months, and I don’t want to get burnout. But this handy chart is pretty cool. You’ll need to click on it to get the full thing. It’s a chart of 18 Democratic and Republican presidential candidates and their positions on 25 issues … Read More
Obama v. Clinton
There’s an emerging meme going around about the salient difference between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Andrew Sullivan put his finger on it: One difference between Obama and Clinton does not seem to me to have been stressed enough. They are of different Democratic generations. Clinton is from the traumatized generation; Obama isn’t. Clinton has internalized to her bones the … Read More
Enough Already!
Been kind of busy lately with the last week of "The Full Monty" (more on that in a post later-to-come), so I haven’t been watching the political news lately. Apparently, I haven’t missed much. Everybody is still talking about Hillary Clinton’s cleavage (or lack thereof): here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here…
BREAKING NEWS: Hillary Clinton Has Boobs!
Apparently, the folks at the Washington Post are intrigued by the fact that — well, here’s the opening sentence of this hard-hitting news piece: There was cleavage on display Wednesday afternoon on C-SPAN2. It belonged to Sen. Hillary Clinton. You would think that the article would segue into something, oh, I dunno, relevant to oh, I dunno, something. But no. … Read More
Republican Sinking Ship
A Fox News Poll — that’s Fox News, kids — looks at presidential ’08 matchups (pdf format) The news? No matter who the Republicans nominate (Guiliani, Thompson, Romney, McCain), they STILL get beat in the general elections by Clinton or Obama. I like that.
Sex Education For Kindergarteners
Our national media is so bad. I mean, it is atrociously bad. Check out this ABC News headline: Sex Ed for Kindergarteners ‘Right Thing to Do,’ Says Obama The story begins: ABC News’ Teddy Davis and Lindsey Ellerson Report: Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., told Planned Parenthood Tuesday that sex education for kindergarteners, as long as it is "age-appropriate," is "the … Read More