From the News & Observer:
“Obama fist bump led to Easley surgery”
Seriously.
Can’t trust those terrorists and their fist jabs…
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Fun with conventional wisdom! [sidenote: Ok, my mockery of conventional wisdom is about to gain a bit of irony; I'm prefacing this entire thought on the new - as in, last 48 hours - "conventional wisdom" that Tim Kaine is the most likely running mate for Obama.]
But what’s with this conventional wisdom Olympic roadblock? Everyone [...]
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Posted in Baseball, Politics, tagged Bob Casey, cheese, Chris Murphy, Congressional baseball game, Earl Weaver, Joe Baca, John McCain, Katherine Harris, Mike Doyle, Rick Santorum, Sherrod Brown on July 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So, before I posted that last thingamajig, it’d been a while since my last post. Which means that over the past couple of weeks I’ve had about 20 or 30 things I’ve meant to write about. Most of the thoughts passed – the Green Party had their convention and nominated McKinney (I may still write [...]
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Posted in History, Patriotism, Politics, Top, tagged Adlai Stevenson, America, Barack Obama, Cal Ripken, change, Elvis, FDR, Helen Thomas, Horace Greeley, Johnny Carson, Karl Marx, New Years Eve, revolution, Wild Bill Hagy on July 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been fiddling with this thought all month, and actually drafted most of this before the 4th of July – that seeming an appropriate date for overall thoughts on the past and future of the country. But I don’t know… it never came together. The 4th in reality was sort of a forced [...]
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Ah, Jibjab is back with a new election animation thingamajig – and it’s pretty good.
The 2004 video became standard issue in the Indiana campaign office in ‘04… every day my interns would come in and demand to watch it before they started working. Of course, the JibJabbers did some stuff in the years since, but… [...]
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You have to admit, the McCain squirm over the issue of Viagra is pretty damn amusing…
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Posted in 2008 General Election, Politics, tagged Barack Obama, Cynthia McKinney, February, FISA, Green Party, Jesse Jackson, John McCain, July, Medicare, Phil Gramm, Ted Kennedy, Wes Clark on July 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In any given year, February is sort of the Every Month. Nothing really happens — holidays are over, seasons aren’t changing, vacations aren’t being taken. It’s safe to assume that whatever life is like in February is sort of the baseline for the rest of the year.
In an election year, and particularly this [...]
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In June 2004, I attended a 21st Century Democrats training. If I remember correctly, it was only a few days long, but very intensive… we stayed in dorms at American University, attended classes during the days and worked on hypothetical campaigns at night. One afternoon, as we were entering the cafeteria for lunch, we passed [...]
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Is it cynical of me that Charlie Crist’s engagement strikes me as just a bit opportunistic? I mean, he and his girlfriend have been together for nine months – so it isn’t as though they met after McCain locked up the nomination…
This does, however, up the relative sincerity points for Harold Ford.
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Posted in Media, Politics, Populism, tagged 9/11, Barack Obama, Dick Grasso, Elliot Spitzer, George W. Bush, Jack Welch, Lawrence Kudlow, Mika Brzezinski, Mike Barnicle, Morning Joe, NYSE, Pat Buchanan, pension on July 2, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Alright, I’ve always kinda appreciated the fact that he’s an “honest” conservative, and I’ve always enjoyed watching his commentary on MSNBC. He has kind of a quirky agenda, which means that even though I oppose him ideologically, almost all liberals find a few areas of overlap with the man (Iraq? Trade?) But [...]
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