Andrew Sullivan just wrote this: Palin is the Barbie doll attached to the front of a truck. I couldn’t possibly agree more. McCain, et. al. have put her on the ticket for two reasons. First to appeal to uber-right conservative fundamentalist Christians. Second, more importantly and related to the first, to add a little sexy fun to the ticket. Because, […]

Question: What’s wrong with this picture? Answer: Nothing. Another Question: What’s greater than minus ten (-10)? Another Answer: Everybody’s favorability ratings except Sarah Palin. I’m just sayin’…

I’m with Obama and Biden on this. The SurgeTM was a TACTIC, not a strategy. The overall strategy, to give “breathing room” for reconciliation to take place in Iraq and for diplomacy to achieve the kind of stability and negotiated peace necessary for Iraq to move forward without a USA presence has NOT been achieved. Here’s Biden, schooling “John” on […]

Wall Street money-handlers and the Republican Party have long been co-dependent partners. But, after this week? Ehhhh…not so much. Check out this email to James Pethokoukis at the US News and World Report (nicked from Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish (emphasis mine.): I am a lifelong ( 51 years old) “rock-ribbed” conservative…. What an eye opener this week has been! I […]

From Politico’s fine reporting: President Bush’s lame duck status, and his heavy hand in dealing with lawmakers in his own party for the last seven-plus years, is also coming back to haunt the White House, as House Republicans grumble that Bush is “trying to tear up the Constitution” by committing the federal government to such a massive intervention in the […]

I knew that the McCain campaign was getting desperate but, holy shit, I had no idea he’d go this far off the deep end. There’s no question that he had a bad day last week with the whole “fundamentals are strong/the financial world is ending” flip-flop. And the whole “no fucking way we’re bailing out AIG/we totally need to bail […]

I’m just sayin’…CNN’s Campbell Brown finally called the McCain campaign out on its sexist behavior with regard to Sarah Palin. This is the most direct and succinct statement of how sexist their actions are that I have seen yet. So let’s see, the McCain campaign has totally lost which of the the people and groups you’d most expect to be […]

Well then. Today was an interesting day wasn’t it? First, we had the Sarah Palin Does the U.N. show where she met with the Prime Minister of Afghanistan, with Henry Kissinger, and, of course, with Bono. There was a bit of a kerfuffle when, not making this up, McCain’s campaign said “no reporters”. Only still cameras. So the vice presidential […]

I’m looking at three separate pieces of information about the presidential race in Michigan and, taken as a whole, they point to very good news for the Obama campaign in November: 1. The registration of young people is HUGE and getting HUGER.2. The percentage of young people who voted in the primary in Michigan was much larger than usual this […]

After spending the summer complaining their campaign wasn’t getting the same amount of attention from the media as Obama, the McCain group is now complaining that they don’t like the kind of coverage they are getting. It didn’t seem to register with them that Obama’s media attention was largely him getting roasted over stuff like his pastor, his exceedingly tenuous […]

Unbelievable. “Loan Titans Paid McCain Adviser Nearly $2 Million” That’s right, John McCain’s Campaign Manager [Rick Davis] earned $2 million over five years lobbying for the very groups McCain is blaming for our recent financial “hiccup” (to quote my friend, Aielman.) Senator John McCain’s campaign manager was paid more than $30,000 a month for five years as president of an […]