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Who'd You Rather?

Posted on August 27, 2008
Have at the Democratic Convention? Edwards or Lieberman?Most people said Edwards.Indeed, on the scale of veep violations, it appears that Mr. Lieberman committed a much greater infraction jumping into bed with Republicans than Mr. Edwards did with Ms...

Foreign Language Covers

Posted on August 27, 2008
I've noticed lately that I'm a big fan of foreign language covers of English songs.A few examples: (1) Hey Mickey in Spanish; (2) the Gypsy King's version of Hotel California, also in Spanish; and (3) the French version of Paint it Black, discussed extensively here...

Clinton Not A "Serious" VP Candidate

Posted on August 25, 2008
This won't help party unity.Some senior Obama supporters are irritated at how they perceive the Clintons fanned ? or at a minimum failed to douse ? stories that she was not even vetted as a possible vice presidential nominee. This is because she told Obama she preferred not to go through the rigorous process of document production unless she was really a serious contender, an Obama associate noted...

Biden's Record on Guns

Posted on August 25, 2008
I don't think this will help Obama with gun owners in Michigan and Ohio.Anyone who owns a big gun is crazy.

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Biden the Gaffe Machine

Posted on August 25, 2008
A short history of Biden's gaffes.The most recent gaffe involved calling Obama the first articulate and clean African American presidential candidate. Once the comment got out, Biden was chastised particularly for using the word "clean."Fortunately, he later he clarified the word clean to mean "crisp and clear...

Obama's drunk text

Posted on August 23, 2008
The text finally came at about 1 am Saturday morning."Dude. Joe and I are doing shots down at Pig in a Whistle. Get down here. I'm going to make him my vp."

Phony Text Messages

Posted on August 22, 2008
I played this trick on Stacita yesterday. It was pretty awesome.In recent days, as speculation and anticipation has mounted, so too have phony text messages declaring Obama?s supposed running mate ? from Evan Bayh and Hillary Rodham Clinton to Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps...

Biden & Romney

Posted on August 22, 2008
Buzz is that it's Biden tomorrow or Saturday, and Romney next Friday.Both are huge, huge mistakes. Unforced errors.Maybe if McCain sees Obama's Biden blunder it will convince him to go with Palin or Pawlenty.

"Senator Infanticide"?

Posted on August 22, 2008
How Obama messed up on opposing the Illinois Born Alive Act a few years ago.It was a trap, says the article.Representative Jerrold Nadler of New York was an exception. Understanding perfectly well the intent behind the bill, he nonetheless realized that there was no way to mount an effective opposition to it...

Why It's Biden/Not Biden

Posted on August 22, 2008
Why?1. Flurry of activity at the Biden Residence.2. Going for 8.00/share on intrade.3. The flight plans from Delaware to Chicago4. It's not Kaine or Bayh5. Obama smirks!Why not?1. Biden is a bad pick.2. It's all a huge decoy.3. So everyone take their eyes off of Hillary.

He works hard for the money

Posted on August 22, 2008
These are the kinds of officers we need on the street. Willing to do anything to catch prostitutes. Including have sex with them.Assistant City Attorney Joseph Sanders asked Breiner if he enjoyed having sex with the women.At first he shrugged his shoulders and shook his head...

Conservative Blog Bets the Farm

Posted on August 22, 2008
This is confidence.Stay Red Kansas, which I haven't read, offered to shut down their blog if Evan Bayh wasn't Obama's Vice Presidential pick. It's looking more and more like it's Biden, not Bayh.The link to the blog no longer works. Did they already shut down? Come on guys...

Sarah Palin Wins NRO VP Race

Posted on August 20, 2008
She narrowly edges out Mitt Romney.

Kmiec Surprised that Obama is a Democrat

Posted on August 20, 2008
The other night at Saddleback, Obama was asked which Supreme Court Justices he wouldn't have appointed. Naturally, he went for an easy target for Democrats -- Clarence Thomas, the Court's strongest originalist and possibly most conservative member.What a surprise to Douglas Kmiec, the conservative legal scholar who confusingly endorsed Obama after supporting Romney(!) during the primaries...

McCain Winning, At least For Today

Posted on August 20, 2008
Real Clear Politics has McCain winning 274-264, with the map I mentioned here.Check it out while it lasts. Once the Democratic Convention hits, all bets are off.

Playing it straight?

Posted on August 20, 2008
Virginia Governor Tim Kaine is assembling a meeting to figure out who becomes Governor in case he's nominated Obama's VP.[E]ither Obama will choose Kaine, or Kaine was given the impression that he would be chosen.Wow. That is pretty big. If Obama is trying to throw people off the scent, he's doing a great job...

Two Roads to Obama's Veep

Posted on August 19, 2008
The campaign is leaking, quite intentionally, the names Biden, Bayh, Kaine, and Sebulius.The question:Are they playing it straight, or are the preparing for a massive surprrse?Either they're playing it straight-up -- meaining Biden, Bayh, Kaine, or Sebelius -- or it's some kind of A-lister, someone for whom the elaborate staging of it all doesn't produce an anti-climax...

Hillary is looking Good

Posted on August 18, 2008
I don't know that I'm prepared to say Obama's VP will be Hillary.But at this point, I'm prepared to say that's his best option.Is all contrary evidence just a massive headfake?Joe Biden's mouth is a constant source of embarassment. And how would the PUMAs take to a failed second-tier candidate leapfrogging someone with 18 million votes? Evan Bayh has been vetoed by the netroots Kathleen Sebelius would be a clear and direct affront to the PUMAs, much more so even than Biden...

Clinton to Get a Vote

Posted on August 15, 2008
This is probably nothing right?Her name will not be on the general election ballot this fall, but Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton?s presidential candidacy will receive one final tribute when her name is formally placed into nomination at the Democratic convention...

McCain Event

Posted on August 15, 2008
I attended a John McCain house party tonight in San Francisco. I was pleasantly surprised with the turnout, and pleasantly surprised with the people.Because San Francisco isn't exactly a hotbed of conservative Republican activity, I was a little worried that the people who attended the event would be crazy or radical people defending their last shreds of belief with everything they could muster...

McCain up by 1 in Colorado

Posted on August 15, 2008
Colorado's 9 electoral votes are going to be critical in November. The Democratic convention is in Denver, the Denver metro area is growing more and more liberal, and Obama is making a huge push for western states. Still, other than Denver (and Boulder), the rest of the state remains pretty conservative...

Big Sigh For McCain

Posted on August 15, 2008
The FEC lawyers sided with him.The Federal Election Commission released a draft opinion asserting that McCain, the presumptive Republican candidate, did not violate the provisions of the primary election public funding system.McCain?s Democratic opponent Barack Obama had alleged that McCain broke the rules, an accusation Democrats have wielded often as part of an effort to question McCain?s commitment to campaign finance reform...

Obama Nation

Posted on August 15, 2008
Jerome Corsi's anti-Obama book is Number 1 in the NYT Best Seller List.The Obama campaign feebly responds.I know they're trying to do a better job than Kerry did in 2004. But isn't Kerry's silence preferable to easily criticized responses? If your response can fairly be criticized as false or misleading, isn't that worse than not responding at all?Maybe not.

New Internet Term

Posted on August 14, 2008
I had no idea that I had been "rickrolling" people this whole time.Check out this very important article.

Swimming 30 Hours A Week Burns A Lot of Calories

Posted on August 13, 2008
12,000 calories a day.?[Michael] Phelps lends a new spin to the phrase ?Breakfast of Champions? by starting off his day by eating three fried-egg sandwiches loaded with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions and mayonnaise.He follows that up with two cups of coffee, a five-egg omelet, a bowl of grits, three slices of French toast topped with powdered sugar and three chocolate-chip pancakes...

Don't Fall For This Trick

Posted on August 12, 2008
Some professors are not your allies:A female student said she and Miller met May 8. The student said Miller told her she wasn't doing well in regards to her overall grade.The student said Miller said she "would have to do something for him" and Miller grabbed and sucked on her breast...

In the Spirit of the Olympics

Posted on August 12, 2008
It's a new Equitorial Guinea record!

We're Like Strangers to Love

Posted on August 11, 2008
This must have taken hours to do.Hat Tip: BC

Obama's Celebrity Ad

Posted on August 11, 2008
If you condemned John McCain's "Celebrity" ad as either negative, juvenile, an attempt to take the focus off issues, or something else, please feel free to defend Obama's similar ad in the comments.At least he doesn't compare McCain to Britney or Paris...

McCain Democrats

Posted on August 08, 2008
They need to keep using that Hillary quote. She was totally right when she said it.

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