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Another SNL Ad

Posted on September 23, 2008
SNL was on fire this week. Here's another sketch, this one about jury selection in the O.J. Simpson trial."Wait, what does that barking mean?""It . . . it means she smells a murderer."

Franken Still Writing SNL skits

Posted on September 22, 2008
This just looks bad, though I'm not sure there's anything rational to be angry about.Al Franken, Senate Candidate in Minnesota, was credited as an SNL writer as recently as last week, and had a role in developing a hard-on-McCain sketch that opened the show this past Saturday...

Biden Says He Didn't Like Obama's Ad

Posted on September 22, 2008
The thing about Joe Biden's candor is that it's usually newsworthy.Here's a pretty interesting concession from him that he didn't like the false ad about McCain not using a computer and not sending e-mail (which McCain partisans responded to by falsely arguing that McCain's POW injuries made it impossible for him to type)...

Unfortunately Named Enterprise #245

Posted on September 19, 2008
LAX SECURITY AIRLINES!The spokesman for LSA! said the "LAX" is derived from their hub of operation - Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). The "Security" portion of the moniker is there to symbolize the deep commitment that the airline has for the security of its passengers...

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Born Alive Babies

Posted on September 19, 2008
I mentioned here that Obama opposed a bill in the Illinois Senate that would have required babies born during failed abortions to be provided medical care.The article mentioned in that post described the measure as a kind of beachhead, or trojan horse, from which standard abortion could be attacked...

Hari Kari

Posted on September 17, 2008
No not the Cubs broadcaster.What will happen if McCain wins?Even without post-November 4th rumors of rigged voting machines and the like, an Obama loss will be a deeply, traumatically depressing event for Democrats and other Obama enthusiasts. (Whereas if McCain loses, who will be seriously bummed outside of the McCain household?) There will be so many facets of potential unhappiness...

Your Future VP

Posted on September 17, 2008
Wow. Maybe it's time for a Department of the Interi-HAIR. HIOH.

McCain/Criticism/Democrat

Posted on September 17, 2008
McCain says the fundamentals of the economy are strong.Obama attacks.Reid says the fundamentals of the economy are strong.McCains calls for a commission to investigate the Lehman bankruptcy.Obama attacks. "?We know how we got into this mess," he says...

Republicans Are Funnier Now?

Posted on September 17, 2008
Excuse the Cavuto Mark.This article claims that Republicans are becoming the funnier party these days.I'm not so sure I buy the argument. There are a lot of clever and creative Democrats these days pumping out good material.Of course, the GOP has Mike Huckabee.

2 Guys Make Out On CNN'S Report

Posted on September 17, 2008
You really have to love how calm the studio hosts keep during this video:The sad thing is that this wasn't two Lehman employees just playing around, which would make it awesome, but two Howard Stern employees with a history of public pranks.

Pants on Fire

Posted on September 17, 2008
Obama intentionally distorts facts and quotations to portray McCain as anti-immigrant in Spanish.The greater implication the ad makes, however, is that McCain is no friend to Latinos at all, beyond issues of funding the DREAM act or how NCLB money is distributed...

McCain's Sex Ed Ad: Everyone Has it Wrong

Posted on September 16, 2008
This post inspired enough insightful commentary that it required a follow up.After a very good conversation with JS and CK, I co-wrote this piece with CK, and we submitted it to a few places to publish as an Op-ed. Mostly silence so far, but we don't have the energy to keep going...

Unbelievable

Posted on September 16, 2008
Watch the video, and see what democracy has become. It's horrifying, vapid, nonsense. A shouted mishmash of crass narrative, sloganeering, identity pandering, and outright lies.Not worth watching, not worth discussing. And to the extent this blog participates in the production and distribution of this trash, not worth reading.

Leaning Towards Obama?

Posted on September 15, 2008
Colin Powell praised both McCain and Obama today, and said this specifically:Former Bush Secretary of State Colin Powell said Monday that he has not yet decided which candidate to back in this year?s presidential race.The election of an African-American president ?would be electrifying,? Powell told an audience at The George Washington University, ?but at the same time [I have to] make a judgment here on which would be best for America...

Obama's Guns Position

Posted on September 15, 2008
This is an unfortunate statement:"The bottom line is this. If you?ve got a rifle, you?ve got a shotgun, you?ve got a gun in your house, I?m not taking it away. Alright? So they can keep on talking about it but this is just not true. And by the way, here?s another thing you?ve got to understand...

It's Been Worse

Posted on September 15, 2008
Nothing like this in the Dem primary this year:Check out this awesome website.

This is Going to Get Intense

Posted on September 14, 2008
The election season so far has gotten people passionate about politics again. Obama has motivated Democrats and others across the board to dedicate themselves to this election, discuss the future, and contribute to his campaign.McCain, of course, has his intense followers...

Rose-Gate

Posted on September 14, 2008
Sometimes there are negative messages that really resonate. Calling Obama out for bittergate, or chiding McCain for not knowing on the spot how many investment properties his wife owns.Then there are those that have absolutely zero chance of resonating...

Fresno Loses :(

Posted on September 14, 2008
13-10 to Wisconsin.Why didn't they go for it with 2 minutes left? Why punt when all it takes is 1 first down to be able to run out the clock?

Two Gaffes Involving the Disabled

Posted on September 13, 2008
A few days ago Joe Biden told a disabled Democratic State Senator in the audience to stand up and be recognized. Whoops. Biden recovered: ?Oh, God love ya,? Mr. Biden said. ?What am I talking about??Ok, no harm, no foul.But now we have a *really* big gaffe involving the disabled...

Lipstick On a Pig

Posted on September 13, 2008

Should I be Worried About Becoming a Slave?

Posted on September 13, 2008
McCain was on the view today. And when he expressed hope that judges would adhere to the Constitution in an originalist way, Ghost Star Whoopi Goldberg asked if that meant she should be worried about becoming a slave again.See the video here.Whoopi has a track record of saying really dumb things when it comes to politics...

Breaking News: Fresno to Crush Wisconsin Tonight

Posted on September 13, 2008
In Fresno, no less. Game at 7:30 PM PST tonight.Fresno State has been especially tough at home under coach Pat Hill, going 51-12 there since his 1997 hiring. Wisconsin matches the highest-ranked team ever to visit Fresno, but the Bulldogs beat then-No...

Uplifting Music

Posted on September 13, 2008
So as to get the bad taste out of our mouths from the last post, here's a little uplifting music:

The Isotoner Campaign

Posted on September 12, 2008
Obama is, once again, promising to take the gloves off to combat John McCain's poll surge.Is this the first time the gloves have come off?But just so you know -- this is, by my count, the 4th time Obama's campaign has officially or unofficially made such a declaration that Obama will "take off the gloves" and fight back...

Obama Questions McCain's Patriotism

Posted on September 12, 2008
I thought, per the Convention speech, this kind of stuff was off limits for Obama:John McCain didn?t just oppose the requirement that the government buy American-made motorcycles, he called Buy American provisions 'disgraceful.' Just ask the workers across this country who have seen their jobs outsourced...

Iraqi Veteran Youtube Ad

Posted on September 12, 2008

Department of Peace

Posted on September 11, 2008
Against Mark Udall, in the Colorado Senate Race:Hat Tip: DH

McCain's Education Ad

Posted on September 11, 2008
Here's McCain's latest education ad:Notice that the ad calls the Obama bill an "accomplishment," which I suppose is misleading, since the bill never passed.Nevertheless, the ad draws blood on Obama's weird position that kids should be receiving "age-appropriate" sex-ed lessons that include (1) STD training; (2) abstinence-only lessons...

Palin and the Bridge to Nowhere

Posted on September 10, 2008
Here's a quick NYT report regarding the Bridge to Nowhere, filed long before it would help John McCain.Gov. Sarah Palin ordered state transportation officials to abandon the ''bridge to nowhere'' project that became a nationwide symbol of federal pork-barrel spending...

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