Monthly Archives: February 2008
Dead Precedence: What If?
It’s the elephant in the living room that the candidates ignore as willfully as so many of us mere mortals, but as the 2008 Presidential race winnows down to a handful of inevitable electables, it’s a perfectly reasonable question to … Continue reading
Filed under Making Sausages: Wonkery Wankery
Biting The Hand That Skeeves Him?
Party unity is a very important thing going into any Presidential thing, but the key element that you want is that said unity is for you, and not against you. All of the support that John McCain engendered when the … Continue reading
Filed under Limbaughts Amok
Cleveland Steam Her
So much for the Cleveland Steamer, the Cuyahoga Smoka’, the Cleavin’ In Cleveland, Blood Red In O-hi-o, the Sock-Eye In The Buckeye, the Devastation In The Birthplace Of Aviation, Gettin’ Started Y’All In ‘The Heart Of It All’, or even … Continue reading
Filed under Democrats - The Dogfight
Booga, booga, booga!
There’s a scene in the classic 1976 Paul Newman movie, Slap Shot, where one of the gleefully-pugilistic Hanson Brothers clotheslines an opposing player during the pre-game skatearound and instigates a full-on battle royal. One beleaguered official surveying the mayhem shakes … Continue reading
Filed under Poo-Flinging
Working for Change and “Will Work for Change”: A Tale of Two War Chests
With apologies to Senator Clinton who isn’t out of the race yet and could still pull a Clintonian miracle and find her way to the head of the Democratic bumper sticker this fall (though the potential cost gets bloodier and … Continue reading
Filed under Demockeracy
Barack Sabbath
And it was shaping up to be such a slow news day. It looks like there might have been something of an uproar that happened after her apparent near-conciliation on Thursday night, and the voices who didn’t dare entertain giving … Continue reading
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The Nader Nadir
Unsafe at any speed, Ralph Nader is ready to step up and gratify his ego once again and declare his candidacy this Sunday on NBC’s Meet The Press for President of the United States in 2008. About to be five … Continue reading
Filed under Distractions
You Compete Me
After John McCain essentially put to rest the shortest sex and influence scandal in Presidential campaign history, and before the debate could begin in earnest at what got into the New York Times to print a story more structurally unsound … Continue reading
Filed under Democrats - The Dogfight
Re-Rom?
The obvious culprit is Mike Huckabee, but he’s still just so damned likable (when he’s not comparing his primary travails to being waterboarded), it doesn’t seem like it’s in his wiring. That doesn’t mean he didn’t call in a few … Continue reading
Filed under GOP Candidates - Not Entirely Doomed
“Hilla-rebound!”: Wisconsin Rout for Clinton over McCain
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Glee redounded in the Hillary Clinton campaign last night as the New York Senator scored a decisive victory over her Republican adversary, polling more than 100,000 votes over John McCain’s tally in America’s Dairyland, and breathing new … Continue reading
Filed under Democrats - The Dogfight
