Time to place your bets again, ladies and gentlemen. Who is going to be the 47th Vice President of the United States, and who is going to fall a hair’s breadth or a country mile short and be back to carrying their own bags by Thanksgiving? Who’s going to be the next to sit a [...]
Entries from March 2008
March 30, 2008
Unincumbered
If you’re the type that follows Presidential campaigns, you may have noticed something unusual about 2008, aside from the fact that Sean Hannity’s skull seems to be getting larger in some Barry Bonds sort of way (Republican steroids, perhaps): There is no incumbent President or Vice President running for office. This is the first time [...]
March 29, 2008
Surge Protectors
Well, it’s been five years and our war’s growing up. John McCain is promising to defend the surge and protect our right to remain at war over the liberal wetnoodlery of those two peaceniks, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. George Bush is measuring the success of the war by the number of soccer games being [...]
March 28, 2008
McCain’t Touch This
In the absence of a winter Olympics this year, the greatest skating story this season has been the solo exhibition of Senator John McCain, who has glided across the ice of this 2008 Election Year unjudged, unaccosted, and unchallenged. It’s his good fortune that, first, his primary competition was against the likes of the multiplicitious [...]
March 27, 2008
ObstiNancy
The spectacle of two sexagenarian women slugging it out isn’t something anyone should see, and isn’t something you do see outside of two grandmothers in fisticuffs over the last $19.99 Fry Daddy at a Des Moines Wal-Mart.
Unless of course it’s Election 2008. We’re getting close to the gloves coming off between Speaker of [...]
March 26, 2008
Sleazing With The Enemy
I can only imagine it would have been like James Brady sitting down at Cheesecake Factory for lunch with John Hinckley. They’d exchange a few pleasantries, talk about their respective lives, a little small talk, and just get to know one another before getting up to the eventual, “You know, I’m really sorry I shot [...]
March 25, 2008
“I Ain’t Afraid Of No Gays!”
Aww, Jesus. Not this crap again. Didn’t we get past this four years ago after the anti-gay hysteria of the 2004 election? I thought when the Republican J. Crew overreached with the Terri Schiavo debacle, and their favorite sons started getting caught with their favorite sons in steamy teen email exchanges and Midwestern airport bathrooms [...]
March 24, 2008
Enemy Liar
Ever since her now-infamous red phone ad, Hillary has been working overtime to prove that she’s the tested leader for a dangerous world. She might not be there at 3:00 AM to answer the phone, but she’ll get the voicemail later.
With her latest claim that she dodged sniper fire on her trip to Bosnia [...]
March 23, 2008
Chill Whitey
Well, it’s been five days and the reviews are in on Barack Obama’s Reverend Jeremiah Wright repudiation address (I was hoping for a defiant, race-baiting debacle so it could enter Presididential lore as “The Crackers Speech”). Many were similar to that of Andrew Sullivan of the UK’s TimesOnline.com: “Shockingly brave…the most honest speech about race [...]
March 22, 2008
Bill of Rights
Well, there’s a guy who knows how to ruin a party.
After Bill Clinton gave up that most prominent of Man Days, Super Bowl Sunday, to be the New Mexico Governor’s date and to pitch his best woo to his former protege, he figured it was a lock that Bill Richardson would get caught up in [...]
