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Seems Like Business As Usual »

For Obama, that is. Larry Johnson has a great piece here at No Quarter entitled, “The Obama Messiah Is A Whiner. The title gives it away a bit – it is about Obama’s new claim that McCain “cheated” during the Saddleback Church Forum on Saturday night on 8/16/08. Yes, he is claiming McCain cheated, and [...]

Oh Look! Everyone’s Coming Together! »

OH LOOK! We all used to be so far apart! And now we’re becoming united! We are INDEED becoming “one.” That’s so beautiful. It’s like totally spiritual. Uhoh. My cat just told me that it’s not good to come together like that. He slapped me silly with his paw, and told me: “You dope. The [...]

Barky Visits Typical White Grandmother Without Michelle or The Kids »

Family Unity is so cool, isn’t it? I mean all of us visit grandma every decade or so without the wife and kids, right? After all, why would any grandma want to see her own great-grandchildren and her grandson’s wife? It’s just not done, right? There’s no family dysfunction going on here at all, nothing [...]

Stating the Obvious »

A prominent conservative Republican has stated the obvious: In a tough year like this, Democrats could probably have defeated Republican John McCain with a flawed, but seasoned candidate like Hillary Clinton. But long-suffering liberals convinced their party to go with a messiah rather than a dependable nominee — and thereby they probably will get neither. [...]

Wednesday’s Child? »

So the other day, John Kerry helped celebrate The One’s birthday (oh wait -dadgummit – that has now been labeled “racist,” too!!!). OK – do over – Monday night, Senator Kerry helped Obamessiah celebrate his 47th birthday. Kerry said, “I asked Barack Obama what he wanted for his birthday. He said, ‘Indiana, Colorado and Virginia,’ [...]

Quibbles and Bits – August 5 »

1) Today’s NYT has a piece by David Brooks outlining his ideas about why Obama is not “slam-dunking” this election so far. Brooks basically says what we’ve said here at NQ for some time. Who is this guy? There is a sense that because of his unique background and temperament, Obama lives apart. He put [...]

Drink This In With Your Coffee! »

TAKE A BIG SWIG:       ATV/Zogby Poll Toss-Up! McCain 42%, Obama 41% as Undecided Voters Increase… … “Obama loses support among his strongest demographic groups. …” DON’T CHOKE NOW:       Bob Herbert: Why is everyone missing the phallic symbols in McCain’s Britney ad? (As I wrote to some friends, perhaps the problem is that Bob Herbert is [...]

Oh, Where to START??? »

Good grief – evidently, this is what I get for going to sleep at night. All KINDS of stuff has come up about Obamessiah. I scarcely know where to begin, and others are already writing beautifully about this at No Quarter, so I don’t want to be TOO redundant, but WTF about Obama wanting to [...]

Super Delegates, It’s Not Too Late [Update] »

Way back in 1988, with the country weary of 8 years of Ronald Reagan, the presumptive Democratic nominee–Michael Dukakis–was 17 points ahead of George H. W. Bush in the polls in August. We all know how that election turned out. The political conditions were ripe for a Democrat to win the White House but the [...]

You Learn Something New… »

So, guess what I learned yesterday? I learned that calling someone “arrogant” makes me a racist!!! Who the hell knew?? All these years, I had no clue that “arrogance” = “racist.” That’s what John Ridley wrote over at Huffington Post (that’s your warning for the link). Who is John Ridley, you ask? A TV writer, [...]

The Real Hurdles That Obama Faces »

The latest Gallup poll shows the race in a deadlock: “Gallup Daily: Obama 45%, McCain 44%.” That means that Obama not only received no bounce from his whirlwind trip, but that McCain’s attacks are probably working, along with Obama’s own “issues” with arrogance and presumptuousness. I found two particularly fascinating featured items in LisaB’s article: [...]

An e-mail, with perspective, from a reader »

When Obama starts reaching for the race card for no apparent reason you know he is against the wall and has run out of options. I have told people that Obama is not just going to lose, but he is going to lose in a landslide: That world tour may have impressed the Grey Goose [...]

AFL-CIO Reminds Us About Obama Rumors »

The AFL-CIO endorsed Obama. They have released two mailers. The first mailer is here: • “Does he wear a flag pin on his lapel? Yes, but not always. Like many presidential candidates, sometimes he wears a flag pin, sometimes he wears a breast cancer awareness pin, sometimes he wears his U.S. Senate membership pin and [...]

Obama’s Empty Blue Boxes »

Obama’s excellent adventures have now ended. He visited the troops in Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan, with a little basketball thrown in. He has wowed and wooed “200,000″ people at a free concert in Germany. We had to “jack the bus” up higher as Obama “threw” the injured troops from Ramstein and Landstuhl under the bus [...]

What’s Wrong With You Bitter White People? »

Barack doesn’t have much faith in you. He doesn’t think you’ll “get it.” Maureen Dowd asked him: I asked how his “Citizen of the World” tour will go down in Steubenville, Ohio. “There will probably be some backlash,” he said. “I’m a big believer that if something’s good then there’s a bad to it, and [...]