The McCain Article

Scrapper brought up a couple of points about the McCain article, and I agree with him to a certain extent. Portions of the article are unfair to McCain when they portray his actions as a POW and escaping from a disasterous fire aboard a ship. I think the author went out of his way to [...]

Turning into a politics blog today

Apparently 130,000 people besides me were so pissed off from last night’s speech that they gave some cash as well. Obama has apparently raised 8 million dollars since Palin’s speech.

Repub Convention

I watched last night’s speeches by Rudi Guiliani and Sarah Palin from the convention last night, and it made me wish Hunter S. Thompson was still alive so he could call them leech-sucking mongrels or something of that nature. Guiliani’s speech was full of hate and he smiled as he implored the crowd to shout [...]

Tina Fey as Vice President.

So McCain’s more or less confirmed pick as VP is a reasonably hot Republican Tina Fey look-alike governor from Alaska with a history of ethics reform?
Goddammit.
In any case, I’m going to the Seahawks game tonight with an Alaskan Republican, so at least we’ll have something to talk about between my shouts of “Ohmygod, there’s Owen [...]

An Idea

“Superheroes don’t become president, politicians do.”
I read the New Yorker’s piece on Obama yesterday and then listened to an NPR interview with the author today and the above quote stands out at me after a few weeks in which it seems like Obama has turned from everyone’s hero, into another politician that everyone can mock.
But, [...]

Obama ‘08

I’ve been following the primaries for a while, I always like it more in the beginning when there are a bunch of fringe candidates that bring some much-needed ruckus to the whole thing (thinking specifically of Kucinich, Gravel, and Huckabee) but its been pretty boring and lame since around February. Especially since Huckabee dropped out [...]

Thinking about Caucusing

So yesterday, Faye mentioned the caucuses on  Saturday to me, and I sort of mentioned that it’s all a joke due to super-delegates and the like, and really the whole primary being a sham in many ways. But in any case, as I thought about it throughout the day, I considered the fact that it [...]