Say Hello To My Little Friend

It is the opinion of this blog that you’d have to be kind of a schmuck to let your vote be affected by the words of a preacher who happens to count one of the candidates among his flock. The fact that Obama and Rev. Jeremiah Wright are separate entities with different points of view ought to be blindingly obvious to those with average intelligence. So if the Washington Times is to be believed, 71% of Republicans, 54% of Republicans, and 52% of Democrats are schmucks. If ... more

You know how Republicans often have trouble coming up with campaign songs by artists who are cool with having their song used by Republican candidates? John McCain needs a song by a Republican (or at least a Republican-leaner). So I think he should use the theme from "Team America: World Police." Imagine it. You’re a Republican, you’re sitting at a campaign rally, waiting for McCain to show up, getting kinda bored and thinking about how screwed your party is in November, whe... more

In the comments section to my post on the Jeremiah Wright scandal, Andy points to something that I think says more about Barack Obama than anything having to do with Rev. Wright ( link goes to Chicago Sun-Times, but it’s an AP story): White House hopeful Barack Obama suggests he would have left his Chicago church had his longtime pastor, whose fiery anti-American comments about U.S. foreign policy and race relations threatened Obama’s campaign, not stepped down. ’&... more