Mullet-Americans Rally Around Pawlenty

Mullet-Americans are “cautiously optimistic” about rumors that mulleted Minnesotan Tim Pawlenty may soon be named Senator John McCain’s vice presidential running mate.
“It would obviously be historic, and it could really balance the ticket, what with McCain’s embarassing lack of hair below the cervical vertebrae,” said mullet-American activist Billy Rae Cyrus.
Still reeling from the [...]

Obama Goes To Black Father’s Day = Nixon Goes to China?

African American men are one of Barack Obama’s strongest constituencies. And yesterday, Father’s Day, he called them out about disproportionately high levels of asbsentee fatherhood among African American men.

This is tough stuff. This is akin to John McCain going to white seniors and lecturing them about the current structure of Social Security and Medicare [...]

Throw Back the Ring

(My wife, Lisa Dewey Joycechild, has been saying some intriguing things about Hillary Clinton, and I asked her to write her thoughts for the Crowd. -Bruce Benidt)
My 20-year-old Master’s Degree in Women’s Studies & I disagree with three of my friends and their Women’s Studies degrees about who to support for president. It’s been [...]

Vanity Fair Profile of Clinton (Bill) A Good Read

I don’t know how accurate it is (though it seems exhaustively reported) but Todd Purdum’s profile of the post-presidential Bill Clinton in the July Vanity Fair is an entertaining and thought-provoking read. It examines the - among many issues - the question of why President Clinton - who is one of the best political [...]

That Creaking Noise is My Mind Opening

Ouch. I find myself having to give credit to someone I viscerally disagree with.
Koryne Horbal of Columbia Heights is quoted in a story in the Strib today saying “I don’t care” if the petition drive she’s part of — to get feminists to pledge not to vote for Obama if the full delegations of [...]

If She Knew Then What She Knows Now…

Back in January, when Hillary was having Bill measure drapes for the White House (their old drapes were at the dry cleaners, or in Ken Starr’s basement), she went along with penalizing Michigan for jumping ahead of Iowa and New Hampshire in the primary calendar. So did Terry McAuliffe, her campaign chair, who, as Democratic [...]

Yes She Can?

So what’s your favorite media pundit metaphor for the Democratic presidential nomination stalemate?
A kid who keeps changing the rules of the game so it can’t end? A murder suicide? The Energizer Bunny? The world’s most expensive fantasy camp? Dead man walking (i.e. dead but doesn’t know it yet)? Baghdad Bob returns?
Or [...]

Bush Backing Barack?

President Bush’s speech criticizing Senator Obama in front of the Israeli Knesset yesterday knocked Senator Clinton completely out of the news cycle when she desperately needs to be dominating it.
The President’s focus on Obama, rather than Clinton, made it feel as if the Democratic nomination race was over, at a time when Clinton [...]

Clinton: “Inevitable” to “Independent?”

I wondered when I might see the first reference to it and I saw it this morning.
Polling data from Rassmussen Reports released today:
“… if Clinton does not win the Democratic Party nomination, 29% of Democrats say she should run an Independent campaign for the White House.”
And only 38 percent of Democrats (not just Clinton supporters, mind [...]

SNL Captures the Dems’ Distress

Saturday Night Live is often at its best when it makes us a bit uncomfortable and Amy Poehler’s hilarious riff Saturday night on the current focus of Democratic worry is a classic in this genre.  In a single 5-minute skit, she gives voice to the fears that we all tap-dance around in an effort to [...]