‘No greater form of domestic terrorism than the plaque on your teeth’

I’m such a worthless bum. I can’t remember the last time a wrote anything worthwhile on this site. Our friend Dennis Lang even called me out on my uselessness of late. But tonight, I found myself with a bit of free time, and I started digging through old notes about posted I wanted to write [...]

McCain’s “Hail Sarah” Finally Comes Down…and Falls Incomplete

Back on August 29th, when Alaska Governor Sarah Palin burst onto the national political scene, I called it McCain’s “Hail Sarah” pass and thought it spoke of desperation among the McCainites.  It took two months for the ball to reach the top of its arc and fall toward the endzone but based on the story [...]

Learning the Lessons of History

Only 18% of the American people think that Vice President Dick Cheney is a good role model for the next Vice President. So, what do his potential successors think they can learn from the Cheney years?

A bungled war. Shredding the Constitution. A fleecing of taxpayers to the benefit [...]

Fourth Look Inside the Cage

Things have certainly changed in just a few weeks.
Loyal readers will recall that on September 14th – less than three weeks ago – I posted my guesstimate of where things stood in terms of electoral votes.  At that time, it turns out, John McCain and Sarah Palin were enjoying something near the top of their [...]

Biden on Points

I’ve now watched the debate twice and if the audience had been a panel of debate judges, it would have been a knock-down for Senator Biden.  His 36 years in the Senate plus a week of intense debate prep gave him the base to range freely across the questions and demonstrate his experience in both [...]

Circus Secundus

Some of the nicest, most gentle people I know are anticipating the Biden/Palin debate this evening with a decidedly bloodthirsty glint in their eyes.  You’d think Sarah Palin caused Tourette’s to judge by the language I’ve heard in the last 48 hours.
The stakes are admittedly pretty high, especially for Team McCain.  Given the momentum swing [...]

Yes, But How Many Stanley Cup Winners Can Biden Name?

CBS’s most outrageous reality show of the season continues:

Couric: What other Supreme Court decisions do you disagree with?
Palin: Well, let’s see. There’s, of course in the great history of America there have been rulings, that’s never going to be absolute consensus by every American. And there are those issues, again, [...]

Biden Unplugged

Let’s face it, Joe Biden can probably anticipate 90% of the topics he will face in tomorrow’s debate. And he has been around long enough to understand that a) staying on message (i.e. change v. third Bush term) and b) delivering entertaining and compelling sound bites determine the winners of Presidential debates, not the [...]

Got Plans for Thursday Night?

Personally, I’m planning to be near a TV and a computer to watch what is the most anticipated vice-presidential debate in history.
In the near corner, Joe “the Mouth” Biden, weighing in at 165 lbs and standing 6′1″ in the blue trunks. In the far right corner, at 105 lbs and 5′3″ in the red [...]

It’s The Economy, Stupid…

I don’t usually pay a lot of attention to the national polls, but I was struck by a couple of things in the internals in today’s Diageo/Hotline tracking poll:
Obama/Biden are moving ahead among white women. The Dems now hold a 1% edge, 46-45%; in the poll completed one week earlier (on 9/16), McCain/Palin led 53-37%.
Among [...]