Archive for August 22nd, 2008
Veepstakes: Obama is Biden His Time
CNN is calling it. It’s an Obama/Biden ticket. It seems that the Obama campaign is once again playing it safe, taking the frontrunner’s strategy when they are anything but. It’s like shutting down your offense and trying to milk the clock at the start of the 4th quarter in basketball with a 7 point lead. [...]
Oh Baybeeeee: Bayh Beats Biden?
Drudge has got the possible scoop that it’s Evan Bayh, not Joe Biden, as the media and money-men have predicted. Though Bayh’s wifey’s spots on lots of corporate boards can make one a little queasy, he seems squeaky clean and not likely to get into any Edwardsian affairs. If it is not Bayh and is [...]
Amuse Bouche: It’s Not Too Late, Barack!
By all accounts, Barack Obama has made his VP selection. He notified the losers last night, and will start campaigning with his pick on Saturday.
Joe Biden is the conventional wisdom choice, and Tim Kaine is getting plenty of last-minute coverage. Obama must have missed the croonings of one “Pete Wince,” who makes a pretty compelling [...]
Soap Box: Moby Tells McCain to Shut It.
next week i’m going to colorado to dj at a fundraiser and hang out in denver and do one of two things, either:
a-lament the fact that obama is losing his lead in the polls by not standing up to the gop
slander machine.
or
b-enjoy the fact that obama is finally standing up to the gop slander machine.
we [...]
Daily Round Up! Mix n’ Match QuotEdition
1) “I think—I’ll have my staff get to you. It’s condominiums where—I’ll have them get to you.”
2) “No country in its right mind would want this pervert at large on its soil.”
3) “You always find out who’s been swimming naked when the tide goes out. We found out that Wall Street has been kind of [...]
Adventure Traveler: Mauritania and the Coup
There was a coup in Mauritania last week. Lead by General Abdelaziz, the military seized power and arrested the only democratic president the country has had in over 40 years, Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.
Most Americans have never heard of this country situated on the west coast of Africa, between Morocco and Senegal. But I [...]
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