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Wanda Sykes breaks down the $700 billion (or so) bailout for the U.S. economy:Good enough answer for me. Somehow, I'm sure it's not going to be enough for the Drudge Report. Continue Reading »Obama aides told the DMN last Saturday that the paper would lose its seat on the plane on Wednesday. Within a few hours, that moved to Friday. And by midweek, traveling press secretary Jen Psaki had told us that Saturday night's final flight would be the last leg available. We protested then and continue to do so now, arguing that a paper of the DMN's size and stature should be on-board.
But we don't have evidence that the newspaper's endorsement of Sen. McCain had any bearing on the campaign's decision to boot us from the plane. No one from the campaign ever mentioned it to Todd. (And for the record, he as a reporter, and I as the editor in charge of political coverage, had absolutely no input or knowledge of the endorsement. That's handled by a different department on a different floor. I didn't even know about the editorial board's choice until I read it in the paper a couple of Sundays ago.)
We think the Obama campaign's decision is to some degree more a function of limited seats, and while we're a large regional newspaper, we're not national and we're not in a swing state. We've been on the road with them at key moments, but we've not been along for the entire ride, like, say, The New York Times and The Associated Press.
For what it's worth, we've had the same trouble with the McCain campaign.
We don't have to bother with the outrage or the repudiation or the calls for an apology. It don't really matter. If you're thinking of calling up Al Sharpton, don't do it. If your local NAACP chapter is ready to spring into action, encourage them to redirect their efforts."The threat: Here in Temple Terrace, FL our Republican HQ is one block away from our library, which is an early voting site.
I see carloads of black Obama supporters coming from the inner city to cast their votes for Obama. This is their chance to get a black president and they seem to care little that he is at minimum, socialist, and probably Marxist in his core beliefs. After all, he is black — no experience or accomplishments — but he is black."
At home he would salve, if not close, the ugly racial wound left by America's history and lessen the tendency of American blacks to blame all their problems on racism.From way over in London, editorialists at The Economist came up with that gem about "the tendency of American blacks." Where'd they ever get that idea? That stereotype made it all the way across the Atlantic? How many of us could they possibly know?
Seriously, I doubt the woman has even a passing familiarity with the 1st Amendment."If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations," Palin told host Chris Plante, "then I don't know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media."
"It's sort of perplexing to me, because I'm a practical person and plainspoken also, but just cutting to the chase and calling things like I see them, just like most Americans. But this has not left a bitter taste in my mouth, the bitter shots taken by the mainstream media and by some of the elitism there in Washington," Palin said.
Hopefully, this farce will come to an end Tuesday. This woman has been an absolute affront to serious political discourse. Continue Reading »... the governor believes she should make scurrilous, dishonest, and personal attacks against Democrats. She's afraid, however, that reporters might tell voters she's making scurrilous, dishonest, and personal attacks, and worse, that voters might recoil from her vicious style of campaigning.
And if that happens, politicians in the future might hesitate before launching scurrilous, dishonest, and personal attacks of their own. What a brutal "chilling effect" that would be.
"Crossfire" was canceled within a few months, and Carlson's career has never been the same.CARLSON: I do think you're more fun on your show. Just my opinion.
STEWART: You know what's interesting, though? You're as big a dick on your show as you are on any show.
Because I feel like a teenager today, here's a link to an article with the lead designer and programmer of all-time, arcade favorite NBA Jam.Did Scottie Pippen's ratings in the game really drop when he played certain teams?
It's true, but only when the Bulls played the Pistons. If there was a close game and anyone on the Bulls took a last second shot, we wrote special code in the game so that they would average out to be bricks.
At 30, I came along roughly a generation later than Ellis. And for all the progress made in our country during that time, even I never dreamed up a scenario in which America elected a black president. Maybe I'm a victim of my own limited imagination. Or maybe I believed too strongly in our past. Whatever the case, the idea of a black Commander-in-Chief made for mediocre movies and easy jokes (about 2:50), but nothing approaching an honest possibility.I think between now and that moment I will set the world record for breaths held.
"What a long, strange trip it's been." I'm just a year younger than Obama and when I was a kid daydreaming about the 21st century I imagined people zipping to work with personal jetpacks, levitating cars and ninety-year-olds looking like twenty-year- olds in his and hers spandex jumpsuits. I imagined x-wing starfighters and demolecularizing transporters and phasers I could set to stun.
What I never imagined was a black President. On Star Trek, yes the world was multi-racial, but Kirk was still king.
These almost two years of the Obama candidacy rewrote the book. Barack Obama is the Seabiscuit of our generation. The absurd long shot who reminds us of the power of even our most ridiculous dreams.
Good news for old-school music fans. The Jackson 5 is considering a comeback tour in 2009.The First Lady is positively giddy at the news.
Then again, I'm not sure if Jermaine Jackson is really a credible source. I need some legitimate confirmation. You think Joe (quite obviously pictured at right) is available for comment?
And for some smiles, Mike and his brothers in much better days. Continue Reading »
Good for him and them. They deserve each other. I think it's great that Limbaugh is encouraging his minions to "rush" toward the right and embrace an ideology that is being roundly repudiated by a majority of Americans.In that sense, it was said the only opportunity this party has to regain power is John McCain. Only John McCain can get moderates and independents and Democrats to join the Republican Party, "and we can't win," these intellectualoids said, "if that didn't happen." ...
... There are probably other names I am leaving out here of Republican moderates who have fled and joined the Democrats and Obama, for whatever reasons. I say, good riddance. And this is why I said to you earlier in the week, "I don't care who wins this election. The task at hand is going to be rebuilding the conservative movement and making sure that the Republican Party is its home.
I hope those Dittoheads are listening. Geez. I know some conservative types are bad with science. But who knew they were bad with math, too?She says, "I don't know what kind of role the Republican Party would want me to play." Well, make her the head of the party, for one thing! That might be a good idea.
Honestly, it might. But that's only if people forget the story of how Barack actually came into being - the product of a black Kenyan and a white Kansan who met at college in Hawaii. As a friend of mine once said, "Ann Dunham was dating black dudes when dating black dudes wasn't popular."Interracial dating is obviously a touchy subject. I’ll say for myself that my father would be very, very unhappy if I married someone who isn’t black, while my mother is more practical: “whoever makes you happy” is her motto.
Now that I think about it, I wonder if having a loving black family in the White House will put more pressure on black women to find themselves a Barack?
Yeah, McCain has been "tested," all right. Tested by his ridiculously mismanaged campaign. And that's not leadership we can believe in. Continue Reading »So... congratulations to McCain, I guess. He managed to do the seemingly impossible -- be trailing in the election not because people were deathly tired of George W. Bush and didn't want anything to do with his party, but because people are deathly tired of John McCain, as well. And I think the award needs to be shared communally, because at all levels of the Republican Party, candidates seem to be going out of their way to make themselves similarly dislikable, out of touch, or (and this is the favorite approach) be ranting with such gusto about the incipient socialism if any of you poor cretins out there dare get better healthcare or a more stable economy that they seem, to be blunt, f---ing nuts.
Yet despite her formidable gifts, few who have worked closely with the governor would argue she is truly ready to assume command of the most important, powerful nation on earth. To step in and juggle the demands of an economic meltdown, two deadly wars and a deteriorating climate crisis would stretch the governor beyond her range. Like picking Sen. McCain for president, putting her one 72-year-old heartbeat from the leadership of the free world is just too risky at this time.Quite a blow for the nation's "most popular" governor, a woman of so much "executive experience. Continue Reading »
I briefly caught LeBron James playing prognosticator on "College Gameday" yesterday morning, and he actually offered some coherent football analysis. Even more so than Lou Holtz.
