Well, he said he’d do it and goddamn it, he’s doing it!  Barack Obama said, throughout the campaign, that if he were elected President, he would reach across the aisle, reach out to opponents, and bring America together to set a new course for a change in this nation.  And wouldn’t you know it, he …

I live in Chicago, so I am not on the ground in California.  Thus, I simply don’t know the answers to the questions I pose below.  Feel free to clue me in.
I was intrigued as hell by Japhy’s post several weeks ago in which he pointed out what he saw as the pending fatal flaw(s) in …

This has to be a set-up.  No one, not even some Wingnut Congressman from Bumble Fuck Georgia could actually be so stupid as to warn a room of Rotarians that Obama may be forming a Gestapo-like brigade to take over the country in a Marxist dictatorship, right?  
No one could be so unbelievably ridiculous as …

Dear Mr. President:
First, let me congratulate you on your win. It was historic, not only as a victory for African Americans (as the MSM seems determined to solely define it), but as a victory for all Americans who have ever been marginalized in any way. I know that race, as a topic, has been both …

I live in Ravenswood, a neighborhood on the north side of Chicago.   I live a block and a half from Rahm Emanuel’s home (and down the street from Governor Blagojevich’s place).  Rahm lives next to a gay couple that I know who have a beautiful Golden Retriever, like my dog, Eric.
Well, this morning, I see …

I live in Illinois - Chicago, specifically.  Other than college, I have lived here my entire life.  I used to work at the Chicago Urban League, during which time I met a young community organizer named Barack Obama, and worked with him for about a minute on some school reform shit.  That was like 15 …

Man, oh, man!  Fox-TV is up in arms on a quarter-hour basis today.  Every 15 minutes, according to Fox, there is a new assault on God and Country, a la Barack Obama and the Socialists.  The crime du quarter hour is that 2 guys were standing outside a polling place in Philly, intimidating people for …

The DJIA is up today, around 300 at this point.  If there is one thing that markets hate, it is uncertainty, and the pending certainty of Obama’s election has transitioned into a very-very-very pending certainty.  The market is likin’ that big time today.

NYTIMES has a nifty media toy where you can enter the word that best describes your current mood and follow the most popular choices from readers. For CHANGE OBAMA peeps:

and McPain peeps:

Why so dyspeptic, my friends? From the looks of it both supporters will be on the edge of their respective seats in anticipation. I can only hope that the …

Unbelievable. Exactly two years ago, SurveyUSA completed interviews with 600 voters in every state (30,000 total interviews), asking them how they would vote in a 2008 Presidential Election between John McCain and Barack Obama.
Based on those interviews, SurveyUSA was able to report that:
In November 2006, Obama carried … 

His home state of Illinois.
His birth state of …

It is six days out from Election Day, and time for the candidates to give us, the electoral jury, their closing arguments, the reasons that they feel we should vote for them.  And here they are:
McCain campaign:  Obama is a Socialist/Commie-Pinko/Muslim, Israel-killing, vote-fraud-inciting, terrorist-befriending, Unreal-American threat.
Obama campaign:  Americans should drop their divisions and come together, …

I have long wondered where the McCain campaign gets its inside track on deep-trench shit digging equipment, and now I know:  Joe the Plumber.  Today, Joe the Plumber, while officially stumping on the McCain campaign trail, stated that a vote for Obama is a vote for the death of Israel. 
The McCain campaign’s initial reaction was …