After a rough week of screaming at the teevee, or allyson, or on this blog, about how ridiculous every aspect of this ‘08 Presidential Race is - from the cable news coverage, to McCain’s dishonorable campaign, to Obama’s closed campaign - I decided run my own campaign against McCain…
This wasn’t my idea, it was actually […]

An especially good use of “going to the tape” occurred last night on the Daily Show, cutting straight through the unholy amount of BS currently being lobbed on the airwaves. Do the network and 24-hr news channels even have a TiVO?

If you want some great commentary about the Republican convention, I highly recommend reading Matt Stoller over at OpenLeft.  He’s on the ground in St. Paul and has been putting together some great pieces.  For example, here’s him describing the “Security Theater”  of the police state in St. Paul…
The soundtrack of this convention so far […]

Did you hear this..?
no, I didn’t either..had to search it out.
as stated before..
on a level playing field..
my choice for President.
Mr. Kucinich.
[UPDATE] (from Jacob)
First off, RIGHT ON Dennis. Secondly… John Kerry’s speech needs to be highlighted as well. It was without a doubt the best speech of Wednesday night, if not the whole […]

From Openleft, video via Talking Points Memo:

Last night saw one of the most amazing programs in the history of Bill Moyers Journal. Really, one of most amazing programs Moyers has done, period, in all his years on television. His guest for the hour was Andrew J. Bacevich, a West Point graduate, […]

Brought to you by the McCain campaign.

Real interesting moment in this campaign right now. Here you have this Obama guy hopping around the globe, looking more like America’s President than ’still’ President Bush, while at the same time there’s John McCain, back at home twiddling his thumbs in slightly less impressive photo-ops.
If Americans vote on awesomeness (which they […]

Sean Tevis is from Kansas who decided he was done being represented by a crazy state rep, an anti-abortion, anti-evolution, pro-censorship, pro-surveillance, anti-gay incumbent.  So he decided he’d run against him to take him out.  He’s running a sweet internet campaign right now to basically raise enough money on the internet to swamp his oppenents.  […]

We totally just nominated the muslim, socialist, commie, black, white, crazy Christian (with crazy Christian friends) guy.

This ranks right with Gravel’s as best political ad of the cycle.