Election 2008

From The Room: Poll Shows Pet Owners Are Lifting Their Legs at Obama

July 8, 2008 - An AP-Yahoo News poll revealed that pet owners favor McCain over Obama 42 percent to 37 percent, with dog owners particularly barking and lifting their legs at Obama, who, unlike the Republican can...

From The Room: Random Political Thoughts: Iraq, Barack, Bush and McCain

July 8, 2008 - With Iraq insisting on a timtable for withdrawing our troops, I feel kind of like "the man who came to dinner." Of course, in that play, the host wasn't the dinner...

Barack Obama, an enigma wrapped in a riddle...and something about race

July 8, 2008 - Huffington Post political editor Thomas Edsall writes that, "the struggle to define Barack Obama over the next seventeen weeks will pit the two presidential campaigns against each other." The senator from Illinois is a human Rorschach test: a black, white and dark look into the depths of your psyc...

From The Feed: Camp Obama: Party like a Rockstar (video)

July 8, 2008 - MSNBC's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" sub Rachel Maddow finds it delightful that even cheapskate donors like you can win backstage passes to Barack Obama's nomination acceptance in Denver this August...

From The Feed: Immigrant granny wants McCain offa her back

July 8, 2008 - An antitax senior citizen expresses herself at a McCain event...

John McCain's docile personality wins over the rotund Cat Chow woman

July 8, 2008 - The latest in a long string of ridiculous polls (see: "With whom would you rather attend a barb...

From The Room: Obama to Give Acceptance Speech at "Mile High Stadium"; John Elway, Bill Safire Give Advice on Speechifying at Elevated Altitudes

July 8, 2008 - With less air to breathe, Obama is advised to avoid lengthy rhetorical flights and sudden bursts of oxygen-depleting enthusiasm DENVER, Co. (Sportsman's Daily Wire Service) -- Democratic presidential nominee Barack Oba...

From The Feed: McCain Bio Ad

July 8, 2008 - John McCain's campaign zings the Summer of Love, hope, and beautiful words...

From The Feed: Bob Schieffer tries to get John Kerry to pull a Wesley Clark

July 8, 2008 - Chief Obama supporter John Kerry lists all the reasons to vote for John McCain on "Face the Nation...

From The Feed: Librarian in magical dreamcoat kicked out of McCain town hall meeting

July 8, 2008 - A librarian holding a McCain = Bush sign was cited for trespassing at a McCain town hall meeting. The video does not make clear whether she was removed for the sign or because her patchwork jacket was giving people headaches...

From The Feed: Change you can photoshop?

July 8, 2008 - This McCain commercial is a mistake in too many ways to enumerate on a single news-hilarity website. It is apparently trying to make voters worry that Barack Obama, um, will try to put his face on statues and money...

From The Feed: Fred Barnes wants McCain to turn on the gay-panic machine

July 7, 2008 - On "Fox News Sunday," Fred Barnes says McCain needs to start hating the gays a little louder...

From The Room: We Are Created Equal...Not

July 7, 2008 - The July 4th weekend almost demands that we reflect on what it means to be an American, and my first observation is we are surely not created as equals. There are those born to poverty and those born to privilege. While they both have the same freedom of speech, some...

Swing voters will not have sex with your wife while you watch

July 7, 2008 - One in four voters call themselves "swing," and that group is being further split into two subgroups: Obamacans (Republicans who support Obama) and their opposite, McCainocrats (Democrats who support McCain). An Obamacan sees it this way: "The Republican Party has l...

From The Room: Notes from the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: John Kerry, a Friend through Thick and Thick

July 7, 2008 - OK, I know all of you progressives hate Bush, but when you look at what a turd John Kerry continues to be, you have to, deep in your heart of hearts, in your intellect...