Primaries

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...

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 Room: McCain Gets Jump on Obama

July 8, 2008 - WASHINGTON, D.C.(Steveyoungonpolitics.com) - In a break with tradition, and in an attempt to counter Barack Obama's announcement to accept the Democratic presidential nomination at Denver's 76,000 seat Invesco Field at Mile High, John McCain will accept the Republican presidential nomination on the...

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...

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...

Poll: Where do you plan to catch an Obama show?

July 7, 2008 - Obama is apparently a little too big to play the Democratic Convention, so when he makes his acceptance speech he's going to leave the convention center and make a "rock star" appearance in front of a crowd of 75,000 at Invesco Field, the Denver Broncos home stadium. Sounds...

From The Room: Will McCain Insist Obama Wear a Declaration of Independence T-Shirt?

July 6, 2008 - You would have thought that once Barack Obama started wearing the U.S. flag pin, all of those nasty rumors about his supposed lack of patriotism (whatever that means) would go away. But the idiotic rantings of ignorant people continue to circulate across the Internet. What else should he do...

From The Room: Politix at the Multiplex

July 6, 2008 - Spooky how this summer's movie blockbusters parallel the 2008 political landscape: Get Smart An eager but inept government official is on a mission to thwart the latest plot for world domination. KAOS ens...

From The Room: The Presidential Test, Who's Ready?

July 6, 2008 - It's never clear whom I'll wake up with on Sunday morning, not because I'm promiscuous, but my husband leaves the TV on. Today's early morning talking heads are reflecting on the candidates' strengths and flaws. Of interest to them is whether or not the terrorists will...

From The Room: Dear President Obama

July 6, 2008 - Dear President Obama, Some advice from my personal experience. Keep your eye on the ball, and don't push too hard to make everyone love you. I know this from my own relationships with men. So yeah, keep you eye on the ball, or in my case balls. That's...

From The Room: Obama's New Centrist Position Paper

July 5, 2008 - In his continuing campaign to move toward what Republicans define as "the center," and in order to further alienate his supporters, Democratic candidate Barack Obama released an omnibus position paper today. The highlights are as follows: Oil company profits, paid for by high gas prices, ar...

From The Room: The War on Aides

July 3, 2008 - Of the many important world issues John McCain and Barack Obama face this election season, none is as globally salient and ethically charged as the War on Aides. A recent strain appeared in Fl...

From The Room: Notes from the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: You Won't Like Me When I'm Angry!

July 3, 2008 - I am steaming mad at a whole bunch of things and I don't know what or whom to be maddest with. I know a lot of you on the left feel that the expression "angry right winger" is redundant, but I am usually pretty much a live and let...