Posts Tagged ‘2008 Election’

Dateline Los Angeles: Glamorous Hollywood starlet Lindsay Lohan caused controversy today when she referred to Barack Obama as “our first colored president” in an interview with Access Hollywood (which is only available on something called “television”)!  Apparently, nobody’s told the dreamy actress that dark-skinned leaders have recently made it known that they should be called [...]

Unlike a lot of Democrats, I like Little Green Footballs.  Charles Johnson is a terrific writer and is simply not wrong about the existence of serious and ongoing threats from the Arab and Islamic world toward the US, Israel, Europe, and others.
But come on — settle on a message already. On the one hand, Islamist [...]

It’s a little late for electoral predictions, sure.  I was too superstitious to post this before the election. 
On October 30th, just like we do every four years, my brother and I bet on the outcome of the presidential election.  The competition is for most states correctly called, not closest to the actual electoral result. 
This year [...]

Never to be heard from again.  Cry me a river, man.

This morning, I spoke to a (white) friend who immigrated to the US from South Africa.  He tells me that he’s having trouble deciding which meant more to him, his vote for Barack Obama or the one he cast  in 1994 for Nelson Mandela.

From my brother in Brooklyn:

A friend in Philadelphia is at a heavily Democratic polling location in in Philadelphia.  She’s just written in to say this:
Apparently at this polling place in 2004, there were 100 voters total for the whole day. We just passed 110 [at 10:00 am EST].
Since, as James Carville says, Pennsylvania is Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Alabama in [...]

What the hell is wrong with these people?

I would say, “Give consideration to your eternal salvation.” Because to vote for a person who has expressed a fanatical determination to not only support abortion as it exists now but to remove all limitations on it through the Freedom of Choice Act, and to extend it without [...]

This has nothing to do with policy. It’s just going to be freaking cool to have a president who talks like this:

MTV Shows

Barack Obama sat down for an interview with MTV’s Sway that aired today, and one of the questions he was asked concerned a ban on sagging pants.
“Do feel like people should be penalized?” [...]

The final national polls are in.  Obama is winning every single one of them by margins of between five and 13 points. 
McCain trails Obama in every recent poll in Pennsylvania, Nevada, Virginia, Colorado, Ohio, and Florida. To win, he likely needs to win not one but all of those states. While Nate Silver sees “a hair’s worth of [...]