Posts Tagged ‘Politics’

Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, who should know better, was caught by an open mic yesterday  making demonstrably false statements — Sarah Palin is “no genius,” for example.
Rendell also said that Arizona Governor and Homeland Security Secretary-nominee Janet Napolitano is perfect for the job because she has no family, “no life” and can devote “literally 19, [...]

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 [...]

Jed Lewison put together this extraordinary video of election night, from state-by-state projections to parts of Obama’s victory speech.  I didn’t watch any of Fox News’ coverage, so it’s remarkable to see just how depressed their reporters and anchors were as the evening wore on. Does anyone actually believe that Fox is a straight news outfit? [...]

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 [...]

When a judge looks at an opposing lawyer and goes to town on him, it’s best to remain silent.  Any lawyer who has ever been in a courtroom has been on both sides of that kind of thing. It’s no fun when it happens to you, but golly it’s satisfying to watch it happen to [...]

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 [...]