Category Archives: Election 2008

A Gift For B.O. Supporters

Since the Barry camp is under fire for ignoring outside advice, since Barry is losing to Palin on experience, since panic is setting in for Democrats, since battlegrounds are breaking for McCain, since Barry supporters are reduced to calling Palin a child predator, since the biggest kook fringers want Barry’s message to be purely person, […]

Why McCain Doesn’t Use A PC Or Email(?)

To follow up on the whole “Barry is taking his Isotoner’s off” issue from yesterday, wouldn’t it have been wise for Camp Barry to understand why McCain is not much of a computer and email person? Via The Corner Well, I guess it depends on what you mean by “extraordinary.” The reason he doesn’t send […]

Is It Sexist To Want The Person Flying The Plan To Be A Pilot?

That is the question that Kathleen Reardon ask at the Huffington Post. It is a very interesting question You’re about to board a plane and a flight attendant says, “Today as part of our responsiveness to customers program you may choose Mr. Jones here as co-pilot. He will fly the airplane should something go wrong […]

State Polls – 9/12

A few updates: Huge swing in North Carolina. It had been rather close in August (and all year), now it is M57-B38 Florida has changed from dead even to M49-B44 Nevada swung from barely Barry (47-45) to barely Mac (46-45) Barry gains a bit in Ohio. Now M48-B47. Had been a big swing from Barry […]

Obama To Fight On The Big Issues!

Jake Tapper has the money quote in his story about Obama taking off the gloves (for the 4th time) Continues (Barry campaign manager David) Plouffe, “We will respond with speed and ferocity to John McCain’s attacks and we will take the fight to him, but we will do it on the big issues that matter […]

SM Friday: A Non-Tangled Story Of Journalistic Malpractice

The Surrender Monkey is exhilarated by the Washington Post this morning. Any time he sees one of the major mainstream media outlets completely distort and dive in to Weekly World News territory, he gets a thrilling up his leg. Surrendie wants to start with the sleaze: A Tangled Story of Addiction – Consequences of Cindy […]

State Polling – 9/11

Some interesting changes in a few of the latest State polls a 4 point swing from Obama to McCain in New Mexico McCain now leads 49-47 in Virginia, which had been a dead heat McCain has lost his lead in Florida, making it a dead heat Ohio had been B47-M45, now M48-B46. Big swing McCain […]

Someone Tell Karl Rove He Is Not Helping The Show

Hey, Karl, what are you trying to do to us? Stop giving advice to Barry, please Of all the advantages Gov. Sarah Palin has brought to the GOP ticket, the most important may be that she has gotten into Barack Obama’s head. How else to explain Sen. Obama’s decision to go one-on-one against “Sarah Barracuda,” […]

Lipstick, Sex Ed, And The World Wants Barry

By now, I am sure that you have heard the Barry lipstick gaffe Obama poked fun of McCain and Palin’s new “change” mantra. “You can put lipstick on a pig,” he said as the crowd cheered. “It’s still a pig.” “You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It’s still […]

On The McCain Bump-50 States

Not to be the enthusiasm vampire (a saying we picked up in a sales management seminar-pretty much the only thing*), but, McCain may be leading in the Gallup/UselessA Today poll 54-44, and in other polls, but, as we go down the final stretch, remember that the polls are national polls, and have little bearing on […]

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