Image by baratunde via Flickr This is way too silly for words: Days after announcing another split with fiance Bristol Palin, Levi Johnston has declared his intention to run for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska. // Sarah Palin, Bristol’s mother, was Wasilla’s mayor for six years before becoming Alaska’s governor. Variety magazine reports that Mr Johnston’s [...]
Image via Wikipedia From Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize speech today: So let us reach for the world that ought to be – that spark of the divine that still stirs within each of our souls. Somewhere today, in the here and now, a soldier sees he’s outgunned but stands firm to keep the peace. [...]
Wow. They really are more stupid than I feared: Apparently, some people think that the President is a racist or fear that they might be called racist if they oppose Obama on anything. . Why? I don’t know. Insecurity? Philosophy? Idiocy? But really. Opposing the President on health care reform does not make someone a [...]
Sorry, my inner adolescent couldn’t resist that headline. But it looks like Rick Santorum, America’s favorite ex-Senator, is seriously mulling a White House bid in 2012: Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) gave his clearest words to date that he is seriously mulling a 2012 presidential bid. “Absolutely — absolutely taking a look,” he told ABC’s [...]
Image by ~C4Chaos via Flickr I think of myself as someone with solid liberal credentials. In terms of presidential races, I ran for delegate for Jerry Brown in DC in 1992, supported Bill Bradley in 2000, knocked on doors in a snowy and unfriendly Iowa town for Howard Dean in 2004. In 2008, Obama was [...]
Image by randihausken via Flickr You’ve probably seen this, but it’s astounding: The new national poll from Public Policy Polling (D) has an astonishing number about paranoia among the GOP base: Republicans do not think President Obama actually won the 2008 election — instead, ACORN stole it. I remember before the election last year, in [...]
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Image by smiteme via Flickr Well, the drama seems to be over, so I’m now trying to get back in the habit of daily blogging. But it’s been hard given that this is Sarah Palin week. Sadly, I haven’t been immune. Some of the highlights on the web have been Andrew Sullivan’s obsession with Palin [...]
Image by Getty Images via Daylife From Politico: President Barack Obama has only been in office for just over nine months, but he’s already hit the links as much as President Bush did in over two years. CBS’ Mark Knoller — an unofficial documentarian and statistician of all things White House-related — wrote on his [...]
