Dec - 10th
Debunking the Obama Election
Posted at 3:17 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
This post is not going to make readers happy (well, most of them anyway), and it is not supposed to. It is time for some real honest truths in response to the truly historic election that we have witnessed. Well, most of us. I was flat-out drunk-and-stupid that evening.
Obama won -- in record fashion, not [...]
Nov - 19th
Buffalo Takes A Seat
Posted at 9:42 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
The best possible scenario resulting from the appointment (and confirmation) of Hillary Rodham Clinton as President Barack Obama's Secretary of State, aside from the calm steady hand at the wheel of foreign policy, is the possibility for the ascension of a Buffalo politician to fill Clinton's Senate seat. The idea conjures up faded memories of [...]
Nov - 14th
State
Posted at 10:13 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
I would personally like to see Chuck Hagel or John Kerry in the role. After that, I wouldn't mind Hillary Clinton. It certainly makes sense politically for Obama, although the fear of a Secretary of State going "rogue" would persist. And last, at the very bottom of the list, only if everyone else in the [...]
Oct - 23rd
Schwarzenegger: Palin Will Be ‘Ready’ Come January
Posted at 10:29 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
This Arnold Schwarzenegger quote on Palin's 'readiness' to be president is the same argument that Hillary Clinton used to say that Barack Obama was now ready to lead (after he secured the nomination, despite Clinton's persistent campaigning for months on-end arguing the exact opposite): "By the time that [Sarah Palin] is sworn in I think [...]
Oct - 16th
Final Debate
Posted at 8:58 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
I have to score this one for Barack Obama: John McCain threw a lot of jabs, but only landed a couple; not enough to change the momentum of this race.
What surprised me most by McCain's performance was his play to the base on the abortion issue. This certainly wasn't a move to sway independent, centrist [...]
Oct - 8th
And A Tie Makes Two
Posted at 8:34 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
I scored last night's debate a tie, but it seems the pundits and the majority of voters (including the fickle undecideds) scored it as a win for Obama. Some analysts say that because McCain did not clearly win, he lost. I call that a tie. But I will take a win any day.
One thing is [...]
Sep - 4th
Stewart Exposes Double Standard
Posted at 4:28 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
Jon Stewart does the heavy lifting so I don't have to... exposing the duplicitous comments made by the right when Hillary Clinton received tough questions from the press and now that Sarah Palin has received similar treatment.
Aug - 29th
Well Played
Posted at 8:14 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
Well played, John; well played. I really didn't think you had it in you.
The nomination of Sarah Palin as the vice-presidential running mate took me by surprise; in fact, it floored me. And I realize and will appropriately acknowledge -- in honest blog fashion -- that I was absolutely wrong. But what does this mean [...]
Aug - 29th
Breaking Ball
Posted at 9:07 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
My favorite time to call a breaking pitch was on three-and-one counts. And that is exactly what McCain has done with choosing the unknown Sarah Palin as his running mate. This changes the dynamics of the race completely. Not only is Palin a woman -- centrist Clinton supporters are the main grab there -- but [...]
Aug - 27th
Pawlenty
Posted at 11:17 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
I'm pretty sure John McCain will be announcing Tm Pawlenty, the governor of Minnesota, as his running mate. How sure? Well, it really doesn't matter because it's only my opinion, not front-page news. But this is why...
Houses. McCain has thirty-six of them or something, at last count. Mitt Romney has a handful. Romney is what [...]
Aug - 13th
Obama VP Revealed?
Posted at 2:19 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
Newsweek rules out Clinton (duh), as well as Bayh and Kaine, as Obama's vice-president, citing the DNC speaker lineup... "Obama will definitely choose a national-security expert--like Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joe Biden; Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska; Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island or Sam Nunn, former Georgia senator and one-time Armed Services Committee [...]
Jul - 11th
The Boomer-Clinton Love Affair
Posted at 11:41 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
I wanted to post this awhile back, in the midst of the Obama-Clinton slug-fest; alas, I ran out of time. Holding down four-and-a-half jobs, all the while volunteering at my local societies, and still not being able to fill-up my gas tank, unfortunately leaves me with not enough time to post all of the entries [...]
Jun - 27th
Returning the Favor
Posted at 12:46 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
In an effort to act unified, Barack Obama donated $2300 -- the legal maximum -- to help cover Hillary Clinton's campaign debt, which reportedly stands at $20 million ($12 million of which is the New York senator's personal contribution). The Clinton's returned the favor, however, "donating $4600 to his campaign today." Something about this makes [...]
Jun - 16th
An Open Letter To Clinton Women
Posted at 3:05 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
Just how many of you women Clinton supporters actually intend on voting for McCain?
So women's reproductive rights was not an issue? The Iraq war? Health care? These three major campaign themes in which Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton ultimately coincide (within a slim margin of error), and which Clinton and John McCain differ substantially (poles [...]
Jun - 9th
Hillary Voters
Posted at 12:51 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
I'll agree with Tom Brokaw that the press coverage of Hillary Clinton's lengthy exit was a disgrace, however, now that the disaster of a campaign, which at times was laudable, laughable, or inexplicable, has led to an ample supply of "Hillary voters" jokes.
This weekend, on the way back from Yosemite, with my parents in the [...]
Jun - 4th
Clinton’s Mistakes
Posted at 9:18 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
NBC News has a pretty good summary of what went wrong with the Clinton campaign...
Jun - 4th
Morning Politoon
Posted at 8:54 am | Filed Under Politoons
Toles on Clinton's exit...
Image: Washington Post
(Tip of the hat to JudiPhilly.)
Jun - 3rd
Obama
Posted at 10:09 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
My wife returned home this evening wondering why I hadn't posted the news that Barack Obama had earned the Democratic nomination, and I told her, first, it is not as if this was a surprise at this point, second, that I was quite possibly the first person in the blogosphere (by my humble estimate) to [...]
Jun - 2nd
Clinton To Withdraw Tomorrow
Posted at 4:43 pm | Filed Under Uncategorized
Wait, that isn't the real headline stemming from this story... "Clinton to give post-primary speech in N.Y." Really, what else could she say?
I wanted to thank all of my supporters. [Applause.] We have made it to the end of the primary season, and you know what, we are losing. But -- no, wait, hold on [...]
May - 31st
DNC Rules Committee
Posted at 10:51 am | Filed Under Uncategorized
This actually makes good television. The Clinton camp wants Obama to receive no delegates from Michigan (a very extreme view), and wants those delegates to go as "uncommitted."
Hillary was unopposed on the day of the Michigan primary, with the known fact that the primary was unbinding, and would not count. Forty percent of the primary [...]