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And it takes a FOX NEWS reporter, of all people, to ask him if he has no shame.

I just made myself cry, kind of on purpose.
But this had to be said today, I think.

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This totally made me cry:

Amanda Jones, 109, the daughter of a man born into slavery, has lived a life long enough to touch three centuries. And after voting consistently as a Democrat for 70 years, she has voted early for the country's first black presidential nominee.

A plot by two white supremacist skinheads has allegedly been foiled before it began, in which they planned to go on a killing spree of 88 people, decapitating 14 of them, starting with shooting up a predominantly African-American school and ending with an assassination attempt on Barack Obama, driving toward him shooting at him from the car windows ( Read more... )

Huh, I'll be darned. Seventh Day Adventists against Proposition 8:

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I have to say, I love this kind of stuff, when people who essentially have nothing in common pull together on a basic human rights issue.

For a glimpse of the anti-marriage crowd who are for Prop. 8, I'll have to turn the floor over to Theremina, who learned about them the ( Read more... )

Man, I only wish the rest of the campaign could have been like this. From the white-tie Al Smith dinner, enjoy the comedy stylings of senators John McCain and Barack Steve Obama:

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California Republican women's group distributes fake "Obama bucks" food stamps with a half-donkey Obama surrounded by watermelon, fried chicken and ribs. You stay classy, GOP.

Thanks to kaffee-spinne for the tip.

A Tennessee dad names his baby daughter Sarah McCain Palin to "get the word out" about his candidates of choice -- all behind the back of his wife, who thought they had agreed that the girl would be named Ava Grace.

"I took one for the cause," he said, no doubt anticipating his resulting asswhupping and possible divorce.

Things we knew but didn't want to know that we knew:

Those idiots we see at McCain rallies who suggest that Obama is a terrorist? They say these things because that's the McCain campaign is telling them exactly that, on the down-low. On the down-as-low-as-you-can-get ( Read more... )

I'm super-busy right now, but this is a beautiful thing:



Also: For easy reference, a roundup of outright lies in (and around) Palin's convention speech.

Today's fun fact: There are fewer people in the whole state of Alaska than there are in the city of San Francisco.