I just read an article on CNN by David Gergen, for whom I have a great deal of respect. This article, though, is ridiculous. Gergen basically argues that Obama has already lost all his ability to govern and the State of the Union address tonight is a waste of time. (The title of the piece is something like "State of the Union DOA?" Seems ( Read more... )

Did anyone catch Dick Cheney's speech to the National Press Club the other day, in which he casually admitted that in fact there had never been any connection between Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq and the terrorists responsible for the 9/11 attacks?  This despite the fact that for the previous eight years Cheney had stubbornly clung to the ( Read more... )

Yeah, okay.  It seems that the BOW (Buffoon Of the Week) Award's hiatus was shorter than I said it might be last week.  Thing is, when there is this much idiocy flying around, I can't simply ignore it, can I?  Of course, most of you told me this would happen.  You were right.

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Let's begin this week's BOW (Buffoon Of the Week) Award entry with a hypothetical.  Say you live in a Congressional district in a large swing state, one in the south, perhaps one with a history of complicated and contentious elections.  Say you're a Democrat, but the district is heavily Republican and so you've really never even considered a ( Read more... )

A couple of weeks ago, in the midst of the financial meltdown, it was revealed that the lobbying firm of Rick Davis, John McCain's campaign manager, had been receiving monthly consulting fees of $15,000.00 from Fannie Mae right up through August of this year, though Davis had claimed that his firm stopped being on the Fannie payroll long ago.  The ( Read more... )

How do I give out a BOW (Buffoon Of the Week) Award this time around?  There have been so many acts of idiocy out there this week that I don't even know where to begin.  And I'm so fed up, so angry, so offended, that I can't find any way to make this post fun -- which is something I shoot for when I write these things every week.

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It's been quite a couple of days on the political front, and I really don't know what I'm going to do with the BOW Award tomorrow.  It's just no fun for me giving it to McCain yet again, but I really don't know who else has earned it the way he has.  But that's for tomorrow's post.  Today I'm just still reeling from the past 72 hours worth of ( Read more... )

BOW (Buffoon Of the Week) Award time again, and John McCain and Sarah Palin are definitely making it hard for me to spread the love with this thing.  They're like a sports team that can't be stopped -- the Big Red Machine, if you will (the name used to describe the awesome Cincinnati Reds baseball teams of the 1970s).  Every week I think they've ( Read more... )

About midway through this week I received a nomination for this week's BOW (Buffoon Of the Week) Award from a friend of mine.  The nomination was for Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Joe Biden, who was at a rally (I'm not sure where) and he introduced a state senator by the name of Chuck Grahm and told the guy to stand up so that he could be ( Read more... )

What a week! In all the time I’ve been giving away the BOW (Buffoon Of the Week) Award, I don’t think I’ve ever had more deserving nominees. Idiocy, it seems, was in the air, helped no doubt by the fact that the Republican Party was holding it’s quadrennial hate-fest (also known as the Republican National Convention) in St. Paul, Minnesota. So, ( Read more... )