They call Obama "the food stamp President," and then they accuse Democrats of engaging in class warfare and of playing the race card ( Read more... )

Two months ago, I thought that the GOP was poised to make huge gains in this year's elections.  But with Republican House members shouting about how the health reform bill is a "baby killer", with Tea Party activists using racial epithets against John Lewis and other African American Democrats and calling Barney Frank "a faggot", and now with this, ( Read more... )

I’ve been kind of absent from the blogosphere recently, except for my weekly Magical Words posts. The “Robin Hood” project was pretty consuming, and I just haven’t had much time to comment on politics or sports or life itself. I’m finally finished, though, and, it seems, just in time. It’s as if in the last week or so the entire world has gone ( Read more... )

Well, I have to admit that I thought I was done with BOW (Buffoon Of the Week) Awards for 2008.  But thanks to the idiocy of one particular Tennessee Republican, it seems that I have one last BOW post to do.  You might have read about this one already, but in case holiday festivities have gotten in the way of the news....

A bit of background first ( Read more... )

It's Saturday again, the day on which I usually post a new BOW (Buffoon Of the Week) Award entry.  We've just come through twenty-two months of campaigning and one of the most extraordinary Presidential races this nation has ever seen, culminating in the election of Barack Obama.  If you had told me two years ago that American voters would elect as ( Read more... )

Well, it didn't take long for both George Will and Rush Limbaugh to do the obvious.  Both of them have responded to Colin Powell's endorsement of Barack Obama (this morning on "Meet the Press") by saying that the only reason Powell made the endorsement is that Obama (like Powell) is black.  Really, guys?  Do you really want to tell perhaps the most ( Read more... )

For those of you who still don't believe that the GOP is using race and "religion" in their smear campaign against Barack Obama, go to http://crooksandliars.com and scroll down that first page.  Check out the stuff that the GOP is doing in California.  Check out the things that McCain-Palin supporters were saying about him at a recent rally in Ohio ( Read more... )

Did anyone else see this story about the parking lot owner in North Carolina who posted a sign saying that Obama supporters and people with Obama stickers on their cars couldn't park in the guy's lot?  It's kind of goofy, really.  I mean, it's a private business, so the guy is free to do with his lot whatever he wants.  He claims it's mostly a joke ( Read more... )

First of all, a belated Birthday shout-out to my friend Mark Wise!  Sorry I didn't do this the other day, my friend.  Hope it was a great day.

We're into the silly season of this campaign, and today's BOW (Buffoon Of the Week) Award is going to reflect that.  What do I mean by "silly season"?  Well, we're less than a month away from election day, ( Read more... )

A delayed BOW (Buffoon Of the Week) Award this week.  I was going to post it yesterday afternoon, but (this is a true story) just as I sat down to write the thing, a thunderstorm moved into the area and we lost power.  No computer.  No satellite, no internet.  Fortunately I hadn't actually started writing, so I didn't lose anything, but that's why ( Read more... )