Up until 6pm Central, yesterday afternoon, Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota had been frequently mentioned as a possible Vice-Presidential candidate in 2008. There were several factors which put his name on the table; He had balanced the budget using spending cuts; His friendship with John McCain; Minnesota's position in the midwest, coupled with the ( Read more... )

As I noted in a previous post, the media has tried to save us the trouble of voting and they've anointed "front-runners" for the primaries which don't even begin before January. Sure, a few candidates poll higher than others, but at this point in the game, it's almost all name-recognition and because the media has decided to overweight these polls ( Read more... )

Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post was on Tuesday's Newshour commenting on the CNN/YouTube debate, when he told Gwen Ifil;You know, I actually think that, as I've watched these debates -- and this is the fourth Democratic one we've had already -- as I've watched them, the margin between the best performance and the worst performance gets smaller ( Read more... )

I'm watching the CNN/YouTube Debate and have wanted to say this for a long time:Yes -- Senator Obama, you supposedly opposed this war from the start and so did I, so did the fellow at the gas station and a lot of other people; Whooptie-fucking-shit. Get over yourself and quit telling us what you believed when you had no power and no one was ( Read more... )

Earlier, when I was compiling my snark about the lawyerness of what he said in Columbia, the announcement that Democratic candidate Barack Obama would be the keynote speaker at the commemoration ceremony in Selma crossed the wires and because it was on point for my post, I linked the press clipping without comment ( Read more... )

In a 1998 article for the New Yorker, author Toni Morrison declared Bill Clinton to be the first black President and on a recent Saturday Night Live, Keenan Thompson and Daryl Hammond portraying Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson did a bit with a blackness scale, where they put presidential candidate Barack Obama being a little less black than Bill ( Read more... )

Earlier, I made the following comment on another blog and because it's heavily footnoted, I wanted to repeat it, here.Mike Huckabee gets hit by his local paper on January 19th, they expand upon it on the 20th and Mr Huckabee responds in this past Sunday's paper (28th) to coincide with his MTP appearance, but somehow this wasn't worth at least one ( Read more... )

I like the idea of Barack Obama, it's just that I'm having a problem getting behind him because I'm not seeing any substance. Instead, I'm hearing a lot of pablum and benign phrases, but no specific ideas or tangible plans for the future ( Read more... )

After the President's State of the Union, I moved from the computer to the television and because I was hoping for a new Boston Legal, I immediately switched to ABC and caught some of Charles Gibson's post-speech wrap-up.

What struck me as I watched him interview Hillary Clinton, followed by Barack Obama with essentially the same questions was ( Read more... )

I realize that most people who read my rantings have no idea about Bill Richardson or they just recognize him as a public figure, left over from a previous administration. And, once again as I've said about other candidates: This is not an endorsement, but I did feel this would be an opportune time for me to elaborate on a couple of things which ( Read more... )