I've been a Cubs fan all my life. I even lived on Addison for several years.

Today, the New York Times revealed the owner of the Cubs commissioned a plan for a $10 million campaign against another Chicagoan -- Barack Obama. Or, as he calls him, Barack Hussein Obama. Yeah, it's his name, but when used in this context, you know what's going on ( Read more... )

It's summer, and there's too much going on to spend much time blogging, though heaven knows I'd love to roll in the sex scandal muck for a while, or chastise Dana Milbank for his silly attack on Obama's willingness to take questions relayed from Iran at a press conference, or give Obama a swift kick in the briefs (legal briefs, that is) for his DOJ ( Read more... )

Look at that, he posed for that! He looks like a warlock! It's frightening!

- Chris Matthews on February 26, 2008 on HARDBALL, re the upcoming cover of the New York Times Magazine

Newt, who stomped off in a huff and at huge expense to his district (which then had to run a special election to replace him) after realizing he would not be re- ( Read more... )

We shall overcome
We shall overcome
We shall overcome some day...
Oh yes deep in my heart
I do believe
That we have overcome today.

Of course "over" isn't over. There will be lawsuits and hatefulness and I heard there's already an impeach-Obama movement a-bornin'. In those senses, the election isn't over. But to recast a phrase, our long ( Read more... )

From an agitated (read: hopefully agitating) email from the DCCC which went out under actor Alec Baldwin's signature this morning:

• In Florida, they've sent operatives to steal ballots from elderly Democratic voters.


• In California, they used phony petitions to dupe people into registering Republican.


• In Virginia they even circulated phony fliers ( Read more... )

"Vote for the guy with one wife, one house, one car."

And one heck of a campaign organization. Today, an Obama doorknocker came to my house to drop off a door hanger telling me my polling place ( Read more... )

I was going to do a post about a slogan I saw buried in Comment 17 here, following a story about a Republican women's group leader in New Mexico who succumbed to Islamophobia and the temptation to lie like a rug regarding Obama's own religious persuasion in a local letter to the editor. A slogan posted in response?

"Vote for the guy with one wife ( Read more... )

I was fumbling around the internet and found someone saying the same thing I said, but about an actual conversation with his hairdresser instead of the abstract hand-wringing I was doing. He also attributes the self-sabotage to a fear of socialism rather than, as I do, to being wealth groupies. Here's Peter Ross Range writing in Der Spiegel, ( Read more... )

Hillary Clinton did not deserve to have the worst of sexist fears embodied in the metal nutcracker made in her image, nor the prurient coverage of her cleavage, nor... oh, the list goes on. Likewise, Sarah Palin has come in for some sexism she doesn't deserve either.She doesn't deserve having a porn film made starring a look-alike. It's not ( Read more... )

I was on the phone with friend_x as the story broke and the first thing I said was, "I'll betcha these 'men' are about 18," because of their plan to target a high school. Sure enough, one is 18, the other 20 ( Read more... )