These are my two favorite recent election pieces:

The Repub's long-standing technique of demonizing their opponents is suddenly not working.
So what if he's a terrorist, I'm voting for him anyway... The original story from Repub Pundit Ben Smith at Politico is here.. It makes me laugh because, first of all, the smear campaign isn't actually true ( Read more... )

And I mean both the Shrub & myself.

Every time I try to get caught up on e-mail & LJ these days, I get distracted by election coverage. Daily KOS, Crooks & Liars, & the Huffington Post (not to mention the Guardian)- I'm like an addict. I've got six more boxes to move from out of the middle of the room here so I can set up a couple of tables ( Read more... )

Wow. First off, let me say that I find it hard to believe that anyone with a functioning brain could possibly vote for the Fat Elephant Party's Presidential candidates at this point but then, I thought that 4 years ago, too ( Read more... )

Stumbled across a really, really good op-ed piece on Palin. Or, more specifically, on what we don't know about her & what she isn't saying.

Questions for the Mystery GuestAnd I wanted to post it before my computer crashes again ( Read more... )

Today's Blog Title comes to you from Garrison Keilor & A Prairie Home Companion. I caught a little bit of it on Saturday & he was singing a very funny song about the Llamas at the Minnesota State Fair. That was my favorite line from the whole thing ( Read more... )

I had a weird thought this afternoon. With all the news talk comparing Gustav to Katrina (& the hurricane coverage is trumping all the political stuff at the moment), it struck me that it's like Mother Nature is commenting on the election-- & the message is "If you guys keep going the way you've been going, I'm just going to keep getting worse ( Read more... )

Wow. "If I pick a woman as my VP, then all the women voters out there will vote for me & not notice that she's got *no* experience, is anti-choice, anti-environment, anti-gay & currently under investigation by her own state legislature ( Read more... )

In the NY Times Online:

"Is Jon Stewart The Most Trusted Man in America?"And what does it say about this country that so many of us get our news from a comedy show? And what does it say about the news channels that the comedy show's news is often more accurate than theirs ( Read more... )

So, McCain's now gone crazy, senile, or blind- possibly all three.

McCain camp compares Obama to Spears, Hilton

As in Britany & Paris. He's apparently decided that Obama is really a blonde white woman. Too bad three strikes & you're out doesn't apply to presidential campaigns.