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In a search of a room in DC so that you can spend Jan. 20 standing in the bitter winter cold with thousands of like-minded souls watching the historic transfer of power from one Harvard ( Read more... )

Obama's no-lobbyist commitments have, well, changed.

During the campaign: "I don't take a dime of their money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House."  Well, the first one was a fib, as even the HuffPo noted.  And the second statement is, well, no longer operative.

No question:  that's change.  Is that the sort of ( Read more... )

Over at Windypundit, Mark's posted his first roundup of Obama Derangement Syndrome news.  A fair number of conservative/libertarian folks have.  Seems that some, well, nutcases have been pointing to evil symbolism in Michele Obama's dress, for example ( Read more... )

Omri Ceren points to reassurances to the nutroots not to worry, that, when it comes to Israel, Rahm Emanuel is one of those tame House Jews; I guess, after the DNC's disgracing itself, it was important to hand out some scorecards; gotta be sure that the nutroots know that he's not part of the Jewish cabal that so bothers the Democrats, eh ( Read more... )

. . . it's just a guy being arrested for wearing a McCain t-shirt.  I hope that kind of thing will change.

. . . on MPR, this afternoon.  He was, understandably, still kind of moist about the Obama victory, which wasn't a surprise.  Me, I was thrilled to hear that Jack Markell was elected governor of Delaware, becoming the first Jewish governor there, and I only know a little less about Markell* than I think many Obama's supporters know about Obama's ( Read more... )

I just clicked back on the
"I want my money today! It's my money. I want it right now!" yelled one former campaign worker

story.

It looks like it struck a nerve: 
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Let's see . . . first we have the biggest post-election drop, well, ever; then we find out that McCain's campaign wasn't really so dishonorable, that Obama's supporters should lower their expectations, including those who want to get paid . . .


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Which sucks.

This is, err, not exactly my favorite election.  Even the few races that seem to have gone my way aren't a lot of fun.