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Category Archives: Presidential Politics

The English Language pleads for mercy under the Republican onslaught

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Richard Grenell, is, or was, Romney’s National Security Spokesman, in charge of dispensing lies concerning Foreign Affairs. In a richly ironic development, he has had to resign from his job defending one form of Republican craziness because his open homosexuality got him in trouble with an entirely different group of Republican crazies. I have no [...]

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Could it be

Monday, November 7, 2011

Michelle Bachmann is calling Romney a “frugal socialist” and Ron Paul has let it be known that he’ll not be endorsing any Republican candidate that’s not him. I hereby encourage them both to take the next step and run as independents. Besides guaranteeing an Obama win, they could provide so much entertainment value. Should they [...]

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In Defense of Mitt

Saturday, November 5, 2011

This is a fun article at the Washington Monthly about the fact that Mitt Romney is now flip flopping on whether he has flip flopped. Steven Benen asks if Mitt Romney has any core beliefs at all, to which he gives the obvious answer: Yes, that Mitt Romney should be president. But I come not [...]

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Nearly Homeless in Massachusetts

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

What sacrifices the great must make to their ambitions.Poor Mitt Romney has put two of his homes on the market, including the “cabin” in Utah, shown below. Poor Mitt. He says he’s not unloading these hovels so he won’t have trouble in 2012 remembering how many houses he has. You can believe that if you [...]

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Election reflections

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

This has been, beyond doubt, the most extraordinary political day in my experience. I had multiple opportunities to observe voters during the course of the day. People were willing to wait in line for hours, without complaint. Many came armed with documentation, to make sure that they couldn’t be turned away. Some waited an extraordinarily [...]

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Marching Song

Sunday, November 2, 2008

The Republicans are turning up the sleaze in the final days. We can’t take anything for granted. As Bruce sings, “Only thing we did was right Was the day we started to fight!”

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The CTBlue Presidential Endorsement

Friday, October 31, 2008

Yes, it’s that time of year again. All the newspapers endorse this time of year, and from what I’ve been reading on Editor and Publisher, Barack Obama is getting the lion’s share of endorsements. My readers have been literally (well, not literally…come to think of it, not even figuratively) swamping me with requests that I [...]

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What it’s all about

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Via digby. Okay, I admit it, I’m a softie. But this video illustrates a larger point as well. On the one side, it really is about hope and optimism. On the other side, division and fear.

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A word of warning

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

via Americablog, from the Obama campaign:

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More false equivalency

Monday, October 27, 2008

From the Times: With heavy voter turnout expected on Election Day, both parties are amassing thousands and thousands of lawyers to keep an eye on the polls. Senator Barack Obama’s campaign is expected to send at least 5,000 lawyers to Florida alone. The first recruitment e-mail message the campaign sent out nationally received 6,000 responses [...]

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