Posts under ‘Election '08?’

I don’t think I’ve watched a complete episode of the Daily Show since Craig Kilborn was the host.  I enjoy satire, love to laugh, and enjoy the ridiculousness that’s politics.  I’ve never found Jon Stewart that funny.
For one, I do not buy for a second that he’s an equal-opportunity comic. He leans left. I don’t need [...]

 
Just four months ago, Christopher Buckley paused from writing brilliant novels to endorse Barack Obama, an interesting stunt since he told conservatives to shut up and be happy with John McCain (Buckley’s favorite) just eight months prior in a New York Times Op-Ed piece.
The humiliation of the son of the father of modern conservatism endorsing Obama [...]

Yesterday’s rant has made him the household name du jour.

I have a secret for you: he’s right. I’ve made money on investments. I’ve lost money on investments — big investments, too.  Some of my losses weren’t because I made uninformed decisions. Chance played a big role in it. But I played, and I knew the [...]

It’s good to know that the guy who promised “change” in the way politics is done has amped up his campaign operation before he’s been sworn in for his first term.

I have seen this ad multiple times the last few days:

OK, so Marty Ozinga’s concrete company apparently donated about $25,000 to Rod Blagojevich’s campaign the last eight years. That’s bad. Of course, we could question whether Ozinga was simply a victim of Blago’s pay-to-play shakedown.
Still, I have to agree that I agree with [...]