Archive for the 'Election' Category

Because You Don’t Get to Decide What is Meaningless

Published May 26th, 2008 in Election and Grown Ass Men. 10 Comments

What is meaningless to a self-styled politico who has the privilege of treating politics as a game is not meaningless to the people, the citizens, who, as good citizens, in good faith, take part in the democratic process. Moreover, declaring an already disenfranchised part of the country meaningless because it bolsters your candidate’s numbers [...]

Dick Gregory on “The First Black President”

Published May 26th, 2008 in Barack Obama, Election, Hillary Clinton and Racism. 3 Comments

This is awesome:

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Not Buying It

Published May 25th, 2008 in Election and Feminism. 3 Comments

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You Know

Published May 15th, 2008 in Barack Obama, Election, Feminism, Hillary Clinton and Racism. 3 Comments

…this would have been fine without the penultimate paragraph. Really.

Curiouser and Curiouser

Published May 14th, 2008 in Barack Obama, Election, Feminism and Hillary Clinton. 14 Comments

I swear this primary is little more than a Rorshach test, you see what you see. I still have yet to be convinced either way that Obama is a better candidate than Clinton, or vice versa, because what I still see is a candidate spouting platitudes versus another candidate spouting platitudes.
Which is why I [...]

SMRT vs. L33T

Published May 14th, 2008 in Barack Obama, Election, George W. Bush and Hillary Clinton. 3 Comments

One reason Democrats lose elections is that they think everyone who doesn’t think as they do is an idiot that doesn’t know what’s good for them, breaking voters down into rich, poor, formally educated, informally educated and similar demographics and then equating them with racist, sexist, stupid, and opportunistic. Democrats: Party of the [...]

Prospects

Published May 6th, 2008 in Bloggery, Election and Indiana. 6 Comments

My short, angry piece on the Indiana primaries has been expanded and highlighted on The American Prospect. It will be up later this morning.
Check it out.

Word Has It

Published May 5th, 2008 in Election, Indiana and Music. 1 Comment

…that Barack Obama showed up last week at Great Skates in stripey knee socks, skating backwards to Bobby Conn.*

Remember to vote in the Indiana primary tomorrow.
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* Incidentally, this might make a great campaign song.
UPDATE: David Schraub thinks he may have a better campaign anthem.

Because Our Voices Matter Too

Published April 29th, 2008 in Barack Obama, Election, Hillary Clinton, Indiana and Politics and News. 11 Comments

If you can’t get through an article about Indiana without mentioning a certain twenty-year-old sports movie, you aren’t qualified to write it.

One thing about Indiana is that it has a long history of competing ideas and interests. It’s not only the home of the KKK, but also of Eugene Debs, one of the founders [...]

Dispatches From Flyover Country

Published April 19th, 2008 in Election, Humor and Politics and News. 0 Comments

Brill:
Bitter People Increasingly Bitterer, Study Shows
A recent survey showed that bitter people in towns all over America have been becoming increasingly bitter, in no small part because of people calling them bitter.
Gordon Stillwater, a native of Elk’s Mount, Pennsylvania, denied that he was bitter. “I may be a little peeved,” he said, holstering his gun [...]

The Tipping Point: Let It Be Known That I Am Shallow

Published March 25th, 2008 in Barack Obama, Election, Hillary Clinton, Indiana and Suburbia. 2 Comments

I haven’t picked my candidate yet this election season — Clinton is too much a mainstream conservative liberal, and I suspect Obama, despite his glowing accolades, will someday be outed as a politician (crazy, I know) — but I have been watching the election coverage with great interest. Nevertheless, rather nonplussed with either option [...]

My Ideal Candidate

Published February 27th, 2008 in Election, Humor and Politics and News. 1 Comment

Word:
You know who I want for a President? I want someone who stands in front of the news camera, and says “Here’s the thing: I’m divorced. My wife/husband left me because I’m always at work and I have no time for anything else. I’m a workaholic, I chain smoke, I don’t sleep, but if I [...]

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