Category Archives: Election 2008

World Still Waiting For Their Unicorn Shipments

Apparently, all is not well in HopeyChangyLand, or, as Don Surber puts it “Hope. Change. The rest of the world still hates us.” The US, for the first time since 2005, has surpassed Russia in positive ratings, with an average of 40% compared with 35% last year. But it is still rated negatively by 43% […]

Was Obama Reaching Out To Al Qaeda Pre-Election?

A big story in the Washington Times today, in which Powerline and Jammie Wearing Fool catch something disturbing According to GeostrategyDirect.com, a newsletter published by The Washington Times’ ace national security reporter Bill Gertz, “Diplomatic sources said Barack Obama has engaged several Arab intermediaries to relay messages to and from al Qaeda in the months […]

Surrender Monkey Friday: How Will Barry Govern?

The Surrender Monkey was laughing too hard after reading the headline at cBS News (story by Politico) to provide commentary, but his calm cousin, Staring Monkey, who does a great job at looking incredulous, is filling in, and just cannot believe the headline or the story. The full headline? The Great Unknown: How Will Obama Govern? […]

Today’s Humor: A Barry Email That Doesn’t Ask For Money

I think I actually just deleted the email in question from my Crackberry. LA Times: Breaking: Obama sends national e-mail with NO plea for money! This is no Friday joke. Word has just been received at The Ticket that President-elect Barack Obama sent out an actual e-mail today without asking for more money from tired […]

Mayor Of Baltimore, Obama Supporter, Indicted

I’m shocked, shocked I tell you! And, yup, you guessed it, that “D” word is missing from this local story ABC2NEWS.COM has just confirmed that Mayor Sheila Dixon has been indicted. She faces 12 charges, in connection with an investigation into bribery scandal.  Among them, perjury, theft, fraudulent misappropriation by a fiduciary and misconduct in […]

Obama Learns About Life In The Bubble

And he doesn’t like it The media glare, the constant security appendage and the sheer production that has become a morning jog or a hankering for an ice cream cone – it’s been closing in on Barack Obama for some time. Now the president-elect appears increasingly conscious of the confines of his new position, bristling […]

Barry’s Community Page Still Active?

I’d ask someone to correct me if I’m wrong, but, last time I checked, Obama won the General Election. Didn’t he? And he now has that pretty change.gov travesty active. So why in the hell is his campaign website still active? And we still get wacky things like this Would we be better off now […]

Good Thing Barry Wants To Run Washington With Change

Will Webster’s be updating their entry for change to “doing things the same old way?” A second Emanuel is heading for the White House. Ezekiel J. Emanuel, a prominent bioethicist at the National Institutes of Health–and the brother of incoming White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel–will serve as a senior counselor at the White […]

Double Idiocy From The Washington Post: Republicans And Wishes

What do you want first? Well, since you can’t actually answer me till I post this sucker, let’s see a little follow up to the earlier post about old Newt (I got better. Please tell me I don’t have to explain) Republicans Revolt on RNC’s Obama-Blago Strategy by Chris Cillizza Must be lots of them, […]

Grey Lady: The Lightbringer Can Heal All Wounds In Africa

Your snort worthy Op-Ed from the New York Times. After spending many, many, many paragraphs describing how bad the conflict between Rwanda and Congo has been, including a slight mention of the genocide in Rwanda (but no mention of how many – 850,000 – nor how the United Nations and Clinton looked the other way), […]

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