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• Classy Hillary Clinton Nominates Obama To The Tearful Strains Of Her Supporters' Hand Claps

  Madame Secretary... I move that the Convention suspend the rules... With these words, a collective chill went up through the nation, especially those one or two million of us who care enough about the country to have seen it live. Meanwhile, the yakking heads at NBC couldn't shut up for two seconds to allow us to hear all of Nancy Pelosi's speech... Read More... Posted Aug 28 2008, 12:18 PM by Brian Fairbanks with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: politics, hillary clinton, music, Barack Obama, youtube, Democrats, John Kerry, NBC, will.i.am, joe biden, conventions, denver

• Top 5 Things McCain Should Do Now

  John McCain, who will be President from 2009-2009, is running an insurgent campaign against the forces of Barack Hussein Obama, scion of the Royal Husseins of 9/11-loving Iraq. The man was "Rescue Dawn" before Herzog stole his life story. Hell, he was Chuck Norris before "Missing in Action," punk. And that's why John McCain will destroy Barack with a IED strike on his anti-American church compound... or, at least, use these five tried and true Republican tactics to misinform the public and seize the election from the Democrats... Read More... Posted Jun 06 2008, 02:00 PM by Brian Fairbanks with | with no comments Filed under: republicans, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, john McCain, swift boat vets, Democrats, John Kerry, charlie crist

• Obama Turns Hillary Down

  The blogosphere is abuzz with unconfirmed reports that Senator Clinton called Senator Obama and personally asked for Vice Presidential shot. Obama, for undisclosed reasons, gave her a definitive "no." Read More... Posted May 23 2008, 12:16 PM by Brian Fairbanks with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: hillary clinton, Barack Obama, john edwards, vice president, John Kerry, geraldine ferraro, air america

• Republican To Steal Election For Obama By Running Against Him

  In 2000, spoiler Ralph Nader, pretending to be a free-thinking ex-Democrat, helped throw the election to The Worst President in American History (™Doris Kearns Goodwin.) In 2004, John Kerry pretended to run for President, thus ensuring an easy re-election for The Worst President, who would've had no chance in hell otherwise. Now, it's to the Republicans go the spoilers, with Jonathan McCain's shot at world domination threatened by none other than a Republican ex-Congressman and homo-hater... Read More... Posted May 13 2008, 11:06 AM by Brian Fairbanks with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: al gore, republicans, Bill Clinton, john edwards, john McCain, John Kerry, ralph nader, impeachment, communism, democratic primary, libertarians, georgia

• Opinion: Al Gore, John Kerry, and... Oh No, Not Again

  Why do the Democrats do this to themselves? They always pick the candidate least likely to win the nomination, either a stiff vice-president (Gore) or the ultra-liberal blowhard of Massachusetts with zero crossover appeal (Kerry, Dukakis.) In all those races (well, except maybe in '88 after Gary Hart blew it by getting blown by someone other than his wife), there was a candidate who appealed to core Democratic values and could actually win a general election. This primary battle is not so simple. On the surface, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama agree on more than enough issues to make them equally fitting candidates. But it's the electability issue that is being ignored, particularly in Ohio and Texas, that should have been the #1 deciding factor in yesterday's primaries, plus the #2 deciding factor, which should have given us different results... UPDATED: With the Slate story on how this election, as always, is really just about Bugs Bunny vs. Daffy Duck...  Read More... Posted Mar 05 2008, 09:23 AM by Brian Fairbanks with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: new york, al gore, hillary clinton, Barack Obama, texas, john McCain, elections, Democrats, primary, John Kerry, ohio

• Billary Attacks!

  Nominating Hillary Clinton for President would surely be the dumbest move by the party that brought you Michael Dukakis and John Kerry. It's not because she's a woman that Senator Clinton is doomed to lose. It's because she's Senator Clinton. Read More... Posted Jan 28 2008, 12:28 PM by Brian Fairbanks with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: politics, hillary clinton, Barack Obama, 2008, Bill Clinton, elections, Democrats, John Kerry