Editor’s note: An update has been added to this post.
Now that the VPs have been named and the campaign is in full swing, it’s time to bring to voice a concern that has plagued me as I’ve watched the campaign.
Barack Obama will lose the South.
Despite the vast numbers of African-American voters that will turnout to vote [...]
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August 24, 2008
Deskchair Quarterback: Biden on the move
Editor’s Note: This is the first of a regular feature by our resident political prognosticator, Dr. Joe Billy Bob. He is closely and eagerly following the 2008 Election with relish and fear and will post his thoughts and opinions on the various races as he sees fit.
Joe Biden stood at the podium Saturday and read [...]
August 23, 2008
Joe Biden: Not a Bad Choice
OK — Joe Biden it is then.
That’s a VP I can get behind.
So what if he is from Delaware, a relatively innocuous state.
So what if he is a Washington insider — having served in the Senate for 35 years.
So what if he speaks his mind.
He one bad-ass mother that know foreign policy frontwards and backwards.
And [...]
June 12, 2008
*daps*, or How the National Working Press has no clue
Oh TEE VEE news.
It’s a wonder the National Working Press gets anything right at all.
The 24-hour news cycle. The rushed deadlines. The talking heads. They try so so hard to gain the respect and—most of all—the attention of 18- to 30-year-olds.
They are falling all over themselves to get our attention that it has turned [...]
June 3, 2008
FINALLY
Barack Obama-rama, the junior senator from the State of Illinois, has won the delegate count and is the presumptive presidential nominee for the Democratic Party.
His opponent, Hillary Clinton, the junior senator from the State of New York, congratulated Obama-rama for his win in Montana, but did not concede the race from him. She will not [...]
