Funny by Kwame, Issue 14

Bush-McCain in 2008

Certain, more conservative contributors to this blog (eh hem, John) have suggested that the insistence on labeling the potential John McCain presidency a continuation of George W. Bush’s failed presidency amounts to little more than typical partisan Washington name-calling and political game-playing, and further suggest that it is inaccurate. I could not disagree more.
In my [...]

Nowhere near the end

It has been barely twenty-four hours since Barack Obama secured the Democratic Party nomination for president. There has been no shortage of people declaring this a historic moment in the course of our nation. You will get no argument from me on that notion. Only a handful of events in the social development on this [...]

What if Obama just ignored Clinton from now on?

One of the first mistakes the Clinton campaign made was that long before votes had been cast, the campaign and all the talking heads on TV anointed her the nominee.  She bought into it and behaved as such.  She spent money like the primary season would be over before February and looked past her democratic opponents as little more than insignificant [...]

Who cares if Obama can’t bowl? (Part 1)

Here is something that I am convinced that most politicians, certainly the three still relevant in this presidential election, would love to be able to say the general public if it would not be the equivalent political suicide. “You know what Mr. and Mrs. Average American, I actually am better than you. That’s not me [...]

Did He Really Say That?

“My friends I will have an energy policy that we will be talking about, which will eliminate our dependence on oil from the Middle East that will – that will then prevent us – that will prevent us from having ever to send our young men and women into conflict again in the Middle East.” [...]