President ’08

Thomas Sowell, noting that more than a few conservatives/Republicans are voicing their intent to vote for Obama, opines as to why they may believe they have legitimate reasons for taking the leap of faith. Partly what is going on is that, in recent years, the Congressional Republicans in general– and Senator John McCain in particular–…

One hopes that some vestige of integrity left Mary Ann Sorrentino feeling dirty as she submitted a hit piece on McCain to the Providence Phoenix. Inasmuch as the paper actually published it, however, that hope is likely baseless. The more than 1500 pages detailing McCain’s medical information do not dispel the notion that the candidate’s…

Brown U. senior and Darfur activist Scott Warren had a piece in Saturday’s ProJo describing his recent visit to Kenya where he saw first-hand how much the Kenyan people love the idea of one of their own–Barack Obama–on the doorstep of becoming President of the U.S. The enthusiasm in Kenya may match or even exceed…

This is a true not for nuthin’: Obama announced his candidacy for President about two years after being elected to the U.S. Senate and look at him now. Well, we’re just about two years into the Senatorial Career of one Sheldon Whitehouse. If the timeline were right, how seriously would we take a Whitehouse announcement…

The Boston Globe recently took a look at the sort of public/private partnerships that Sen. Obama forged in an attempt to make public housing in his Chicago district “better.” As a state senator, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee coauthored an Illinois law creating a new pool of tax credits for developers. As a US senator,…

If you’re attending the Democratic National Convention in Denver, get ready to put your best green face on. The convention will certainly be sporting one. Naturally (get it??), you’d expect that 70% of food items on all menus would be organic or locally grown. But with the slightly inexplicable mandate that “each meal should include…

Another example of the Change we are waiting for from ourselves if we vote for him: While Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has vowed to make pay equity for women a top priority if elected president, an analysis of his Senate staff shows that women are outnumbered and out-paid by men. That is in contrast…

Senator Hillary Clinton and Senator Barack Obama ended campaign hostilities yesterday with a near embrace in Unity, New Hampshire. But Senator Clinton’s husband, former President Bill Clinton, is not feeling the vibe. From the Telegraph (UK); h/t NewsBusters. The Telegraph has learned that the former president’s rage is still so great that even loyal allies…

I mentioned that local progressives were taking Congressman Langevin to task for voting for FISA. I wondered what they’d do once they found out that Senator Obama agreed with Langevin. ANSWER: Give him a pass. Apparently “Obama had a legitimate political reason for supporting the ‘Democratic’ compromise on FISA….Congressman Jim Langevin did not” and “Obama…

First, they made fun of the teeth that replaced the ones that got knocked out when Sen. John McCain was a POW (and local bloggers parroted the post and the snark, incidentally). Then they questioned (h/t) his military pension, because, well, he only got tortured–he didn’t really suffer a permanent disability–and he’s rich, too. But,…