The headline here is from Huffington Post. My instant response is, “Do tell.”  Come on, Big John, tell us how you know that. We know that you graduated in the bottom 10th of your class at Annapolis, you got your plane shot down and spent most of a war we lost in prison camp, and […]

Seems that the Obama campaign must’ve run some serious focus groups the past couple of weeks, and in typical Dem fashion, read them entirely wrong. What else could possibly account for Obama’s completely out of character and spontaneous “run to the middle?” Certainly the Obama of the past few weeks sounds nothing like […]

This may shock some of you, but I write for my blog and cross-post here. This post - which is not a resignation post, (in any context of the word “resignation”), is BoB’s and BoB’s alone.
First, again thanks to Jerry Bowles, who got me started in blogging when he invited me to join BoB […]

Still feeling groovy about Obama? Maybe this a contest between flip-flopper McCain and flip-flopper Obama. Or maybe it’s just proof-positive that no Democrat is ready to be president. I’m sorry, but getting out of Iraq, unequivocally, is a bed rock issue for me and for about 80% of the electorate; this is […]

I’ve tried to write this anecdote a couple dozen times and was never happy with how it flowed, but here:
I had a girlfriend who, among other feats, chained herself a hundred feet in the air to virgin forest trees to protest against corporate logging, broke into labs to free cats and dogs, and etc.
She told […]

OMFG! July 1, 2008! Only 126 days of daily disillusionment left before obamascendancy!
We call the blackmail our overlords use against us negotiation. We pretend to demand the terms that assuage our guilt over our complicity.
Those kids in Appalachia and the inner cities whose free breakfasts will increase by maybe a couple hundred calories a day […]

Can I remind everyone excoriating Obamawful (dibs BDR!) over FISA that we who are excoriating Obamawful over FISA are despised by most and disdained by all but us’uns? We are the relative at family reunions who generates involuntary oh-shit facial reactions when first seen by mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins, in-laws.
Even […]

Set aside Obamajeebus and obamajeebusism. Think about Obama as professional political candidate and Obamacorp as professional political organization. Inevitable bumps and gaffes aside, consider how remarkably and relentlessly efficient and smart and effective and competent Obama and Obamacorp are compared to McCain’s or Clintons or, of course, Bushco.
Watch: Republican operatives, their mouthpieces, anti-Obamers, will portray […]

If true that in scheme of wheeling galaxies (or, to go infinitely smaller, in the lives of starving children in Zimbabwe) the difference between a donkey-whore and an elephant-whore is measured in the bulge of secret Bermudian bank accounts, there’s always rooting for Obama because asshats like Richard Cohen disqualify him for the presidency because […]

Wisconsin Democrats held their state convention up here over the weekend. It didn’t have much star power—no Barack Obama, no other nationally prominent Democrat, not even Bill Richardson (who scored surprisingly well in a straw poll of VP preferences, coming second to Hillary)—but there was a little bit of drama nevertheless. Wisconsin’s two most high-profile […]