| Barack Obama says Hillary Clinton only cares about Florida and Michigan because she's losing. Ya rly, he finally said it | (73) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Project for a New American Century's website quietly goes kaput | (61) | |
| (WTF?!) | Fox News analyst says that we should knock off Osama... uh, Obama... well "both if we could." | (250) | |
| Bob Barr wins Libertarian convention, hopes to form coalition of weirdos, goldbugs and real conservatives. McCain craps his pants | (67) | ||
| If the Libertarian Party held a convention and no one was there to hear it, would anyone give a damn? | (120) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Co-chair of Clinton's Hispanic council defects to Obama. Hillary says it might not be a big deal, since Hispanic co-chairs can still be assassinated in June | (51) | |
| CNN hires new commenter, who likes complimenting McCain and criticizing Obama and Clinton. They don't mention that he works for McCain | (41) | ||
| McCain is too sage to give Parsley the thyme of day | (56) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Now that all the important issues are settled, there's only one more question. Which candidate would you go on a picnic with? | (52) | |
| Rep. John Conyers, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, would like the DEA to explain why they are conducting "paramilitary-style enforcement raids" against medicinal marijuana dispensaries in California | (221) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Bill Clinton claims that if Hillary can win the primaries in the 44th and 46th largest states in the country, she could sway enough superdelegates so that she can win the nomination. No, seriously | (125) | |
| Israeli intelligence now believes Iran will have nukes by next year, and Israel is seriously considering preemptive unilateral military action. This headline brought to you courtesy of the years 2005-2030 | (166) | ||
| Hillary tries to do damage control with an editorial in the NY Daily News. This should end well | (124) | ||
| McCain: "I support the troops". Obama: "So why are you opposing the new G.I. Bill?" McCain: (crickets) | (289) | ||
| "Government lawyers told federal judges that the President can send the military into any U.S. neighborhood, capture a citizen and hold him in prison without charge, indefinitely." | (742) | ||
| McCain campaign makes changes to exclude President Bush and the press from upcoming events | (39) | ||
| According to Michelle Malkin, the reason Rachel Ray is wearing a tattered white scarf in a Dunkin Donuts ad is because she loves Yasser Arafat. But they are both hot and the story involves donuts, making it very important | (134) | ||
| Florida battles smoking by issuing taxpayer-funded comic book featuring Superman battling villian who uses cigarettes as his weapon | (22) | ||
| John McCain's hopes of winning Florida in the general election ride on his belief in Crist. Charlie Crist, that is | (46) | ||
| A breakdown of posts from two of Fark's favorite political blogs. One result: the last 100,000 comments from hillaryis44.org were written by just 310 users | (132) |
| Farc leader dead. Fark leader still drinking beer, checking out boobies | (93) | ||
| When Hillary Clinton says that she's losing the Democratic nomination race because of sexism but would be more likely to win the White House, isn't she therefore also saying that Republicans are less sexist than Democrats? | (54) | ||
| Fresh off news that Barack Obama is leading in most recent Ohio and Virginia polls, the GOP's getting kinda worried that people have noticed that John McCain's Straight Talk Express is driven by lobbyists | (132) | ||
| When you lose, arguing that the rules should be changed so that you win only works until you are six years old | (533) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Hillary's apology about her RFK assassination comments fail to account for the fact that she's been pushing the same line since March | (158) | |
| Need an easy way to get rid of a state representative? Steal their nomination papers | (14) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Changing four jobs within a year, Congresswoman has defaulted on three homes. "The average American is not responsible for maintaining several households." | (54) | |
| Nader doesn't use Google. Nor a computer. Says kids today can't string four coherent sentences together. And get off his lawn | (59) | ||
| Hillary Clinton, after announcing that her campaign strategy has been reduced to hoping for an "RFK Scenario"... "Oops... my bad. Uh, pretend I never said that, okay?" | (285) | ||
| Man needs 10,000 signatures to become the next Senator from Massachusetts, learns there aren't 10,000 living Republicans in the state | (27) | ||
| Congress sees that there's a scrap of the Fourth Amendment left untorched, and decides to set parts of that on fire, too | (47) | ||
| ♪ Cape Town violence all day long, doo-dah, doo-dah ♪ | (31) | ||
| Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi declares 10 garbage dumps to be military zones guarded by soldiers, finally giving Italy's army a mission it can possibly accomplish | (23) | ||
| Lou Dobbs imitates O'Reilly when pressed for facts | (81) | ||
| Sign #36 that the American political system has gone crazy: "when a presidential candidate makes a gaffe, then, realizing it is too egregious to take back... decides to make it a centerpiece of his foreign policy." | (269) | ||
| The Pentagon has lost nearly $15 billion in Iraq funds, but at least it wasn't wasted on social programs in the US | (76) | ||
| Unknown State department employee defaces pictures of Bush Administration officials with mustaches. Daffy Duck impressed | (34) |
| Parrot parrots Obama slogan. CNN is there | (26) | ||
| Hillary Clinton gets her ass handed to her by Keith Olbermann. Again | (224) | ||
| (Boston Phoenix) | Jello Biafra responds to Michael Savage | (53) | |
| Whichever party loses the 2008 presidential election is going to set itself on fire during the fallout | (85) | ||
| In 1990 Oprah had Jello Biafra, Tipper Gore, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Juan Williams, Ice-T and Nelson George to discuss the PMRC issue. Listen to Jello completely own Tipper on national TV | (73) | ||
| Al Franken gets a good tongue-lashing from Republican women | (32) | ||
| Why is Hillary still in the running? Because according to her, Obama might be gunned down like Bobby Kennedy. Oops, she's sorry she said that out loud | (876) | ||
| Defense contractor Northrup Grummon behind anti-Obama website and editorials to newspapers? It's more likely than you think | (195) | ||
| President Bush begins fundraising for John McCain under strict instructions that the two men not be seen or photographed together | (78) | ||
| No way will Barack pick Hillary for VP. He knows that within 30 days of being elected, Bill will make sure Obama's the late president. Let the chain of succession begin | (307) | ||
| McCain has polyps in his colon, apparently the result of too much speaking from that part of his body. Otherwise, he's in pretty good health. Except the cancer | (500) | ||
| Democrats 2006: Vote for us, and we can end the Iraq war. Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D-PA) 2007: "That wasn't true. But you know, the temptation to want to win back the Congress, we sort of stretched the facts... and people ate it up" | (178) | ||
| "Hillary Clinton is now poised to finish the primary season as the popular-vote leader. In some quaint circles, presumably, these things still matter" | (252) | ||
| Tom Harkin (D-umbass) suggests that John McCain's family history of military service makes him unfit to be commander-in-chief | (154) | ||
| Apparently, the Pentagon is now on the honor system: An internal audit of $8 billion paid to Iraqi and U.S. contractors finds that the government skirted the rules designed to prevent fraud in almost every transaction | (86) | ||
| General Petraeus ready to recommend troop cuts. Next week's news: General Petraeus ready to resign, spend more time with family | (27) | ||
| How McCain can win: Pledge to serve only one term, pick a Democrat as VP, and emphasize his comprehensive punk-free lawn policy | (62) | ||
| A small group of people are pushing California to delay the ruling that forces everyone to marry a gay person this June | (140) | ||
| China and Russia: "We oppose your plan for a missile defence system." USA: "I oppose having your momma in my bed" | (49) | ||
| McCain blasts Obama on Iraq. Obama responds. If you've got an "Oh Snap" image you wanted an excuse to use, this might be the thread to roll it out in | (187) | ||
| McCain makes the tough call, decides to drop his support for a preacher who said Hitler was just a modern-day Pied Piper, except for Jews | (14) | ||
| McCain to limit reporters' access to his medical records, lawn | (132) | ||
| (sevenload) | Maxine Waters (D-CA) wants to nationalize U.S. oil companies. That won't work. Waters and oil don't mix (with video) | (260) | |
| NY Gov. David Patterson says he is beginning to see desperation in Hillary Clinton | (33) | ||
| Tony Blair comes within seconds of being U.S.S. Liberty'd by the Israeli Air Force. Oy vey | (286) | ||
| McCain dumps controversial pastor Rev. Parsley. Parsley wasn't quite the spiritual mentor as McCain had previously suggested, but really more of a garnish | (57) | ||
| Howard Dean calls for end of Electoral College so that candidates don't have to kowtow to piddling little states like Vermont | (165) | ||
| (Jed Report) | Hillary Clinton, you lost because of your refusal to apologize for your Iraq vote, NOT sexism | (151) |
| Focus On The Family believes bill outlawing bias on sexual orietation may lead down the slippery slope of a wedding photographer having to shoot a gay wedding | (110) | ||
| If you had May 22 in your office's "What day will John McCain play the Obama can't be President because he didn't get shot down flying a plane" pool, you win | (128) | ||
| McCain realizes that being endorsed by someone who said that God brought on the Holocaust is not good for his electability, activates "straight talking" powers to throw Hagee under bus | (108) | ||
| Note to Obama: It turns out negotiating with your enemies can be a bad thing | (260) | ||
| (Some Guy) | We all wish we could simply not pay our property taxes or mortgage payments. Then again, most of us are not members of the United States House of Representatives | (19) | |
| Obama to McCain: "It's a shame you didn't want to vote for this pro-veteran bill", McCain to Obama: "You're naive, and you don't know what it's like to be President, PANCAKES" | (273) | ||
| Abbie Hoffman, 1968: "Let's hold hands and levitate the Pentagon--it'll stop the war." John Cusack, 2008: "Let's film Hillary Duff stuffing a scorpion down her pants--it'll stop the war" | (68) | ||
| (Info Wars) | The Trilateral Commission is afraid of Ron Paul and his push to bring back the gold standard. Reverse vampires and Majestic 12 not real happy with him, either | (61) | |
| (NY Times Blog) | News: Obama starts process to select running mate with Jim Johnson leading the search. Facepalm: He is the same man who helped Kerry and Mondale select their running mates | (74) | |
| Washington Post refuses to correct political story but runs two corrections on who made the pretzels at a school party | (41) | ||
| Headlines Quebec during their next budget "Help, we're being persecuted", Headlines at every other time "Stop being paranoid xenophobes or you'll be the end of us all" | (191) | ||
| Hey, let's put Barak Obama on the cover of our magazine in a rifle's crosshairs, with the title "White Fright"... what could possibly go wrong? | (92) | ||
| There was a stirring in the Fark, as if a million libs suddenly high-fived each other | (112) | ||
| When Ted Kennedy gives up his seat, he wants the voters of Massachusetts to vote in the most qualified successor. Just kidding--he wants his wife to take it | (250) | ||
| Blind people don't see the point of the federal appeals court vision of non-discriminatory money | (41) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Barack Obama is a gaffe machine, but you're probably a racist for saying something like that about him | (447) | |
| (The Field) | Hillary to Barack: "Gimme the VP". Barack to Hillary: "HAHAHAHAHA....oh wait you're serious. No thanks" | (195) | |
| White House attacks Jerusalem Post story about US invading Iran before Bush's term is up. Probably because they forgot to include a spoiler alert | (226) | ||
| Michelle Malkin takes on the latest threat to American values: That egghead liberal cut-and-run appeaser, Indiana Jones | (113) | ||
| Eager to test out the hidden mistress-bonking nooks in the Admiral's House at the Naval Observatory, Bill Clinton pushing hard for Hillary for VP | (90) | ||
| Cheney: Unlike war with Eastasia, war on terror does not have to last forever (with 10 gallon hat pic goodness) | (91) | ||
| (Columbia Journalism Review) | It's not news, it's MSNBC interviewing an astrologer about which candidate will win in the fall. She didn't say, but she did predict the impending collapse of major media news coverage in the US | (58) | |
| Ted Kennedy's brain tumor may have been caused by a herpes virus. When asked if he was mad at the aide who infected him, Kennedy said it's water under the bridge | (253) | ||
| Chavez to USA: "We will send fighter jets the next time you violate Venezuelan airspace." USA: "Whatever" | (709) | ||
| Old and busted: Hillary in 2008. New hotness: Chelsea in 2016. No, really | (224) | ||
| August 2007: DNC rules panel votes to strip Florida of its votes. All Clinton supporters vote in favor of this move. The only dissenting vote was from an Obama supporter | (163) | ||
| Alaska Governor Sarah Palin (R-MILF) will sue the U.S. Interior Department for their decision to protect the #1 threat to Alaska's oil industry: Polar Bears | (158) | ||
| School House rock never covered this part | (46) | ||
| National Review happy to confirm Hillary Clinton supporters' belief that the Democrats are stealing the Democratic Primary | (101) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Whoever painted this portrait of Obama may have overdone it just a tad | (150) | |
| Media Matters upset that the always douchetastic Michael Savage played a Dead Kennedy's song in honor of Ted Kennedy's tumor. Must be a slow outrage day | (209) |
| (Some Guy) | IRS clears Rev. Wright's church of improperly assisting Obama's campaign | (86) | |
| McCain meeting with potential running mates this weekend. Names in the mix: Charlie Crist, Tim Pawlenty, and Bobby Jindal for his "not an old white guy" factor | (110) | ||
| House to Bush: VetOWNED | (86) | ||
| Canadian PM : "I don't think government should fool people into thinking it can control the price of gas. It generally speaking can't" | (67) | ||
| Bush gets one right: Signs bill barring employers and insurers from discriminating against people genetically predisposed to disease | (57) | ||
| Hillary Clinton compares her efforts to seat Michigan and Florida with the efforts to end slavery in the 19th century. Her truth is marching on. And on. And on. And on | (161) | ||
| In a follow up to a story that wasn't greenlit, McCain admits that no, he cannot make up the structure and function of Iran's government just to make himself feel good | (105) | ||
| Hillary Clinton: Obama can have the nomination when they pry it from my cold dead hands in Denver | (59) | ||
| John McCain tries to reassure public he's not too old... by trotting out his 96-year-old mother | (93) | ||
| As expected, Bush will veto the $300 billion farm bill today, which Congress will promptly override, no doubt in a late night session while drunk on ethanol and coated with biodiesel in a big subsidy pig pile | (70) | ||
| Washington lobbyists are whiney, WHINEY that presidential candidates are putting the interests of the American people ahead of theirs | (70) | ||
| Obama, who was leading McCain by double digits in national polls, and then was losing to him, is now leading him by eight points again | (93) | ||
| Six out of seven top astrologers predict Obama win in November. The seventh also predicts an Obama win, but sees something "funky" happening to him before the inauguration | (94) | ||
| Chuck Norris promises to re-name Ahmadinejad to "Smith" or "Johnson" if elected vice president, just because he can | (104) | ||
| State and local governments are basing promised benefits on numbers from outdated actuarial methods. Imagine the Enron scandal, but involving more people and less accountability | (61) | ||
| The three problems of John McCain | (172) | ||
| John Stossel says legalize heroin and crack, because if we don't, drug dealers will get nuclear weapons. In related news, John Stossel has been smoking crack | (100) | ||
| (DemConWatch) | This week, thousands of Libertarians are expected in Denver for the much awaited Libertarian National Convention | (84) | |
| What does a liberal politician who violates his own gun control law do? Why, introduce a new law to give himself a way out, of course | (117) | ||
| From the "Where were you five years ago" file, FBI agents objected to torturing detainees | (94) | ||
| Remember those 75,000 people who showed up to hear Obama? Actually, they showed up for a free rock concert, so most probably won't be voting or getting off your lawn | (932) | ||
| About six years late, Jesse Ventura hints at entering the Minnesota senate race with Franken and Coleman | (49) | ||
| U.S. military at Gitmo softened up detainees for Chinese intelligence. Sing along: "It's a small world after all..." | (274) | ||
| Exit polls prove that older, white, blue-collar voters are not sexist. Just racist | (164) | ||
| Is Obama the second coming of Jimmy Carter? | (114) | ||
| McCain's chief media advisor quits rather than campaign against Obama | (173) |
| Obama wins Oregon; Hillary loses three oxen fording the river, and two members of her party have dysentery | (730) | ||
| If you haven't been watching CSPAN, you missed this total awesomeness | (203) | ||
| HDTV could do to McCain what television did to Nixon | (66) | ||
| You can win "points" on John McCain's website by copying and pasting their talking points on message boards. In related news, John McCain has the judgment to take on the terrorists, communists, and space wizards threatening the US | (76) | ||
| (Some Guy) | TN Representative threatens to illegally withhold public documents from media and blogs who posted video of him resisting arrest at a DUI stop | (11) | |
| Half of Clinton campaigners would rather abstain than vote for Obama in the general election due to his "frightening lack of experience". Obama: 11 years as an elected official, Clinton: 7 years. Bizarro math strikes again | (426) | ||
| (NY Times) | Appealing to Hispanic voters in Florida, John McCain hits Barack Obama over Obama's "wanting to normalize relations with Cuba." Problem, and you could probably guess: John McCain 2000 had the exact same position | (60) | |
| Barack Obama currently leads John McCain 48-40 in PA with no VP picks attached. With John Edwards on the ticket, however, Obama's win increases to 10 to 17 points depending on McCain's choice | (89) | ||
| The 1996 bill Senator McCain introduced would have crippled his 2008 campaign | (132) | ||
| White House raises stakes in escalating war against NBC News | (103) | ||
| Of American voters polled, 62 percent want smaller government with lower taxes, 29 percent want bigger government with higher taxes, and the remainder want David Archuleta to win "American Idol" | (268) | ||
| 31,000 scientists would like to have a word with Al Gore | (477) | ||
| Now White House says Bush DID apologize for Quran burning | (128) | ||
| Some folk'll never eat a skunk but then again some folk'll, like yokels that don't vote for Obama | (117) | ||
| Time reporter to McCain: Obama said he would negotiate with the (Iranian) leaders, but (Supreme Leader Ali) Khamenei is the leader, not Ahmadinejad. McCain: "nuh-uh...PANCAKES" | (246) | ||
| This is quite possibly the most fabulous political attack ad ever | (164) | ||
| Headline: Make Wearing a Flag Pin the 28th Amendment | (73) | ||
| EPA Chief: I think it's a great idea to let states regulate tailpipe emissions Whitehouse:psst whisper psst. EPA Chief: by which, I mean it's a terrible idea and the EPA will not allow it | (137) | ||
| (Some Guy) | The Tennessee Republican Party: Hates Michelle Obama, loves strip clubs | (116) | |
| Pelosi's Congressional approval rating matches all time low set by Tom Foley. Coincidence? | (59) | ||
| New Taiwanese president calls on China to embrace Democracy, allow Taiwan more autonomy, give each citizen a unicorn | (29) | ||
| Barack Obama seems to think he can make the rules governing what his opponents can and cannot criticize about him. After all, he doesn't want his wittle feelwings hurt | (729) | ||
| Obama gets rid of that whole 'Hussein' annoyance after being given honorary name of Barack Black Eagle of the Crow Nation | (65) | ||
| Republicans lose another heterosexual Congressman | (42) | ||
| The truth is that there is today no adequate substitute for oil, natural gas and coal. America needs to drastically escalate its use of its gigantic coal reserves and it offshore oil reserves until non-oil technologies can be developed | (290) | ||
| (VillageSoup.com) | Maine's Legislature has once again approved the state's nuclear safety inspector job paying $71,000, which is kinda strange considering Maine hasn't had a nuke plant in over a decade | (108) | |
| New York Governor Paterson hospitalized after discovering what a headache it is to run his state | (48) | ||
| It's only voter fraud when the other team does it | (77) | ||
| Sen. Joe Lieberman's cunning plan to thwart terrorism? Pull pro-terror content from YouTube. Please, don't anybody tell Lieberman about LiveLeak or he might have an aneurism on the spot | (41) | ||
| (Truthdig) | Ferraro calls Obama "terribly sexist," cites "Smell the Glove" campaign slogan | (174) | |
| Georgia Republican Party boss says, "John McCain is kind of like Jesus Christ on the cross." She later admits that McCain didn't die for your sins, but that he may have actually been at the crucifixion | (86) |
| Democratic National Convention's cuisine demands are stranger than a Van Halen concert rider and smugger than a Prius full of snowflakes | (125) | ||
| It would cripple our economy if business leaders had to start paying illegal aliens a market wage | (150) | ||
| For a good reason why McCain's proposal to put regulation of insurance on the state level is a bad idea, check your credit card statement | (101) | ||
| The White House sends a strongly worded letter to NBC lecturing them for not being more like Fox News ,using words like "civil war"and "recession" | (93) | ||
| (Desperation Central) | I'll take a Super Delegate vote for $1 million, please | (63) | |
| (McCainPedia) | Democrats launch read-only wiki called McCainPedia to make the good Senator's history crystal clear. ObamaPedia.org registered in 3...2... oh wait, they got that one too | (84) | |
| (Some Senator) | How do you know this nation has changed? When a former Klansman endorses a black man for President | (176) | |
| Poll shows Obama has opening his largest lead yet over Clinton, 16 points. Oddly, 4 percent say they still have no opinion. What are they, brain dead? | (86) | ||
| (Five Thirty Eight) | In depth look at what wacky hijinks would ensue should Obama and McCain end up with a 269-269 tie in November. President Pelosi? It's more likely than you think | (80) | |
| Waaaaah I'm a Republican and my family is making fun of me (sob) | (310) | ||
| NYT's Kristol on Obama losing by 41 in W.V.: "I can't find a single recent instance of a candidate who ultimately became his party's nominee losing a primary by this kind of margin..." Utah GOP: Romney 90%, McCain 5% | (163) | ||
| A President Obama would embolden Al-Qaeda. Surprisingly, article not from FoxNews | (232) | ||
| George Bush: "[The Palestinian people are] good, smart, capable people that, when given a chance, will build a thriving homeland." Which raises the question: Why aren't the Palestinians being given a chance? | (153) | ||
| Buffett likes Obama, cheeseburgers, drunk sex | (49) | ||
| Michelle Obama is open to having Hillary as Vice President | (106) | ||
| Of those polled, half of voters say John McCain can win the war in Iraq, while only 20 percent say Obama can. Meanwhile, 100 percent say The Tick could bring buttery justice to the entire world | (79) | ||
| McCain is slow to gain young voters, probably because they aren't allowed on his lawn to see his campaign signs | (37) | ||
| Fox News unleashes the fury of Bill O'Reilly against General Electric due to repeated assaults by Keith Olbermann. O'Rly? | (141) | ||
| (Free Republic) | In possibly the most cunning campaigning move ever, Bush will be stumping for McCain | (61) | |
| Obama Tells Tennessee GOP to lay off his wife, or he just MIGHT have to start talking about their mommas | (202) | ||
| (Pensito Review) | Three of the four California Supreme Court "activist judges" who voted to legalize gay marriage were Republicans. Fabulous | (216) | |
| The REAL John McCain | (279) | ||
| (Some Guy) | Bush urges Pakistan to solve Kashmir problem, says that any threat to the world's sweater market must be taken seriously | (37) | |
| Obama: "We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK" | (635) | ||
| (HillaryIs44) | HillaryIs44's swansong post is a hotbed of manic bitterness on a scale previously unseen by human eyes | (414) |