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Sun August 24, 2008
(Globe and Mail) Obvious "U.S. political conventions have become the appendix of the body politic: a vestige of something that once had a function but no longer does." (55)
(Wall Street Journal) Ironic Two Nevada delegations headed to the GOP convention. Neither will likely be seated (36)
(YouTube) Amusing Fox News reporter: "What are you demonstrating about?" Protester: "Fark you, we don't talk to Fox News" (contains profanity) (258)
(The Atlantic) Obvious McCain responds to Joe Biden's crack about him having seven kitchen tables in a totally unexpected way: "I spent some years without a kitchen table, without a chair." (358)
(Yahoo) Unlikely Fly, my pretties, fly (162)
(Rocky Mountain News) Dumbass Cindy Sheehan, in Denver for the DNC, urges protesters to "fight for peace." Way to go girl, you've finally figured out the way things work around here (32)
(Gallup) Interesting The Biden Bump turns out to be as thin as his hair plugs: Obama and McCain tied at 45 percent (125)
(France24) Asinine Obama the Antichrist? It's more likely than you know (147)
(Some Guy) Interesting "Voting for McKinney as a protest against Obama would be the logical equivalent of blowing your brains out to prevent the sniffles" (52)
(Dispatches from the Culture Wars) Fail California school district considering adding intelligent design, alchemy, and phrenology to science curriculum. Everyone put your palm to your forehead (433)
(No Quarter) Interesting Obama won the Democratic primary in that party's time-honored fashion: He stole it (128)
(The Desert Sun) Asinine What's Tom DeLay up to these days, after being indicted and resigning in scandal? Oh, he's a keynote speaker for Republican fund-raising dinners (42)
(Boston Globe) Stupid Hillary Clinton's supporters plan to air their grievances outside the convention hall during the "Million Bunched-Panties March" (121)
(CNN) Interesting Bush seeks protection for remote islands, especially concerned about Fantasy and Gilligan's (52)
(The Industry Standard) Cool Fark newsflash beats 3AM text message for this journalist. (with handy list of every newsflash headline) (38)
(Washington Post) Dumbass McCain on Saturday: "Obama's VP pick criticized him a lot", McCain on Sunday: "Obama snubbed Hillary because she criticized him too much" (137)
(CBS News) Scary Not to add to the troubled world situation, but..oh hell, let's add to it: Pakistani government teeters on brink of collapse over successor to Musharraf (65)
(Politico) Interesting McCain, who was a prisoner of war, is considering Colin Powell as running mate (108)
(National Review) Followup Shockingly negative quotes about Obama...by Senator Joe Biden (109)
(Huffington Post) Amusing Like a drinking game, but with keys (11)
(apan Today) Weird Kim Jong Il of North Korea dead and impersonated by a double these past 5 years? The son may not be there (131)
(Guardian.com) Asinine Big Pharma spends millions on thinly disguised bribes for doctors and hospital staff. This outrage highlights America's need for a national health care system like the UK, which would surely end the abuse of - what's that? Um, never mind (84)
(Vanity Fair) Obvious Karl Lagerfeld on Carla Bruni: "She speaks many languages. It must be an embarrassment for the wives of other heads of state to see this beautiful creature who can wear anything and speak like that." (37)
(CNN) Stupid Roach with a picture of McCain strapped to it beats roach with a picture of Obama strapped to it. It's not news, it's CNN (video) (80)
(C|Net) Asinine Joe Biden is a pro-RIAA, anti-privacy, free internet foe, and soon to be one mouse-click away from the Presidency (143)
(hillaryis44.org) Amusing "Celestial choirs sang this morning because Hillary Clinton was spared the pestilence of even being considered seriously by the Chicago thugs for membership in their circus." And denial ain't just a river in Egypt (52)

Sat August 23, 2008
(Celeb Stoner) Dumbass Joe Biden coined the term "drug czar" and wrote the law against sending drug paraphernalia through the mail that put Tommy Chong in jail (148)
(Newsday) Amusing Not only did Obama not pick the Hildebeast, he apparently never even considered her (121)
(Gothamist) Obvious New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is accepting the law and moving on. Just kidding, he's going to local newspapers to see if they'll support ending term limits (20)
(On the Issues) Dumbass I'm sure picking a veep candidate who earned an F from the NRA on gun control is really going to help Obama in those red states (197)
(Free Republic) Followup A large number of Freepers are defending the guy from Malta who thinks dinosaurs helped build the pyramids. Bonus: Ron Jeremy is a Freeper (73)
(Some Girl) Unlikely McCain can now win by picking up the angry Hillary supporters, if he chooses Sarah Palin as his running mate (149)
(Wonkette) Amusing After talking to their neighbor's grandma's stylist who knows the girlfriend of a guy who works at a printshop, rightwing blog promises to shut down if Evan Bayh is not the pick. Drudge provides no such courtesy (25)
(Some Guy) Cool Biden more pouplar amongst senior voters than Hillary Clinton. Welcome back from the dark side, Florida (45)
(National Review) Followup "I think it is an outright terrible decision on Obama's part to pick Biden. Biden is such a gasbag he makes the Hindenburg look like a sack of rocks." (145)
(Seattle Times) Interesting Using a simple word-association test to look inside voters' heads, researchers found that many voters who think they are undecided have unconsciously made up their minds. Warmonger. Inexperienced (39)
(MSNBC) Obvious "The candidate Republicans least wanted to see Obama pick was Biden" (323)
(Houston Chronicle) Stupid Old and Busted: Billionaire funding the Swift Boating of John Kerry. New Hotness: Billionaire funding the Weather Undergroundization of Barack Obama (77)
(Some Guy) Interesting Assuming Virginia goes to McCain, welcome to your 269-269 tie map (89)
(Cleveland) Stupid Bush blames the Democrat Congress for high gas prices. Democrats, what can't they do? (85)
(Yahoo) Interesting Chances are who you vote for has to do with your plumbing. And not the stainless steel kind, either (58)
(Slate) Dumbass Slate points out what we've known on Fark for months: if you don't vote for Obama, it's because you must be a racist (169)
(Salon) Obvious "Having a wife who provides you with a private jet and eight multimillion-dollar vacation homes provides for a comfortable life. But is this the right preparation for becoming president?" -The right wing on Kerry, 2004 (77)
(Obama Crimes) Followup Clinton supporters are not only outraged -- they are OUTRAGED AND LITIGIOUS (122)
(PhillyBurbs) Amusing Next week, "Who's the governor of New Jersey?" should be answered "What day is it?" (12)
(Yahoo) Obvious Another advantage to being a Republican: it's apparently much easier for you to find a job than those lazy, shiftless whiny Democrats (40)
(Cajun Boy) Dumbass If you thought the "3AM phone call" ads attacking Obama were bad, wait until the "3AM text message" ads hit the airwaves (46)
(NashvillePost.com) Dumbass Tennessee man has multiple affairs, tries to get out of paying alimony, then announces for state Senate a month later. Wonders why former brother-in-law is campaigning against him (8)
(Barack Obama) Fail So that "be the first to know with a text message to your phone" was a fundraising / email list-building stunt after all (399)
(CNN) Obvious Clinton supporters are outraged -- OUTRAGED (111)
(CNN) Interesting One was a "hideous hermaphroditical character", the other was "the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father". Meet the Founding Fathers (43)
(Fox News) Obvious Fox News frets that late-night comics aren't making enough fun of Obama (48)
(Reuters) NewsFlash CNN reports that AP heard my best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Joe Biden pass out at 31 Flavors last night (1423)

Fri August 22, 2008
(Slashdot) Asinine Didn't break the law? That's okay, the FBI is watching you anyway (100)
(Boston Globe) Obvious Obama realizes that most states will not vote for a Democrat and stops running ads in them (88)
(Washington Times) Weird Duckie from "Pretty in Pink" is a Republican? (35)
(Reuters) Amusing Dubya's a trendsetter. South Korea officials urged to give up golf because of tough times for the country (18)
(Reuters) Unlikely GOP strategist argues McCain's status as POW will blunt impact of 3-day old HouseGate story. "As long as McCain can communicate that he understands the problems of normal people ... this will be a 24-hour story," Feehery said (145)
(Time) News Obama Bayh bumper stickers being printed in Kansas ahead of the convention (673)
(Daily Kos) Dumbass McCain's new attack ad claims that Obama has never had to worry about a family budget, "but we do." Well, when your family budget has a quarter million dollars for servants, you probably do actually worry about it (249)
(Comedy Central) Amusing Obama's Four Worst VP Picks (154)
(Honolulu Star-Bulletin) Stupid Having made clear their positions on all other issues, presidential campaigns now debating the question "How "exotic" is Hawaii?" (71)
(Sun Sentinel) Obvious Obama fails to unite Democratic party with his lies and empty rhetoric as Clinton calls for her supporters to abandon him at the convention (114)
(MSNBC) Obvious If the coolness of the bands scheduled to play at the conventions is any indication of success then the Democrats are ahead by a landslide. Seriously Sen. McCain the Beach Boys? What was Andy Williams too edgy for you? (153)
(YouTube) Amusing Finally, an honest politician. John Edwards singing "I Kissed A Girl (Tried to Hide It) (25)
(LA Times) Amusing "A nine-car motorcade took McCain to a nearby Starbucks early in the morning, where he ordered a large cappuccino" (185)
(Media Matters) Asinine "Liberal" media quotes anti-abortion activist in Obama articles even though she supports wife-beating if the wife had an abortion and supports billboards in Africa which say that condoms will kill you (59)
(Washington Post) Interesting Michele Obama was being paid $317,000 a year "to bridge the gap between the wealthy [Chicago hospital] and its poorer neighbors." At that price, it's a bridge Ted Stevens would be proud of (165)
(YouTube) Amusing Poll shows that majority of Americans know how many homes they own (201)
(Daily Kos) Obvious John McCain's constant playing of the "POW Card" is not only cheapening his experiences but those of thousands of fellow vets and POWs -- at least according to this America-hating, three-star general (89)
(Donklephant) Amusing National Review says John McCain is deciding between Tim Pawlenty and Joe Lieberman...but the New York Times is saying McCain's choosing between Pawlenty and Mitt Romney...and Time says McCain's done choosing, having picked Romney (153)
(National Review) Interesting The Dems are having their flop-sweat moment. They are starting to realize that the American people don't want an egghead city boy president what discombobulates them with big words and fancy idears (91)
(BusinessWeek) Unlikely We're every bit as active as we were 30 years ago - what's making us fat is corn subsidies, but that's not nearly as much fun as slagging the calf-tattooed behemoth in line in front of you at Wal-Mart (47)
(Yahoo) Interesting Barack Obama denies fetus' legal rights: Do we really want activist zygotes legislating from the womb? (198)
(National Review) Obvious If Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today, he'd be a McCain supporter (188)
(Wall Street Journal) Fail We use Google for free, but our government uses a terrorist watch list program that, despite an expenditure of $500 million of our tax dollars for "upgrades," still can't even do simple keyword searches (73)
(NPR) Dumbass "When Obama talks, he doesn't really say what he stands for," says registered Democrat who apparently hasn't been near a TV, radio, newspaper or computer in months (63)
(Some Guy) Followup White powder at McCain's office not, I repeat NOT, anthrax. Police now testing the powder for traces of Bisquick (25)
(American Thinker) Interesting Barack wants to hide what he did with his CAC (144)
(News Hounds) Amusing Ingraham thinks late night hosts are involved in a partisan plot to go easy on Obama (35)
(CBS News) Weird New Jersey pest management association officially calls the race for McCain (35)
(AP) Interesting The location of every VP pick. Looks like Obama is showing his hand, and it's Kaine (169)
(9 News) Followup Man who sent letter containing white powder to John McCain's Denver headquarters is behind bars; and was when he sent the letter (78)
(UPI) Obvious Ohio voting machines have a vote dropping glitch. As in, 'Oops, I just dropped this voting machine from the black neighborhood. I do so hope everything is okay" (65)
(New York Daily News) Amusing New York Daily News wants to see Obama henpecked and undermined for the next four years (103)
(AP) Scary Good News: Iraq cracking down on armed militants. Bad: Iraq cracking down on the USA backed and funded Sunni 'Awakening Council' credited with bringing stability to the region. Awkward (62)
(MSNBC) Dumbass John McCain doesn't think any Americans want to work picking lettuce for $50/hour. Where do I sign up, John? (258)
(Huffington Post) Cool New study finds that 52% of social conservatives are tired of mixing church and state. Thank God (51)
(Time) Interesting TIME magazine say Mitt Romney is the VP pick, citing two GOP sources. Right, because those guys are always honest (43)
(Huffington Post) Interesting Anti-Obama ad runs afoul of McCain-Feingold express advocacy laws. That's irony we can believe in (310)
(Salon) Obvious When cable networks hire Pat Buchanan, Tucker Carlson, Michael Savage, and Glenn Beck, it's no problem at all. Hire Rachel Maddow? JOURNALISTIC INTEGRITY IS DEAD (233)

Thu August 21, 2008
(National Review) Scary "Russia to cut all military ties with NATO" What could possibly go wrong? Besides, you know, global thermonuclear war (102)
(Independent) Obvious "The Democratic convention will feature insincerity and hypocrisy which defy even the normal standards of politics. The Clinton-Obama display of unity will make the Nazi-Soviet Pact look like an event rooted in profound principle" (95)
(Daily Kos) Obvious FactCheck.org finds evidence that Obama's parents have been scheming to fool people into thinking their son was born in the US since 1961 (326)
(Deceiver) Strange Rielle Hunter once appeared on a game show. Oddly enough, it wasn't The Dating Game, The Price Is Right, or Liar's Club (18)
(Newsweek) Obvious While Sen. Obama barely ekes out a slight point advantage over John McCain, polls show Sen. Clinton would be well ahead in a McCain-Clinton showdown. Clinton supporters to Obamacons: We told ya so (120)
(Think Progress) Dumbass Limbaugh: Obama won primaries because no one "had the guts to stand up and say no to a black guy" (154)
(Talking Points Memo) Followup McCain camp explains his house confusion by pointing out that he was a POW (219)
(CNN) Dumbass Republicans upset that Joe Lieberman has been so active in McCain's campaign, worry that he makes McCain look like a Democrat. Not that there's anyone in Washington who DOESN'T look like a lefty compared to Lieberman (36)
(CBS News) Scary McCain's Denver campaign office receives and envelope full of white powder, early reports indicate it's not pancake mix (265)
(Some Guy) Stupid McCain's Website: "On one of Cindy's medical missions, she met Mother Theresa, who convinced her to adopt Bridget." Newspaper: "O RLY?" Revised Campaign Website: "No" (75)
(Daily Kos) Interesting Barack Obama makes a helpful video to remind McCain how many houses he owns. Includes bonus footage of Obama's next house (309)
(Time) Amusing Time gets the inside scoop on the probably of a Clinton VP nomination (121)
(Talking Points Memo) Dumbass Sen. Stevens engages in calm and reasoned discussion about his pending charges. Just kidding, he challenges a constituent to fight (45)
(Independent) Scary Kim Jong-Il's high school teacher reminices over his old student's hijinks, like spiking the prom punch, ordering the entire school blown up, and ordering the teacher's entire family killed (48)
(Fox News) Obvious Senator tied to sex ring allowed to use campaign money for legal fees (128)
(Independent) Asinine Neocon pundit happily leaks McCain's plan to kill the UN (209)
(Fox Business) Interesting An inconvenient economic truth: the biggest threat to America isn't CO2, it's IOUs (138)
(ClusterStock) Stupid Obama and McCain schedule a douche-off to see whose energy plan is more worthless (260)
(Some Guy) Interesting Obama says McCain tried to Jack Abrahm off (140)
(YouTube) Video Bob Barr does stand a little stand up comedy. Wakka wakka wakka (33)
(New York Daily News) Obvious Cindy McCain's half sister would like to refute Mrs. McCain's only child quotes (77)
(National Post) Obvious Former prime minister Jean Chretien and the Conservatives still don't get along very well (38)
(Politico) Obvious If a reporter asks how many houses you own and you say "I'll have my staff get to you".... you might be an elitist (1560)
(USA Today) PSA "We can't keep on going in the same direction we've been going in," isn't really something you can tell a NASCAR crowd (43)
(Wired) Weird Having exhausted every other avenue of political discussion, Wired asks the question on everyone's minds. What D&D character would John McCain be? (70)
(YouTube) Scary McCain tells town hall supporters he "doesn't disagree" with reinstating draft (298)
(Huffington Post) Unlikely McCain wants convention speakers to reflect the diversity of the Republican party. Also wants jumbo shrimp for dinner and lengthy discussions about military intelligence (41)
(WWL) Interesting Louisiana governor won't renew order barring discrimination based upon race and sexual orientation, because "it could cause problems with faith-based organizations' ability to contract with the state" (315)
(Bloomberg) Ironic The first North Vietnamese that John McCain encountered in 1967, says he greeted him with the biggest kitchen knife he could find. He'd like to welcome McCain back as president of the United States (30)
(Think Progress) Interesting What's one way to get rid of the silly news cycles covering who the VP will be? Get rid of the office of the Vice Presidency (69)
(FiveThirtyEight) PSA For the first time since Obama won the nomination, the premiere statistical analysis website covering the election shows McCain more likely to win (167)
(Times-Leader) Asinine Faced with poor polling for McCain, the GOP tries a strategy based on actual solutions and relevant issues. Just kidding, they're trying to kick Bob Barr off the ballot in swing states (132)

Wed August 20, 2008
(AP) Unlikely Apparently having missed Biden's statement yesterday that "I'm not the guy," AP's Nedra Pickler claims in new article "Biden has emerged as the favorite" for VP slot (76)
(Politico) Obvious Scott McClellan advises Obama to not investigate the Bush Administration because it . . . um . . . divisive . . . or something . . . PLEASE don't investigate (153)
(AP) Stupid Six "real people" will get to speak at the DNC in Denver. With free airfare and lodging, coaching from professional tailors and speechwriters, and personal assistants assigned by the DNC, of course. Now that's real (59)
(Daily Mail) Obvious Barack Obama's half-brother discovered in Kenya, living on $1 a month, just like Americans will be if he's elected and can put his economic strategies in place (130)
(Wall Street Journal) Interesting They bring a petition full of signatures, you bring out an army of lawyers to disqualify them. That's the Chicago Way (72)
(Some Guy) Scary Jon Voight declares war with Rosanne Barr stating, "My allegiance to Senator McCain becomes stronger with any assault that tries to deter my loyalty to him" (176)
(The New York Times) Sad Two old women sentenced to a year of re-education for applying to use one of China's "official Olympic protest areas". That was one fiendishly clever trap (39)
(Yahoo) Amusing The media notes that the media is in an orgiastic, jeans-creaming frenzy of speculation over Obama's VP pick. But this is because Obama's a genius, not because the media is biased (71)
(BBC) Unlikely Nigerian group says money it sent to Obama campaign was never meant for him. Obama's handlers respond that the money will of course be refunded, as soon as the Nigerians pay a small "courier's fee" via Western Union (11)
(Politico) Interesting The real Barack Obama. Vintage video from 13 years ago shows him ... being boring and saying pretty much the same things he says during the campaign (85)
(Breitbart.tv) Obvious Tickets to Obama's acceptance speech are free for all and all gone. Unless you're a big donor who can access the secret part of their Web site and buy them for $1,000 each. Until a TV reporter found out (135)
(AP) Interesting Bush administration set to withdraw all troops from Iraqi cities by June 30th (282)
(CBS News) Obvious Rudy Giuliani to play prominent role in national disaster occurring in September (124)
(Canada.com) Silly Obama / Sutherland '08? McCain / Cyrus for America? Hell, why not at this point (96)
(ABC News) Interesting Biden brings bagels but belies Barack bid (44)
(MSNBC) News Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, who was in critical condition, then dead, is now alive (194)
(Herald-Leader) Followup Former Kentucky gubernatorial candidate wasn't attempting to intice young girls into his king sized waterbed, he was merely offering their grandmother "a good fattening hog" (103)
(Wall Street Journal) Interesting A few things in the Democratic Party's past that the DNC would rather you not hear about (271)
(NPR) Obvious Joe Lieberman to speak at GOP convention. "Your journey toward the dark side is now complete." (145)
(Some Rush Guy) Obvious Rush Limbaugh threatens John McCain: Choose a pro-life VP candidate or your presidential aspirations will be terminated (185)
(Newsweek) Obvious McCain's ads show him to be a deceitful liar with no regard for the truth if falsehood will better suit his political ends. So maybe he is more qualified to be President after all (136)
(Wall Street Journal) Dumbass On abortion, Democrats go from "safe, legal and rare" to "long as the baby ain't crowned yet it's all good, plus we're billing Dick Cheney for the procedure" (354)
(Yahoo) Cool Obama, enjoy your pancakes with this 5 point McCain lead (260)
(International Herald Tribune) Dumbass Democrats urge delay in building U.S. missile system in Europe, saying it has not been adequately tested. And by "it," they mean "their backbone" (164)
(athensonline) Amusing Univ. of Georgia planning to name a building after former governor and US Senator Zell Miller. Students not sure how they will feel about studying in the Farking Nutbag Learning Center (105)
(LA Times) Interesting Barack Obama finally says "fark this shiat" and starts blasting tons of negative ads in the battleground states (438)
(UPI) Interesting Country star John Rich: "I'm sure Johnny Cash would be a McCain supporter if he was still around." Roseanne Cash: "It is appalling to me that people invoke my father's name to further their own agendas." Oh SNAP (140)
(Investors Business Daily) Obvious "After what happened at Lake Forest, Calif.'s evangelical Saddleback megachurch Saturday evening, we may have found that debating is Obama's Achilles' heel." (249)
(CBS News) Scary CBS confirms Obama VP announcement to come Friday afternoon...that coveted few hours at the end of the week where bad news goes to die a quick death. It must be Hillary (111)
(Huffington Post) Interesting Toby Keith confuses country music lovers everywhere by endorsing Obama (93)
(Minneapolis Star Tribune) Obvious He's not good enough, he's not smart enough, and doggone it, the DNC hates him (27)
(9 News) PSA Denver police would like to remind all you hippie Democrats that pot smoking will not be tolerated at the Convention (107)
(AP) Followup Court finds that Bush Administration rule on air pollution illegal. This marks the 9762nd time the words "Bush Administration" and "Illegal" have appeared together in a headline (46)

Tue August 19, 2008
(AP) Unlikely "Bush was very slow to realize that he either had been had by Musharraf or that Musharraf was not up to the task. Historians will debate this for years." Yes, THAT'S what historians will debate (38)
(Daily Kos) Interesting McCain's recent statements indicate he was not tortured in Vietnam (201)
(Rocky Mountain News) Amusing The Democrat Fail Train steams ahead, as Carter, Gore and Kerry are added to DNC speaker list (107)
(Daily Kos) Hero Keith Olbermann leaks the news: Rachel Maddow gets her own show (218)
(AZCentral) Interesting Dept. of Homeland Security: We can use whatever land we need for our virtual border fence. Dept. of Interior: Not so much (38)
(ABC News) Interesting John McCain basically wants to pick either Tom Ridge or Joe Lieberman as his VP and whomever gets the first "he's okay" nod from social conservatives will be the winner (151)
(Daily Kos) Amusing Jack Cafferty out-Olbermann's Olbermann (80)
(Fox News) Obvious Russian promises to withdraw from Georgia by Friday. Which Friday is unclear but it will definitely be a Friday (31)
(Think Progress) Unlikely Thanks to Fox News, in just a matter of months John McCain has gone from actively fighting to take benefits away from veterans to actually being the author of the GI Bill (84)
(Boing Boing) Asinine McCain's staffer slams Dungeons & Dragons players. If that's the way you want it, McCain, ROLL FOR INITIATIVE (270)
(9 News) Amusing Note to DNC: An upside-down flag represents an international symbol of extreme distress. It's probably not the best symbol to use at your party's convention (140)
(Yahoo) Interesting Barack Obama finally responds to John McCain, who was a prisoner of war, saying he'd rather lose the war than the election by challenging him to acknowledge his patriotism at once (282)
(National Post) Amusing Ralph Nader auctions book to 150 fans in Toronto. Bidding starts at $4,600. Do I hear $2,300? Okay, $500? Bueller? Bueller? (17)
(Some Guy) Asinine Commissioners of one county in Tennessee vote 10 times to keep schools closed in favor of lowest property taxes in the state (437)
(Salon) Obvious If U.S. politicians want to denounce Russia, they should really stop using a bunch of platitudes that the U.S. has violated way worse than Russia (69)
(Daily Kos) Followup McCain "clarifies" his statement about handing California a giant straw to drink Colorado's milkshake (52)
(Daily Kos) Interesting A breakdown on the Republican possible VP picks from Daily Kos (105)
(Huffington Post) Obvious What scandal? Edwards "misused campaign contributions and money pledged to fight poverty so he could bring his mistress on the campaign trail with him during the presidential campaign." Oh, that (48)
(Wall Street Journal) Silly Current Congress has been the laziest one in 20 years. But, on the other hand, it has passed more than 1,900 resolutions honoring soil, watermelons, heat stroke awareness and other important issues (36)
(Some Guy) Interesting Obama set to launch his own fashion line. But will the Messiah's garb be an Obama-nation? (62)
(AlterNet) Interesting Michael Moore provides a blueprint for how the Democrats can blow the election, then eats it (57)
(MSNBC) Interesting Detroit's city council tries to vote to remove the city's beleaguered mayor, but are promptly biatchslapped by a judge who reminded them they have no such power to do anything like that (227)
(Huffington Post) Scary McCain is a compulsive gambler who spends 14 hour stretches at the craps table. But at least he's not a SECRET MUSLIM like BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA (133)
(The Hill) Sad Looking though the promised transparency of Nancy's Congress, we find 200 more earmarks over last year, totaling an additional $290 million (75)
(Wall Street Journal) Interesting Barack Obama wants to raise taxes out of "fairness." Nevermind that the top 10 percent of income earners already pay 71 percent of the taxes. Let's soak the rich until they are soft then eat them (692)
(International Herald Tribune) Amusing "The casual revelation that McCain has never Googled is rather startling. It's like admitting that you've never clipped your own toenails because your valet always did that for you" (136)
(ABC News) Interesting Attorneygate: What did Bush know, and when did he know it? (375)
(Talking Points Memo) Asinine FBI mistakenly threw out original sample of anthrax that linked Ivins to the plot. But luckily, an "identical" sample was provided by another researcher. Case closed (84)
(New York Sun) Interesting No sweat, Obama's up eight. Of course, that's in New York, where Republicans are outnumbered like hot girls at a Star Trek convention (202)
(Some Guy) Sad Journalistic accuracy is a dying art in an age where tabloids and blogs can publish whatever they want, a situation that would appall Walter Cronkite if he were alive today (194)
(Washington Post) Obvious Washington Post admits covering Obama three to one over McCain (85)
(Daily Kos) Dumbass Associated Press refers to Joe Lieberman, potential McCain veep candidate, as the "Democratic vice presidential prick (sic) in 2000" (25)
(Politico) Hero McCain takes a lead in the electoral vote polling (188)
(MSNBC) Hero Keith Olbermann, rest of nation, to McCain: Grow up (149)
(Mother Jones) Amusing John McCain has served in Congress with civil rights icon John Lewis for 22 years, and frequently cites him as a role model and potential advisor. Except they barely know each other, and Lewis doesn't really like McCain (29)
(Politico) Interesting McCain to announce VP pick on August 29 during "huge rally" (10,000 seats) one day after Obama accepts Democratic nomination at huge rally (75,000) (92)

Mon August 18, 2008
(SacBee) Asinine Not voting with your party leadership can sometimes get you in trouble. Sometimes it get you kicked entirely out of the Capitol within 24 hours (164)
(Talking Points Memo) Interesting John McCain, a former prisoner of war, outspending Barack Obama by hundreds of thousands of dollars in battleground states and can't pull away. Why can't John McCain, who spent 5 1/2 years in a POW camp, close the deal? (137)
(Daily Kos) Amusing Even the founder of Daily Kos doesn't think Obama is worth donating to (59)
(Daily Mail) Obvious "The Left seems to be gripped with some kind of political penis envy of America, which can be assuaged only by sucking up to tyrants and dictators" (131)
(factcheck.org) Ironic Remember the bear DNA study McCain complained about at the faith forum? He voted for it (126)
(Politico) Amusing Bush calls Phelps from Crawford to congratulate. Phelps has problem with the language barrier (55)
(KP4C.com) Dumbass Congressional Candidate posts blog claiming his campaign is more professional than rival's. Voters disagree ... on his blog. Verdict: Failure (6)
(National Review) Followup "Cross in the dirt"? Fellow POW says that McCain told that story in 1971 (219)
(Politico) Ironic While Democrats portray Republicans as bitter and "clinging to guns and religion," Nancy Pelosi brands Obama as a deliverer sent from God (68)
(Free Press) Cool Obama camapigning with Kathleen Sebelius (D-VP) tomorrow. Hillary's gonna be pissed (71)
(Guardian.com) Followup The Russians have pulled out of Georgia, except for the tanks and artillery. And the infantry. And the checkpoints. But other than that, they're practically gone (140)
(Minneapolis Star Tribune) Interesting Survey of D.C. bartenders reveals that Republicans are lousy tippers, Democrats like fruity drinks (63)
(Some Pundit) PSA Cris Collinsworth: Traitor (105)
(Fox News) Interesting What would have happened at the DNC if the roles had been reversed? (50)
(National Review) Followup Obama and McCain were deliberately given first two summit questions, and Obama was given a third that McCain did not get (205)
(WRAL) Interesting Mill where John Edwards' father worked and which he used as a backdrop for his campaign has burned to the ground. Fire marshall suspects metaphorical arson (65)
(Fox News) Obvious If you're looking for the celebrities next week, you will have to check Denver because it looks like they are all going to the DNC (209)
(Washington Times) Obvious When your supporters have to resort to parsing the history of your right to be presumed innocent and protesting how unfair the Grand Jury process is you know you're in real trouble (37)
(Fox News) Interesting Republican are outraged... OMG what happened to Clarence Thomas? He looks like he's spent the last 10 years on the Michael Phelps diet (99)
(Election Geek) Interesting Obama was against manned spaceflight until he realized rockets took off from Florida (123)
(LA Times) Dumbass Obama defines "rich" as income over 250K. McCain says 5 million (301)
(Daily Kos) Followup That McCain Solzhenitsyn plagiarism? It was first spotted by those wild-eyed liberal nutcases at Free Republic (85)
(SFGate) Unlikely Obama: "Not only do I think I'm a desi, but I'm a desi," he said, using a colloquial term that describes South Asian immigrants. The remark was greeted with laughs. "I'm a homeboy." (56)
(The New York Times) Followup McCain says allegations that he violated the cone of silence are out of line because he was a POW. Really (264)
(Washington Post) Interesting Five ways to screw up an economic recovery. Or, in other words, the Democratic Party's economic platform (171)
(Political Wire) Ironic McCain would never have nominated Ginsburg, Breyer or Souter to the Supreme Court.... except he voted for their confirmation nonetheless (105)
(GOP) Interesting Since no one else bothered to do it, here's a fact check of Nancy's energy plan (65)
(JPOST) Obvious The audacity of resume-padding (or, why Obama makes things up) (103)
(NewsBusters) Followup So that charge that McCain "cheated" by listening in on Obama's answers at the Saddleback Forum? Turns out it's not true and that Andrea Mitchell of NBC news is so deep in the tank for Obama fish are crapping on her head (271)
(Washington Post) Amusing "Older women just love [Bob Barr], they come up and pinch his little cheeks" (42)
(AJC) Interesting Small Iowa town struggles to survive after one quarter of its workforce is rounded up in immigration raid in May (143)
(John McCain) Scary Rumor: One of John McCain's first steps as president will be overturning Roe v Wade. Fact: According to his own website, one of John McCain's first steps as president will be overturning Roe v Wade (702)
(Wonkette) Obvious A full rundown of what you CAN'T bring into Obama's big speech next week in Denver. No outside food, for one: word is he's got a big loaves-and-fishes thing planned (636)
(WTOP) Scary Local radio station uncovers plans to scan all license plates in MD, DC and VA and run them all through federal databases. Better hope you only have parking tickets, citizen (45)
(BBC) NewsFlash Pervez Musharraf announces nuclear clearout sale: EVERYTHING MUST GO (171)
(Politico) Interesting Obama guarantees victory. In other news, Obama still hasn't learned that things he says at fundraisers can get leaked to the press (66)
(The New York Times) Obvious So that "cone of silence" John McCain was in while Obama answered questions? Turns out it was a "motorcade of listening in." My friends (185)
(Salon) Interesting Are we now officially a Christian nation? (273)

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