I'm all for it except for the term "poverty tour" - it sounds touristy. Call it something else.

Posted at May 18, 2008 12:11 PM in response to Edwards Secured Private Commitment From Obama That He'd Go On Poverty Tour As Nominee

Hillary should be a long-nosed pinocchio,
Obama should be a wise, elitist owl,
McCain should be a bumper car, but that's too big and complicated. And a pinball wouldn't register as a pinball.

Posted at May 6, 2008 5:50 AM in response to Frivolous questions

I agree about Obama, but I also remember boycotting Shell for their treatment of the Nigerians. The Nigerians have a point. I hope it doesn't get lost. When people feel their points are lost, and they are desperate, that's when they start with the bombs n things. So yeah, I agree that Obama is a good candidate to talk to the Nigerians, but not just because of his face - because he's very good at seeing other people's viewpoints. The Nigerians are right to trust him; he's their best shot at getting their problems addressed.

Posted at May 6, 2008 5:28 AM in response to Why Obama Matters

Give him money:
secure.alfranken.com/.../contribute

Posted at April 30, 2008 5:09 PM in response to Al Franken Pays $70,000 In Back Taxes

This post was fantastic and spot on. I've been having chest pains on and off this whole campaign - it's unbelievably excruciating. I've been volunteering for Obama in the Northwest, though, and it really seems to me that America is busting out of its chrysalis or something - it's painful, exciting, and frightening all at once. I grew up in St. Louis, and lived there until 2004. I know about the "bitter" people, the hopeless and faithless people, stuck in the past, and it feels as though in moving here I stepped into a time machine to the happy future. People here are just braver or something, sick of old grudges and thinking that things can't change for the better.

It feels as though this is the direction that people all over the country are moving in, that they see Obama and it makes it tangible and reachable and they don't look back. I hope there are enough people who feel this way to elect the guy in time.

Because believe me, there's something very frightening about hope.

Posted at April 29, 2008 3:51 PM in response to Crabs in the Barrel

I almost always get my news from the internet, but one day I was sick, too sick to even get on the internet but not too sick for the tv. I saw them talking about the most recent debate and my heart started pounding really hard. I don't think that helped anybody anywhere. I'm sticking to the internet, except for Daily Show/Colbert Report.

Posted at April 22, 2008 2:07 AM in response to I realized this weekend that I am part of the problem

I think the noun should be buffenbarger, not buffenbargerer. Which not only is less awkward to say, but also nicely makes Mr. Buffenbarger a buffenbarger. So the verb then is to buffenbarge.

That said, I present to all the Crown Prince Buffenbarger, George Will, as smacked down by Jonathan Chait:

http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=f9944ce3-fc34-4112-8f1a-34e7e6a7b7c9&k=44586

Posted at April 20, 2008 6:35 AM in response to Stop Nonsense / Oppose Bufferbargering (S.N.O.B.)

Are those birth control pills?

I'm beginning to come around to the theory that - while it does not reflect well on Clinton, to say the least - this whole Taste of Rove thing might not be so bad for him. Because it's not working for her. Her unfavorables are going up too, and the evidence is that this has hurt her worse than it has him. McCain is watching and thinking, "do I want to go down ugly like this and not even win?" Obama's fighting back so much better than Kerry did. And I don't care what the pundits say - that debate performance, where he allegedly didn't fight back - wrong. He came out looking sympathetic and the moderators looked like total jerks. And so did H because she reveled in it.

Posted at April 20, 2008 6:25 AM in response to McCain/Rove.. No Match for Obama

I don't care if Pariser is lying. It's not about him. Hillary is still wrong for this.

Putting it all extremely well is this post on Obsidian Wings:

http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2008/04/ok-now-i-care.html

Excerpt:
Much more to the point, equating "the activist base of the Democratic Party" with people who "didn't even want us to go into Afghanistan. I mean, that's what we're dealing with" is just completely wrong. "The activist base of the Democratic Party" is concerned with a lot of issues. A small number of us opposed the war in Afghanistan. That is not a mainstream position within "the activist base of the Democratic Party", as far as I know. On the other hand, a whole lot of us opposed the war in Iraq. To the extent that "the activist base" opposes Clinton, her vote on Iraq has a lot more to do with it than her vote on Afghanistan.

Posted at April 20, 2008 6:13 AM in response to Hillary, MoveOn and Karl Rove

Yeah, but first he said "that's interesting." Meaning: It's interesting that you have a #%$@%^#&* job doing this kind of thing.

I bet "that's interesting" is the go-to whenever he wants to hit somebody.

Posted at April 20, 2008 5:57 AM in response to STEPHANOPOULOS: You have a very cool style when you're doing those town meetings, when you're out on the campaign trail. And I wonder, how much of that is tied to your race? May 13, 2007