McCain + HDTV =

Seriously. This presidential race could be the first that's seriously impacted by HDTV. Maybe that's the tech junkie in me, but it's a technology that just compounds the age difference between the two. Honestly, I think that age/generation will be the biggest factor going into November.

"stay off my fcuking lawn" "I'm teh next presi-dizzle"

Bush: "Thank you fer that...ah...awesome questifi-cation..."

Bush: "Thank you for that awesome question..."

I don't get the sense that McCain is all fired up about gay marriage. They may make abortion an issue, but who knows. I think he's much more likely to run on national security and experience, and make Obama out to be the callow youth etc.

Seriously. This presidential race could be the first that's seriously impacted by HDTV. Maybe that's the tech junkie in me, but it's a technology that just compounds the age difference between the two. Honestly, I think that age/generation will be the biggest factor going into November.

It's definitely not the TV/radio gap that Kennedy and Nixon had, but shouldn't be discounted. Just like Obama's web presence.

Obama aide Bill Burton, a campaign source says, went downstairs in their Chicago offices just now to collect a hand-delivered copy of John McCain's invitation to Goldwater-Kennedy-style debates with Obama.

"You know, you could have just emailed this," a somewhat puzzled Burton told the middle-aged messenger.

The generation gap seems to be playing out at a lot of levels here, and come to think of it, it's striking that the McCain debate proposal includes nothing that couldn't have been done in the Goldwater days, and no nod to the existence of the Internet.

hopefully the electorates won't be influenced by how a candidate looks on tv.
I also think its important that the invitation was hand delivered, considering the nature of the debates. it makes more sense that its hand delivered ala distinguished opponent/rival. as compared to the way Hill went about dealing with Obama.

Am I the only that, every time I hear the name John McCain, I get a mental image of him running out his front door in white boxers, black socks and a wife beater, waving around a water hose?

not anymore

crypt-keeper?

Required reading for those who don't understand the position some people have taken against Hillary.

I didn't want a female senator out of the race. I didn't want a universal health-care advocate out of the race. I wanted the weirdly Republican-lite, crazy rules-changing, stereotype-reinforcing panderer that had somehow burrowed into Hillary Clinton's skull out of the race. [...] In short, Senator Clinton had my respect, based on her accomplishments and independent of her gender -- then she spent it, tossed it away in fistfuls, in trade for dirty borrowed blades with which to cut her way to the nomination. [...] I would suggest that the least we can do, for our country, is to stop being so goddam precious. What we can sacrifice right now is our need for validation, our narcissm, our cultural addiction to weaving ourselves and our emotional journeys into some grand historical high-drama (and I mean that in the narrative sense, not in the perjorative sense) epic.

If a three-legged dog were to somehow be nominated for the Democratic candidacy and chose as his running mate a gopher with a penchant for monocles and Victoriana, I would wear my "Tripod/Lord Whiskerkins '08" button with pride and pull the lever with cheerful alacrity.

Required reading for those who don't understand the position some people have taken against Hillary.

reserved for hillary.



and I didn't miss the point of the hand mail/email slight on Mccain. I just think he was trying to be more dignified than using such an impersonal method. we could say noone in mccains camp knows how to use email but that's ridiculous. we could also say noone in Obamas camp can read a paper letter cuz its not in text format. equally ridiculous. wat?

I would also say the 27% he speaks of is more like 95% from both.

On Day 2 as nominee, Senator Obama wants to show that he will change the nation’s politics. As the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, he WILL ANNOUNCE TODAY that the Democratic National Committee will no longer accept contributions from federal lobbyists or PACs -- consistent with the policy of his campaign. His declaration makes it clear that he will try to make the influence of Washington insiders one of his key arguments against Senator McCain.

Wow, check this out: (from Politico.com)

Thats a pretty awesome move.


I woke to an Obama speech on NPR on my alarm and me and my wife both sat there and just listened till it was over. It was like political sunrise man.

In the daylight? pshaw now thats just crazy talk.

After careful examination of "baby got back" I am at a loss to find an appropriate quote.

Wow, check this out: (from Politico.com)