Sargent at TPM has a weird video of Senator McCain speaking at a town hall meeting, complete with inappropriate chuckling. How does a guy who is clearly uncomfortable in his own skin get this far in...
Author - Bob Cesca
Morning Joe
There's a great discussion happening now with Chuck Todd in which they're trying to figure out which script they should use for this election: 1976 or 1980. Weird because I thought they were trying...
Morning Awesome
JFK's convention acceptance speech... delivered in a stadium.
E-mail Of the Day
On Senator Obama, FISA, etc... You put it in a better perspective on your blog, but, I feel like my girlfriend just farted for the first time. I can't argue with that. I just can't.
Another Scary McCain Photo
I saw the following scary photo of Senator McCain over at the Political Carnival... And I couldn't help but to imagine him making the same face while on the wing of an airplane peeking in the window...
Staying Home
I thought I'd share this e-mail exchange with a voter who's thinking about staying home in November. Here's his e-mail: This 'ain't' what I signed up for. My life is progressive politics and this...
High Fructose Folks
It used to be that there was a direct correlation between being skinny and being poor. Not in America. (h/t Sullivan)
The Summer of Awful
The Optimist Club isn't so optimistic: They use words such as “terrified,” “disgusted” and “scary” to describe what one calls “this mess” we Americans find ourselves in. … One member’s son is serving...
McBush Can't Read, Part 2
The latest scuttlebutt is that McCain strategists are trying to figure out an alternative to the traditional convention acceptance speech because Senator McCain can't read a Teleprompter. One of the...
Heavy Mysteries
Archaeologists in Jordan have discovered pre-Jesus tablet that mentions the resurrection of a messiah after three days. If such a messianic description really is there, it will contribute to a...
Morning Awesome
Blood Doping in '90s
The Tour de France started yesterday and Drunk Cyclist has a distressing look at blood doping and Greg LeMond, whose clean career ended early due to the rest of the field discovering EPO. Imagine...
McBush Hates The Bloggers
Now we’ve got the cables. We’ve got talk radio. We’ve got the bloggers. I hate the bloggers. We’ve got all kinds of sources of information. Amato has the video. The cables?
Morning Awesome
Senator McBush Can't Read…
...a Teleprompter. We knew this, but when it's spelled out in the NY Times, it kinda makes Senator McBush look like a much bigger fool than we had expected. “I have set before the American people an...
John Dean on Obama's FISA Position
This is worth a read. Some history about presidents prosecuting law-breakers from previous administrations: It certainly would not be unprecedented if an Obama Administration were to hold high...
Open Thread Go
Don't explode this thread in your hand or else it'll be all numb and stingy.
Jesse Helms
Yesterday, I saw the initial announcement of Helms' death on CNN, which was ironic since Helms' most disgusting public display of racism, the "White Hands" ad, was masterminded by Alex Castellanos...
Morning Awesome
MST3K Saturday. "Spring Fever."
Mr. And Mrs. Ben Franklin
Oh great. Now there will be more Americans who believe that the real Ben Franklin and the real Betsy Ross were married, too. Others will wonder when Franklin divorced his first wife, Susan B. Anthony...