The Smug Baldy Speaks

Some people – myself included – suspected that the presidential debates weren’t debates as much as they were shared stump speeches. Based on the evidence in this video, we find this suspicion is well founded. Get the latest news satire and funny videos at 236.com. Thanks to Matt for the heads up!

The final presidential “debate” is past, and both Barak Obama and John McCain are taking their largely negative campaigns into the home stretch. Interestingly, lots of people are critical of negative campaigning, despite the fact that it tends to work. One of the things I find even more interesting is that while both campaigns are [...]

So said late Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, reminding us that public policy created openly, in the light of day, tended to be better than policy created behind closed doors. We’ve seen disaster after disaster brought on by the Bush administration and it’s penchant for deception, half-truths, and closed-door antics. But now, as the winds [...]

If YouTube views were votes, then we’d be talking about President Barak Obama, and how he beat John McCain by a whopping 50 million votes. Below is a screenshot of the YouTube politician channel, and as you can see, Obama has over 1100 videos with over 54 million views to McCain’s 216 videos with just [...]

One of the things I find interesting bout the FISA bill is that it doesn’t provide the telecoms that colluded with Bush administration officials with immunity from criminal charges.

Sean over at Cosmic Variance hopes, as I do, that Hillary Clinton will stop taking the low road in her attempt to secure her nomination. In the most recent example, Hillary’s support for the ill-conceived gas tax holiday is built upon a foundation of presenting opponents (most importantly, Barak Obama) as elitist and out of [...]

Over at RedState.com, gamecock raised a bunch of crazy ideas, but let’s start with this. I ask you – does this statement by John McCain somehow frame a difference between himself and Barak Obama in purely moral terms? HOW TO HELP LOW-INCOME AMERICANS McCain: Obama’s insensitive to the poor GOP candidate cites rival’s opposition to [...]

Poise. Style. Polish. Class. Selflessness. Sacrifice. Grace. Tactfulness. Decency. Humility. Hillary Clinton? Got you, didn’t I. These aren’t the adjectives that immediately come to mind when I think of Hillary Clinton, and chances are they aren’t the first that pop into your head either. These are, however, some of the words that we’d all be [...]