Archive for: February 2008

Hopey.  Unitey.  Changey.

Well, hatey, really.  Whitey.

John McCain’s presidential campaign has issued a statement regarding the controversial endorsement McCain received on Thursday:
“Yesterday, Pastor John Hagee endorsed my candidacy for president in San Antonio, Texas. However, in no way did I intend for his endorsement to suggest that I …

Hellfire.

You can always count on them to be forgivey come general elections time.

Huckabee feeling jilted.

Excitable Andy is in full swoon over Barack Obama defending gay rights from a Christian perspective to a largely black crowd in Beaumont, Texas:
It’s a break through. If it were just words, it would be one thing. But he has now …

Crispy Fricken’ Chicken

Screen for people’s desires represented by pale person  (fauxbamaphobia)

And I thought it was “Hussein”!

Things White People Like

Hillary Clinton, dispelling any doubt that she might go gently from her race against Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination, goes nuclear in her latest campaign ad:
“It’s 3:00am and your children are asleep,” a voice over says in the …

The Canadian kerfuffle over Sen. Barack Obama’s recent turn toward protectionism just got a little jucier:

On Wednesday, CTV reported that a senior member of camp Obama had called the Canadian embassy, saying that Obama’s talk about opting out of NAFTA …

Having written on working-class white men as a swing vote, with related posts on white support for Hillary Clinton and white male support for Barack Obama, I highly recommend a piece by David Paul Kuhn at the Huffington Post, “White Men Seen All Wrong.”  The lede:
Washington analysts are beginning to notice a curious fact of the Democratic race. In a primary contest between the first black or female nominee, white men are the critical swing vote. Yet despite white males still disproportionately representing us in politics, we still misunderstand them as voters.

There remains a chasm between our conception of the powerful executive and the reality of the everyman. Our culture continues to define the typical white man more for his vice than virtue. The perception of the “angry white male” has not left us. Many still remain apprehensive to discuss white men as a constituency. They are, after all, supposed to be the reason we have to focus on constituencies…
Kuhn then proceeds to briskly shatter a number of myths about the white male vote, with implications for both the Democratic primary campaign and the general election.

Young, good-looking, rich, heir to the throne, babe-magnet, and now, Taliban-killer.

I don’t want to be Tom Brady anymore.