Bill Clinton courts black churchgoers In a media interview posted online, Young also quipped that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton has her husband behind her, and that “Bill is every bit as black as Barack.” “He’s probably gone with more black women than Barack,” Young said of former President Clinton, drawing laughter from a live television audience. Young, 75, was quick to follow his comment on Bill Clinton with

At TownHall, Patrick Ruffini writes about Sen. John McCain’s appeal to the new swing voter bloc of older belligerent men, with just enough seriousness to suggest he might figure out McCain’s real appeal — though he will be kicking himself he finds out that Cindy McCain also has an enemies list and believes: “The only person my husband can trust is me.”  But that’s really the appetizer. Ruffini goes on to

During the Super Bowl.  Jason, CEO of Mahalo.com, denounces the commercials here. Sales Genie Racist “Unphased” Vin Gupta, founder and chairman of Salesgenie.com, conceptualized and wrote copy for the ads himself. While other brands battle for accolades, Salesgenie.com isn’t phased by boos and jeers from the audience. “It was judged to be the best by the real pros,” says Gupta. “Our ad was one of the few to feature a

At OpenLeft, Chris Bowers cites a regression analysis performed by a Kossack showing that Sen. Barack Obama is winning virtually all Dean voters from 2004, and a plurality of Clark voters from 2004 — a coalition of voters for the two main nutroots candidates from the last cycle.  Bowers seems excited: So, let’s see here: a campaign that uses extensive internet organizing, huge campaign rallies, heavy youth and creative class support, a

Reuters reports: The Grateful Dead, the San Francisco cult rock band that has played at political events since the 1960s, will reunite on Monday for the first time in four years to rally support for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, a spokesman said on Friday. Because nothing says “change” and “voice of a new generation” like the Dead.  I suppose this is a daring raid onto Clinton turf, but let’s count

The ignorance really is appalling: Britons are losing their grip on reality, according to a poll out Monday which showed that nearly a quarter think Winston Churchill was a myth while the majority reckon Sherlock Holmes was real. The survey found that 47 percent thought the 12th century English king Richard the Lionheart was a myth. And 23 percent thought World War II prime minister Churchill was made up. The

Doesn’t care. I agree with commenter Maxine Weiss who states: Anyone who denigrates the Superbowl is anti-American. It’s about so much more than Football. It’s about the Star-spangled Banner. It’s about all the unique commercials. It’s about the pre-show and half-time. It’s about tailgate parties, Dominoes Pizza and buffalo chicken wings. It’s about cheerleaders and drunkards who beat their wives. Good, wholesome American fun, and anyone who takes an interest

The LA Times compares Hillary to prose and Obama to poetry; Andrew declares the argument “solid.”  Concrete poetry?  Arse poetica? Do you accept this dialectical materialization from one who’s been accused of gauziness? Dost tease us out of thought, as doth eternity. Also, from LGF, Bobby Fisk hilariously punked.

Though Dan’s post on Rick Perlstein’s “Getting Past the ’60s? It’s Not Going to Happen” made me chuckle, I was struck that the same newspaper also ran “The Boomers Had Their Day. Make Way for the Millennials” by Morley Winograd and Michael D. Hais on the same day. (The latter, incidentally, parallels the generational studies of Strauss and Howe, should you require some background to grasp the Winograd-Hais jargon.) The point of

The neocon warmonger speaks. With Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton locked in a very good battle leading up to Super Tuesday, Kristol makes this misogynistic quote: BILL KRISTOL: Look the only people for Hillary Clinton are the Democratic establishment and white women… it would be crazy for the Democratic party to follow the establishment that’s led them to defeat year after year… White Women are a problem – but, you