Oh. Dear. Lord: Barack Obama isn’t really one of us. Not in the normal way, anyway. This is what I find myself offering up more and more in response to the whiners and the frowners and to those with broken or sadly dysfunctional karmic antennae – or no antennae at all – to all those who just don’t understand and maybe even actively recoil against all this chatter about Obama’s

TIME magazine’s Amy Sullivan, a prominent Religious Leftist, is again shamelessly shilling for Barack Obama with a story asking, “Why Didn’t More Women Vote for Hillary?” One of the Democratic campaign’s great misperceptions has been that Clinton held an overwhelming advantage among women voters. But that isn’t the case. As expected, Clinton captured the over-65 vote, and Obama won over younger women. But women in the middle split almost evenly between

The meteoric rise of Barack Obama will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.  And it has people trying to better understand The Chicago Way. Late Friday afternoon is an ideal time to learn about a staple of Chicago culture: the canarble wagon.  It explains much about the historical relationship between Chicago journos and the pols they cover.  Plus, you may want one of

CBN News Senior National Correspondent David Brody suggests that Barack Obama could get up to 40 percent of the evangelical vote this November, based on a comment from Evangelical Public Relations Executive Mark DeMoss: If one third of white evangelicals voted for Bill Clinton the second time, at the height of Monica Lewinsky mess—that’s a statistic I didn’t believe at first but I double and triple checked it—I would not

I am unlikely to do better honoring those who stormed the beaches at Normandy to help liberate western Europe from the gip of Nazi tyrrany than with the words of Pres. Ronald Reagan, columnist Ernie Pyle, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower or Gen. George S. Patton — whose speech was sanitized by then-screenwriter Francis Ford Coppola for the Patton biopic. Thank you.

The great and good are seldom the same man. ‘Cept for Che. Who, like, so rocked…!

CocoRosie, a/k/a sisters Bianca and Sierra Casaday, make some very unusual music, incorporating everything from beatboxes and children’s toys to a harp and the occasional orchestral backing. I cannot say I am a huge fan of theirs, but Spinner notes that their new one-off single “God Has a Voice, She Speaks Through Me” is provocative — particularly the the video, which includes Bianca at times wearing a burqa and seemingly nothing

In the past week or so, Lefty journos — including David Corn and Josh Marshall — have been flogging the notion that former US Senator (and current McCain campaign adviser) Phil Gramm is responsible for the subprime mortgage crisis (by having sponsored the Financial Services Modernization Act), in order to hang it around McCain’s neck, though neither went as far as Shawn Mullen of The Moderate (but reliably Lefty) Voice, who called

Gallup suggests there was no immediate bounce for Barack Obama from the widespread news coverage of his becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee.  I still think that could change as the fact of his presumed nomination sinks in over the weekend, especially if the reports that Hillary Clinton will officially suspend her campaign on Saturday pan out.  Gallup has also posted a basic demographic guide to the Obama-McCain match-up for the start