Quick, somebody get Paul Ryan on the phone. I think we maybe have a keeper here. By the way, when Biden brings up the “47%” remark — assuming he does, and that Obama hasn’t forbid him from doing so, wanting now to save the staff-written one-liners for his next debate against Romney in order to appear more aggressive — Ryan should respond by 1) agreeing that Romney said it; 2)

Boom!

For John R 9. Yes, there really is an epidemic of homeless people. But worse than that, many of them are children. Who, when they aren’t at school or living out of their parents’ cars, have to work as gay prostitutes to support a mother who is taking community college courses as a paralegal so that she can regain the dignity she lost when George Bush broke the economy, and

Former Emmy-winning CNN reporter Amber Lyon blows the whistle. That she has to do so to Alex Jones is a sad testament to the current state of a feckless, timid GOP, the presidential candidate for which has embraced a “no whining about the media” strategy, which as I’ve pointed out has the practical effect of saying that his campaign’s image of remaining above the fray (which will be subverted by

PBS Frontline interviews an Obama grade achool classmate who notes that, among other things, Obama as a pre-teen claimed to be an Indonesian prince, or descended from Kenyan royalty. — Which, to be honest with you, doesn’t bother me at all.  Here was a kid living with his grandparents, mother and father absent, who began inventing for himself an identity that would fill the painful gap that abandonment had likely

Administration text/subtext: It’s terribly “unfortunate” that the Republicans have chosen to politicize the embassy attacks and to turn the death of several Americans, including an ambassador, into political footballs — first of all, how tacky, first of all; and secondly, we did it first when we stood over flag-draped coffins and blamed the entire fiasco on an American citizen ferreted away into federal custody, so it’s like the Republicans aren’t