Plunderbund

My normal lunch time routine involves reading the NY Times while sitting at the bar eating a chicken club or turkey burger at the pub around the corner from my office.
Today I was a little late getting back to the office because there were so many great things to read including two wonderful articles about […]

After a string of recent dissings from John McCain and a large group of influential Evangelical leaders, Phil Burress is back to doing what he does best: acting like a fascist asshat.
The enquirer ran a story this morning about Phil and his angry band of nutjobs (Citizens for Community Values) sending a letter/petition to Cinci’s […]

Literally.
If you didn’t get in on the Obama v Clinton primary bets at Intrade back when Obama was trading at 75 now’s your chance to get in on the action for the general election.
Obama is currently trading at 62 compared to McCain (35).

InTrade also has some other interesting events you can bet on now:
* Average […]

The LA Times ran an interesting piece this morning about John McCain’s lack of support among social conservatives in Ohio.
I found it especially interesting that the McCain people are now trying to avoid associations with wing-nuts like Phil Burress - even though they worked hard to get his endorsement during the primary.
After a recent meeting […]

Now I’m not saying that team Stivers is scrubbing his Wikipedia page - but there does certainly appear to be a lot of information missing from the most recent version.
Fortunately, Wikipedia stores a complete history of the edits made to the page- and with the Stivers’ page there have been quite a few.
The changes started […]

Ohio certainly isn’t the only place ignorant, mullet-having hicks live and breed. But we certainly do seem to have quite a few.
For example, the unnamed women at the end of this video seems to think Obama “is not American or for American” and that he refuses to put his hand over his heart during […]

I guess the recent polling results released by the Kilroy campaign have Stivers running scared.
In an attempt to recast himself as a moderate to central Ohio’s voters, Republican Steve Stivers announced his 5-point “energy security policy” that, not surprisingly, sounds a hell of a lot like something a Democrat might propose.
As a matter of fact, […]

Redfern and Strickland both offered their “wholehearted and enthusiastic” support for Barack Obama this afternoon.
Welcome to the party, boys.

The AP has done the math and calculated that Barack Obama has enough delegates to be our nominee…
The AP tally was based on public declarations from delegates as well as from another 16 who have confirmed their intentions to the AP. It also included 11 delegates Obama was guaranteed as long as he gained 30 […]

Breaking news from Gongwer: House Democratic Leader Beatty Casts Party Superdelegate Vote For Obama

“I think we had two great candidates to choose from,” Ms. Beatty said. But she said voter motivation and issues put her in Sen. Obama’s camp. “The cross section, the energy … I believe it’s going to take all of that […]

AP is reporting that Hillary Clinton will “concede Tuesday night that Barack Obama has the delegates to secure the Democratic nomination.”
Thank you, Hillary.
UPDATE: Terry Mccauliife is now saying that the AP story is not true and Hillary will not concede the Democratic nomination.

Today’s news about the Clinton campaign really gives one the impression that things are about to end…
According to hotline today will be Bill Clinton’s last day on the campaign trail.
Firstread reports that Clinton will be holding her “Election Night celebration” in New York City- not in Montana or South Dakota where the elections are actually […]

According to a new Gallup poll, 67% of Americans think the US President should meet with America’s enemies.
Almost 60% think we should even meet with - gasp! - the president of Iran.
This includes about half of Republicans, a majority of independents, and most Democrats.
It sounds like most Americans support Barack Obama’s reasonable and rational […]

Hillary wins Puerto Rico.
By Hillary’s fake-math calculations (i.e. excluding all of the states with caucuses) she is now the popular vote leader. Unfortunately that just isn’t true. And even if it was, it still doesn’t matter.
According to CNN’s count Obama only needs 45.5 more delegates to wrap up the nomination. Clinton […]

I started watching the DNC rules committee meeting this morning.
Then I went fishing.
I came back and watched some more.
Went to band practice.
Came back and the committee was at “lunch”.
So I watered my lawn. Pulled some weeds. Made dinner. etc.
Then they came back and voted.
And now it’s FINALLY over.
The committee basically agreed to […]