Would you like to see a 71 year old “war hero” pick on and attempt to ridicule a young lady who is 57 years his junior? (He was terribly proud of himself.) Here you go… What was his answer to the question? Nobody knows. What he said made no sense whatsoever. The teenager definitely came out the winner in that little show. People For the American Way: Sen. John McCain, at a town hall event held Wednesday in Michigan, singled out a girl wearing a t-shirt critical of him and challenged her to ask him a question. She asked about the Ledbetter ...

Teeny tiny West Virginia (population less than 2 million, 95% of which is white and 15% of which holds a college degree) held its Democratic primary election today. Hillary Clinton will win by a large margin. That’s her kind of crowd. Here is what CNN’s senior political analyst wrote… Clinton victory could raise doubts about Obama Bill Schneider WASHINGTON (CNN) — A big victory in West Virginia Tuesday could re-energize Sen. Hillary Clinton’s bid for the White House and raise fresh doubts about Sen. Barack Obama’s electability in the general election. Clinton is expected to win in West Virginia by a wide margin, ...

I could not pass this up. It’s a video that’s been making the rounds of the internets today. Chances are that you’ve already seen it, but in the event that you have not I will post it here. The video drew over 400,000 viewers on YouTube in one day before they took it down for “copyright violations.” Warning: Not Safe For Work! (You have been warned.) Ladies and gentlemen, the real Bill O’Reilly…. (Please open the article to see the flash file or player.) ShareThis ...

We may soon be talking serious money… Clinton Team Acknowledges $20 Million Debt CLARKSBURG, W.Va., May 11 — With her campaign falling ever deeper into debt, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton spent a rainy Mother’s Day seeking votes ahead of Tuesday’s primary here, turning a deaf ear to calls for her to leave a Democratic presidential contest she has little hope of winning. Clinton aides continued to insist that she will remain in the race even while confirming that she is $20 million in debt. “The voters are going to decide this,” senior adviser Howard Wolfson said on “Fox News Sunday,” acknowledging the ...

G.O.P. Vet in MoveOn Ad Contest John Weiler is a former Air Force staff sergeant who says he was a lifelong Republican who became a supporter of Barack Obama. An “Obamacan,” if you will. His message is the basis of the winning ad in MoveOn.org’s “Obama in 30 Seconds” contest. MoveOn, a liberal political action committee that endorsed Senator Obama back in February, sponsored the competition to solicit the best pro-Obama video spot that they hope to raise enough money to broadcast on TV. “Obamacan,” created by a team from Monrovia, Calif., beat out some 1,100 other videos submitted over a ...

Cyrus had this to say in a comment to an earlier post: I think it’s important that, at this point, Hillary waits until after the West Virginia and Kentucky primaries to bow out, because it would be a bit of a psychological blow to the Democrats, as a party, to have the nominee lose the next two primaries. Don Frederick and Andrew Malcom of The Los Angeles Times agree with him: A quick Clinton exit wouldn’t help Obama “The Democratic race now moves to West Virginia,” Jay Leno noted the other night. “Today, Hillary Clinton claimed she always wanted to be a ...

I missed most of Saturday Night Light last night, including the opening. In the event that you also missed it, here it is (courtesy of MightyRoaringLion)… There is probably a lesson here for Senator Hillary Clinton… You can’t take anything for granted, including SNL. Mrs. Clinton will, without doubt, win the Democratic primaries in West Virginia and Kentucky. Those are her states. Look, if you will, at the demographics… West Virginia: Population, 2006 estimate: 1,818,470 (about the size of the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex) White persons, percent, 2006: 94.9% Bachelor’s degree or higher, pct of persons age 25+, 2000: 14.8% Kentucky Population, 2006 estimate: 4,206,074 White persons, percent, 2006: 90.2% Bachelor’s ...

Pretty much speaks for itself… Daily Presidential Tracking Poll Rasmussen Reports has been tracking the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination daily for nineteen months… since November 2006. For the last few months, the most remarkable feature of the race has been its consistency and stability. Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are both running historic campaigns and both have captured the votes and hearts of distinct and important constituencies within the Democratic Party. Obama has won Primaries in states where the demographics favor his campaign and Clinton has won in the states that favor her campaign. However, while Senator Clinton has ...

Are the weeks flying by as quickly for you as they are for me? (Hillary?) Once again we have assembled our crack team of editors (ha!) and selected what we believe to be the best editorial and political cartoons of the week just passed. Your mileage may vary. Operating instructions are the same as every week: click on any cartoon to make it bigger or to start a slide show. Navigation buttons will appear at the bottom of your browser window. Enjoy!                                                  ...

John McCain’s campaign is accusing Barack Obama’s campaign of making an issue of Senator McCain’s age. Obama accuses McCain of ‘losing his bearings’ John McCain NEW YORK (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Thursday that Republican John McCain was “losing his bearings” for repeatedly suggesting the Islamic terrorist group Hamas preferred Obama for president. That brought an angry response from McCain’s campaign, which accused Obama of trying to make an issue of McCain’s age. Age is a touchy subject for McCain, who turns 72 in August and would be the oldest person to be sworn in as president if elected. The two ...

Obama: World wants to see U.S. lead WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sen. Barack Obama said Thursday that the most important thing he could achieve as president would be to deal with Iraq and the threat of al Qaeda in Afghanistan while improving “our influence around the world.” In his first interview since the North Carolina and Indiana primaries, Obama said he thinks the United States’ influence around the world has been diminishing. “The world wants to see the United States lead. They’ve been disappointed and disillusioned over the last seven, eight years,” he told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer in an interview on “The Situation ...

Good Morning. Here are the final numbers from yesterday’s primaries… NORTH CAROLINA: Barack Obama, 890,695 votes, 56%; Hillary Clinton, 657,920 votes, 42%. INDIANA: Barack Obama, 623,294 votes, 49%; Hillary Clinton, 641,734 votes, 51%. The popular vote in the two states combined was 1,513,989 for Mr. Obama and 1,299,654 for Mrs. Clinton — a difference of 214,335 in favor of Mr. Obama. I’ll stand by my prediction of last night. Senator Obama clinches the nomination in Oregon on May 20. Meanwhile, the Clinton camp is having financial difficulties (again)… Clinton lends herself $6.4M as Obama’s lead grows WASHINGTON (AP) - A campaign aide says Hillary Rodham Clinton ...

Things are progressing pretty much as expected in the Indiana and North Carolina Democratic presidential primaries this evening. There are 72 pledged delegates at stake in Indiana and 115 in North Carolina. The networks have already called North Carolina for Barack Obama. With 4% of the precincts reporting, he is leading Hillary Clinton 64% to 34%. No winner has yet been projected in Indiana. 37% of the precincts have reported. Mrs. Clinton is currently leading with 56% to Mr. Obama’s 44%. Thus far, the voting pattern seems to be following what we have seen in most of the rest of the nation. ...

In a rather obvious and blatant attempt to kiss up to the radical right wing of the Republican party, John McCain promised today that if he is elected he will appoint extremist right wing judges like John Roberts, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas… McCain pledges more conservative judges WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sen. John McCain moved to shore up his support among conservatives by pledging Tuesday to nominate strict-constructionist judges to the federal bench. “It will fall to the next president to nominate hundreds of qualified men and women to the federal courts, and the choices we make will reach far into ...

Remember the gas wars? For you young-uns, that was when competing gas stations would lower their prices to entice you to purchase their gasoline rather than their competitor’s. Ah, the good old days. It seems was have a gas war of sorts going on in Indiana and North Carolina tonight. Those two states hold their presidential primaries tomorrow and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are arguing over Mrs. Clinton’s (and John McCain’s) silly plan to suspend the federal gasoline tax for three months. (It will never happen, and wouldn’t really help anyone if it did, but it makes for good ...

Barack Obama was the sole guest on NBC’s Meet the Press this morning. In case you missed it, here’s the full 48 minutes. (You may want to fast forward through the first 15 minutes. It’s all about Jeremiah Wright.) (Transcript here.) ShareThis ...

Barack Obama has won the Democratic presidential primary in Guam by seven votes. That’s votes, not points. Seven votes. But, as Hillary Clinton is fond of saying, “a win is a win.” Obama wins close race, beats Clinton in Guam HAGATNA, Guam - Barack Obama has defeated Hillary Rodham Clinton in Saturday’s Democratic caucuses on Guam by just seven votes in a race that has assumed greater importance because of the candidates’ scrapping for every delegate. More than 4,500 island Democrats voted. Neither candidate campaigned on the island in person. Results of the all-night count completed Sunday morning Guam time show delegates pledged ...

The McCain campaign is running a new ad in Ohio about health care. At the very beginning of the ad, as John McCain intones “I’m John McCain and I approved this message,” this is what you see… I guess they couldn’t wait until November. Or perhaps they just decided they’d give the old man a glimpse of what it would look like. Whatever… just a bit premature (and extremely optimistic). (You may click on the image to view the ad.) Can you not imagine the screams of indignation coming from the right had Barack Obama dared to pull such a stunt? ...

“Highly entertaining.” - Newsweek “Five minutes of your life you will never get back.” - Dallas Morning News I totally made those up. The Friday Night Cartoons are in the post prior to this. Update (for real - I did not make this up): “If Senator Obama is the nominee, you better believe I’ll work my heart out for him.” — Hillary Clinton, May 2, 2008. ShareThis ...

Can you believe it’s Friday again already? And May? Where is the time going? It really is true that the older you get the faster time flies. Which all brings us to our weekly “chore” — the week’s best editorial and political cartoons as determined by your humble editor(s). Remember, your mileage may vary. Click on a cartoon to make it bigger or to start a slide show (there will be control buttons at the bottom of your browser window). And away we go…                                           ...