First Black Enough President

Remember all that hand-wringing about how Obama wasn’t “black enough” to win black voters’ support? Well, a couple of weeks later: notsomuch.

Pretty Sneaky, VPOTUS

Cheney’s trip around the world this week has produced some of the more memorable dispatches to press.release@whitehouse.gov in this administration. First, the “unreportable” actions of the leg out. Then the long search for a bunk (“After we nearly had a collision on the tarmac with a fuel tanker, our bus wandered around the base in [...]

Re: The Romney Playbook

What is it about highly-paid outside consultants (and less highly paid White House officials) who are unable to keep their confidential strategy memos, campaign playbooks and debate prep videos from being lost, stolen or otherwise leaked? Remember the imbroglio over the George W. Bush debate prep materials that were mysteriously sent to a Gore campaign [...]

Ghouls

Look, I like a good Cheney-drinks-the-blood-of-the-living joke as much as the next person, but it’s also true that sometimes folks go over the line, as appears to have happened at the Huffington Post in reaction to the suicide bombing outside Cheney’s camp in Afghanistan [they appear to have been taken down]: “To (sic) bad they [...]

The Romney Playbook

Continuing Mittpolooza today, I found his “leaked” playbook to be highly amusing, especially in its brazen sales-speak. I’m particularly enamored of the phrase “Primal Code for Brand Romney,” which makes him sound a little like a Michael Crichton novel. I also love that it’s a Power Point presentation. Next year’s Oscar-winner, anyone? The conventional wisdom [...]

Re: St. Ives

Underwear aside, Ana, (and Romney did not answer that question when USA Today asked it recently) the question of how Romney’s faith will affect people’s willingness to vote for him is going to be one of the great guessing games in the Republican primary race. That same USA Today story had a poll in which [...]