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Now for something completely serious. A buddy of mine came up with a list of anagrams of Obama-Biden.

A Bad Men Bio or Bad Men: A Bio (couldn’t write a better bio myself)
Bemoan A Bid (a presidential bid that is)
I Bemoan Bad (as do we all)
Be On Bad Aim (and this one hits the spot)
An Idea [...]

Watching the Democratic National Convention last night was a chore. Three hours of uninterrupted campaign commercial, with the occasional interesting moment. Occasional is the operative word. Lucky for us, we came up with a great new drinking game. It’s called Hope & Chug. Here’s how it works:
The game requires players to drink every time a [...]

I know I’ve posted on this before … on several occaisions really. But I’ve noticed recently the Obama Campaign has been really pounding the “McCain is going negative” mantra. Now we even have polls surfacing about who is “running a negative campaign” and they clearly indicate McCain is perceived to be the negative one. Ok. [...]

John Kass writes this morning about the UIC Library’s refusal to release papers related to the Annenberg Challenge:
First the librarians told Kurtz yes, come look. But by the time Kurtz landed in Chicago, the librarians changed their minds. The donor of the documents hadn’t cleared his research. Perhaps they’ll let him look at the documents [...]

The media has been abuzz about McCain’s surge in the polls, or rather, Obama’s sag. I’m sure it is mostly to do with McCain’s presence at Rick Warren’s forum. Or the crisis in Georgia. But I can’t help thinking that just a small part of it could be that the All Obama Network, also known [...]

There’s an interesting profile of Bob Barr over at WaPo. Bob Barr is serious:
Is there any human being on the planet more committed to his seriousness than Bob Barr? The 59-year-old Barr is so into the Founding Fathers that most of his phone numbers, including his cellphone, end in “1-7-7-6.” He only reads weighty books, [...]

It looks like the Kos-heads are trying to attack McCain for supporting the draft. Only problem is, McCain has emphatically opposed it elsewhere:

I’m not sure it was a good idea for Obama to invite Jimmy Carter to speak at the Democratic Convention. Sure it would be difficult to say no; the guy is a former-president. But it is more than a little risky given Carter’s penchant for making controversial statements and embracing foreign dictators.
The last think Obama [...]

I’m glad I am not the only one steaming about this. Marin reminds us of all the recent examples of Nepotitis in Chicago politics:
Congressman Bill Lipinski was the picture of health through his primary race in the spring of 2004 only to be stricken with nepotitis mid-summer. The onset of the disease coincided with the [...]

So just a minute ago I published a post defending the notion that Barack Obama is a socialist. Now Ed Morrissey reports that Obama, in an ideal world, would love a single-payer health care system. I think single-payer, which is just another way of saying government-run, health care definitely falls within the boundaries of socialist [...]