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Move Over Rocky… N.C. Governor: Hillary Makes Rocky Look Like “Pansy”

Hillary Clinton accepted a key endorsement from N.C. Governor Mike Easley on T. Kicking off his endorsement, Easley said:
“This lady right here makes Rocky Balboa look like a pansy. There’s nothing I love more than a strong powerful woman.” 
Move over Rocky… This is a key endorsement of a Superdelegate in N.C. (who previously endorsed John Edwards) that [...]

Obama’s unwilling Falstaff

“I know thee not, old man: Fall to thy Prayers:
How ill white haires become a Foole, and Jester?
I have long dream’d of such a kinde of man,
So surfeit-swell’d, so old, and so prophane:
But being awake, I do despise my dreame.” - Henry IV Part 2
There is certainly no shortage of commentary on the recent statements [...]

Obama Takes a Hit from Sharpton

Good gracious… The hits just keep coming for Barack Obama…
Enter Al Sharpton who has accused Obama “of trying to “grandstand in front of white people,”” because Obama “made a call for nonviolence in the aftermath of the Sean Bell verdict.”
During what a source described as a “heated” phone call yesterday, Sharpton told Obama he was [...]

Obama Stands Up and Knocks Wright Down

Barack Obama climbed out from under the bus, Reverend Jeremiah Wright threw him under yesterday and stood up today and did what he should have done weeks ago… He denounced his former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright and the “substance of his remarks yesterday.”
It was a show of major damage control today as Obama said:
“I have [...]

You Can’t Complain About Sexism If You Participate In It

One thing that has bothered me throughout this election has been anti-Hillary people referring to Hillary Clinton as “Mrs. Bill”. It was clearly meant to demean her accomplishments and very reminiscent of the Matthews-esque nonsense that Hillary only got where she did because of Monica. (That particularly bothers me because I think Hillary will be [...]

Dizzy’s Ten Post Round-Up

Sometimes it’s hard to believe in the “benevolent brotherhood of man”. Today’s Ten Post Round-Up will probably not make it any easier:
1: The Supremes say it’s OK to require government-issued photo ID card in order to vote…
As Election Nears, Supreme Court Upholds Repressive Voter ID Law–AlterNet
2: The Secret Service rampant [...]

Late Night: Falling From Grace

Falling from grace… MoveOn: Obama Got Outfoxed and Markos: Obama and Fox News. Ouch…
Barack Obama had a very bad day.