Thanks, and yes I did get your email - thanks for that too. I haven't emailed Ruth yet but will get to it this weekend.

If nothing else, I'm jonesing for a Trader Joe's shopping expedition. I have to go somewhere that has a Trader Joe's at least every 6 months to stock up! So I'm looking forward to the trip for that reason too.

Posted at August 21, 2008 7:45 PM in response to New McCain Ad: It's Obama Who Has A "Housing Problem"

I want to refine my earlier idea.

The Obama folks need to run an ad about McCain's "straight talk" problem.

Posted at August 21, 2008 7:36 PM in response to New McCain Ad: It's Obama Who Has A "Housing Problem"

I think the perfect response, if any be made, is to point out the McCain campaign's "honesty problem". Such as pretending that something where Obama got a clean bill of ethical health by all investigators is a "scandal" while failing to mention McCain's own censure by the Senate in the Keating 5 scandal. Or in pretending that liking a certain type of vegetable indicates "elitism" while only ordinary folks own 10 houses, have $100 million and private planes and wear $500 shoes. It's "elitist" to have a good education, but not elitist to classify only those making over $5 million a year as "rich".

Et cetera.

Cockpunch them some more - go full steam ahead to tearing down the "straight talk" bullshit.

Posted at August 21, 2008 7:21 PM in response to New McCain Ad: It's Obama Who Has A "Housing Problem"

I think the perfect response, if any be made, is to point out the McCain campaign's "honesty problem". Such as pretending that something where Obama got a clean bill of ethical health by all investigators is a "scandal" while failing to mention McCain's own censure by the Senate in the Keating 5 scandal. Or in pretending that liking a certain type of vegetable indicates "elitism" while only ordinary folks own 10 houses, have $100 million and private planes and wear $500 shoes. It's "elitist" to have a good education, but not elitist to classify only those making over $5 million a year as "rich".

Et cetera.

Cockpunch them some more - go full steam ahead to tearning down the "straight talk" bullshit.

Posted at August 21, 2008 7:19 PM in response to New McCain Ad: It's Obama Who Has A "Housing Problem"

Elizabeth - the Chicago Tribune had a series of lengthy discussions with Obama regarding the purchase of the house and his association with Rezko, and pronounced that there is no "there" there. Sorry I don't have a link, but the Tribune is the premier source for everything Rezko-related.

Posted at August 21, 2008 7:11 PM in response to New McCain Ad: It's Obama Who Has A "Housing Problem"

Whenever you can get a spokesman for the McCain campaign to repeat the word "arugula" with a straight face, you know you've landed a cockpunch.

I mean, LOL! That was so lame!

Posted at August 21, 2008 2:10 PM in response to McCain Campaign Response: Obama Worries About Arugula, Vacations In Hawaii

That's easy. Get their cell phone numbers so the campaign can send them text messages on election day to remind about voting, including numbers to call if they need rides to the polls, etc.

Posted at August 21, 2008 9:08 AM in response to More free advice

LoriinMo - you do realize, don't you, that as a person under the age of 60, you're in the minority? As in, the minority of people under 60 support McCain.

I put it down mostly to the fact that the over-60s were teenagers and adults during segregation and Jim Crow. And even now, 45 years later, they can't wrap their heads around the idea of a nigra president.

Posted at August 16, 2008 9:10 PM in response to Joe Biden To Visit Georgia This Weekend

Agreed, it needs to end with "ask yourself this...do you support Bush more than you did 4 years ago? John McCain does."

And then, "I'm Barack Obama and I approved this message."

Posted at August 16, 2008 3:37 PM in response to Approved (or, the next pro-Obama viral video).

I must agree. Otherwise you end up with people being arbitrarily banned from commenting, not because they are being trolls but because they are expressing sentiments unpopular with the other commenters or host. Often while allowing the actual trolls to continue running rampant at the same time. ;)

It's a blog, not a beauty contest.

Posted at August 16, 2008 10:32 AM in response to Dean: Minorities Don't Do As Well In The White Republican Party