Posts Tagged ‘ election 2008 ’

TownHall.com Pundits Are So Lame

Nov 20th, 2008 | By benwyskida | Category: Politics

Townhall.com pundits are all over MSNBC and CNN as the conservative response to liberal bloggers. They’re terrible. They’re all pro-life women (what?), they’re all very angry and I haven’t seen one of them make a good point in five months. I was watching Amanda Carpenter, who is a regular, and she does this thing where [...]



ha ha.

Nov 10th, 2008 | By benwyskida | Category: Politics


Okay, okay let’s relive Election Night.

Nov 10th, 2008 | By benwyskida | Category: Politics

Last night my friend Evans shared the highlight of his Election Night: hearing from two blocks away at 125th Street in Harlem a woman directing a mass electric slide over a bullhorn. (Quiz: who can do both the old and the new electric slide?) I came across this long but really awesome minute by minute [...]



I feel the same way.

Nov 7th, 2008 | By benwyskida | Category: Politics

This was a funny post from Ben Smith at Politico this morning: An Episcopal priest I know well emails: “I can’t begin to imagine what the other side of the election feels like for you but I, for one, am really missing the regular e-mails and text messages from the Obama campaign. I feel as [...]



Deep thought.

Nov 5th, 2008 | By benwyskida | Category: Politics

I just rewatched Barack Obama’s speech last night. Can I still give him money? Please? How do I give him more money.



Great illustration.

Nov 5th, 2008 | By benwyskida | Category: Politics

From Patrick Moberg … this is so great.



awww! Yes we can redux.

Nov 5th, 2008 | By benwyskida | Category: Politics

That amazing Palin as President site (where you could shoot the deer and make the sofa talk, etc.) has appropriately updated itself. And the update, I say with slight embarrassment, made me cry again. That site was funny … there’s no advertising, so I don’t imagine they made any money off of it. Pretty cool.



Obama around the world

Nov 5th, 2008 | By Charles London | Category: Politics

I’ll be posting some responses from people around the world in the coming hours, but here’s one interesting response from an Iranian friend. Who knew his name means something in Farsi?? “…the majority of Iranians are ecstatic about the election of Obama. He was easily the favorite amongst the religious class (and therefore those in [...]



Was the race only about race?

Nov 5th, 2008 | By benwyskida | Category: Uncategorized

The election of the first African-American in history is amazing. I get it, and the history of the moment is almost indescribable. But the entire conversation today is about race. Like the unyielding shots of Oprah and Jesse Jackson last night during Obama’s speech, today’s coverage is … Spike Lee, NAACP, video from Harlem. That’s [...]



A beautiful night in the making.

Nov 4th, 2008 | By benwyskida | Category: Politics

Pat Buchanan just said “hit the bottom.” That’s pretty gross. Hit the bottom, work the middle. That was McCain’s strategy. And while Buchanan is saying it about McCain (he hit bottom), Barack Obama is the one who really hit the bottom (of the economic scale) and worked the middle (of the electorate) in the sexy [...]