2008 presidential election

Vote Obama! (Or: What Do I Have to Live for Now?)

by Cara November 13, 2008

Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are h/t Sudy

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And This is Why I’m Glad I’ve Never Voted for Ralph Nader

by Cara November 7, 2008

Because even Fox News is smart enough to call him out on being an ignorant, racist ass for saying Barack Obama is an “Uncle Tom.” For more, see Bint. And hey Nader? Fuck you.

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Strip Club Holds Sarah Palin Lookalike Contest

by Cara October 29, 2008

Via Sociological Images — a truly great blog I discovered recently — comes this story about a Sarah Palin lookalike contest held at Vegas strip club (oh, sorry, “gentleman’s club”).  Lots of bikinis, sexualized use of guns and sexism abound.  You can view more photographs of the event here. The saddest thing is that it’s [...]

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McCain’s Base Trashes Economic Plan

by Cara October 10, 2008

This pretty much made my morning. John McCain is facing a fresh round of anger from members of his own party deeply opposed to the Arizona senator’s proposal for the federal government to purchase troubled mortgage loans. The pointed backlash from several economic conservatives — many of whom already distrust McCain’s commitment to free-market principles [...]

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Chill.

by Cara September 11, 2008

I’m with Tim Fernholz. (h/t) It’s not that it’s wrong to criticize a campaign, or that some criticisms don’t ring true. The Obama campaign and its surrogates need to stop saying that McCain is such a great man before they tear him apart. (Joe Biden, for one, has already gotten the message.) They could be [...]

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Republican Congressman Calls Barack and Michelle Obama “Uppity”

by Cara September 4, 2008

Republican Congressman Lynn Westmoreland was asked (in an already sexist question) to compare Michelle Obama to Sarah Palin. In doing so, he decided to call Michelle “uppity” — and made sure to let everyone know that he feels the same way about Barack. Westmoreland was discussing vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s speech with reporters outside [...]

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Thoughts on Palin Speech

by Cara September 4, 2008

Apparently the Obama campaign was just as pissed off about the repeated RNC attacks on community organizing as I was. From the email I got this morning, which I thought was actually pretty good: [T]hey insulted the very idea that ordinary people have a role to play in our political process. [. . .] Both [...]

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Ah, the good ol’ “race card”

by Cara August 5, 2008

Well to be entirely honest, this took longer than I expected. Of course, by claiming that Obama is playing the “race card” (I can’t take that phrase seriously), McCain is in no way playing the “race card” himself. You see, McCain is white, and everyone knows that white people don’t have a race, and definitely [...]

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Michelle Obama Watch

by Cara June 14, 2008

For those of you who have not yet seen it, the new Michelle Obama Watch website is up and running. The site is designed to be “a repository of all of the criticism, praise, and general chicanery thrown at Michelle Obama between now and November.” And I personally think that it’s a brilliant idea.

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Chris Matthews Racism Watch

by Cara June 6, 2008

Like I’m sure you did, as it became more and more likely that Obama would be the Democratic nominee, I started to worry about Chris Matthews. After all, the man makes his living from misogyny. More specifically, I’m pretty convinced that he actually lives off of it — saying horrible things about women is his [...]

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