I appreciated this address of Obama's from Father's Day yesterday. He had me laughing a number of times through, but also provided some nice, sober thoughts on parenting. At one point he hit on ethics, which always interests me, saying: "The third thing we need to do as fathers, is pass along the... [[ This is a summary only, click the title above to go to the full post (or take the long route and...

The below article talks about the idea that McCain suggested of doing 10 "town-hall" like debates over 10 weeks this summer; it would be without any media folk in between them--an appealing thought, it seems, if done well (or at least in a way similar to what they propose). Here's the first part of... [[ This is a summary only, click the title above to go to the full post (or take the long route an...

I had to stick this great front page shot of Obama during his acceptance speech for the Democratic nomination (June 3rd of last week). The annoying thing, of course, is that it's been inevitable for so long that it took something out of the event--though it was quite good and hugely energized still... [[ This is a summary only, click the title above to go to the full post (or take the long route an...

Here are links to a past series I did on my major issues with Clinton (though I thought I would take it off the front page of the blog since she's now dropped out; I post-dated it (handy tool in Blogger) so it wouldn't show up on the front page of the blog): Qualm 1: Vote on Iraq Qualm 2:... [[ This is a summary only, click the title above to go to the full post (or take the long route and copy and...

I was ready to put this post up to deliver a good elbow to Clinton's side, given some recent talk from her campaign. Then I thought I would take a look at her site to see what she had up there on this last day of the primaries. As I did, I had in mind a post I'd read earlier about how Bill Clinton... [[ This is a summary only, click the title above to go to the full post (or take the long route and...