caroline kennedy barack obama commercial

here’s the ad caroline kennedy, daughter of john f. kennedy and neice of ted did for the barack obama campaign.

billary in the gutter

last night, when hillary clinton pretended to win the florida primary –a state that has no delegates, she declared I am a gutter-ball bowler.

caroline kennedy in ad for obama

caroline kennedy will appear in commercials for barack obama.

bill and ted’s excellent adventure, roadsign in south carolina

pretty much sums up the primaries.

of course, the big news is that ted (martini) kennedy has endorsed barack obama. the endorsement follows on the heels of a touching endorsement of obama from caroline kennedy in an editorial which appeared in the sunday edition of the new york times. the editorial, entitled, ‘a president like my father,’ talks about how caroline kennedy feels that obama could inspire the electorate in the way that john f. kennedy jr. once did.

p.j. o’rourke weighs in on presidential candidates

a laugh out loud opinion piece about the u.s. elections.

billary clinton self-reliant feminist pioneer?

the economist believes the long-term effect of bill clinton having taken over hillary rodham clinton’s campaign will most likely be damaging. “as she relies on her husband, she successfully undermines the most compelling arguments for her candidacy.” that she is a self-reliant, feminist pioneer. as borat might say, NOT.

thanks to the clintons, people from around the world are convinced the u.s. is the land of bigotry. an article in a highly respected german weekly news magazine highlights this.

obama gives letterman’s top 10 list

last night, barack obama appeared on the david letterman show and this is what he had to say:  

GOP picks billary clinton apart

people are wondering why there was no mention of barack obama in last night’s debate. according to the washington post, everytime hillary rodham clinton’s name is mentioned, it brings the republican party together.

hillary clinton’s crystal meth problem

looks like it could be a 303,000 habit that the u.s. tax payer gets to pay for. if you can think other uses for $300K, pleeze let your local representative know.

rambo endorses john mccain

sylvester stallone, aka ‘rambo’ aka ‘rocky I-V’ gives john mccain the big thumbs up:

bill clinton global image down the drain

in an article in the financial times, bill clinton is being taken to task for getting all red nosed and angry during his quest to insure that his wife, hillary rodham clinton, is the next president of the united states. this bill clinton is a bill clinton world leaders have never seen. primarily because in 1992 and 1996, we didn’t have blogs and CNN (the clinton news network) was one of the few 24 hour news channels. now with BBC world, euronews, and various other 24 hour news channels and of course YouTube, world leaders are being exposed to the ugly politics of the clintons. the triangulation and the lies as he tries to take barack obama down. and people can’t meld this with the image they had of him in the 90s as he went out of his way to hide out overseas when things got tough in the u.s. back then. but it’s 2008 and you can run, but you can’t hide. is this really the person we americans want representing us around the world?

goth on leash denied place on bus

kind of a humourous article.

hillary will say anything and change nothing

you can listen to a new advertisement from barack obama that’s running on the radio called ‘hillary will say anything and change nithing.’ hillary clinton’s high negatives keep rising.

majority americans think hillary dishonest

a new survey says: he survey was taken Jan. 13-15 among 800 registered voters and has a margin of error of 3.5 percent.

“Our polling shows that less than half of the people believe she is honest and trustworthy … 65 percent believe she will say or do anything to get elected … over two thirds – 68 percent – believe she will raise taxes.”

you can read the full article.

bill clinton and monica lewinsky

bill clinton coined the phrase, ‘”it depends on what the defition of ‘is’ is.” this month marks the 10th anniversary of william jefferson clinton (aka billary clinton), getting caught with his pants down. he went on to be impeached and to be convicted of perjury. and he’s still know how to spin a big ole fairy tale. we want belwinsky to move back into the background.

billary clinton liar

bill clinton’s lies started after iowa. hopefully independents –all those people who left the democratic party in the 1990s will step up for obama in the primaries.

play the RNC DNC game; tom daschel supports obama

you can go to smoking gun to look at mugshots, or to play this new game.

tom daschle, former senate majority leader from the ever red state state of south dakota, has come out swatting at billary rodham clinton for their treatment of obama. lies and distortions and carefully edited video to fit their agenda.

washington post has a word with katie holmes, just don’t ask about scientology

katie holmes turns down the washington post’s request for an interview for the style section.

obama picks up 13 delegates clinton 12

in the nevada caucus, well, the media headlines read hillary clinton has won. when, as with the 2000 presidential election, hillary rodham clinton may have won the popular vote, but she lost the delegate count. so obama is still ahead.

john mccain talks about clinton $1M proposal for wooodstock museum

granted it, it was the 90s pre-9/11 and all that. but this collection of commercials for all the major candidates features john mccain simultaneously taking a pot-shot at hillary rodham clinton while trumpeting his military service. it’s pretty fucking funny.

financial times prints letter from former clinton admin spokesperson and gets it wrong

James Rubin contributed to the ‘Comment and Analysis’ section of the financial times yesterday. the article, while noting at the end that James Rubin is a hillary rodham clinton supporter, it neglects to mentiion that james rubin used to be the white house spokesman for the bill clinton administration back in the 90s. it also fails to mention that clinton’s former spokesperson is married to a big wig and CNN (aka, the clinton news channel).

in his editorial, mr. rubin tries to discredit barack obama’s prescience –forsight, in seeing that going into iraq was a very bad idea. is it any wonder, that once you are in a war and have hundreds of thousands of citizens on the ground fighting it, that you would vote to pay to insure that the same people have the equipment they need to win and to keep themselves alive?

are hillary rodham clinton supporters disenfranchising minority workers in nevada?

bill clinton gave a heated response when questioned about the pending lawsuit in nevada that will prohibit people from caucusing on the sunset strip. in march 2006, most of the parties who have bought the suit, who have ties to hillary clinton, agreed to the DNC rules regarding caucusing in nevada.

hillary and the lyndon johnson comparison

here’s the video of hillary clinton telling a reporter that it took a president, not martin luther king jr.,  to make the civil rights law happen: 

tom cruise says only scientologist can help

well, that’s a bit of a misleading headline. but basically, a leaked video, which was pulled from youtube and has resurfaced on sky news as well as a longer version on the bbc and defamer, ‘being a scientologist, when you drive past an accident, it’s not like anyone else. as you drive you know you have to do something about it because you know you’re the only one who can really healp.’

martin luther king jr’s son on the fence about obama says hillary wrong

why is it that more african-americans aren’t supporting barack obama? martin luther king III says he’s neutral in the race at this point, but he could change his mind at any point. in the same interview he said, hillary rodham clinton’s remarks about it taking a president to get civil rights past was wrong.

emi cutting 2K jobs

emi is rumoured to be giving about 2,000 employees the axe.

reuters gets it wrong u.s. presidential election

according to reuters hillary clinton is way ahead of obama in florida. but the article fails to mention that florida won’t have any delegates at the democratic national convention. since it moved it’s primary date up, the state was stripped of its delegates as was michigan.

9 delegates each for obama and hillary from new hampshire

why is the press going nuts about hillary rodham clinton’s win. she only won by 2%. and in the end, both get 9 delegates each from the race. is it really neck-and-neck? and what will happen in the southern states.does the world want to endure more of the partisanship of the clinton years? or as maureen o’dowd from the new york times put it, the people from hope are arguing against hope.

hillary rodham clinton’s tears

was it a calculated plea or sympathy, or a genuine moment. in the video. tears supposedly well up in her eyes. hillary clinton’s voice does crack, but beyond that, i’m not sure.

will the electorate feel for her? will this humanize ms. hillary rodham clinton. or will this be cynically overanalysed as yet another plot to manipulate voters? should we feel sorry for the woman who took a 4M dollar book advance prior to being sworn into as senator of new york? should we feel sympathy for a family who monopolized donors so much in 1999 that al gore barely scraped by on the fundraising front.

nicholas sarkozy modelizer

if sex in the city were still around today, cary, the character played by sarah jessica parker, would describe sarkozy as a modelizer.

you’re no martin luther king, you’re no JFK

apparently the hillary rodham clinton campaign is falling down a bunny hole. –having a quick meltdown. does hillary really think lydon b. johnson is the only reason the civil rights law in the u.s. passed? and that the existence of the bill had nothing to do with martin luther king, jr? probably not in her heart. but as she’s repeated this twice, maybe she does.

golden globes cancelled

now if we can only get them to cancel the oscars! i’m a bit sadden by all of this. although ‘american gangster’ is a bit of a cliche and loaded with far too many stereotypes, it was well shot and i would love for my favorite director of all time, ridley scott, to finally get an oscar or something.

but i will miss the golden globes. it was a more condensed version of the oscars and the emmies. and one of the few times you got to see people do stupid things. like charlie evans jr, trying to squeeze himself into pictures with michael mann for that forgetable flick about howard hughes. and the grey’s anatomy meltdown from 2007.

SNL blast from the recent past

obama made a surprised cameo on the halloween edition of saturday night live last fall. 

thoughtful piece by washington post on political media

i like this media notes article by howart kurtz. he discusses in great detailhow the news media blew it chasing the candidates with the most money, like mitt romney and the highest name recognition, like billary.

hillary booed at democratic dinner in new hampshire

hillary was ceremonially booed during a new hampshire democratic party event last night. governor john lynch spoke as did howard dean, dennis kucinich, hillary clinton, barack obama, and bill richardson. the video can be found on C-Span. unfortunately, its 2 hours long. but a kind soul on the time magazine website writes that the time code for hillary starts at 1:40:00.

golden globes with out actors

looks like the golden globes will go on with out SAG members. should be a great show.

martina hingis caught with finger up her nose

martina hingis faces a 2 year ban from tennis after testing positive for cocaine. remember her? ace tennis player.

turned down for the berlinale

last year, i blogged about berlin film festival for JANE magazine, which condé nast put to sleep a few months back. this year, i decided to apply for press credentials for a different blog and submitted my information as directed. well, what happens? i got a nice confirmation letter 2 days ago. and so i started going through information on the berlinale website and considering my game plan for the festival as well as a syndicated column.

fast forward 2 days to well, today and i get an email from the press office telling me that my credentials have been taken away. apparently they don’t give credentials to bloggers. the p.r. rep wrote they aren’t accrediting bloggers in 2008. does it matter that every ‘world-class’ journalist in the u.s. has his or her own blog? i just unleashed my anger on skype to a friend in prague. to which he replied, ‘what do you expect from a group of anal nazis?

britney spears on suicide watch

reportedly, britney spears, taken to cedar sinai in west los angeles california in an amblunace after allegedly holding her kids hostage, is on suicide watch. don’t you love these words allegedly. reportedly. according to daily mail she’s under a special kinda hold at the hospital because she could be a danger to herself or others.

britney ties one over and gets tied up

britney rings in the new year.

josh groban best selling album in states

josh groban’s holiday tunes were bestsellers last year. his almost quadruple platinum selling ablum with the inane high school musical 2 coming in second.

the oscars and the golden globes

what will happen to the oscars and the golden globes now that the writer strike has hit month 2? the golden globes is scheduled to go on next week. if i remember correctly, it’s bascially a dinner with a host who doesn’t really tell jokes and prior winners introduces present nominees. or am i confusing this with the academy awards?

iowians vote for change

the turnout for the caucuses were high. and in the end, iowians voted for change. clinton only managed to get 30% of the female vote, which she so intently targeted.

i sometimes wonder what planet the general mainstream media and the clinton pollsteres are on. basically, we’ve known since the 90s when hillary made fun of homemakers who chose to stay and home and raise their kids and forego a career, that loads of american women don’t like her. so i’m not sure whose been handling her polling. but maybe they need to try to get the cell numbers of the electorate than the land phones.

predictions for iowa

republicans:  1.) mike huckabee 2.) mitt romney  3.) beyond that i don’t know. democrats:  1.) barack obama 2.) john edwards 3.) hillary clinton 4.) joe biden

mike huckabee on leno hillary on letterman

mike huckabee flew into l.a. to put in an appearance on the jay leno show. talk shows like leno, letterman, and jimmy kimmel are back on the air. all with out writers, except for letterman.  apparently the letterman show has struck a side deal with the writers or the writers’ guild. this isn’t 100% clear. anyway. mike huckabee talks about his triple wide trailer and how bill clinton actually grew up in a place called ‘hot springs’ arkansas.  mike huckabee jams with the tonight show band here: 

chelsea clinton versus the bush twins

chelsea clinton, who sort of grew up in the white house, is now 27 and her parents apparently still want to fiercly shield their daughter from the media spotlight. the women, who now i believe works for a hedge fund, refused an interview to a 9 year old girl, reporting on the iowa caucuses for scholastic. is this another part of hillary rodham clinton’s paranoia about the press?

remember scholastic? these days, in the u.s., they’re better known as the publisher of the harry potter books. but they provide a lot of quality learning books and tools for teachers and kids. in the 1970s, they published the magazine dynamite for pre-teens.

you can contrast chelsea clinton’s reaction with that of bush twin jenna bush, who just a few weeks ago, appeared on the ellen show and was successfully persuaded to ring her dad.