Found two stories today on Huffington Post and The Carpetbagger Report about the delegate crisis in the Democratic Party. The Clintons are still pushing hard to get the party to seat Florida and Michigan’s delegates in light of the delegate fight between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. She says the Dems can’t afford to alienate…

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I found this clip on Gawker.com today and thought it was hilarious. I read Maureen Dowd’s column in the New York Times semi-regularly alternating between like and hate for her style of writing. But this story about a black columnist who claims Dowd confused her for Michelle Obama was quite the gem. Here’s a taste…

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Politicans and their spouses often aren’t the best dressed people. Take the Clintons when they first left Arkansas or Laura Bush when she left Texas for the White House. These are people who don’t spend a lot of time thinking about clothes. They just wore whatever wasn’t wrinkled. Hillary wore lots of head bands. Bill…

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I was watching The Daily Show and FOX News’ Chris Wallace was the guest. Jon Stewart (of course) was giving Wallace a hard time about FOX hiring Karl Rove, of all people, as a political commentator for the election. Wallace mildly defended Rove and FOX talking about access to the White House and what not…

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Well, I don’t want to pat myself on the back, but I think St. Louis County and City helped push Barack Obama across that Missouri finish line, edging out Hillary Clinton by almost 10,000 votes. That was all St. Louis, baby. Because down state and the rural counties all flipped Clinton (unsurprisingly). This is because…

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I realize that these people may be the most popular ratings getters on their news networks, but why is Lou Dobbs hosting my election night coverage? Even when he was trying to emote sincerity over election night tornadoes in Arkansas and Tennesse I still shook my head and muttered “asshole.” (For more evidence of Lou…

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Everyone in Missouri was ready to show up and vote the hell out of our Democrats and Republican candidates. But apparently no one told God it was Super Tuesday because around 4 p.m. the thunderstorm started. And God had a thunderstorm last night, which preemptively took out the power at some polling stations, sayeth KMOV…

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