A juggling technophile shares personal stories, challenges, humor and perhaps some political commentary.
US politics
Way to win my vote Johnny! As seen on Crooks and Liars:
JOHN MCCAIN: "Now we’ve got the cables. We’ve got talk radio. We’ve got the bloggers. I hate the bloggers. We’ve got all kinds of sources of information."
The hi-res version of the clip is available for download (25.9MB) as well as the full campaign event (162MB). Anyone have a Youtube version that is a little longer?
Update: Remember John McCain [wants] to shutdown [the] blogosphere.
Ok. McCain uses gas but doesn’t know the price of a gallon of gas. Is it relevant? I would think so but then again, in a leadership position, it is not so much what you know as much as what your advisers can tell you.
WISCKOL: When was the last time you pumped your own gas and how much did it cost? 

McCAIN: Oh, I don’t remember. Now there’s Secret Service protection. But I’ve done it for many, many years. I don’t recall and frankly, I don’t see how it matters. I’ve had hundreds and hundreds of town hall meetings, many as short a time ago as yesterday. I communicate with the people and they communicate with me very effectively.
I had the unique pleasure of being called "a flaming liberal" by a relative a couple of weeks ago. I have never really applied a label to my political beliefs so it actually took me a second to process; that is until he said, "I’d vote for W a third term!" Who has those flaming liberal t-shirts? I’ll wear one.
This video sums it up.
See also:http://www.imvotingrepublican.com/
A friend of mine in another country once remarked, "The world should be able to vote for the United States president [since the president’s impact is worldwide]." So, who would the world vote in as president? (http://iftheworldcouldvote.com/)
At this time, the results show 432 people have voted with 91.7% voting for Barack Obama and 8.3% voting for John McCain.
Update:
With 1424 voters Barack is 88.2% and McCain is 11.8%.
With 1785 Barack Obama is 87.5% (1562 votes) and John McCain is 12.5% (223 votes).
With 3482 Barack Obama is 86.7% (3019 votes) and John McCain is 13.3% (463 votes).
I got quoted on Slate! Look out Glenn! Here I come.
As I listened to Barack Obama claim the democratic nomination (and forced my children to listen), I heard Barack Obama speak positively of Hillary Clinton. And I heard him say that she would be on his cabinet in charge of health. His words were "And you can rest assured that when we finally win the battle for universal health care in this country, she will be central to that victory." I personally think that one sentence clearly says that she will not be the vice president. Obama is very well spoken! I look forward to seeing him as the president of the United States!
See also: Power Line, Obama commands respect, Binside TV, HILLARY CLINTON GIVES DELUSIONAL SPEECH AFTER BARACK OBAMA CLINCHES THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION VIDEO, and Binside TV, BARACK OBAMA CLINCHES DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION | BARACK OBAMA DEMOCRACTIC NOMINATION VICTORY SPEECH. As a side note, spell checkers really need to add "Barack" and "Obama" as correctly spelled words!
Inspired by these videos.
Thanks to Newscoma for showing this video!
At least her staff made an attempt and putting spin on it.
Thanks to Knoxvilletalks for the video.
Update: The unedited version showing the gunfire!
Why did Hillary Clinton win the Texas Democrat Primary? Because 98,223 (or more) Republicans had to vote for somebody!
By strategically voting Democratic in the Texas primary, I’ve joined the ranks of Texans who are not voting to secure a Republican nominee (since that has pretty much already been decided).
But rather, we have voted with the strategy to cause as much chaos within the Democratic party by intentionally voting for someone we do NOT want to win the presidential election, but who would be the more viable option to run against in the end.
Hat tip to Tim.
Update: Daily Kos presents evidence the Republicans are gaming the Democratic convention.
I have updated the post Presidential Hopefuls and their phones to reflect Hillary Clinton’s actual Twitter account. I could not find a Twitter account for Ralphie. Of course, I am on Twitter but I am not running for president.
I feel so much better about my own! See country current account balances. Didn’t we have a surplus under Clinton? How does McCain think we can finance the Iraq war for another 100 years?
Did you watch the Obama "Yes we can" video? If not watch it now! (embedded below)
Now it is only fair that John McCain have a similar video:
Special thanks to Rachel on Knoxviews for bringing this one to my attention!
Update: See also HOPE Is No Longer JUST a 4-Letter Word.
Papers please. Thanks Tom.
