Author: BooMan

The GOP Problem, In Pictures

In 2008, the McCain campaign knew they had a major charisma and excitement deficit. Their candidate was old and cranky, and unloved by the base of the party. Barack Obama was not only filling stadiums of excited voters in...

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Obama Kicks Off Campaign

How can you not just bust out laughing at Mitt Romney when you see stuff like this? I mean, it’s hysterical. He’s literally got nothing. “Welcome to Ohio,” Mitt Romney told President Obama with more than...

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Milbank’s Right About Lugar

I have to give Dana Milbank credit for making a very good defense of Dick Lugar and a very good critique of the campaign Indiana Treasurer Richard Mourdock has waged against him. I know there will be a lot of unseemly...

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They Made Us a Nation of Bedwetters

I don’t know anyone who is avidly anticipating or who plans to avidly follow the sham-trial of the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Comparing it to the O.J. Simpson trial is a sad joke. The sad truth...

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Serious Questions

If you were going to design a Home page, what would you include in it? I’m talking about a page that would be the first thing you’d look at in the morning and the last thing you’d look at at night. It could...

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