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'I'll Be Voting for Sen. Barack Obama.'
“Because I do what the facts tell me, Captain…” – Capt. Richard Davenport from A Soldier’s Play (1981) The true importance of any political endorsement is debatable. But this one is big, since it involves America’s most recognizable military hero declaring a preference that could help undecided centrist Republicans and independents make up their minds.…
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To Surge, With Love
“…She swallowed the spider to catch the fly— I don’t know why she swallowed the fly…” When Sen. John McCain shows up in Mississippi tonight, after two solid weeks of Wall Street bailout headlines, he and Sen. Barack Obama will square off in the most anticipated presidential debate in almost 50 years. McCain still believes…
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The Double Talk Express
“He was wearing my Harvard tie. Can you believe it—my Harvard tie? Like, ‘Oh, sure,’ he went to Harvard.” —Winthorpe (Dan Aykroyd) from Trading Places (1983) All summer long, John McCain has been selling the idea that a guy who graduated at the top of his Harvard Law class, who went from living on food…
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Obama's iPod Anthem
“I decided, you are the him for me.” —Solange Back in the day, KRS-One penned “Jack of Spades” for Keenan Ivory Wayans’ ‘hood Robin Hood in the blaxploitation send-up I’m Gonna Git You Sucka because, “every hero should have his own theme music.” We probably won’t see a reconstituted BDP performing “My Philosophy” behind Sen.…
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It Breaks A Village
“You want it to be one way. But it’s the other way.” —Marlo —Hillary Clinton hasn’t crossed the Rubicon yet, but let’s just say that her advance team is fashioning a drawbridge and the plebes are being told to take shelter behind the city walls. Next week in Denver, Sen. Clinton and former president Bill…
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Obama's Sidekick Pick
“Well, how could they be jamming us if they don’t know…if we’re coming?” – Lando Calrissian (Billy Dee Williams) If you watch TV or go to the movies, you’re already pretty familiar with the black sidekick. From Rochester to Robin Quivers, there is frequently at least one African American in the crew to provide a…
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Roll Out, Luda
“So drink some prune juice and let the shit go.” —Ludacris If you’re in NYC this weekend, keep an eye out for Al Sharpton on the dance floor at 40/40. He’ll be the one gripping a bottle of Moët, sandwiched in-between two supermodels with his tie loosened, sweating out his conk and hollering along with…
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The Audacity of Taupe
“Yo, I start to flinch as I try not to say it;But my lips is like the ooh-wop as I start to spray it…” – Q-Tip If a white woman can have a crush on Obama, then I hope a biracial man can have a crush on The View’s Elisabeth Hasselbeck, because she’s doing a…
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24: Obama's Torture Episode
Right now, liberals want me to release classified photos, conservatives deny that torture is illegal, and people that I work with may be involved in both. Home grown terrorists tried to blow up two synagogues and three U.S. soldiers were killed alongside 63 Iraqis. My name is Barack Obama, and today is the longest day…
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David Swerdlick: Fly Schtick
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