Phew! Ok, so it’s not Obama. Glad we cleared that up. My friends will be disappointed, though.

I like that Glen Beck is getting crazy email about this too.

NYTimes has the most misleading headline of this political season: “Cast of 300 Advises Obama on Foreign Policy.”

A fantastic story: A fashion designer who dislikes Obama because he think’s Obama is a Muslim sells a t-shirt that reads “Obama is my slave” to a grad student who thinks it’s a good idea to wear this t-shirt out and about in New York City.  The grad student is, unsurprisingly, assaulted by a group of angry New York denizens, then sues the fashion designer.

I can’t figure out who I like least in this story, the xenophobic fashion designer, the foolishly short-sighted and litigious grad student, or the violent street people?

Rasmussen reports that:

Libertarian voters make up 4% of the nation’s likely voters and they favor Barack Obama over John McCain by a 53% to 38% margin. Three percent (3%) would vote for some other candidate and 5% are not sure.

Only 3% of libertarians said they would vote for a third party candidate?  That’s a pretty sad performance for Bob Barr. Maybe he’s the one who should to be firing his campaign manager. Maybe Ron Paul wants the gig…

The Boston Globe’s Big Picture blog today focuses on the lives of Barack Obama and John McCain. This picture of Obama with his mother caught my attention:

What, you don’t see it? Maybe if I blend them together for you?

Huh. I think they have similar eyes and eyebrows. Still not seeing it? Well, happy Fourth of July regardless.

It just occurred to me that, after the success of Hypnobama ‘08, I should make an election bumper stick for the surprising candidacy of Joss Whedon and Wil Wheaton. I haven’t yet decided who will be at the top of the Wheaton/Whedon ‘08 ticket.

Things More Muslim than Obama is like Things Younger Than McCain, but funnier.

Well known angry curmudgeon Jack Cafferty asks “how to survive the presidential campaign?” This being the first election in recent memory where both candidates stand an arguable chance of not living through their term, I thought this was going to be a surprising discussion of security procedures and healthy eating.

It wasn’t.

It was just a setup for a discussion of how it is possible for those of us watching the campaign on TV to be able to stand it. Is it really so hard to watch and read news coverage of a campaign? And isn’t it perfectly easy to opt out if you’re not interested? Not that what I thought the other topic was a good one, but it certainly would have been more interesting than this.

Will flip-flops once again be prominently featured at the GOP presidential nominating convention?

Obama 2007:

Question I-B:
If you are nominated for President in 2008 and your major opponents agree to forgo private funding in the general election campaign, will you participate in the presidential public financing system?

Yes… If I am the Democratic nominee, I will aggressively pursue an agreement with the Republican nominee to preserve a publicly financed general election.

Obama’s Spokesperson, 2007:

Obama’s spokesman Bill Burton said the senator “is pleased FEC took this important step in preserving the public financing system, which is why he sought the opinion. If Senator Obama is the nominee, he will aggressively pursue an agreement with the Republican nominee to preserve a publicly financed general election.”

Obama 2008:

Sen. Barack Obama told supporters Thursday that he has decided not to accept public financing for his general election campaign.

Hmm…

Obama’s spokesperson being either funny, or surprisingly hypocritical. I think it’s hypocritical, but I’m having a hard time seeing why she’d be so blatant about it:

In a response Thursday, Obama campaign spokesman Hari Sevugan said McCain was raising old allegations rather than talking about the issues.

“It’s telling that John McCain — whose vice presidential search process is headed by a prominent D.C. lobbyist who served as the Reagan administration’s point man on the Iran-Contra scandal — would try to recycle a tired attack on Mr. Holder,” she said.

If Iran-Contra isn’t an old issue, I don’t know what is.

Descriptive, not divisive. Can’t he be both?

Sure, Barack Obama may have bowled like something of a priss, but at least he knew to put his fingers in the ball’s holes:

The results of holding the bowling ball as if it were a shotput are predictable.

Racist is a hard word to spell.

Slate takes a quick jab at Ron Paul:

If you were designing the perfect candidate in a lab, you’d want John McCain’s personal courage, Mike Huckabee’s humor, and Hillary Clinton’s tenacity. The ingredient you’d want from Obama isn’t hope, which is, after all, hype. They all offer hope — even Ron Paul, in a creepy, Ayn Rand kind of way.

BarackObama.com’s contact page allows you to choose between several types of messages you can send.  One option is to “Send[] a Message to Michelle Obama.”   So Michelle… how’s it going?

I’m not the first one to say it, but after recently reading the beginning of the Left Behind series and the entire Christ Clone trilogy, it’s not totally wacky to compare Obama’s rise and public adulation to that of the predicted Anti-Christ’s (at least as described in those books).

CafePress has pulled my Hypnobama logo several times. When I emailed them to find out why, I received the following response: Read more »

You’re campaigning in DC and you don’t get your donuts from Krispy Kreme? For shame.

Picture via My Way.

I fear Hillack Obinton.

bobama@aol.com

Depending on whose count you look at, the current Democratic non-super delegate vote is around 569 Clinton to 550 Obama (Clinton plus 19). How, I wondered, would this be different if Democrats awarded their delegates in a winner take all system?

After some fine tuning, I’ve put some Hypnobama merchandise on sale at CafePress. Click on Hypnobama to see the store:

The election day trifecta is now complete. All votes for the Hypnobama.

UPDATE: CafePress says I can’t sell this image because of my improper use of the Obama logo.  Sorry, the store is down.  Thanks a lot ObamaPress (CafeObama?).

Is it possible that the right wing of the Republican party has a two-fold agenda in its recent vocal series of attacks on John McCain (see, from the past week, Pat Buchanan, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, James Dobson)?

1. The straightfoward - they genuinely would prefer that Romney was the nominee and they’re not all that thrilled by McCain’s ideological divergence from standard conservative values.
2. The devious - they recognize that they’re facing an uphill battle this year to win  moderate conservatives and a very strong uphill battle to win moderate liberals, especially if Obama is the Democratic nominee.  To confront this problem, the far right of the Republican party is publicly making a lot of noise to show their displeasure with McCain, advertising that their displeasure is because McCain is SOOOO moderate.  Every time Ann Coulter tells Fox News’s right-leaning audience not to vote for McCain, she’s giving him credibility in the center.  Notice that these attacks didn’t ramp up until it seemed clear (or at least likely) that he was going to win the party’s nomination — this sort of strategy wouldn’t work if they actually derailed him.  For this to be functional, they have to loudly complain only after he’s essentially locked up the nomination.  The efforts they’re making will both scare him to the right AND encourage moderates to vote for him.  Pretty good strategy, eh?

Anyone agree?

UPDATE: Hypnobama products are on sale now.

Lorelei asked me to make an Obama/Hypnotoad 2008 campaign bumper sticker. It seemed worth posting online:

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