Obama election

Poll: How are you using Bush V Gore in your daily life?

December 23, 2008 - Apparently the Supreme Court's decision in Bush V Gore did a whole lot more than just allow the country to fall into its current state of total collapse. The Court intended the ruling to be a one-shot deal, resolving the disputed election of 2000, but not creating any...

From The Room: Ten Questions That Must Be Asked of Obama Before He's Sworn In

November 21, 2008 - In order to make sure Barack Obama will not be a president like George W. Bush, there are ten urgent questions that he must be asked before he takes the oath of office. 1. Mr. Obama, if the biggest terrorist attack ever on American soil were to take place while...

From The Room: The GOP Wants You Back! (That Goes for You Too, Pedophiles!)

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From The Room: My America

November 11, 2008 - It's taken a week to digest that Barack Obama is actually my president. A week of trying to process a lifetime of cynicism and anger and disenfranchisement at the political process and the apathy of my fellow Americans and, sadly, myself. For my entire life, the America I believed...

From The Room: Obama Was Elected Last Tuesday: Where Are All the Ponies?

November 11, 2008 - We all know of the Big Kahuna's mighty exploits. He slew the Clintonian kraken and, yea verily, exorcised the spooky chain-rattling ghosts of Republicanism past. But that was, like, a week ago; what's he done for us lately? The euphoria of his electoral victory was all we...

From The Room: "The Tingle Effect": Thank You for Not Voting for Me

November 10, 2008 - As an American citizen and comedic candidate for the presidency on the "Humor for Humanity" ticket, it was with great pleasure and pride that on November 4th I watched, with literally billions of other people from Kansas to Kenya, as Barrack Obama was elected the 44th president of the United...

From The Room: The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: A History Lesson for Day Six While Waiting for Jimmy Carter's Second Term to Begin

November 10, 2008 - I watched Barack Obama's first press conference several times over the weekend thanks to the miracle of You Tube. Before I get into the substance, or lack thereof, in this softball fest, let me make a few observations. Is "Mr. President-Elect" an official title? I went back to...

From The Room: The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: Day Three of Waiting for Jimmy Carter's Second Term to Begin

November 7, 2008 - I've been busy all day listening to my hunting and fishing buddies cry about the election. The way they are carrying on you'd think someone had run over their dog, wrecked their truck and short changed their mama. Here is my message to all my Vast Right Wing...

From The Room: My Historic Article in the New York Times That No One Read

November 7, 2008 - On Wednesday November 5th, I made my debut in the New York Times on page C2. In other news, America electe...

From The Room: Amazing Coincidences Between George W. Bush and Barack Obama

November 6, 2008 - Much has been made of the amazing coincidences between Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy. Now we have elected another president from Illinois and it's time to look at the... AMAZING COINCIDENCES BETWEEN GEORGE W. BUSH & BARACK OBAMA Barack Obama...Wouldn't appear on...

From The Room: Oh What a Night

November 6, 2008 - If you wrote a script that told the story of what happened Tuesday night, people would have said it was too far fetched and it could never happen. And that people aren't buying political scripts. But it really did happen. And it went almost exactly the way we hoped...

From The Room: This Victory Is a Communal One

November 6, 2008 - As the polls were about to start closing and the long-awaited numbers finally be revealed, I was experiencing the combination of excitement and dread I remember feeling when someone I was seeing said, "We have to talk." "Too close to call," we heard from TV commentators. The states we...

From The Room: Text Messages from Election Night

November 5, 2008 - I. Bill Ayers to Obama, 6:51pm: I bet u think I voted 4 u. Obama to Ayers, 6:56pm: Now is not the time, Bill. Ayers to Obama, 7:01pm: Well, I didn't. I wrote in Harajuku Girls, because, fuck it. We are all satan's hell-children...

From The Room: Smart Man Elected Somehow

November 5, 2008 - Ann Arbor, Michigan - Experts at the University of Michigan's Department of Political Science are furiously trying to figure out how the United States elected an intelligent man, Barack Obama, to be the 44th president of the country. Several theories have been put forward, but none...

Election night slideshow: World stunned that 52% of America is kind of like them

November 5, 2008 - Chances are you spent most of last night in a drunken stupor, be it one of disappointment or of revelry. Either way, you missed quite a bit. Check out what else was happening on election day, both around the world and here in the U-S-A...