Not like this is anything we didn’t already know, but…
The gossipy new campaign book that has the political world buzzing portrays Sarah Palin not just as an ignoramus who believed Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11 but also as possibly mentally unstable. Continue »
Levi Johnston, Bristol Palin’s baby daddy, rapped a taste with Tyra about how he used to get after young Palin’s tail, and did so safely. Well, most of the time:
Bristol Palin’s former fiancé and father to her child Tripp is talking about their sex life on national television. Continue »
The Presidential Couple, Barack & Michelle Obama grace the cover of Ebony’s February issue. Headz all over are getting ready to be a part of his historic inauguration, including Usher, Mary J Blige, and of course, Beyonce:
Beyonce’s wish of performing at Barack Obama’s inauguration has been granted — well sort of … The “I Am Sasha Fierce” singer will join several artists including Usher at an HBO hosted inaugural concert taking place Jan. 18. Continue »
Cindy McCain has been ridin’ on Michelle Obama’s patriotism but it looks like she needs to fall back:
She played a role in the Keating Five savings-and-loan scandal, and just as her husband was rehabilitating his reputation, she was caught stealing drugs from her nonprofit organization to feed her addiction to painkillers. She has a fortune that sets the McCains apart from most other Americans, a problem in a presidential race that hinges on economic anxieties. She can be imprecise: she has repeatedly called herself an only child, for instance, even though she has two half-siblings, and has provided varying details about a 1994 mercy mission to Rwanda.
You know the old man dumped his first wife to get at Cindy’s stacks. We have a fantasy that one day Michelle will b*tch slap this hag for talking reckless and calling her patriotism suspect.
Some mainstream media outlets are debating whether a recent attack ad on your boy Barack played the race card. Time Magazine sees McCain being slick here and dangling race out there for white folks to bite on:
When politicians interject race into a campaign, they seldom do it directly. Consider McCain’s new ad, which the campaign says it will be airing nationally …
This is hardly subtle: Sinister images of two black men, followed by one of a vulnerable-looking elderly white woman.
Let me stipulate: Obama’s Fannie Mae connections are completely fair game. But this ad doesn’t even mention a far more significant tie–that of Jim Johnson, the former Fannie Mae chairman who had to resign as head of Obama’s vice presidential search team after it was revealed he got a sweetheart deal on a mortgage from Countrywide Financial. Instead, it relies on a fleeting and tenuous reference in a Washington Post Style section story to suggest that Obama’s principal economic adviser is former Fannie Mae Chairman Frank Raines. Why? One reason might be that Johnson is white; Raines is black.
McCain’s camp already knew Raines wasn’t an Obama’s advisor.