politics

You've got to love situational faith. Apparently voting is prohibited, but flying around the world to make millions of dollars, attend red carpet events and award shows is not.

Quoted: Serena Williams would vote for Barack Obama if she could. Don't even ask Venus Williams what her political leanings are..."I'm a Jehovah's Witness, so I don't get involved in politics. We stay neutral. We don't vote," she said. "So I'm not going to necessarily go out and vote for him. I would if it wasn't for my religion."

Quoted: It was a day of choreographed harmony for Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton at an outdoor rally Friday.

Great Slate analysis of why the Supreme Court will be a huge issue this coming election. Scary.

Quoted: The composition of the high court is one of the most important issues at stake in the November election. While the justices cannot bring down gas prices or bring home the troops, their decisions in the coming years will affect just about everything else.

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Thats Thomas McCotter (R-MI) from Livonia, Wayne County. Apparently he's missed the last 8 years of fiscal "responsibility" from "conservatives".

Perhaps this might have been useful at a Republican fundraiser or rally, but on the floor of the House Of Representatives I can't imagine what it accomplished.

Quoted: Rep. McCotter took to the House floor to try to translate for the American public in a speech entitled -- "Speaking Democrat:"

Wow, it's amazing how much thought Michelle Obama had to put into every detail of this appearance on The View.

Quoted: Obama had approached the appearance, to quote Barbara Walters' on-air reading of the morning's New York Times, "with an eye toward softening her reputation." To this end, she did not do her hair in the Jackie Kennedy flip that André Leon Talley—the Vogue editor who Page Six alleges to be her style guru—pegs as central to her "image strategy."

Quoted: In an interview last week with ABC, Bush said, "I think she probably meant 'I'm more proud,' you know, is what she really meant." She said comments in a campaign are closely watched and can be misconstrued.

That Lieberman really gets my goat sometimes...

Quoted: Joe Lieberman is fast becoming the Democrats' public enemy No. 1. The four-term Connecticut senator has not only been campaigning for his pal, presumed Republican nominee John McCain, but now he's publicly criticizing the Democrats' standard-bearer, Barack Obama, aswell.

I didn't always agree with him. But I will miss him.

Quoted: Tim Russert, NBC News’ Washington bureau chief and the moderator of “Meet the Press,” died Friday, NBC News said Friday. He was 58.

Michelle Obama uses the term "Whitey""? The Republican Dirty Tricks Squad is alive and well.