There has been an increasing amount of talk about how McCain’s supporters (well, mainly on the Palin side) have begun a pretty vicious campaign and there has been an increasing amount of vitriolic racial attacks.  A lot of emphasis on Obama being a secret Muslim,  or calling him an Arab, or a lot of things.
Blogger Interrupted has posted a video detailing some of the ignorant attacks of SOME of the attendees.  With thousands of ralliers, it’s not surprising that you find some people like that.

What was more surprising was that …

This was a refreshing change from the increasingly dark and mean presidential campaign.  John McCain and Barack Obama managed to sit down together at the 63rd annual Alfred E. Smith foundation dinner.  It’s become somewhat of a tradition for the presidential contenders to appear at this white-tie event to raise money for the charitable foundation, and actually seems to lighten the mood.
The candidates basically roast each other, and spare no expense mocking themselves either.  You can check out all the videos below.
Quite honestly, I think that McCain was a better …

The “town hall” style meeting held instead of an actual debate was more of an annoyance than anything else.  Just now, when both candidates are sharpening their attacks and all that, we’re forced to settle for no real discusson or debate.  Instead, Tom Brokaw asks them questions he’s selected from submissions (and the audience gets to ask), and would then gently chastize each candidate for consistently going longer than the one minute they were each assigned to answer the questions.
For the majority of the time both candidates would deftly side-step …

Until recently, Barack Obama’s lead in the polls appeared insurmountable.  The presumptive Democratic nominee’s message of change seemed to be resonating with the American public, while his Republican counterpart’s efforts to endear himself to evangelical voters was proving largely fruitless.  In July, for example, polling website electoral-vote.com had Obama leading his opponent by over 100 electoral college votes.  Similarly, the results of a national poll released in mid-June showed Obama holding a healthy 15 point lead over McCain. 
Over the last few weeks, however, Obama’s lead has shrunk dramatically.  Pollster.com shows him leading by less than …

If you remember, way back in April, we briefly covered the presumptive presidential candidates favourite music.  At that time, John McCain had not really let any kind of full list go.  Now we have it.  Blender Magazine (the unloved offspring of Maxim) has compiled a list of the candidates’ own choosing.
Check it out below.
John Mccain’s Top Ten
1. Dancing Queen ABBA
2. Blue Bayou Roy Orbison
3. Take a Chance On Me ABBA
4. If We Make It Through December Merle Haggard
5. As Time Goes By Dooley Wilson
6. Good Vibrations The Beach Boys
7. What …

Well, only sort of.  This is an extremely long overdue post (especially since Obama is now actually the Democratic nominee).
Back in May, almost exactly a month ago, Mark McKinnon kept his promise that he would leavve the McCain campaign if Obama was going to win the nomination.

The Onion, in a stroke of genius, has run an article lampooning the hundreds of times we hear about possible VP nominations for each party.  Especially on the Democratic side.
Ever since we heard that Obama’s nearly got the show wrapped up, we’ve been hearing demands from the Clinton camp that she be made VP as a “consolation prize”.  Others have been saying that Obama and Clinton should want to get together to form the “Dream Ticket”.
Well, my friends, I give you the Nightmare Ticket.

According to the Onion (yes, it’s fake …

McCain, according to the NYT, has compiled a very short list of possibly running mates.
So far, Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida, Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and Mitt Romney have been asked to meet McCain at his ranch.  Notice that Huckabee is nowhere to be found.
Most interesting of all of this is Gov. Bobby Jindal, the first Indian-American Governor in the United States.  SepiaMutiny, a popular blog on Indian-American affairs has definitely taken notice.  They (in my opinion) correctly note that part of the reason Jindal is in the running …

TheHill.com has somehow managed to ask all 97 sitting Senators whether or not they would consider the VP nod from the presidential candidates.
They’re reproduced (verbatim, they claim) the responses from all the Senators.  Here’s a couple of nice little jewels:
Sen. Bob Bennett (R-Utah)
“Of course. Big house, big car, not much to do. Why not?”
Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.)
“I would be honored to be asked. I’ve got to appraise the position in considering it. But I haven’t gone to the step of saying whether I would or wouldn’t at this point … …

According to his Facebook fan page, Barack Obama is a fan of legendary ’90s super-group The Fugees! If you were wavering before (and are a 4080reader), this alone should clinch it for you. Even ten years ago it would have been political suicide for a presidential candidate to publically reveal he or she listened to hip-hop, let alone consider a rap group among his/her favourite musicians (can you imagine Bill Clinton revealing he was a fan of, say, Public Enemey in 1991?). Also on Obama’s list are Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder and Johan Sebastian Bach. Our boy has an …