President Obama has had a big day. A long day. And long days lead to flubs. "We face some daunting challenges," he told a hooting, hollering ballroom full of Biden-state supporters just after the local 11 o'clock news started. "Looking...
A Canadian comedian posing as French President Nicolas Sarkozy managed to prank call Gov. Sarah Palin on Saturday. On the 5-minute call, he secures a giddy invitation to go hunting -- and a promise that she'll be more careful...
This is what happens when a candidates goes off script. Barack Obama, in Raleigh, N.C., was doing a riff attacking John McCain for supporting the idea of putting some mandatory retirement money into the stock market. "If Senator McCain is...
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, a Republican and a key McCain ally, just held a conference call to talk about the Obama visit and offered a strange rationale for supporting McCain: "He's been such a strong proponent of climate change, and...
Maybe she wanted to distract from McCain's senior moment in Cape Fear. Maybe she's just competitive, like Alaska's First Dude, the snowmobile racing champ. Whatever it was, Gov. Sarah Palin went toe to toe with the top her own ticket...
Hard to put it any other way. McCain just had a senior moment. He promised the crowd that he'd take some questions. Twenty minutes later, he forgot. "My friends, we're gonna -- I'd like to make some remarks to you...
Leave it to the folks at The Daily Show to cut through the spin. The audience for tonight's debate is tuning in for one reason - the same reason drivers slow down when they spot a car wreck. It's...
Time for a refresher course in history for Sen. Joe Biden. Barack Obama's runningmate was trying to make a point about presidential leadership when he "recalled" the way Franklin Roosevelt stepped up and rallied the country in those dark...
There's something politically lethal about the combination of Poland, Georgia and the Soviet Union. Back in 1976, President Gerald Ford committed a serious gaffe in a debate against Jimmy Carter (governor of Georgia) by calling Poland (a Soviet satellite) an...
Joe Biden showed Saturday that he's not afraid to throw a haymaker. Essentially, he told the crowd in Springfield, Ill., (above) that he's not sure America could survive a November victory by John McCain -- his good friend of...
Those helpful folks at the RNC. They grabbed footage of Biden calling his running mate "Barack America" and put it on YouTube. And they launched a "Biden gaffe clock" to track elapsed time since the senator's last gaffe. It's...
It is hot in Springfield. Real hot. And not a dry heat, either. The next POTUS and VPOTUS wore matching outfits: suit pants, white dress shirts rolled up just enough so you know they're serious, and complementing ties (Obama:...
Rich Miller of Geneseo, Ill., thought Joe Biden's comments about Barack Obama being clean and articulate were so funny, he made up a hat and started wearing it. That was 18 months ago, and he still wears it. He...
Expect much bloviating today, and tomorrow, and the next day, about the wisdom of Barack Obama's choice of Joe Biden as his running mate. (Whether the selection is deemed a good one or a bad one, of course, will...
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