Why the Kennedys Are Endorsing Obama It is not just that Obama reminds them of Kennedy, it is also that the Clintons remind them of Lyndon Johnson.Castro Resigns! Sanctions Work! Let this be a lesson to other dictators around the world, from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran to Kim Jong-il in North Korea, that the United States is a very patient country and if it takes us 50 years to get them out of power, we will not waver.She was crying for all of us who remember how the peace and prosperity of the Clinton era led directly into the war and economic downturn of the Bush years, something we don't want to happen again. She was crying for all of the pundits and journalists and bloggers who worry that another Clinton Administration will turn us into Clinton-hating hacks. The Crying of Maureen Dowd Dowd was not just crying for herself.Obama has fallen victim to the "rope-a-dope" strategy that Muhammad Ali used against George Foreman in their 1974 heavyweight title match in Zaire. Barack Obama Should Concede the Nomination to Hillary Hillary's strategy should be familiar to anyone who knows anything about boxing.If an overweight workaholic with diabetes and a history of coronary artery disease can suddenly die without warning, is any one of us safe? The Russert Rule Russert's friends and colleagues were understandably shocked by Russert's premature passing.It's very economical and gives us a break in our routine. We like to go out once a week for the Early Bird Special and order the exact same thing every time. McCain: Make Sure You Have the Right Change Americans don't like too much change.One of the reasons we may be in this economic mess in the first place is that McCain was too busy campaigning to prevent it from happening. Let’s Suspend the Whole Election I have been very concerned that with John McCain out on the campaign trail for the last year a lot of pressing problems aren’t getting solved.What was Nixon’s Silent Majority but a very quiet, very angry mob? Angry mobs in Little Rock and Selma deeply concerned about the issue of state’s rights helped give birth to the modern conservative movement. In Defense of Angry Mobs This country wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for an angry mob that decided it wanted a tax cut and threw English tea into Boston Harbor.Why McCain Will Win I think we’re going to see a "Reverse Bradley Effect," where black people say they are going to vote for the black guy because they don’t want to seem disloyal, but when they get into the voting booth they just can’t pull the lever for the brother.“The movies used to reinforce good behavior - that you should pay back your loans,” he says, apparently thinking of such films as The Grapes of Wrath, It's a Wonderful Life and Salt of the Earth. The Triumph of Derrièrism Breitbart wants to bring back the kind of crowd-pleasing movies Hollywood used to make, which encouraged people to pay their credit card bills on time.To doubt the truth of their findings, you would have to believe that an entire segment of the blogosphere has suddenly been gripped by hysteria and gone collectively insane, which is a pretty unlikely scenario. Great Moments in Election-Year Blogging The conservative blogosphere deserves to win a collective Pulitzer Prize for its election-year coverage.There are more than 10,000 cities in the United States and because of George Bush every single one of them, except for New Orleans, is still largely intact.
President Bush's Legacy: One of Our Greatest Presidents In the three years and a half years since Hurricane Katrina not a single American city has been destroyed or partially destroyed.Google Searches I would like to take this opportunity to explain some of the searches I did so that no one in the Justice Department gets the wrong idea.I thought, 'can this guy really be this idiotic?' So then I went and read all of your Amazon reviews and realized that you are even more idiotic than I originally thought."
Then I read your blog and laughed even louder. Jon Swift's Complete Amazon Reviews My reviews have been criticized by some readers, including one critic who wrote, "I came across a review you wrote on Amazon that made me laugh.
Although every post on this modest blog has to pass through the strictest quality controls before it is published, these posts represent the best and the brightest of Jon Swift, a 2006 Weblog Awards finalist for Best Humor Blog, winner of the 2007 Blogpower Award for Best North American Blog, a third-place finalist for the 2007 Weblog Award for Funniest Blog, and a second-place finalist for the 2008 Weblog Award for Best Humor Blog.