If your Jewish grandparents are in Florida, you need to watch this video from Sarah Silverman. And if they aren't in Florida or Jewish, you'll want to watch it anyway.


Planning on going on The Great Schlep? Tell Jesse Brown about it. 

For the longest time, Obama was the fresh face, the new voice, the eloquent speaker, the man who could change Washington.  Now we have Palin, and the spotlight has shifted to the even newer person in town.  You can see how ridiculous this all becomes, and why celebrity status and charisma should never be defining reasons to support a candidate.  It also lays bare the shallow reasons why many supported Obama in the first place, as they get a glimpse of the other side doing the very same thing.  It's an embarrassment to supporters of both parties.

Barack Obama has been given the largest free pass that I've ever witnessed in presidential politics. Those who wanted more scrutiny paid to Bush and his National Guard documents, Clinton and her income taxes, or McCain and his pseudo-mistress lobbyist private-airplane friend, seem to recoil when Obama is put under the spotlight. Those who criticize him are "divisive", represent "old-style politics", and might even be "racist".

Obama now has major momentum, and the question is how to stop him. I don't raise this question because I dislike Senator Obama, but rather because there is currently high-priced PR talent on both the Clinton and McCain campaigns trying to answer it themselves. What on Earth are they telling their candidates?