Opinion

The Mother Of All Sore Losers - In More Ways Than One

2008-11-07T20:49:00-05:00

By late Tuesday evening as John McCain was conceding and hundreds of thousands of people were descending upon Chicago’s Grant Park to witness history-in-the-making as Barack Obama assumed the presidency of the Untied States, radio talk show bloviator Rush Limbaugh had to be feeling like a bigger self-made chump than Eliot…

The Jimmy Buffet Careeer Protection Act

2008-11-04T15:00:00-05:00

Some final campaign season scribblings.

Is it a state law, or something that Jimmy Buffet must appear somewhere in the Tampa area on the eve of every presidential election? Look, I like Mr. Parrothead as much as the next guy, but isn’t this shtik getting a bit old?

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Finally pumped up

2008-11-04T14:53:00-05:00

For the first time in months people seem pumped up over this marathon campaign. It’s easy to suggest they are just glad it’s over and there will be no more TV commercials and sleazy pitches, but I think it’s more.
Maybe it’s because finally we are having our…

A Twisted Take On “Patriotism”

2008-10-23T19:34:00-05:00

Who knew that when President Bush suggested Americans should go shopping as a gesture of patriotism, Sarah Palin would take it to Imelda Marcos proportions of “Give me liberty or give me Donna Karan!”

Perhaps it is not too late for the John McCain campaign to change its slogan…

I’m Satan - Fly Me

2008-10-09T19:35:01-05:00

It was probably not a good idea to offend the Beelzebub of Business Class, but the AirTran gate agent apparently was willing to tempt fate.

The flight was only minutes away from departing from its Tampa International Airport gate for its brief trip to Atlanta when two very wadded…

Lighting up the night

2008-10-05T15:30:00-05:00

It was another morning of wading thorough the bad news as the economy continues to tank and the gnawing fear that nobody knows what to do about it permeated the Sunday paper.
But the story that got to me was back in one of the middle sections of the…

C’Mon You Didn’t Actually Believe He Wouldn’t Show, Did You?

2008-09-26T18:16:00-05:00

There’s probably a very good reason, despite John McCain’s posturing comments to the contrary, why all the network and cable news outlets continued to promote tonight’s presidential debate in Oxford, Mississippi using the names of both Democrat Barack Obama and the Republican nominee.

For despite McCain’s broad hints he…

Huge Crowd Awaits Palin

2008-09-21T19:06:00-05:00

The Villages, a sprawling retirement community north of Orlando, is mobbed at the moment by an immense crowd who have come to see Republican vice presidential hopeful Sarah Palin.

With more than an hour to go before Palin is to appear paramedics are tending to a steady stream of…

Waiting For That 2009 Best Seller

2008-09-04T16:48:00-05:00

Generally, post-mortem books on presidential campaigns are about as interesting as “How To Do Stand-Up Comedy,” by Vladimir Putin.

But when the dust settles on the 2008 run for the White House, don’t you suspect the behind scenes soap opera of the John McCain campaign could make for some…

Fay meets Bus

2008-08-16T14:41:00-05:00

This ought to be interesting. School starts Monday in Hillsborough County with nobody quite sure how the bus schedule is going to work out. Tropical storm Fay is making her way toward Cuban and if you look at the computer models, could be blowing up the west coast of Florida by…