As you have probably have heard somewhere, or another Barack Obama was in St. Paul last night. I didn’t attend the speech myself, but got a report of “It was nuts” from my roommate, Karl.

I wonder what the Secret Service was thinking as Karl cut a path through the throng on his Big Dummy. I wonder if anyone poked around the giant saddle bags while he was inside to make sure there wasn’t anything subversive hidden in those pockets.

I guess Obama is the only candidate to specifically pander to Cyclists, so he’s got that going for him. Anyway, I wouldn’t exactly call myself a Obama supporter, and I sure as hell ain’t a McCain supporter, but I found these comments from Warren Ellis to be extremely spot-on.

Here is but an excerpt. Read the rest at his blog.

Obamania

When, on my mailing list some months ago, I expressed a preference for Barack Obama in the Democratic selection process, I received an email which read, ”Oh, I see. You’d support a black man but not a white woman.”

That kind of fucked-up paralogia seemed to infect the entire Clinton campaign, reaching its perverse crescendo when she trumpeted her support among uneducated white folks. Her press ops, as one wag pointed out, stopped just short of her being photographed taking a shit in an outhouse.