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June 30th, 2008 in That Funny Feeling by Ben Mandelker

Just How Cool is Obama?

Take a look around the urban landscape: t-shirts, murals, and posters all boast pop-art odes to Barack Obama.

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June 27th, 2008 in That Funny Feeling by Ben Mandelker

The Sweet Smell of Success

When it comes to predicting elections, we can refer to our usual tools of prognostication — charts, maps, trends, stats, data, logic, common sense — or we can turn to a more reliable bellwether: cookies.

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June 16th, 2008 in That Funny Feeling by Ben Mandelker

Baby Mama Drama

Earlier this week, the esteemed Fox News Channel referred to Michelle Obama as “Obama’s Baby Mama.” To some, the reference was blatantly offensive, rude, and just plain stupid. After all, the term completely undermines Ms. Obama’s many accomplishments.

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May 28th, 2008 in That Funny Feeling by Ben Mandelker

The Bearer of Bad News

There are many thankless, uncomfortable, and downright terrifying jobs in the world but none might be as singularly difficult and scary as having to face down Hillary Clinton and inform her that yes, it’s over.

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May 21st, 2008 in That Funny Feeling by Bill Schulz

Ga-Ga For Obama

Have you caught the latest on YouTube? I’m talking about that video that shows clip after camcordered clip of babies being prompted by parents to announce who they’ll be casting their Gerber-stained ballots for, where an overwhelming amount of the runts spastically yell, “Obamaaa!”

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