Crucial Focus

All the attention over the last month has been focused on the big-party conventions and their VP picks, resulting in a near-complete lack of coverage of more important things. Well, now it's time to start paying attention to really serious issues. And do we know how to truly focus your attention on what's REALLY important!

Ok, now that we have your attention, it's time to admit we really just wanted to point out some of the tastiest of current campaign humor from IowaHawk.

Obama Pix Hipster Prix to Reclick with Stix Hix

Denver - With new polls showing Barack Obama's once-commanding lead over John McCain all but evaporated, the Obama campaign announced today it has begun deploying its vast volunteer army of downtown hipster douchebags to help reconnect the presumptive Democratic candidate with middle-American voters.

At first, the Obama team looked into major media buys in key battleground states. But with a campaign budget already strained by price increases in arugula and Hawaiian airfare, the impact was deemed to be minimal. Instead, they turned to a key campaign asset -- a dedicated cadre of young urban hipster douchebags willing to take Obama's message of change to America's small town streets and rural blacktops...

...Whether Obama's douchebag heartland surge will ultimately succeed remains to be determined, but longtime political analyst and What's the Matter With Kansas? author Thomas Frank thinks the basic strategy is sound.

"Unfortunately this election comes down to winning the hearts and minds of whitebread, middlebrow, middle-class, middle-Americans," says Frank."This effort shows that Obama troops are willing to reach out and condescend to them, one-on-one, no matter how pathetic and stupid they are."

Those are just brief excerpts--go wallow in the entire experience. Also don't miss his take on the Palin coverage...

America Speaks Out: "Juno" in Juneau?

Controversy continues to engulf the McCain campaign in the wake of revelations that VP candidate Sarah Palin's 17-year old unwed daughter is pregnant. Will Bristol's bastard bun-in-the-oven sink McCain's moose-murdering MILF -- and his campaign along with it? To find out, we asked a random cross section of American voters...

..and his own experienced brand of community organizing...

When America's Communities Need Organizing, America's Community Organizers Will Be There to Organize Them

...not to mention that epic work...

The Idiossey
The Not-Really-That-Epic Poem of Obamacles

Enjoy.