Pat Oliphant is my favorite political cartoonist.  Today, he provides a completely new way of looking of looking at Bill and Hillary.

I know this is not a diary - but it is not often I break out laughing reading the editorial page with my morning coffee. I though it worthwhile to share it.

As an aside, those of us in the Twin Cities have the opportunity to see Obama declare victory, in person!!

An article in today’s Los Angeles Times by   John Allan Paulos discusses two polls about American’s attitudes towards atheists. The first was a 2006 University of Minnesota poll that indicated that atheists are "seen as a threat to the American way of life by a large portion of the American public" and that atheists are at the bottom of the list of candidates (after Catholics, Jews and Gays) that they are willing to support. This has been diaried several times before.   The second poll is a recent Pew forum poll that quantifies American’s religious identity.  This second poll helps to explain the first and, I believe, is a call to action for atheists.    

The Obama campaign has been the most exciting and rewarding experience of my lifetime. If it were a movie script, it would be rejected because it was too corny.

As an atheist Jew, the born again phenomena seemed a bizarre rite, something completely alien to my kind.  However, two recent events have made me realize that I may not be immune to it.  

Yesterday I received a personal letter from James Carville asking me to donate to the DSCC. I scribbled a note about my personal distaste for Carville on the donation card and returned it using the pre-stamped envelope.  My guilt about putting the DSCC out $0.35 was outweighed by the thought that if enough of us respond this way, at least they will remove Carville from their letterhead.

The November 27 issue of the New Yorker has a hilarious P.G. Wodehouse parody by Christopher Buckley.  Although you probably have to be a Wodehouse fan to really appreciate it, this humor is, I hope, universal.  I laugh out loud (really) every time I think about it. This is destined to become a classic of political humor.  I have included a few excerpts below, but do not miss the whole (1 page) freely available article.

Two years ago, when gloom had settled on everyone around me, I looked for the silver lining.  I told anyone who would listen that Kerry's loss was actually a good thing. Tuesday's victory validated my opinion. (Too bad I was not a Kos addict then, so I cannot document my 2004 prediction).

Amid all the endless discussion (ranting?) about the Senate terror bill, one would not expect anything more could be written that would have any impact.  However, I am haunted by Garrison Keillor's recent editorial  [http://www.sltrib.com/...].