Good old Smilin' Jack, he of the exploding cigars. It didn't work out too well for him, did it?

And we'll see if Senator Obama has that nasty little authoritarian streak that Smilin' Jack and Bobby had. Don't expect any repeal of any aspects of the Patriot Act real soon. All I can say to you Americans is "Good luck!"

I'm not afraid of her. She's just another snotty bourgeois.

Beware of Tim "Top Gun!" Pawlenty, who the St.Paul Pioneer Press touts as having "foreign affairs experience" because he visits Minnesota National Guard Units in faraway Kosovo and dispenses soda pop and candy to the troops while the newspaper swoons over his "boyish good looks". He and the charming Mrs. Pawlenty parade about in tailored flak-jackets reminding some of us old-timers of the late Marshall Ky and Mrs. Ky during the Saigon misadventure.

Domestically, he has an authoritarian streak that could give John Ashcroft pause.

But I miss the mullet. It gave a surrealist cast to his regime. Perhaps he'll grow it back out.

Yes, Vin Weber. An examination of his sordid career can be both enlightening and fun! Vin was a Minnesota Congressman who left under something of a cloud. He has the ethics of a common pickpocket.

Why should anyone give a rat's ass about this?

Wait. Now we don't have to pay attention to civil liberties laying in ruins around us. We can focus on someone's "booty" for the next four fucking years. Thanks, Salon.

Is this some bizarre and failed attempt at Swiftian satire on the part of Mr. Greenwald?