The much ballyhooed Beijing 2008 Olympics are underway and that's a good excuse for the Super Tuesday Poll. Are you one of those self-labeled "Phelps phans"? Or do you think rhythmic gymnastics and synchronized swimming barely qualify as sports...
In the two weeks since Obama enjoyed heavenly adulation overseas, he's been brought back down to earth by a series of hard-hitting McCain ads, including the infamous one that compared him to celebs like Paris Hilton and Brittney Spears. Well the negative ads appeared to have worked, erasing most of a nine point lead that Obama enjoyed just a few weeks ago. Now everyone wants to know who will be the Vice Presidential choices? Last week we brought you the Obama poll; this week it's McCain's turn.
Last week while jet setter Senator Barack Obama endured the adulation of crowds stretching from Berlin to Paris to London, poor Senator McCain had to settle for bratwurst at Schmidt's Sausage Haus in Columbus, Ohio. That's when he wasn't setting them on fire in Wilkes-Barre, PA. His only sure-fire campaign attention getter for the week, a visit to an off-shore oil rig in the Gulf, suffered hurricane-interruptus when Dolly arrived.
But it's a new week and the thing on everyone's mind is who is the choice for Vice-President? Since Obama is the media darling this week, we'll start with him.
We know it's not Tuesday, but we're doing the poll anyway. Yesterday, in a 5-4 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a law in D.C. that bans owning handguns, the strictest gun control law in the country. How do you feel about that?
Stimulus checks are in the mail, or so they say (We haven't seen ours yet) They are supposed to help kick-start the economy, but we doubt it. To the poll...
The ruling to allow gay marriages in California has made some folks very happy, and others pretty upset. Which brings us to our Super Tuesday Poll.
The arrival of summer is a sure-fire way to guarantee a surge in gas prices, and lo-and-behold, they are up- nearly 15 cents in the past two weeks. Per usual, San Francisco, CA leads the nation in pricey petroleum, and the city that had the cheapest? That would be Cheyenne, WY.
Marin celebrities have been in the news recently- the newly-back-together Penns and the newly-split up Williams, for instance. Which got us thinking...
Seems like everyone is going green these days, and that's a good thing. Mother Earth can use all the help she can get.
Senator Barack Obama took a lot of flak this past weekend for comments he uttered at a swanky fundraiser in the Bay Area last week. Which brings us to the Super Tuesday Poll...
The Beijing Olympic Torch arrives in SF today, and with
it comes an Olympian load of controversy. Yesterday, several people were
arrested after climbing up the Golden Gate Bridge cables in protest, and SF
officials expect more anti-Chinese sentiment this week.
Ok...we thought we were the only ones forking over more moolah for food these days, but folks world-wide are shelling out more lire, francs and euros, too. Experts are calling it a "perfect storm" for higher food prices- freak weather, changes in the global economy, higher oil prices, lower food reserves and higher demand in China & India.