Barack Obama and John McCain meet for first time post-election in Chicago

Barack Obama met with this formal Presidential rival this afternoon as John McCain visited Obama's transitional offices in Chicago.
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News: Obama, Prop 8, LL Cool J, Focus on the Family, "Don't Ask"

· In first meeting since the presidential election, President-elect Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain vow to work together on the financial crisis, energy, national security and "change the bad habits of Washington.
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GOP senator: McCain betrayed Republican principles

From CNN: South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint on Friday became one of the first high-profile Republicans to publicly criticize John McCain following his electoral defeat, blaming the Arizona senator for betraying conservative principles in his quest for the White House.
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Chuck Todd on the possibility of Hillary at State

First Read: Hillary at State? As we've learned with anything regarding the Clintons, one never knows exactly how serious the speculation might be.
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Two gay Obama supporters assaulted near White House

Two gay men said an unidentified man assaulted them on election night as they carried a rainbow flag to an outdoor gathering near the White House to celebrate Barack Obama's presidential victory.
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Obama and McCain to Meet on in Chicago on Monday

John McCain will meet with President-Elect Barack Obama on Monday in Chicago. The statement from Obama’s transition team reads: "It’s well known that they share an important belief that Americans want and deserve a more effective and efficient government, and.
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Channeling Robespierre: Bring Back the Reign of Terror!

Well, he said he’d do it and goddamn it, he’s doing it!  Barack Obama said, throughout the campaign, that if he were elected President, he would reach across the aisle, reach out to opponents, and bring America together to set a new course for a change in this nation.
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Marc Ambinder [hearts] Joe Lieberman

Now that they don't have John McCain to buy donuts for anymore, it seems the media is all about lionizing Joe Lieberman.
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Republican MN governors calls John McCain a "crank"

As in "cranky old man." At this afternoon's panel about the future of the Republican Party, Tim Pawlenty picked up where he left off yesterday, delivering some tough medicine for the party, calling for moderating the party's message and demeanor, including McCain's.
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Sammon To Leave Log Cabin

Patrick Sammon, executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans, has announced his resignation. Sammon said in a statement released Thursday that he would step down at the end of January.
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Why Palin Still Matters, Ctd.

Drum agrees: Despite all the grief she's gotten, I continue to think that the selection of Sarah Palin as John McCain's running mate represents the breaking of a consensual cultural barrier far more fundamental than most people realize.
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First-Dude Crush

Did you catch Jon Stewart's hilarious bit on last night's "Daily Show" about John McCain's abnormal fixation with his former running mate's husband, Todd Palin? "Before I met him I'd never had a homoerotic dream -- and I was in the Navy.
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Prop 8: Who Were the Clowns In Charge of this Campaign?

I live in Chicago, so I am not on the ground in California.  Thus, I simply don’t know the answers to the questions I pose below.
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Cindy McCain Affair Revealed

As mentioned before, it was rumored that Republican Senator John McCain’s wife Cindy McCain previously had an affair.
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McCain Defends Palin

Poor John McCain. It must be tough having to go out and lie to everyone! Tuesday night, McCain was on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno for his first interview since losing the presidential election, and he had some interesting things to say.
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The Odd Lies Of Sarah Palin, XI: "Asking The Girls", Ctd.

Amazingly, Palin has now offered a third version - contradicting her first two, which contradicted each other - of how she accepted John McCain's insane offer to be his vice-presidential nominee.
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Cindy McCain Caught Cheating???

Interesting timing. Just a week after John McCain lost his Presidential bid, the National Enquirer released a story accusing Cindy McCain of having an on-going affair with another man.
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The Class of John McCain

I don’t watch TV much, but yesterday I had the chance to see the two candidates I backed for Vice President and President respectively on national television.
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Prop 8: undone by lack of grace and adolescent politics.

the ongoing stew over Prop 8 and an earlier post I did about Gavin Newsom's role in the outcome, here's one question someone posed that made its way to my email:

"How was a single person responsible and what could he have done?"

That's a fair question.
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John McCain Visits The Tonight Show With Jay Leno

John McCain made a post election appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last night and he was in rare form.
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