He doesn’t sound all in, but a recent blog post by Doyle Brunson, poker’s most legendary maverick , on Doyle’s Room makes him seem to be leaning towards McCain:

“It’s hard to believe, but McCain has taken the lead in the Presidential race. They rolled the dice when they chose Governor Palin to run for Vice-President and they threw a seven, because she really turned things around for the Republicans.”

Brunson then continued: “It’s hard not to be in McCain’s camp after listening to his life story. He really is an American hero. I’m not sure either Presidential candidate is the right person to lead our country over the next few years.” (via 911gambling.com)

Brunson had initially said he’d be voting Democrat for the first time in his life this election.

In a survey of 1639 American Poker players, Yahoo! Sports UK reports that 64% support Obama over McCain, who both are apparently proficient poker players in their own right. Sarah Palin has also been known to play a few hands. However, the trump card (not to mix bad gambling puns, or nothing) goes to Joe Biden, whose son, according to 911Gambling, was a lobbyist for online gambling site PartyGaming.

If the most recently proposed $700 billion bailout goes through, if and when Obama gets elected it sounds like he might be playing short stacked, concerning his spending programs.

I’m competing this week in Hugging Harold Reynold’s IRON REF. When I agreed to do this, HHR told me I could hand select my opponents. So when I sent in that photo of me admiring fine arts in Paris with my bio, I indicated I’d like to face-off against the creator of Soveryposh.com and my buddy J Dot Domingo, who once had a blog about his fake ex-girlfriend. Since The Chief doesn’t appear to be interested in me rigging the contest, why not go for broke I thought?

Go vote for my post about Michael Phelps, Lil’ Wayne, and divine intervention – sounds like a campaign you could stand behind, right?

Even if you morally object to what I have to say, there’s more Weezy over there where this came from to…

Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews were ousted today as MSNBC’s anchors for election coverage, with claims being made that they were too overtly liberal on-air.

Before there was Keith the bleeding lefty, there was Keith, SportsCenter mainstay. From 1992 to 1997, Olbermann was one of the go-tos for ESPN, before he was sacked there unceremoniously.

Here’s a few of Keith’s best clips from that era, including the report on Bret Favre entering rehab (where he’s talking so fast he almost seizes) and a Boston Market commercial where he invokes the term ooie-gooey (sp.)

I’d check her out for a hot second…

Link:

Meghan McCain on her book, dad

John McCain with his High School Wrestling Team (photo credit)

In a recent interview, John McCain told the LA Times he was looking forward to kicking back and watching the Olympics this week:

“We’re all caught up in the excitement of it, especially us mediocre high school junior varsity athletes.”

Define mediocre, John. According to this, you were known on the Episcopal High School wrestling team as both McNasty, and simply: punk.

Of course, this appears in stark contrast to his opponent’s on-court prowess.

Could have been worse however…at least McCain wasn’t a band weenie.

Link:

Mediocre J.V. athlete John McCain eager to watch Olympics (LATimes.com – Top of the Ticket)

Shout out to Melfi for this (and, hell, who doesn’t love twittersourcing!)

Maybe, maybe not, you picked up your Barack Obama Punahou High School basketball jersey when we were all shilling for that a while back…in the same throwback light, check out what, in my opinion, is the best in campaign athletic wear yet:
This is of course a retro Air Jordan favorite from when Michael was in his prime, or what I like to call the Steve Kerr era.

Go reserve yours at Robust Flavor

Links:

Airbama T-Shirt By Robust Flavor (Robust Flavor Blog)
How To Lead All The Polls In Style (Deadspin)

photo credit

In an amusing display of Korean nationalism, a golf course in Taebeck, Gaegwon put a Korean flag in the Dokdo part of a Korean Peninsula-shaped sand trap.

Initially, I thought those mini-bunkers were to make you feel like a real jerk if your ball ended up there.

The fanfare marks a revision made last week to the U.S. Board on Geographic Names’ website that classified those disputed islets as territory belonging to no country, which was overturned by your lame duck chief and mine: George W. Bush – who grounds his club in the sand regularly. (ho!)

Seoul applauded Thursday a US decision to relist South Korea as owners of a group of tiny islands, amid a simmering dispute with Japan over claims to the territory.

President George W. Bush said a US agency was reversing its week-long decision that classified in its database the chain of rocky islets as territory belonging to no country.

“As to the database, I asked (Secretary of State Condoleezza) Rice to review it and the database will be restored to where it was … seven days ago,” Bush told a group of Asian reporters at the White House. (SKorea hails US decision on disputed islets)