A conversation for the end of the year.

"The disappointment that all Americans may be harboring over the Obama term is nothing compared with the garland-wrenching grief in Europe."

"It’s not the disappointment; it’s the hope we can’t bear." Garland-wrenching? I don't know. It's an op-ed in the NYT by o...

"Ronald Reagan's 'First Time' Vote [Joke] Was Dirtier Than Lena Dunham's."

Does that mean we can't criticize the Obama campaign for that Lena Dunham ad anymore? Possible arguments: 1. Reagan was talking to guys...

Voting is like having sex... says the Obama campaign.

With this ad, featuring Lena Dunham (of the HBO show "Girls"): So, really, who do you want to have sex with, ladies? That is the q...

"Stick with me, Ann," Barack Obama emails.

"Ann -- I don't want to lose this election." Not because of what losing would mean for me -- Michelle and I will be fine no ma...

"A candidate who actually nods when his opponent makes a powerful counterargument—as Obama did several times during the last debate—is a rare bird."

So wrote Slate Culture Critic Meghan O'Rourke on October 28, 2008, in a collection of short statements by various Slate writers, explain...

"More email. 'Tell me something.' That's the subject line. He's like a stalker."

I say, and Meade says, "Who is he ?" and I say, "He's a man named Barack Obama." Here's the body of the message:...

"I really like about Barack that he’s obviously kindling something in me — my voice to myself."

"He encourages it and w/ o knowing what it says, leaves room for it.… On Sunday I woke up, waiting for Barack to wake, writing a bit mo...

After Obama's ad mocked Romney's singing, Romney responded with an ad that used Obama's singing "Let's Stay Together."

And now the ad is gone, due to a copyright claim. The campaign says "Our use was 100% proper, under fair use, and we plan to defend ou...

A new Obama ad and a new Romney ad.

I'm getting these via Paul Constant at Slog, who says this about the Obama ad: Holy fucking shit. This is the most brutal attack ad I...

"Listen, we’re just politicians. I wasn’t elected to play God."

Said John Boehner: The American people probably aren’t going to fall in love with Mitt Romney. I’ll tell you this: 95 percent of the people ...

"Allegedly stoned and drunk one night at Occidental, Obama and a friend stopped to talk to an attractive girl and..."

"... 'Barry launched into a riff on nudity, offering his theory that the human race would be better off if people did not wear clot...

"With her attitude to the President, who was, like, a Harvard law professor, I'm like, take it down a notch, bitch."

It's Kathy Griffin, critiquing an Elisabeth Hasselbeck performance on "The View." The President had dropped in to share the c...

"George Zimmerman is as black as Obama's son would have been had Obama married a white woman."

Says commenter Hari , at the post "George Zimmerman is 'one-fourth black, four times as black as Warren is Indian, though the New ...

Who is this woman?

Genevieve Cook, who at 25, had an 18-month affair with the 22-year-old Barack Obama. The two bonded quickly, [writes David Maraniss in ...

"Moments trip gently along" for Obama, whose "feet hum over the dry walks," in his letter to his NY girlfriend Alex McNear.

Look out! It's David Maraniss's new book "Obama: The Story," which tapped as sources 2 girlfriends, Alex McNear and Genev...

"Obama Wandered Into A College Bar In Boulder And This Pic Happened."

"All morning I’ve been trying to imagine how I’d have reacted if the president just walked into one of my college dives while I was sti...

Romney, the man who says "marvelous."

Obama mocked Romney this way: "He said that he's 'very supportive' of this new budget, and he even called it 'marvelous...

What makes Obama so confident?

Email from Barack Obama, subject line: "Last chance at dinner."

Obama the boyfriend is at it again: Ann -- Because you and I don't have a lot of chances to have dinner together... Absurd!