After posting the customary president-elect YouTube video to the internets, this morning Barack Obama and his family boarded a rickety old train for a daylong journey from Philadelphia to Washington, which takes about two hours on a normal Saturday, in a car. This dramatic gesture is meant to illustrate our nation’s tragic fall from a gleaming superpower to a worn-out rust bucket inching through an industrial wasteland. MORE »

A Wonkette Operative spotted beloved and massively popular Presidential candidate Ron Paul in San Francisco last week.

Saw Ron Paul walking across Market and 1st. Surrounded by about 30 people carrying support signs.

Ten minutes later there was a HUGE SINKHOLE in the ground

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