Watch the video. Enough is enough! Enough is Enough “What their campaign has done this morning is the same game that has made people sick and tired of politics in this country. They seize on an innocent remark, try to take it out of context, throw out an outrageous ad because they know it’s catnip […]
Tagged obamaAnothe excellent op-ed piece in the NY Times today. “Running from reality,” by Rob Herbert. Â He accurately and succintly puts the Republican gobbleygook where it belongs. If there was one pre-eminent characteristic of the Republican convention this week, it was the quality of deception. Words completely lost their meaning. Reality was turned upside down. Or, […]
Tagged disingenuous, fantasy, Politics, republicansA President Like My Father – New York Times Senator Obama .. has built a movement that is changing the face of politics in this country, and he has demonstrated a special gift for inspiring young people — known for a willingness to volunteer, but an aversion to politics — to become engaged (tags: 2008 […]
Election Guide 2008 – Presidential Election – Politics To become the Democratic nominee for president, a candidate needs to capture a majority of the 4,049 delegate votes. State primaries and caucuses select 3,253 “pledged†delegates, who are obligated to vote for the candidate their state chose. (tags: politics primaries election 2008 primary democratic map) Only […]
Today’s Toronto Star contains an opinion piece titled “Bush’s woes ensure little will get done.” The piece discusses the situation that since Bush is unpopular, unsuccessful, and generally viewed as inept, that while the leaders of Mexico and Canada and Bush meeting today, it is likely that they will try to keep their distance from […]
Doesn’t this seem to be xenophobic? The Bush-Cheney Web site, http://www.georgewbush.com/, has blocked access to the site by clients (browsers) that are located on foreign computers – those outside of the U.S. It’s not a complete ban because computes form Canada can view the site. Reports are available in the Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2668-2004Oct27.html. Maybe it’s […]
Cheney needs to check his facts: “Xeni Jardin: During last night’s vice presidential debate, Dick Cheney advised viewers interested in his version of the facts about Halliburton to visit factcheck.com. Evidently, he meant to direct them to factcheck dot ORG, but mis-spoke. Factcheck dot COM redirects you to GeorgeSoros.com which contains arguments on “why we […]
“With God On Our Side” by Bob Dylan was released in 1964 on his album The Times They are A-Changin’. It think that song echoed the feelings of many of us that the world seemed to be headed for self-annihilation. I was thinking about the song yesterday while working in the garden, some 40 years […]
McCain’s Lies
John McCain is at it again. Saying convenient untruths – lies – to try to get elected. Richard Cohen has a good opinion piece on this in today’s Washington Post. “The Ugly New McCain“, By Richard Cohen The precise moment of McCain’s abasement came, would you believe, not at some news conference or on one of the […]
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