Mike Keefe, The Denver Post … [Read more...] about Joe The Plumber and Colin Powell
The Wall Street Crisis and the Coming Ecological Disaster: Nachrichten of Switzerland
Is the global economic disaster we are living through today just a harbinger of a much more dramatic global ecological collapse to come? According to Patrik Etschmayer of the Swiss newspaper Nachrichten - the same people that got the world into the present crisis - and that favor John McCain - are driving the world over an ecological cliff. Etschmayer writes in … [Read more...] about The Wall Street Crisis and the Coming Ecological Disaster: Nachrichten of Switzerland
Chicken Soup for the Swing State Soul
For real. As in, really for real. Because frankly, I will not make it to November 4th if I don't get to hear some good stories about voting, democracy and learning about what makes our country strong, not senile. So find them and send them or write them. I'll go first: As some readers may know, I was really unhappy that my town only allowed one yard sign per yard. I … [Read more...] about Chicken Soup for the Swing State Soul
Joe Biden Is A Really Smart Politician
Or IS HE? Observations on Biden, Rush Limbaugh and Joe the Plumber via Jerry Remmers.. … [Read more...] about Joe Biden Is A Really Smart Politician
GOP Conference Call on ACORN
Today I took part in a conference call with RNC Chief Counsel Sean Cairncross and RNC Communications Director Danny Diaz regarding questions about voter registration efforts and fraud accusations centering on ACORN. (I don't have a link yet to a replay from www.gop.com but will update this post later when it becomes available.) Normally I would transcribe individual questions, … [Read more...] about GOP Conference Call on ACORN
The Comprehensive Argument Against Barack Obama
As we draw to the close of this endless election (perhaps we should call it a war at this point?) some conservative forces have sought to assemble a final argument against the qualifications and record of Barack Obama. For the record, I don't find a lot of traction in a number of these points but, for those with an open mind, I would offer you the opportunity to review the … [Read more...] about The Comprehensive Argument Against Barack Obama
Blogs Are So Over… Huh?
Just yesterday I pointed to Andrew Sullivan's insightful Why I Blog in which he compares blogging to jazz and argues effectively that blogging heralds a golden age of journalism. Then today I find Paul Boutin in Wired arguing that blogging's heyday has passed. Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004: Thinking about launching your own blog? Here's some friendly … [Read more...] about Blogs Are So Over… Huh?
More on Aubrey Immelman
I don't usually care for Nick Coleman, the liberal columnist for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune (don't worry, I don't like the conservative columnist, Kate Kersten, either. They are both jerks.). However, he does a have a good profile of Aubrey Immelman, the moderate Republican who challenged Michelle Bachmann for the Republican primary in the MN-6 and who has now revived his … [Read more...] about More on Aubrey Immelman
Subtext and Liberals
Bloggingheads.tv has a great conversation between Daniel Larison of the American Conservative and Eli Lake of the lamented New York Sun, on the tactic among liberals to draw hidden meanings from McCain ads (e.g.; the celebrity ad with Britney and Paris-white-women-paired with a picture of Obama) and things supposedly said at McCain rallies. I think the conversation is … [Read more...] about Subtext and Liberals
Reality Interrupts the Presidential Race
Madelyn Dunham may not live long enough to see her grandson inaugurated President of the United States, a cruel irony for the woman Barack Obama says "poured everything she had into me." As Obama leaves to be with his ailing grandmother in Hawaii, mortality suddenly intrudes and, for a moment, reveals the presidential campaign to be a long-running TV reality show with all … [Read more...] about Reality Interrupts the Presidential Race
Sarah Palin’s College Daze
For those of you who can't get enough Palin -- I've pretty much had enough, though, obviously, I'm still paying attention -- the L.A. Times has an interesting feature today on Palin's five-year, four-school, three-state college career. In short, she is "barely remembered at all," having "left behind few traces." I don't think you need to have attended, say, Harvard Law … [Read more...] about Sarah Palin’s College Daze
A Shift in the Political Reporting Winds
While it may sound odd, the one person I'm really feeling sorry for is Robert Gibbs. He's the communications director for Barack Obama and is generally the Go To Guy when any of the 24 hour news beast shows want to trot out somebody for a comment from the Obama campaign. Unlike Team McCain, who regularly send Rick Davis out into the lion's den, you rarely see David Plouffe … [Read more...] about A Shift in the Political Reporting Winds
Two Google Execs Endorse Obama; Who’s Up for USCTO?
While Google is officially neutral, CEO Eric Schmidt is campaigning this week on behalf of Barack Obama. This will be his "first time on the trail;" he says this is a "natural evolution" from his role as an informal adviser to the Obama campaign. At The Machinist Cyrus Farivar notes: Schmidt is the second high-ranking Googler to make such an endorsement, with Vint "I … [Read more...] about Two Google Execs Endorse Obama; Who’s Up for USCTO?
Wright Around the Corner
As HuffPo is reporting, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis -- he of Fannie and Freddie lobbying infamy -- told Hugh Hewitt yesterday, in what was surely a meeting of minds for the ages, that "he is reconsidering using Barack Obama's relationship with Reverend Jeremiah Wright as a campaign issue during the election's closing weeks." It is apparently McCain himself, taking the … [Read more...] about Wright Around the Corner
Thank You, Sarah. Sort Of.
Sarah Palin has finally spoken out against incendiary shouts from audience members at her campaign rallies -- but of course with a disclaimer. In an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network, John McCain's running mate said that: "We have heard through some mainstream media is that folks have hollered out some pretty atrocious and unacceptable things. We have … [Read more...] about Thank You, Sarah. Sort Of.
The Republicans You Won’t Read About
In recent days, a number of prominent Republicans have made the news by declaring they're crossing party lines to vote for Barack Obama. One after another, they've publicly stated their dissatisfaction with either the ticket, the direction of the GOP, or both -- and they're being pilloried for it. But the Colin Powells and Christopher Buckleys and Ken Adelmans of the … [Read more...] about The Republicans You Won’t Read About
Ken Adelman, Conservative Republican for Obama
Colin Powell's recent endorsement of Obama may not have come as much of a surprise -- and I'm generally not surprised that Obama has found supporters among Republicans, given the pathetic state of McCain's vicious and dirty campaign and the extremist state of the GOP these days -- but Ken Adelman... well, that's a different story altogether. If you don't know him, and not … [Read more...] about Ken Adelman, Conservative Republican for Obama
Further On Down The Road: The Historic Importance Of The Powell Endorsement
In my first encounter with General Colin Powell at the Pentagon, I could not take my eyes off of the ribbons cascading down the left breast of his dress greens. In my second encounter with Powell following a press briefing that he had given as President Reagan's national security adviser, there was the unmistakable sense that beneath his calm exterior burned a fire of great … [Read more...] about Further On Down The Road: The Historic Importance Of The Powell Endorsement
More Republicans Jumping Ship From McCain Campaign
More Republicans are jumping ship from the GOP Presidential campaign of Sen. John McCain. When former Secretary of State Colin Powell used both Meet The Press and a short press conference afterward to deliver what was, in effect, a regretfully but comprehensively voiced indictment of McCain's 2008 campaign in contrast to the McCain Powell knew for many years, the retired … [Read more...] about More Republicans Jumping Ship From McCain Campaign
McCain Palin Republican Happy Face
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