This morning I came across an article on Politico that’s worth reading. Seems that despite their drubbing in the last two general elections, the Republican party continues to drift to the right. Meanwhile, the majority of the electorate is moving the other direction. While the country as a whole, county by county, is actually a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘hate speech’
The drift towards irrelevancy
Posted in Current Events, Ideas, Politics, Uncategorized, tagged Election '08, hate speech, leadership, Republican Party on April 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Words have power
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized, tagged hate speech, John McCain, McCain, McCain - Palin, Obama, Palin, Sarah Palin on October 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Or perhaps this post should be titled “No racist intent?” The graphics described below are highly offensive, but a Google search will turn them up.
First came the Obama Waffles sold, supposedly as a gag, at the Values Voters Summit
Next, there was the Virginia GOP mailer clearly designed to link Sen. Obama with terrorism
And the admonition to [...]
A call for sanity
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized, tagged hate speech, John Lewis, McCain, Palin on October 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve written lately of my growing concern at the change in tone of the McCain campaign. This op ed piece today by Frank Rich should be required reading by all sane Americans who love their country.
McCain is desperate to find a way to halt the growing Obama surge in the polls. At rallies, the tone has grown [...]
The change is a-coming
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bailout, campaign, George Bush, George Soros, hate speech, John McCain on October 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Pardon me if my head’s spinning a bit this morning, and I don’t think it’s due to my cold. The G7 finance ministers held a brief day-break meeting in Washington this morning. It’s not clear from the reports here, here and here, just how long the meeting was intended to last, but when you begin at [...]
Innocent? ummm, not exactly
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized, tagged Branchflower, hate speech, McCain, Palin, troopergate on October 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The public portion of the Branchflower report has been released… all 263 pages of it. Understandably, I haven’t yet gotten through the entire report, but here are the findings:
Findings:
Finding Number One:
For the reasons explained in section IV of this report, I find that Governor Sarah Palin abused her power by violating Alaska Statute 39.52.110(a) of the [...]
She’s “innocent”… or is she?
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized, tagged Branchflower, David Gergen, hate speech, incitement, investigation, McCain, Palin, troopergate on October 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I figure it’s pretty important to know as much as possible about Gov. Sarah Palin — her character, her judgment, her political beliefs, how she makes decisions, how she responds to crises, etc. After all, she just might become President of the United States some day.
I’m waiting for today’s report on what’s euphamistically called “Troopergate.” Now, [...]
Say it ain’t so, Joe: the Palin-McCarthy connection
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized, tagged campaign, hate speech, kill him, McCain, McCarthy, Obama, Palin, terrorist, treason on October 8, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I’ve been thinking about the supporter responses to the McCain campaign’s attempt to portray Barack Obama as dangerous, as exotic, as “that one”, as Other, even going so far as to try to link him in people’s minds as a possible terrorist. Shouts of “treason,” “terrorist,” and even “kill him” have been heard coming from [...]
