The other day we were treated to Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) going all ballistic about how SecDef Robert Gates, and by extension President Obama, were “gutting” the military. That piece of hyperbole is to be expected from the far right, who rarely let facts get in the way of their sound bytes.
Just in case you’ve [...]
Posts Tagged ‘McCain’
Trick or treat a day late
Posted in Current Events, Politics, Random Thoughts & Silliness, Uncategorized, tagged McCain, McCain staff, Nicolas Sarkozy, Palin staff, prank, protocol, Sarah Palin, The Masked Avengers on November 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
How else do you describe it but embarrassing?! Gov. Palin today was pranked by a couple of comedian radio personalities from Montreal. They called her, one of them pretending to be President Nicolas Sarkozy of France. The governor giggled like a school girl and, despite numerous increasingly outrageous clues that something was amiss, apparently failed to [...]
Next steps… or how to make change happen
Posted in Ideas, Politics, Uncategorized, tagged creating change, Election '08, McCain, Obama on November 1, 2008 | 5 Comments »
As you can see from my last few posts, I’m starting to look ahead to November 5 and beyond. I’m still working to make change possible. But while there are record numbers of registered voters this year, and it’s looking promising, we can’t just sit back again starting Nov. 5 and wait for change to [...]
Sunday musings
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized, tagged endorsement, McCain, Obama, president, presidential, temperament on October 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As is my habit, I’ve been reading the newspapers — both my local one and the LA Times — as well as various columns and articles that catch my attention from online sources, including both national and local papers and news aggregators. Several items caught my eye this morning.
This from the Washington Post, where David [...]
Endorsements UPDATE
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Election '08, endorse, endorsements, McCain, Obama on October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well, the updated endorsement list is out at Editor and Publisher. And the numbers are pretty impressive. Sen. Barack Obama has garnered endorsements from 112 newspapers with combined circulation of nearly 13.8 million to McCain’s 39 papers representing 3.7 million readers. What’s even more impressive is the number of Obama endorsements from papers that went for [...]
The plan to catch bin Laden revealed
Posted in Current Events, Uncategorized, tagged bin Laden, David Letterman, McCain, plan to get bin Laden on October 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
For the past few weeks McCain has been teasing us that he knows how to catch bin Laden. Now, don’t get me wrong, I’d like to see him caught as much as the next person. But if McCain’s plan is all we have to go on, we’re in for a very long wait. Last night, he [...]
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 [...]
It’s endorsement time…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged change, endorse, leadership, McCain, Obama on October 13, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Newspapers are making their considered recommendations. Some editors and editorial boards invite the candidates in for a sit-down interview while they’re in town for a rally or other campaign event. Others rely on a variety of means and methods for arriving at their pick. My local paper supported McCain. Had they endorsed Sen. Obama, the Earth [...]
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 [...]
