Tag: Politics

More Thoughts on Palin’s Speech

* Did she really call herself “a Pit Bull with Lipstick”? Good thing the sexist mainstream media and Obama campaign didn’t do that! LOL * She’s a maverick reformer? Really? What about those earmarks she bragged about??? The ones that McCain derided? That’s reform? * Nobody is allowed to talk about her family but she brings her daughter’s boyfriend (the […]

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Lies and More Lies: The Politics of Nastiness

Well then. Wasn’t that just speshul? Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Rudy Giuliani and Sarah Palin dished out the nastiness and the lies and the personal attacks with a giant spoon last night. My take on it: * Romney is trying to be Ronald Reagan so hard that it’s actually painful to watch. Oh, and he fails, too.* Huckabee was a […]

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Setting the Women’s Movement Back 25 Years

I have completely HAD it with people crying “SEXISM!” any time a female candidate running for President or Vice President is criticized or attacked. Hillary Clinton’s campaign did it when she got hammered (despite her own hammering ways) and now the McCain campaign is doing it to defend Sarah Palin. The McCain camp is pushing back hard against the notion […]

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Proud Member of the “Angry Left”

George Bush this last night at the Republican Convention: “If the Hanoi Hilton could not break John McCain’s resolve,” President Bush said in a brief satellite-linked address to the Republican National Convention here last night, “you can be sure the angry Left never will.” Angry? Hell yeah. The Republicans, led by Bush and Cheney and their morally bankrupt administration have […]

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The Cult of Personality

This is interesting: Rick Davis, campaign manager for John McCain’s presidential bid, insisted that the presidential race will be decided more over personalities than issues during an interview with Post editors this morning. “This election is not about issues,” said Davis. “This election is about a composite view of what people take away from these candidates.” This from a campaign […]

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What a Difference a Week Makes

What a Difference a Week Makes

A week ago, Gallup had McCain up by 2. Today, down by 8: It’s also the first time either of them has hit 50%. Rasmussen has him at 51%. Also, I had read that some bloggers were questioning whether or not Republican vice-presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, was the actual mother of the baby she had in April, Trig. What I […]

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Yikes. This is BAD.

Wow. Sucks to be a Republican right now, particularly if your name is Sarah Palin. From TPM Election Central, a list of all the shit that hit the fan with regard to Ms. Palin in only the first half of the day yesterday: * The news that Palin once backed the Bridge to Nowhere went national. * It emerged that […]

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Sarah Palin: The Gift That Just Keeps On Giving

When my wife and I heard this on the radio after attending Barack Obama’s Labor Day rally in Detroit, we both when WHOOOOOP!!! Then we couldn’t believe it. Turns out it’s true: Sarah Palin’s 17-year old daughter is pregnant. I guess all that “abstinence-only” talk and all those “ban contraceptives” chickens have come home to roost. Some bloggers have started […]

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McCain COMPLETELY Loses It. Seriously.

I’m stunned. Really. Stunned. How fucking stupid is this guy? McCain was scheduled to deliver his acceptance speech Thursday but now may do so from the devastation zone if the storm hits the U.S. coast with the ferocity feared by forecasters. He’s going to hang out in New Orleans all week as it gets slammed by a Category 5 hurricane […]

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Who Said THAT???! – Where’s the Love Edition

This edition of Who Said THAT???! brings us a quote from regarding the choice of Sarah Palin as John McCain’s vice presidential running mate. HINT: It comes from someone from her very own state. “She’s not prepared to be governor. How can she be prepared to be vice president or president?…Look at what she’s done to this state. What would […]

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Putting. Country. Last

Andrew Sullivan sums it perfectly: Think about what the Palin pick really says about how McCain views this campaign and how he views his potential responsibilities in national security. Think about what it says about the sincerity of McCain’s own central criticism of Obama these past two months in foreign affairs. Think about how he picked a woman to be […]

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