Archive for September 7th, 2008

Pounding the pavement pays off

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

You can tell the reporters at the Los Angeles Times are working hard on the Palin story. Why, in this color piece from the front lines of the battle for the hearts and minds of the working class, they managed not to speak to one hard-scrabble working class woman who would vote for the McCain-Palin [...]

Trash On The Beach

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

From a McCain Democrat’s Journal; Sunday, September 7, 2008
Today’s tracking polls have both reported; the Rasmussen poll of likely voters has the race tied and the Gallup poll of registered voters has the McCain-Palin ticket up by 3.  These numbers indicate a six-point turnaround in the Rasmussen stats and a remarkable 11-point turnaround in the [...]

Snobby Brits and Redneck Americans

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

Minette Marrin, writing in today’s Sunday Times (London) has written a rather typically (for the British media) snobbish piece about McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin. If there is one thing the British love to do, it is look down their noses at Americans, and this article of hers does it in spades. She clearly hadn’t [...]

Whining + Arrogance = Barack Obama

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

Barack Obama expresses his real feelings among close friends. At a $38,800.00 a plate cozy little dinner at Bon Jovi’s mansion in New Jersey, Obama defiantly declared that “We’re not going to be bullied, we’re not going to be smeared, we’re not going to be lied about,” further declaring that.

McCain Draws Blood And Obama Is Now Playing Catch Up

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

The Democratic Party placed all its eggs in one basket for this election. They were hoping that the mainstream media and the voting public’s attention would stay focused on “The One” and to divert attention from all of his attached inside the Beltway strings.  That DEF-CON 3 strategy has failed and Obama is now fighting [...]

Beyond Class Hatred : Thoughts of an Ex Communist Voter

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

In 1976 I voted for the Socialist Workers Party. In 1980 I voted for Ronald Reagan. In my parents generation, the sins of Stalin brought millions of repentant communists back to their senses. My generation came around during the Cambodian genocide.
“A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, [...]