Archive for September 15th, 2008
Monday, September 15th, 2008

The wild ride that is the Obama campaign seems to have hit the wall. Staggering about, it has done nothing but make a slight change to its campaign slogan, favoring “The Change We Need” over “Change We Can Believe In”. It also has ramped up the dirty politics-as-usual theme that has been playing ever since [...]
Tags: ACORN, Logan Act, sexism
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Monday, September 15th, 2008

Friends,
The polls are tightening across the nation, and one thing is clear: this year’s presidential election will be one of the closest in history. We know that John McCain and Sarah Palin will change Washington, but before they reform our nation’s capital, you have to send them there first.
Now more than ever, your vote is [...]
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Monday, September 15th, 2008
The hallmark of repression is the refrain, “know your place, and stay there.” Not, “you are free to find yourself and make a place for yourself.” “Place” is defined for you - - it is a set of expectations, not necessarily written into law, but a code of conduct which one is expected to observe. [...]
Tags: gender politics, Sarah Palin, the liberal left
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Monday, September 15th, 2008

With thousands of jobs at stake and the spectre of a ripple effect in world markets, a problem of this nature requires penetrating analysis and well reasoned solutions.
News of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy filing reverberated in markets around the world today. The bankruptcy filing is a sharp break with a 158 year history of never reporting [...]
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Monday, September 15th, 2008
From a McCain Democrat’s Journal, September 15, 2008
Here’s how to tell when the next big lie is coming from the Obama campaign: when Barack Obama complains that McCain isn’t discussing the “issues,” a whopper will be out within 24 hours. Today, it is the misrepresentation of a statement made by Karl Rove on Sunday. Rove [...]
Tags: Barack Obama, Karl Rove
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Monday, September 15th, 2008

One of the most disappointing moments in the life of a soldier has to be that of finding that his tour of duty has been extended. Before the success of the troop surge in Iraq, many soldiers had to share such sad news with their loved ones in America.
Obama has conducted his run for office [...]
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Monday, September 15th, 2008
It wasn’t too long ago that Barack Obama, wanting to sound tough and not like a foreign-policy wuss, rattled the saber against Pakistan:
“I understand that President Musharraf has his own challenges,” Obama said, “but let me make this clear. There are terrorists holed up in those mountains who murdered 3,000 Americans. They are plotting to [...]
Tags: al Qaeda, attack, Barack Obama, bombing, Conservatives, Georgia, invasion, Iran, iraq, Jerusalem, judgment, naive, North Korea, Pakistan, permission, preconditions, Russia, troop surge, website
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Monday, September 15th, 2008
We all know Homer Simpson, that ever-bumbling character on The Simpsons. His two most entertaining characteristics are his tendency to create one scene of havoc after another - after which he walks away from the disasters he creates - and his continual belief that he has the world all figured out when in reality he [...]
Tags: america, crude, drill, Energy, Homer Simpson, Iran, Oil, oil addiction, Russia, Thomas Friedman, Venezuela
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Monday, September 15th, 2008
This archival footage lifts the lid on Obama’s association with Bill Ayers, the Annenberg Challenge and the votes it bought him which ultimately got him elected to the Illinois State Senate. There are no clean hands here.
Technorati Tags: Annenberg Challenge, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Election 2008
Tags: Annenberg Challenge, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Election 2008
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