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  • McCain on his weak subject(s)...

    Thank you for the report, which pulled together lots of bits here and there and made them make sense. Excellent. McCain's candidacy is unravelling. He could not delegate his running mate to go and look after this one, he had to go. If his paymasters end up with the bailout but increased supervision of their business, their Christmas cards to ...
    Posted to Today's Papers by legal alien on September 26, 2008
  • My "ad" about McCain and the Keating 5

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x68IyK6bgAs I noticed McCain role in the Keating Five scandal hasn't gotten much coverage so far during the campaign. And I was bored the other day, so I tossed together a homemade ''ad'' in windows movie maker. It was fun to toss together. I learned that it's tougher than I expected to fit something into a ...
    Posted to Ballot Box by johnzep on September 18, 2008
  • Bush Redeems Himself - from Katrina, to Gustav

    The main benefit of this new hurricane in the New Orleans, Louisiana area, if you can in any way couch this natural disaster redux in such terms, is that President Bush and the current Republican White House and Administration get to improve their performance. Already, Bush is on the ground and in charge. Our President has appeared on my ...
    Posted to Politics by MichaelBernard2 on September 1, 2008
  • Re: For the Obamaphiles

    it is also funny to see how some have to bring up gwbush, the man who is NOT running for the White House, to deflect away from factual statements that make obama the empty suit he is. I continue to be amazed at how some think that governing one of the largest states in the country is somehow equated to being an empty suit making one unqualified ...
    Posted to Ballot Box by spion on August 18, 2008
  • Is The Media Bias? Here is Evidence of Bias

    How the Media Vote. Surveys of journalists’ self-reported voting habits show them backing the Democratic candidate in every presidential election since 1964, including landslide losers George McGovern, Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis. In 2004, a poll conducted by the University of Connecticut found journalists backed John Kerry over George W. ...
    Posted to Politics by MiamiVice on August 13, 2008
  • Liberal Media Lies

    Political logic augurs a Democratic triumph in looming US elections but Barack Obama’s White House duel with John McCain is still a statistical tie, prompting some to wonder why he is yet to break away. Political logic augurs a democratic triumph? Augur: To predict, especially from signs or omens; foretell. What signs or omens are they looking ...
    Posted to Politics by MiamiVice on August 12, 2008
  • Obama "Talk the Talk...but can he Walk the Walk" Part 2

    Obama “Talk the Talk… but can he Walk the Walk” Part 2 In 1999, Barack Obama was faced with a difficult vote in the Illinois legislature — to support a bill that would let some juveniles be tried as adults, a position that risked drawing fire from African-Americans, or to oppose it, possibly undermining his image as a tough-on-crime moderate. ...
    Posted to XX Factor by MiamiVice on August 8, 2008