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Failure to Admit Blagojevich Appointee to Senate Big Mistake
Failure to Admit Illinois Governor Blagojevich's Appointee, the eminently qualified and well reputed Roland Burris, to the United States Senate will prove to be a supremely Big Mistake made by the Democratic Senate Leadership and yes, Barack Obama. News today is that the U.S. Senate will seat 59 Democratic Senators, including their Candidate ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard3 on January 5, 2009
6 symbolic acts
Sen Obama got elected by a Nation that has been feeling the pinch. Aside from the six ways proposed, he should consider establishing ground rules for his Administration with some key, but symbolic acts. Here are some suggestions: 1. Mortgage bailout - no individual with credit card debt of over 1 months salary will qualify. The voters already ...
Posted to Politics by z0rr0 on November 5, 2008
McCain Has Ties to Acorn, Too!
As McCain, Limbaugh, Fox and the rest of the conservative crowd tries to turn ACORN's voter registration drives into a liability for Obama, this is one of several videos and articles showing McCain's involvement with ACORN as well. http://webcastr.com/videos/politics/mccain-acorn.html
Posted to Ballot Box by tonybeme on October 15, 2008
Newsflash! Hitchens is right!
Mr. Hitchens - I'm normally too busy praying for your Godless soul to read any of your writing, but today I'm glad I did. Now, if only America can wake up and smell the coffee, perhaps we have a chance of getting somewhere--not just as a nation, or as an economic or military power, but as a civilization. The amazing thing to me is that after 8 ...
Posted to Fighting Words by zsazsa4168 on October 14, 2008
Biden Bashes McCain
Sen. Joe Biden talks about Sen. Barack Obama's performance in the second presidential debate against Sen. John McCain as well as the state of the struggling economy. Biden Bashes McCain http://webcastr.com/videos/US/biden-bashes-mccain.html
Posted to Ballot Box by tonybeme on October 8, 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: Wow..
I have no problem voting for a black man (or woman) as long as I can agrre with his policies. Back in the 2000 race, I was really hoping Colin Powell would run; he could have been the first black president with half the people not even realising he was black. Personally, I can not vote for Obama because he is too weak on crime; he is against the ...
Posted to The Big Idea by Tanz on August 24, 2008
Re: Is The Media Bias? Here is Evidence of Bias
Media bias is a perceived notion that certain press has and is pushing a viewpoint, instead of reporting news or airing programs in an objective way. That is the way I see it. Such bias often refers to media as a whole, such as a newspaper chain, or a given television or radio network, instead of individual reporters or writers of television ...
Posted to Politics by MiamiVice on August 13, 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

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