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  • Obama’s Challenges in the Campaign’s Final Days, from A to Z

    The video. This is a radically different version of my earlier video, for which I forgot to put in a disclaimer that I was not buying into the criticisms, but merely listing them. The same goes for this one, although it is more upbeat in tone. Here is the script: “A” is for [A]CORN, a group which gets out the vote. Right-Wingers have (falsely) ...
    Posted to Politics by mathpol on October 31, 2008

  • Why I think it's a deceptively brilliant choice

    Okay, so I am not Rebublican. But I must say I am impressed with McCain's choice of VP, even though, at first blush, it seems incongruous. But that's just it. It catches you off guard. It makes you think, why? Something about her, obviously, got the attention of the GOP, and made someone say, aha, she's the one! And then you start coming up with ...
    Posted to Readme by TaylorM on September 1, 2008

  • Barack Obama's Campaign Difficulties, from A to Z

    A is for ''an Academic'', is he too much of one? And does this mean he's unable to have down-home fun? B is for ''too Black or not black enough,'' is he the former or the latter, and If we've transcended race, does it really matter? C is for ''dealing with Hillary Clinton'', now there's a sticky wicket! Can he assuage her supporters without ...
    Posted to The Big Idea by mathpol on August 25, 2008

  • Foreign Policy Judgment

    Here's a good article from one of McCain's classmates from the Naval Academy and a fellow POW. McCain has touted that experience as a reason he should be president. The author, a fellow POW, finds that to be no special qualification.www.military.com/opinion/0,15202,164859_1,00.html I respect McCain's service but as the article points ...
    Posted to Ballot Box by bitterpills on August 19, 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