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  • republican legacy

    The republicans have been exploiting endemic racism since Nixon's southern strategy to Reagan's 1980 campaign launch in Neshoba County Fair in Philadelphia, Mississippi, the site of the most notorious crime of the civil rights era and his ''states’ rights'' speech, to Willie Horton. For a more refined, and funnier form of negative campaigning see: ...
    Posted to Politics by jacknoir on October 23, 2008

  • Election 2008

    Against the backdrop of the worst economy since the Great Depression, and with the electorate polarized as never before, Mr. McCain cannot hope to win by tilting primarily towards conservative hot-button issues. This election is likely to be decided by relatively moderate and independent voters, and their top three concerns are, in descending ...
    Posted to Kausfiles by doctorwascher on October 12, 2008

  • Thanks for Researching This, Rather Than Healthy Family Life

    The complete and inane turpitude of every aspect of American life and attitudes and values continues to astonish me, over time. I would guess that no American living today under the age of 20 or 30 knows or can conceive of the Great American Family as I experienced it, along with so many other Americans, in the 1950s and 1960s here in America. I ...
    Posted to The Dismal Science by MichaelBernard2 on September 29, 2008

  • The Big Bailout...Ha!

    There is no need for a bailout of the bank when we can bail them out through tax payer spending...heres how: America has fought hard to become an independent nation and a leader in innovation, so how can we fix our current economic downtrend efficiently? Some seem to think that throwing money at the corporations who failed us is the answer…we all ...
    Posted to Trailhead by Mejamz on September 29, 2008

  • Worst Candidate ALWAYS Wins U.S. Elections

    Looking back on United States Presidential Election History, I have concluded that the WORST Candidate ALWAYS Wins the Election for the U.S. Presidency. I could cite all the examples, such as Wendel Wilkie, Adlai Stevenson, Richard Nixon, Michael Dukakis, Al Gore and George H. Walker Bush (Senior) along with George W. Bush (Junior); but you get ...
    Posted to Trailhead by MichaelBernard2 on September 25, 2008