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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
Joe Lieberman: Traitor or Mole?
Senator Lieberman's speech at the Republican National Convention, video and transcript, are in today's New York Times, among other places. Some memorable lines. Our first president, George Washington, in his farewell address, warned that the spirit of party [that is, partisanship] could be the worst enemy of our democracy and enfeeble our ...
Posted to Politics by mathpol on September 3, 2008
Obama's Nobel Prize-McCain Stole the Election
Isn’t interesting how all the major TV and cable networks (except balanced FOX), along with all of Hollywood (except Chuck Norris), the entire music industry (except country) all of academia (except economists) and all European Nations (including Canada ;-) are pushing for Obama and the polls are still close?! The Communist News Network (CNN) and ...
Posted to Politics by Ralph7 on July 29, 2008
Hillary Campaign Memo Leaked To Press
<font size= +2><A HREF=''NEWS'>http://news2009.blogspot.com/''>NEWS FLASH: HILLARY CAMPAIGN MEMO LEAKED!!</A>
Posted to Deathwatch by Jack Palance on April 30, 2008
Slate Running to the Defense of Murdoch's Rep
Rupert Murdoch is a major, worldwide corporatized Media Baron who is wealthy beyond comprehension of most Americans and certainly most people worldwide. Rupert Murdoch owns a media empire that just keeps expanding, and which now includes the Wall Street Journal, and apparently now, New York City's Newsday. I would like to see a complete list of ...
Posted to Press Box by MichaelBernard1 on April 24, 2008
Oh spare me....
I'm a pretty ticked off white person. First, I'm pretty convinced that the media gains something by not letting go of racism. What will you talk about if it’s actually gone? I've studied sociology and was once told that the only true racism in our society is institutional racism. Well - it's the only racism that really costs any race a pretty ...
Posted to Press Box by aullori on February 16, 2008
Democrats in Congress Failed Us All 8 Years
The Democrats and Democratic Party failed to stand up for what is right for the entire eight years of the Bush / Cheney White House misrule. They gave away our American two-party system; they gave away majority rule; they gave away our civil rights and bill of rights and civil liberties; they gave away the constitutional authority of the ...
Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard1 on January 30, 2008
Postpartisan is not Bipartisan
The author resolves his quandary with Obama and Bloomberg's non-partisan ideals in the first quarter of his own article. The author's cynical and short-sighted view on partisan politics is fundamentally flawed. By its very etemological roots, 'partisan politics' is all about clubs and cliques. In a partisan government, the goals of the ...
Posted to Press Box by upsidedownpoint on January 9, 2008
Re: Well Written
A couple of questions: Do you believe that partisan politics ever results in people disagreeing wtih the other side, even when that other side has recognizably good ideas, in order to prevent that other side from receiving political credit? For instance, Bush's plan to offer some privatized options for Social Security has enormous, obvious ...
Posted to Press Box by bentontheworld on January 9, 2008
Re: Mitt Romney
More like: If it walks like a duck, smells like a duck, looks like a duck and quacks like Mitt, it's a muck. But my real concern is that Mitt's never invited me to a Sunday service in Boston's local Tabernacle. And I figure that any organization that gets a religion tax subsidy/exemption from the public shouldn't bar the door to the public, ...
Posted to Politics by RememberThe9th on October 19, 2007