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  • Re: McCain and Palin BARELY graduated college!

    WoW. WHAT A DIFFERENCE! It's amazing that Palin even got elected GOVERNOR never mind selected as VP! No wonder she doesn't know anything and they both seem fairly, um, well, unsophisticated (to be kind). I know who I'm voting for!
    Posted to Politics by JoeSixPack on October 31, 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
  • Why Hillary Clinton doesn't need to either

    One of the most unproductive conversations to emerge from a year of pseudo-debates and meta-coverage of media meta-coverage has been that of whether it is harder to run for president as a black man or a white woman. The question itself embodies a paradox, since the very thing that makes it so urgent to ask (that these are the first ever female or ...
    Posted to Politics by scotevan on March 21, 2008
  • Obama's unconscious loathing of America

    Obama would appear to be the very embodiment of hubris. However, that hubris masks a deeply conflicted individual riven with intense resentments. As he attempts to conceal his (record of) disdain for mainstream (''white'') Americans we ought to bear in mind that he has always gotten through the door so to speak, because he was a charismatic, ...
    Posted to Politics by MJM on March 20, 2008
  • Clinton's perceived popularity

    The article certainly makes some very good points. But, the truth is, most Americans can't make sense out of the statistics they read about the economic conditions in this country. Poll after poll have shown that most Americans know very little about the subject of economics, period! What made Bill Clinton so popular s the continued mistrust of ...
    Posted to Politics by elsmallwood on January 24, 2008