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| Barack Obama: The Real Deal |
| 2007-10-28 14:28:00 |
A couple of friends and I made a minor expedition to go to a Barack Obama rally a couple of hours away from where we live to see what the fuss was about. As an Obama skeptic, I must admit, after seeing him speak, that Obama has incredible charisma, is extremely intelligent, and seems to be the most convincingly sincere out of all the candidates I've done research on.I would go so far as to say Obama is the real deal political candidate in a field full of phonies and wannabes, and it's really too damn bad that Americans aren't smart enough to recognize a man like this. If Hillary Clinton manages to win the primary, it will truly be tragic. Her self-satisfied, hawkish leadership will lead the country into more foreign relations disasters and further de...
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| Ron Paul Should Take Some Valium Before Debates |
| 2007-10-23 13:35:00 |
It seems to be the general consensus among my few politically-minded friends that Ron Paul would receive much more support if he would take his yelling down a few notches in the debates. He comes off like a loose cannon when every answer to each question becomes a strident diatribe.I thought he did very well at the last debate on Sunday, but the freak-out factor was still present. So what causes this problem?1. Lack of attention given to him in these forums. It must get frustrating to try and make an impact given two questions, while standing there listening to Thompson, Romney, and Giuliani duke it out.2. Frustration at the bullshit that some of the candidates are spouting, like Romney's stance on gay marriage, trying ...
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| Quote of the Week: Barack Obama Slams Hillary |
| 2007-10-19 09:53:00 |
From Obama's appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, in reference to Hillary's campaign: "Hillary is not the first person in Washington to declare 'Mission Accomplished' a little too soon."...
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| Wow... |
| 2007-10-17 06:10:00 |
I wish to point those of you interested to this laughable interview with conservative nutball Dinesh D'Souza, in which he asserts that atheism has caused more carnage in the past than religion, accuses atheists of relying on "blind faith" (now that's a new one...), and says that "atheists try and escape the idea of judgment by getting rid of the judge." Apparently Dinesh D'Souza hasn't met many atheists...or Christians for that matter.The source of the interview, Newsmax, is a sometimes interesting, yet extremely conservatively slanted publication. I often browse it to counter the obviously liberal sources that I get my news from. It offers some intriguing positions. I would recommend you to bookmark it if you're tired of hearing one-sided news coverage favoring Democrats 24/7. However, th...
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| The Ron Paul "Phenomenon" |
| 2007-10-15 16:02:00 |
Ron Paul's rabid supporters continue to rally for their loud, ineffectual candidate, drawing the attention of the Washington Post. I always receive a few interesting comments every time I post about Ron Paul, so I wanted to raise some issues that recent commenters raised in my last Ron Paul post.In response to my complaining about Ron Paul sweeping an MSNBC poll, "hahajohnnyb" wrote, "Ron Paul rocks in the polls not because people are cheating, but because people who support Ron Paul do so more passionately than the supporters of any other candidate. You people who insist on only citing the "scientific" polls are missing the big picture and ignoring the fact that Ron Paul is dominating the straw polls and blowing everyone away in any poll that requires p...
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| Ron Paul's Obnoxious Internet Campaign Part II |
| 2007-10-10 04:49:00 |
How incredibly obnoxious that the msnbc online poll to vote which Republican did best on each issue in the debate tonight has been made invalid by Ron Paul's internet spammers. Come on, nobody believes that 60% of people thought Ron Paul won the debate. His angry shouting isn't fooling anybody, as shown by his poll numbers, which are low enough to be within the realm of statistic insignificance. The margin of error is greater than this guy's poll numbers. Stop rigging polls, it's just annoying....
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| Hillary's Smug Entitlement Rears Its Ugly Head Once Again |
| 2007-10-08 17:46:00 |
In New Hampton, Iowa, at a recent campaign stop, Hillary Clinton accused a man who asked her a tough question of being a "plant." The man, Randall Rolph, who asked about Hillary's recent vote on legislation to call Iran's army a terrorist organization, was infuriated by the encounter, in which Hillary accused him of being fed information, to which he responded that he had done the research himself. After the event, he said "It was an insult. It was basically calling me stupid. That I can't think on my own. That I don't have the ability to research or come up with a coherent or concrete thought on my own. How dare she! She never did answer the question. She just, what I say is, bitch-slapped me."In a time when Hillary Clinton is focusing on humanizing her tough image, it's a serious misstep...
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| Why We Care About Hillary's Laugh and Rudy's Odd Cell Phone Habits |
| 2007-10-02 21:45:00 |
All the stir about Hillary Clinton's irritating laugh and Rudy Giuliani's answering phone calls on campaign stops is not just an indication of how pathetic media coverage is, and how elections have become based on trivial aspects of candidates. These issues are an indication of something more.Let's examine Howard Dean's ultimately failed campaign from 2004, marked by the infamous Dean Scream (Hillary's laugh is the Dean Scream of 2008, let's say, for argument's sake). The press's obsession with covering this seemingly unimportant howl was somewhat puzzling back then, but in retrospect makes sense. The media coverage of the Dean Scream was a manifestation of some real flaws in Howard Dean as a candidate. Instead of focusing in on the lack of confidence that ...
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| Christian Conservatives Consider Third Party Candidate |
| 2007-10-01 21:03:00 |
In an interesting twist, a large coalition of Christian conservatives met in Salt Lake City to discuss a possible third-party candidate if Giuliani is their nominee. Let's take a look at what could happen as a result.1. The first conclusion is obvious: Giuliani will win the nomination, but the Democratic nominee will easily win the presidency because the normally Republican votes will be split by the third party candidate.2. This effort on the part of these conservatives will scare the Republicans enough to vote for somebody other than Giuliani in the primaries, thus perhaps achieving the coalition's real goal of both getting rid of Giuliani an...
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| John Edwards Watch: Part VI |
| 2007-09-27 22:00:00 |
-John Edwards took part in a dialogue hosted by MTV and MySpace to get in touch with younger voters, through answering question posed on his MySpace page and through MTV's website. He is the first presidential hopeful to do so. He unveiled a ten point agenda to appeal to students, including mentions of the crisis in Darfur and college aid.-For his performance in the Democratic presidential debate last night, Edwards has received positive reviews in the media. The Boston Globe said, that "John Edwards, by pointedly and directly drawing differences with front-runner Hillary Clinton, boosted his prospects to be the liberal alternative to the former first lady." He attacked Hillary Clinton on some of her war positions, putting her on the defensive, and ...
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| Biden: "Stop Republicans from exploiting 9/11" |
| 2007-09-26 00:10:00 |
"Websites and news stations are buzzing today with reports that invitations to Rudy Giuliani house parties are asking supporters to donate $9.11 to the Giuliani campaign in an attempt to raise $10,000 for "America's mayor," an email that Joe Biden's website sent out today says, urging his supporters to donate $20.08 to Biden's campaign to counteract Republican exploitation of 9/11. It's a smart strategy for Biden to use this deplorable fundraising sheme on the part of Giuliani to raise money for his own campaign. He's the first Democrat to speak up about this latest Giuliani blunder.Looks like Giuliani's days are numbered, as the spotlight exposes the numerous cracks in his unconvincing political facade....
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| Huckabee Is Only GOP Candidate That Makes Sense |
| 2007-09-25 20:59:00 |
In examining the Republicans running for the presidential nomination, one thing is clear. Each one is uniquely and perhaps fatally flawed as a candidate, except possibly Mike Huckabee, who is rising modestly but steadily in polls.To Republicans, Mitt Romney is the Mormon flip-flopper, Giuliani is the surprisingly liberal temporary frontrunner on the decline, Thompson is a complete bozo who will undoubtedly self-destruct at his first debate, if not sooner, and McCain is of questionable mental stability (Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran...) The only one who seems to fit the bill is Huckabee, who has been cashing in on his unexpected second place finish at an Iowa straw poll won by Romney, who outspent the former Arkansas governor by massive proportions. ...
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| Campaign Trail (9-24-07) |
| 2007-09-24 11:52:00 |
-In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on September 20th, Mitt Romney attacked Hillary Clinton's healthcare plan, at the same time as Rudy Giuliani set his sights on Hillary's comments about General Petraeus. It seems both are favoring attacking their presumptive opponent in the general election. Romney wrote, "Some of the details have changed, but at the heart of Sen. Hillary Clinton's new health-care proposal are the same flaws that sunk her first version. They flow from her distrust of markets, from her distaste for profit-motivated private enterprise, and from her consequent faith that Washington knows best."-John Edwards unveiled his new education plan in Des Moines, referencing Bush's largely panned No Child Left Behind law: "NCLB has lost all credibility with the teachers and princ...
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| John Edwards Watch: Part V |
| 2007-09-20 21:02:00 |
Elizabeth Edwards has made headlines once again by saying that Hillary's new healthcare plan is practically identical to her husband's plan, which he outlined over half a year ago: "Does Mrs. Clinton's plan seem very familiar to you? Mrs. Clinton has — seven and a half months after John unveiled his health care plan — unveiled a health care plan that is in every material respect just like John's," Edwards told Associated Press, calling Hillary's plan "John Edwards' health care plan as delivered by Hillary Clinton."She also made a good point about Hillary's campaign: "We would have expected her to be the first one out of the box, not the last one out of the box with a health care plan. And then for her to come up with one that looks like John's, i...
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| Thompson's Endless Mistakes Continue |
| 2007-09-19 21:54:00 |
-Fred Thompson was asked if he would consider drilling for oil in the Everglades in Florida, a hot issue for Floridians. Thompson laughed the question off in this ridiculous response: "Gosh, no one has told me that there's any major reserves in the Everglades, but maybe that's one of the things I need to learn while I'm down here...I'm not going to start out by taking this, that or the other off the table in terms of our overall energy situation."To make matters worse, he continued to dig himself into a deep grave: "On the question of drilling in general, I don't think anybody really prefers to have to drill at all anywhere. I have said we've got to use our own resources," Thompson said. He added that he supports drilling of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. "Nobody wants to see $100 oi...
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| Romney 2.0: A Disappointment |
| 2007-09-18 20:46:00 |
I'll admit, I like the old Romney, the one who turned the Salt Lake City Olympics around, and the one who carried out the only successful version of universal healthcare (on a small scale in Massachusetts as governer). Romney version 1.0 was my one hope for the Republican party in 2008.So who the heck is this Romney running for president? Suddenly he's a completely different politician, trying to appeal to the far right. In the process, he's earning the dreaded nickname that John Kerry earned in 2004, the "flip-flopper."Let's look at his history. When Bill Clinton came up with the "don't ask, don't tell" policy, Romney 1.0 described it in a letter to the Log Cabin Club of Massachusetts (a gay Republican organization) as, “the first in a number of steps that will ultimately lead to gays...
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| John Edwards Watch: Part IV |
| 2007-09-17 23:15:00 |
This morning, John Edwards attacked Hillary Clinton on her past healthcare mistakes, on the day she unveiled her new healthcare plan: "The cost of that failure 14 years ago is not just somebody's political fortune or their scars. It's the millions of Americans who have now gone for almost 15 years without health care...I don't believe you can sit down with lobbyists, take their money and cut a deal. If you defended the system that defeated health care, I don't think you can be the president who brings health care."Edwards also said that he plans to strip healthcare coverage from all members of Congress and all political appointees by July 2009 (six months into his term as president) unless universal health care is passed by then: "When their health c...
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| Why Rudy Giuliani Is Attacking Hillary Clinton |
| 2007-09-17 17:33:00 |
Giuliani's attacks on Hillary are seen by most on the left as pathetic at best. But let's face it, there are two very important reasons why Giuliani is sending his venom in her direction:1. He wants to be seen as Hillary's obvious opponent in the general election before he's won the nomination, especially as his numbers drop drastically in polls. He was the closest thing the GOP had to a frontrunner, and now that status is being threatened by Thompson's curiously good poll numbers. It doesn't matter that Hillary had nothing to do with the moveon.org ad, he needs a point to attack her on so that we're already witnessing a Giuliani/Clinton race. He wants Republicans to view it as a foregone conclusion that it will be him ...
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| Campaign Trail (9-16-07) |
| 2007-09-16 23:36:00 |
-Mitt Romney attacked Hillary Clinton on healthcare: "She says what we need to do is have the government take over health care. The last thing we need is 'Hillary care.' The last thing we need is socialized medicine." Mark Daley, a Clinton spokesman, fought back: "Considering Governor Romney's penchant for flip-flopping, he will be the first to endorse it on Monday.""I don’t buy into that. This is an honorable guy. He’s telling the truth," Joe Biden said about the moveon.org ad attacking Petraeus' character.-John McCain and John Kerry clashed on Meet the Press this morning over Iraq.-Talking about healthcare at a Lakeland, Florida campaign stop, Fred Thompson blundered once again: "“It’s allowing us to live healthier lives and to live longer. Tha...
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| Both Sides Denounce Moveon.org Ad |
| 2007-09-15 17:04:00 |
John McCain lashed out angrily against moveon.org in Hudson, New Hampshire, carrying a laminated copy of the advertisement: "It’s disgraceful, it’s got to be retracted and condemned by the Democrats, and MoveOn.org ought to be thrown out of this country.”Interestingly enough, one of the only Democrats connected to the presidential election to speak out about the ad was Elizabeth Edwards in Des Moines, Iowa, after one of her husband's campaign stops: "Someone who’s spent their life in the military doesn’t deserve ‘General Betray Us,’” she said in an interview. Her father was a naval officer, and she grew up on Naval bases, she explained.It's too bad moveon.org is getting all this attention for their tasteless ad, since any publicity is good publicity....
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| CNN's Sad State Part IV (of many) |
| 2007-09-14 01:20:00 |
Today's insipid batch of headlines: "Diapered man sends teen dirty texts," and "1 sausage not enough, inmates riot."...
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| Giuliani Rebuts Moveon.org's Ad |
| 2007-09-14 01:08:00 |
In an interesting and clever campaign move, Rudy Giuliani has decided to place his own ad in the New York Times, asking them to allow him to pay the same discounted advertisement rates that moveon.org paid. The ad quotes Hillary Clinton at the top of the page and chastizes her for not denouncing the moveon.org ad and for her comments to General Petraeus, in which she claimed his progress report on Iraq required "willing suspension of disbelief."The ad goes on to cite Petraeus's impressive military record. The ad states a question: "Who should America listen to...A decorated soldier's commitment to defending America, or Hillary Clinton's committment to defending MoveOn.org?" The ad ends with a quote from Giuliani: "These times call for statesmanship, not ...
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| John Edwards Watch: Part II |
| 2007-09-13 20:23:00 |
With Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama enduring criticism from many about their dearth of firm statements against the war, John Edwards is stepping up to the plate by buying two minutes of airtime directly following George Bush's speech tonight on MSNBC to rebut Bush's speech and to encourage ending the war. This could mean a big boost of support for Edwards, if all goes well.I hypothesize that this might be just what Edwards needs to do to set himself apart from Hillary and Obama on this issue. Edwards has become increasingly vocal about his opposition to the war. This new "nationwide address," as his campaign's Senior Advisor calls it in the e-mail sent out to Edwards supporters, will garner publicity for him for all the right reasons, provided he d...
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| CNN's Sad State Part III (of many) |
| 2007-09-13 02:23:00 |
Today on cnn.com, two more gloriously important headlines: "Catfish bait used to make 'heroin,'" and "Suspect: Pig made me do it."...
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| Campaign Trail (9-12-07) |
| 2007-09-12 20:47:00 |
-In an odd turn of events, it seems Fred Thompson's latest misstep is to admit that he's not a regular churchgoer, which may hurt him with his conservative supporters. Has the guy done anything right yet?-Newsmax provided an interesting look at Hillary Clinton's hypocrisy. In General Petraeus's last briefing in January, Clinton urged him to protect the troops. "So the one thing that I would ask the General is -- please do everything you can to get additional security. The Humvees are turning into death traps, as we see the sophistication of the IEDs. We don't have enough of the mine protection vehicles and we haven't even ordered enough and we haven't put them into the theater. If we're going to put these soldiers and marines into these very exposed positions, which this strategy calls for...
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| Six Years |
| 2007-09-11 16:41:00 |
It's been six years since 9/11/01, as we all know. For many, this appears to be the year of attempted escapism, as we tire of hearing the same names over and over again, and watch the thirteenth (approximately) video of Osama bin Laden making arrogant and hateful statements about our lifestyle in the United States. It's not hard to remember back when we were enraged and determined to catch him in a timely manner. Well, six years have proven that that hasn't been the case.Five years ago, on the first anniversary of 9/11, the tributes were copious and inescapable. Today, many of us can go about our lives and hardly think of what happened. I recently came across some footage of the first plane crashing into the World Trade Center, and it shocked me how affected I was by seeing it again. Tho...
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| Moveon.org Goes Too Far |
| 2007-09-11 12:08:00 |
There's been no shortage of doubters of the veracity of Gen. Petraeus's testimony to Congress in prominent news sources recently. However, moveon.org paid for this appallingly tasteless ad in the New York Times in a move that may cost them supporters, even among liberals.I wouldn't call myself a Democrat by name, but I consider myself to be fairly liberal. However, this ad is a huge turnoff to me. Whatever accusations Democrats are making about the politics of this testimony are certainly fair to bring up, but is it fair to assassinate this man's character so disrespectfully when none of these people have any actual idea what's going on in Iraq, and he's spent a great deal of time there?I'm certainly not buying into the victorious claims that the "surge" is working, but I wonder, for the...
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| Fred Thompson's Numerous Flaws |
| 2007-09-10 22:25:00 |
Fred Thompson, a candidate former President Nixon called "dumb as hell," is showing that dissatisfaction with the rest of the GOP candidates does not a viable candidate make.-He's lazy. "I don't like spending 14- and 16-hour days voting on 'sense of the Senate' resolutions on irrelevant matters. There are some important things we really need to get on with—and on a daily basis, it's very frustrating," he said in 1998. I'd like to see how he'd handle the "irrelevant matters" as president. Impatience is not a virtue in the job he's up for.-He's inexperienced. "We've all reacted to crisis in our lives in one way or another, but I think that a candidate who gets out and says that he's done x, y, and z, and it's prepared him for [a WMD attack] is proba...
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| Ron Paul's Obnoxious Internet Campaign |
| 2007-09-10 09:30:00 |
A friend pointed out to me that Ron Paul supporters are immature in their internet habits, in that they produce comment spam about Ron Paul in completely unrelated forums. After perusing many news websites, I have discovered that he is entirely correct. I've come across Ron Paul spam on youtube, CNN, Washington Post, basically any forum where you can post a comment. It only turns me off to him as a candidate, although he's not exactly a huge threat to the GOP at this point. It's a little pathetic to post "ZOMG VOTE 4 RON PAUL B/C H3'S DA K00L3ST!!!!!!!!!" on every website possible, although I guess it's not really any less moronic than some of our political processes these days.I just have to wonder, who is telling the...
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| The Governator: The Voice of Reason? |
| 2007-09-10 06:00:00 |
Who would've thought that Arnold Schwarzenegger would be sounding smarter than any of the presidential candidates on the GOP side? But at a state convention party, Schwarzenegger remarked that "Our party has lost the middle and we will not regain true political power in California until we get it back. The California Republican Party should be a right-of-center party that occupies the broad middle of California. That is a lush, green, abandoned political space. It can be ours."Arnold is surprisingly astute to realize that the GOP has to appeal to the centrists and stop pushing radical issues that most of the country disagrees on. Many of the presidential candidates have alienated that segment of the party by doing just that....
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| John Edwards Watch: Part I |
| 2007-09-09 22:56:00 |
It's been a busy and successful week for John Edwards:-On Wednesday, Edwards told the returning Congress that Gen. Petraeus's report may be part of an "incredible PR campaign" to continue the war in Iraq.-On Thursday, Edwards gave a lauded speech in New York proposing a new counterterrorist organization.-Also on Thursday, the Transport Workers Union endorsed Edwards, stating that he is the most electable candidate from the Democrats' side, and that Edwards has the best chance of winning the general election.-On Saturday, he slammed Hillary Clinton on lobbyists and her so-called "experience."-Also on Saturday, Edwards stated that he would appoint members of the GOP in his cabinet if elected, once again driving home the point that he's a less polarizin...
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