Random Observations about...
Election 2008

Barack Obama

I'm not much on disliking people: I think it's important to be fair in criticizing, and use the same rules...

McCain, the Conservative

Interesting attempt by Jonathan Rauch in The Atlantic to position McCain as a die-hard conservative. What of his apparent hatred...

Obama: "I Attended a Racist Church for Twenty Years, Chose the Pastor as My Mentor and Father Figure, Was Utterly Unaware of His Extreme Views Until Just This Week, and Hope to Be in Charge of US Foreign Policy"

Really, there's nothing more to say than that....

Jim Cone

"I do not in any way disagree with James Cone. Jim is a personal friend of mine." - Jeremiah Wright...

Groupies: It's *WRONG* to Ask Obama Any Hard Questions!

ABC News: As you'd imagine, the debate is the talk of the town here today, and not all of it...

The Clintons: Soulless Enemies of All Things Decent

... or so now say the people who foisted that couple on us throughout the 1990s. The Clintons are unethical?...

Hitchens and the Clinton Death Toll

Evil has two hands. With one hand, it rapes, tortures, and murders innocent men, women, and children. With the other...

Hillary Clinton: Now a Member of the Right Wing!

Hillary Clinton originated the term "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" to explain the origins of the belief that her husband had...

A Plea to Conservatives: The Danger of Three

Do you consider yourself politically conservative? Do you believe that policies can make the difference between lives being lost or...

Schwartzenegger Endorses McCain

Arnold ran as a Republican. California has a Democratic Senate. He proposed a "universal" healthcare insurance package which was apparently...

The Unhinged Vote

Digging underneath the media accounts is always sooo interesting. Just moments ago, I commented on Ted Kennedy's endorsement of Obama...

Clinton Hatred Derangement Syndrome?

A Little History Not long after the term "BHDS" (Bush Hatred Derangement Syndrome) came into vogue on the right, the...

Hillary: "This is very personal for me."

No doubt. Just what we need: a commander in chief who takes politics personally. I know nothing of the woman...

Hillary Clinton

Hey, I thought her main qualification was supposedly her "experience": In the abstract, Hillary is a captivating idea. The first...

Mike Huckabee's Tax Policies

I'd forgotten about this: Take Gov. Mike Huckabee of the Razorback State. When tax-lovers bashed him for refusing to jack...

Hillary Promises to Sign "Employee Free Choice Act"

From a summary of the AFL-CIO debate, underline added: Rep. Dennis Kucinich said his administration would be known as the...

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