Watch as John McCain manages to offend all the people of Iran, the Beach Boys, and almost everyone else in twenty seconds.
Archive for August, 2008
31 Aug
Presidential Crimes: Moving On Is Not An Option
By Elaine Scarry | BostonReview.net We have at the present time two government leaders, a president and a vice president, who, according to all available evidence, have carried out grave crimes. Will these two men leave office and live out their lives without being subjected to legal proceedings? Such proceedings will surely release new documents [...]
31 Aug
George Bush, Finally The Uniter
?By Mikel Weisser | MohaveDailyNews.com When Bob Costas interviewed George Bush for NBC’s Olympic coverage on Aug. 10, attempting to take a hard line, Costas asked Bush to comment on the problems in our country. Bush replied, ?I don’t see any problems with our country.? Following the immediate crowd reaction of everyone in the room [...]
31 Aug
Continuing Deception
Mr. McCain’s ads on taxes are just plain false. Sunday, August 31, 2008; Page B06 Washington Post THERE IS a serious debate to be had in this presidential campaign about the fundamentally different tax policies of Barack Obama and John McCain. Then there is the phony, misleading and at times outright dishonest debate that the [...]
31 Aug
Public Opinion Snapshot: The Economic Reality of the Past Seven Years
Center for American Progress By Ruy Teixeira | August 29, 2008 The latest income and poverty figures from the Census Bureau show that, while there were some improvements during 2007, the typical family, after seven years of tepid economic ?expansion,? has still not made up the ground it lost in the last recession?unprecedented by historical [...]
31 Aug
Stalled Progress on Poverty
The latest figures from the U.S. Census Bureau show that the United States has made little progress in combating poverty since 2000. Center for American Progress By Mark Greenberg, Lisa Donner | August 26, 2008 The U.S. Census Bureau today reported that 12.5 percent of Americans?one in eight?were living in poverty in 2007. The increase [...]
30 Aug
Sarah Palin: A Scandal We Can Believe In!
John McCain’s VP candidate, Gov. Sarah Palin, is embroiled in her own trooper-gate scandal up in Alaska. In short, she’s accused of using her pull as governor to get her ex-brother-in-law fired as a state trooper. The brother-in-law is embroiled in an ugly divorce and custody with Palin’s sister. And after his boss wouldn’t fire [...]
29 Aug
Palin questioned whether global warming is melting Arctic sea ice
Marc Lester / Anchorage Daily News/MCT In this 2006 file photo Alaskan Republican gubernatorial candidate for governor Sarah Palin is pictured at her election night headquarters. | By Renee Schoof | McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON ? Sen. John McCain’s choice of a running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, favors drilling for oil in the Arctic [...]
29 Aug
Palin, With Reputation as Reformer, Faces Probe Over Firing
Friday 29 August 2008 by: McClatchy Newspapers Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, picked Friday to be Senator John McCain’s running mate in his pursuit of the presidency, remains close to Alaska’s Republican senior senator, Ted Stevens. (Photo: Kiichiro Sato / AP) Washington – Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, picked Friday to be Senator John McCain’s running [...]
29 Aug
Feeling no pain
By PAUL KRUGMAN?SYNDICATED COLUMNIST My first reaction to Bill Clinton’s convention speech was sheer professional jealousy: Nobody, but nobody, has his ability to translate economic wonkery into plain, forceful English. In effect, Clinton provided an executive summary of the new Census report on income, poverty and health insurance — but he did it so eloquently, [...]
29 Aug
Cool, tough, focused: This was a man ready for action
RUPERT CORNWELL?SYNDICATED COLUMNIST DENVER — Maybe it wasn’t quite his greatest speech ever. Barack Obama has long since set the bar so high that even he on occasion falls short of the summit. Convention acceptance speeches moreover — even one in a football stadium with a firework show to rival the Beijing Olympics — rarely [...]
29 Aug
VIDEO: ‘Wake Up America!’
Speech at Democratic Party Convention by Rep Dennis Kucinich Rep. Dennis Kucinich Former presidential candidate Rep. Dennis Kucinich delivered one of the most passionate addresses Tuesday night. “Wake up, America. We went into Iraq for oil. The oil companies want more,” Kucinich said. “War against Iran will mean $10-a-gallon gasoline. The oil administration wants [...]
