Published on AfterDowningStreet.org (http://www.afterdowningstreet.org) By Chip Created 2008-09-19 21:25 Palin Warns Against ‘Second Holocaust’ by Ahmadinejad [1] ABC News’ Imtiyaz Delawala Reports: Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin warned against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s pursuit of nuclear weapons for a “second holocaust,” while blaming “Democrat partisans” for forcing rally organizers to withdraw her invitation to speak before [...]
Archive for September 19th, 2008
19 Sep
Too Much Secrecy Puts Our Nation at Risk
Center for American Progress Action Fund By John Podesta September 16, 2008 Read the full testimony (pdf) Most Americans appreciate the need to keep secret national security information whose disclosure would pose a genuine risk of harm. But as the 9/11 Commission concluded, too much secrecy can put our nation at greater risk, hindering oversight, [...]
19 Sep
Bush’s Vapid Reassurances
By Dan Froomkin Special to washingtonpost.com Thursday, September 18, 2008; 12:25 PM Briefly emerging from his near-invisibility during the nation’s terrifying financial crisis, President Bush this morning offered brief, unsubstantive and unpersuasive assurances. “The American people are concerned about the situation in our financial markets and our economy,” he said, in a dazzling statement of [...]
19 Sep
Flunking Economics
By Eugene Robinson The Washington Post Friday, September 19, 2008 John McCain was telling the truth when he said that economics wasn’t his strong suit. In response to what many economists have called the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, the Republican nominee has sounded — and let’s be honest here — totally, embarrassingly [...]
19 Sep
Not a Gaffe? McCain Campaign Willing to Destroy Relationship with Europe to Conceal Confusion
By Max Bergmann, Huffington Post. Posted September 19, 2008. Apparently they care so little about governing that they are willing to potentially nuke the U.S.-Spain relationship just to get elected. Worse than Bush. There can be no doubt about it now. In McCain’s bizarre interview with Spanish Owned Union Radio he refused to say [...]
19 Sep
Polls Show Palin Is Starting to Drag Down McCain
By Markos Moulitsas, Daily Kos. Posted September 19, 2008. The intense focus to reveal the truth about Sarah Palin’s credentials has taken its toll on her numbers. No one can doubt that McCain’s choice of Palin rejuvenated a listless, dying campaign. She excited the Theocon Right and brought them home, and being a fresh [...]
19 Sep
Fixing Wall Street Won’t Fix Our Economy
By Sally Kohn, Movement Vision Lab. Posted September 19, 2008. What’s really at play here is persistent poverty and Wall Street seeking to make a dime off the poor, while Washington looks the other way. Sure, the CEOs and hedge fund managers were greedy. There’s no question that wealth and the pursuit thereof led to [...]
