contact@wexlerforcongress.com When history is written about America in the Bush years it will be a dark chapter indeed. Particularly, as we uncover more and more terrible facts about how this President and this Administration have corrupted our Constitution and betrayed the principles that have made this nation so great. It was revealed this week that [...]
Archive for October 18th, 2008
18 Oct
Palin’s Staffers Keep Her Away From the News to Avoid Being ‘Depressed’
Posted by Katharine Zaleski, Huffington Post at 10:43 AM on October 17, 2008. This is so Bush-like it’s scary … and kind of sad. Steven Rosenfeld A day after The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank wrote about how the Secret Service is blocking press at Sarah Palin’s rallies, it appears Palin’s staff is blocking her from [...]
18 Oct
How Wall Street’s Scam Artists Turned Home Mortgages Into Economic WMDs
By Joshua Holland, AlterNet. Posted October 18, 2008. The titans of high finance are trying desperately to shift blame for the crisis onto others, but this dead cat lies squarely on their doorstep. If the ABCs of the financial meltdown leave your head spinning — if “default swaps” and “collateralized debt obligations” and “high-rated [...]
18 Oct
Tribune endorsement: Barack Obama for president
FROM THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE EDITORIAL BOARD 2:33 PM CDT, October 17, 2008 Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama campaigns in Roanoke, Va. today. (Getty photo by Joe Raedle / October 17, 2008) However this election turns out, it will dramatically advance America’s slow progress toward equality and inclusion. It took Abraham Lincoln’s extraordinary courage in [...]
18 Oct
Economic Snapshot for October 2008
Center for American Progress SOURCE: AP/Mark Lennihan A businessman walks his son to school past the New York Stock Exchange on Friday in New York. By Christian E. Weller | October 15, 2008 Download the snapshot with full graphs (pdf) House and stock prices are plummeting, and threatening to take the economy down with them. [...]
18 Oct
McCain Mocks Women’s Health
By Peggy Simpson, The Women’s Media Center. Posted October 17, 2008. McCain showed in Wednesday’s debate that he doesn’t value women and will gladly belittle anyone who does. Finally, John McCain and Barack Obama are put on record on some key women’s issues. It could be a revelation for many voters, especially McCain’s tone [...]
18 Oct
Republicans Abuse Prosecutorial Powers to Intimidate Voters
By Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet. Posted October 17, 2008. From the FBI to Ohio county prosecutors, GOP-connected lawmen are seeking to scare new voters. (Editor’s note: This story was published late Thursday, before the Obama campaign counsel Bob Bauer addressed many of these same issues in a media conference call on Friday.) As the presidential election [...]
18 Oct
Can Obama Turn the Economy Around?
By Mike Davis, Tomdispatch.com. Posted October 17, 2008. The Obama campaign’s national security priorities may be at odds with its domestic policy goals, namely the financial crisis. Recently, while traveling in the West, I had lunch at a modest-sized casino set in a wild, barren-looking, craggy landscape. On the hills above it spun giant, ivory [...]
18 Oct
The 10 Biggest Differences Between Obama and McCain That Will Affect Your Daily Life
AlterNet. Posted October 17, 2008. The next president will influence everything from your Internet access to your ability to pay medical bills. When the polls open in 18 days, voters will be faced with a stark choice in presidential candidates — a choice that ultimately comes down to one question: What do you want [...]
