By Garrison Keillor, Tribune Media Services. Posted October 27, 2008. It’s clear that some Americans are beyond persuasion. Thankfully, it seems that most of us are willing to recognize BS when we see it. We are a stalwart and stouthearted people, and never more so than in hard times. People weep in the dark and [...]
Archive for October 27th, 2008
27 Oct
Updated Fix Electoral Map Picks: An Obama Landslide?
washingtonpost.com’s Politics Blog by Chris Cillizza Barack Obama stands on the cusp of an electoral vote blowout over John McCain with just eight days left in the 2008 general election. On our latest Fix electoral map, we have Obama at 349 electoral votes — his highest total since we began picking the playing field earlier [...]
27 Oct
Obama Draws Massive Crowd in Denver
BARACK OBAMA Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) speaks during a campaign rally at Civic Center Park on Oct. 26, 2008 in Denver. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) By Robert Barnes DENVER — Republicans thought it ostentatious when the Democratic National Convention decided to move Barack Obama’s acceptance speech from the convention hall to Invesco Field, where the Denver Broncos [...]
27 Oct
Welfare for Detroit
Should lower-paid workers help subsidize those averaging $56,650 at GM? Monday, October 27, 2008 The Washington Post AFTER YEARS of decline, U.S. auto companies face the double whammy of a credit crisis and a recession. Car and truck sales fell 26.6 percent in September, the first month since 1993 in which fewer than 1 million [...]
27 Oct
The Endgame in Florida
By E. J. Dionne Monday, October 27, 2008 The Washington Post ORLANDO — Florida provides the appropriate closing metaphor for the 2008 campaign. If John McCain were on a clear path to victory, there would be no campaign here at all. Yet there was McCain’s running mate, Sarah Palin, battling on yesterday across the state’s [...]
27 Oct
Some straight talk about today’s America
BOSTON.COM By Jim Gomes October 27, 2008 IN THIS YEAR’S presidential campaign, both candidates have attempted to position themselves as champions of change. However, neither John McCain nor Barack Obama has devoted much attention to the obvious and troubling ways that America has already changed. It wasn’t so long ago that America was in a [...]
27 Oct
Still waiting on Main Street
BOSTON GLOBE EDITORIALS October 27, 2008 THE US Treasury Department needs to take the same kind of aggressive steps to ease financial strains on homeowners that it took to guarantee the investments of banks and financial institutions. The economy can’t turn around until the housing market stabilizes. That requires a timely plan to stem mortgage [...]
27 Oct
If the GOP Had Listened to ACORN’s Advice, the Mortgage Industry Wouldn’t Be in Meltdown
AlterNet.org By Peter Dreier and John Atlas, The Nation. Posted October 27, 2008. Desperate Republicans are scapegoating the respected community advocacy group for Wall Street’s disastrous lending spree. An increasingly desperate Republican attack machine has recently identified the community organizing group ACORN as Public Enemy Number One. Among ACORN’s alleged crimes, perhaps the most serious [...]
