Reading this week about five-hour-plus lineups for advance voting, legal clashes over disputed registrations and extended hours, allegations of voter fraud and voter suppression, I couldn't help but think: WTF! Why do people put up with this crap? Two weeks...
I just heard Lou Dobbs refer to ACORN as "the leftist radical group ..." Like the Weather Underground or Baader-Meinhof! (In my defence, I wasn't intentionally watching Dobbs. The TV had been tuned to CNN and I wasn't fast enough in turning...
I've avoided, up till now, all temptation to join the blogger chorus telling Axelrod, Plouffe and Co. how to run a winning campaign. But at the peak of the Palin bounce, before the current financial unpleasantness began, I did get an...
The Canadian and U.S. economies are just about as closely intertwined as any two in the world.So, given the ratio of their populations, why haven't we heard about the $70 billion emergency bailout that Canadian legislators have been called back...
Earlier today, I read Kos on DailyKos and Ben Smith on Politico. Both offered interesting second-hand quotes, which happened to converge on crucial one point. Kos, citing a pre-conventions Bob Novak column (all bold-facing by me): I asked one of the...
We're either running on a new server, or a whole lot of archived stuff has been shifted off this one.Breathe that air!It's like Nov. 5 morning in America....
On The View, McCain was confronted about the lying, gutter-level approach his campaign is now taking.His excuse: The campaign's tone would be better if Obama hadn't rejected his proposal for an endless string of townhall meetings.Huh? What's the connection?Well, the conventional...
Republicans love to annoy the left by referring to the Democrat Party, the Democrat candidate, etc.Right-wing bloggers and media types have picked it the habit.Now the once-venerable Associated Press, stung by evidence its coverage is in the tank for the GOP,...
Some on the far right think Sarah Palin is a "game-changer." I think they are right. I doubt that in the long run she can win the election for McCain. And I doubt she was at all properly vetted, or...
Barack Obama today (via Ben Smith at Politico):"I have said before and I will repeat again: People's families are off limits. And people's children are especially off-limits. This shouldn't be part of our politics. It has no relevance to Gov....
Ten days ago, I posted a blog noting that the ceasefire deal everyone insisted Russia was slow in living up to had not yet been signed by Georgia.After Condi Rice's visit to Tbilisi, it appears that both Russia and Georgia...
George Bush and others in the West are railing about how slow the Russians have been to implement the six-point ceasefire brokered by the French president.Seems like a reasonable demand.But then I notice this, buried near the bottom of an AP story...
Reuters has a story headlined "U.S. to take control of Georgian ports: Saakasvili." "You have heard the statement by the U.S. president that the United States is starting a military-humanitarian operation in Georgia," the Georgian president said in a television address....
Russia's UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said something quite significant on CNN. Here's the link: http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2008/08/12/vo.georgia.flag.re... But I'll roughly quote: "We don't want to believe the U.S. gave Georgia 'the green light.' ... Our American colleagues SAY they are looking into...
This is from today's Washington Post story catching up on Sy Hersh's expose of the $400-million U.S. plan to destabilize Iran: "Among the opposition groups allegedly receiving cash and other assistance are ethnic Balochi dissidents in southern Iraq as well as established...
All the chicken entrails point to Hillary conceding tomorrow night.HuffPost reports talks between the candidates about help in retiring her huge campaign debt and amnesty for her diehard supporters. All good signs.But there are concession speeches and there are concession...
AP and Reuters both quote Clinton as saying, "until we have a nominee."But the New York Times' John Broder has it this way:“I’m going to make my case and I’m going to make it until I’m the nominee and we’re...
Everyone quoted today as rushing to vouch for WVWV's bona fides is a member of its board of directors -- the group that has oversight responsibility for its actions.Why is this supposed to persuade anyone?Especially when, confronted by prima facie evidence...
