[Translate] Tuscon Vice-Mayor Rodney Glassman Former Tucson Vice Mayor Rodney Glassman, U.S. Senate candidate from Arizona, freshly bouyed by his SEIU endorsement, took command of the 2nd Democratic primary debate today while besting three other Democrats: former State Representative Cathy Eden (his closest competitor in the polls according to Rasmussen,) Randy Parraz, and John Dougherty. Arizonans are enjoying debates on both sides of the contest, and it seems Glassman has gone a long way to impressing voters that he will...
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[Translate] Sarah Palin burst into the national consciousness almost two years ago, and for a short while news services could talk of nothing else, and following the VP candidates debate pundits said she’d won because she didn’t completely blow it. By November the bump Palin provided McCain’s ratings faded as the country learned more about his new running-mate, and U.S. voters elected the Illinois Senator with the “funny name and big ears.” It wasn’t so long after Obama’s night in Grant Park...
[Translate] More from “The Washington Monthly”: “THE ‘OLD’ MCCAIN ISN’T COMING BACK…. As much as I’d like to ignore John McCain’s “analysis” of the economic stimulus plan, he’s not making it easy. For the last couple of weeks, he’s been on all the networks, undermining the administration’s plan, questioning the president’s integrity, and making strange policy arguments. With no obvious Republican leader on the national stage, the media is still turning to...
[Translate] At the Web 2.0 Summit, where web tech people get together to discuss the ever changing nature of the advance and use of the Internet and Internet technology , Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington summed up why President-Elect Barack Obama prevailed over Senator John McCain: “The McCain campaign didn’t have a clue,” said Huffington in a reference to technical rather than intellectual deficiencies. “The Internet has killed Karl Rove politics.” I’m sorry I missed Web 2.0, but...
[Translate] I saw this on Talking Points Memo and had to post it. Please read it. I Didn’t Vote For Obama Today November 4, 2008, 9:37AM I have a confession to make. I did not vote for Barack Obama today. I’ve openly supported Obama since March. But I didn’t vote for him today. I wanted to vote for Ronald Woods. He was my algebra teacher at Clark Junior High in East St. Louis, IL. He died 15 years ago when his truck skidded head-first into a utility pole. He spent many a...
[Translate] Evangelicals have taken a beating this election cycle, but not all of us support McCain/Palin and refusing to support the GOP does not mean evangelicals are abandoning their principles. Here are some excerpts from my stinging critique of the GOP and my argument for why Christians can support Obama: I am an evangelical Christian with a record of voting in line with the Republican Party. This year, however, I am casting my vote for Barack Obama. My support for Obama stands on its own, and has been well documented throughout...
[Translate] The blogsphere was abuzz with a story that a McCain supporter was attacked by a black man because she, well, supported Senator John McCain for President. A photo got out and went international that had Ms. Todd with a black eye and a kind of red “B” branded into her right cheek. Even as it went out, some expressed skepticism, of all and unexpectedly, the clumsily right-wing blogger Michelle Malkin called it early: I’ve reported on the great lengths that warped attention-seekers have gone to in...
[Translate] In an interview for his upcoming movie “Quantum of Solace”, Daniel Craig — who plays James Bond — picks Barack Obama over John McCain as the better James Bond: I finally ask this British actor a deeply American question: “Who do you think would be the better James Bond—Barack Obama or John McCain?” Craig doesn’t hesitate. “Obama would be the better Bond because—if he’s true to his word—he’d be willing to quite literally look the enemy in the eye and go toe-to-toe with them. McCain,...
[Translate] Monday, October 20th edition of the South Florida Times reports that your Black relatives have an event called “The Coming Home Reunion” and that each member of your family has attended, including your brother Joe, except you. In 2000 you claimed that your family did not own slaves; in the article your Black relatives dispute this. Is that why you don’t attend the event, and can you shed light on this matter? Thank you and thanks for your service to our country. ...
[Translate] In 2006, according to an Associated Press report, Senator Obama inserted $400,000 for an unrelated project into an emergency bill for the Iraq war and hurricane relief. Do you want to know more, or will you share McCain’s new anti-earmark stand? Earmarks can be abused, yet they can expedite passage of matters needing little or no debate, too. Obama has pledged to finish construction of an electronic barrier in Chicago to keep the carp from invading Lake Michigan from the Illinois River. That $400,000 earmark from...
[Translate] I happened by the Anchorage Daily News in Alaska, looking for “Troopergate” updates when I saw this story that , well, was front and center above the fold about how Joe Wurzelbacher AKA “Joe The Plumber” lived in Alaska, and I thought “It figures” because of his seemingly almost anti-tax “leave me alone” views that fit with some of the more extremist Alaskans we’ve come to know of since the rise of Sarah Palin.Here’s one series of paragraphs: Alaska...
