Category Archives: Politics: US: 2008 Elections

I Like Being Inspired by Presidential Candidates

What Richard Robert said: John Edwards sure can give a very inspiring speech.

Plus, I would really enjoy voting for a candidate who says stuff like, “On my first day in office, you have my word that Guantanamo will be closed”.

Have any other candidates taken that pledge?

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The Alaskan and the Hot Tub

One more reason that Mike Gravel Won't Be President.

Like you needed another reason?

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How to Attack Mitt Romney

Attacks on Mitt Romney based on his religious beliefs make me very uncomfortable because even the most measured versions seem somehow wrong and, yes, unAmerican. (Concerns about his views on separation of church and state might be acceptable. Issues of creed, no thanks.)

On the other hand, attacks on Mitt Romney based on the way he markets himself to supporters, on Romeny's two-faced approach to basic moral issues, and on his opportunistic and implausible self reinvention as a campaigning strategy, all seem … necessary.

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Fascism Domesticated

If only, if only, this Glenn Greenwald column were an April Fools. But Your modern-day Republican Party is all too real.

It seems that leading GOP Presidential candidates mostly don't have any problem with the idea that the President has the power to imprison American citizens without any opportunity for review of any kind.

Constitutional rights? Those are for sissies.

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Family Values

Jim Morin has a great cartoon.


Click for a large version

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McCain Implosion Continues (III)

stick a fork in himLooks like McCain has lost John Stewart's vote. And don't miss the Freudian slip.

 

 

At this rate, I'm prepared for Joe Lieberman to change parties and to sweep the early Republican primaries. After all, he supports the war, loves Bush, isn't a Mormon, and has only been married twice.

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