Presidential election
November 19, 2008
- It’s a dreadful thought. But it’s one several friends have raised. Will Barack Obama serve out his term as president? While still a candidate, authorities uncovered a plot against our president-elect. How many more like the young men arrested in the conspiracy are waiting in the wings? More than a few parallels have been drawn between Barack Obama and John F. Kennedy. Both were youthful ...
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November 9, 2008
- The charges against Sarah Palin leaked to the press by unnamed McCain staffers hardly come as a surprise. When a presidential nominee selects a running mate, the VP candidate always brings an entourage. Like any merger, staff rivalries are bound to surface, especially during the stresses of a heated campaign. And when a ticket loses, post-mortem finger pointing is inevitable. All the same, ...
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November 7, 2008
- As the presidential campaign neared its final throes, vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin seized on a theme her Republicans handlers hoped would reverse their imminent defeat. Governor Palin claimed small towns were “the real America” and anointed them as the “pro-America areas of this great nation.” Other GOP candidates quickly seized the theme, publicly impugning the patriotism of ...
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November 4, 2008
- With the presidential campaign drawing to a close, it’s difficult to avoid a sense of disgust. What promised to be a civil campaign by two principled opponents has descended into the realm of character assassination via sound bite. You can’t blame the candidates alone, though. Today’s message-cluttered environment seems ripe for this kind of political mudfest. Yet it’s interesting to note ...
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November 3, 2008
- Republicans once proudly called themselves the party of Lincoln. Today, they have become the party of Karl Rove. John McCain began his campaign touting a Senate record of bi-partisan cooperation that earned him the reputation as a maverick. McCain often crossed the aisle to get the job done, much to the dismay of the Karl Rove wing of the Republican Party who would have rather hurt the country ...
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November 1, 2008
- How's this for a compromise---Barack Obama for President, and John McCain for Christmas. We can always use a new character actor for Scrooge!
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October 31, 2008
- GREENPOINT, Bklyn, Oct. 30...Jaws dropped and eyes bulged last night when a Navigator stretch pulled up in front of the national headquarters of the Gambler's Rights Party at Golubchik's Tavern in Greenpoint, and John McCain stepped out. "Where's my friend Efraim?" he demanded. "Take me to that great American." Efraim Durg, presidential candidate of the Gambler's Rights ...
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October 25, 2008
- If Obama wins, I will cry. His candidacy has been an astonishment, as the possibility that a black man could win the presidency has grown to odds-on likelihood. While his victory would not mark the end of racism, it would at least confirm in the most dramatic of ways that bigotry can be overcome. Obama’s emergence is all the more stunning for occurring when so much else— the global ...
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October 21, 2008
- In 2004, after John Kerry made his war record in Vietnam the centerpiece of his campaign against George W. Bush, GOP political operatives countered with the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Conceived and organized by the Bush reelection team, this hand-picked collection of former navy officers and enlisted men was used to discredit Kerry’s military service. Personally, I found this one of the ...
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October 16, 2008
- MORAINE, Ohio, Oct, 15...Sixpack has been a proud name in the Ohio River valley for seven generations. But that will end today. Joe Sixpack VI, the great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson of the original settler is changing his name. "We Sixpacks have been mocked and humiliated by the media and by unscrupulous politicians," he says. "I won't stand for it any ...
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