August 2008 Archives

In a surprising move this morning, the Obama campaign announced the addition of a new spokesperson to the staff.  The press release emphasized the broad appeal of the campaign to all constituencies, and how important this new voice for the campaign will be to voters previously overlooked by both parties.  Here is his first statement to the press at a brief press conference this morning:The campaign said the canine voter has been under represented in...

Updated:  Looks like Dobson didn't like his the true nature of FOM getting out in public and killed the video feed... Like an idiot, Stuart Shepard, Director of Digital Media (propaganda) for Focus On the Family, Dobson's right wing lobbyist group that masquerades as a religious organization, encouraged everyone to pray for rain during Obama's acceptance speech in Denver last Thursday.  We had heard that the religious right was actually doing that, but I ran across...

Bill Maher returned Friday night just in time for the McCain/Palin announcement and, to no one’s surprise, had quite a bit to say about it. See for yourself: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKULb2JLDJs] Governor Tim Kaine of Virginia was also on, and gave an excellent analysis of McCain’s VP pick along with an overview of Barack Obama’s speech on Thursday night. I like the choice of Biden as a running mate for Obama, but Kaine would also have been...

As I'm flying home from Denver I have been thinking much of the events of the past 5 days and the historic events in which I actually participated.  The significance of this chain of events, I believe, will change the course, certainly of politics, and hopefully a nation.  Here, an improbable candidate, young, African American, son of a single mother, highly educated through scholarships and student loans, achieved to what many aspire, but few achieve...

Putting Country First. This has been the slogan of the McCain campaign, up until yesterday that is. With the selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate, Senator McCain has shown that he is willing to put the future of the country at risk for the sake of a political stunt that he hopes will cause women to vote for him simply because there is a woman on the ticket. For a man who has...

I was privileged tonight to witness history being made, with 80,000 of my closest friends, as Barack Obama accepted the Democratic Party's nomination for President.Associated PressWe got to the stadium early as there had been warnings about long lines to get through security.  We got in pretty readily once we worked our way through traffic to get to the stadium itself.  Once we got to our seats we settled in and watched the crowds steadily...

UPDATE 3: McCain, in a desperate effort to deflate the Democrats after their triumphant Convention, showed his real strategy to win this election:  get disaffected women Clinton supporters to vote for him.  He's thrown the experience and ready to lead  attack line out the window, scrambling for probably his only chance to win, the female vote.Associated Press Only elected to be governor of Alaska in 2006 with a whopping population of 683,000 (about the size...

I’m sure most of you saw Barack Obama’s acceptance speech last night and have drawn your own conclusions as to it’s content and it’s effectiveness. I’ll share my thoughts with you and then give the reaction of others and the response of the McCain camp, which was as predictable as hot August days in Texas. In a nutshell, Obama was magnificent. He answered his critics who say he is all style and no substance by...

Proving that they are running out of reasons for which to attack Barack Obama, some on the far-right are now mocking the stage setting for tonight’s acceptance speech in Denver’s Mile High Stadium. They are calling the backdrop of Greek columns "the Temple of Obama", the "heights of presumptuousness", and "blind hubris." On his radio program yesterday, Rush Limbaugh said that since the temples in ancient Greece were built as homes for the gods, Obama...

Characteristically, Bill Clinton hit a grand slam tonight with his unequivocal endorsement of Obama for President.  In  a 17 minute speech to a chocker-block-full house, Clinton vocalized full support for Barack, his qualifications, and his programs.  In his discussion of foreign policy and our status as world leaders, Clinton said, "People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power."  How true.Deflecting criticism...