October 2008 Archives

Elizabeth Dole, one term Senator and wife of Viagra's Bob Dole, is fighting for her political life in North Carolina as she loses to Kay Hagan, a North Carolina state senator and former banker.  Currently by pollster.com average polls, Hagan leads Dole 46.6 to 43.  Clearly, Dole thinks she's losing, too, since she is now running this ad statewide: The problem is, Kay Hagan is professed Christian and an elder in her Presbyterian church.  She's also...

Four more days, my fellow Americans, four more days. In four days we have a decision to make about the future of our country, and the choices are crystal clear. We can choose to continue the politics and policies of the past, or we can turn the page and begin a new chapter in American history. A chapter that is about unity instead of division, cooperation instead of partisanship, and about appealing to our better...

I've recently written about Republican efforts at voter suppression and how that effort ties into the fake ACORN scandal where even the White House is involved trying to get the Justice Department to do its political bidding.  We don't know yet how much illegal voter roll purging, intimidation, and outright voting machine fraud will affect the outcome of the  election, but the effort to keep Americans from voting is real, coordinated, and massive.  Yesterday, TPM...

As I've written about before, the GOP continues to scream about the fake ACORN issue, claiming somehow that Mickey Mouse, Daffy Duck, Popeye, and millions of dead people are going to vote on Tuesday.  All the while, the elephant in the room is the real problem, voting machine failure and worse, fraud.  Yesterday, I stood in line about 40 minutes to vote in my local early voting location.  Time passed by fairly quickly, chatting with...

Palin as President: Presented without comment.Enjoy....

In what is probably the strangest twist of this election season, the McCain campaign and all of its GOP talking heads are now trying to convince the electorate that they shouldn't vote for Obama because that would give the Dems control of both houses of Congress and the White House.  They extol the importance of our system of checks and balances and make ominous proclamations about the danger of single party control.As I struggle to...

As this long and grueling presidential campaign nears it’s final week, it is time to reflect back on where we have come, what we have seen happen, and why. How did Barack Obama, a first term Senator from Illinois, a virtual unknown when this process began nearly 2 years ago, manage to defeat the powerful Clinton machine and now stand on the brink of being elected President of the United States. To put it in...

Does anybody recognize the name Charles Stuart? How about Willie Bennett? Probably not. Here’s the story and how it relates to the events in Pittsburgh yesterday. Charles Stuart and his wife Carol were driving home from childbirth classes in Boston on the night of October 23, 1989 when, according to a statement Stuart later gave the police, a black gunman forced his way into their car, robbed them, then shot Charles in the stomach and...

I started fooling around with ukuleles a few years ago and discovered this you uke master named Jake Shimabukuro, from Honolulu, of course.  Here he is, playing one of my favorites, George Harrison's While My Guitar Gently Weeps: Hope you enjoyed that....

If you are a regular reader of this blog, you will be familiar with the ACORN issue.  I have been a supporter of ACORN's activities as they relate to helping lower income folks get into housing, receiving resources to help them pull themselves up by their bootstraps, and getting more people registered to vote.  The GOP has turned up the volume to full, however, screaming about ACORN's voter registration activities because they know that the...