Comes some fascinating insight into (Ready with the BIG voice announcer) H-u-c-k-a-b-e-e H-i-s-t-o-r-y..
Local Preacher Man Mentored Huckabee
“Of all the right-wing figures who have promoted Mike Huckabee’s extraordinary political rise from a backwater church to the national pulpit of a presidential campaign–and there are many–perhaps none know the former Arkansas governor and current Republican presidential front-runner better than Jay Cole. A Baptist minister based in Fayetteville, Arkansas, with a right-wing radio talk show of his own, Cole has been instrumental in inspiring Huckabee’s rise over [...]
Tags: 2008 Elections, Mike Huckabee
Categories: 2008 Election · Huckabee
My, but it’s getting nasty out west..
Blood in the Sand
Let’s have a show of hands: Who out there believes that even if the Culinary Workers Union 226 had endorsed Hillary Clinton instead of Barack Obama that we’d still be seeing Clinton operatives within the Nevada State Education Association filing a lawsuit effectively barring nine caucus sites along the Vegas strip? And that if Obama’s people had done this to the unions who could be counted on [...]
But, maybe, it’s over rated..
The Buzz On The Ground In Vegas
I wish I could tell you the buzz on the ground was particularly decisive, but the reality is I’m getting some mixed messages. I attended a townhall led by Joe and Valerie Wilson on Hillary Clinton’s behalf and one of the questions was telling. A woman stood up and introduced herself as a member of the Hillary Clinton election committee in Vegas and was very concerned about [...]
Tags: 2008 Elections, Hillary Clinton
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton
There’s no other way to say it.
Blackwater tainted shooting evidence.
Shortly after Blackwater guards shot and killed 17 Iraqi civilians on Sept. 16, the firm “repaired and repainted its trucks immediately,” essentially “destroy[ing] evidence that Justice Department investigators hoped to examine.” Blackwater responded that any repairs “would have been done at the government’s direction.” The [...]
Tags: Bush Administration, Blackwater
Categories: Blackwater · Bush Administration
More tonight on the horrible work that’s been done on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. It was bad before. It’s worse tonight.
$736 million new US embassy in Baghdad may be death trap
Oops. But you have to understand, apparently “the contractor had never built an embassy.” Yeah, because, you know, for our most important new embassy, costing 3/4 of a billion dollars, why would we hire someone who has actually built embassies before? I mean [...]
Tags: Bush Administration, Iraq War
Categories: Bush Administration · Iraq War
These are numbers for young people who actually VOTED. Not just those who said they identified with a party.
Young Voters Are Overwhelmingly Democratic
…Guess the party represented by angry, old, bigoted, war-mongering white men may go the way of the dodo bird in one generation [...]
Tags: 2008 Elections
Categories: 2008 Election · Democrats
But, they can’t fight a fire. This is our governmental stupidity at its finest. Remember, this Saturday morning, this is our tax dollars at work. Being managed quite well, I’d say. Harrumph.
Baghdad embassy’s fire-fighting system is defective
The fire-fighting system in the massive new $740 million U.S. Embassy in Baghdad is defective, according to [...]
Tags: U.S. Embassy, Baghdad
Categories: Bush Administration · Iraq War
