I know I’m really getting picky, but he really should have picked a better choice of words. It just doesn’t sound very “presidential”.
Obama’s VP: ‘Knows a bunch of stuff’
When, and if, it comes time to look for a running mate, Barack Obama will be looking for “somebody who knows about a bunch of stuff that I’m not an expert on.” This was the senator’s word at a closed-door fundraiser last night in [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Obama
Methinks the campaigns should have better (read - more important) things to do.
An uproar ensued over the weekend after liberal radio host Ed Schultz called McCain a “warmonger” at a fundraising dinner. Although Obama was not in the room when Schultz said that, he later [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Iraq War · McCain
It’s not happening for far too many of our youth. And that, my friends, is not good. In fact, it’s very bad. If you haven’t seen this report - these appalling numbers - you will be surprised. Our education system is in shambles.
I shouldn’t be surprised to see that this story about the appallingly low graduation rates in the cities of America is being underreported. Reporting this story is facing up to the ugly underbelly of America, and the way that the conservative backlash against the great liberal reforms of the mid-20th century has quietly managed [...]
Categories: Education
Some conservative bloggers are all excited about this. We’ll see if it develops any media “legs”. It most certainly is interesting, from a political philosophy point of view. My caveat would be - just because dad believed something doesn’t mean the son believes ANY of it.
Did Obama Hide His Father’s Communist Ideology?
Barack Obama has written in his autobiography that he organized his life around the ideals imparted by his Kenyan father, Barak H. Obama, a Harvard-trained economist. So what were those ideals? PrestoPundit has found a 1965 paper written by Obama’s father, in which he advocates: [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Obama
Times change. Events dictate. Have the rose-colored glasses been packed away? I’m not betting…
Bush Adminstration Endorses 12-Month Deployment Plan It Said It ‘Would Never Approve’
This week, the administration is expected to announce that it will shorten troop deployments from 15 months to 12 months beginning this summer, after Pentagon officials and military families vocalized the toll the tours are taking on troops. Today, NPR reported that Joint Chairman Mike Mullen said he was “very public for many months that [...]
Categories: Afghanistan · Bush Administration · Iraq War · Military
It’s all politics, plain and simple.
Bush To Defy Pelosi, Send Colombia Trade Pact to Congress
President Bush said Monday he will send the pending Colombia free-trade agreement to Congress, setting up a showdown with Democrats who strongly oppose the pact [...]
Categories: Bush Administration · Congress
If you’re looking for an upbeat assessment of the Iraq War, you’ll have to keep looking. You won’t find it here.
As Bush-McCain Surge Ends, We’re Even More Stuck in Iraq
This week the media will focus on the Congressional appearance of Ambassador Crocker of General Petraeus as though the nation’s security interests hinged on what they have to say. It does not. Our security interests have already been set in concrete by the Bush regime’s strategic blunders. All Crocker and Petraeus can do is to spin the Basra fighting as “at least [...]
Categories: Bush Administration · Iraq War
I’m surprised it took as long as it did for this to happen.
Thank heavens… Mark Penn is out — sort of… Out as the top strategist of the Clinton campaign, however “his polling firm, Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates, will continue to provide polling and advice to the campaign.” Mark Penn, the architect of much of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign, has been replaced as the campaign’s [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton
From a tough guy.
After spending almost a year in prison, ex-Gov. Don Siegelman (D-AL), released while his appeal to his conviction progresses, appeared on 60 Minutes last night to give his account of the key facts of his case and issue a challenge [...]
Categories: Bush Administration · Politics
The mainstream media just isn’t the trustworthy entity that it once was. It’s like there’s nobody supervising the inmates. Nobody with any editorial control to tell a reporter that THIS is not good reporting…
CNN heralds McCain’s heroic triumph over non-existent ‘heckler’
It’s not only painful to think we’ll have seven more months of this kind of media coverage of the McCain campaign, it’s worth remembering that unprofessional reporting like this can help dictate the outcome an election. To briefly recap, John McCain visited his old high school in northern Virginia last week, for what was clearly a [...]
Categories: McCain · Television
Slight contradiction between McCain’s words and his actions, it would seem.
Despite His Votes To Cut Veterans Funding, McCain Says We Owe Vets ‘A Debt We Can Never Repay’
Today, Sen. John McCain spoke to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Kansas City, MO. He spoke at length about the sacrifice paid by U.S. soldiers in Iraq, acknowledging “how little has been asked of others compared to their service” and declaring that the nation owes veterans “a debt that we can never fully repay.” He [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Iraq War · McCain
We finally got some much-deserved and pleasant weather over the weekend. After two bouts of storms during the weekend, it certainly was nice to see the sun come out. However, I spent much of the time battling a spyware infected computer. You’d think, after dealing with the technology for the better part of my life, I’d know better than to install some “anti-spyware” program that downloaded with another file I wanted. I did install it and the results aren’t pretty. I’ve tried a dozen different programs, tricks and techniques and all I’ve accomplished is to (I guess) snag some low-level viruses - but not enough to make the machine run decently. I have a few more things to try tonight, before I track down the former computer guys I worked with and see if they can perform some magic on it.
Now, off to the Monday night blogs. Where word of our growing dislike of the airline industry highlighted all the morning news programs. As one who just completed a series of flights, I was appalled at the downturn in service. No longer to you even get a snack on most flights! You can buy a bag of chips. For $3.00! And, then, the security folks confiscated a couple of jars of salsa that my wife was trying to carry on the plane. Neither one of us considered the fact that the TSA folks would consider that “liquid in a bottle bigger than 4 oz”. All in all, not a pleasant experience, topped off by a final leg of the trip where we got on the plane (late) and then were told that an armrest was broken, so we had to take our bags and go back into the terminal. After waiting half an hour, we were told we had to move to a different plane at a different gate. Of course, that gate was a train-ride away through the Dallas airport. Finally got there, to face another wait before boarding the new plane. The pilot was nice enough to point out that our original plane DID get repaired, just moments after they moved us all to the new one. Welcome home.
Airline Quality Rating study: failure across the board
To say that Americans detest the airline industry would be a mild understatement. Remember that it was the GOP who bailed this lovely bunch out with billions in taxpayer dollars only a few years ago and what did the US receive for it’s investment? Massive executive salaries, salary cutbacks from everyone else, less on time, higher costs to fly, increasingly cramped spaces and [...]
Categories: Economy · National Security · Travel
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