g Barack Obama has said from the beginning of this campaign that it is the people who must believe— not just in his ability to bring about change in Washington— but in theirs. He has couched these exhortations in what he calls the fierce urgency of NOW. It’s as rousing a call to the responsibilities of citizenship you’re likely to …
“The greatest threat to American democracy today arises from a militant authoritarianism that has become a cancer upon the nation.” So says psychology professor Robert Altemeyer, who provided Wateregate whistle-blower John Dean with forty years of study on the authoritarian personality type that roughly 28 percent of Americans proudly call their modus operandi. John Dean: During the 2008 presidential campaign, …
In one of the more surreal moments of an already surreal campaign, John McCain got into the spirit of the holiday by appearing in an amazingly creepy “Underdog” costume, while standing next to someone else dressed as Underdog.
Some things remain prescient. Enjoy. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZGRtUeYTU8[/youtube] • Us and Them Us and Them And after all we’re only ordinary men Me, and You God only knows it’s not what we would choose. . . to do Forward he cried from the rear and the front rank died General sat, and the lines on the map moved from side to side …
Just watched the Obama 30 minute ad, and to be honest, I have to say I had a hard time identifying with it.
Evolution? Nope. Sarah believes in Creationism. That means she believes that Noah had a little fruit fly cage aboard the ark, where he kept a pair of fruit flies, right next to millions of other little cages with pairs of insects in them. But. Sarah is clearly jealous of the little critters. They’ve been to Paris; she hasn’t.
The Grand Oil Party slogging through the political wilderness Updating my initial compilation of the Obamacans (Republicans for Obama ) is becoming quite the task. Add endorsements from the likes of W’s former Secretary of State Colin Powell and press spokesman Scotty McClellan; former Reagan’s UN Secretary Kenneth Adleman; former McCain adviser Charles Fried; former Minnesota Republican Governor William Weld; …
