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Slouching toward socialism

Posted in Presidential race, Taylor Armerding, The Soap Box on Oct 3rd, 2008 Comments Off

Brief thoughts after the Palin-Biden set-to in St. Louis. I wonder if Sarah Palin’s last name was really Paling at one time, and the family just decided to drop the “g” because, y’know, they weren’t usin’ it anyway. …

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Just a brainlock away …

Posted in Presidential race, Taylor Armerding, The Soap Box on Sep 25th, 2008 Comments Off

So, did you hear what that Alaska hockey mom ditz, Republican vp candidate Sarah Palin said this past week? In an interview with CBS anchor Katie Couric, talking about the economic meltdown, she said, “Part of what a leader does is to instill con…

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Bama, you can’t drive my car

Posted in Presidential race, Taylor Armerding, The Soap Box on Sep 11th, 2008 Comments Off

I don’t want to base my vote for president on personality, age, race or gender. I want to base it on the critical issues of our time. In that spirit, here’s my own, anecdotal, defining moment in presidential politics. True story. Two events…

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Thin, thin community skin

Posted in Presidential race, Taylor Armerding, The Soap Box on Sep 8th, 2008 Comments Off

Memo to the everyone-is-special, everyone-gets-a-trophy, everything-gets-posted-on-the-refrigerator defenders of community organizers: Cool the faux outrage. There’s so much crying going on here I’m afraid the members of the Democratic grie…

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Ooops, she said it again …

Posted in Presidential race, Taylor Armerding, The Soap Box on Aug 27th, 2008 Comments Off

It’s been said many times before – especially during the past eight years – by people who can’t stand their party being out of power. But it carries a bit more, uh, weight, when it’s Hillary Clinton telling members of the …

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Days of whine and poses

Posted in Presidential race, Taylor Armerding, The Soap Box on Jul 11th, 2008 Comments Off

This week’s idiotic political firestorm comes courtesy of former Texas senator Phil Gramm, an economic adviser to GOP presidential candidate John McCain, who said that we are in more of a “mental” recession than an actual one, and tha…

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Count every vote that I need

Posted in Presidential race, Taylor Armerding, The Soap Box on May 22nd, 2008 Comments Off

It’s touching – or it would be if there was anything genuine about it – to hear Hillary Clinton drone on about how anti-democratic it would be if the Democratic primary election results in Florida and Michigan are not counted. Clinton…

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Going to Denver

Posted in 6th District, Nelson Benton, Presidential race, The Soap Box on Apr 7th, 2008 Comments Off

There was an upset of sorts in Saturday’s caucus for the election of delegates pledged to Hillary Clinton at this summer Democratic National Convention in Denver. Female delegates are Salem Mayor Kim Driscoll and veteran party activist Agnes Rick…

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Another prince of political darkness

Posted in Presidential race, Taylor Armerding, The Soap Box on Apr 7th, 2008 Comments Off

Interesting – now that Mark Penn, the pollster and senior strategist for the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, has been forced to resign, at least from the strategist gig, we’re finally hearing from the mainstream press what we should …

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Dems set to self-destruct — again?

Posted in Nelson Benton, Presidential race, The Soap Box on Mar 24th, 2008 Comments Off

George W. Bush won’t go down as one of the great American presidents, and he wasn’t exactly a formidable candidate either. So how did he win in 2000 and 2004? Well, he had a little help from the Supreme Court the first time around, but in b…

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