Won’t you miss those debates?
For months now Republicans and Democrats have been slugging it out on live TV. And the ratings have been surprisingly good even when they’ve been aired on relatively hard-to-find channels like MSNBC.
They allowed John McCain to show how tough he can be, putting Mitt Romney is his place for flip-flopping on [...]
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Debate season on hiatus
Posted in Nelson Benton, Presidential race, Uncategorized on Feb 29th, 2008 Comments
The discrimination two-step
Posted in Presidential race, Taylor Armerding on Feb 29th, 2008 Comments
As we continue to stagger through the endless presidential campaign, there are certain rules emerging that are both rigid and flexible:
It’s OK to vote for Hillary Clinton because she’s a woman - there are hundreds, if not thousands, of news reports out there quoting people who express excitement at “finally” having the chance to elect [...]
Enough with the “reasoned discourse.” Time for a rant:
In its earnest but none-too-bright desire to “save the planet,” the Democratic Congress late last year banned light bulbs. Our president, who never fails to roll over for whatever Democratic nonsense crosses his desk, signed the bill.
So beginning in 2012, we will no longer be permitted to [...]
A good, ol’-time political smear
Posted in Ken Johnson, Presidential race, Uncategorized on Feb 26th, 2008 Comments
So I’m sure by now you’ve seen this picture. Someone, it is suspected from the Hillary Clinton campaign, leaked it to the Drudge Report. And it since has been picked up and commented on by newspapers across the country — and even in England.
It’s a good, ol’-time political smear, designed to play on fears that [...]
Sen. Barack Obama wants to shake up this tired, old country. He promises us “the change we’ve been waiting for.” His motto: “Yes, we can.”
Is Obama offering us anything new? Or has “change” — on both a personal and national scale — been part of America’s make-up since its founding?
Reading the candidate’s biography on his [...]
What’s in a name - or not in a name?
Posted in Massachusetts politics, Municipal meltdown, State issues, Taylor Armerding on Feb 20th, 2008 Comments
George Orwell may be gone, but his prophetic vision lives on, in our continued quest to name things in ways that will obscure their real intent. You know, if you want to let union advocates intimidate workers by forcing them to “vote” for or against a union in front of them, instead of the privacy [...]
These really are ‘just words’
Posted in Presidential race, Taylor Armerding on Feb 19th, 2008 Comments
I’ve got no problem with Sen. Barack Obama’s alleged “plagiarism” of our beloved Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick. It’s amusing, in a way, to have the Hillary Clinton campaign be so fiercely concerned with some imagined copyright infringement of Gov. Patrick, since Patrick has endorsed Obama. And according to Patrick, he encouraged Obama to use lines [...]
Exxon Mobil made history recently with its announcement of the highest annual profits ever for a U.S. company - more than $40 billion last year. And that news was greeted with horror by Democrats like presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Clinton said that if she is elected president she will take those profits - notice she [...]
I was out of the office last week from Wednesday through Friday and when I returned Monday morning (Feb. 11) there were two phone calls waiting for me from state Sen. Steve Baddour.
The Methuen Democrat had called Wednesday and Thursday to gloat over his candidate Hillary Clinton’s big showing on Super Tuesday. Clinton’s wins included [...]
Barack Obama’s presidential bid, viewed as little more than a freshman senator’s pipe dream just a year ago, is beginning to assume the air of inevitability.
Unless the pollsters suffer another New Hampshire-style meltdown, it appears the lawmaker from Illinois will emerge from today’s so-called Potomac Primary (Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia) stronger than [...]
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