News today that former White House press secretary Scott McClellan is publishing a book in which he accuses the Bush administration of propaganda over the war in Iraq to ’sell’ it to the American public. While I am very happy someone so close to the administration is talking about this rather obvious (to most people, [...]
Archive of entries posted on May 2008
Give it up, Hill
Many people are calling on Hillary Clinton to give up her presidential bid now that it seems oh-so-clear that Obama will win the nomination. She continues to fight on, though, citing sexism as one of the reasons for her poor performance and the date of Bobby Kennedy’s assassination as evidence of previous longer election timescales. [...]
What have you done, junior?!
CORRECTION: in my As the tide turns post I said the Crewe and Nantwich by-electoin was last Thursday 8 May when it was actually yesterday 22 May.
With today’s news that the Conservative party have trumped Labour out of their ’safe’ Crewe and Nantwich parliamentary seat, I see Tony Blair sitting in a little room watching [...]
Old Glory
Many will know that Barack Obama has been hounded this primary season for simply not wearing an American flag pin on his lapel. It’s utterly ridiculous and has been the topic of one of my rants recently. I discovered this excellent commentary by Roland Martin on CNN this morning. It is well worth a read [...]
As the tide turns
National politics are interesting. Take the US and Britain right now. In the US, the Democrats have just pulled off the amazing feat of winning a House of Representatives seat in a Mississippi district that has not voted Democratic for more than 15 years. The Republicans held the House and Senate from 1994 until 2006 when the [...]
Very, very, very funny
Anyone who knows me knows I love Monty Python, especially the dead parrot sketch. That is why this is hysterical, laugh-out-loud funny…to me at least. Any man who can equate the dying Clinton campaign with the utterfly fantastic Monty Python dead parrot sketch is a clever individual indeed. Helooooooo? Polly? Clinton??
One step removed from all-out electoral fraud
I read this article today in the New York Times about how the Clinton campaign paid people in Texas and other states to round up people to vote on primary day. It was a pay-per-vote kind of ‘get out the vote’ effort. Anywhere from $100 to $200 per person to spend their day getting undecided neighbours, [...]
Stick that in your pipe and smoke it
Obama has gotten some flack recently for his pastor Jeremiah Wright. I found this rather interesting:
…the Rev. John Hagee, lecturing in front of an enormous diorama. Wielding a pointer, he pokes at the image of a woman with Pamela Anderson-sized breasts, her hand raising a golden chalice. The woman is “the Great Whore,” Mr. Hagee [...]
I refer the right honourable gentleman to my previous comment
Article: Obama Faces Test in Asserting His Own Brand of Patriotism
Argument:
In forceful tones, he has warned against using the Sept. 11 attacks to “scare up votes instead of as a way to bring the country together,” condemned the “politics of fear,” and demanded an end to the “mind-set that got us into war” in Iraq. [...]