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Showing posts with label 2008 election. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2008 election. Show all posts
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Monday, October 6, 2008
John McCain and The Making of a Financial Crisis
This video from the Obama campaign highlights the 'maverick' John McCain and his role in the Keating Five.
Palin Remains Mute as Supporter Advocates Violence
The Palin/McCain campaign have resorted to lies and hatred to win this election at any cost. This, however, crosses the line and has thrust the election into utter madness.
Okay, so Florida, you know that you're going to have to hang onto your hats," Sarah Palin told a rally of a few thousand here this morning, "because from now until Election Day it may get kind of rough."
You betcha. And the person dishing out the roughest stuff at the moment is Sarah Palin.
"I was reading my copy of the New York Times the other day," she said.
"Booooo!" replied the crowd.
"I knew you guys would react that way, okay," she continued. "So I was reading the New York Times and I was really interested to read about Barack's friends from Chicago."
It was time to revive the allegation, made over the weekend, that Obama "pals around" with terrorists, in this case Bill Ayers, late of the Weather Underground. Many independent observers say Palin's allegations are a stretch; Obama served on a Chicago charitable board with Ayers, now an education professor, and has condemned his past activities.
"Now it turns out, one of his earliest supporters is a man named Bill Ayers," Palin said.
"Boooo!" said the crowd.
"And, according to the New York Times, he was a domestic terrorist and part of a group that, quote, 'launched a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and our U.S. Capitol,'" she continued.
"Boooo!" the crowd repeated.
"Kill him!" proposed one man in the audience.
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Economy Ties War as Top Voter Concern
This from the AP:
The faltering economy has caught the Iraq war as people's top worry, a national poll suggests, with the rapid turnabout already showing up on the presidential campaign trail and in maneuvering between President Bush and Congress.
Twenty percent named the economy as the foremost problem in an Associated Press-Ipsos poll released Friday, virtually tying the 21 percent who cited the war. In October, the last time the survey posed the open-ended question about the country's top issue, the war came out on top by a 2-1 majority.
About equal proportions of Republicans, Democrats and independents in the new poll said the economy was their major worry, suggesting the issue looms as a potent one in both parties' presidential contests. It was also cited evenly across all levels of income, underscoring the variety of economic problems the country faces.
Amid increasing trade, job, housing, stock market and gasoline price woes, candidates from each party have started talking about how they would bolster the economy. The issue looms as the dominant one in the next presidential contest: Tuesday's Republican primary in Michigan, which had a 7.4 percent unemployment rate in November that is the nation's worst.
Friday, January 4, 2008
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Monday, December 17, 2007
Lieberman endorses McCain
This is really no surprise.
The Democratic vice presidential nominee in 2000 endorsed Republican John McCain for president on Monday, scandalizing Democrats in Washington and giving the GOP hopeful a much-needed boost in New Hampshire where independents outnumber Republicans and Democrats.
Sen. Joseph Lieberman, an independent who caucuses with the Democrats, said he chose his longtime Senate colleague because he has the best shot of breaking partisan gridlock in Washington. Both men also are strong and vocal supporters of the war in Iraq.
"On all the issues, you're never going to do anything about them unless you have a leader who can break through the partisan gridlock," said Lieberman, who was Al Gore's running mate seven years ago. "The status quo in Washington is not working."
The status quo? This coming from Joe Lieberman who has been in the Senate since 1988. John McCain has been in the Senate since 1986. It is almost laughable for anyone that has practically taken root in a Senate chair to mention status quo.
Partisan gridlock? This has become the slogan of Joe Lieberman. Any discussion about issues in Washington are somehow 'partisan' in his view, and should be avoided. I don't suppose his weekly jaunts over to Fox News to do his weekly Democratic bash session is in any way 'partisan'?
Friday, December 14, 2007
The Latest Poll Numbers from South Carolina
Here are the latest numbers from South Carolina.
THE NUMBERS - DEMOCRATS
Hillary Rodham Clinton, 42 percent
Barack Obama, 34 percent
John Edwards, 16 percent
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THE NUMBERS - REPUBLICANS
Mike Huckabee, 24 percent
Fred Thompson, 17 percent
Rudy Giuliani, 16 percent
Mitt Romney, 16 percent
John McCain, 13 percent
Ron Paul, 11 percent
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Rudy Giuliani- The 30 Million Dollar Question
I think that we have all seen enough corruption in Washington to last several life times. Apparently Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani hopes to continue the filthy way the government now operates. Yesterday in Iowa, he had this to say about spending in Washington:
While he said repeatedly that government spending should be reduced, Giuliani said military spending is one part of the budget that should be increased. "I don't think we ever made up for the peace dividend we took in the 1990s," he said. Invoking Ronald Reagan, he said military spending sends a message to countries like China and Russia: "We need to say it doesn't make sense to get into an arms race with the United States."
I'm sure the Republicans were quick to applaud his tough guy stance on defense and his calls for increased spending. After reading an article in Time today, one must wonder if the following is the real reason that he supports increased defense spending.
Not long after he stepped down as mayor of New York City, Rudy Giuliani received an intriguing offer. A group of officials from a Florida company called Seisint Inc. asked him to promote a powerful new database technology capable of tracking potential terrorists and other criminals. Their timing was perfect. Giuliani had just opened Giuliani Partners (GP), a consulting shop that planned to specialize in helping companies like Seisint grow. "Nobody knew us; everybody knew him," says Michael Brauser, a major shareholder who negotiated the December 2002 contract between GP and the Boca Raton based firm. "It was an unbelievable fit."
For Giuliani's new company, it was a remarkably profitable fit too. GP pulled in more than $30 million for just one year's work on Seisint's behalf, company records show. Big paydays have not been unusual for GP, which in just five years has reaped tens of millions of dollars from clients at home and abroad, a business success story closely linked to Giuliani's fame as a hero of 9/11. That same legacy has propelled him to the top tier of Republican presidential candidates.
The lines between public and private business continues to blur. Politicians consistently espouse many issues that resonate with the public only later to be exposed as having an ulterior motive behind their actions. We have all seen how the Cheney-Halliburton connection was exploited to the hilt with profits of Halliburton increasing dramatically over the last few years.
These Conservatives talk a good game when telling their supporters that they will solve the nations economic woes. Free markets, less taxes, personal responsibility. This will do it! No 'nanny state' as Giuliani so proudly proclaimed when denouncing any type of government health care reform. The only problem is, you see, that more money for programs that can help people like me and you ultimately means less money for the Halliburtons and Giuliani Partners of the world. Pretty simple when you think about it.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Kucinich Left Out of Democratic Debate
This is wrong on so many levels.
Dennis Kucinich has been excluded from Thursday's Democratic debate.
In a press release, the Kucinich campaign fumed: "The highest polling Democratic Presidential candidate among the Party's progressive, grassroots, activist base, Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich, has been excluded from the Des Moines Register-sponsored Presidential debate here on Thursday because his Iowa field director operates from a home office rather than a rented storefront."
In a statement included in the Kucinich release, the Register said it "was our determination that a person working out of his home did not meet our criteria for a campaign office and full-time paid staff in Iowa." The person they are referring to is Kucinich Iowa Field Director and State Coordinator Marcos Rubinstein, "who coordinates campaign activities from his home office in Dubuque, bolstered by a dozen-or-so other senior campaign staff who have traveled the state over the past several months," according to the Kucinich campaign.
In the latest Register poll of likely Democratic caucus-goers in Iowa, Kucinich came in at 1 percent support, the same as Chris Dodd. In the most recent CBS News/New York Times poll of Democrats nationally, Kucinich had 2 percent support – more than Dodd and the same as Bill Richardson and Joe Biden. Dodd, Richardson and Biden were all invited to Thursday's debate.
Interestingly, the Register is including Alan Keyes in it's Republican debate today, despite the fact that he has little support and has been left out of most debates thus far.
No matter what your personal feelings about his candidacy, his exclusion from the debate is wrong. I happen to agree with him on many of his positions on the issues today. I will still watch the debate but personally feel that an important voice has been silenced by this decision.
2008 Election- It's that Important
The focus of this blog since its inception has been on the economy and the effects that free trade and globalization have had in our world today. While I will continue to talk about these issues, I will shift some of the focus on the upcoming 2008 election. Although I often said back in 2004 that no other election was ever so important, that feeling is much more urgent this time around. I do not think that the country (or world, for that matter), can continue on this path that we now follow.
The issues of the economy, globalization and free trade are all very important to me personally, but the disastrous Republican foreign policy (or the lack of) that we have experienced the last few years deserves serious attention.
I will be shifting the focus somewhat for the foreseeable future and examining some of the positions taken by the prospective candidates from both parties. It is only by understanding the issues that people can really cast their ballots. God, gays and guns needs to go the way of the wagon wheel. The politics of division and fear have done nothing but cause internal strife and have created more and more problems along the way.
It is time for Americans to get out of their collective bubble and reflect on where we are as a nation. Renditions, torture, economic disparity, false wars of aggression- this is not our country. We must stop worrying about what sweatshop goods are on sale this week and take a good look in the mirror. Do we really want to be like so many other rogue regimes of the past and consistently endorse the worst elements of human nature or do we want to rise up and start repairing our country and the crumbling image of America in the world today? Do we wish to tackle the hard economic problems that we face or simply look the other way and let another generation worry about it?
These are some of the things that I will focus in the foreseeable future. It's only by understanding and talking about the issues as well as holding politicians accountable that any real meaningful change will occur.
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
YouTube Politics- John Edwards America Rising
John Edwards kicks off the America Belongs to Us bus tour in Iowa.
Monday, December 3, 2007
John Edwards at the Heartland Presidential Forum
A clip of John Edwards at the recent Heartland Presidential Forum. He seems to be the only candidate that dares speak out about the out of control corporations and the many unfair business practices that have become commonplace today. Take a look...
National Debt Grows $1 Million a Minute
The AP has an excellent article out today highlighting our ever growing national debt.
Like a ticking time bomb, the national debt is an explosion waiting to happen. It's expanding by about $1.4 billion a day — or nearly $1 million a minute.
What's that mean to you?
It means almost $30,000 in debt for each man, woman, child and infant in the United States.
Even if you've escaped the recent housing and credit crunches and are coping with rising fuel prices, you may still be headed for economic misery, along with the rest of the country. That's because the government is fast straining resources needed to meet interest payments on the national debt, which stands at a mind-numbing $9.13 trillion.
And like homeowners who took out adjustable-rate mortgages, the government faces the prospect of seeing this debt — now at relatively low interest rates — rolling over to higher rates, multiplying the financial pain.
Surprisingly, our national debt has not been a major campaign issue in the presidential primaries so far. In my opinion, candidates would be wise to speak up about this ticking time bomb or else be blamed when the house of cards comes tumbling down...
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