Articles for Politics

EXCERPT: History is our teacher. The Roman Empire lasted long enough and is well enough documented and studied to give us fair warning. While there are other empires, such as the British, that suggest the same conclusions, the Roman Empire is the greatest study among these.
The question: Is the handwriting on the wall of the coliseum indelible, or can we scrub it off and write a new lesson, a lesson of history and hope for our future generations?
Andrew Lahde, manager of a small California...

EXCERPT: So Sen. John McCain made the centerpiece of his presidential campaign Joe the Plumber. I'm not sure how many central themes this is, 5 or 6, but anyhoo, problems began to scurry out immediately. McCain's meme was that regular guys like Joe would get hit with higher taxes, and not work as hard.
Joe owes back taxes, which means whatever Joe is charged, he ain't paying anyhow.
Joe isn't a licensed Plumber.
Joe makes less than $250,000 meaning he'll get a tax break under Obama's plan.
The...

EXCERPT: According to the NYT:
An energized McCain, rallying supporters in Downingtown, Pa., reiterated his debate themes: He is independent of President Bush, he said, and Obama is a big-spending liberal who would harm small businesses.
"We can't spend the next four years as we've spent much of the last eight, waiting for our luck to change," McCain said. "As I mentioned last night to Sen. Obama, I'm not George Bush, and if he wanted to run against George Bush, he should have run four years...

EXCERPT: Just so we're operating from the same ACORN knowledge base,please read this, My 2 Cents:
CNN Leads Media Failure on ACORN Story
By Zachary Roth - October 14, 2008, 6:26PM
Another day, another effort by the McCain camp to seize the political advantage over the bogus issue of ACORN and voter fraud.
This morning, the campaign trotted out former Missouri Republican senator John Danforth -- playing on his reputation for bipartisanship -- to call on Barack Obama to "rein in ACORN."
Said...

EXCERPT: What debate? McCain’s crotchety, inarticulate, outta-touch Grampy performance sure looked like it was geared to holding his low-info base together rather than appealing to undecided voters -- where I come from, that’s called desperation! Joe, the plumber? That Ohio dude with the tax lien on his house?  Can he be located in any Toledo it coincidental that his surname is the same as that of Charles Keating’s son-in-law who was busted for fraud along...

EXCERPT: OK. So I watched the debate tonight and all I can say is yawn. McCain did just OK. But Obama did just OK too. I really didn't see anything in either one to say yes about.
Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not going to vote for Obama no matter what happens. He doesn't appeal to me in the least probably because I think. I don't make $250,000.00 a year yet. Close, but not quite. But I still fear Obama's tax raising plans, his idea of having our government more...

EXCERPT: The results are in, and Obama mopped the floor with McCain.     McCain did better this time around than he did in the second debate.  But, in his effort to be aggressive he was simply Old Man Shouting at Clouds!!    GoBama and Biden!  On to the White...

EXCERPT: Tonight is the last “debate”, and McCain’s swan song.  McCain must address his nasty insinuations that Barack Obama is at least not trustworthy and may even be an un-American domestic terrorist.    It will come up in the debate, probably broached by the moderator.  McCain could broach it because he promised his pissed off base on television, but it is questionable whether he has the stones.   McCain will be forced, as promised to...

EXCERPT: After both political conventions, when American voters had a chance to see both candidates with out the extremely left-wing biased media filter that is designed to degrade and denigrate republicans and display overwhelming pro-democrat favortism, McCain/Palin were leading by a margin of 3 to 6 points in all the national polls and were pulling away with sizable leads in all the battleground states. All of the sudden the so-called financial meltdown hit and while Senator McCain put...

EXCERPT: Sure, anything can happen during the three weeks preceding an election - but don’t bet the farm that tonight’s debate will even begin to reverse John McCain’s plunge toward political oblivion! Can you think of anything that would restore voter confidence in John’s judgment? In a time of war and unprecedented economic screw-ups, McCain and Palin continue to unapologetically stoke hatred and prejudice among their low-info supporters instead of appealing to...