04 Jun
Remember when I said this back in March? As was completely expected, McCain went there, is using Clinton’s “Commander-in-Chief” line to attack Obama. The McCain camp is going to come up with enough mud to sling on their own; there’s really no need to hand stuff to them. I really wish Clinton’s camp would have […]
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03 Jun
It’s cool to sit here and watch Barack Obama acknowledge that he’s the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States. This, my friends, is history being made. And my family can say we saw him back before he was such a big shot, stumping for Tim Kaine in Richmond in ’05. Here’s photographic […]
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27 May
Not to diminish the reasons and motivations behind the actual celebration of Memorial Day, a worthy day of remembrance and celebration of the service of our nation’s veterans, that more people perhaps ought to consider (particularly, you know, people in power right now, and those seeking power), but I’d honestly rather just put this particular […]
Posted in bitching, life, political, stress by: chuck
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14 May
You know the Democratic primary season has been wearing on too long when not one, but two “respectable” media outlets have likened Hillary Clinton’s campaign to a Monty Python skit. Oh, and PythOnline had something as well, so five three instances. At least. I suspect there are probably more. But none of them repeat the […]
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06 May
Much ado has been made recently about the “gas tax holiday” idea being thrown around by Senators Clinton and McCain as a means of providing relief from high gas prices this summer. According to these two presidential candidates (and pretty much no one else), suspending the 18-point-something cents per gallon federal tax for a three […]
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30 Apr
…this makes me sad. To illustrate a comment made by Senator Clinton the other day, this is the graphic below that Fox News created to reference the Lincoln-Douglas debates: The worst part of this is that while the graphic itself was probably ‘shopped up at the last minute by an intern, none of the producers, […]
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27 Apr
This Op-Ed piece in today’s New York Times is pretty much right on the money. And, it’s just one more reason why Elizabeth Edwards is completely awesome. __________________ Oh, and Scalzi managed to post another perfect example of cat blogging.
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23 Apr
♦ The race rolls on…the small net gain Clinton picked up yesterday will almost surely be cancelled out come May 6. It continues to be essentially a 51-49 split within the party. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, as the vast majority of Democrats (and consistently, Democratic primary turnout has been twice that of the […]
Posted in family, movies and tv, political by: chuck
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22 Apr
VOTE! It’s your day today…who’d have thought primary season would ever have gotten to the point where the Keystone State mattered, huh? Well, you matter now, after weeks and weeks of the whole country staring at you. I’d encourage you registered Democrats to vote for Obama, as I already articulated here. However, more so that […]
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04 Apr
You know what the neatest personal thing so far about the democratic presidential primary season carrying on so long this year is? Hearing an extended piece about Lancaster County PA, it’s people, and their politics on Morning Edition while driving into work today. The story also included an interview with Terry Madonna, my old political […]
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