In the closing days of this historic presidential campaign, a lot of noise has been made by the Republicans, John McCain and right wing ideologues about the amount of money senator Barack Obama has raised in his quest to be the next president of the United States of America. John McCain has complained about...
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“I know how to win wars”
“I am a maverick”
“I have been tested”
“I know how to get Osama Bin Laden”
Hearing senator John McCain make these claims, the totally uninformed is wont to take the word of the 72-year old at face value. After all, he has been celebrated as a war hero; he is a...
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For the first time in the history of elections in the United States of America, we have two candidates who have been found to have abused their powers, violated ethics rules and lied to the American people about their unconscionable actions. Senator John McCain have the unenviable honor of being America’s most unethical presidential...
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Friday October 10, 2008 will go down in history for a number of reasons, but mostly for being the day Americans were hit with the fact that after 200 years of nationhood and after strenuous efforts by our leaders to project an image of maturity, progress and tolerance, we are still a nation searching...
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“Those who have had a chance for four years and could not produce peace should not be given another chance.” – Richard Nixon
“No way to deny it. The current Republican party hates intelligence and competence. It’s become a Know Nothing spectacle led by Sarah Palin. I will ignore my own years of neglect of...
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The dangerous turn the rhetoric has taken on the campaign trail is sure to remind most of us of the ugly stories we have read about lynching of people in the dark days of the creation of the Union. Sarah Palin started us down this dark road and John McCain, as a further evidence...
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I’ll get Osama bin Laden, my friends. I’ll get him. I know how to get him.
I’ll get him no matter what and I know how to do it. But I’m not going to telegraph my punches – Senator John McCain
We’ve heard so much from senator John McCain about how he’ll “get Bin Laden”. The...
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For a presidential candidate who claims for be gearing up to fight the special interests and lobbyists, the campaign of Senator John McCain seems to be infested with the lobbyists he is promising to “fight”. The truth of the matter is, McCain advisors and fundraisers have been registered lobbyists for Fannie Mae or Freddie...
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“Sooner or later people are going to figure out that if all you run is negative attack ads you don’t have much of a vision for the future, or you’re not ready to articulate it.” – Senator John McCain
It is rather painful to watch the degeneration of a man once held in such high...
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Like most of America’s bankrupt and horribly myopic intelligentsia which has contributed in no small measure in pushing the foreign and domestic policies of the Unites States to the extreme right, George Will is not happy that the tried and true tactics of diversion, obfuscation and irrelevant pontification by the Republican party is bouncing...
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Tags: Absentee Ballots, Barack Obama, Barrage, Character Assassination, Democratic Primaries, Deregulation, Domestic Policies, Drivel, Early Voting, Election Cycle, George Will, Intelligentsia, John McCain, Obfuscation, October Surprise, Political Discourse, Pontification, Rational Explanation, Senator John Mccain, Specter, True Tactics, Wing Conservatives
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