Archive for April, 2008
Monday, April 21st, 2008
A Freudian Slip
Yes, I know that when you speak in public, you often misplace phrases in a sentence’s proper order and lack the necessary visual aid of punctuation to get your point across as intended. And yes, I am sure that is what happened to Hillary yesterday when she was complaining about Obama’s analysis of her health […]
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
Pathetic All Around
Candidates cannot be everywhere (and often cannot stoop too low into the nasty mud slinging), so they need surrogates on the war path for them. Nevertheless, everyone should know their place. There is a reason why politicians do the talking and the strategists do the strategizing. Politicans are communicators, strategists are not (necessarily). Strategists plan, […]
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Rocky vs. Apollo Creed
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
The Sad State of Hypocrisy
Between ABC News’ choice of debate questions and Billary’s “anything goes” tactics, I really believe that the state of hypocrisy in American politics and the media has reached new heights. If Obama has brought in a whole new generation of voters “who can believe” in the country, the press’ need to keep this race alive […]
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
Et Tu, ABC?
Here is a fantastic article by Jeffrey Feldman in the Huffington Post about the disgraceful performance of George Stephanopoulos and ABC News during Wednesday night’s debate. Why Stephanopoulos went so low into the gutter is anyone’s guess — loyalty to the Clinton’s, to keep the elections alive and people tuned in, or because Corporate America […]
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Upside Down
Last night’s debate was absurd and one sided, as ReWrite correctly points out. Laila Lalami sums it up pretty well by as having been “Upside Down“:
Four million people have been displaced in Iraq, as many as a hundred and fifty thousand have been killed, food prices are causing riots around the world, the economy is […]
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Bob Marley Replayed
Last week while reading Unburnable, I felt some nostalgia for my Bob Marley days. When I was a kid between the ages of maybe 14 and 16, I was obsessed with Bob Marley, Reggae music and Rastafarian culture — though unlike Bill Clinton, the reason I didn’t inhale was because I wasn’t smoking.
Over time, I […]
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Obama Unaffected by Opponents’ Negative Tactics
It is now generally accepted that Hillary only chance left is to pull a coup by negativity. She has to convince the Super Delegates that Obama cannot win in November. Sometimes this is done by directly attacking his persona and other times by spinning the reality on the ground — to pretend that she actually […]
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Euthanasia and the Death Penalty
So there I was — just seconds ago — when I ran across a headline that read, “Supreme Court upholds Kentucky’s use of lethal injections“. My first reaction was to read the headline out loud, so as to evoke a response from my fellow co-worker Joan (who completely ignored me, by the way).
Just the other […]
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Painting Obama
As I have mentioned, Hillary and the Republicans have tried to paint Obama as everything from a radical Black Panther to an elitist. And even at the Associated Press’ annual luncheon in Washington, DC — Dean Singleton, board chair of the Associated Press, mistakenly called Osama Bin Laden, “Obama Bin Laden” while asking Obama a […]
