Archive for September, 2008
Friday, September 26th, 2008
My Campaign Pledge
Grave Error is not a political blog. That was never its intention. The problem is that sometimes I get a little carried away by what I perceive to be extreme political cynicism (yeah, like over 130 times just this year). As a matter of fact, I have always been rather sensitive to and disturbed by […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Digressions, Obama 08 by eric
Thursday, September 25th, 2008
The McCain Palin Microcosm
How would you even begin to analyze the recent footage from Katie Curic’s interview with Sarah Palin? If you thought that predator lenders were evil in pushing mortgages on naive Americans who wanted homes but couldn’t afford them, imagine a national congressional veteran convincing a small town rookie (and attempting to convince voters) that she […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Essays, Obama 08 by eric
Thursday, September 25th, 2008
McCain at the CGI but Not the Debate?
I thought that McCain had suspended his campaign and was calling to postpone the presidential debates to focus on solving the country’s economic woes. It was better to be on Capitol Hill than at a debate in front of the American people. That wasn’t just a cynical last ditch effort to turn around the latest […]
No Comments » - Posted in Essays, Obama 08 by eric
Thursday, September 25th, 2008
Let’s Call the Whole Thing (Temporarily) Off
McCain says “tomato” and then he says “tomoto”, why not temporarily suspend the campaign so he can get his story straight? Remember last week when the economy was fundamentally sound? Now it is in such dire straits that he has postponed his campaign and tomorrow night’s presidential debates so he can crash his straight talk […]
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
Unprecedented Censorship: How Bad Can She Be?
The press has threatened to boycott Palin’s U.N. speed date today with world leaders because the McCain Palin team were refusing to allow reporters access to the Republican vice presidential candidate. She still hasn’t held a single press conference. For the vice presidential debate, the Republicans have negotiated a format of short questions to further […]
No Comments » - Posted in Essays, Obama 08 by eric
Sunday, September 21st, 2008
Why Would You Want to Win?
Whenever I speak with my father about these elections, I always ask his opinion about Obama’s chances of winning. And ever since early January of this year, he has always had the same response, “Why would Obama want to win?” His argument was, even way back nine months ago, that whoever wins would face two […]
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Friday, September 19th, 2008
Remember Paula Jones?
Do you remember Paula Jones? I bet you remember Monica Lewinsky. Paula was suing Bill Clinton, and in the course of the discovery process, Bill tried to hide his relationship with Monica, just in case it could be used as evidence against him. Later when he was being investigated for perjury and suborning perjury, President […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Essays, Obama 08 by eric
Friday, September 19th, 2008
How Do You Talk to an Angel?
Believe it or not, I was just reading something that was not about the U.S. presidential elections. It was much more profound. I happened upon an article about the new 90210 spin-off. The original Beverly Hills, 90210 came out during my first few months of college back in 1990. That was also the year of […]
No Comments » - Posted in Digressions, Friends / Family by eric
Friday, September 19th, 2008
Bring in the Marines
John McCain is a tough guy, and like all tough guys he solves problems by being tough. Toughness is definitely what we need, and if John Wayne McCain were president, he’d fire the chairman of the S.E.C. Then he’d probably convene the Joint Chiefs of Staff and bring in General David Petraeus to clean up […]
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
In Praise of Regulations
One thing that has historically set the U.S. apart from other nations is its strong adherence to the Rule of Law. Not just through legislation, but through regulations (and the U.S.’s special brand of rules for promulgating regulations), the country has been able to afford all sorts of protections to consumers, workers, investors and businesses […]
