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Monday, October 6th, 2008
The Keating Five
You kind of wonder why the McCain Palin gang waited so long to overtly go after Obama for being anti-American? In defending Palin’s recent comments about Obama “not being one of us”, McCain Palin surrogate Heather Wilson (R-NM) yesterday accused Obama of going to Germany to speak poorly about America. She claimed that
[Obama has] been […]
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Sunday, October 5th, 2008
Poor Journalism
I just read an article that was titled “Palin says Obama ‘palling around’ with terrorists‘”. This is just another example of the irresponsible journalism that has plagued these elections. The author, Jim Kuhnhenn of the Associated Press, should be ashamed of himself. Why is a factually inaccurate statement by Palin whose sole purpose is to […]
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Saturday, October 4th, 2008
War and Consumption: How America is Out of Touch with the World
If you’ve listened to John McCain’s repetitive line that Barack Obama just doesn’t understand the problems facing the world, then maybe you’d be surprised to the learn that the vast majority of the world would prefer to see Obama in the White House.
A recent Economist survey and poll that divided the world up into theoretical […]
5 Comments » - Posted in Essays, Obama 08 by eric
Friday, October 3rd, 2008
A Final Word on Palin
Now that the Vice Presidential debate is over, it’s about time I get over Sarah Palin too. As a matter of fact, I am no longer interested in dedicating any significant amount of space on this blog to the Republican vice presidential nominee. Nevertheless, I will end by saying this: Both Joe Biden and Sarah […]
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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
Shocking!
The truce is over, I am back to writing about the elections. In the latest installment of the Palin-Couric exchange, Palin has really outdone herself again. As a politician, Palin is free to have her political views on the issues of the day, and we as voters are free to agree or disagree with those […]
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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
While I was Not Writing About the Election
Last Friday, I made a campaign pledge to forgo writing about the Presidential Election for a total of five days. My intention was not just to give the entire Obama v. McCain thing a break, but to get back to some of my more fun-loving, down home (golly-jeepers, can’t think of the word, kind of, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
