05 Nov, 2008
Posted by: James In: Politics
John McCain lost the election due to mistakes that are the hallmarks of failed High School Student Council Elections. These are four of the lessons that John McCain should have remembered from High School:
1: The Homecoming Queen is rarely a good candidate: high school kids are smart enough to realize that candidates whose main appeal [...]
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By now, we’ve all heard John McCain tout “Joe the Plumber” (an unlicensed plumber) as his poster child for the middle-class American, but what many Americans don’t know is that John McCain went through a lengthy selection process (even longer than the selection process for Sarah Palin) to find the right poster child to exploit.
Here [...]
The Republican Party has spent the last few days in an awkward spiral of jingoism, as evidenced by a slew of controversial statements. Let’s review the events of the last few days:
Friday, 10/17:
Representative Michele Bachman (R-Minnesota) states that she is “very concerned that [Barack Obama] may have anti-American views”
Saturday, 10/18
Representative Robin Hayes (R- [...]
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According to The Hill, Susan Bruce, a campaign blogger for New Hampshire Representative Carol Shea-Porter, was recently forced to resign after she raised the legitimate concern about Sarah Palin’s abysmal public treatment of her children, including her down syndrome afflicted son, Trig:
“I don’t think that putting a scarlet letter on your own teenager and [...]
John McCain has recently complained about YouTube’s policy of removing campaign videos that infringe upon copyright protection laws is unfair.
As John McCain sees it, removing these videos (which frequently use televised debate footage and pop songs before negotiating the rights to them) ’stifles free speech’.
John McCain has no right to cry about the fair [...]
12 Oct, 2008
Posted by: James In: Outrage
A Quick Tact Quiz for My Readers:
Question: You are a prominent politicians hosting a political rally. While talking about your opponent, your supporters yell “TERRORIST!”, “TRAITOR”, and “KILL HIM!”. Which of the following choices is the right course of action:
A) Calmly ask your supporters to refrain from such inappropriate language
B) Have security remove and detain [...]
09 Oct, 2008
Posted by: James In: Politics
In a move that is sure to rattle Republicans more than Barack Obama’s misinterpreted “lipstick on a pig” comment, conservative columnist David Brooks decried Sarah Palin as a “fatal cancer to the Republican party”. He went on to say that, like George W. Bush, Sarah Palin prejudicially scorns not only liberal ideas, but ideas entirely. [...]
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08 Oct, 2008
Posted by: James In: Humor
In talking about the economy at a rally in Pennsylvania today, John McCain had a rather amusing gaff:
“Across this country, this is the agenda I have set before my fellow prisoners.“
As I see it, there are five possible explanations for this gaff:
1) He had been hoping to invoke his experience as a Prisoner of War [...]
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The Republican Party is actively trying to deprive hundreds of thousands of Americans of their right to vote by illegally purging them from voter rolls, according to a reports by New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice and the Public Interest Group USPIRG (their reports are available here and here, respectively).
This disenfranchisement campaign, which is [...]

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