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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 [...]

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 [...]

14 Oct, 2008

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Flippants

Posted by: James In: Feminism

According to The New York Times, a recent Republican fund raising reception managed to suck more than a million dollars out of the hands of hundreds of Hillary Clinton’s fair-weather supporters, some of whom traitorously contributed more than twenty five thousand dollars of their blood money to John McCain.
This disgusting display of misplaced activism is [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

07 Oct, 2008

Sarah Palin: the face of pseudo-feminism.

Posted by: James In: Feminism

According to the Los Angelas Times, Sarah Palin has seduced another proselyte, this time Shelly Mandell, president of the Los Angelas chapter of the National Organization for Women.
In introducing Sarah Palin, Mandelll, a theoretical lifelong Democrat, suggested that Sarah Palin is “what a feminist looks like”.
If I were asked what a Feminist looks like, I [...]

Anybody who has tried to play the “family values” drinking game during televised McCain/Palin rallies has probably found themselves in a disappointing state of sobriety.
Why are they silent on this usually exciting buzz phrase? Because to repeat it would expose them to the media’s embarrassing spotlight and the hypocrisy it would reveal.
Let’s expose John McCain [...]

15 Sep, 2008

Evangelicals are Simple-minded Sadists.

Posted by: James In: Uncategorized

According to a poll conducted by Faith in Public Life and Mercenary University, 57% of White, Southern Evangelicals think it’s justified for America to torture suspected terrorists into giving us information.
Although, Evangelicals have a Golden Rule exemption here: 52% said that the Enemies’ torture of American Troops is rarely or never justified.
Not that the Golden [...]

14 Sep, 2008

Palin’s Corrupt Cronyism Culture

Posted by: James In: Uncategorized

According to this article from the New York Times, Sarah Palin offers more of the same, Bush-style politics that have plagued the United States for the last eight years.
Apparently, she appointed a former classmate to direct Alaska’s Division of Agriculture (a 2 Million Dollar Agency) on the sole basis of a stated “Childhood love of [...]

12 Sep, 2008

The GOP Understands Only War

Posted by: James In: Uncategorized

The GOP has recently ridiculed Colorado representative Mark Udall and his support of a “Department of Peace” through an ad in which a hippie decries this effort in front of a VW Microbus that, when the door is opened, billows thick clouds of grey smoke.
This shows the absurdity of the GOP’s values. They don’t mind [...]


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