Recent politics

• Happy Fourth of July!

  Thanks to Zalm for posting this first.

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  July 4th, 2008

• A Day to Remember: One Man Stares Down Tanks in Tiananmen Square

   
   
  The following is from today’s edition of “The Writer’s Almanac,” which can be accessed here.  I encourage you to subscribe to it, if you don’t already.
  It was on this day in 1989 that the Chinese troops stormed Beijing’s Tiananmen Square to crack down on students conducting pro-democracy demonstrations. The demonstrations had begun months earlier, after [...]

  June 4th, 2008

• Offer Hillary Clinton the Vice Presidency? I Think Not

  Shortly after Barack Obama’s meteoric rise earlier this year, many Democrats began to ponder a possible dream ticket comprised of Obama and Hilary Clinton, with either one at the top as the Presidential nominee and the other as the Vice Presidential nominee.  The historic nature of this particular campaign was no doubt part of this [...]

  June 3rd, 2008

• It’s Just a Flesh Wound

  A mashup of Monty Python and the current Democratic Party nomination mess.

  Technorati Tags: Barack Obama,Hilary Clinton,Monty Python,video

  May 23rd, 2008

• President Bush "Sacrifices" his Golf Game for the Troops

  As reported today in salon.com’s column “The War Room”  President Bush decided in 2003 to give up his golf game in support of the troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.  Well, God bless his little pea-picking heart (as my mother used to say).  Alex Koppelman writes (you can read the full article here):

  President Bush sure [...]

  May 14th, 2008

• A Message from Hilary Clinton

  A funny video from SNL.

   
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  May 13th, 2008

• People Are Stupid, Part 2: Obama the Antichrist

  There are times when I am frankly amazed at how stupid some people can be, and this is especially the case when one mixes fundamentalist and literalistic Christianity with politics.  It seems that we now have a new candidate for the position of Antichrist, and his name is Obama.
  I don’t remember how I stumbled upon [...]

  May 5th, 2008

• People Are Stupid, Part 1

  In a recent Pew poll, it was discovered that 10% of American voters believe Barack Obama is Muslim.  And sadly, this idea persists across party lines.  Fourteen percent of Republicans, 10 percent of Democrats and 8 percent of independents think Obama is Muslim, while just over half of each group correctly identified him as Christian, [...]

  April 23rd, 2008

• Two Interesting Quotes

  While perusing The Christian Century today in the Union County (Lewisburg, PA) Public Library, I came across two quotes that struck a nerve in my old liberal self.  The first is from Ellen Goodman (The Boston Globe March 21, 2008) and concerns our current fiscal and economic crisis.  While the Federal Government refuses to "bail [...]

  April 17th, 2008

• Yes, There Are Plenty of Bitter People Out There, and For Good Reason Too.

  Much has been made over the past week or so over some comments that Barack Obama made at a meeting recently in San Francisco.  The words Obama dared to utter were these:
  "You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now [...]

  April 15th, 2008