A Liberal's Hit List: Oct 9, 2008
What would happen if the entire world could vote i...
'Better days ahead' despite economic nightmare: Ob...
McCain-Palin "followers" are a bunch of f-in' rasc...
But come on, it can't be that much of a global landslide, right? Surely there must be some stiff, stoic nations out there who'd want a grumpy, tempestuous military man to lead the U.S., if only to have someone to play with in the grand sandbox of war and intolerance and oily greed?...(Click here for remainder).
When Democracy Now! spoke to Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Jamie Goodpaster, a public affairs officer for NORTHCOM, she said the force would have weapons stored in containers on site, as well as access to tanks, but the decision to use weapons would be made at a far higher level, perhaps by Secretary of Defense, SECDEF....(Click here for remainder).
Five reasons why Obama may be changing the electoral map for years to come.
Everyone knows about the dreaded Bradley Effect: the phenomenon that leaves white voters loath to tell pollsters they won't vote for a black candidate. There's been a lot of fretting about this recently -- fretting, I find, that correlates with age: the older you are, the more likely you are to believe the Bradley Effect will turn up in this election. Here are some reasons Democrats needn't be overly worried, in ascending order of importance:
1. The event that gave the BE its name -- the 1982 California gubernatorial election, when Tom Bradley, the black mayor of Los Angeles, polled well and then lost resoundingly -- took place 26 years ago. Don't you think the world has changed a little bit since then, especially regarding tolerance? Consider a prejudice once thought to be even more intense than racial prejudice: If we've made even a quarter of the progress in racial matters that we have in issues regarding sexuality, that alone turns the Bradley Effect on its ear.
2. There are 60 million Americans of voting age who hadn't yet reached the age of eight in 1982. Don't you think their racial attitudes are different from the people who have disappeared from the voting roles in that time -- namely, their dead grandparents?...(Click here for remainder).
'Better days ahead' despite economic nightmare: Obama
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana (AFP) - Barack Obama promised Americans "better days ahead" despite another day of carnage on Wall Street and global markets, rising job losses, and dark clouds of economic doom.
Obama's call for national steadfastness in the hours of crisis came as he stretched his lead to 11 points in the latest daily Gallup tracking poll over McCain -- less than four weeks before the November 4 election.
"I'm here today to tell you that there are better days ahead," Obama told a 20,000 strong ethnically diverse crowd in Indiana, a once solid Republican state which is now a battleground.
"I know that many of you are anxious about the future. But this isn't a time for fear or panic. This is a time for resolve and leadership," Obama said, vowing the United States would steer its way out of the crisis....(Click here for remainder).
McCain-Palin "followers" are a bunch of f-in' rascists
A Liberal's Hit List: Oct 9, 2008
What would happen if the entire world could vote i...
'Better days ahead' despite economic nightmare: Ob...
McCain-Palin "followers" are a bunch of f-in' rasc...
But come on, it can't be that much of a global landslide, right? Surely there must be some stiff, stoic nations out there who'd want a grumpy, tempestuous military man to lead the U.S., if only to have someone to play with in the grand sandbox of war and intolerance and oily greed?...(Click here for remainder).
When Democracy Now! spoke to Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Jamie Goodpaster, a public affairs officer for NORTHCOM, she said the force would have weapons stored in containers on site, as well as access to tanks, but the decision to use weapons would be made at a far higher level, perhaps by Secretary of Defense, SECDEF....(Click here for remainder).
Five reasons why Obama may be changing the electoral map for years to come.
Everyone knows about the dreaded Bradley Effect: the phenomenon that leaves white voters loath to tell pollsters they won't vote for a black candidate. There's been a lot of fretting about this recently -- fretting, I find, that correlates with age: the older you are, the more likely you are to believe the Bradley Effect will turn up in this election. Here are some reasons Democrats needn't be overly worried, in ascending order of importance:
1. The event that gave the BE its name -- the 1982 California gubernatorial election, when Tom Bradley, the black mayor of Los Angeles, polled well and then lost resoundingly -- took place 26 years
 ago. Don't you think the world has changed a little bit since then, especially regarding tolerance? Consider a prejudice once thought to be even more intense than racial prejudice: If we've made even a quarter of the progress in racial matters that we have in issues regarding sexuality, that alone turns the Bradley Effect on its ear.
2. There are 60 million Americans of voting age who hadn't yet reached the age of eight in 1982. Don't you think their racial attitudes are different from the people who have disappeared from the voting roles in that time -- namely, their dead grandparents?...(Click here for remainder).
'Better days ahead' despite economic nightmare: Obama
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana (AFP) - Barack Obama promised Americans "better days ahead" despite another day of carnage on Wall Street and global markets, rising job losses, and dark clouds of economic doom.
Obama's call for national steadfastness in the hours of crisis came as he stretched his lead to 11 points in the latest daily Gallup tracking poll over McCain -- less than four weeks before the November 4 election.
"I'm here today to tell you that there are better days ahead," Obama told a 20,000 strong ethnically diverse crowd in Indiana, a once solid Republican state which is now a battleground.
"I know that many of you are anxious about the future. But this isn't a time for fear or panic. This is a time for resolve and leadership," Obama said, vowing the United States would steer its way out of the crisis....(Click here for remainder).
McCain-Palin "followers" are a bunch of f-in' rascists