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Welcome Joe!

Welcome Joe!

August 23, 2008 1:04 pm
Many will deride your selection as ‘old politics as usual’ but from this chair you bring more straight talk than McCain now seems capable of doing as well as balance,...

Posts Tagged ‘clinton’

Why John?

You promised a clean campaign. You pledged to bring honour and dignity to the campaign trail. You wanted the campaign to be about real issues facing real people. Is it because you ran a dignified campaign in ’00 and were brutally blind-sided by the thugs running the Bush/Rove/Cheney campaign? Does your party honestly believe this [...]

The Race Card

With 90-days to go, Swiftboating Season has begun in earnest as charges and counter-charges by each candidate’s camp of injecting race into the election turned the current US Presidential race into that of a popularity contest for high school class president. No. I must apologise. That characterisation demeans the thousands of young students who prepare [...]

“Senator Clinton, You’re No Margaret Thatcher”

(Reprise article) Sen. Lloyd Bentsen eviscerated GOP VP rival Dan Quayle with this debate remark stating “he was no Jack Kennedy.” Four years ago I cast a vote AGAINST George H. W. Bush’s son rather than FOR John Kerry. I intend to vote FOR a candidate this year. You are making it very difficult.

BBC Worldwide Profits from Global Dearth of Quality TV

Yes Virginia, there is quality television and the BBC (referred here in the UK as the Beeb) via worldwide broadcasts of Dr. Who, Jeremy Clarkson’s Top Gear, the dignified BBC News and countless documentaries, proved last week there is a global appetite for it by posting a £118 ($234) million pound profit for the past [...]

You Right Very Well . . .

. . . began the comment from a graduate of Oxford University. I gave him the chance to correct his post. Today’s feed from The Telegraph though held little surprise… “more than half of 200 respondents to a survey by the Association of Graduate Recruiters expressed concern about the lack of graduate’s writing skills, while [...]

Vice Presidential Bingo

At left is your very own Veep-stakes bingo card (print and collect the entire set) as Barack Obama and John McCain play that time-tested game of finding someone who will bring them victory in 1-4 key swing states and then can be ignored for 8-years because they are willing to step into the background. Haven’t [...]