By Denis Campbell
We’ve celebrated for 2½ weeks and what better way to remember Jack Kennedy on this solemn day than to watch President-elect Obama’s deliberate, studious and principled leadership in action. The hard work began precisely at 11:00 pm on 04 November, healing our land and cleaning up our reputation in the world, after the [...]
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New Camelot Coming; Patience Progressives
Posted on 22 November 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 10000 hours, assasination, Big Three Auto Makers, Bill Richardson, blink, cabinet, Camelot coming, Capitol Hill, colin powell, Commerce, Dallas, Defense, Denis Campbell, Dr, ee Harvey Oswald, Energy Chairmanship, George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, hite House Chief of Staff, Iraq War, James L. Jones, JFK, Joe Biden, Joe Lieberman, John Dingell, John F. Kennedy, King, knows what he does not know, Larry Summers, Lincoln's Team of Rivals, lobbyists, Malcolm Gladwell, NATO, obama, Outliers, patence, perserverance, progressives, Rahm Emanuel, Richard Nixon, Secretary Gates, secretary of state, Supreme Allied Commander, Texas School Book Depository, the tipping point, Timothy Geith, Tom Daschle, Treasury Secretary
Let Get Ready to Ruummbblleee!
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By Denis Campbell
If you liked the US election, you’re gonna love the upcoming PPV steel cage match in the planet’s greatest political theatre. Steps away from London’s West End houses offering titles: Wicked, Les Miserables and The Mousetrap, the House of Parliament’s Prime Minister’s Question Time should be highly entertaining as both parties attempt to [...]
New POTUS, New Name
Posted on 11 November 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (1) | Tags: Capri, Celtic, clinton, codenames, Denis Campbell, Eagle, Joe Biden, Michelle Obama, obama, POTUS, Radiance, Renegade, Rennaissance, Rosebud, Secret Service, VPOTUS, WHCA
by Denis Campbell
Every incoming POTUS and VPOTUS (President of the United States and Vice), has a code name used by their US Secret Service protection detail. The name is chosen by the White House Communications Agency, originally created as the White House Signal Detachment under Franklin Roosevelt.
According to protocol, ‘good’ codewords are unambiguous words that [...]
Fact Checking John McCain
Posted on 17 October 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: abortion, agriculture, Bill Ayers, Bresh of freth air, campaign financing, Canada, Colombia, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, fact checking, Governor Palin, Iraq, Joe Biden, Justice Bryer, Keith Olberman, litmus test, McCain, mortgage rescue plan, MSNBC’s Countdown, no litmus test on any nominee, nuclear leak, obama, Roe v. Wade, Senator Government, taxes, USS Houston
McCain misstatements from the last debate:
• Governor Palin a Bresh of freth air.
• Calling Obama ‘Senator Government’.
• Saying Obama voted for Supreme Court Justice Bryer even though he was confirmed 10 years ago, before Obama was in the Senate.
• Promise he would fight for a line-item veto, which was ruled unconstitutional in 1998.
• Hitching onto [...]
McCain’s Talking Deer Flatlines, Plans Coup?
Posted on 03 October 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 12-years of Blair/Brown rule, 8-years of a co-presidency with Dick Cheney as the most, Article 1 is very clear, blizzard of words, clear limits to VP authority, CNN snap polls, David Cameron, debate school up the creek in Arizona, did much better than expected, didn’t look like a deer in the headlights, does not change the dynamics of the race, does not change the electoral map, Drill baby drill!, his Achilles Heel, Joe Biden, John McCain’s record, Katie Couric, linked inextricably to George W. Bush, maverick image, McCain, McCain’s Talking Deer Flatlines, Mouseketeer Annette, out-classed on points, Plans Coup, pundit David Gergen, right is energised and oh so proud, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin planning for a 2012 Presidential run, Saturday Night Live parody, She didn’t throw up on herself, Snarkiness and dismissiveness work if you can pull it o, snarky, spits out the canned one-line stump zingers and platitu, stringing her banal aww shucks-isms together, suggested the Vice President needed more powers, talking away 20 shows a day on the wall of Disneyland’s, the best debate of his life, Tina Fey, UK has Labour Party fatigue, UK Tory Party, Walt Disney creation, zingers
by Denis Campbell
Could Sarah Palin really be a Walt Disney creation? At some point the comparisons between her and perky Mouseketeer Annette are hard to push out of consciousness. Annette learned her lines and recited them with real “Gosh, Shucks” authenticity in such a way that she became and old man’s and America’s sweetheart (not [...]
The GOP Must’ve Learned Lowering Expectations From A Master
Posted on 02 October 2008 by Charley James | Comments (0) | Tags: 18-year tenure as head coach, alumni association never clamoured for his head, Bloomberg’s Margaret Carlson, challenge Palin’s artful dodging, Charley James, college football’s mantra, country may applaud her ability to stand toe to toe wit, disenchanted grumblings inside the camp about her perfo, era where “win here today or go elsewhere tomorrow”, From 1954 through the 1971 season Warmath was head foot, GOP, Gwen Ifill will have her hands full, he knew it, hiding at John McCain’s Arizona estate, if she doesn’t belch on camera, Joe Biden, Karl Rove, Keith Olbermann, kept his job year-after-so-so-year, Lowering Expectations, McCain’s people are running a straight replay of Murray, MSNBC’s Countdown, Murray Warmath, never won a Bowl Game or a national championship, NewsHour’s Gwen Ifill will be more adept and forceful a, only thing that can change their candidate from a Tina, Politico, Sarah Palin, spent his time compiling a mediocre 65-57-4 record, the master of lowering expectations, Thursday’s debate, Warmath’s teams were never as bad as he predicted, won two Big Ten titles, world’s greatest expert on lowering expectations
by Charley James
No, it’s not Karl Rove. I’m speaking of Murray Warmath.
And who is Murray Warmath when he’s home? He happens to have been the world’s greatest expert on lowering expectations.
From 1954 through the 1971 season, Warmath was head football coach at the University of Minnesota. Although he won two Big Ten titles, mostly he [...]
John McCain’s Obfuscation Talk Express
Posted on 05 September 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 19-months, 62-day, 7-days to scratch the surface of you, 8th month in a row of losses, against the 35-year head of the foreign relations commi, Alaska, Annie Oakley and her gun, Charley James, Comedy Central, Convention, democrats, Donna Reed Show style, eased on down the road, Economy shed 84000 Jobs in August, First Dude, George Bush, hate America, his policies, hopelessly lazy MSM bought the Republican storyline, I wish I was home, Joe Biden, John McCain no longer needs, Jon Stewart, Juneau, keep Sarah hidden from the media, King and Queen of the Republican Prom, liberal media, licking his chops, lie out of both sides of your mouth, lily-white, Madison Avenue, male dominated, matching her two years of executive experience, maverick, McCain, McCain-Palin airplane, mentioned 5-years as a POW at every stop, middle class America, misty-eyed around the flag, obama, Obfuscation Talk Express, obfuscation talk sprint, parallel universe, Pippi Longstocking rebelliousness, praise the talk show loons, re-started the culture wars, Republican talking head, Sarah Palin, she’ll run out of smart-ass 1-liners, showed disturbing images of 9-11, St. Paul, the press politely knows their place, they grow and consume you, tough policy questions, voted for 90+% of the time, Wasilla, whip up your base in fear, you refuse to address or acknowledge your past bullying, your trunk line system was overwhelmed
Balloons fell from the rafters in St. Paul where the Obfuscation Talk Express (Straight, had left the building) crowned the King and Queen of the Republican Prom and eased on down the road to a 1950’s, Donna Reed Show style, lily-white, male dominated, middle class America, where the press politely knows their place and doesn’t ever [...]
The GOP Barracuda Theme Song
Posted on 04 September 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 62-days, 9-week sprint to the finish, a verb and 9-11) Giuliani, ability, Barracuda Theme Song, Clinton-supporting Nevada women, CNN, Country first, crowd pleaser, democrats, Dick Cheney, diversity challenged, electoral count predictor, energised, Excel Centre, focus group, George Bush, Georgia, Governor Sarah Palin, gun-toting, hardly convinced that she was qualified to be vice pres, Hillary Clinton supporting women, hint of culture war, hitwoman, hockey Mom, Huckabee, it was snippy, Joe Biden, language and terror focus, left over from 2004, lily-white, McCain, Mitt Romney, moose hunting, Nevada, New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, obama, Once she started mudslinging I thought it's the same ol, overly harsh "sarcasm" pervading her address, poise, pure red meat GOP partisanship, Republican, Republican National Convention, Republicans looked to redirect the anger with base-plea, Republicans seem to have lost the plot, right wing, Rudy (a noun, she's a good speaker, she's using McCain, the economy, The HUffington Post, tomorrow, two dozen women were reportedly between 30 and 60 years, Undecided, vintage 1992, warm-up act, Washington, weak supporters of Barack Obama, webcast live to reporters, were not as impressed, witness protection program, won over rabid faithful
Country first, ha(!), this was pure red meat GOP partisanship at its best as hitwoman Governor Sarah Palin gave a speech thin on specifics but loaded in every sense of the word with snarky attacks on Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
In the diversity challenged (read lily-white) Excel Centre, the red meat thrown up by Huckabee, [...]
Abstinence, Chastity, Hypocrisy, Control, Belief, Recovery, Redemption… Reality
Posted on 02 September 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: abortion, Abstinence, addressed a near empty convention hall, Alaskan witness protection program aka the Iditarod Rac, beginning of the end of one’s political career, Belief, Bill Buckner, bravery in upholding Christian values, Bristol and Levi, Bush, caring face, Chastity, Cheney, chickens came home to roost, Cindy McCain, compassionate, conservative interview record, Conservative radical Republican group, Control, Convention, Dan Quayle, death by a thousand cuts, Eagleton, Emperor Nero fiddling, FEMA Secretary Chertoff, former Democratic Governor, Governor owns a gun, Gustav, hands-off, has the complete support of President Bush, Hypocrisy, hypocrisy-a-thon, I want my buddy Democrat Joe Lieberman, Joe Biden, lack of vetting, lauding Palin, Laura Bush, lobbyist friends, long shamed his name, McCain, Minneapolis, moral outrage at Bill Clinton, new arrival, New Orleans, New Orleans was being evacuated, nightclub event, Nixon’s dog Checkers, nomination death watch, obama, Olympic standard, on message, Palin nomination death watch continues, partied like it was 1999, party of Lincoln, Party spokespeople trying to bury the story during the, pending nuptials, perfected talking out of both sides of its mouth, pregnant 17-year old daughter of Alaska Governor and VP, publicly forgave, rally his party, Reality, Recovery, Red Sox, Redemtion, Republican lawyers are on the ground in Alaska, Republican members of Congress, Republicans, riot police, Saturday Night, seven deadly sins, seven deadly virtues, shotgun wedding, Smug Religious Right, split screen convention, State Police tasered parents, steady drip of bad news, Straight Talk Express, strayed from the serious message, the Bush team, their failed abstinence pledge, to the stylish renderings of the band Hookers and Blow, took the monkey off his back, troops, two subdued hours of party business, what other surprises may lurk, when sin and virtue collide, White House, will now NOT speak, won the World Series
These seven deadly virtues ran headlong into the seven deadly sins as The Straight Talk Express and Smug Religious Right collided head on in New Orleans and Minneapolis yesterday. Dozens were wounded in separate incidents as riot police and troops stood at the ready to bring everyone forcibly on message.
Facing no choice, the same Conservative [...]
Doubling Down – Maverick Brilliance or Misguided Misogyny?
Posted on 30 August 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (2) | Tags: $500 shoes, 1988, 44-year-old's thin political résumé, 7-out line in, a bit scary, a gambler has a better chance of winning than the house, a heartbeat from the Oval Office, a mind is a terrible thing to waste, Alaska ain’t Kansas Toto, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, attract disaffected women, before W Bush took the title, bold, Bush and Cheney, casino craps shooter, Casino goers flock to craps tables, China is a big country inhabited by many Chinese, compulsive gambler, conservative editorial board, criticism of the experience of Sen. Barack Obama, Dan Quayle, debate, Doubling Down, dropping a few thousand dollars at the table is within, faces a hurricane of revolt inside his own party, first evening, flaming out after one term, flip-flops, foreign affairs, funky, gambling with the economy, high roller, Hillary Clinton supporters, hurricanes will likely make landfall, I hate spunk, Indiana Senator Dan Quayle, infuriated GOP strategist Karl Rove, initial shock of his selection, insult to the intelligence of Hillary supporters, Joe Biden, Joe Lieberman, last unknown Republican choice, less time in the governors' mansion than Sen. Obama has, Lou Grant, lowest house odds, mangling the NAACP slogan, Mary Tyler Moore television comedy, Mary you’ve got spunk, Mass. Governor Mitt Romney, maverick Bill Clinton, Maverick Brilliance, mayor of Wasilla, McCain, Misguided Misogyny, NAACP, nervous chuckle, obama, oldest person to enter the White House, placed all his chips behind the Pass Line, placed an 11th hour call to Lieberman begging him to wi, poulation 9780, presumed Republican Presidential nominee, Quayle-isms, remind America, reminding voters of Bush failure during his convention, reporters pore over her background, riding the coattails of a very popular and revered Repu, scoops up all his chips, Senator You’re no John Kennedy, split screen havoc, spunky, stole the headline but not the bounce, temperament, Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen, the House always wins, the mess we are in, the perfect storm, The Wall Street Journal, thrilled Democratic strategists, Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota, trail feature, turned 72 Friday, twin Hurricanes Gustav and Hanna bear down on New Orlea, unbalanced, US Senate, virtually unknown, VP selection, wearing thin, what a terrible thing it is to lose one’s mind, woman, women flocking to McCain
Prolific high-roller casino craps shooter and presumed Republican Presidential nominee John McCain yesterday placed all his chips behind the Pass Line hoping that his VP selection of a virtually unknown woman, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, will hit before the croupier calls “7-out, line in” and scoops up all his chips.
The initial shock of his selection [...]
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