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We’re All Proud of Mama McCain
Posted on 16 May 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 97 years old, John McCain, mother, Roberta McCain, Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Dittoheads Dropping Like Flies
Posted on 16 March 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (1) | Tags: 60% percent drop in sales of her latest tome, Alan Colmes, Ann Coulter, California lost conservative radio voices, citizen George W. Bush, Collins Michael Steele, creepy Mr. Rogers impersonator LA Gov. Jindal, earmarks are the bane of our existence, forge a compromise with the Democrats, former Hannity “liberal” sidekick, GOP in Exile, historically revised Reagan song sheet, Intro to Political Science lecture, Joe Scarborough (former GOP Congressman and host of Mor, John ("Oh My GOD") Boehner, John McCain, John Ziegler, keep the state running, Larry Elder, lead talking head of the Republican Party, Mark Larson, Mark Williams, Meet the Press, Melanie Morgan, more on-camera gaffes than former VP Dan Quayle in fron, MSNBC, Pat Buchanan, perennial GOP loser Alan Keyes, Phil Cowen, Rachel Maddow Show, Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia, Republican Governor, Republican National Committee (today), Rush Limbaugh, Schwarzenegger’s drift to the centre, SMU, Snowe, Spectre, their stations replaced them with cheaper nationally sy, this week’s GOP sacrificial lamb, US Conservative Talk radio in trouble, Wash Rinse Repeat because it’s going to take awhile
Is US Conservative Talk radio in trouble? Rush Limbaugh may be the lead talking head of the Republican Party but California lost conservative radio voices: Mark Larson, Larry Elder, John Ziegler, Melanie Morgan, Phil Cowen and Mark Williams as their stations replaced them with cheaper nationally syndicated programs. When the CA legislature sat in session for [...]
An Open Letter to Right Wing-Nut Racist Republicans
Posted on 18 December 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (1) | Tags: 1950’s Donna Reed Show view of the world, 2 wars, a cocktail joke, all that matters, always refute and dismiss anyone you disagree with, Argument over, attempts to portray our next President as a “lying Musl, Bill O‘Reilly, blind faith, blind pronouncements, born again, bust unions, campaign of fear and hate didn’t work, Caribou Sarah, cascade of boos, Clinton years, colin powell, could share a beer with, David Cameron in the UK during Prime Ministers Question, demand that God Bless America instead of offering a pra, Denis Campbell, deny gay marriages, do not exist, economic meltdown, every new scandal, everyone (but you) has to follow it, forgetting or dismissing as the devil’s work everything, four year olds in a schoolyard, grin and care not a whit what anyone else thinks, hide behind passages of the Bible you feel are relevant, His imperfections were known to all, his prime teachings by the way, I want my God and my country back, if engaged you go back to the standard line, jamming your thumbs in your ears welding your eyes shut, Joe the Plumber, John McCain, KILL HIM, narrow-minded xenophobia, News flash, Newt Gingrich, norm from this dogmatic place, offering hugs, Open Letter to Right Wing-nut Racist Republicans, pray together for the rapture you think is coming to sa, proclaiming access to some divine secret, put you further on the fringe than you already are, rail publicly against compassion, re-write the Bush legacy and history, rest of us allow doubt and uncertainty to actually be p, Rush Limbaugh, sad and deluded group, Sarah Palin, say the most hateful and despicable things about anothe, shoes being thrown at our Commander in Chief, sick, Sick and tired of your media mouthpieces claiming they, smarmy one-liners, somehow your salvation and absolution for the inconsist, southern Senators trying to bankrupt the Big Three, spiritual arrogance runs every aspect of your life, talk incessantly of God, TERRORIST, tolerance, true hatred of anyone not like you, understanding, unreal and untenable, wants nothing to do with you, we became a third world nation with nukes, We’ve had that for 8-years, will never share from where that ‘truth’ comes for fear, work of the uninformed, you become less than irrelevant, you don’t know the truth like I do, you know!, you left crazy a few weeks ago, you lost, you made it personal and a bloodsport, You want your President to be like you, yours bring out the ugliest sides of your constituency
By Denis Campbell
Your campaign of fear and hate? It didn’t work. Your attempts to portray our next President as a “lying Muslim socialist with no experience who hates our flag and Constitution and what this country was founded on.” It will put you further on the fringe than you already are. I’m really just sick [...]
National Masochism: Only Way To Explain Tight Presidential Poll Numbers
Posted on 22 September 2008 by Charley James | Comments (0) | Tags: Angler, Barton Gellman, Bill Clinton, bin Laden, Bush, Cheney and the Republicans took us to war against a cou, Cheney said. This is our due, Delay, deserved better than to be covered in horse shit by the, fix the looming crisis in Social Security, Fixing Social Security, George Bush, got busted in this slezy scam, gutting the Constitution, handed a large budget surplus by a Democratic president, hate Social Security Abramoff, Iranians, Iraq War, Isn't the punishment for treason hanging?, John Maynard Keynes, John McCain, Karl Rove, lied to, Majority Leader Dick Armey, National Masochism, peaceful protesters at the RNC in St. Paul are actually, Republicans came to Washington in 2000, Ronald Reagan, Saddam's evil scientists suitcase nuke, Saddam's family was al-Qaeda, Scooter Libby, See anyone swinging by their neck?, solid majority in both houses of Congress and on the Su, the whole K-Street crowd, they immediately ran up a gargantuan deficit. doubled t, Tight Presidential Race, unpatriotic PATRIOT Act, using the surplus to pay down the national debt, Valerie Plame, We won the mid-terms, you save deficit spending for a recession
by Charley James
I don’t understand.
Republicans came to Washington in 2000 with a solid majority in both houses of Congress and on the Supreme Court, allowing them to steal the presidency. If you ever wanted to know what a pure Republican Party government unhindered by Democrats or anyone else might look like, this was the moment.
After [...]
Perception, Terrorism and Race
Posted on 02 August 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 9-11, attention problem, Berlin Paris, Blackberry slaves, blow jobs, blue dress stains, Brandenburg Gate, campaign trail, Charlie Black, Christian, Clinton Administration, Clinton Telco’s, CNN, code words, Dr. King, Eiffel Tower, EU, fear of black men and white women together, FISA bill, FOX, French looking, George W. Bush, God’s honest truth, helicopter parenting, impeachment, Independent, Iraq adventure, JFK, John Kerry, John McCain, Karl Rove, Main Street USA, MSNBC, new ground, obama, Operation Swift Boat, opportunistic Pol, perception, racism, Red Bull, Republicans, right’s obsession, smear machine, soft on terrorism, stress, terrorist attack “good for John McCain”, the heart of fear in America, too little sleep, triple war amputee Georgia Senator Max Cleland, Undecided, unseemly comments, USA, what you are is more important than what you say
In America’s heartland, anything that paints Barack Obama as (place your fear mongering adjective here) passes as “God’s honest truth” even when proven a lie. MSNBC reported yesterday, “Gerri Kish, (is) 66-year-old (and) born in Hawaii, read both of Obama’s autobiographies. She has close friends, she said, who still refuse to believe her when she [...]
$69,100 From Swift Boat Friends
Posted on 08 July 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 45th anniversary of Dr. King’s, 57 contests, acceptance speech, Arizona, battle scarred and tested candidate, Carly Fiorina, Chicago, Democratic Party brain trust, desperate to chink away at Obama’s armour, Eddie Murphy, foreign trip, former hp CEO, gaffes, Gallup, game on, global audience of millions, handled with kid gloves, hitting solid line drives up the middle, in red states, John Kerry, John McCain, July leaders have lost six of the last nine contests, Karl Rove double standard attack politics, Libertarian/conservative Bob Barr, looks tougher, maintaining his lead. VP selection, Meet Dave, moves forward, moving to the centre, never takes his eye off the prize, obama, old every day, one-sided, outdoor 75, Pepsi Centre, public finance system, punchline too late, Ralph who?, Republican attack bullets, respond a second or so behind, robot, Ross Perot’s 10% in ’92, running mate, scoring runs, senior citizen, siphons from McCain, sloppy national reporting, smile too forced, solid Obama leads, stays the course, Straight Talk Express, stronger, Swift Boat Friends, team of tiny robot operators, the media, the world will clamour to greet him, tired, toe-to-toe with Billary, younger, Zogby, ‘I Have a Dream’ speech
It has been a silly-season weekend where Senator McCain and poor, sloppy national reporting made a non flip-flop from Barack Obama the weekend lead attack and pushed Senator McCain’s own acceptance of $69,100 in funds from the same Swift Boat group that smeared John Kerry in 2004 and which he denounced disappear from the headlines. [...]
She United and It Feels So Good
Posted on 28 June 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Bob Barr, democratic party, DNC chairman. Al Gore, Grover Norquist, he’s Kerry with a tan. racist comment, Howard Dean, John McCain, Libertarian/conservative votes, Nader, New Hampshire Clinton, obama, Olbermann, Republican, Ross Perot, Unity
Olbermann said it first. More than a bad pun, the Democratic Unity, New Hampshire photo-op happened yesterday. Newshounds desperate for a story angle spoke of backstage tensions between their handlers or jumped briefly on trivial Republican, Grover Norquist’s “he’s Kerry with a tan” racist comment, until they saw who said it. To listen to pundits [...]
One Historic Night, Two Americas
Posted on 08 June 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 9-11, Frank Rich, Iraq, John McCain, Louisiana, New York bunker, New York Times, NYT ONline, obama, pronoun "I"
NYT ONline Op-Ed
By FRANK RICH
Published: June 8, 2008
WHEN Barack Obama achieved his historic victory on Tuesday night, the battle was joined between two Americas. Not John Edwards’s two Americas, divided between rich and poor. Not the Americas split by race, gender, party or ideology. What looms instead is an epic showdown between two wildly different [...]
“The Fierce Urgency of Now,” 45 Years Later
Posted on 05 June 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Bobby Kennedy, Chicago, clinton, I Have a Dream, John McCain, Kenya, Martin Luther King, Minneapolis, obama, President, Senate, Xcel Energy Center
The last 36-hours have been overwhelming in historical significance. A young black man, born of mixed-race parents, raised by a single white mother in Indonesia and later white grandparents in Hawaii, obtained a top Ivy League education, worked as a lawyer in Chicago helping to organise union members, ran unsuccessfully for Congress, then became a [...]
Is it over?
Posted on 04 June 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Chicago, clinton, CNN, Court TV, delegate count, Excel Center, FOX, John McCain, Louisiana, Minneapolis, Montana, Mr. Rogers, New York, obama, OJ Simpson trial, South Dakota
Can we come out now and go back to our lives? No? Barack has won but Hillary has not conceded? Aaaaargh! I feel like I did living in LA during the OJ Simpson trial. Will the government offer any counselling or addiction relief therapy to political junkies who will have scant little to do between [...]
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