Posted on 03 November 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (1) | Tags: 1st black man, Barack Obama, BMW, broke the colour barrier, commander in chief, could not sit at a lunch counter, could not stay with his teammates in hotels, Denis Campbell, dine with his teammates in a restaurant, Ferrari, Forbes Magazine projects, Formula 1 Racing Driver’s Championship trophy at age 23, have to live to this level of perfection every minute o, Jackie Robinson, leader of the free world, Lewis Hamilton, lot to do to heal our country, Martin Luther King, McLaren race car, never made a fuss, never raised his voice never ever stepped out of line, obama, owe a debt of gratitude to a man they never met, President of the United States, Renault, retired as quietly and gracefully as he arrived, sit at the front of any bus, slept in Coloreds Only rooming houses, so many men of colour in all walks of life thank him fo, stakes were too high, the first to play baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers, the scourge of racism, the South in the 1950s, Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods will become the first sportsman to become a, To be black in politics means to be perfect in every wa, What if, What if John McCain was Black, Would anyone vote for him with his character and histor, ‘I Have Dream’ speech
by Denis Campbell
Would anyone vote for him with his character and history if he’d been black? To be black in politics, means to be perfect in every way, every moment of every day. He would have had to set and live his life to an impossible standard of perfection ‘off’ his field of play that [...]
Posted on 02 November 2008 by Charley James | Comments (0) | Tags: 72 hours left in the campaign, Charley James, CNN Friday, distinguished professor of Arab studies at Columbia, Khalidi once taught at the University of Chicago where, Khalidi was simply an outside adviser to the Palestinia, link Barack Obama to "unrepentant domestic terrorist" B, McCain, McCain team is slandering a thoughtful and respectable, McCain’s shameless and utterly unrepentant flack Michae, new smear, obama, One Final Desperate Smear, Palestinian Rashid Khalidi, Resurrecting Empire, Rick Sanchez asked
by Charley James
With 72 hours left in the campaign, the McCain brain trust finally recognizes that its effort to link Barack Obama to “unrepentant domestic terrorist” Bill Ayers is having as much of an impact on voters as the “experience” argument.
So it is trying trotting out a new smear.
It is blasting Obama for consorting with [...]
Posted on 01 November 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 2008 Alternate Delegate to the Republican National Conv, announced his support for Senator Obama's Campaign for, Co-Chair of Gov. Mike Huckabee's presidential campaign, don't understand that John McCain's biggest problem is, former Republican gubernatorial candidate, Fred Bramante, hardcore Sean Hannity fans, Jon Stewart, marginal Fox's audience is becoming, New Hampshire Leadership Committee, New Hampshire State Board of Education, obama, Party of Denial, past Chairman, Republican Convention Delegate for Obama!, The Daily Show, wouldn't want to go have a beer with me
Republican Convention McCain Delegate Declares for Obama!
Fred Bramante, a member of McCain’s New Hampshire Leadership Committee and a 2008 Alternate Delegate to the Republican National Convention today announced his support for Senator Obama’s Campaign for Change.
Bramante, a Co-Chair of Gov. Mike Huckabee’s presidential campaign and former Republican gubernatorial candidate, is a past Chairman and current [...]
Posted on 01 November 2008 by Charley James | Comments (0) | Tags: A deal is a deal, accused the Times of “intentionally suppressing informa, as part of a vast left-wing conspiracy, Bill Sammon, deliberate oversimplification, deputy managing editor of FOX News’s Washington bureau, Even Fox Agrees With The Times!, even if it’s a dumb deal, had LA Times reporter Peter Wallsten who wrote story ba, Los Angeles Times, McCain, Michael Goldfarb, Much Ado About Nothing, obama, portray the press as liberal puppets of Barack Obama, previously-discredited spokesman, refusal to release a videotape of the senator at a fare, sources would have good reason to question his trustwor, Stop The Presse, the Palestinian scholar and advocate
by Charley James
The McCain campaign’s latest attempt to portray the press as liberal puppets of Barack Obama — by painting the Los Angeles Times’s refusal to release a videotape of the senator at a farewell dinner in 2003 for Rashid Khalidi, the Palestinian scholar and advocate, as part of a vast left-wing conspiracy — is [...]
Posted on 01 November 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 1 in 7 voters still need to be swayed, 1896, 4x cancer survivor?, 72-year old, a losing mantra for Hillary, addled and angry, adequate Commander in Chief, around the neck of John McCain, arrogance, bin Laden videos, Bush Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger, Cross of Gold Speech, Denis Campbell, devolution in two years to cocktail party joke, does strongly amongst white males not because of her po, even at McDonalds you are interviewed three times befor, excessive de-regulation, experience, financial crisis, financial disaster in 2008, greed factors exposed, laid bare by the Internet, latent racism, McCain, MSNBC, never met a lobbyist I did not like, npr Radio, obama, of course she’s not ready, philandering, Ronald Reagan’s former Chief of Staff Ken Duberstein, Sarah Palin already is one, Straight Talk Express bus crashed, support down to 35%, terrorist actions, The 72-Hour Twilight Zone, Trickle-down Reaganomics did not work in 1896 or 1980, ugly 72-hour zona absurdum. place of swift-boat attacks, walks it back on FOX, Warren Buffet’s new biography, William Jennings Bryan, you don’t hire a Vice President after one interview, ‘The Snowball’
by Denis Campbell
When Ronald Reagan’s former Chief of Staff Ken Duberstein says, (as he endorses Barack Obama for President), “even at McDonalds you are interviewed three times before being offered a job, you don’t hire a Vice President after one interview,” you know the Straight Talk Express bus has rolled over in a ditch. When [...]
Posted on 31 October 2008 by Charley James | Comments (0) | Tags: McCain, obama, racism
by Charley James (and friends)
Thanks to my friends Mike and Micheline who teach in Guangzhou for sending this me today.
What if…
things were switched around? Think about it: Would the country’s collective point of view be different? How much does racism influence our opinions? Ponder the following:
What if…
the Obama?s had paraded five children across the stage, [...]
Posted on 31 October 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (1) | Tags: 200 dollars to this year’s check, 21 million, 33-million people watched that ½ hour political ad, 76 Nobel Prize winners endorse Obama, a guilty verdict isn’t technically a “conviction” until, Alaska AG’s office said while Stevens’ crimes fit the d, Ashley Todd to Get Needed Help, Ben Smith, better than 2-1 margin, Chris Matthews, Christian Right Scaremongering, consider yourself warned, country stylings, Denis Campbell, dramatic gesture executed in a very safe fashion, elegant combination of pictures, Governor Sarah Palin… socialist?, Hagan is a Sunday school teacher/elder at a Presbyteria, Happy Halloween, Happy Halloween Weekly Talking Points Memo, He had me at the waving wheat, he’ll be accusing me of being a secret communist becaus, issues a four-figure annual check, It was realism, It was romance, Janet Porter, Joe the Plumber, Kay Hagan Godless American, last thing that should be driving America's voting habi, Mark Halperin, Mark Hemingway, McCain 7 millionObama winning kids’ mock election, McCain campaign, MSNBC, music designed not so much to sell America on Barack Ob, National Review, New York Times reports, Newspaper Endorsement scorecard, obama, Obama hanged in effigy at University of Kentucky, Obama maintains big lead 234-105, Obama Socialist, Obama ½ Hour Infomercial Reviews, Obama-backing papers, OP Vote Suppression Tactics Thwarted, Palin for President 2012, Palin has been a popular governor?, Politico, Rachel Maddow, racism is still alive, Rocky Mountain News, Samuel Wurzelbacher, Sara K. Smith, Sen. Elizabeth Dole, She added $1, signed with a Nashville PR and management firm to handl, sounds, tab for the presidential campaign approaches $2 billion, take warning, That seals your eternity, The Last Campaign Weekend, The sales-job is always better than the product Buyer b, thought it was fabulous, Time magazine, To all those who name the name of Christ who plan to wi, Tom Shales, voices, Vote Obama Go to Hell!, Washington Post, wider spread in circulation numbers, Wonkette, WorldNetDaily, Yes He Can (Vote)
The Last Campaign Weekend…
Happy Halloween, here are the points for this, the last Friday before we know the result.
• Scary News That’s Fit to Print
The New York Times reports: the tab for the presidential campaign approaches a shocking $2 billion. Clearly, the system must be fixed.
• Most popular Halloween themes:
Obama and McCain pumpkin carvings, Sarah [...]
Posted on 30 October 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Bill Clinton, campaign stop, decision making, Democratic nominee, execute that decision, Kissimmee, McCain, obama, Orlando, philosophy, right policies
by Denis Campbell
Somewhere between 41 and 43 was a Presidency that left behind a budget surplus, grew jobs and left the economy busting and thriving. 70-days ago Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for President before 85,000 fans in Denver. On Day 69, (an interestingly appropriate number), former President Bill Clinton climbed off his high horse [...]
Posted on 29 October 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (1) | Tags: Americans, Dan Perrin, Elderly and some other Jewish voters were already uncom, GOP, McCain, media blindness, memoarandum.com, November 4th backlash, obama, orgy of obama adulation, Palin, The Gallup poll after Labor Day has historically been a, The media’s blindness is fueling the anti-media web-net, the reason for McCain’s victory (despite the foregoing, There are six states that since 1972 have voted for the, Today’s unstable world does not bode well for Senator O, Women who feel Senator Clinton was treated unfairly by
(Every so often I read right wing blogs for perspective… I then need to watch four West Wing episodes to get the stench out. Lemon and tomato juice sometimes works, read on. -ED.)
The Seven Reasons McCain-Palin Are a Lock to Win
Posted by: Dan Perrin
There are seven serious, historic, demographic and other wise culturally compelling reasons [...]
Posted on 29 October 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Axis of Weasel, Clear Channel, competition, corporate pressure on their new chew-toy newsrooms, created a war propaganda machine, Denis Campbell, ditto-heads, electorate this year is taking this election very very, FCC, FCC appointees, FOX anchors, George Bush, Jerry Falwell, joke, Karl Rove, keep hands off the president and their advertising pals, Main Stream Media, most are not buying into it, MSM, obama, once a sacrosanct Great Chinese Wall between editorial, Pat Robertson, Rupert Murdoch, Rush Limbaugh, say they are unbiased with a straight face and yell at, Senator Phil Gramm, Sumner Redstone, systematically eliminated media accountability, the Administration, they want to make this big election about small things, using the public airwaves
by Denis Campbell
I’ve been angrily watching George Bush and Karl Rove lie with impunity. Living abroad for 10-years their FCC appointees systematically took decisions that eliminated media accountability, competition and created a war propaganda machine for the Administration using the public airwaves. A we saw in the financial crisis, a very few, very rich, white [...]
Man-tan Minority leader John Boehner throws down another gauntlet, not even a speed-bump.
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