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 26 October 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Alaska, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, Anchorage Daily News, Bridge to Nowhere, endorsement, endorses obama, McCain, obama, Palin, Sarah Palin, Travelgate, trooper-gate
by Denis Campbell
Alaska was a shoe-in 3 electoral vote state for McCain-Palin. Yeah there was corruption everywhere and Senator-for-life Ted Steven’s jury still cannot throw the rude renegade jury lady out as they deliberate his fate. But Sarah was the golden girl?!? She was gonna energise the base. She got that pipeline goin’ for all [...]
Posted on 17 October 2008 by Charley James | Comments (2) | Tags: Charley James, McCain, obama, Palin, unhinged
by Charley James
Over the past two weeks, we’ve witnessed the coming apart of a once-proud man. Whether in his rambling, often incoherent answers during Wednesday night’s debate or his stump speeches that seem to be little more than words dashing around in search of a thought, John McCain is coming unglued, to a trained professional [...]
Posted on 11 October 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (1) | Tags: Agnew asserted his innocence, Agnew was Baltimore county executive and governor of Ma, Angler, attacks of sexism in their coverage, Cheney, Cheshire cat, completely fracture itself, cowed into submission for weeks by McCain, Dick Cheney, digging deeply into Ms. Palin’s questionable tenure as, distance themselves from the top of this fiasco of tick, donchaknow, down-ticket races for Senate and House arrange deck cha, fined $10000 and placed on three years' probation, fired public safety commissioner Walt Monegan, gift to the major networks, GOP, got caught going “a bridge too far”, her Vice Presidential idol, live, McCain, moderate Republicans, MSM will spend this weekend finally doing their job, no contest, onto flaming wood, Palin, pleaded nolo contendere, Poor Sarah, pray nothing else bad hits in the last 24-days of the c, Pulitzer Prize Winning author Barton Gellman, receiving payoffs from engineers seeking contracts, resigned the Vice Presidency eight months ahead of his, Sarah Palin was found guilt of abusing her authority by, Saturday Night Live’s writers are feverishly re-working, seems quaint and honourable compared to destroying a ma, single charge he had failed to report $29500 of income, Spiro Agnew, State Trooper ex-brother-in-law, swallowed a big-haired ‘g’ dropping canary whole, the last Vice President from this party to resign in di, their new brand hoping we’re dumb enough not to know th, there is nowhere Governor Palin can now go without bein, today’s gift, U.S. attorney in Baltimore, wipe the stain of BCMP (Bush, word ‘Republican’ will be further eliminated from even
by Denis Campbell
I feel like a Cheshire cat who swallowed a big-haired ‘g’ dropping canary whole ‘dontchaknow,’ gives me energy and sustenance without leaving a bad taste in my mouth. Saturday Night Live’s writers are feverishly re-working tonight’s Palin sketch having been handed today’s gift, Sarah Palin was found guilt of abusing the powers of [...]
Posted on 09 October 2008 by Charley James | Comments (1) | Tags: Ayers & Keating, Bush, Charley James, GRAMM, KEATING, Keating matters and Ayers doesn’t, McCain, news media picked up on the symmetry of Obama’s approac, obama, Obama was eight when Ayers engaged in his infamous bomb, One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other, Palin, pop quiz, SAT skills
by Charley James
Dust off your SAT skills, kids. Here’s a pop quiz:
Question: OBAMA : AYERS as McCAIN :
a) PALIN b) GRAMM c) KEATING d) BUSH
If you picked c) Keating, you would be partially right – but mostly you’d be wrong, wrong, wrong.
Going on attack last Sunday, Sarah Palin dusted off the old story about Obama’s [...]
Posted on 06 October 2008 by Charley James | Comments (0) | Tags: along with the rest of the country, Angela Davis, anyway, AP, apologies to The Beatles, Bill Ayers, bombings, Capitol, Cap’n Palin on the bridge, Charley James, colorado, contributing editor, debunked the smear weeks ago, Deep South conservative Republican, die-hards spread phoney news anyway, driving through Haight-Ashbury, four decades ago, GOP donors in Englewood, Greg Strimple, half-truths, Here Come The Smears, Here Comes The Sun, innuendo, Ipsos/McClatchy poll, Janis Joplin, Just because 20 years ago, last 30 days of the campaign, like Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Mark Rudd, McCain, never mentioned that Ayers denounced his past activitie, New Mexico Sun News, New York Times story Saturday, non-fatal explosions at the Pentagon, not certain she's ready to lead the country, not enough that Fox News and The Washington Times, now a respected education professor in Chicago, Obama was eight years old, Obama's aggressively liberal record, Of course not, only tactics left to save the sinking Republican ship S, Palin, politicode for lies, racial and other, Republicans will use this ludicrous and deranged line o, Sarah Palin accuses Barack Obama of "palling around wit, South Florida, starting to trend Obama, state senator, Stephen Fox, surrogate-mounted smears, talk intelligently with them, the apathetic, the Republican campaign machine admits it, the undecided, their surrogates turn into an army of Dark Knights of E, thoroughly discredited claim that the former heads of F, Thursday, too risky for Americans, traced Obama’s sporadic interactions with Ayers, undecided voters, Weather Underground, what does that mean, worked on an education project with Obama when the cand, you are sitting at the feet of the 9/11 bombers?, you befriend someone
by Charley James
My deep, sincere apologies to The Beatles for turning the title of their wonderfully hopeful song Here Comes The Sun on its head, especially to use it in describing the only tactics left to save the sinking Republican ship SS McCain with Cap’n Palin on the bridge.
But make no mistake: The last 30 [...]
Posted on 21 September 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Bill O’Reilly, Chris Matthews, CNN, Harball, Keith Olbermann, labelled sexist, Larry King, Maddow's a big fish in the pond, MSNBC, NBC, NBC News, Palin, Palin interview, Rachel Maddow, Rachel’s got cool and game, Republican SPIN machine, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, solid 1-2 punch, too controversial for the MSM, winning hearts and minds
Rachel Maddow in her second week is winning hearts and minds away from the King and even beat her buddy Keith Olbermann in the ratings giving MSNBC a solid 1-2 punch. MSNBC continues to grow viewers and present NBC with headaches because the right wing attack dogs succeeded in banning their hosts Olbermann and Harball’s [...]
Posted on 19 September 2008 by Charley James | Comments (0) | Tags: 47-million, allowing consumers to buy insurance from sellers anywhe, Another McCain-Palin Lie, but also a tax on the benefits, Charley James, Countdown’s Keith Olbermann, covered by lush yet inexpensive government plans, donating $100 to charity for every lie told by or on be, eliminate valuable protections many states give their r, Employees will not only continue to pay part of escalat, Health Affairs, Health Coverage Plan, hope people will forget premiums are super high, increase family’s costs for medical care, individuals a $2500 credit, line the pockets of wealthy insurers, lure them out of employer plans and into the individual, mainstream media hasn’t bothered going to McCain’s webs, McCain, McCain give families a $5000 tax credit, McCain invented the Blackberry, McCain policy, McCain-Palin approach would eventually destroy employer, New York Times columnist Bob Hebert, Nothing To Do With Health Or Coverage, older ones who are more likely to get ill, Palin, Palin says she’ll help special needs kids, plan worth more to younger workers who don’t get sick, super tough for individual health policies in the priva, The Health Insurance Industry Relief Act, the number of people without health insurance will grow, the tax credit won’t buy much coverage, undermine state health insurance regulations, universal health care, vetoed the Special Olympics
By Charley James
Countdown’s Keith Olbermann is donating $100 to charity for every lie told by or on behalf of John McCain and Sarah Palin during the campaign. McCain invented the Blackberry? $100. Palin says she’ll help special needs kids, not mentioning that she vetoed $250,000 for the Special Olympics? Another $100 from Keith. Every day [...]
Posted on 11 September 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: adolescent locker room, ANYTHING to keep the press away from poor Sarah, beyond despicable, campaign trail, Davis, encouraging teaching so they know what constitutes good, fake moral outrage, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, McCain, McCain’s abysmal record, Norfolk, obama, obliterated it with an ad so stupid and crazy they all, Palin, remark sexist, Sarah Palin, supported a bill to protect children from paedophiles, Swift Boat moment, term as old as the hills, the grossest line and then make it into a Dukakis death, the media’s main focus instead of McCain, There is No More Line, ubiquitous, uttered in 2007 and 2008 three times, Vice Presidential candidate, We get what we deserve, Willie Horton, “you can put lipstick on a pig and it’s still a pig”
McCain, Palin, Davis and Co. obliterated it with an ad so stupid and crazy they all need to be committed. Senator Obama supported a bill to protect children from paedophiles by encouraging teaching them so they know what constitutes good (safe) and bad touching from adults. This is what the sick Republican SPIN machine spun [...]
Posted on 09 September 2008 by Charley James | Comments (1) | Tags: anonymous sources, choosing his Vice Presidential running mate, lucille, Palin, Palin Is Racist Sexist Vindictive And Mean, racist, Sarah Palin, so sambo beat the bithc, Vice President, vice president selection
(Ed. The M.O. for Republicans is if you cannot definitively answer the charges, attack the one making the charge. Charley has been getting both barrels from the right including Mary Malkin, Hennessy and others. This is his thoughtful reply.)
By Charley James
Anonymous sources are the bane of a reporter’s existence, and have been at least since [...]
Wiley and Non Squitur cuts too close to the quick for many.
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