By Denis Campbell
Yesterday’s welcome to Wales 1st Minister Carwyn Jones to a plateful of problems and suggesting a course of action, rattled some. The normal e-mail/text-to-website comment ratio is 6:1 as most prefer to stay quiet or comment privately. Yesterday it was almost 30:1. It was illuminating as so many wondered why no one asks [...]
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Not ‘Rubbing Up’ to Rather ‘Holding Power Accountable’
Posted on 08 December 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Amy Goodman, BBC Wales, Bob Woodward, Carwyn Jones, Democracy Now!, do the right thing, IBW, International Business Wales, Mark Palmer, Rhodri Morgan, Richard Nixon, speak truth to power, The Ryder Cup, The Washington Post, Wales 1st Minister
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
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 [...]
Bush’s Blanket Pardon For War And Torture?
Posted on 18 November 2008 by Charley James | Comments (1) | Tags: also cover the hapless Army officers, authorized torture despite US laws, Bush would be pardoning himself, Bush’s Blanket Pardon For War And Torture, Charley James, Countdown, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Douglas Feith, Dubya considering issuing a “blanket pardon”, enlisted personnel who carried out illegal orders from, everyone involved in anything illegal in the Iraq and A, international treaties banning its use, it would allow an administration to do anything and esc, it would establish a “dangerous precedent” for future p, John Yoo, Jonathan Turley, NCOs, pardoning himself for Watergate would be an admission o, Paul Wolfowitz, remotely connected to torturing detainees during his se, Richard Nixon, self-pardon his Watergate crimes, shenanigans Bush & Co. might try pulling in their l, such a pardon would not only be “unprecedented” in Amer, the neo-con cabal surrounding the administration that n, whispered reports
by Charley James
As if we don’t have enough to worry about the shenanigans Bush & Co. might try pulling in their last 60-plus days in office, now comes whispered reports from Washington that Dubya is considering issuing a “blanket pardon” for everyone involved in anything illegal in the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions and – more [...]
“You Can’t Trust A Black Man, How Can You Vote For One?” Radio Spots Planned
Posted on 10 October 2008 by Charley James | Comments (0) | Tags: 000 loan Howard Hughes gave Nixon's brother, 527 group, AlterNet, Ayers attack on Obama, can't trust a black man, Charley James, Dick Tuck, Donald. On camera, Indiana, Kennedy-Nixon debate in 1960, lie-and-duck, limited to things such as sending 100 pizza’s to the op, master of political pranks, McCain, Missouri, negligible effect, Nevada, Nixon grabbed a sign and ripped it up, Nixon visited Chinatown where a backdrop of children ho, Nixon's the One!, Ohio, Pennsylvania, quick hit, radio spots, Republican Party actively engaging in voter suppression, Republicans in key swing states, Richard Nixon, sleazy tricks, the Chinatown Caper. Los Angeles campaign stop, The sign referred to a $205, Tuck hired an elderly woman who put on a large Nixon bu, using Social Security data to verify voter registration, Voter Suppression By GOP, waning days of the campaign, What about the Hughes loan, “dirty tricks”
by Charley James
In the 1960s, Presidential campaigns played “dirty tricks” on each other but they were usually limited to things such as sending 100 pizza’s to the opponent’s campaign office in a small town where there might not be 100 residents let alone 100 volunteers to pay the bill.
Dick Tuck, dubbed “the Democrat’s pixie” by [...]
From A Dog Named Checkers To The Wholesale Looting Of America.
Posted on 23 September 2008 by Charley James | Comments (0) | Tags: $35-million a year man, 1952, balking at some of the restrictions Sen. Chris Dodd, Bush the 21st century’s Herbert Hoover, Capitol Hill, chairmen of their respective banking committees, Charley James, closeness to Senator McCain, Congress, Congressional and regulatory oversight, Dwight Eisenhower, greedy minions, Hank Paulson, Home Ownership Alliance, homeowner relief and provisions such as controlling bon, insisting be written into the law, John McCain’s BFF Phil Gramm, K Street Project, made small fortunes from corporations seeking access to, managed, McCain-Palin campaign, New York Times, Nixon’s dog Checkers, nor any regulatory agency could override their decision, nor the courts, Pat Nixon, Ponzi scheme artists, Pres. Bush, received $5-million from Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, Rep. Barney Frank, Republican Party, Richard Nixon, Rick Davis, run by K Street men, runs the US Treasury, staffed, the campaign’s manager, Today, Wholesale Looting Of America, “Checkers” speech
- by Charley James
On Today in 1952, Republican vice-presidential candidate Richard Nixon went on television to deliver what came to be known as the “Checkers” speech. Appearing on flickering, black-and-white sets across America, his wife seated next to him like the stage prop she’d play for the rest of Nixon’s life, he denied allegations of [...]
A Line From My Family’s First Home To Obama’s Speech Last Night
Posted on 29 August 2008 by Charley James | Comments (0) | Tags: african american, Allis-Chalmers, Charley James, Democratic Convention, democratic party, Dr. King, enemies list, Harley-Davidson, Johnson Motors, mile high stadium, Milwaukee, negroes, nomination acceptance speech, obama, Richard Nixon
by Charley James
In Ken Burns’ landmark documentary The Civil War, the first episode opened with writer Shelby Foote saying, “You can’t understand America without understanding the Civil War and the role race has played throughout our history.” In watching Barack Obama’s acceptance speech in Denver last night, my mind drifted back to my childhood when [...]
War ‘Cred’ Mojo Baby
Posted on 16 July 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 1960, 7 years and 7 months, 9-11 perpetrators, a few difficulties, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Angelina Jolie, Austin Powers, bad mortgages, binding, Brad Pitt, Brangelina twins, Bush/Cheney, convention and 1st debates, daft dodging ‘pretender’ in chief, debate shift from trivial to real pain Americans feel, false pretences, fears will shift, fossilised war president, frequent flyer mile diplomacy, Hail Mary football passes, history will forget the previous seven years, ignore ‘mental’ recession, impeachment, inexperienced, Iraq, it wasn’t a mistake to invade Iraq, John Kennedy, Kucinich, Labour Day, made without consulting Congress or their parliament, major presidential foreign policy speech, McCain, McCain=Bush, media scrum, meltdown of the mortgage system, Mojo baby, nothing can go wrong, obama, oil, overtures to several Iraqi members of parliament, Pakistan, peace to the Middle East, Phil Gramm, photos worth $11 million dollars, progress, rattle Iran. magically produce the body of Bin Laden, record sales number of flat telly’s on credit cards, Richard Nixon, Saudi Arabia, sheepish Democratic leadership, six-years of war that never ends, smear machine, spun into a pretzel, stop agreement between President Bush and Prime Ministe, Straight Talk Express, summer vacation in France, tough offence, unilateral, war, War Cred Mojo, War Credibility, who cares, who needs it, who wants it, who’s got it
Yesterday the candidates fought before the cameras to show who has the best Austin Powers war Mojo baby (growwwwllllll, smile). War Credibility. Who’s got it, who needs it, who wants it? Who cares? We’re about to replace a draft-dodging ‘pretender’-in-chief who led us into war on false pretences and will do/say anything to show it [...]
Barbara and the Senator
Posted on 03 May 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 1974, ABC News, ABC Television, affair, Barbara Walters, because you work in television, Boib Woodward, Carl Bernstein, Close Up, Massachusetts, Richard Nixon, Senator Edward Broole, Studio 60, The Washington Post, The West Wing, US Senate, Washington DC, Watergate
An Open Letter to ABC’s Barbara Walters, I have only one question, why? Why now? Why drag a quiet, dignified 88-year old man who left public life almost 30 years ago through your ‘last gasp’ book tour? Why so selfishly bring his reputation into question? What does it bring you? It was early Spring, 1974. Temperatures [...]
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