By Denis Campbell
Watching ’08 Obama campaign strategist David Plouffe on The Daily Show, he said “the president is a chess master in a town full of checkers players.” When host Jon Stewart pressed him further asking if he knows how to move reform in a more active way? Plouffe responded quietly, “he knows when to [...]
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“He Knows When to Turn the Light Sabre On.” Obama & Washington 1 Year Later
Posted on 09 November 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (1) | Tags: 72-hours, A Bridge Too Far, Capitol, David Plouffe, he knows when to turn the light sabre on, healthcare bill, Jon Stewart, Medicare, Party if No!, President Obama, The Audacity to Win, The Daily Show
To Hell And Beck
Posted on 08 November 2009 by Charley James | Comments (0) | Tags: Al Gore, Charley James, Glenn Beck, Ingrid Newkirk, Jon Stewart, Michele Bachman, PETA, The Daily Show
We’ll take as a given that Glenn Beck is crazy, in the same league as Michele Bachman and people who show up at police stations wearing aluminium foil hats demanding the cops make Martians stop beaming radio signals into their head.
Who besides Beck would invite PETA’s Ingrid Newkirk on television to join him in criticising Nobel Prize winning former Vice President Al Gore
UPDATE 3: Goofy Sarah’s Goofy Money Problems
Posted on 06 July 2009 by Charley James | Comments (1) | Tags: John McCain, John Stewart, legal bills, Sarah Pailn, The Daily Show, Wassilla
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by Charley James
It’s sort of fitting that the annual running of the bulls begins today in Pamplona where the bull’s s*** will be as deep as it is these days in Wasilla, Alaska.
Yet another possible reason for Gov. Palin’s crops up in this morning’s New York Times which reports today [...]
Shrewdness, Thy Name is Barack
Posted on 16 January 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (1) | Tags: a highly respected US Constitutional law scholar, Addington, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, already learned to let others around him do the heavy p, Ashcroft, asked definitively by Chairman Patrick Leahy if waterbo, asserting that there is no ambiguity here, astonishing bit of testimony, Attorney General designate Eric Holder’s confirmation h, Bush, cement his legacy as a bipartisan maverick, Cheney, complete hurricane thinking he will do nothing, Conspicuously absent from the invitation list, could fill as a result, Denis Campbell, don’t plan on any international travel gentlemen, end partisan gridlock, Feith, for anything and anyone related to any torture inquiry, former running mate, General Pinochet about his trip to a London hospital en, Genius, Gonzalez, he replied “yes, headline Lamey Whinehouse, his Administration “would not conduct torture”, his silence misdirects the left, honoured at a dinner tonight hosted by Barack Obama, introduced by his longtime Senate friend and colleague, Jail cells, John Stewart, Jonathan Turley, keeps your hands clean, letting others carry the torture debate so he can hones, Libby, many in the media pundit pack assume his Administration, many more to come, marginalises, may go freely within the borders of the USA, McCain, Monday’s news out of Washington contains a long list of, MSNBC commentator, Mukasey, not directly answering questions about Bush Administrat, not tainted John McCain, obama, on video tape saying they did authorise torture, POTUS after 3-years in the Senate without making shrewd, public pronouncements now seem a clever smokescreen, public self-destruction, pursue torturers and granting them no safe haven from i, reached across the aisle, reiterated his determination to sign an executive order, Rumsfeld, Sarah how can we miss you if you won’t go away?, separating John McCain’s political legacy from the ‘Was, Shrewdness Thy Name is Barack, The chief legal officer of the USA is on record saying, The Daily Show, The Hague, the highest in the land “get out of jail free” card the, they have no choice but to prosecute, They will open the door, three previous Attorneys General (Mukasey – the current, Torture is a globally recognised war crime, unequivocal claim two days, US key signatory to several treaties, very public snub by President-elect Obama, very shrewd move Barry, waiting for the political wind to gather enough steam, waterboarding is torture”
By Denis Campbell
One does not become POTUS after 3-years in the Senate without making shrewd moves. These two are genius: separating John McCain’s political legacy from the ‘Wasilla Hillbilly’ and letting others carry the torture debate so he can honestly say he has no choice but to pursue prosecution of highest Bush officials for war [...]
Hot off the wires….
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 [...]
“McCain Has Become A Walking Disaster”
Posted on 26 September 2008 by Charley James | Comments (0) | Tags: At first I thought I was a brilliant political move, Barney Frank described McCain’s action as “the Hail Mar, Boehner said No deal try this, but she’s turned out to be a nightmare. Katie Couric in, CBS News’ chief Washington correspondent and Face the N, Charley James, Christ an Amtrak local stopping in every village doesn’, core supporters are starting to question his judgement, Douglas Holtz-Eakin gave McCain credit for inventing th, even the president was taken aback, everyone in the campaign seems to be waiting for the ot, Get in front of an issue he’s been behind on for two we, got so rough he had to shout to get some order in the r, I didn’t know you were Catholic Pelosi shot back, I don’t know who made the Palin selection, I sat there watching him and thinking to myself This is, internal polling shows McCain in even more trouble than, It’s going to be hard for my guy to recover from what p, I’m hoping he can run downfield and catch his own Hail, John’s on YouTube saying he doesn’t understand the econ, maybe John but who knows, McCain, McCain telling a television interviewer that he hadn’t, met with donors, Nothing’s been ‘suspended, obama, Politoco.com reported after the meeting adjourned Democ, Rick Davis is making bad decisions because he’s despera, stayed in New York to give a couple more speeches, Take charge, the Cabinet Room meeting went ballistic, The Daily Show, then he lied to Letterman which turned John into a punc, There was a one-in-10 chance it might have worked, Throwing Dead Cats, took 22-hours to mosey down to Washington, Treasury and the Fed were pleading with Boehner not to, Treasury Secretary Paulson followed them and on bent kn, walking disaster, you can throw a dead cat and not hit a volunteer
by Charley James
“As a candidate, John (McCain) has become a walking disaster,” the distraught voice calling from a Washington suburb told me late Thursday night. “As much as I once believed in him, now I’m really worried he’ll be a disaster as president. Maybe even worse than Bush, if that’s possible.”
The voice belongs to an [...]
Jon Stewart Rips Television News
Posted on 26 August 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (2) | Tags: 24-hour cable news beast, 24-hour cable news networks, an appendage of the Republican Party, barbecue, biting satirical interview segments, calling them the most balanced network on air, campaign craziness, CNN, colors your vision of them so clearly and so profoundly, Comedy Central, Crossfire appearance, defend their ‘cozy’ relationship with the candidates, false sense of urgency, follow veins that have been mined, FOX, FOX News, gerbil wheels, John McCain's Arizona ranch, John Stewart, Karl Rove, MSNBC, New York Times columnist David Brooks, off-the-record dinners with politicians, Oscars, Pew Research poll, razor sharp wit, regurgitate campaign spin, Rips Television News, slow-witted beast, The Daily Show, The HUffington Post, tongue-in-cheek, Tucker Carlson, University of Denver, you become part of that machinery, you get sucked into it
Yesterday at the University of Denver, Jon Stewart ripped the 24-hour cable news beast for the current campaign craziness. We’ve often chastised the media here for the 600 word newsfeed rip, place two opposing quotes, add an expert opinion and presto! News.
Jon has a history of trying to get news outlets to do their job [...]
The Race Card
Posted on 06 August 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 90-days, accepting the race premise, attack adverts, bar lowered, Battle of Baghdad, Berlin, black candidate, Brand Republican, Britney Spears, budget deficits on their watch, Bush, Bush Administration, campaign manager Dick Wadhams, campaign trail, celebrity-seeking antics, Cheney, clinton, Colorado Senate candidate Bob Schaffer, concrete evidence, convention in Minneapolis, daily tracking polls, decided to invade anyways, democrats, Democrats improve majority in the Senate, didn’t look like all those other guys on the dollar bil, fear, fell for the bait, Georgia Senator Max Cleland, Gingrich Revolution, give me a call, glam gals, gold bathroom fixtures were actually gold paint and und, high school class president, Internet only, Iran, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iraq, John Stewart, Karl Rove, lose more House seats, lost an arm and both legs in combat, McCain, Moses, NBC News anchor Brian Williams, net Democratic gain of 23+ seats, no WMD’s in Iraq, obama, overblown fears of Iranian military power, Paris Hilton, Presidential Palace, psycho-analysed piece of footage, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Ron Suskind, pundits jumped in, race card, racial stereotyping, racially charged spot, Republican, Saddam’s Palaces, son of former slaves. rise up and steal/sire the master, statistical tie, subliminal racial fear tactic, Swiftboating Season, Tennessee Congressman Harold Ford, The Daily Show, The One, unpatriotic, US Presidential race, US South, Victory Tower, Vietnam, we're going to shove a bunch of 30-second ads up his a-, within the margin of error
With 90-days to go, Swiftboating Season has begun in earnest as charges and counter-charges by each candidate’s camp of injecting race into the election turned the current US Presidential race into that of a popularity contest for high school class president. No. I must apologise. That characterisation demeans the thousands of young students who prepare [...]
Happily Ever (For A Few Years) After
Posted on 20 June 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 1997 wedding, American Idol, Bill Murray, Britain's Got Talent, CBS News, Charleston, Court TV, dead US Soldier on television, divorce, Ford Bronco, George Clooney, Iraq War, Jennifer Butler Murray, John Stewart, Ken Starr, Lara Logan, Malbu, OJ Simpson, ordinance, paparazzi, Paris Hilton, pre-nup, Sarah Larson, Saturday Night Live, SlateV, The Daily Show
May and June used to be big wedding months. English Football star Wayne Rooney and his girlfriend spent $5 million dollars on an Italian wedding. But in the narcissism capital of America, Hollywood errr… Beverly Hills, CA 90210 (a city that prides itself on pouty Botox fattened lips, Viagra and silicon/saline implants), it is not [...]
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