some guy in lebanon

You are browsing the archives of Politics.

I know this is a story that is about 48 hours late, but I’m saddened at how quickly its left the airways, so I’m publishing it anyways.
The story amazes me. A Texan woman, campaigning for McCain in Pittsburgh, went to the police late last week, claiming that while being mugged by a 6′4” black man, [...]

If every American could watch this video, this would be a very different country. A very different country indeed. Thank you Dr. Brzezinski for talking some bloody sense into those idiots on the television. Why can’t we vote for HIM for President?
If you cannot see the video, (like if you’re receiving this in an e-mail), [...]

In this little clip, morons (the kind that REALLY give conservatives a bad name) give away bumper-stickers with the words “Obama for Change.” The “C” in change is an Islamic Crescent. The “g” in Change is a Soviet Hammer and Sickle.
Fun.
Ok, I get the socialist thing. Obviously Obama’s plan to tax richer people so that [...]

“In this economy, racism is officially a luxury. How is John McCain going to win if he can’t win those voters? -

FiveThirtyEight.com has an amazing story out of Western Pennsylvania. A polster, traveling block by block attempting to learn more about working-class America’s election leanings reports:
“A canvasser goes to a woman’s door in Washington, Pennsylvania. [...]

David Talbot reports on this wonderful little story about a certain Vice Presidential candidate and a certain candidate’s husband who belonged for quite some time to a rabidly anti-American secessionist party in a certain backwater state known as Alaska.
The Alaskan Independence Party’s famous founder, who apparently was killed in a plastic-explosive incident, stated that:
“My government [...]

If you are planning on voting this November, and you suspect that you will be voting with an electronic voting machine, you must download and read this report on their vulnerabilities. It’s 86 pages long, so if youd like an overview, read this is from the Ohio Secretary of State’s Office:
STUDY: VOTING SYSTEMS VULNERABLE
COLUMBUS, Ohio [...]

People ask me why I’m leaving the country - why I’m going to Lebanon. My usual reply is, “Big fish, small pond/Small Fish, big pond.” The general theory being, I can stay in America and attempt to break into journalism by getting a Masters and fighting my way up the ladder at local, regional, and [...]

I think that this entire thing could have been avoided if the McCain campaign had resisted attacking Barack Obama for his ties to former Fannie Mae executives,
which prompted the media to take a second look at Rick Davis. Now that the news is out, I can’t imagine this won’t be another nail in the swing-vote [...]

Woa - You know things are bad when the Journal’s saying stuff like this:
Last week, Republican presidential candidate John McCain called for a commission to “find out what went wrong” on Wall Street. It was an excellent suggestion: Public inquiries into Wall Street practices served the country well in the 1930s.
And Mr. McCain has a [...]

Ron Paul weighed in on the Bush Administration’s planned financial bailout on CNN’s “Late Edition” today:
WOLF BLITZER (”Late Edition” host): What do you say to the president who wants you and your fellow Republicans and Democrats to quickly pass this $700 billion bailout package?
PAUL: Well, I think that’s a mistake because we don’t have the [...]