Because Democracy is Not Free — we all have to work at it
Writes the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: No matter the outcome of Tuesday’s election, a loser has emerged —- Secretary of State Karen Handel. In addition to trying to purge the name of a legitimate Democratic candidate from the ballot numerous times, this week Handel sent 5,000 registered voters letters questioning their citizenship and flagged an additional 50,000 whose [...]
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From CNN: McCain aides told CNN’s Dana Bash Wurzelbacher would appear with the Republican presidential candidate at his first campaign event in Defiance, Ohio. But in what was a slightly awkward moment for McCain, Wurzelbacher was nowhere to be seen when the Arizona senator called out for him. Methinks Samuel Joe Wurzelbacher was standing in [...]
On the selection of Sarah Palin for McCain’s running mate, Jane Mayer of the New Yorker writes: A week or so before McCain named [Palin], however, sources close to the campaign say, McCain was intent on naming his fellow-senator Joe Lieberman, an independent, who left the Democratic Party in 2006. David Keene, the chairman of [...]
Most of us like to think that polls are conducted in a scientific manner by unbiased individuals. The Hill wants us to know that may not be true. According to the Hill, McInturff is McCain’s Pollster. And as McCain’s Pollster, he has found that McCain is closing the gap, and that “the race against Democrat [...]
It looks like the National Enquirer has met its match! Palin couldn’t stump everywhere, so McCain’s campaign is bringing you Samuel “Joe” Wurzelbacher, the guy who isn’t really buying a company with $250,000 annual profit, isn’t really a plumber, and doesn’t really pay his tax bills. In his debut, Fox News trumpets, “‘Joe the Plumber’ Backs [...]
The woman who fabricated the B-carving face attack was actually an employee of the College Republican National Committee, a section 527 closely associated with the RNC. She has been terminated. I guess the GOP can add her to the ever-growing Lynndie England pile. Which brings us to an interesting point. Many of the people identified by [...]
McCain’s campaign represents more of the same in more ways than one. Perhaps the most telling is its willingness to victimize others for its own gain. Remember an earlier post about the unnamed woman who claimed to have had the letter B carved into her cheek by a black Obama-supporting mugger? Well, the real crime wasn’t that [...]
All I can say to the former head of the Office of Special Counsel is, . . .I really don’t mind if the door hits you on the way out. Employees learned of Bloch’s removal at a hastily called 4 p.m. meeting when they were instructed not to accept his phone calls and told that he [...]
Federal employees, still not convinced McCain isn’t a free thinker? I liked McCain in 2000. In 2008, he sold his soul to the GOP base, who made him scramble to chose a NeoCon-friendly running mate. And here’s what the LA Times had to say about Palin today: * More than 100 appointments to state posts — nearly [...]