Progressive Politics from Memphis
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My Story is Better than Your Issues
The Politico has front-paged a story that illustrates just how stupid John McCain and Sara Palin think we are. In McCain, Palin push biography, not issues we learn of the McCain campaign’s brazen strategy of “aiming for the gut, not the heads, of voters.” This can be a good strategy for a campaign that is…
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More Fun with Finance
In the wake of the big Fannie, Freddie bail out, announced Sunday, you would think that few companies would want to jump on the bandwagon. You’d be wrong. Ford CEO Alan Mulally thinks Washington is ready to give the big three $50 billion bucks. Apparently, willful incompetence does have it’s rewards. Now, this is a…
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The Flood
The past couple of days have been a flood of analogies, metaphors and other devices that neither fully express my frustration, not illustrate the situation with the Presidential race as I see it. The Republicans spent the last week pulling every old tired rabbit out of their hat; liberal media, tax and spend, family values,…
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Questioning Patriotism
One theme that has reared its ugly head since the beginning of the Presidential cycle is that of questioning the patriotism of particular candidates. More often than not, the subject of this theme has been Democratic Presidential nominee, Barack Obama. The most recent example of this was brought forward by Senator Jim Inhofe (R –…
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Joementum to Educate Palin
It would appear that our good friend Joe Lieberman has volunteered his services to help Sara Palin with her lack of foreign policy experience, even though her state is right next to Russia. Palin will also not be available to the media for an undetermined time while she gets her affairs in order back in…
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Change Republican Style
I watched as much as I could stomach of the speeches at the Republican National Convention. Admittedly, I didn’t watch as much as I probably should have, because some of the speakers make my skin crawl. I listened to Giuliani, and Huckabee and Fred Thompson. I caught most of Sara Palin’s Speech that sounded like…