We still have nearly eight (8) months left in this Presidential campaign. In fact, the campaign for the Democratic nomination alone is likely to go on for another five (5) months. Couldn’t have said it better myself. Hat tip to a comment posted at Pharyngula. ..bruce w..
[UPDATED 03/22/08: Oh, by the way, according to the LA Times the city of Denver is ‘short on funds’ for the DNC convention.] The “Re-create 68 Alliance” didn’t get the protest permits they wanted for the Democratic National Convention scheduled for this August here in Denver — and they’re already making threats: Denver could […]
Last night was another Tuesday primary swarm. Once again it was a parade of newsies working hard to create a story. Some of the specifics: John McCain completed his bid to be the Republican nominee for 2008. Congratulations to him. It is my honest opinion that he was the weakest contender for the GOP slot, […]
Angelina Jolie, who has been doing humanitarian work in Iraq, wrote an op-ed piece in the New York Times that says: the surge is helping the UN’s humanitarian efforts and that she’d like the troops to stay: During my trip I also met with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who has announced the creation of […]
Here’s the news report: Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early “We will be pretending to count votes and we will be running totals through out the night.” ..bruce w..
Since one of the two authors of this piece in the Christian Science Monitor is a partner at David Boies‘ law firm (as in David Boies, Gore’s lead counsel in Gore v. Bush), I assume this article is serious and not a parody: The 22nd Amendment is often described as prohibiting an already twice-elected president, […]
My sister send me an e-mail asking what I thought about the status of the US presidential elections right now. My reply was a bit lengthier than even I expected, but since my cohort Henderson has already posted his thoughts, here are mine. My original first choice was Giuliani, which I talked about at length […]
My co-blogger Bruce Henderson, as well as a number of other commentators in both new and old media, have raised concerns about the fall election prospects for Republicans given the disparity (typically around 2:1) between Democratic primary turnout and Republican primary turnout in the same state. However, Will Franklin over at WILLisms — who always […]
I was amazed to find this bit of data over at Time’s blog: Here are the numbers just for the 19 states where both parties had elections yesterday Obama/Clinton voters: 14,460,149 McCain/Romney/Huckabee voters: 8,367,694 Or, 73% more Democratic voters than Republican voters. A lot of this is huge Democratic numbers in New York and California. […]
Getting perspective
Here and elsewhere, I have decried the deliberate or inadvertent lack of historical perspective on current problems, particularly with regard to things military, and especially among the mainstream media and the Left. I come from a family with a strong and long history of military service and am myself a student of military history. My […]
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