Every Ohioan considering how to vote should consider two things: (1) the GOP, from its very presidential candidate all the way down, has absolutely hammered on the claim that "ACORN" and other boogeymen have rigged the current election, while (2) there is this chilling story (told here by one of the United States' most prominent election law experts, Rick Hasen of Loyola LA Law School) explaining how this whole alleged problem has been essentially fabricated, and how the fabricators are themselves top GOP operatives with close ties to the Bush administration and the McCain campaign:
Every Ohioan considering how to vote should consider two things: (1) the GOP, from its very presidential candidate all the way down, has absolutely hammered on the claim that "ACORN" and other boogeymen have rigged the current election, while (2) there is this chilling story (told here by one of the United States' most prominent election law experts, Rick Hasen of Loyola LA Law School) explaining how this whole alleged problem has been essentially fabricated, and how the fabricators are themselves top GOP operatives with close ties to the Bush administration and the McCain campaign:
Every Ohioan considering how to vote should consider two things: (1) the GOP, from its very presidential candidate all the way down, has absolutely hammered on the claim that "ACORN" and other boogeymen have rigged the current election, while (2) there is this chilling story (told here by one of the United States' most prominent election law experts, Rick Hasen of Loyola LA Law School) explaining how this whole alleged problem has been essentially fabricated, and how the fabricators are themselves top GOP operatives with close ties to the Bush administration and the McCain campaign:
Every Ohioan considering how to vote should consider two things: (1) the GOP, from its very presidential candidate all the way down, has absolutely hammered on the claim that "ACORN" and other boogeymen have rigged the current election, while (2) there is this chilling story (told here by one of the United States' most prominent election law experts, Rick Hasen of Loyola LA Law School) explaining how this whole alleged problem has been essentially fabricated, and how the fabricators are themselves top GOP operatives with close ties to the Bush administration and the McCain campaign:
Every Ohioan considering how to vote should consider two things: (1) the GOP, from its very presidential candidate all the way down, has absolutely hammered on the claim that "ACORN" and other boogeymen have rigged the current election, while (2) there is this chilling story (told here by one of the United States' most prominent election law experts, Rick Hasen of Loyola LA Law School) explaining how this whole alleged problem has been essentially fabricated, and how the fabricators are themselves top GOP operatives with close ties to the Bush administration and the McCain campaign:
PS: A few thoughts about this inane "socialism" theme. First, it is one thing when anonymous posters in an online forum throw around abstract labels that they intend as polemicizing, Manichaen insults; it isn't even a big deal when they demonstrate that they don't have much grasp of them. (E.g., I saw a post on another thread today showing the author had never read a word of socialist theory or criticism of it when he claimed to show, Q.E.D., that Obama must be socialist because he questions charter school programs. You never hear thoughtful and educated conservatives, even when they are really, really conservative, say things like that. That's because they've taken a little time to educate themselves about the things they criticize.) But when the Republican nominee for President does this, with no foundation, it's a disgrace.
Second, it is insipidly false. Like virtually everyone in the United States and surely every serious political candidate, Obama is a market-oriented capitalist who does not intend centralized ownership or the abolition of private property. (See, e.g., the classic historical study by Louis Hartz, called "The Liberal Tradition in America.") His economic platform is not even as progressive as some of the economic policies of the Nixon administration (remember the Office of Price Administration, anyone?)
Third, and to me this is the knee-slapping howler, why does no one see the irony in the red-baiting that many conservatives have been throwing around lately? That is, you can just announce that Obama is a "socialist" if you want (even though I can't imagine where the support for that claim is to be found in any of Obama's actual economic platform, which frankly contemplates nothing more than middle-of-the-road finance capitalism subject to reasonable regulation), but doesn't that criticism seem pretty ironic when a right-leaning Republican government is even now the largest equity owner of AIG insurance and shortly will become a large stake holder in several huge banks? And this socialization of our financial markets is directly the result of the 8 years of virtually unchallenged GOP control of all three branches of federal government. Though he surely did not consciously intend it, the single biggest socialist in the United States has become George W. Bush!
Finally, if Obama is all the things that his opponent explicitly calls him -- a "socialist" and "pal" of "terrorists" -- you really have to wonder what Colin Powell could possibly be thinking. And, ask yourself, what does Powell have to gain from the endorsement? Nothing -- surely nothing he couldn't also get by helping Senator McCain win. So you really have to wonder why he would do this if any of the inane, foundless namecalling of the McCain/Palin campaign were true.
Here I think is the real reason McCain has never been able to pull it together in this race. Two two debt-financed wars and a domestic policy rivaling the incompetence of the Katrina disaster have left every American man, woman, and child owing $35,000 on the national debt. Senator McCain’s only real economic idea is to make permanent our existing tax policy, despite its having had several years to work already. Instead, his campaign’s main strategy is to change focus almost completely every few days, usually from one tangential issue to the next, stressing William Ayres, then ACORN, then Joe the Plumber, and now for a few days it’s been that Obama, because he means slightly to modify one of the world's most regressive tax systems, is a “socialist." (That one’s a bit ironic after the Republican government took the single largest equity stake in the previously private financial sector.) McCain’s administration would also be overrun with business lobbyists; his very campaign manager and several other advisers were millionaire lobbyists for, of all things, mortgage bankers.
The tragedy is what his chances of winning show about us as people. By not making utterly inevitable an Obama landslide, we Ohioans have shown ourselves a flock of callow children who’ve earned no right of self-government. How long must we stand like fools in the same burning building before we just step outside?
Here I think is the real reason McCain has never been able to pull it together in this race. Two two debt-financed wars and a domestic policy rivaling the incompetence of the Katrina disaster have left every American man, woman, and child owing $35,000 on the national debt. Senator McCain’s only real economic idea is to make permanent our existing tax policy, despite its having had several years to work already. Instead, his campaign’s main strategy is to change focus almost completely every few days, usually from one tangential issue to the next, stressing William Ayres, then ACORN, then Joe the Plumber, and now for a few days it’s been that Obama, because he means slightly to modify one of the world's most regressive tax systems, is a “socialist." (That one’s a bit ironic after the Republican government took the single largest equity stake in the previously private financial sector.) McCain’s administration would also be overrun with business lobbyists; his very campaign manager and several other advisers were millionaire lobbyists for, of all things, mortgage bankers.
The tragedy is what his chances of winning show about us as people. By not making utterly inevitable an Obama landslide, we Ohioans have shown ourselves a flock of callow children who’ve earned no right of self-government. How long must we stand like fools in the same burning building before we just step outside?
Have any doubts that this year's GOP electoral approach is driven by outright hatred? Even if you're not convinced after reading comments on online blogs like this, take a look at what an actual candidate and an official supporter of the McCain/Palin ticket had to say:
Posted on October 27 at 11:53 p.m.
Every Ohioan considering how to vote should consider two things: (1) the GOP, from its very presidential candidate all the way down, has absolutely hammered on the claim that "ACORN" and other boogeymen have rigged the current election, while (2) there is this chilling story (told here by one of the United States' most prominent election law experts, Rick Hasen of Loyola LA Law School) explaining how this whole alleged problem has been essentially fabricated, and how the fabricators are themselves top GOP operatives with close ties to the Bush administration and the McCain campaign:
http://www.slate.com/id/2166589
Do we seriously want to let these crooks keep running this country?
Posted on October 27 at 11:52 p.m.
Every Ohioan considering how to vote should consider two things: (1) the GOP, from its very presidential candidate all the way down, has absolutely hammered on the claim that "ACORN" and other boogeymen have rigged the current election, while (2) there is this chilling story (told here by one of the United States' most prominent election law experts, Rick Hasen of Loyola LA Law School) explaining how this whole alleged problem has been essentially fabricated, and how the fabricators are themselves top GOP operatives with close ties to the Bush administration and the McCain campaign:
http://www.slate.com/id/2166589
Do we seriously want to let these crooks keep running this country?
Posted on October 27 at 11:52 p.m.
Every Ohioan considering how to vote should consider two things: (1) the GOP, from its very presidential candidate all the way down, has absolutely hammered on the claim that "ACORN" and other boogeymen have rigged the current election, while (2) there is this chilling story (told here by one of the United States' most prominent election law experts, Rick Hasen of Loyola LA Law School) explaining how this whole alleged problem has been essentially fabricated, and how the fabricators are themselves top GOP operatives with close ties to the Bush administration and the McCain campaign:
http://www.slate.com/id/2166589
Do we seriously want to let these crooks keep running this country?
Posted on October 27 at 11:52 p.m.
Every Ohioan considering how to vote should consider two things: (1) the GOP, from its very presidential candidate all the way down, has absolutely hammered on the claim that "ACORN" and other boogeymen have rigged the current election, while (2) there is this chilling story (told here by one of the United States' most prominent election law experts, Rick Hasen of Loyola LA Law School) explaining how this whole alleged problem has been essentially fabricated, and how the fabricators are themselves top GOP operatives with close ties to the Bush administration and the McCain campaign:
http://www.slate.com/id/2166589
Do we seriously want to let these crooks keep running this country?
Posted on October 27 at 11:51 p.m.
Every Ohioan considering how to vote should consider two things: (1) the GOP, from its very presidential candidate all the way down, has absolutely hammered on the claim that "ACORN" and other boogeymen have rigged the current election, while (2) there is this chilling story (told here by one of the United States' most prominent election law experts, Rick Hasen of Loyola LA Law School) explaining how this whole alleged problem has been essentially fabricated, and how the fabricators are themselves top GOP operatives with close ties to the Bush administration and the McCain campaign:
http://www.slate.com/id/2166589
Do we seriously want to let these crooks keep running this country?
Posted on October 23 at 3:56 p.m.
PS: A few thoughts about this inane "socialism" theme. First, it is one thing when anonymous posters in an online forum throw around abstract labels that they intend as polemicizing, Manichaen insults; it isn't even a big deal when they demonstrate that they don't have much grasp of them. (E.g., I saw a post on another thread today showing the author had never read a word of socialist theory or criticism of it when he claimed to show, Q.E.D., that Obama must be socialist because he questions charter school programs. You never hear thoughtful and educated conservatives, even when they are really, really conservative, say things like that. That's because they've taken a little time to educate themselves about the things they criticize.) But when the Republican nominee for President does this, with no foundation, it's a disgrace.
Second, it is insipidly false. Like virtually everyone in the United States and surely every serious political candidate, Obama is a market-oriented capitalist who does not intend centralized ownership or the abolition of private property. (See, e.g., the classic historical study by Louis Hartz, called "The Liberal Tradition in America.") His economic platform is not even as progressive as some of the economic policies of the Nixon administration (remember the Office of Price Administration, anyone?)
Third, and to me this is the knee-slapping howler, why does no one see the irony in the red-baiting that many conservatives have been throwing around lately? That is, you can just announce that Obama is a "socialist" if you want (even though I can't imagine where the support for that claim is to be found in any of Obama's actual economic platform, which frankly contemplates nothing more than middle-of-the-road finance capitalism subject to reasonable regulation), but doesn't that criticism seem pretty ironic when a right-leaning Republican government is even now the largest equity owner of AIG insurance and shortly will become a large stake holder in several huge banks? And this socialization of our financial markets is directly the result of the 8 years of virtually unchallenged GOP control of all three branches of federal government. Though he surely did not consciously intend it, the single biggest socialist in the United States has become George W. Bush!
Finally, if Obama is all the things that his opponent explicitly calls him -- a "socialist" and "pal" of "terrorists" -- you really have to wonder what Colin Powell could possibly be thinking. And, ask yourself, what does Powell have to gain from the endorsement? Nothing -- surely nothing he couldn't also get by helping Senator McCain win. So you really have to wonder why he would do this if any of the inane, foundless namecalling of the McCain/Palin campaign were true.
Posted on October 23 at 3:49 p.m.
Hey Apollo: Thanks! But no need to bad mouth the Valley!
Posted on October 23 at 2:55 p.m.
Here I think is the real reason McCain has never been able to pull it together in this race. Two two debt-financed wars and a domestic policy rivaling the incompetence of the Katrina disaster have left every American man, woman, and child owing $35,000 on the national debt. Senator McCain’s only real economic idea is to make permanent our existing tax policy, despite its having had several years to work already. Instead, his campaign’s main strategy is to change focus almost completely every few days, usually from one tangential issue to the next, stressing William Ayres, then ACORN, then Joe the Plumber, and now for a few days it’s been that Obama, because he means slightly to modify one of the world's most regressive tax systems, is a “socialist." (That one’s a bit ironic after the Republican government took the single largest equity stake in the previously private financial sector.) McCain’s administration would also be overrun with business lobbyists; his very campaign manager and several other advisers were millionaire lobbyists for, of all things, mortgage bankers.
The tragedy is what his chances of winning show about us as people. By not making utterly inevitable an Obama landslide, we Ohioans have shown ourselves a flock of callow children who’ve earned no right of self-government. How long must we stand like fools in the same burning building before we just step outside?
Posted on October 23 at 2:53 p.m.
Here I think is the real reason McCain has never been able to pull it together in this race. Two two debt-financed wars and a domestic policy rivaling the incompetence of the Katrina disaster have left every American man, woman, and child owing $35,000 on the national debt. Senator McCain’s only real economic idea is to make permanent our existing tax policy, despite its having had several years to work already. Instead, his campaign’s main strategy is to change focus almost completely every few days, usually from one tangential issue to the next, stressing William Ayres, then ACORN, then Joe the Plumber, and now for a few days it’s been that Obama, because he means slightly to modify one of the world's most regressive tax systems, is a “socialist." (That one’s a bit ironic after the Republican government took the single largest equity stake in the previously private financial sector.) McCain’s administration would also be overrun with business lobbyists; his very campaign manager and several other advisers were millionaire lobbyists for, of all things, mortgage bankers.
The tragedy is what his chances of winning show about us as people. By not making utterly inevitable an Obama landslide, we Ohioans have shown ourselves a flock of callow children who’ve earned no right of self-government. How long must we stand like fools in the same burning building before we just step outside?
Posted on October 22 at 2:11 p.m.
Have any doubts that this year's GOP electoral approach is driven by outright hatred? Even if you're not convinced after reading comments on online blogs like this, take a look at what an actual candidate and an official supporter of the McCain/Palin ticket had to say:
https://dccc.org/page/contribute/caught1...