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How the GOP threw the 2008 presidential election (sort of)
Barack Obama will soon be inaugurated as the United States’ 44th President, a feat of unparalleled significance in our history. I don’t want to take anything away from this monumental victory, but there is a reason that McCain didn’t win (and it’s not Sarah Palin).MORE »
Pakistan: The other shoe to drop?
by Colette Davidson • 10/16/08 • Call it a premonition, but I think the Republican party just dropped its bomb. Today, the AP announced that another suspected U.S. led missile strike was carried out on Pakistan in an area known to harbor Al Qaeda and other terrorists. Since August, the U.S. has purportedly been involved with nearly a dozen similar attacks, all of which it neither confirms nor denies. Is today’s bomb any different from the others or could this be a ploy to instill confidence in the U.S.MORE »
Minnesota grassroots leaders respond to presidential debate
During the presidential debates, Americans have had plenty of opportunities to hear Barack Obama and John McCain talk. Then we listen to political pundits talk about the talk. But often political pundits are far removed from the grassroots, and glean their perspective from policy wonks who get their news from other wonks.MORE »
At Iowa McCain rally, pastor tries to use peer pressure — on God
John McCain had better win the November election — otherwise God will be the butt of all the other gods’ jokes. That’s the message of one Rev. Arnold Conrad who lead a prayer at McCain’s rally in Davenport, Iowa, on Saturday.MORE »
Who was the worst offender in Lakeville–the questioner or the candidate?
Much has been made of McCain’s angry crowd in Lakeville last week, where the candidate snatched a microphone from the hands of a questioner asserting that Barack Obama is “an Arab.” McCain’s response to this claim? “No ma’am. He’s a decent family man and citizen.”
Let’s run the tape again:
Questioner: “He’s an Arab.”
McCain: “No, he’s decent.”
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Let’s run the tape again:
Questioner: “He’s an Arab.”
McCain: “No, he’s decent.”
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McCain Volunteer Sends Out "Obama is an Arab" Letters
Gayle Quinnel, a John McCain supporter says at a McCain Rally that "Obama is an Arab". She is quickly corrected by John McCain who takes away her microphone.MORE »
Obama's "Problem" With William Ayers
Recently the Presidential campaign of 2008 has taken a nasty turn. As the McCain/Palin ticket continues to fall behind to the Democratic team of Obama/Biden, allegations are flying to discredit Obama. Some of this is not new.MORE »
Obama and the art of argument
by David Doody • 9/30/08 • In conceding that John McCain was correct on some issues in the first presidential debate, Barack Obama showed he takes those issues seriously enough to see them from all sides.
"You could not argue in a vacuum, as if only your opinion matters. It would be irresponsible to try only to prevail in such a case. Rather, you would want to recognize what others think and try to draw people together." -from The Informed Argument by Robert K. Miller and Robert P. YagelskiMORE »
The non-issue issue
By Jeff Fecke • 9/27/08 • It seems that debates are won and lost of late not on the issues — the idea! — but on something meta, beneath the surface of the debate. In 2000, it was Gore sighing when Bush was behaving like an idiot. In 2004, it was Kerry correctly noting that Dick Cheney’s out lesbian daughter was lesbian. These were huge transgressions, far greater than anything actually said about substance, and these were the reasons that the press gave for giving Dubya victories.
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VOICES | McCain the suspender: Let’s keep politics out of politics
Purely as a question of self-interest, John McCain’s exit-the-stage gambit makes sense. With cries of impending doom filling the air, he’s got nothing to gain by sticking around to discuss a subject he ill understands and to be pelted with quotations of the Hoover-like things he’s already said, such as proclaiming the economy “fundamentally strong” at the start of last week.MORE »
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