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Election ’08, Page 125

The cult-like worship of Barack Obama

As longtime readers know, I’ve been very critical of Senator Barack Obama at this blog, even before he officially announced his candidacy, only praising him once that I can recall. It’s no secret that I’m not a fan of the O-man, but I want to make clear that I hold no personal ill-will towards the junior Senator from Illinois. He seems like he’d be a nice guy. I just don’t think he’s fit to be president of the United States, for reasons mentioned in the posts I linked to in this paragraph. He’s too liberal, very inexperienced, and has very, very bad ideas on how to conduct foreign policy. .....   [Read More]

Supah Dupah Tuesday – Post 2: The Results (FINAL UPDATE: MO GOES TO OBAMA, ALASKA GOES TO ROMNEY, OBAMA)

**This post is the second part of my first SDT post, and will be updated throughout the evening, with the newest updates being posted at the top, rather than the bottom of the post. Please feel free to utilize today’s open thread to post about any non-Campaign 2008 related news stories, so they don’t get lost in the shuffle of posting/commenting in this thread. **.....   [Read More]

Showtime: It’s Supah Dupah Tuesday (UPDATE 14: EARLY EXITS FROM MA SHOW ROMNEY AHEAD, HILLARY AND O-MAN NECK AND NECK)

**This post will be updated frequently and kept on the top of the page – newer posts will show up below this one. I will start a new post when results begin to come in. (Evening update: Here’s my latest post). Please feel free to utilize today’s open thread to post about any non-Campaign 2008 related news stories, so they don’t get lost in the shuffle of posting/commenting in this thread. **.....   [Read More]

Barack Obama and “bipartisanship”

A couple of days ago, I wrote a post about Senator Barack Obama and noted what he meant when he talked about “change” and “reaching across the aisle in the spirit of bipartisanship” – which is, to say, that he would have to engage in very little “reaching across the aisle,” considering he’d have a Democrat Congress to work with, a Congress who would happily strive to pass an Obama agenda which, yes, pays more than a passing tribute to Socialism......   [Read More]