Category Archives: Politics

More GOP Attack Ads Out There

LA Times As they promote their candidates and try to pave the way for GOP victories this year, Republicans have begun making their case to voters in advertisements featuring a new star: Barack Obama. In North Carolina, a TV ad shows Obama’s former pastor making racially charged comments. An Internet ad attacks a Pennsylvania congressman […]

Grey Lady Upset Over Candidates Negative Campaigns

Because that’s their @$#%^* job! The Pennsylvania campaign, which produced yet another inconclusive result on Tuesday, was even meaner, more vacuous, more desperate, and more filled with pandering than the mean, vacuous, desperate, pander-filled contests that preceded it. Voters are getting tired of it; it is demeaning the political process; and it does not work. […]

Congressmen Price On The Patraeus Testimony

So, as I was taking a shower to get ready for work, David Price (R-NC) was on WPTF-680 here in Raleigh. On the subject of the Patraeus hearings yesterday, he said it was a “more sober affair then last time.” I have to wonder if he realizes that Ted Kennedy was in da house?

Politics Vs. Patraeus

New vid from the RNC WASHINGTON – Today the RNC released a new Web video, titled “Politics vs. Petraeus.” The video highlights Senators Clinton and Obama’s politicization of the War on Terror and complete disregard for the facts and the warnings made by General David Petraeus during his last congressional hearing on September 11, 2007. […]

Surrender Monkey Friday: Obama Passport Kerfuffle Bush’s Fault

  By now, many of y’all know about the little passport kerfuffle, right? Two contract employees of the State Department were fired and a third person was disciplined for inappropriately looking at Democratic Sen. Barack Obama’s passport file. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said the department itself detected the instances of “imprudent curiosity,” which occurred […]

Obamessiah Backs Law To Help Maverick

Will he wash McCain’s feet next? (Ok, cheap Bible based shot. Sue me) Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign announced he would co-sponsor legislation introduced yesterday by his political ally Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) to ensure that John McCain can become president, even though he was born in the Panama Canal Zone. The issue of McCain’s eligibility […]

Take The Stony Brook Survey

What are your reactions to the presidential campaign? The folks at Stony Brook SU would like to know for a dissertation project. You can help them out quite a bit by taking the survey. It’ll take about 15 minutes.

NY Times Attacks McCain, Suggests He Had An Affair

I guess all pretense of the New York Times loving McCain has gone by the wayside Early in Senator John McCain’s first run for the White House eight years ago, waves of anxiety swept through his small circle of advisers. A female lobbyist had been turning up with him at fund-raisers, visiting his offices and […]

WTW: Obama Uses The Word “Policy” In A Speech!

  Morning, y’all, Jebediah Murphy here on another fine White Trash Wednesday with a bit of that truthiness stuff. And get aload of this truthiness! The two winners in Wisconsin quickly set their sights on one another. McCain accused Obama of promising “no more than a holiday from history and a return to the false […]

Angry White Men

Heard this one on Boortz this morning. Makes sense to me There is one group no one has recognized, and it is the group that will decide the election: the Angry White Man. The Angry White Man comes from all economic backgrounds, from dirt-poor to filthy rich. He represents all geographic areas in America, from […]

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