Ever wonder who in Park Forest is contributing to the presidential campaigns? Wondering if a celebrity is playing both sides of the fence? Whether that new guy or gal you’ve just met is actually a Republican or a Democrat? Wondering if your boss maxed out at that fundraiser or got comped? Does your [...]
August 7th, 2008
Categories: Barack Obama, Democratic News, Elections, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Republicans . Author: G . Comments: No Comments
Here we go. Johnny M. is playing it — or accusing Barack O. of playing it.
The race card. The dreaded race card.
When all chips are down, when a black man or woman is in danger of succeeding, there you have it. The race card again. It must be the race card.
Here’s [...]
August 1st, 2008
Categories: Barack Obama, Chicago, Chicagoland, Elections, John McCain, Race . Author: G . Comments: No Comments
Let me begin by saying that I have tremendous respect for Jesse Jackson, Sr. if it is still 1988.
His speech at the Democratic Convention is electrifying and incredibly inspirational. I’m sitting in the living room of my parents’ house watching the convention, and I’m hoping against hope that Jesse Sr. could have won the [...]
July 10th, 2008
Categories: Barack Obama, Elections, Philosophical, Republicans, Strange, White House . Author: G . Comments: No Comments
U.S. Congressman Bill Foster from the 14th Congressional District in Illinois is quickly making a name for himself standing up for our military veterans. The 14th District is the seat vacated by former Speaker of the House Denny Hastert. According to the Daily Chronicle:
Beginning next year, veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces will have [...]
July 8th, 2008
Categories: Barack Obama, Congress, Democratic News, Economy, Elections, John McCain, Republicans . Author: G . Comments: No Comments
This story from The Washington Post (in block text) is presented with appropriate passages from The Declaration of Independence (italics). Enjoy.
Government workers repeatedly snooped without authorization inside the electronic passport records of entertainers, athletes and other high-profile Americans, a State Department audit has found. One celebrity’s records were breached 356 times by more than six [...]
July 3rd, 2008
Categories: America, Civil Liberties, Elections, General, Legal, Rant, Republicans, White House . Author: G . Comments: No Comments
It’s only Newsweek, so it must be another liberal smear.
Except this time it’s true.
John McCain is a tax dodger:
When you’re poor, it can be hard to pay the bills. When you’re rich, it’s hard to keep track of all the bills that need paying. It’s a lesson Cindy McCain learned the hard way when NEWSWEEK [...]
July 1st, 2008
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Some Barack Obama supporters are informally adopting the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate’s middle name as their own. According to the New York Times:
Emily Nordling has never met a Muslim, at least not to her knowledge. But this spring, Ms. Nordling, a 19-year-old student from Fort Thomas, Ky., gave herself a new middle name on Facebook.com, [...]
June 29th, 2008
Categories: Barack Obama, Democratic News, Elections, John McCain, White House . Author: G . Comments: No Comments
This just in today from Brave New Films:
Joe Lieberman is a war hawk, plain and simple. He staunchly supports George Bush’s War in Iraq and John McCain’s plan to stay in Iraq for 100 years. But Lieberman’s new alliance with the Republican Party runs even deeper. He has endorsed and stumped for McCain, wants [...]
June 25th, 2008
Categories: Congress, Democratic News, Elections, Iraq, John McCain, Republicans . Author: G . Comments: No Comments
Bill Daley has been talking to all the right people, working to position himself for the 2010 Democratic nomination for governor of Illinois. Brother of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, Bill took a shot at the governor’s mansion in 2002. According to the Chicago Sun-Times:
Bill Daley flirted with a race for governor in 2002 [...]
June 24th, 2008
Categories: Chicagoland, Congress, Democratic News, Elections . Author: G . Comments: No Comments
A “senior adviser” to John McCain told Fortune Magazine that a terror attack would be “a big advantage” for John McCain. Charles R. Black, Jr. was forced to “recant” his opinion:
First, McCain said the substance of Black’s comments were untrue.
“I’ve worked tirelessly since 9/11 to prevent another attack on the United States of America,” McCain [...]
June 23rd, 2008
Categories: Elections, John McCain, Republicans, Strange . Author: G . Comments: No Comments