Reporting from Wasilla

Check out this visit to Wasilla by the Daily Show.

They Were Different as Frat Brothers

  After reading about the different personalities of Saxby Chambliss and Jim Martin when they were frat brothers at Georgia, my support for Martin intensified. We need a deliberative, cerebral thinker representing Georgia in the U.S. Senate.  Chambliss loved to party, according to some of his fraternity brothers, while Martin was more serious, studious, doing such things as getting elected class president.

Are the Republians Going to Steal the White House Again?

  If Sen. Obama were white, the election would almost be in the bag. If the Bradley effect (whites who tell pollsters they will vote for a black candidate but don’t) doesn’t keep him from winning, those who rig elections could. Voter suppression appears to be a Republican specialty, and it could happen in Georgia. After all, we do have a Republican Secretary of State.

  You can read up on the controversy over screening for immigrants not qualified to vote by going to this link.

Debate Critique in a Sentence

Obama was presidential, and McCain  was a sarcastic, grumpy old man.

An Attempt to Suppress College Student Voting

 

 Thanks to Joann Locascio for sending this.

Here’s another voter suppression article. This one is about election officials telling college students they can’t vote. Go to this link.

Another Republican Attempt to Suppress Voting

  Watch out for voting shenanigans by the Republicans again this year. You can bet that Republicans will again try prevent anyone who might vote for Obama from doing so if they can. 

  They’s already started in Michigan. Peter Dreier wrote this in The Nation:

James Carabelli, chairman of the Republican Party of Macomb County outside Detroit, said, “We will have a list of foreclosed homes and will make sure people aren’t voting from those addresses,” the Michigan Messenger.comreported September 10. Barack Obama’s campaign and the Democratic Party quickly filed a lawsuit in federal court on behalf of three Michigan residents who lost their houses to foreclosure, to stop the Michigan GOP from carrying out what Democrats called an “ugly” and “horrific” plan. Michigan is a key swing state where a few thousand votes could determine who wins its seventeen Electoral College votes.

  Here we go again. Keep a sharp eye out for this kind of stuff.  Republicans don’t care how they win as long as they win. 

 And I still don’t trust touch-screen voting machines without paper trails.

Socialism for the Rich

 Republicans are people who oppose socialism, unionism, taxes, big government, spending on social programs, regulations on corporations, and are for free markets and reliance on competitive capitalism. Democrats are people who are for socialism, want big government, want regulation of corporations, are pro-union, and are opposed to free markets and competitive capitalism. We’ve heard those definitions supplied by Republicans for a long time. One, the definition is too simplistic and, arguably, untrue. Turns out the new breed of Republicans, the ones who control things now, don’t really mean it, anyway. (Just look at how big government has become under Republican domination of the White House and Congress for more than a decade. The national debt is heading way past $10 trillion.) It’s a con. What they do believe in is socialism for the wealthy and capitalism for the middle class.

 

  Now that the financial world is collapsing because of deregulation and reckless lending practices that made a few people very rich and are now placing the nation on the brink of another Great Depression, this new breed of Republican is for socialism. No, not socialized medicine, or any socialism that would aid the middle class, but socialism for their financial losses. The free market is a wonderful thing as long as it is working for them, but when it stops, they are quite willing for the American taxpayer to cover their losses. This is the socialism that America now faces.

 

  It’s a socialism that works very well for them, and they get the added benefit of knowing if the country spends more than $700 bailing them out, there won’t be any money available for shoring up Social Security and initiating universal healthcare.

 

  They will try to make this presidential election about anything but the critical issues facing the American people right now. But, this time, it appears they are not going to get away with it. The American people are thinking about their financial survival now, not lipstick on a pit bull, or a pig.

   

McCain Campaign Unleashes a “Blizzard of Lies”

  The McCain campaign is out Swiftboating the Bush campaigns. It shamelessly tells lies and repeats them over and over, and the mainstream media plays right into their hands by concentrating on all the crap that is flying around instead of the real issues.  Paul Krugman has a great column on what’s going on. You can read it by going to this link.

What Did the Republicans Offer?

  That’s what Sen. Barack Obama wants to know.

Rove and O’Reilly’s Double Standards Exposed

 One of the greatest public services on the air is the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Yes, he is funny and yes a lot of outrageous material gets on the air, but he unequaled in ability to hold the spinners to their words.  Just take a look at how he handled Karl Rove and Bill O’Reilly.