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Friday, November 28th, 2008

The Inaugural Seating Chart

Tom Toles from the Washington post has my favorite cartoon about the upcoming inauguration.  

Saturday, October 25th, 2008

Who are these ‘Elites’ McCain Keeps Talking About?

Brian Williams interviewed Sarah Palin and John McCain the other night on the NBC nightly news. He asked about her definition of “terrorism” with respect to Bill Ayers and my favorite question: What is an “elite” and who is a member of the “elites”?
Palin’s answer:
People who think they’re better than anyone else.
Williams followed up with […]

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

9 Things I Learned from the Republican National Convention

Liberals are bad. Very bad. But Republicans need to reach out across the aisle to them. But first, they must call them names and blame them for everything that is wrong with America.
Republicans want change too. Even though they’ve been in charge for the past eight years. Apparently they can’t change anything while holding the […]

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

How Obama Can Close the Deal

Barack Obama has fought quite a primary race so far against Hillary Clinton, coming from more than 20 points down to draw even with Hillary. But some argue that he can’t close the deal.
Here is what is happening and a couple ideas on how he closes.
Hillary is using the Republican strategy of making the opponent […]

Monday, April 14th, 2008

A Local WEBN Advertisement and Our Political Debate

WEBN is a classic rock station here in Cincinnati that has decorated our town with a lovely series of billboards. The billboards are easily spotted by single black quotes on an otherwise all-white billboard.

Here are a few samples:

“102.7 WEBN stinks,” Maya Buttreeks from Kenwood
“102.7 WEBN is immature,” Hu Flung Pu, Mt. Adams
“102.7 WEBN has never […]

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Auditioning for CEO of America

Whichever Democrat wins the nomination should make a pitch to become America’s next CEO.
A CEO that is:

A leader
Fiscally responsible
Capable of working with the best and brightest
Willing to push for major change

The CEO positioning is currently up for grabs because Republicans seem to have abandoned this tactic. I’m guessing this is because if George Bush were […]

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

What Do Democrats Want When They Say “Experience”?

Hillary Clinton claims that we should hire the person with the most experience to be President. It’s an interesting argument, but what is really going on here?
There are two ways you could look at the term “experience” when it comes to this race:

Political experience
Experience fighting Republicans

Most people, including the Barack campaign, have focused on responding […]

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

MOTWA: How Obama Can Accomplish Real Change

As John McCain picks up the “lack of experience” story to attack Barack Obama, I thought I’d revisit this topic, revisit the argument, and think about ways to re-frame this issue.
When Hillary Clinton says that she has more experience, she typically is not just referring to her experience in politics. She means a combination of […]

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

MOTWA: Barack Obama

A good sign that you have a solid vision is when other candidates start using it. For this reason and for his consistency, Barack Obama wins this week’s Message of the Week Award.
Obama has been preaching a message of change and hope since his book, The Audacity of Hope, and since the 2004 Democratic National […]

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

GOP to Christians: We Want Your Votes, Not Your Values Part II

While researching the Huckabee coverage, I thought I remembered seeing a brief blurb in the news a while back in which a senior Whitehouse official called the evangelical Christians nutjobs.
Digging further, I found out that David Kuo, a former Bush speech-writer, wrote about this in his book Tempting Faith.
Kuo’s basic premise for his book is […]

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