Election 2008
« Previous Entries Friday, November 28th, 2008The Inaugural Seating Chart
Tom Toles from the Washington post has my favorite cartoon about the upcoming inauguration.
Saturday, October 25th, 2008Who 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, 2008What 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, 2008MOTWA: 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]