Posted in 9/11, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Iraq, Iraq War, Politics, Saddam Hussein, U.S. military, military, war, world, tagged 9/11, Barack Obama, blogswarm 19th March, Foreign Policy, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Iraq, Iraq War, Iraq War Blogswarm, John McCain, military, Naomi Klein, Politics, Saddam Hussein, Shia, Sunni, surge, U.S. military, war, world on March 19, 2008 | Enter your password to view comments
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Posted in 2008, Bryan Adams, Iraq, Iraq War, Iraq War Blogswarm, Iraq War Blogswarm- March 19, Politics, Technorati, blogswarm, economy, resource war on March 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
There was a popular Bryan Adams song, “Everything I Do, I Do It For You.” I think I was in 4th grade the first time I heard it. It made me want to find a girl like that, someone I’d do anything for. That was where bliss lived.
Though we’re [...]
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Posted in H.G. Wells, Hugh Green, Kevin McBride, Kobe Bryant, Mike Tyson, New York, Politics, SR-71, Spitzer, Vatican, Wall Street, infidelity, monogamy, prostitution, rape, religion, scandal, sex, sexual assault on March 13, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I was reminded of the above H.G. Wells quote after reading the comments to Sparticus’s post, “Oh Eliot, How Could You?” The Eliot Spitzer scandal draws a clear line between free-thinking dissenters and the “Proud to be a Democrat” variety. The latter accept uncritically that, but of course, we must all show how thoroughly outraged [...]
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Posted in 2000 elections, Barack Obama, Democrats, Elections, Hillary Clinton, Ken Starr, Politics, Supedelegates, bill clinton, political parties, politicians, presidential elections on March 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Cross-posted at Jonestown:
There appears to be this edgy sense of tiptoeing around on the part of Obama’s “rainbow people” and the inwardly frantic disciples of the Clinton Dynasty. Each camp is desperate for unflattering sound bites about the other, but not the kind so devastating that voters will remember them in November. While both [...]
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Posted in 2008 elections, Al Gore, Anderson Cooper, Barack Obama, CNN, Chelsea Clinton, Democrats, Elections, George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, Jason Rae, John McCain, Ohio, Politics, Supedelegates, Superman, Texas, bill clinton, citizenship, democracy, political parties, politicians, popular vote, presidential candidates, presidential elections, voting on March 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
While covering the presidential horse race, CNN and other mainstream news outlets keeps showing “delegate counts” without explaining their significance, as if there’s no real distinction between “superdelegates” and the apparently not-so-super ones.
But there is a distinction, an important one. Regular delegates, or “pledged” delegates, correspond to actual votes. Superdelegate votes reflect the [...]
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