Posted by Parker V on June 29, 2008 under Election 08 | 
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On June 28, all across America thousands of people will gather in each others homes to discuss why they’re involved in politics. Find out more at my.barackobama.com/uniteforcha nge
Posted by Parker V on June 28, 2008 under Humor, Video | Be the First to Comment
The Onion’s morning show’s political correspondent offers tips on how you can seem informed about politics without picking up a single newspaper.
Posted by Parker V on June 25, 2008 under Video | Be the First to Comment
Posted by Parker V on June 24, 2008 under Election 08 | Be the First to Comment
A big step for the Daily Show! While having done numerous segments in the same vane ragging on only McCain and other conservatives, the Daily Show recently branched out and actually did a full segment on the Democrat nominee, hurling mostly playful jabs (the switch on campaign financing is a big issue, but Stewart covers it only with the hand raising blip, so we didn’t count that as being beyond playful).
The bit has drawn John Stewart some love, though probably with a short expiration date, from red blogs such as Weekly Standard, Powerline, Red State and others.
Posted by Parker V on June 16, 2008 under Election 08 | Be the First to Comment
The FNC Panel discuss the possibility.
Juan Williams thinks so.
Bill Kristol doesn’t….
what do you think?
Keep in mind this is from a FOX News Sunday at the beginning of the year (1/13/2008). So have things in this area improved? or gotten much much worse?…
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Barack addressed the congregation at the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago, IL on June 15, 2008.
Posted by Parker V on June 13, 2008 under Election 08 | Read the First Comment
Yesterday Michael Medved interviewed the very popular 36 year old Governor of Lousiana Bobby Jinal. Medved vocally supports Jindal to be McCains pic as Vic President. The following is Medveds analysis from an article he penned listing the pro’s and con’s of McCains VP shortlist:
PRO: His impeccable conservative credentials (a 98% American Conservative Union rating during his two terms in Congress) and stalwart defense of human life (“I am 100 percent pro life with no exceptions”) would help rally worn right-wingers to McCain’s cause. Rush Limbaugh has praised Jindal as “the next Ronald Reagan – winning with 100 percent pure conservatism.” Jindal’s remarkable success with ethics legislation during his first months as governor of notoriously corrupt Louisiana would also help McCain run as a reformer who could clean up “the mess in Washington” the way his running mate cleaned up the mess in Baton Rouge. Above all his youth (he’ll be 37 at the convention) and brilliance (biology degree from Brown, Rhodes Scholar at Oxford) would help Republicans balance some of the hysterical excitement over Obama. As the son of immigrants (who arrived from India for graduate school in Louisiana when Jindal’s mother was pregnant with him) he could help connect with Hispanic voters, where Republicans desperately need help. Asians will also make up 4% of the electorate and by placing the first Asian-American on the ticket, McCain could help stop the drift of this growing segment of the population toward the Democrats. Also, Jindal is a devout Catholic (he converted in high school from Hinduism) and has written thoughtful theological pieces for conservative Catholic journals. His ability to connect with religious Catholics will help in any number of battleground states. Finally, he displays an ease on TV and a sense of humor that will disarm all critics: his appearance on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno has become a favorite on You Tube and represented a triumph for the young governor. With Jindal on the ticket, voters wouldn’t have to go to the Democrats in order to elect our first person of color to national office.
CON: He’s too young, too inexperienced – how can Republicans criticize Obama as unprepared, when Jindal is ten years younger? Actually, this argument ends up turning in Jindal’s favor, since he possesses vastly MORE experience than Obama, particularly in executive positions. In addition to his early triumphs as governor, he’s also won spectacular success in a long series of leadership roles – as executive director of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare, Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, President of the Louisiana State University System (at the ludicrously young age of 26!), Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services (unanimously confirmed – and praised – in a bipartisan vote of the US Senate), and two terms in the House of Representatives (including service on the House Committee on Homeland Security and re-election with 88% of the vote). Nothing in the Obama resume comes close to any of this. It’s true that I started promoting Jindal for Veep on my radio show nearly a year ago (before he even won election as governor) and, frankly, I don’t see serious negatives to his candidacy.
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Posted by Parker V on June 8, 2008 under Election 08 | Be the First to Comment
A video comparisson of the two speeches claims that Obama Plagiarized Mario Cuomo from 1984 when delivery his “Maybe” attack on rival John McCain. Both speeches claim that the Republican opponent at the time just doesn’t understand certain life issues as a result of not talking to enough people and not visiting enough places – a claim that might have been plausible with Reagan, but McCain? uhh…..
