It’s time for tolerance to break out in this country. I was the first blogger to put the disgusting Republican National Committee mailers from the 2004 race on line which suggested that Democrats would ban the Bible and turn their states into havens of homosexuality.
Apologies to some folks in Chicago last time who contacted me about meeting when I was in the city for a few days. I did have two meetings, but I lost email access for a day and a half and was handicapped in getting back to some who wanted to talk.
I am returning to DC today from New Haven, Connecticut — where I talked to a number of folks who have never before voted in an election and who planned now to vote for Barack Obama.
(Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin) In a candid statement meant to be heard only by those attending a weekly meeting of the Israeli Cabinet, Shin Bet spy chief Yuval Diskin has acknowledged serious concern about violent Jewish settler extremists trying to assassinate Israeli political leaders and willing “to use firearms in order to halt diplomatic…
“Angler” is the Secret Service’s name for Vice President Cheney, who has now formally endorsed the McCain/Palin ticket. Barack Obama and Joe Biden are ‘delighted’ that Cheney and Bush have put their nudge behind the Arizona Senator and Alaska Governor.
Many years ago, I lived in Fairbanks, Alaska as a kid — and I always felt on the frontier of civilization. Not that much seems to have changed.
The New America Foundation’s Sherle Schwenninger and industrialist and philanthropist Bernard Schwartz were out way ahead of the pack in calling for massive government commitment to infrastructure investment. Now this has become conventional wisdom of late.
A couple of well-placed insiders have told me that US Ambassador to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad is going to make a quick split after the November 4th election. Some think he is going to position himself to run for the presidency of Afghanistan — which I sincerely hope he does not do.
Obama appointment rumors are spinning like crazy in DC. Very, very hard to tell what is real and what is self-initiated advocacy and perch-mongering from those who think they will help run Obama Land.
Wow. Palin ‘essentially’ implies that she’ll be back to challenge for the presidency in 2012, leaving a McCain aide “speechless.” Why speechless? Well, the battle for 2008 isn’t exactly over. ABC has the transcript out.
