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Friday
21st November, 2008

Features

Morning at the BBC

By Denis Campbell • Oct 21st, 2008 • Category: Features

 
by Denis Campbell
A tidal wave of emotion after 20-months washed over me sitting in BBC’s studio Six. The host asked a question and for a brief moment I could not speak then the words tumbled out like a cascade. The realisation hit me like a ton of brick square in the chest. After a brutal [...]



Former Secretary of State Colin Powell Endorses Barack Obama

By Denis Campbell • Oct 19th, 2008 • Category: Features

by Denis Campbell
Ooops, there now goes the McCain as Commander in Chief mantel. There goes the inexperience mantel. There goes the not ready to lead mantel. The Republican Party, already forced onto their heels for a disastrous and divisive McCain campaign saw their last great endorsement hope fade away when former George W. Bush Secretary [...]



Monday, 20:59:52

By Denis Campbell • Oct 19th, 2008 • Category: Features

 
by Denis Campbell
Keith Olbermann will utter the words: “That’s Countdown for this the 2,000th Day since the declaration of Mission Accomplished in Iraq. I’m Keith Olbermann. Goodnight and good luck” thus closing Monday night’s MSNBC broadcast, two weeks before Election Day 2008. 
If children have been born during this two year long Presidential campaign, imagine what [...]



What’s in the News Today?

By Denis Campbell • Oct 18th, 2008 • Category: Features

 
by Denis Campbell
Newspaper Editorial Board endorsements are overwhelmingly going to Senator Barack Obama by a continually growing margin of almost 4:1. McCain did not pick up an endorsement yesterday. While the more traditionally liberal newspapers such as The Boston Globe, Washington Post and San Francisco Chronicle all support Obama, there are a number of surprises [...]



McCain: Unbalanced, Unglued And Unfit

By Charley James • Oct 17th, 2008 • Category: Features

 
by Charley James
Over the past two weeks, we’ve witnessed the coming apart of a once-proud man. Whether in his rambling, often incoherent answers during Wednesday night’s debate or his stump speeches that seem to be little more than words dashing around in search of a thought, John McCain is coming unglued, to a trained professional [...]



Fact Checking John McCain

By Denis Campbell • Oct 17th, 2008 • Category: Features

 
McCain misstatements from the last debate:
• Governor Palin a Bresh of freth air.
• Calling Obama ‘Senator Government’.
• Saying Obama voted for Supreme Court Justice Bryer even though he was confirmed 10 years ago, before Obama was in the Senate.
• Promise he would fight for a line-item veto, which was ruled unconstitutional in 1998.
• Hitching onto [...]



I’m Not George Bush!

By Denis Campbell • Oct 16th, 2008 • Category: Features

 
by Denis Campbell
Said NBC’s Rachel Maddow, “frankly, John McCain looks more like he does not want Obama to be President more than he wants to be President.” That’s a problem progressives know too well. It’s the same way we didn’t vote FOR Kerry, rather AGAINST Bush in 2004. The reason we see so many “undecided [...]



Open Warfare At Camp McCain: The Schmidt’s vs. The Davis’s

By Charley James • Oct 15th, 2008 • Category: Features

 
by Charley James
Open warfare has broken out between John McCain’s campaign management with one faction backing Steve Schmidt, the Karl Rove protégé who came on board in July, and the other standing behind Rick Davis, McCain’s long-time campaign manager.
According to two independent sources working inside the campaign, it was Schmidt and his faction who directed [...]



Gordon Brown in His Element

By Denis Campbell • Oct 14th, 2008 • Category: Features

 
By Denis Campbell
Gordon Brown knows quid pro quo. 
He sat quietly in waiting for 12-years as his would-be mentor Tony Blair stayed vainly in power much too long and frittered away Labour’s public standing in a series of dramatic pratfalls, the biggest being a huge backlash for being a loyal Bush lapdog for years over Iraq. [...]



It’s The Ballot Count, Stupid! Florida Déjà Vu in Arizona

By Denis Campbell • Oct 13th, 2008 • Category: Features

(Reprise article since the New York Times now sees this as an election issue…)
(Pictured L to  R: Jim March, Bill Risner, John R. Brakey of AUDIT AZ)
 Millions will soon begin early voting in the General Election. Nearly half of all US counties will use Diebold GEMS tabulation system. Election officials have the ability to print [...]