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21st November, 2008

Posts Tagged ‘9-11’

The Culture Wars Return

By Denis Campbell • Sep 6th, 2008 • Category: Politics
 

John McCain has abandoned any premise of controlling his campaign, his party or even his own destiny. As Charley James writes today, he has chosen an obscure, mean-spirited and vindictive running mate who, as more and more reporters scrape back the patina and veneer of, seems frighteningly similar to the current resident of Navy Observatory [...]



Perception, Terrorism and Race

By Denis Campbell • Aug 2nd, 2008 • Category: Politics
In America’s heartland, anything that paints Barack Obama as (place your fear mongering adjective here) passes as “God’s honest truth” even when proven a lie. MSNBC reported yesterday, “Gerri Kish, (is) 66-year-old (and) born in Hawaii, read both of Obama’s autobiographies. She has close friends, she said, who still refuse to believe her when she [...]



One Historic Night, Two Americas

By Denis Campbell • Jun 8th, 2008 • Category: Reflections
NYT ONline Op-Ed
By FRANK RICH
Published: June 8, 2008
WHEN Barack Obama achieved his historic victory on Tuesday night, the battle was joined between two Americas. Not John Edwards’s two Americas, divided between rich and poor. Not the Americas split by race, gender, party or ideology. What looms instead is an epic showdown between two wildly different [...]



If It Quacks Like a Lame Duck….

By Denis Campbell • May 27th, 2008 • Category: Politics
“Put those deck chairs here,” one can imaging President George Bush saying to his Press Secretary this week as this S.S. Titanic of an administration lists steeper and begins to sinks below the water line to its complete demise in 241 days. A fundraiser tonight scheduled in Phoenix where George Bush was to stand beside [...]