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5 December, 2008

Posts Tagged ‘Joe Biden’

New Camelot Coming; Patience Progressives

By Denis Campbell • Nov 22nd, 2008 • Category: Features
 
By Denis Campbell
We’ve celebrated for 2½ weeks and what better way to remember Jack Kennedy on this solemn day than to watch President-elect Obama’s deliberate, studious and principled leadership in action. The hard work began precisely at 11:00 pm on 04 November, healing our land and cleaning up our reputation in the world, after the [...]



Let Get Ready to Ruummbblleee!

By Denis Campbell • Nov 12th, 2008 • Category: Features
 

By Denis Campbell
If you liked the US election, you’re gonna love the upcoming PPV steel cage match in the planet’s greatest political theatre. Steps away from London’s West End houses offering titles: Wicked, Les Miserables and The Mousetrap, the House of Parliament’s Prime Minister’s Question Time should be highly entertaining as both parties attempt to [...]



New POTUS, New Name

By Denis Campbell • Nov 11th, 2008 • Category: Politics Too
by Denis Campbell
Every incoming POTUS and VPOTUS (President of the United States and Vice), has a code name used by their US Secret Service protection detail. The name is chosen by the White House Communications Agency, originally created as the White House Signal Detachment under Franklin Roosevelt.
According to protocol, ‘good’ codewords are unambiguous words that [...]



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 [...]



McCain’s Talking Deer Flatlines, Plans Coup?

By Denis Campbell • Oct 3rd, 2008 • Category: Features
 
by Denis Campbell
Could Sarah Palin really be a Walt Disney creation? At some point the comparisons between her and perky Mouseketeer Annette are hard to push out of consciousness. Annette learned her lines and recited them with real “Gosh, Shucks” authenticity in such a way that she became and old man’s and America’s sweetheart (not [...]



The GOP Must’ve Learned Lowering Expectations From A Master

By Charley James • Oct 2nd, 2008 • Category: Politics Too
 
 
by Charley James
 
No, it’s not Karl Rove. I’m speaking of Murray Warmath.
And who is Murray Warmath when he’s home? He happens to have been the world’s greatest expert on lowering expectations.
From 1954 through the 1971 season, Warmath was head football coach at the University of Minnesota. Although he won two Big Ten titles, mostly he [...]



John McCain’s Obfuscation Talk Express

By Denis Campbell • Sep 5th, 2008 • Category: Features
 

Balloons fell from the rafters in St. Paul where the Obfuscation Talk Express (Straight, had left the building) crowned the King and Queen of the Republican Prom and eased on down the road to a 1950’s, Donna Reed Show style, lily-white, male dominated, middle class America, where the press politely knows their place and doesn’t ever [...]



The GOP Barracuda Theme Song

By Denis Campbell • Sep 4th, 2008 • Category: Features
Country first, ha(!), this was pure red meat GOP partisanship at its best as hitwoman Governor Sarah Palin gave a speech thin on specifics but loaded in every sense of the word with snarky attacks on Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
In the diversity challenged (read lily-white) Excel Centre, the red meat thrown up by Huckabee, [...]



Abstinence, Chastity, Hypocrisy, Control, Belief, Recovery, Redemption… Reality

By Denis Campbell • Sep 2nd, 2008 • Category: Lead Story
These seven deadly virtues ran headlong into the seven deadly sins as The Straight Talk Express and Smug Religious Right collided head on in New Orleans and Minneapolis yesterday. Dozens were wounded in separate incidents as riot police and troops stood at the ready to bring everyone forcibly on message.
Facing no choice, the same Conservative [...]



Doubling Down – Maverick Brilliance or Misguided Misogyny?

By Denis Campbell • Aug 30th, 2008 • Category: Features
Prolific high-roller casino craps shooter and presumed Republican Presidential nominee John McCain yesterday placed all his chips behind the Pass Line hoping that his VP selection of a virtually unknown woman, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, will hit before the croupier calls “7-out, line in” and scoops up all his chips.
The initial shock of his selection [...]