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5 December, 2008

Posts Tagged ‘Joe Lieberman’

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 [...]



Thank God for Boring Old Henry

By Denis Campbell • Nov 21st, 2008 • Category: Innovators
 
 
by Denis Campbell
 
In the mid-90s, Henry Waxman’s California 30th Congressional District was my home. Henry is the anti-LA glitz poster child. In a district that includes Beverly Hill, West Los Angeles, Santa Monica and Malibu, Henry’s the kind of guy who makes accountants look hip. Henry is decidedly not LA. But if you pierce the [...]



Dude(tte), Give Me Back My Country and My God

By Denis Campbell • Sep 3rd, 2008 • Category: Features
For fourteen years we’ve sat on our hands in abject fear, allowing one party to dictate a far whacked-out right wing agenda watching a corrupt Administration lie its way into war, destroy the economy, tear up our treaties and relationships abroad, allow torture and hide behind so-called Patriotic fundamentalist Christian values.
The Republican Party refuses to [...]



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 [...]



Blowback Mountain Colombia

By Denis Campbell • Jul 3rd, 2008 • Category: Features, Politics
Colombian forces yesterday launched a rescue of 15-hostages, some held for as many as 10-years, by FARC rebels. “I would remind you that these things require incredibly long planning and coordination, et cetera,” said Republican presumptive nominee John McCain. “There’s no way possible that it could have had anything to do with our visit that [...]