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5 December, 2008

Posts Tagged ‘John Kerry’

The Radioactive City Convention Hall

By Denis Campbell • Aug 14th, 2008 • Category: Features
While the Democrats have planned a Rocky Mountain high for Denver (that is if the Clinton’s stop thinking everything is always about them and come back to the reality of planet earth), those heading to the Republican convention in Minneapolis (or is it St. Paul?) have been jumping ship like proverbial rats.
Senator Pat Roberts of [...]



Why John?

By Denis Campbell • Aug 6th, 2008 • Category: Politics
You promised a clean campaign. You pledged to bring honour and dignity to the campaign trail. You wanted the campaign to be about real issues facing real people.
Is it because you ran a dignified campaign in ’00 and were brutally blind-sided by the thugs running the Bush/Rove/Cheney campaign? Does your party honestly believe this will [...]



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 [...]



$69,100 From Swift Boat Friends

By Denis Campbell • Jul 8th, 2008 • Category: Politics
It has been a silly-season weekend where Senator McCain and poor, sloppy national reporting made a non flip-flop from Barack Obama the weekend lead attack and pushed Senator McCain’s own acceptance of $69,100 in funds from the same Swift Boat group that smeared John Kerry in 2004 and which he denounced disappear from the headlines. [...]



McCain’s Straight Talk Express Flipped Then Flopped

By Denis Campbell • Jul 1st, 2008 • Category: Features, Politics
When will the Dems learn to that bringing a knife to gun fight is not very smart? When will they learn to play the refs better (the media) for the free ride John McCain continues to get whilst Obama supports the FISA bill only to catch the corporate thieves in criminal liability when elected and [...]