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Posts Tagged ‘obama’

McCain’s Straight Talk Express Flipped Then Flopped

By Denis Campbell • Jul 1st, 2008 • Category: Features

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 […]



Buy a Car Get a Free Handgun

By Denis Campbell • Jun 30th, 2008 • Category: Business

The BBC reported a Missouri, USA car dealership offered a promotion where if one buys a car or truck, they can get either $250 in petrol vouchers or a free handgun. UK laws forbidding gun ownership aside for the moment, if they were to change, could this be a marketing opportunity for businesses in the […]



Perception, Terrorism and Race

By Denis Campbell • Jun 30th, 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 […]



She United and It Feels So Good

By Denis Campbell • Jun 28th, 2008 • Category: Features

Olbermann said it first. More than a bad pun, the Democratic Unity, New Hampshire photo-op happened yesterday. Newshounds desperate for a story angle spoke of backstage tensions between their handlers or jumped briefly on trivial Republican, Grover Norquist’s “he’s Kerry with a tan” racist comment, until they saw who said it. To listen to pundits […]



Hypocrisy 101

By Denis Campbell • Jun 27th, 2008 • Category: Features

North Korea lost Axis of Evil membership yesterday for producing a paper list in exchange for a sweetheart deal for jet fuel and yet still… refine Uranium. George Bush stood on the floor of the Israeli Knesset last month playing an obscene partisan game invoking Holocaust imagery while denouncing Barack Obama as an “appeaser” for […]



The Spring, 2008 Irrelevancy Tour

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

The George W. and Laura Bush EU farewell tour continued yesterday in the UK. After tea with Her Majesty at Windsor Castle, it was time for a lavish dinner with Gordon Brown at Number 10 Downing Street where the main topic was please, don’t pull your troops out of Iraq before my term ends. Prime […]



Facebook and Stacey vs. Nathaniel’s Restaurant

By Denis Campbell • Jun 10th, 2008 • Category: Features

My Toronto friend Lisa sent one of many Facebook invitations that cross my desk to a group called Re-instate Stacey Fearnall Now!! I normally bin them because I learn too much about my Facebook “friends” – Do You have a Higher Movie IQ than Dave? Noooo… I don’t care to know that and if I did have a higher movie IQ, it would indicate waaaay too […]



What if We’re Wrong? Introspection Makes Needed Comeback

By Denis Campbell • Jun 9th, 2008 • Category: Features

120 hours ago, Barack Obama woke up the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party. There were outpourings of pride and emotion on all sides that a person of colour could win the nomination, culminating with a rousing speech by Hillary Clinton calling the party to unite behind him. Quietly, unseen though, a familiar dark hate […]



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 […]



“The Fierce Urgency of Now,” 45 Years Later

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

The last 36-hours have been overwhelming in historical significance. A young black man, born of mixed-race parents, raised by a single white mother in Indonesia and later white grandparents in Hawaii, obtained a top Ivy League education, worked as a lawyer in Chicago helping to organise union members, ran unsuccessfully for Congress, then became a […]