Category Archives: Politics

Five Days Out

Cautious optimism.

Map created using Real Clear Politics map generator. Data using FiveThirtyEight’s polling projections. All poll projections greater than 6% margin were deemed ‘solid’, less than that ‘leaning’, and anything less than say 1% were ‘toss up’.

F.U.D. vs Hope

The election has boiled down to this, in my opinion: Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (F.U.D.) versus Hope.
The McCain/Palin campaign and right wingers sling the F.U.D. better than anyone. Remember, when you go to the polls next Tuesday that Barack is: black, an Arab, a Muslim, a terrorist, a friend of terrorists, a communist, a socialist, [...]

Oh, Palin.

Is there anything she won’t exaggerate or lie about?
Today in Ohio while introducing Joe the Plumber:
“He’s a fellow Alaska[n], and he’s a fellow military man who has served our country proudly. I’d like you to meet him.”
The problem is, he isn’t either. But I guess we his name isn’t really Joe, nor a plumber, I [...]

Joe the (unlicensed) Plumber?

It seems the McCain camp is really having problems vetting folks these days (especially someone you are going to mention almost two dozen times at the final debate)... the AP is reportng that Joe the Plumber is not a licensed plumber AND he owes $1200 in back taxes.
The head of the local plumbers’ union says [...]

Women’s Health, Extreme?

John McCain at last night’s debate:
“Just again, the example of the eloquence of Sen. Obama. He’s health for the mother. You know, that’s been stretched by the pro-abortion movement in America to mean almost anything. That’s the extreme pro-abortion position, quote, ‘health.’”
So, women’s health is extreme? Just goes to show you – if you are [...]

Coward.

Nothing better than a cowardly racist caught on video tape. From CBS News:
As the crowd cheered at a Sarah Palin rally this morning in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a man in the audience grinned as he held up a stuffed monkey doll with a Barack Obama bumper sticker wrapped across its forehead. [..]
After Palin finished her [...]