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McCain, the Radical Right and the Vital Center 2008-03-09 11:26:40 The radical, reactionary Right
has been painting Senator John McCain
, a patent conservative, as a far-left liberal. Most of their animosity stems from 3 specific Senate bills: McCain-Kennedy, McCain-Feingold, and McCain-Lieberman. They've falsely labeled the McCain-Kennedy Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act an "amnesty" bill for "illegal aliens."
Amnesty is defined as "a forgetting or Read more:Radical
, Vital
, Center
Seating Florida and Michigan 2008-03-09 09:59:47 There are anti-disenfranchisement arguments on both sides of the debate over seating the Democratic delegations from Florida
and Michigan
, which were stripped of their delegates by the DNC because the state parties moved their primaries ahead of February 5. The arguments made by proponents of overturning the rules and seating the delegations are fairly straight forward. They simply say that the
Obama Foes Play Ethnic Balkanization Card 2008-03-03 10:40:42 Anti-immigrant activist Ted Hayes and Hispanic advocate Adelfa Callejo are among the demagogues who dare to assert, from opposite corners (2 sides of the same divisive coin), that African Americans and Latinos don't have the same fundamental interests. This assertion, of course, is absolutely absurd!
Hayes, who is challenging Rep. Maxine Waters (D) for her Congressional seat, contends that Read more:Obama
McCain To Copy Failed Strategy Against Obama? 2008-03-01 11:41:32 The odds are looking bleak for Senator McCain
. The Democratic primaries were among the most contested in recent history and the negative attacks aimed at Obama
have largely backfired to date. There are already clear indications that McCain has appropriated identical lines of attack and points of contrast—experience vs. change and speeches vs. solutions—used so unsuccessfully against Obama during Read more:Strategy
"The Obama Effect"---Part II 2008-03-01 10:56:05 Part of the Obama
Effect, or "Obamamentum", is the sheer force of Obama's galvanizing appeal among a new generation of voters. It has materialized in one primary contest after another across the nation, attracting unprecidented multitudes of young, college-aged, and first-time voters across all ethnicities and socio-economic backgrounds. This video, a powerful testament to the Effect, documents
"Denounce and Reject" Ageism 2008-02-29 17:32:04 Michael Hirsh asserts that John McCain "faces more prejudice over his age than Obama and Clinton do over issues of race and sex" and points to a Pew Research Center survey showing that Americans are "a lot less comfortable voting a man in his 70s into the Oval Office than they are voting for a woman or an African-American for president." He says this ageist discomfort is predicated on the belief
Obama to Appeal to Confederate Flag-Brandishing "Rednecks"? 2008-02-28 12:51:06 Joe Cutbirth writes recently , "...many Obama
supporters don't realize that when he says he wants to bring 'everyone to the table' to find 'a common solution' for our problems, that means giving a voice to...religious fundamentalists, the NRA and others who silenced us at every opportunity these last eight years--and who likely won't return the favor if they win again."
Like it or not, this is a Read more:Appeal
, Confederate
, Rednecks
A Clear Distinction On Iraq War 2008-02-28 09:45:22 Unlike the Kerry/Bush 2004 contest, the Obama/McCain match up will offer a clear distinction between an anti-occupation and pro-occupation candidate. Obama took a decidedly unpopular position with this amazingly prescient 2002 speech given in the days leading up to the invasion. Yet subsequent comments on his Iraq
position have been distorted by Democratic Primary opponents, and we can expect Read more:Clear
, Iraq War
"The Obama Effect", the Racial Divide, and the Generation Gap 2008-02-27 09:56:20 "You've got conservative whites here, and I think there are some whites who are probably not ready to vote for an African-American candidate," Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell claimed recently. "I believe, looking at the returns in my election, that had Lynn Swann [2006 Republican gubernatorial candidate] been the identical candidate that he was -- well-spoken, charismatic, good-looking -- but white Read more:Obama
, Racial
, Divide
, Generation
McTerminator 2: Judgment (and Leadership) Day 2008-03-15 16:46:08 John McCain's latest inspirational campaign ad:
Admittedly, this is an effective ad in that it brands McCain a worthy successor in a long line of elder statesmen. (Positive?) imagery, together with soundbites juxtaposing McCain to Winston Churchill and Teddy Roosevelt, evoke a sense of continuity and steady leadership while exploiting the candidate's military heroism as a testament to Read more:Judgment
, Leadership
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