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…Like a Clinton Scorned… 2008-08-25 14:57:45 So here’s the question. With the Democratic Convention in Denver this week, what are Hillary and her supporters going to do? The British press has been fearful in the last few weeks that much of the decline in Obama’s standing in the polls has been down to her vengeful supporters, many of whom are women [...] Read more:Clinton
Matthew Mitcham: Gay Gold! 2008-08-24 07:27:01 The BBC and British media had the diving at these Olympics all wrong. The man to watch was the eventual gold medal winner, 20 year old Aussie Matthew
Mitcham.
For the two or so of you who don’t know, Matthew came out a few months before the summer games in Beijing, and let me just show [...]
Will Young in Session 2008-09-28 13:08:51 On Friday Will Young did a live session for BBC Radio 2, to promote the launch on Monday of his new album ‘Let It Go’. I know it’s the same song as my last video post, but it really is so good, this arrangement is so much fun, and I find him more enjoyable as [...]
Bye Bye Sarah Palin 2008-09-28 03:46:20 All the relevant statistical data is saying Barack Obama won the debate, whatever else the ‘experts’ and blogosphere say.
TPM has the internals of the CNN poll of debate-watchers, which had Obama winning overall by a margin of 51-38. The poll suggests that Obama is opening up a gap on connectedness, while closing a gap on [...] Read more:Sarah
, Bye Bye
Gay Sex Out of Doors is Neither Shameful Nor Disrespectful 2008-09-27 16:11:14 When George Michael got himself arrested yet again for cottaging, this time in possession of cannabis and crack cocaine, I figured the media would for the most part just be as exasperated as I was to hear this broken record coming around again, and for the most part leave him and the subject alone. And [...] Read more:Doors
, Neither
Clay Aiken: Gay Dad 2008-09-27 03:47:50 Following on from his self-outing in People magazine, Clay Aiken
has gone on Good Morning America to discuss his homosexuality and his new baby.
Good for him for being out and open about gay parenting, advocating the quality of the parenting rather than the gender composition or sexual orientation of the parents, as the most important [...] Read more:Clay Aiken
Obama Wins First Debate 2008-09-27 02:28:11 I must say I’m surprised. I watched most of it live, and what I saw was, despite the occasional very good answer, Obama
largely reacting to vicious, patronising attack after vicious, patronising attack (peppered with lies) by McCain. That he fended them all off was one thing, but it did leave him looking painfully defensive [...] Read more:First
, Debate
Country John McCain First! 2008-09-26 14:21:39 Hilarious, isn’t it? John McCain
’suspended’ his own presidential campaign in order instead to come to Washington to save the US economy. And rather than support their own (still) President in his £700 billion bail out of the American financial system, it’s the Republicans who have so far scuppered the deal. McCain, has now ‘unsuspended’ [...] Read more:First
, Country
Why Doesn’t McCain Just Give Up? 2008-09-26 00:22:35 I mean really? He’s getting caught on all his lies and double standards, so his solution? Suspending his campaign, and attempting to postpone the first presidential debate, which he’s now clearly terrified of flubbing. McCain
said:
it was time to put politics aside and return to Washington to help Congress reach a deal on President George [...]
Harman Sabotages Equality 2008-09-25 19:05:00 This really shouldn’t surprise you. It’s the party of course which has seen a greater acceleration of the gap between rich and poor than at any period since Victorian times. But it’s not the wealth gap I want to illustrate here, it’s the party’s pathological determination to deport as many asylum seekers as possible, having [...] Read more:Harman
, Equality
Sarah Palin…Off the Leash! 2008-09-25 15:39:40 This has to be seen to be believed. You can either laugh out loud or be as furiously angry as Andrew Sullivan that someone so insufferably stupid could be on anyone’s presidential ticket.
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, Leash
The People Who Come to McCain/Palin’s Rallies 2008-10-16 08:32:31 Only great, patriotic citizens turn up to McCain
/Palin rallies. See?
MCCAIN: Let me just say categorically I‘m proud of the people that come to our rallies. Whenever you get a large rally of 10,000, 15,000, 20,000 people, you’re going to have some fringe peoples. You know that. And I’ve — and we’ve always said that that’s [...] Read more:Rallies
Rabbit in Headlights 2008-10-16 01:30:28 Yet again McCain couldn’t control his body language, which on the split screen allowed him to look both angry again, and completely out of touch. The relentless smiling looks as fake as it was during his speech to counter Obama’s the night he wrapped up the nomination, and just look at the CNN ticker. Game [...] Read more:Rabbit
The Right to Marry 2008-10-15 18:38:34 To all/any of you Californians out there, it is imperative that you vote ‘NO’ on Proposition 8!
Donate here, whoever you are, wherever you are (if you can), to help ensure marriage equality remains in California from November 5th!
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, Marry
Flailing McCain 2008-10-15 02:02:23 If only the man would just concede, given his political fate in under three weeks time, but no. He has to keep digging further holes for himself.
the Spanish-language Univision published its own sit down with McCain
, in which the Arizonan suggested that there was a direct connection between the September 11 terrorist attacks and the [...]
Palin is Mavericky! 2008-10-12 05:11:26 She talked about being an outsider, and mentioned “maverick” and “actin’ mavericky” to help out any drinking games set up about how many time she’d say the word.
She told government to “get out of my way” and “Stop tryin’ to impose on my right to shoot wolves from a helicopter.”
Asked about global warming, she [...]
Three Weeks to Go 2008-10-12 04:02:41 It’s a bit over three weeks until the American general election and all the polls right now point to one outcome and one outcome only: President Barack Obama. On the face of it we have McCain’s public contrition, suggesting strongly that he’s trying to reposition himself as the Bob Dole - the inevitable but honourable [...] Read more:Three
, Weeks
, Three Weeks
Sarah Palin: Guilty! 2008-10-11 05:38:43 Poor old John McCain’s really got no chance now, does he? Even he’s realised it - watch him to try to reposition himself to salvage a career after his defeat in a few weeks’ time:
Finally some honour, but it’s far too little, far too late. Troopergate has broken:
Gov. Sarah
Palin abused the powers of her [...] Read more:Guilty
McCain Tries to Close Pandora’s Box 2008-10-11 03:10:40 But it’s too late.
“[Senator Obama] is a decent person and a person that you do not have to be scared about as President of the United States,” he said, before adding: “If I didn’t think I would be one heck of a better president I wouldn’t be running.”
The crowd groaned with disapproval.
McCain
’s former strategist John [...] Read more:Close
, Pandora
Obama is Not a Traitor 2008-10-10 06:32:03 The McCain/Palin ticket is still trying to paint Barack Obama
as dangerous, as the ‘other’, who is so frightening and unpredictable that he can’t be elected America’s first black president.
At a 6,000-strong rally in Pennsylvania this week, as the two candidates on the Republican ticket waited backstage, a senior party member asked the crowd how [...] Read more:Traitor
You DO Talk to Your Enemies! 2008-10-10 00:48:02 McCain thinks Obama’s position on confrontations such as that with Iran is wrong. General Petraeus (his much quoted hero) says otherwise:
What Petraeus said isn’t a perfect endorsement of Obama’s views — he didn’t specifically discuss Iran, and the question of “no preconditions” didn’t come up — but it’s pretty darn close.
That’s b Read more:Enemies
The Oppressed Become the Oppressors? 2008-11-07 15:16:59 It’s an issue which is opening up into a larger debate about race and sexual orientation in the US in general and California in particular:
The high turnout of Latino and African-American voters for Barack Obama in California had an effect on the vote for a ban on same-sex marriages.
Exit poll data found that seven in [...] Read more:Become
Blears Blames Political Cynicism on Bloggers 2008-11-07 15:10:19 It’s hard to fathom, but she does:
In her speech, Ms Blears also complained about a “spreading corrosive cynicism” in political discussion.
She turned her fire on political “bloggers” - accusing them of fuelling disengagement by focusing on “unearthing scandals, conspiracies and perceived hypocrisy” and of being written by “people with disdain for th
Proposition 8 Passes…For Now 2008-11-07 14:13:19 Not everything went the right way on Tuesday night. Homophobic Californian Proposition
8 defied the exit polls and passed. The No On 8 campaign said:
We had hoped never to have to write this note.
Sadly, fueled by misinformation, distortions and lies, millions of voters went to the polls yesterday and said YES to bigotry, YES to [...] Read more:Passes
McCain Concedes Defeat 2008-11-05 12:48:44 I found it telling that McCain
’s crowd booed his congratulation of Obama. It was an odd contrast to see such grace in defeat from someone who ran such a wilfully ugly, negative, racist and deceitful campaign. It spoke volumes that his only speech from the heart, which seemed truly honest, took place after his defeat.
I [...]
President Obama - A Repudiation of Meanness 2008-11-05 02:12:21 I really think this is an inspired piece of analysis, arguing that Obama
’s victory has in large measure been a result of the electorate’s rejection of ‘meanness’. It argues that the first Bush ‘victory’ came from a rejection of Gore’s coldness, the second out of a disbelief that the Bush’s administration really could have been [...] Read more:President
President Obama Steals Indiana 2008-11-05 01:13:48 A huge achievement. This isn’t just an Obama
win, it’s a landslide: Colorado, Nevada, North Carolina, New Mexico, Iowa, Ohio, Virginia, and the electoral vote races over 350 - far beyond where the Pollster or Real Clear Politics polls of polls were showing.
I’m feeling somewhat lost for words…
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, Indiana
President Obama Wins Florida 2008-11-04 22:28:05 The ghost of 2000 is laid to rest, Barack Obama
is President
-Elect, and America starts adjusting to the monumental reality of its first African-American president. I’m aware right now of the huge step forward world history has just taken.
Well done America. I’m really emotional right now.
Read more:Florida
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