BARACK OBAMA! October 24, 2008 EDITORIAL Barack Obama for President Hyperbole is the currency of presidential campaigns, but this year the nation’s future truly hangs in the balance. The United States is battered and drifting after eight years of President Bush’s failed leadership. He is saddling his successor with two wars, a scarred global image [...]
FROM THE GUARDIAN (UK). THIS IS SERIOUS STUFF. Switching sides Big names join defections from Republican camp Ewen MacAskill in Washington The Guardian, Saturday October 25 2008 Joel Haugen, a Republican fighting a tough congressional race against the Democrats in Oregon, has fallen out with his party. The reason: his surprise endorsement of Barack Obama [...]
Zakaria: U.S. has itself to blame for financial crisis FROM CNN STORY HIGHLIGHTS Zakaria says government will eventually get U.S. out of credit crisis He says there should not be more tax cuts Zakaria says U.S. can’t “have it all” anymore Next Article in World » Editor’s note: Fareed Zakaria is a foreign affairs analyst [...]
NOTHING ELSE TO SAY…..ALL OF THE THEMES OF THE MCCAIN/PALIN CAMPAIGN APPEAR BELOW: VERY SAD….. Police: McCain volunteer made up robbery story By JOE MANDAK, Associated Press Writer Friday, October 24, 2008 A McCain campaign volunteer made up a story of being robbed, pinned to the ground and having the letter “B” scratched on her [...]
FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES….. October 24, 2008, 8:16 AM Palin’s Makeup Stylist Fetches Highest Salary in 2-Week Period By MICHAEL LUO Who was the highest paid individual in Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign during the first half of October as it headed down the homestretch? Not Randy Scheunemann, Mr. McCain’s chief foreign policy adviser; [...]
BUT THEY EARNED IT, DOUBLE-TIME! FROM THE GUARDIAN….. Ewen MacAskill in Washington The Guardian, Friday October 24 2008 The Republican party showed signs of disarray yesterday over the prospect of a Barack Obama presidential victory being matched by sweeping gains on November 4 by the Democrats in Congress on a scale not witnessed since the [...]
SEX-ED IN THE UK — NOW BECOMING MORE REALISTIC. AFTER ALL, THE KIDS KNOW EVERYTHING THESE DAYS BY AGE THREE OR FOUR….REALLY! October 23, 2008 Kindergarten Sex Ed Becoming Mandatory in England By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 5:32 p.m. ET LONDON (AP) — It’s a controversial idea in a land known for prudishness about [...]