Travels in the land of Ambition
I recently had the opportunity to spend time in a remote province of the Himalayas, a land of three valleys watered by the three branches of a mighty river called Ambition in the local tongue. The...
View Article#1 Lobbying, #2 Pork, #3 Reelection, #4 Profit [POLL]
Yesterday I was reading in dKos about the kind of reprehensible trading of pork-for-continued-war-support that was going to be in the next budget bill and was physically sick. But it occurs to me that...
View ArticleWe've got the gasoline and the matches
Earlier in a post I noted that one of the effects of accepting the media's conclusion that this is a race between two candidates rather than three, one a woman and the other of African American...
View ArticlePresident Obama in 2016
From the reports coming through it is beginning to look like the change in the US in 2008 may be of the order of the change in the UK in 1997, After 18 wasted years of Tory Government the Country...
View ArticleThe Other Side of Hillary
I have always been a Clinton (both of them) supporter, backer and defender. I supported her decision to stand by her man. I thought she would make a good president. But with her recent scorch and burn...
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Would a Barack Obama win really motivate minority youth? Why?
("New Recruits" by Adam Archer, from Upper Deck's Vs. System trading card game.) I will be the first to admit that my diaries up to this point have been laced with pop culture squeak and seriously...
View ArticleObama: The Survivor
I've taken the opportunity to dive into Obama's past in a way to understand how he has dealt with adversity earlier in his political career. The reality is rather comforting, rather than distressingly...
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Hillary's next moves
I honestly have to wonder how hard she will press Obama for the VP slot. Personally, I think that he would have to have a serious masochistic streak to allow Bill and Hillary anywhere near the White...
View ArticleMcCain admits lying for political ambition!
I think he finally reached critical flip flop mass when he flipped on Iraq self determination on the timeline issue. And critical lying mass when he lied outright pandering to Steelers fans, which may...
View ArticleMcCain's Life Long Ambition
Let’s talk about ambition Senator John McCain; yours to be exact. After coming home a celebrity from being a POW during the Vietnam War, your extramarital affairs caused you and your first wife to...
View ArticleBlind (and forgetful) ambition
As you all know, McCain criticized Obama's ambition to be president. As Olbermann noted today, McCain knows a little about presidential ambition.
View ArticleMcCain doesn't really want to be President
From the August 18th speech to the National VFW convention by John McCain: "Behind all of these claims and positions by Senator Obama lies the ambition to be president." So, can we agree that it is...
View ArticleWhy McCain wants to be president
"I didn't decide to run for president to start a national crusade for the political reforms I believed in or to run a campaign as if it were some grand act of patriotism. In truth, I wanted to be...
View ArticleDo you know when McCain first declared his desire to be President?
Okay, so that is a tough one, so I'll make it easier. Instead of asking exactly when, like the date for example, give me the month. Too hard? Year? Decade? I'll tell you when after the jump.
View ArticleIn Truth: Using McCain to Take Down McCain
For those who follow political strategery closely, Karl Rove is well known for turning an opponents strengths into a liability. Similarly, using a candidates own words against them is effective even...
View ArticleReckless Ambition
The big question about the election these days is "What's up with McCain?" On every issue under the sun, McCain seems completely out of control, so what's the deal? There's evidence that what we're...
View ArticleUPDATED. Did McCain Visit Waziristan? Lie About Country First?
John McCain truly needs to explain to America about just why he is running for president, based on quotes from his book. Additionally, there also seems to be a valid question about whether John McCain...
View ArticleNew Republican Word of the Day: "Ambition"
Well, Rich Lowry managed to get both hands on his keyboard long enough to type up a new column. I guess he ran out of pictures of Sarah Palin hovering over sexy, sexy dead animals. And J-Mart, one of...
View ArticleUnited States Of McCain
What I find interesting in watching the two candidates debate is how when Obama talks, he discuses the country. How he will help the country and what he wants to do for the country. When McCain...
View ArticleMcCain the War Hero - No Courage, No Character
I’ve been reading lots of post-mortems on McCain and the mistakes he and his campaign made, but so far I haven’t seen anyone talk about how the campaign revealed the shocking truth about the man the...
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