So let me get this straight, economists think Obama's stronger on the economy. General Petraeus, and General McKiernan both tend to agree with Obama on Afghanistan and engaging our enemies (thus, in a sense, they agree with him on Iraq). Even pro-lifers have reason to like Obama better than McCain. What's McCain got left?

Not the thinking-man' ( Read more... )

So a few days ago (a week or more?) I saw this article/report about Dick Cheney trying to destroy his vice-presidential records. He argued that the vice president is not part of the executive branch, per se, because the vice president's job is pseudo-legislative--casting a tie-breaking vote in the Senate. However, the job is not wholly ( Read more... )

So, $850,000,000,000. Hmph. Lotta zeroes.

Ol' Barry's doing good though. Sucks that he will have to inherit this bullshit.

So Raila sent me a bunch of links, and I've had a hard enough time staying focused on schoolwork, so why don't I rant?

I have grown tired of the McCain campaign. It's not the calls from the Republicans to lob baseless character attacks at Obama. It's not the past week of political theater that McCain brought on that scuttled the bailout and ( Read more... )

What will you put in your hobo bindle?

New New York Times article out for tomorrow is reporting that McCain aide Rick Davis was still on Fannie Mae's payroll up until last month, to the tune of $15,000 per month. What does this have to do with McCain? Nothing really, other than an answer for Obama to McCain's attack ads based on Obama's rather weak ties to the two GSE's ( Read more... )

But instead, I'm finding every excuse not to.

There's a very cynical political strategy making its way around the "blogosphere" both on conservative and liberal/progressive blogs ( Read more... )

...but that's it, I'm tired of it. I have reached a crescendo... or something ( Read more... )

Hrm... there's talk of a bill that was never passed (hell never even made it past committee) called the "FEDERAL HOUSING ENTERPRISE REGULATORY REFORM ACT OF 2005", sponsored by Chuck Hagel. One of its co-sponsors was none other than John S. McCain III. So it was tabled and never voted on, and it's spreading like wildfire from the right wing ( Read more... )

This is fucking amazing.

We have a $700 billion bailout on the backs of taxpayers due to the failed economic policy of the last 8 (16? 30?) years. That's higher than the cost of the Iraq war. We have a 6.1% unemployment rate, and rising ( Read more... )