It should be obvious to anyone watching that the Republicans have been engaging in a seemingly endless game of dress up, and pretending to be something they're clearly not.
Being Barry Goldwater's granddaughter and living in Arizona, one would assume that I am voting for John McCain. However, nothing about McCain compares to the ideology my grandfather stood for.
This is like waiting for the results of a biopsy. Actually, it's worse. Biopsies only take a few days, maybe a week at the most, and if the biopsy comes back positive, there's still a potential cure. With this, there's no cure. The result is final. Like death.
Yesterday Sarah Palin did a phone interview with James Dobson of Focus on the Family. Most of it went pretty well -- lucky, he's a creep who likes children -- but there was one ugly gotcha question.
In the globalized world, commercial success is created by government policies, and the U.S. government refuses to compete. Our high standard of living has become a "comparative disadvantage."
Using big words can sometimes con an audience into thinking things make sense when in fact they don't. "Boy, that's a long word, Sarah Palin must know what she's talking about."
Obama supporters, it's time to come to grips with the fact that our guy might win. If he does, November 4th will be amazing. But it'll be much more amazing if you feel like you played a role.
The decades of false conservative attacks against progressive taxation have reached their limit. Conservative credibility concerning governance is shot.
I wrote "American Blues Vol. 1" on the 4th of July after reading the morning paper. It's unlike any song I've ever written.
The notion of preconditions happens to be the crux of one of the most important foreign policy issues being debated between Obama and McCain -- you'd think Palin would understand this.
As President, Obama will need to confront two costly wars, global terrorism, an economy on the brink and a serious energy crisis. Don't expect immediate change.
More and more, it is looking like Virginia will be the state that decides Election Night in Obama's favor. Sure, it could be Florida or Ohio, but my guess is that the vote-counting is going to take a while in both of them,
