More thoughts on The State of Our Union
So thanks to Kottke and Newsweek, I bring you two articles for your eventual perusal. The first from Kottke is a San Francisco Gate column about why Americans seem so unhappy and disappointed over the past year. The second, “Why Presidents Should Break Campaign Promises” focuses on why Obama hasn’t been able to bring about [...]
The State of Our Union, 2010
The United States of America has seen better days, but it has also seen worse. A lot of things happened over the past year – the economy began to slowly recover (much faster than Depression-era recovery, which took World War II to finally bring us out of that economic plight.) We are still fighting two [...]
If Andy, Opie, and the Fonz can do it, so can you…
See more Ron Howard videos at Funny or Die If these aren’t the best campaign ads ever, then I don’t know what could be.
The market, the bailout and campaigns
It would seem that the United States, once again under siege from our own capitalist financial system which has constantly been the greedy and bane of humanity (I like free markets and I’m all about people making money, but I think that there should be some restrictions here too. I could go on and on [...]
My Daily Photo: September 8, 2008
Georgia isn’t much of a haven for Democrats looking to elect Barack Obama president of these United States in the Fall, or any other time of the year. In fact, I think the last time this community would have voted for a Democrat might have been Jimmy Carter, but was most likely JFK, maybe even [...]
John McCain’s acceptance speech, or: what was that supposed to be?
Before I even get into the guts of one of the least inspiring speeches I’ve ever seen in my short life (I’ve had middle school teachers who are more eloquent than this presidential nominee, I must sadly say) I’ll say this: the video tribute to John Mccain was quite possibly one of the hokiest things [...]
Sarah Palin’s speech last night
Last night was a whole new experience for me with my father. You have to understand that, when it comes to the two of us, we don’t talk about a whole lot of things. My writing generally doesn’t come up a whole lot, nor does politics or religion. We typically keep it to family business, [...]
Obama’s speech and McCain’s VP
It has been a crazy 24 hours in politics. Last night, Obama gave a nearly 50 minute speech on the promise of America, a speech that I was glued to for the better part of two hours, waiting and waiting for the speech to come on. He finally came on around 10 p.m., but I [...]
Democratic Convention and McCain’s VP
So, I was listening to CNN on my satellite radio in the car on the way back from a pedestrian versus car this morning when I heard something interesting: “John McCain has chosen his vice presidential nominee and will be announcing the name tomorrow.” Then they went on to say this: “It’s likely that the [...]
Obama picks Biden as Veep
You know, I’ve not written about politics much since February when the primaries were going on and I was fired up. Living in D.C. has that effect on people I think, makes you ten times more political than you would be under normal circumstances. In fact, much of the WPNI offices were talking about politics [...]
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