White House Accidentally E-Mails to Reporters Story That Maliki Supports Obama Iraq Withdrawal Plan. The White House employee had intended to send the article to an internal distribution list, ABC News' Martha Raddatz reports, but hit the wrong button.
read more | digg story
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Thursday blamed the "two oil men in the White House," President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, and their Republican allies in Congress for gas prices exceeding $4 a gallon.
read more | digg story
Good summation of Biden's fiery speech
read more | digg story
When I lived in Germany, my German and British friends jokingly baited me with three questions. What do you call someone who speaks three languages? What do you call someone who speaks two languages? And what do you call someone who speaks one language? The answers respectively were trilingual if you spoke three languages, bilingual if your spoke two and American if you spoke one. My friends had themselves a good laugh at my expense.
Well tonight on the CNN Newsroom, regular Barack Obama basher Lou Dobbs attempted to spin Barack Obama's recent comments that American kids needed to learn how to speak Spanish into a negative. Dobbs disingenuously asserted that Obama's suggestion was elitist and patronizing especially to the American "working class".
For some unknown reason, political pundits and some members of the mainstream media such as Dobbs really are the ones who with regularity are guilty of talking down to and insulting the intelligence of the American working class. It's as if Dobbs and other detractors of honest dialogue think that working class Americans, presumably dominated by blue collar workers, lack the capacity to understand that a lifestyle improvement such as learning a different language would also provide benefits to them as it does to Americans in general.
Dobbs skipped over the fact that Obama also said that immigrants to America needed to learn how to speak English. When I lived in Europe, I observed that a lot of Europeans spoke English in addition to their native language and it was a huge expectation that some Americans had of our European hosts. It was also in Europe that I became familiar with the fancy term "ethnocentrism" that when applied to Americans, means that we have the tendency to elevate the importance of our cultural traits and values above those of people from other places.
So in a nutshell, Lou Dobbs is wrong and is back on his immigration soapbox attempting to turn Obama's sensible comments about learning another language into a wedge issue which he hopes will gain traction. However, I know the American working class is smarter and more perceptive than Dobbs seems to give them credit.
Spike Lee says the Rev. Jesse Jackson's crudely phrased criticism of Barack Obama won't affect the Democrat's campaign, which the filmmaker expects to succeed at bringing "seismic" change to the world.
read more | digg story
Obama today riffing off of Phil Gramm's "Mental Recession" comments
read more | digg story
"Obama dominates the two most energized groups of voters, 44% of the electorate combined, who are focused on a range of issues and say they won't change their choice of candidate between now and November. McCain's strongholds are two groups of voters at the other end of the spectrum, 28% of the electorate in all, who are skeptical that..."
read more | digg story
The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Thursday denied allegations that his disparaging remarks about Sen. Barack Obama stemmed from envy.
read more | digg story
U.S. Sen. Barack Obama's scheduled visit to Charlotte was postponed after the plane carrying the Democratic Party presidential candidate experienced mechanical problems. Photos by Jae C. Hong / Associated Press- Video and production by TODD SUMLIN
read more | digg story
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) will leave the hall of the Democratic National Convention in Denver and deliver a rock-star-style acceptance speech at nearby Invesco Field at Mile High, quadrupling his live audience, the party announced Monday.
read more | digg story
Republicans, aided and abetted by the MSM, have been spinning Obama as a flip-flopper; unfortunately, some Progressives fell prey to the media wave and actually gave credence to this non-story. Hold Obama accountable, but don't reinforce the false narrative that he is a flip-flopper--unless you want a 3rd Bush term via McCain.
read more | digg story
On "Face the Nation" this week Joe Lieberman used his air time to launch unfair and pretty rough attacks against Barack Obama while praising both Hillary Clinton and John McCain. This comes just two short years after Obama answered Lieberman's desperate call for help during the political fight of his life.
read more | digg story
Arianna Huffington: "I'm offering Obama 7 suggestions for staying true to the vision and message that took him from longshot "unlikely candidate" to presidential frontrunner -- and for avoiding the fate of the many before him who fell prey to the misguided belief that the path to the White House runs down the middle of the road."
read more | digg story
Republican strategists are worried that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will make a very positive impression and burnish his international credentials when he takes his much-ballyhooed foreign trips in the coming weeks. "It has the potential to be a big plus for Obama,"
read more | digg story
The silence between Barack Obama and Bill Clinton has been broken, with the Democratic White House hopeful on Monday asking the former president to campaign for him during their first conversation since the heated primary.
read more | digg story
Peter Wehner, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a former deputy assistant to President Bush, writes that the attacks on Obama leveled by Focus on the Family's James Dobson fall terribly short of being fair and honest.
read more | digg story
A few weeks ago McCain acknowledged that he could lose Arizona, calling his home a "swing state" even though it voted Republican in every presidential election but one since 1952.
read more | digg story
"But what I've said before and what I stand by is that in terms of the stuff of national security -- of making decisions, of weighing alternatives, being confronted with risks -- he's untested, largely, and untried. He hasn't been in the executive branch; he hasn't walked into a [national security policy] meeting..."
read more | digg story
Dr. James Dobson recently attacked Barack Obama for a 2006 speech that Obama gave on his Christian faith. Does he speak for you? A coalition of pastors and other Christians, lead by Pastor Kirbyjon Caldwell are standing up for our Christian faith and supporting Barack Obama.
As Americans, we must ask ourselves which candidate will bring about the change our country needs. In my opinion, Barack Obama is the only candidate with the judgment to move our country forward. The disastrous consequences of George W. Bush's poor judgment over are all too apparent. Now, John McCain is offering 4 more years of Bush.
read more | digg story
 |
 |
|
|
My blog is worth $3,387.24.
How much is your blog worth?
Weblog
