More and more Republicans are stepping up in this election — to endorse Barack Obama.
Sunday the man who might just be the most respected living Republican in America — former Secretary of State Colin Powell — said he was supporting Obama.
Of course the Fat Man, legend-in-his-own-mind Rush Limbaugh, couldn’t wait till his Monday air time to try and denigrate Powell.
Anybody catch Fareed Zakaria on CNN today?
Fareed Zakaria endorsed Obama at the end of his Sunday international news discussion show. I was surprised! I didn’t think Television news celebrities did that. I certainly wouldn’t expect Wolf Blitzer to openly endorse anyone.
Maybe I’m wrong.
Under The LobsterScope
In the U.S. our Congress has “national healthcare”. Why should they be the only ones under socialism?
Why should businesses get a $700 BILLION “bail-out” under socialism, while the rest of us have to live under capitalism and work our way out of debt?
If we can spend $700 BILLION on a corporate “bail-out” that clearly is NOT going to bail-out corporations, we can spend $400 Billion for a national healthcare system for all Americans — the same one Congress gets — and we even can include the wealthy.
Irony of ironies for the racists, Colin Powell’s endorsement may very well have been the loosening of the final lugnut on a wheel of the McCain Straight Talk Express bus, causing the campaign to go into the ditch.
It’s hard to believe that the American Economy I grew up in was fairly stabile. The bank regulations put in after the fall of the stock market in 1929 and through a dozen years of depression, combined with the progressive economic support of WWII Veterans when they got back from defeating Japan and Germany, kept a much narrower separation of the rich and the poor and allowed people to rise much more easily in their levels of economic achievement.
Sarah Palin was on NBC’s Saturday Night Live last night (Oct 17). Watch it here:
Sarah Palin On SNL With Tina Fey, Weekend Update’s Alaska Rap, Baldwin And Wahlberg (VIDEO)
I’m glad to see Gov Palin has a good sense of humor to take SNL’s humor but I have to wonder it this helpful or hurtful to her campaign?
It’s now beginning to look like, maybe, just maybe (if we’re really, really lucky) we may be able to get through the remainder of this year without launching another preemptive war in the Middle East, this time against Iran. Don’t count on it completely: the Bush Administration has all but promised a war with Iran before the end of Bush’s term. But, with our economy in virtual meltdown and our military already strained to the breaking point, practical reality might actually intervene and save us from another pointless and bloody war.
This morning on NBC’s “Meat” the Press, Tom Brokaw almost ignored Colin Powell when he said he supports Barack Obama. Brokaw’s performance cemented the observation that he really needs to step down from that chair. Besides, Brokaw is not a member of the press, he’s just raw meat.
Republicans always feared a pounding in this year’s congressional elections, but the shockwaves of the Wall Street crisis may inflict a bloodbath on President George W. Bush’s demoralized party.
Still reeling from 2006 mid-term polls which saw Democrats wrench away their control of the Senate and the House of Representatives, Republicans look set to take further losses in a toxic political climate.
I hope you enjoy this new essay by Philadelphia journalist David A. Love, who writes for BlackCommentator.com
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The Failure of McPalin Lynch Mob Politics – You Betcha!
By David A. Love
www.davidalove.blogspot.com
www.BlackCommentator.com
(reprinted with permission of author)
“Terrorist!” “Traitor!” “Kill Him!” “Bomb Obama!” “Obama Bin Lyin!”