I know quite a few people on both the left and the right who feel that we as Americans have sold our soul to the devil.
That’s not my biggest concern.
What bothers me the most about it is that we sold out so damn cheaply. We’re a lot like Jack, who sold the cow for a bag of magic beans. Except that when we tried to plant them in hopes of growing a beanstalk, they turned out to be Skittles.
Among Life’s Perplexing Oddities
as analyzed by Muzz Zennick
Lesson Seven: in which we compare a bloody popular film with the current presidential campaign
In our last blog, we explored the idea of expanding representation by having more than one representative for each district. This way, instead of fifty-one percent of those who bother to vote being represented, and forty-nine percent (plus all those who don’t bother to vote) being unrepresented, you would have (probably) ninety percent of the population represented.
With America facing historic debt, multiple war fronts, stumbling
health care, a weakened dollar, all-time high prison population, skyrocketing
Federal spending, mortgage crises, bank foreclosures, etc. etc., this is an
unusually critical election year.
Let’s look at the educational background of the candidates and see what they bring to the job:
Obama:
Occidental College – Two years.
Columbia University – B.A. political science with a specialization in international relations.
Two days to go til the election and, surprise surprise, McCain is doing everything from criticizing Obama’s patriotism in speeches to pamphleteering many unsubstantiated charges… like Obama favors criminals over police.
A judge has ordered the Justice Department to produce White House memos that provide the legal basis for the Bush administration’s post-Sept. 11 warrantless wiretapping program.
In the final weekend of a long race for the White House, Barack Obama promised to heal America’s political divisions while rival John McCain fought to hold on to Republican-leaning states and pledged to score an upset.
For Obama, buoyed by record campaign donations and encouraging poll numbers, it was a time for soaring rhetoric and forays into Republican territory. "We have a righteous wind at our back," the Democrat said Saturday.
Sarah Palin unwittingly took a prank call Saturday from a Canadian comedian posing as French President Nicolas Sarkozy and telling her she would make a good president someday.
"Maybe in eight years," replies a laughing Palin.