The embargo has really been a crazy thing. It seems to have hurt American business interests as much as it has hurt the Cubans - which is surprising as business interests tend to trump all other concerns in this country. When the embargo is finally lifted, we'll find that Europe has already snatched up the best economic opportunities of Cuba.

Posted at July 2, 2008 11:14 AM in response to Right-Wing China-Cuba Oil Myth Mutates Into New Form

Right ... they've converted all of their rusty 1957 Chevy DeSotos into deep-sea oil exploration platforms. Crafty commie bastards ...

Posted at July 2, 2008 11:09 AM in response to Right-Wing China-Cuba Oil Myth Mutates Into New Form

I believe Dobson is on the record as saying that he wouldn't vote for McCain and that for 'the first time in his adult life, there was a chance that he wouldn't be voting for a President.' Of course, this was during the primary. This is step one of Dobson's walk-back to see his way clear to vote for McCain because the thought of the Muslim-loving Obama as POTUS will be just too (pass the smelling salts, I feel the vapors coming on) odious to bear.

Pretty damn predictable and pretty damn, well, odious.

Posted at June 24, 2008 10:31 AM in response to Election Central Morning Roundup

I believe Johnson came out opposed to Ferraro and she was approved despite his efforts. Could be wrong about that ...

Posted at June 11, 2008 3:23 PM in response to Obama's Veep-Vetter Steps Down

Seriously dude, you need to bone up on what "Staglfation" is before we can start to have a conversation. It wasn't "coind specifically for the Carter". Nixon and Ford suffered under it and implemented wage and price controls as a result. The oil shortage of the '73 perpetuated stagflation into the 1980's. Under Carter, Paul Volker, head of the federal Reserve, used higher interest rates to control inflation. Reagan even continued this policy. Once inflation was under control, interest rates dropped.

Job growth under Carter beats the pants off of any Republican. Try the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Personal wealth is way higher under Carter (the census). And national debt reduction is higher than any Republican (really, you want to question this one?).

If you're interested, which I suspect you're not, all this crap is in Wikipedia and references official government sources.

Posted at June 11, 2008 1:22 PM in response to McCain: Obama Would Equal Carter's Second Term

I took it to mean that Obama is attacking McCain's word's in context. And regardless of whether McCain tries to spin this as an issue of "strategy" (i.e. "timelines are bad, n'kay"), the fact remains that it is VERY important to everyone else, generals included, as to when the troops come home. Even the strategy of not bringing the troops home soon is bad. This isn't just an emotional argument.

Posted at June 11, 2008 11:50 AM in response to Obama Campaign Opens Fire On McCain Over "Not Too Important" Comment

For those of us with family deployed in Iraq, it's the first thing we think about in the morning and the last thing we think about at the end of each day. It occupies a lot of space in between as well...

Posted at June 11, 2008 11:40 AM in response to Obama Campaign Opens Fire On McCain Over "Not Too Important" Comment

Obama would be like FDR's fifth term and McCain would be like Hoover's second... WTF? I'm forty-three. I was fifteen when Carter left office, and he has been - hand's down - the best ex-President in my life-time. Even as a president his administration has out performed every Republican in terms of economic and job growth since Eisenhower. Yeah ... I'll take me some Mr. Carter.

Posted at June 9, 2008 9:18 PM in response to McCain: Obama Would Equal Carter's Second Term

Even better:

OPEN: A five second clip of this video in which McCain says, "Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war."

CUT TO: Bush saying, "Bring 'em on!" followed by McCain singing "Bomb, Bomb, Bomb. Bomb, Bomb Iran."

Posted at June 6, 2008 11:23 AM in response to New McCain General Election Ad: "I Hate War"

Can we impeach now, or does this position still make me "shrill" ...

Posted at June 6, 2008 11:10 AM in response to Today's Must Read