Posted in government, tagged Barack Obama, Fannie Mae, FHA, Foreclosed Properties, Freddie Mac, Mortgages, Rep. Barney Frank, Sen. Nancy Pelosi, Senator Dodd on July 12, 2008 | No Comments »
WASHINGTON (AP) - A mortgage rescue to help hundreds of thousands of struggling homeowners avoid foreclosure and get more affordable, safer loans passed the Senate overwhelmingly Friday, but it faces a bumpy road amid continuing turmoil in the housing market.
The 63-5 vote reflected a keen interest by Democrats and Republicans to send election-year help [...]
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The latest findings of the Pew Forum’s massive and indispensable U.S. Religious Landscape Survey reveal some intriguing confusion among Americans on cosmic issues. About 13 percent of evangelicals, it turns out, don’t believe in a personal God, leading to a shameful waste of golf time on Sunday mornings. And 9 percent of atheists report that [...]
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Posted in Political, tagged Barack Obama, John Kerry, New York Times, Greg Davis, Nancy Pelosi, Jon Tester, Chuck Schumer, NARAL, Bob Casey Jr., Rick Santorum, Barbara Boxer, Fools on May 30, 2008 | No Comments »
On the very day of a special election to fill a vacated congressional seat last week in Mississippi, The New York Times accused the Republican candidate of running racist ads against his Democratic opponent.
Talk about dirty tricks! By The New York Times, that is.
The Republican thus accused of racism narrowly lost the election the night [...]
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Posted in History, Political, tagged Al Gore, Barack Obama, Civil war, FDR, Harry S. Truman, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, John S. McCain, Mexican War, Tet Offensive, Vietnam, World War I, World War II on May 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Have a kind of empty feeling? Sense that something has been missing these last couple of months? Me, too. Campaign 2008 is completing its fifth month, and we haven’t had a vicious fight about the Vietnam War yet.
Vietnam is the only war in American history never to end. The War of 1812 was contentious, especially [...]
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Some people think they have seen this campaign movie before. The one with the big fuss about the flag. The one with the attacks on a man’s patriotism. The one where the candidate who was being attacked didn’t fight back. The one where the prey was a cerebral guy with an outspoken wife. The one [...]
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If you read a Barack Obama speech, you notice that, aside from the we-are-the-ones-we’ve-been-waiting -for narcissistic uplift and the Washington-needs-to-lift-people-up-not tear-them down bromides, almost everything he says is, well, nuts.
I don’t mean the moments when he gets carried away and announces that his administration would “stop the import of all toys from China.” As [...]
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Well, it looks like it’s the end of the road for Hillary. Time for her to pack up her pantsuits and go back to … wherever it is she’s pretending to be living these days. Now we just have to get rid of the other two. Perhaps if (fill in the blank) endorses Obama…
This [...]
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Whew! I’m certainly glad to hear the “snippets” from Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s sermons “in context.”
In the famous B. Hussein Obama speech that sent a tingle down Chris Matthews’ leg, Obama dismissed the clips of Rev. Wright being played on TV as mere “snippets.” He claimed the media were highlighting Wright’s “most offensive words,” complaining that [...]
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Oh, please; oh, please; oh, please. I know it’s undignified to beg, but please let John McCain pick Condoleezza Rice as his running mate.
I know that this campaign has already bestowed an embarrassment of riches upon those of us who are paid to watch and listen. With its vivid, compelling characters, its abrupt reversals of [...]
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