Political Pass

A great thanks that democracy works, and take a bow all those who helped elect representatives who represent all the people. It is the dawn of a new politics, I wish it well.
What will you do now? Any changes? I know from past experience that many of the trolls will disappear from blogging and debate. […]

A Martian is asked who the better candidate for America would be in 2008. The Martian, we’ll call X, is quite smart and seeks first to understand the ‘values’ and ‘visions’ that underlie the American democratic republic.
Since each candidate’s platform and issues are outlined and fundamentally controlled by the party platform, X reviews both […]

By David Morris
“I can understand the appeal of taking sole credit for all of your achievements, of being a cowboy – a maverick. But most of us are grownups, through with our days of playing cowboys and Indians. What we are, instead, is socialists – part of a system larger than us, which requires […]

by John K. Wilson
“Obama’s experience in state and national politics also exceeds that of Ronald Reagan (eight years as governor), Jimmy Carter (four years in state senate, four years as governor), Dwight Eisenhower (no political experience), and Harry Truman (10 years as US senator, one year as vice president). In fact, Obama’s total political experience […]

Expectations
What does it say about our nation today when a candidate for vice president is measured not by their abilities and experience but by the fact that expectations for them are so low anything but an act of buffoonery is considered passable? Have the low standards we set in our schools and in some work […]

This is Your Nation on White Privilege
By Tim Wise
“For those who still can’t grasp the concept of white privilege, or who are constantly looking for some easy-to-understand examples of it, perhaps this list will help.
White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol Palin and everyone is quick to insist that […]

You Cannot be Serious
Read Here.
“…Ms Palin is a symbol of deep American introversion, of the fact that you have ceased to take yourselves seriously and, more important, don’t much care who knows it. Arguments over the relationship between the wider world and your choices have become irrelevant. You have detached yourself, finally, from the global […]

Clean up Washington, put America first, work for Americans, wow, did Joe and John create a new political party! Did he actually address this to the republican national convention or was I dreaming? Maybe he missed it but they are the ones since Reagan who have helped create this mess.
There was so much irony, so […]

I found the McCain’s selection for VP an affront to a nation that prides itself on progress. Why? It was made simply to pacify and solidify the far right wing and not because it was a good choice for the country. This type of selection is always subjective but why select a person with so […]

Is Sarah Palin John McCain’s Harriet Myers? What a curious choice, a nice woman, a soccer mom, governor of a state that is smaller than medium sized cities in terms of government, and a person who has no experience in national or international politics? The right went after Bush over Myers, they will not be […]