Political Pass

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Some people in an effort to separate themselves from George W. Bush claim he is not a conservative? That he is a failure is obvious, that he is a conservative is also obvious.
Bush cut taxes - conservatives cheered
Bush invaded a country - conservatives cheered
Bush selected ideologues to the SC - conservatives cheered
Bush vetoed child […]

Dear Lord,
Please help Americans consider issues that really count for America and while you’re at it remove Reverend Wright from the biased person’s mind as they are so obsessed with the reverend they are forgetting all about the important issues such as jobs, healthcare, the war, the environment, and even taxes - Lord, I […]

“John McCain was delighted to be endorsed by the other John. Following the endorsement he said: “All I can tell you is I’m very proud to have pastor Hagee’s support.”
See Hagee here.
“Just who is Hagee? Well, here in abbreviated form, are some of his characteristically outlandish opinions:
On Hurricane Katrina: “All hurricanes are acts of God, […]

How the Illinois senator came to embrace religion in his life. By Ariel Sabar
“It was at Trinity United Church of Christ here, in the late 1980s, that Senator Obama says he found religion. Raised in a secular household, with ancestral roots running from Islam to Baptist to atheist, Obama had grown up a skeptic. But […]

I’ll let the conservatives comment on one of their own.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/08/14/MNJERHRKA.DTL
“Michelle Malkin, the commentator behind one of the most highly trafficked conservative blogs, www.michellemalkin.com, took on the Wall Street Journal article that broke Rove’s resignation Monday:
“Not a word here about the Harriet Miers debacle, the botching of the Dubai ports battle, or the undeniable stumbles […]