Posted on October 25th, 2008 by Michael Stickings
So you know that ugly, Fox/Drudge-whipped up story of the young female McCain volunteer who was allegedly mugged and mutilated (with a ‘B’ cut into her face) by a black man at a Pittsburgh-area ATM?
Well — surprise, surprise — it was all a hoax. As I’m sure you’ve all heard by now.
The woman, Ashley Todd, [...]
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Filed under: Election '08, Fox News, McCain-Palin '08, Michael Stickings, Racism
Posted on October 20th, 2008 by Michael Stickings
From Josh Marshall:
If you’re thinking to yourself that there’s little more than two weeks before election day and Obama has a solid lead in the polls, don’t be so sure.
Yes, it looks good for the Democrats. But you need to play close attention to the McCain campaign’s final weeks’ strategy under and just above the [...]
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Filed under: Barack Obama '08, Election '08, John McCain '08, Michael Stickings, Politics, Presidential Election, Racism
Posted on September 17th, 2008 by Dizzy Dezzi
Today is my oldest son’s 19th birthday and I rolled in just past my bedtime after attending a concert in a neighboring city, last night. Although, I’m a tad wound up, I am still a bit tired, so I’m keeping today’s Ten Post Round-Up short and sweet. The goal, today, is to describe each link [...]
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Posted on September 15th, 2008 by Dizzy Dezzi
Last week, I did my level best to stay out of the political fray, but to no avail. So, I officially give up. And, since our politicians aren’t giving up, I guess I might as well just dive in and go for the gold.
Today’s Ten Post Round-Up is designed to show you just how bad [...]
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Posted on August 3rd, 2008 by Walter Brasch
On a street in Shenandoah, Pa., deep in the heart of the anthracite coal region, six White teens took their racial hatred to a higher level. They confronted 25-year-old Luis Ramirez, an undocumented worker, and beat him to death.
At first the police chief, the mayor, and borough manager refused to believe racism was involved. Although [...]
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Posted on July 31st, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
The McCain campaing has been pulling some really ugly stuff out of the old Rovian playbook in the past couple of days. The NY Times Editorial Board explains more:
The presumptive Republican nominee has embarked on a bare-knuckled barrage of negative advertising aimed at belittling Mr. Obama. The most recent ad compares the presumptive Democratic nominee [...]
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Filed under: Barack Obama '08, Conservatives, Democrats, Editorial, Election '08, In The News, John Kerry, John McCain '08, N.Y. Times, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, Presidential Election, Racism, Republicans
Posted on July 6th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
For all the women, minorities and aged people in this country still facing inequality or downright sexism, racism or age discrimination it’s time for all of us because it’s time for all people to demand equality.
Barack Obama faces outright racism and admits it’s part of his fight. Hillary Clinton faced sexism, most obviously in broadcast [...]
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Filed under: Barack Obama '08, Bigotry, Civil Rights, Election '08, Equal Rights, Equality, Hillary Clinton '08, In The News, John McCain '08, Racism, Sexism, Stuart O'Neill
Posted on June 20th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
“It’s wedge politics at its worst, and we have to reject it loudly, clearly and unequivocally… Let’s call those rumors what they are: lies.”– New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, quoted by the New York Times, denouncing the “whisper campaign” in the Jewish community linking Sen. Barack Obama to Islam.
Hat Tip to Political Wire [...]
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Posted on June 3rd, 2008 by Frenchdoc
For those of you unfamiliar with the 60s in France, Brigitte Bardot was a HUGE movie star and singer. She became a sex symbol especially through Roger Vadim’s film And God Created Woman (am I showing my age??) and the best songwriters composed for her. After the “refrigerator stars” of the 40s and 50s in [...]
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Filed under: Arts & Entertainment, Democratic Daily, France, Frenchdoc, Movies, Music, Racism, Wingnuts
Posted on May 29th, 2008 by Diane Elayne Dees
This morning, a 70-year-old visually impaired African American woman called in to C-Span’s “Washington Journal” to express her support for Obama and her opposition to Clinton. She spoke for a moment about the discrimination she had experienced as a black woman and about the hope Obama gives her. Then she spoke about how disappointed she [...]
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Filed under: Barack Obama '08, C Span, Democrats, Election '08, Hillary Clinton '08, In The News, Political News, Politics, Presidential Primaries, Racism, Sexism
Posted on May 29th, 2008 by Dizzy Dezzi
After, what amounts to seven days on the road, I feel like I am out of practice with this blogging thing. Obviously, from today’s Ten Post Round-Up the rest of the world did not stop finding trouble to get into, while I was away from my keyboard:
1: Hmmm…I never thought of it that way before….
Why [...]
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Posted on May 25th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
There have been comments here (and elsewhere) in recent days/weeks, that the Democratic Party as we know it is slipping away, unraveling and disappearing before our very eyes. Among the issues that are being cited, is as Sean Wilentz articulates in the HuffPo, that “the Barack Obama campaign and its sympathizers have begun to articulate [...]
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