Posted on January 15th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Mike Huckabee was on the stump in Michigan pimping for the support of the evangelicals last night. Huckabee told voters he would amend the Constitution to “reflect God’s standards.” Watch this clip:
This guy is a real threat to our basic rights under the Constitution and I don’t think we should under estimate the sway he may [...]
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Posted on January 14th, 2008 by Tom Driscoll
If you want to see the Cold War as chapter behind us (and that is arguable), the Soviet conflict in Afghanistan was the last proxy war in the contest. As the new film “Charlie Wilson’s War” points out, the support for “freedom fighters” in that conflict was ultimately bipartisan in nature. Bipartisan and, in the end, never truly interested in freedom for the Afghan people. With the help of Pakistani intelligence forces and funding from Sunni extremists in the Arab world, we helped the mujahadeen bleed the Soviets pale in their own little version of Vietnam.
In some stark terms we won —the mission was accomplished. The Soviet tanks pulled out and limped home in time for the collapse of “the evil empire.” And the power vacuum left behind in Afghanistan —it would be filled by a strange mutation of those mujahadeen freedom fighters, the Taliban.
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Posted on January 12th, 2008 by Darrell Prows
The “what if” game: What if you were a commander in chief and were meeting with your leaders who were conducting a war on your behalf. Is there any chance that you would not ask questions like “do you have enough soldiers”?
What if, though, you pretended that you hadn’t done that? I wonder what that [...]
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Posted on January 8th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
NBC and The NY Times have called it for John McCain:
Sen. John McCain won New Hampshire’s Republican primary Tuesday, defeating former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and climbing back into contention for the party’s presidential nomination. [...]
“We showed the people of this country what a real comeback looks like,” McCain said as he savored his triumph. [...]
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Posted on January 5th, 2008 by Darrell Prows
I was decidedly neutral when it was announced by the powers that be in Mormon land (or “Utah” to outsiders) that Mitt Romney was the chosen one. He would rescue the 2002 Olympics, and so be it.
My neutrality arose from memories of his dad, and the appreciation I had for him in taking on Richard [...]
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Posted on January 4th, 2008 by Tom Driscoll
It was October 2004. I had come to this beautiful rural retreat in the Berkshires to hear Robert Bly and Coleman Barks conduct a seminar on “the poetry of the ecstatic.” Barks had become famous over the years for his translations of the Sufi mystic poet, Rumi and Robert Bly …well, he was Robert Bly. [...]
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Posted on January 2nd, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Rudy Giuliani has a new ad on the air in New Hampshire and Florida. It features footage of the Bhutto assassination and warns that “if we don’t vote for Rudy, we’ll be vulnerable to Osama Bin Laden, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the people who assassinated Benazir Bhutto, and every other radical Muslim villain out there.”
This is the typical [...]
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Posted on January 2nd, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
In the news: Cost of crude oil ends year 57 percent higher. And we all feel the pain. Don’t get too comfortable with the prices however, word has it that it’s still on the rise:
Oil prices ended the year near $96 a barrel, or 57 percent higher than where they began, and analysts expect [...]
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Posted on January 1st, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Is Mike Huckabee fishing for Religious Right voters with “subliminal” messages in his ads? Although he dismissed the idea that he was in late December, CNN reports today that “for the second time in the past two weeks, presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee has aired a commercial in which a Christian symbol appears in the background.” Watch the ad [...]
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Posted on December 31st, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
Veteran political reporter Ron Fournier thinks Huck may have gone too far.
Apparently, Huckabee “called a news conference to unveil a negative ad that he had just withdrawn from Iowa television stations because, he told a room full of journalists recording the ad, he had a sudden aversion to negative politics.” Hmmm… “Quite a convenient epiphany,” says [...]
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Posted on December 28th, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
Bush used a “pocket veto” today to reject a sweeping defense authorization bill because he disliked “a provision that would expose the Iraqi government to expensive lawsuits seeking damages from the Saddam Hussein era.”
In a statement, Bush said the legislation “would imperil billions of dollars of Iraqi assets at a crucial juncture in that nation’s [...]
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Posted on December 28th, 2007 by Pamela Leavey
Parade Magazine’s upcoming edition has an interview with Bhutto that “will be the cover story of PARADE on January 6, 2008.” You can read the interview here.
Bhutto took on many risks in her life, but she will be most remembered as the “first woman to be democratically elected to lead a modern Muslim country.”
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