It’s official!
Some part of me can’t believe we did this. I went down to my local polling place earlier today and voted (Obama for President, no on prop 8 ) — absolutely no line — and nearly all my 18+ year old friends also voted today. I can imagine the turnout for this election was [...]
I was talking to a libertarian friend of mine after class a few days ago about health care and welfare. He was of the opinion that the government should not provide either, and upon further prodding he explained that he thought poor people didn’t deserve them. My friend, of course, “earned” the right to be [...]
Remember that attack ad McCain put out linking Obama to the “radical” ACORN organization? Turns out McCain was the keynote speaker for ACORN during a rally in ‘06.
I don’t really have much of a problem with ACORN — the allegations of voter registration fraud coming out of Fox News are just ridiculous (by law, they [...]
Posted in Current events | Also tagged acorn, mccain, obama |
I’m asking this question because I genuinely want to know the answer. Are there actually people out there who think Obama is a terrorist?
In case you haven’t heard, that McCain ad trying to play up a relationship between Obama and Ayers is completely misleading. Ayers was a member of the radical anti-war group the Weather [...]
Posted in Current events, Opinion | Also tagged ayers, obama |
Recently, a lot has been made about “sexist” comments referring to Sarah Palin. Honestly, I haven’t seen them. Nothing like that has come out of the Obama campaign. Maybe you could make the agrument that it has come out of “the media,” however you want to define that, but I haven’t heard any from the [...]
As most readers already know, John McCain opposed establishing a federal holiday for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr in 1983. Most Republicans (including Cheney and Gingrich) supported it at the time, but Arizona seemed dead-set against it. The holiday became official in 1986, but only 27 states and D.C. recognized it initially. The governor of [...]
Posted in Opinion | Also tagged mccain |