Tag Archive '2008-election'

Newsvine.com: Newsviners [Including Yours Truly!] To Cover National Conventions - Calvin Tang, Newsvine COO

I am very happy to announce that after several months of planning and collaboration between Newsvine users and staff, msnbc.com, NBC News and convention organizers - Newsvine will be sending several of our best contributors to both the Democratic National Convention and the Republican National Convention. We will have direct, unfiltered coverage from our Newsvine [...]

Obama Lies #1: He Sure Has A Funny Name!

We can go back to any campaign of any politician and (correctly or incorrectly) attribute spin and lies to a candidate.  Senator Barack Obama, lacking substance and experience, appears poised to win an election based on lie after lie. 
This is to be the first in what I feel is going to be an extensive [...]

In And Out Of The Shadow Of Obama

"Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life." - The Manchurian Candidate (line repeated by Shaw's brainwashed colleagues)
"George W was destined from birth to lead us into the valley of the shadow of death. I believe that Obama was destined from birth to lead us [...]

The Obama Nation Abomination

When a candidate's biggest campaign assets are slogans, one would think that the candidate could only go up from there.  Then comes along Barack The Obama.  Who knew that 'Change We Can Believe In' translated into a plea to supporters to believe in the real-time changes themselves, whether those changes are on Iraq policy, [...]

When The White House Phone Rings At 3am And Waffles Have Just Been Served…

“Can I just finish my waffle?” - Barack Obama’s thought-provoking analysis of Jimmy “I Never Met An Enemy of the US I Didn’t Love” Carter’s meeting with Hamas representatives.
Who is this clown (Obama to be specific) and where did he come from? For years we’ve had to endure the Left seizing on every misstatement [...]

Jeremiah Wright’s Slave

The real presidential race for Democrats at this point is between Hillary Clinton and Pastor Wright.
What I think is the most interesting question at this point (and one that I wish were being asked more) is for Barack Obama supporters who were practically goaded by Obama into defending Jeremiah Wright for the past [...]

Death By Symbolism

Racialism in 2008 is becoming to the Obama campaign what the military was in 2004 to the Kerry campaign.  
In the first post-war presidential election following 9/11, Democrats put forth John Kerry as their nominee based on the notion that his military background made him the most legitimate Democrat to lose the war on terror.  [...]

The Obama Problem: Not Fit To Be President

I've spent a significant amount of time def…