The ’Pay-Grade’ Remark

Is the Tide Changing? Or is it just a slight tick? How will American’s react to al Qaeda wanting the GOP to go down in flames?  http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE49T76620081030?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=22&sp=true How will Ohio voters react that state government used its data base to dig up dirt on “Joe the Plumber?”  http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/10/29/joe30.html?sid=101 McCain’s polling numbers the last si... more

OK, Barak hat wohl die Wahl gewonnen. Aber was heisst dies? Für uns Deutsche erstmal GARNIX, egal was für eine Welle hier jetzt auch gemacht wird Für die Amerikaner wird es eine herbe Enttäuschung geben, weil Wahlversprechen und Tagespolitik IMMER zwei paar Schuhe sind Alles ist besser als Bush? Der Tag soll erst nach dem Abend gelobt werden! So, das vorab in aller Kürze. Der zukünftige Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika wird NICHT die Sozialpolitik zu 100% umwürfel... more

Being 1/2 black/white, having a living/dying white Grandma in Hawaii and no black elder’s in America to focus on, light colored, well spoken and reserved, handsome w/good looking and fine mannered wife/kids, probably worked in his favor to a great degree. Could have another black person been able to ascend to the White House? Would have other black’s been as in favor of a different black person? Few are ’the package’ Obama is. Look’s like it might have taken ... more

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What is Mark Penn smoking, apart from complacency? He claims a quarter of Republican women will vote for Clinton. Drudge blared it in his new role as Clinton’s publicity arm. WaPo points out that if this were to happen, Clinton would significantly outperform any Democratic candidate since 1972 among this group of voters. In exit polls from 1972 to 2004, an average of 9 percent of GOP women voted for Democratic candidates... In the latest Post-ABC poll, 80 percent of Republican ... more

"This is like a lighthouse going on, the light shining its beam on Mitt Romney," - Albert Mohler on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show. Yes, an institution that untilo very recently banned inter-racial dating and engaged in brutal anti-Catholic bigotry is now a light shining on Mitt Romney, a man who belonged to a church which, in his lifetime, barred African-Americans from the priesthood and temple ceremonies. Ah, the GOP. They don’t even pretend any more, do they? ... more

As Cartman would say, why the fuck not ? ... more