Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be. – William Hazlitt
20 Jan 2009 No Comments
in Politics Tags: Inauguration, Obama, Politics, President
No, you will not solve all of our problems. But you make us want to try and say that you’ll support us and… well, that’s more than we’ve been able to say in a long time.
Welcome Mr. President, we’ve been waiting. Enjoy your day today, because tomorrow this country will forget it’s good will and turn back to its bitter, divisive ways. Be the better person this country needs.
26 Nov 2008 No Comments
in Made Me Laugh, Technology, Uhm... yeah Tags: Amazon, Obama, paul simon, poached eggs, wtf
I think we often discount the effect of the Poached-Egg Conservative. When will someone cater to this forgotten line of voters?
Wonder how much Paul Simon/Paul Simon confusion led to Graceland showing up here as well?
Ain’t data mining entertaining?
07 Nov 2008 No Comments
in Cool!, Politics, Technology Tags: Obama, Science, Technology
This policy is so full on win, it warms my little electronic heart another 20 C. A partial bullet-point list; click through to see the whole thing with more statements.
Is there a bold-bold option on this keyboard?
05 Nov 2008 No Comments
in Politics, Web Tags: election, Obama, Politics
I also find it telling that I found out watching a comedy television show while monitoring the election on the major networks’ websites.
17 Oct 2008 No Comments
in Politics Tags: election, endorsement, McCain, Obama
Not so surprising for a newspaper to do so, but it is pretty surprising to see this newspaper do so. The Tribune has never before endorsed the Democratic candidate for President. In fact, its history as a staunchly conservative newspaper makes this endorsement even stronger.
The endorsement itself is a litany of how McCain has failed to capture the hearts of anyone but the most obtuse of Republicans, from his shifting policy on taxes to his selfish choice for Vice President. It is also a first-hand view of the experience and abilities of Obama from the paper and staff that have watched his political career from the beginning.
Whatever your leanings, it’s a cogent argument and a heavily-weighed endorsement; read it here.
16 Sep 2008 No Comments
in Politics, Signs of the Horsemen Tags: election, McCain, Obama, Politics
Too lazy to research candidates for the Presidency on your own? Then let a Flash cartoon from ABC News help you out. In 20 or so questions, a cartoon that lets you choose between quotes from the candidates will animate the way to your deicision for who to vote for as we decide the leader of the free world.
Or, yah know, you could read up on them. Just a thought.
10 Sep 2008 No Comments
in Politics Tags: election, McCain, Obama, Politics, taxes
Taxes. We all pay ‘em and we all hate ‘em. Both candidate have set forth their tax plans should they be elected. The Tax Policy Center, a non-partisan think tank, crunched both campaigns’ numbers. Business Week (hardly a lefty publication), has the details.
Len Burman, a former Treasury tax official who is now a senior fellow at the Urban Institute [ed. part of the Tax Policy Center], says if Obama’s proposals—which include plans to rescind the Bush tax cuts on couples making more than $250,000, close corporate tax loopholes, and tax private equity earnings known as “carried interest” as ordinary income—were adopted in 2009, for example, married couples with earnings in the lowest quintile of the population would see their aftertax income rise 5.8%. Those in the next quintile would see an increase of 4%. Those breaks would be paid for by those with high incomes: the top 1% of taxpayers would see aftertax income fall 8.4%.
Under McCain’s proposals, by contrast—including an extension of the Bush tax cuts for all taxpayers, a corporate tax cut, and a larger reduction in estate taxes than Obama would support—far more of the benefits would go to the top. If his plans went into effect in 2009, married couples in the bottom fifth of the population would see aftertax income go up just 0.2%, while those in the next quintile would see a 0.7% hike. But those in the top quintile would see a bump up in aftertax income of 2.7%.
And the middle class? Yeah, we all get a 0.7% increase with McCain and a 4% increase under Obama.
And how about that deficit the Bush administration is leaving us?
[Under Obama] those moves would bring an estimated additional $734 billion to the Treasury over 10 years.
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… McCain’s combined proposals would slash tax revenues by an estimated $253 billion over the 10-year period.
Brilliant. An income increase for the richest of the rich and no meaures to increase revenue to the Treasury. Of course, as the article points out, this is all based on their plans being implemented as promised, which rarely happens. So what’s the value in this kind of analysis?
“It gives us some sense of their view,” says Burman.
Exactly. And that view is pretty telling.
29 Aug 2008 No Comments
in Politics Tags: election, Obama, Politics
This is how a leader sounds. This is what leadership looks like. Not racist slandering, not fear-mongering, not school-yard insults but straight talking, honest patriotism.
The times are too serious, the stakes are too high for this same partisan playbook. So let us agree that patriotism has no party. I love this country, and so do you, and so does John McCain. The men and women who serve in our battlefields may be Democrats and Republicans and Independents, but they have fought together and bled together and some died together under the same proud flag. They have not served a Red America or a Blue America – they have served the United States of America.
So I’ve got news for you, John McCain. We all put our country first.
The coming Republican convention is the last chance the GOP has to win back (note, not “keep”) the thousands of us who are taking our votes elsewhere after the abysmal failure of this current administration and the hijacking of the Republican party by bigots and charlatans.
I’m sick of being labeled an elite because I have an education. I’m tired of the implication that because I see failure and corruption in the Iraq war, I’m not patriotic. And I will no longer support a party that uses religion and fear to bully people into the extremes on issues. We don’t live in the extremes; we live in the gray middles and its time for a leader who not only acknowledges the reality of the American experience, but is able to improve it.
I’m not voting for a saint or a preacher or a hero; I’m voting for the person who can best lead this country to a better tomorrow.
I’m voting for Barack Obama.
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