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Race or Sex: Which is the winning card?
Posted by Keanan in US Election 2008.
We are no longer growing closer and closer to the 2008 Presidential Election by the month, week, day; we are growing closer by the hour, minute, second. It’s less than a week away now, and still we are debating and arguing over points that seem less than important to the whole picture.
So what, you ask, will make or break this election for either party? What could and probably will sway this election more than any other factor? No, it’s not that McCain will suddenly come out as a Muslim, or that Obama will admit that he’s actually a socialist - either way those two are arranged, they’re both false…
US Election 2008 | Comment (0)The beautiful, beautiful carnage.
Posted by Kate G. in US Election 2008.
I’m not even going to dignify that Ashley Todd bullshit with a response; I’ll leave that to John McCain, if he has any decency left in him after these past few days on the campaign trail trainwreck.
In other news: the Republicans’ carefully-constructed, highly-funded think tanks have unraveled and are making my evening television hour a whole lot more fun.
One thing Republicans have always been good at is uniting behind a candidate. Streamlining their message and making sure everyone is nodding along to the same tune. Now, they can’t even hold it together for 8 days?
It’s just…beautiful. All of this discord from a party that all have the same ideals: stay away from my money. And we, the Democrats– the mongrels of politics, the mixed-bag of minority constituencies, the land of misfits–are united in one resounding chorus of “yes, we can.”
Everything we thought we knew about politics in America has shifted. Democrats outspending Republicans. Republicans arguing amongst themselves. Democrats leading in states like Virginia. Republicans trying to pander to the middle and lower classes!
Our country has been turned upside down, and it’s never looked better.
US Election 2008 | Comment (0)The Future of the Democratic Party
Posted by Amanda in US Election 2008.
Contrary to popular belief, I am not an enthusiastic supporter of Barack Obama. Sure, I like his message. I like where he wants to take the country and the mostly positive message he is trying to convey. My gut tells me to trust him, to give him the chance to prove that a new kind of politics can be more effective than the old school partisanship of the last 20 years. Perhaps it’s the cynic in me, but my head tells me it all seems a bit forced, a bit like he has his head in the clouds and he wants us all to join him in his philosophical musings. That said, he is a far better choice than John McCain. On that, my gut and my head agree.
US Election 2008 | Comment (0)