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The foolishness of the offshore/ANWR drilling debate in solving our energy crisis

(Hat tip to my friend scorpioatl for posting this information). A new report is out from the Congressional Committee on Natural Resouces that debunks a lot of the BS going around right now about how offshore drilling is necessary to “solve” the current energy crisis. Some interesting tidbits from the report: -On the Outer Continental Shelf, 82% of [...]

On the need for Obama to talk with Iran

Neocons are fond of screaming that Obama saying he would simply talk with our enemies is a serious error that amounts to appeasement. They often cite the Kennedy/Kruschev summit as an example, which they claim emboldened the USSR and led to the rise of the Berlin Wall and the Cuban Missile Crisis (they fail to [...]

Obama leading in many major swing states (and close behind in others)

Where are all those supposedly disaffected Clinton Democrats who refuse to vote for Obama and plan to vote for McCain instead? They seem to be hiding from these polls (though I’ll grant there are a few people out there with their heads stuck so far up their asses that they actually think a vote for [...]

Just what does it take for a winner to be declared the winner?

ABC News reports that Obama for the first time now carries a majority of Democratic super-delegates. This all comes on top of: –having the most pledged delegates; –having the most popular votes; –having the most states won; –having the most money raised by far. The media appears to finally be picking up on the inevitability of Obama’s nomination, with newspapers [...]

Mildred Loving on gay marriage

A couple of days ago I posted about the death of Mildred Loving, the woman involved in Loving v. Virginia, the 1967 Supreme Court case on interracial marriage. I noted there that gays should honor her passing given the importance of that case in any future argument for gay marriage. It turns out that Loving supported [...]

Mildred Loving dies

Mildred Loving has died, and gay people everywhere should mourn her passing. Why should they do so? Because when the day comes that gays and lesbians argue their case for gay marriage before the Supreme Court (as that day must someday come), Mildred Loving will speak out from the dead on their behalf. Mildred Loving was a [...]

Idiotic quote of the day

“We’re going to go right at OPEC. They can no longer be a cartel, a monopoly that get together once every couple of months [and] decide how much oil they’re going to produce and what price they’re going to put it at. That’s not a market, that’s a monopoly.” –Hillary Clinton in North Carolina ————————– OK, so [...]

Obama responds

Obama responds forcefully to the “bitter” BS, effectively adopting the word into his vocabulary for change. While at it, he imposes his own special brand of smackdown on Hillary. cipro clarinex claritin coreg coumadin cozaar crestor deltasone depakote diovan ed trial pack effexor xr enhance9 euphoria cologne euphoria perfume female rx oil female rx plus flomax florinef glucophage Copyright © 2008 Centerblue.org. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this [...]

Ron Paul cleans out Petraus’s clock

Ron Paul is one of those rare Republicans that I REALLY like–primarily because I think he is exactly on target on the dire economics of the country (falling dollar, trade deficit, role of the federal reserve, true cost of the Iraq war, etc.). Gen. Petraus recently testified before Congress on the Iraq war, and Paul took [...]

Much ado over “bitter”

Clinton and McCain are trying to make lots of political hay over Obama’s comments (which admittedly could have been said better) about the bitterness being felt by people in depressed areas like parts of Pennsylvania. He clearly intended to say that because people feel abandoned by their government on their economic needs, that they are [...]

Outraged at Clinton

I am so outraged at the race-baiting and religion-bashing coming out of the Clinton camp against Obama that it absolutely makes me want to puke. A few months ago, Clinton volunteers circulated an e-mail falsely claiming that Obama was a Muslim (he is in fact a Christian)–not that there’s anything wrong with being a Muslim, but [...]

Curtain call for Clinton

With Obama winning decisively for the ninth and tenth time since Super Tuesday last night it is becoming clear that Clinton will not be getting the nomination. She should read the writing on the wall and quit the race now, for the good of the Democratic Party and the nation. Obama is causing her coalition to [...]

Quote of the Day

(Approximately) “It’s like, after making John McCain the nominee, Republicans are having a huge case of buyer’s remorse and have decided to stick it to him again and again by voting for Mike Huckabee.” –Chris Matthews on Hardball, discussing Huckabee’s strength in Virginia and his wins elsewhere. buy ed trial pack buy effexor xr buy enhance9 buy euphoria cologne buy euphoria perfume buy [...]

Obama’s gloves come off

I was listening to Obama’s victory speech last night, and noticed a sudden change in tenor and theme. His gloves came off–but not against Hillary who he totally ignored–but against McCain. He injected the following themes, to powerful effect: He began repeating the “Bush-McCain” mantra. He talked about the “Bush-McCain” tax cuts, about the “Bush-McCain” war [...]

Obama exit polls

Needless to say, Obama trounced Clinton last night despite the crappy weather. I’m a big poll watcher, and I’ve been looking to see if there were any trends coming out of the exit polls to see if Obama could increase his support coalition beyond blacks and progressive upper-income Democrats. Indeed he has. I didn’t write the [...]

1.5 hours

I rushed out this morning, leaving my cell phone and reading materials behind, thinking today’s voting would be a quick in-and-out 5 minute affair. Um, no. What must have surely been a record-breaking line for a primary awaited me at the polls. I did not press the vote button until an hour and a half later. With nothing [...]

Clinton campaign totters

The Clinton campaign knows it’s in trouble–setting up Ohio and Texas in March as “must win” states in the face of a string of losses on Super Tuesday and beyond. This is a terrible strategy, and I have doubts she’ll even make it to March. The string of defeats in state after state between now and [...]

Why I’ll be voting for Obama tomorrow

I’ll be voting for Obama in Virginia’s primary tomorrow because: I believe the nation is in very serious trouble and is in desperate need of immediate change. I’m sick and tired of 15 years of Bushes and Clintons rehashing the same politics, year after year. Hillary, smart and capable though she is, is not Bill. Hillary is a [...]

A victory party without a victory

OK–I’m getting really annoyed with Hillary. Florida had its primary yesterday–but it was really only important to the Republicans. On the Democratic side, the party had decided to punish Florida for moving the primary forward on the calendar by invalidating its delegates–and it secured a pledge from all of the candidates not to campaign there. All [...]

Hillary vs. Obama: enough already!

The gloves have come off in South Carolina, as both Obama and Hillary know the loser of that upcoming contest will be seriously hobbled going forward to the nomination. The bickering has gotten to a point of bitterness that is so extreme that it threatens a rift in the Democratic party. Hillary is particularly guilty of [...]

It’s official: Bush lied

A new study by the Center for Public Integrity and the Fund for Independence in Journalism proved what we on the left have known all along: Bush lied about Iraq–and he lied, and he lied some more. In fact, he lied at least 259 times about Iraq’s possession of WMD’s and its links to al-Qaeda in [...]

Markets crashing

US markets were closed today, but in overnight futures trading the Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 528 points. That comes on the heels of markets world-wide falling hard. It is going to be a very ugly day tomorrow. The economic chickens are finally coming home to roost. Copyright © 2008 Centerblue.org. This Feed is for personal [...]

Bush to OPEC: “More oil, pretty please??”

So this is is what our oil addiction has come down to–the leader of the free world figuratively getting on his knees and begging for more oil from OPEC and the Saudis. Said Bush: “When [US] consumers have less purchasing power, it could cause the economy to slow down. I hope OPEC nations put more supply on [...]

Congrats, Obama–now prove yourself.

So…Obama trounced Clinton in the Iowa caucuses (so did Edwards). Congrats, Obama! While Edwards had much to be happy for, Obama was the real story last night as he picks up huge momentum going into New Hampshire. As for Clinton, well, she was looking rather dejected last night. No doubt that this was a big blow to [...]

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