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Someone who sees the future

Abner Linwood Holton, Jr. is a Republican. In fact, in 1970 he was the first Republican elected Governor of the state of Virginia in almost 100 years (since Reconstruction), and is widely regarded as the “father of the Republican party in Virginia”. Some of you may recall that the Republican resurgence in the South during the 70s was mainly a result of Nixon’s Southern Strategy of “exploiting racism among white voters”.

So it might seem ironic that Holton has not only endorsed Obama, but is campaigning heavily for him.

But it is not so surprising when you note something interesting about Holton’s past. When desegregation became a burning issue in Virginia, Governor Holton voluntarily placed his children in the mostly African-American Richmond Public schools, and even walked them to school himself. In response to his support for racial desegregation, the Republican party turned against him (even though he was the incumbent), nominating someone who supported “massive resistance” to desegregation for the governorship.

Back in the racist 1970s, Holton stood up against segregation. And today, 30 some years later, Holton is again able to see beyond our nation’s lingering racism. There may be other issues at work here, but the clear message seems to be that the less racist you are, the more likely that you will support Obama for president, even if you are conservative or Republican.

There, I’ve said it.  Let the attacks on my character begin.

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A glimpse into the future

Is the presidential campaign becoming long and frustrating to you? I find it helps to just stare at this photo for a few minutes:


© Michael David Murphy

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Hypocrisy, Transparency, and Accountability

Today, Lehman Brothers Investmant Bank declared bankruptcy, brought down by the subprime mortgage crisis that it helped to create. To give you an idea of how bad this is, consider:

  • The firm was 158 years old. It survived the Great Depression in the 1930s and countless other financial upheavals, but it could not survive its own greed.
  • Their bankruptcy filing lists $613 BILLION (yes, more than half a Trillion dollars) in debt, making it the largest bankruptcy in all of history. That’s more than $2,000 for every man, woman, and child in the USA.
  • The former editor of the American Bankruptcy Institute Journal says that there is likely to be a domino effect on other institutions and individuals. “The whole thing is frankly frightening for the U.S. economy.”

Campaigning this week, McCain declared:

We will never put America in this position again. We will clean up Wall Street. This is a failure.

McCain also called for “transparency and accountability” on Wall Street.

For starters, that “transparency” could include admitting that McCain’s own chief financial advisor, former Senator Phil Gramm, was the person who was personally “accountable” for sneaking in the last-minute amendment that deregulated the part of the financial industry that directly led to the mortgage meltdown. Not to mention his involvement in deregulating energy markets, which led to the Enron mess. Yes, that is the same Gramm who called America a “nation of whiners”.

Not only that, but after the “whiners” comment, McCain supposedly removed Gramm from his campaign, but by most accounts, Gramm is still working for McCain.  Is that “transparent and accountable”?

In addition, McCain is now suddenly blasting “golden parachutes” for CEOs, but doesn’t bother to mention that one if his top advisors, Carly Fiorina, received such a parachute worth $42 million after her short tenure at HP (which she mismanaged enough to get herself fired).

New Rule: if you claim that you are going to fix a problem, you have to actually say how you are going to fix it. McCain provides no details, just talk. And you can start with how you are going to fix that same problem inside your own campaign. How can you clean up the rats in Washington when your own home is infested? (Or should that be homes?)

Meanwhile, Obama introduced legislation over a year ago to try to prevent the subprime mortgage crisis, and has been working on this issue since his days in the Illinois Senate.

UPDATE: Obama gave an excellent speech on the economy today.

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Late Night Political Humor

“We love Joe Biden. But he put his foot in his mouth the other day, again. When out on the campaign trail, he told a crowd of people that, ‘Hillary Clinton might have been a better pick for vice president.’ To which Hillary said, ‘It’s not too late!'” -Jay Leno

“No, he told the crowd that Hillary is as qualified or more qualified than he is. Plus, she still has her original hair.” -Jay Leno

“Well, here’s a great scandal. Federal investigators say that members of the Bush administration who were in charge of overseeing billions of dollars in oil royalties received gifts and had illicit sex with oil company employees. They actually had sex with the oil company employees. You know, when the Republicans said, ‘drill everywhere,’ I had no idea.” -Jay Leno

“And yesterday, Senator Larry Craig, you all remember Larry Craig, America’s favorite restroom enthusiast. Well, he, somehow, he got a Minnesota court to hear an appeal of his case involving soliciting gay sex in an airport men’s room. Unfortunately, the court recessed for a ten-minute bathroom break, and he got arrested again.” -Jay Leno

“No, Larry Craig’s lawyer yesterday told a three-judge panel in Minnesota that the foot tapping in a men’s room must be protected under the first amendment right to free speech. Boy, the Republicans using the Constitution? When was the last time you saw that happen?” -Jay Leno

“No, that’s what the lawyer said. The lawyer said, ‘foot tapping in the men’s room was a form of protected expression, like dancing.’ Like dancing? Shut up! This guy is lord of the toilet dance now, apparently.” -Jay Leno

“Sarah Palin has left the campaign trail. Whew, take a break. What’s it been, a week? Whew, don’t kill yourself. She went back to Alaska for a while. So you know that what that means? People can go back to ignoring John McCain again.” -Jay Leno

“The New York Times had a big article on problems that elderly people face. And they say, one of the worst things that can happen to an old person [is] breaking a hip. Breaking a hip, yeah. Second worst thing that can happen? Losing Ohio.” -Jay Leno

“No, I guess earlier today, up there in Alaska, she shot two campaign commercials, a moose and a caribou.” -Jay Leno

“Here’s big news. Tonight and tomorrow night, Charles Gibson over there at ABC is going to interview Sarah Palin. And I believe it will be her first big time interview. And Charles Gibson, the first question he asks her, he says are you ready to be president? And Sarah Palin said ‘Oh, for sure!'” -David Letterman

“During the interview Sarah Palin actually gave birth to her sixth child. So she can do it all. She’s ready to go.” -David Letterman

“Sarah Palin’s been spending the last couple of days being briefed by advisers on what she needs to know to be John McCain’s vice president. That’s true. Yeah. Apparently, the first thing they taught her was CPR.” -Conan O’Brien

“This is true. In Alaska, a political activist is trying to get Sarah Palin to release over 1,000 e-mails that she’s withholding from public records. She won’t release them. Yeah. Apparently, several of the e-mails went unanswered and have the subject line ‘Mom, I need to talk to you about birth control.'” -Conan O’Brien

“And how about Matt Damon? … Yeah, Matt Damon says he believes that Sarah Palin would be a disaster in the White House. That’s what Matt Damon says. Wait a minute, wait a minute. I think I’ll wait to hear what Ben Affleck has to say.” -David Letterman

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McEvil

John McCain as Dr. Evil?

Read the story behind this photo here.

Here’s a manipulated version of that photo:

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Sarah Palin gets a Brazilian

If you came here because you have a dirty mind, it’s not that kind of Brazilian!

The McCain campaign (or should we call it the Palin/McCain campaign) has announced the jet that Palin will be using for her “straight talk express” and getting straight to the point, she didn’t buy American. The jet is made by Embraer, a Brazilian company.

After all the false claims about selling the old governor’s jet on eBay, and after she outsourced building that gas pipeline to Canada, you’d think she would be more sensitive to buying American. But no, she outsourced her jet to another country. Is this is a slap at Washington State, home of Boeing, which is expected to vote Democratic?

Maybe she will manage to sell this plane on eBay after November. And no, you can’t see Brazil from Alaska, although they are adjacent to each other alphabetically.

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Bridge of Lies


© Tom Toles

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Drill, Baby, Drill


© Jack Ohman

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Is McCain the Manchurian Candidate?

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Learning from the Internet


© Ben Sargent

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Palin’s home town disadvantage

Sarah Palin went back to Alaska for the first time since her nomination, and held a “Welcome Home” rally and speech in downtown Anchorage in front of around 1000 people. What was interesting, however, was that a nearby protest rally, called “Alaska Women Reject Palin” had a significantly larger turnout than the pro-Palin rally. Some reports say the protest rally was the biggest political rally in the history of Alaska.

Some of the protest signs were funny, too:

   

USA Today report.

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Tina Fey as Sarah Palin on SNL

UPDATE: Carly Fiorina, a top advisor to McCain, said that this skit was sexist because it portrayed the Alaska governor as lacking in substance, compared to Hillary Clinton. Huh? Is Fiorina saying that Hillary Clinton is not a woman?

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Nobody Expects the Alaskan Politician!


© Darby Conley

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