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Category: 2008 Presidential Race

WaPo says Obama was “more polarizing that we knew.”

5 September, 2010 (12:41) | 2008 Presidential Race, Politics, The Media | By: ricjames

Dan Balz of the Washington Post writes an article in today’s WaPo (A section, page 2 for those of you with the dead tree edition) titled, “Early on, Obama was more polarizing than we knew“: One of the puzzling questions about Barack Obama’s presidency is how the post-partisan candidate of 2008 became the polarizing chief [...]

Palin e-mail hacker convicted, may get 8 years prison time

1 May, 2010 (14:46) | 2008 Presidential Race, Crime & Punishment, Politics, Technology | By: ricjames

The guy who hacked then-VP candidate Sarah Palin’s personal e-mail account was convicted Friday of 2 of the 4 charges filed against him, computer fraud and obstruction of justice. To which I say: excellent. Now, sentence him quickly, toss him in jail and let him fade into obscurity. During the 2008 election cycle David Kendall [...]

Hawaii considering anti-nagging law

17 March, 2010 (09:24) | 2008 Presidential Race, Politics | By: ricjames

More than a year into President Obama’s administration, there are people out there who continue to say he’s not eligible to sit in the Oval Office by reason of the fact that he’s not an American citizen. They pin this entire notion on the idea that he wasn’t born here in the States and continue [...]

America Rising

11 January, 2010 (11:32) | 2008 Presidential Race, Economy, Medicine, Politics | By: ricjames

I agree: (Hat tip: Glen Caroline)

Meet the new boss…

1 January, 2010 (14:05) | 2008 Presidential Race, Economy, Military, Politics | By: ricjames

…same as the old boss, as the lyrics go. I give you President Obama, speaking to a VFW Post in Phoenix: “If a project doesn’t support our troops, we will not fund it,” he said to a meeting of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Phoenix. “If a system doesn’t perform, we will terminate it. [...]

The controversy over a birth certificate (Update)

4 August, 2009 (11:05) | 2008 Presidential Race, Law, Politics | By: ricjames

I have to be completely honest about something that’s in the news these days that I was really planning on ignoring: I don’t really believe that President Obama was born in a foreign country. Barring real evidence to the contrary, I have no reason to doubt the word of the Vital Records folks in Hawaii [...]

Tribal markings and the unending feud

24 January, 2009 (10:36) | 2008 Presidential Race, Politics, Virginia Politics | By: ricjames

It was several months past the 2000 elections that I first recall noticing something I hadn’t seen in years past: a campaign bumper sticker on the car ahead of me in traffic. Now, some of those older stickers were pure hell to remove from a bumper and you could tell from the scratched-up appearance of [...]

Governor of Illinois arrested on corruption/conspiracy charges

9 December, 2008 (11:07) | 2008 Presidential Race, Crime & Punishment, Politics | By: ricjames

Uh-oh. Federal authorities arrested Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich Tuesday on charges that he brazenly conspired to sell or trade the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by President-elect Barack Obama to the highest bidder. Blagojevich also was charged with illegally threatening to withhold state assistance to Tribune Co., the owner of the Chicago Tribune, in the [...]

Virginia Board of Elections working hard to make sure military members overseas don’t get to vote

4 December, 2008 (10:17) | 2008 Presidential Race, Military, Politics, Virginia Politics | By: ricjames

Over at the Heritage Foundation’s blog, The Foundry: The liberal political establishment is always expressing its concern over the possible “disenfranchisement” of voters (claims that almost always turn out to be completely exaggerated), but their concerns seem to disappear when the disenfranchised are military voters. How else can one explain the almost total lack of [...]

A matter of communications between percentages

11 November, 2008 (07:40) | 2008 Presidential Race, Politics | By: ricjames

No doubt brought to you by the same people who put up that idiotic “We’re sorry” web site after the 2004 elections, there’s a site up that’s calling itself “from52to48withlove.” And no, it’s not some internet porn site. This is a string of pictures people have taken showing “the 52″ – that’s the 52% of [...]