Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Steele released the following statement: “Watching President Obama address our nation — and feeling the pride that is in every American’s heart — it’s worth pausing to celebrate our nation’s achievements. Yet even as we mark this historic event, we recognize the deep problems that continue to face our nation. Republicans are eager to work with President Obama on the challenges he discussed, especially restoring fiscal responsibility and growing our economy. “After last year’s State of the Union, then-candidate Barack Obama asked the nation to imagine a time when a President’s agenda would...
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First Debate : Jim Lehrer Made Me Laugh
I found much humor in the first 2008 Presidential Debate between McCain and Obama. It was all about Jim Lehrer. Here is a man that began his news career at The Dallas Morning News and Dallas Times-Herald, covering the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963 and a retired Marine. Lehrer was considered an ‘Anderson Cooper’ of his generations. He should have kicked debate ass! But, he was all comic relief. Here are the reasons that Jim Lehrer, the first 2008 Presidential Debate Moderator, made me laugh. 1. Treated McCain and Obama like a Gay Couple in Marriage Counseling...
Get the Facts, Decode the Spin and Make a Choice
The nonpartisan, nonprofit Public Agenda, which two weeks ago called on the McCain and Obama campaigns to focus on the big issues as it released its online “Voter’s Survival Kit,” is today calling on citizens to do their part and make sure they are up to speed on the big issues before the debates. “Government accountability is a two way street, and it’s time for all Americans to start walking the walk and making sure they really understand the big issues,” said Public Agenda Vice President Michael Hamill Remaley. “As long as we let them, most politicians will try...
2008 Election Prediction
I do not think that Obama will take the southern US States, but will take the Northeast, Greater Lakes, West Coast and Colorado and New Mexico. What is your 2008 Presidential Election prediction? I used the NPR map.
Top Republicans for Obama
Two top Republican businessmen and party fundraisers are throwing their brainpower, their intimate understanding of Republican core values and their money behind getting Senator Barack Obama elected as U.S. President. Authors Wilbur O. Colom and James W. Parkinson have teamed up to write a new 104-page book that makes a fiscal and social argument on why conservatives should vote for Obama. Their book, “Turning Red States Blue: Obama’s Mission to Win the Republican Vote”. (read more . . . ) “Small town America is hurting and crying out for change,” said Colom, president of Genesis Press which is publishing...