Filed at 9:50 am, Sunday August 31st 2008
by Arlen Parsa
It has becoming increasingly clear over the past couple of days that John McCain’s choice of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running-mate was more of a last minute headline land grab than a well thought out decision.
McCain started his search for a running-mate three months ago and before he took the stage […]
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Filed at 10:30 pm, Saturday August 30th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
“John McCain… Not what’s up.”
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Filed at 9:44 pm, Saturday August 30th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
AP reports:
NEW ORLEANS — Spooked by predictions that Hurricane Gustav could grow into a Category 5 monster, an estimated 1 million people fled the Gulf Coast Saturday _ even before the official order came for New Orleans residents to get out of the way of a storm taking dead aim at Louisiana.
Mayor Ray Nagin gave […]
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Filed at 9:50 am, Saturday August 30th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
From a press release, via email, from the National Women’s Political Caucus:
THE NATIONAL WOMEN’S POLITICAL CAUCUS WILL NOT ENDORSE GOVERNOR PALIN
Washington, D.C. – The National Women’s Political Caucus (NWPC) announced today that NWPC will not be supporting the candidacy of Governor Sarah Palin for Vice-President of the United States.
“Regrettably, neither she, nor John McCain supports […]
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Filed at 7:30 pm, Friday August 29th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
There are several reasons why Sarah Palin was a truly awful pick on John McCain’s part. Here are three of them:
1. She brings no natural strength to the ticket: Joe Biden bolstered the Democratic ticket with his decades of experience on foreign policy matters, as well as his unique personal story. Palin brings to the […]
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Filed at 6:17 pm, Friday August 29th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
Meet the former Beauty Pageant-winner turned Alaska governor who the Washington Times describes as “the nation’s most prominent advocate of drilling in ANWR.” John McCain, who has previous opposed drilling in ANWR, has picked Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate. Since the single term governor is virtually unknown outside of her home state, […]
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Filed at 8:24 am, Friday August 29th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
I’ll have thoughts on the GOP running mate (whoever it turns out to be) later today. For now, I’m out shooting.
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Filed at 11:02 pm, Thursday August 28th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
A new standard in political stagecraft and speechifying was set tonight.
As anybody watching cable news in the last week knows, there was a lot of doubt (at least on the part of the types of people who can be seen on cable news) that Barack Obama’s stadium speech at Invesco Stadium in Denver would be […]
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Filed at 10:08 pm, Thursday August 28th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
Filed at 8:57 pm, Thursday August 28th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
A few images from Invesco Field in Denver.
Up until tonight, it had been easier to get 70,000 people together to watch a bunch of grown men built like refrigerators chase a piece of leather around, than it had been to get 70,000 Americans together to listen to somebody who cares about the future of his […]
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Filed at 7:12 pm, Thursday August 28th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
Vague schedule highlights:
8:15 pm ET - Gov. Bill Richardson
8:35 pm ET– Stevie Wonder performance
8:50 pm ET – Al Gore
9:09 pm ET – Susan Eisenhower
9:57 pm ET – Sen. Dick Durbin
10:15 pm ET – Barack Obama
These things are always behind schedule though of course, and there will be plenty of speakers between these… More detailed schedule […]
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Filed at 6:02 pm, Thursday August 28th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
Okay, so remember this?
Stuart Shepard, director of digital media at Focus Action requests Prayers for it to rain on Barack Obama?
Focus on the Family guy Stuart Shepard is asking people, in a video he made, to pray for rain on the day Barack Obama gives his speech in Denver during the Democratic National Convention. Shepard, […]
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Filed at 3:17 pm, Thursday August 28th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
Several days ago, I happened upon a like-new copy of Markos Moulitsas’ and Jerome Armstrong’s 2006 book Crashing The Gate at a thrift store for fifty cents. After snatching it up, I read it pretty quickly and yesterday I picked up a copy of Markos’ newly released book Taking On The System: Rules for Radical […]
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Filed at 9:46 pm, Wednesday August 27th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
Joe Biden just did what many other Democrats have been doing lately, both on and off the stage in Denver: he accidentally said “George Bush” when he meant to say “John McCain.”
“Freudian slip, ladies and gentlemen,” Biden said to much laughter.
Democrats have recently managed to accidentally replace the word McCain with Bush and vice versa […]
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Filed at 8:49 pm, Wednesday August 27th 2008
by Arlen Parsa
Why was there a bunch of fall foliage above John Kerry’s head during his DNC speech? I’m afraid I’m failing to grasp the connection between a speech mainly about national security– and a bunch of autumnal imagery.
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