A totally biased and unreasonable list of blogs that I think you might enjoy reading.
Tuesday’s debate between Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain won’t change much of anything. There was little drama, and certainly no moment that marked a shift of momentum one way or the other.Obama clearly has a lead and McCain is playing catch-up, and…
Continue reading " Presidential race progressing along predictable lines "
In downtown Roanoke today, Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh spoke to a robust crowd of a few hundred Obama-Biden supporters. Bayh was there instead of Obama’s running mate, who had to cancel his appearance due to the serious illness of his mother-in-law.Roanoke …
Continue reading " Sen. Evan Bayh stands in nicely for Joe Biden in Roanoke "
The short answer is….he can’t. Or at least it’s beginning to look like he can’t.With the isn’t-Sarah-Palin-great? little post-convention bounce out of the way, polls are again showing that Barack Obama leads and that voters can’t shake the legitimate…
Continue reading " War, financial crisis, expensive gas….how can McCain win in this atmosphere? "
Less than two full months to go now before the election and it’s becoming clear that the Obama/Biden ticket is likely to win the White House.Polling will vary a lot, to be sure. In fact, I couldn’t even tell you now what the latest polls say. But it do…
Continue reading " Why our ticket is so much better than theirs "
I’m guessing that many Republicans will be turning to alcohol fairly early today, and in the coming days….and they won’t be celebrating. I just don’t see how Sen. John McCain and his supporters can sell the choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as a cred…
In what seems a very bizarre choice….Sen. John McCain has stunned everyone by selecting Alaska Governor Sarah Palin (sorry, never heard of her….) as his running mate.I guess maybe McCain was really worried about all those stories suggesting that Ba…
Joe Biden it is….and this pick works on many levels.Sen. Obama has followed the first rule of what any presidential nominee should do when choosing a running mate: Pick someone who is actually qualified to serve as president in case anything should h…
In this part of Virginia (the Fifth and Sixth Congressional Districts), some recent polling has put a damper on any realistic hopes our party might have had for picking up either of those congressional seats.In the Fifth District, candidate Tom Perriel…
Continue reading " For area Democrats, a tale of two districts…incumbents are still hard to beat "
I took the occasion Saturday to catch “Gonzo” at Roanoke’s wonderful Grandin Theatre. “The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson” was very well done. I enjoyed it more than I suspected I would.The friends and colleagues who remembered their late comp…
Continue reading " “Gonzo” documentary shows Hunter S. Thompson was talented, troubled, over-rated "
Mark Warner, Virginia’s next U.S. Senator, made a brief stop at the Roanoker Restaurant this week, less than a week after opening a headquarters here in the Star City.One can only say that things appear to be going swimmingly well for Warner, who - des…
Continue reading " Warner opens headquarters…makes brief stop in Roanoke "
As Sen. Barack Obama visits the war fronts of Afghanistan and Iraq, it’s becoming clear that even the Iraqi government wants us out.The prime minister gave an interview to a French newspaper, in which he said U.S. troops should be out “as soon as possi…
Continue reading " Even the Iraqi prime minister wants us to leave "
It is commonly said that a presidential candidate’s first real test of judgment is the choice of a vice presidential nominee. The candidate is in fact choosing someone that could very possibly succeed him in the Oval Office. It has to be shown that the…
Continue reading " Tim Kaine might be Obama’s best possible veep choice "
It’s never a surprise when pro-war conservatives toss out the over-used, over-rated “Nazi appeasement” analogy to any situation that involves a war they either want to start or defend. Sen. Barack Obama - who will be the Democratic nominee for presiden…
Continue reading " Obama fires back appropriately to Bush’s “Nazi appeasement” nonsense "
….after a big win tonight in North Carolina and - at this hour - getting closer in Indiana. It doesn’t help Hillary Clinton to split states. She wasn’t able to do what she needed to do - win them both easily. Obama’s speech from Raleigh (the area whe…
I’m to the point of simply switching off CNN, MSNBC, or any other news network that says anything at all about Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama’s “former pastor.” The problem with that is, of course, it’s all they seem to want to talk about - yet again.Wh…
Continue reading " Shame on the mainstream media for non-stop “stories” about Jeremiah Wright "
Evidently, it’s still not possible in America for a black person to run for president and not have to confront, in some way, the question of race.But what ought to be disturbing is when that question rises too many times in the Democratic Party, the h…
Continue reading " Is it really race that prevents some Dems from supporting Obama? "
Hopefully Tuesday’s presidential primary in Pennsylvania will at least put an end (temporarily, anyway) to the “silly season” in presidential politics we’ve had to endure lately.It’s time to get away from the media-driven nonsense about Obama’s preache…
Continue reading " Getting close will be “victory” enough for Barack Obama "
The mainstream media did the American public a disservice by ignoring the recent “Winter Soldier” hearings just outside Washington, D.C. It’s my understanding that not even the “liberal” New York Times printed a word about the hearings, where Iraq vete…
Continue reading " Too bad the Winter Soldier hearings were ignored… "
It is unfortunate that probably the last image most will have of Charlton Heston will be that shuffling old guy in Michael Moore’s “Bowling for Columbine.” Moore took some heat for putting that in his documentary, but it was Heston who accepted the int…
Continue reading " Heston’s political life may be most remembered "
It’s been my pleasure to be able to serve Democrat Drew Richardson’s campaign. So, naturally, I regret his departure from the race but I agree with his reasons for making that move.Quite simply, we looked at the math and the numbers we needed weren’t t…