George W. Bush’s Last Disaster – The Republican Party

What happened to the Republican Party? Simple. George W. Bush happened. [...]

Obama hearts the banksters, reaches out to them

The investment banks backed Obama very early in the 2008 campaign and with big money. He has repaid their investment mightily, shoveling them hundreds of billions. But he did institute a few tepid reforms to mollify the peasants with pitchforks, and that made the banksters throw hissy fits.

So now Obama wants to woo them [...]

Obama favors class-based affirmative action

Twice during the primary campaign, Obama has been asked by George Stephanopoulos, who handled a review of affirmative action policies for President Clinton, whether or not he believed his own fairly privileged daughters deserve affirmative action preferences in college. Both times he answered no.

Obama then went further to say that low income and working [...]

The candidates on global warming

The Hartford Courant provides a useful comparison of the global warming policies of the presidential candidates.

Obama favors the most governmental spending for R&D, something I strongly favor too. His plan also seems the most comprehensive.

Romney and Paul are clueless, Thompson is an open denier.

Most surprising is McCain, “League of Conservation Voters [...]

Upset

In the end, voters want real people with actual arguments in order to change the country. That’s why Huckabee and Obama have prevailed. They’re real. The establishments of both parties lost.

I expect the Clinton campaign to launch a vicious, sleazy attack against Obama, which will backfire, convincing more people not to vote for Hillary. [...]