Tag Election 2008

Third party candidates

Cynthia McKinney officially announces her strongly antiwar campaign for presidency as a Green while Bloomberg looks for staff for a possible campaign. (And says he will spend a billion of his own money if he runs.) Both are paradigm breakers,…

The Ron Paul phenomenon

“Something’s happening here / What is ain’t exactly clear.” Ron Paul raised $6 million yesterday in the “most successful fundraising day in American political history.” Sure, it was geared as a massive one day fundraiser, but still, those numbers are…

Huckabee on Dubya

“American foreign policy needs to change its tone and attitude, open up, and reach out,” Huckabee wrote in the journal Foreign Affairs. “The Bush administration’s arrogant bunker mentality has been counterproductive at home and abroad.”– Mike Huckabee This is coming…

Clinton campaign tries sliming, hits self

Let’s see, a little while back the Clinton campaign attacked Obama because he wrote in kindergarten that he wanted to be president. Yesterday they said they’d attack him because he said he took drugs as a youth (like who didn’t?)…

The Left and the elections

From Lenin’s Tomb, on UFJP’s now more apparent than usual tactic of wanting to influence the left flank of the Democratic Party, and thus get directly involved in electoral politics in the coming election. The devilish problem, like God, is…