
2008 election
Tigh or McCain
Posted Thu, 04/24/2008 - 21:36 by bartley
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Bad Candidate Photos
Posted Tue, 02/05/2008 - 02:09 by bartley

both via the Washington Post. Post more if you have them
fortsanders.net 2008 endorsement
Posted Sat, 02/02/2008 - 23:26 by bartleySince the 3 possible Republican candidates are all running on platforms made up of slightly varied amounts of limiting civil liberties, war, torture, and pigfuckery they're all out of consideration for this endorsement. The one Republican I agree with on several issues is likely a racist nutbag and so he's out also.
On the Democrat side of things, the candidate I most agree with (according to several online tests) has already dropped out and was not going to get many votes anyway. So that leaves Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama and between the two I definitely choose Obama.
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Stuff like this is a big part of the reason I can't support Clinton
Posted Wed, 01/30/2008 - 15:06 by bartleyAll of this sounded suspiciously like campaigning. But aides said they were merely trying to protect the people of Florida who, despite the campaign's "scrupulous" refusal to campaign in the state, showed up to vote for Clinton anyway.
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Obama SC Watch Party, Green Hills Grill - Saturday 7pm - until
Posted Fri, 01/25/2008 - 12:06 by bobI know it's short notice, but our Obama group (The Knoxville Obama Movement) is hosting a SC Watch Party at Green Hills Grille in Western Plaza at 7pm, Saturday January 26. We've reserved the upstairs ballroom, and we'll have Obama signs, stickers, ect. It's basically just a low key watch party to get with other Obama supporters, and some undecided voters. Access to the Green Hills Grille menu and drinks. We'll be there until the returns from SC are posted and the speeches are given.
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In Matters Big and Small, Crossing Giuliani Had Price
Posted Wed, 01/23/2008 - 23:14 by bartleyRudolph W. Giuliani likens himself to a boxer who never takes a punch without swinging back. As mayor, he made the vengeful roundhouse an instrument of government, clipping anyone who crossed him.
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Mr. Giuliani was a pugilist in a city of political brawlers. But far more than his predecessors, historians and politicians say, his toughness edged toward ruthlessness and became a defining aspect of his mayoralty. One result: New York City spent at least $7 million in settling civil rights lawsuits and paying retaliatory damages during the Giuliani years.After AIDS activists with Housing Works loudly challenged the mayor, city officials sabotaged the group’s application for a federal housing grant. A caseworker who spoke of missteps in the death of a child was fired. After unidentified city workers complained of pressure to hand contracts to Giuliani-favored organizations, investigators examined not the charges but the identity of the leakers.
The Real Mike Huckabee
Posted Tue, 01/15/2008 - 17:13 by bartley
Most of the batshitcrazy in the article is not directly attributed to Huckabee, but that doesn't change the fact that Mike Huckabee is not a sane man
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Mike Huckabee Is Not a Sane Man
Posted Thu, 11/29/2007 - 17:23 by bartley"I'm glad you're here," he told me. "I finally get to tell someone who cares about Keith Richards."
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But all the attention on his salesmanship skills obscures the real significance of his rise within the Republican Party. Mike Huckabee represents something that is either tremendously encouraging or deeply disturbing, depending on your point of view: a marriage of Christian fundamentalism with economic populism. Rather than employing the patented Bush-Rove tactic of using abortion and gay rights to hoodwink low-income Christians into supporting patrician, pro-corporate policies, Huckabee is a bigger-government Republican who emphasizes prison reform and poverty relief. In the world of GOP politics, he represents something entirely new -- a cross between John Edwards and Jerry Falwell, an ordained Southern Baptist preacher who actually seems to give a shit about the working poor.But Huckabee is also something else: full-blown nuts, a Christian goofball of the highest order. He believes the Earth may be only 6,000 years old, angrily rejects the evidence that human beings evolved from "primates" and thinks America wouldn't need so much Mexican labor if we allowed every aborted fetus to grow up and enter the workforce.

