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vice president clinton: “no… way!”

by Tom Carey | Democrat | Comments (3)

With Senator Obama now just 65 delegates away from securing the Democratic Party’s nomination for president, much of the speculation now turns to whom he will choose as his runningmate. The names being floated right now are many: John Edwards, Sam Nunn, Bill Richardson, Jim Webb, Bob Casey, Chuck Hagel, Tom Daschle. These are just […]

oh, say can you see

by Sandra Kinne | Democrat | Comments (0)

Barack Obama has conceded the never-ending battle. He has apparently had enough of the repeated assaults on his patriotism, the incessant questioning and the tiresome – yet truthful – explanations. Instead of continuing to fight a fight in which he cannot be victorious, Obama has caved.
He has put a pin-sized star-spangled banner on his […]

the summer of anxiety

by Ari Holtz | Moderate | Comments (0)

Memorial Day weekend is upon us, marking the psychological start of summer. The American summer is a hallowed time; it is a season for mental, if not physical, leisure. Many people work less – hours are shorter, long weekends are more frequent. For others it is a state of mind. Attitudes are easier, life seems […]

oh, there will be blood

by Ryan Porter | Moderate | Comments (0)

Barack Obama and John McCain, the presumptive presidential nominees from the Democratic and Republican parties, respectively, pledged early on in the election process to wage a civilized and respectful campaign. So far they have stuck to this promise… for the most part. Compared to their toughest rivals Hillary “Cutthroat” Clinton and Mitt “The Liar for […]

re: juristocracy beats democracy

by Max Clark | Democrat | Comments (4)

In the steamy, Turkish bath of the gay marriage issue, California’s Supreme Court has recently made the proclamation that if “you are here (within the legal California state boarders), and ‘queer’ (a term for a practicing homosexual in the common vernacular), then opponents of same-sex marriage should get used to you and your spouse.”
As this […]

the empress has no clothes

by Tom Carey | Moderate | Comments (0)

Over the past several months, Senator Hillary Clinton has seen her prospects of becoming the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee consistently decline. As Senator Obama’s delegate lead increased and slowly but surely more and more superdelegates declared their support for the junior senator from Illinois, the Clinton campaign has repeatedly tried to move the goalposts, to […]

do ugly people have the right to vote?

by Emma Onom | Republican | Comments (4)

After Barack Obama’s victory in Oregon Tuesday, the CNN news team offered a startling look at what kind of voters the candidates are receiving. As has been thrown out a time or two before, many hold the belief that Hillary Clinton has supporters who are racist.
Anderson Cooper discussed the issue with a number of experts, […]

the hypocrisy of john mccain: part II

by Matthew Kimball | Socialist | Comments (1)

The saga continues. In the latest installment of this humble and modest senator’s various hypocrisies, we find John McCain opposing women’s rights. Maybe in celebration of Mother’s Day, the valiant senator announced he opposed the Fair Pay Act, which would eliminate wage discrimination against women in the workplace. The bill could overturn the Supreme Court’s […]

irrelevance in lieu of grace

by Ari Holtz | Moderate | Comments (1)

In Tuesday night’s primaries, Sen. Hillary Clinton reigned supreme in Kentucky and Sen. Barack Obama was victorious in Oregon. Obama claimed a majority of overall pledged delegates and Clinton vowed to fight on. Nothing substantive, however, changed. Obama’s milestone was just a marker in his long, inevitable mathematical march toward the nomination. Clinton, once again, […]

armani suits and steroids

by Justin Roper | Democrat | Comments (2)

Economists claim that we’re headed into the biggest recession since The Great Depression, our government has spent over $500,000,000 in Iraq, and homes are headed into foreclosure faster than you can spell ARM. But all Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) wants to do is reopen Spygate: the closed NFL case regarding the New England Patriots and […]