January 8, 2011

Now I read that last post and I feel about as far away from that angry, righteous, idealistic, impassioned person as I do from my college self. I don’t know, something kind of popped a day or two after that diatribe. I realized we (“we”, I think… Read full post »

Didn’t he look hypnotized when he made his statement about the tax cut “compromise”? Or maybe like they’ve been slipping him low doses of that radiation poisoning they gave the Russian guy in London a couple of years ago? I’m sure it’s not that dramatic, probably o… Read full post »

On October 25 I wrote that we should all demand that candidates running against health care should pledge that, if elected, they will give up their own generous taxpayer funded health care plan, as a matter of principle. So now they're elected! And they really, really need to take the pledge,… Read full post »

I think we should ask Republican candidates who are running against the new health care law to pledge that if elected they will not accept the generous public option health care plan offered to all members of Congress.

If publicly funded health care is so wrong, so catastrophic, so… Read full post »

13 days til Election Day

"Please vote November 2: Electing crazy people to Congress would not be helpful."

My theory is that if all normal non-insane people voted, we wouldn't have a problem. On the other hand, many normal non-insane people have contracted raging cases of political insanity, so maybe… Read full post »

So, that last election, the day of my last post, the American People at their most noble. Since then, not so much. But here we are again, counting down to another election to save or lose the soul of a nation (never seem to get either one quite accomplished, but it… Read full post »

I started out about a month ago to look at presidential campaign smears and attacks in every election from 1789 on, to find out if it’s really true that attacks used to be even more vicious in “the old days.” I’m still not sure about that. They all did seem to… Read full post »

Which we all are, only four more days til we find out what our country’s electorate is really made of, but it actually doesn’t feel as if we’re speeding. Every hour feels like a day. So let’s distract ourselves with speeding through the presidential campaigns of 1876 through 1… Read full post »

I’m seriously going to have to pick up the pace, I have 35 more campaigns to look at before we get to the present one!  I’m really trying to concentrate on the smears, fears, and various attacks during each one, to compare them to the ones we're suffering through now, but… Read full post »

My history is potted, not the presidents, or certainly not all of them.  I believe potted history means a brief, superficial account, but you’d be amazed how much time can happily slip by while you’re trying to find out the origin and meaning of the term “potted history”./… Read full post »

More of my brief (really, really brief) history of presidential campaign attacks, to find out for myself if campaigns really used to be worse than this one. These are smears through the years of 1832 through 1856 (yesterday was 1789 through 1828).

But first, I love this story: Obama and McCain… Read full post »

I watched the last debate last night, and once again I thought Senator Obama was great – smart, calm, in command of the material and his temper --  and Senator McCain looked even a little more demented than usual, and it slowly began to dawn on me that we might actually… Read full post »

My sister passed along this interview with David Boren, former United States Senator and now the President of the University of Oklahoma. It’s about 30 minutes, but worth it, as she pointed out, as an antidote for the current poison in the political bloodstream. David Boren was chairman… Read full post »