Posts Tagged ‘polarization’

Healing that polarization problem

December 8th, 2009 | No Comments

Sometime in 2007 or so, some people decided the US was too polarized.  I’m not terribly sure that’s a bad thing.  But, it became a political issue that the Democrats used to some success I suppose.  Obama was going to fix that polarization problem.  It was change you could believe in. His people didn’t listen.  [...]

Barack and Rick

December 22nd, 2008 | 1 Comment

A lot has been made of Barack Obama inviting Rick Warren to give an invocation at his inauguration.  A lot of people are upset.  I’m not.  This really isn’t much of an issue that affects my day to day life.   What I have enjoyed is watching people who advocate various political policies squirm.  The left [...]

The polarization of the United States, version 2007

May 17th, 2007 | No Comments

Gallup came out with their most recent polls on the candidates, and non-candidates who are polling. Here’s the dirt: Democrat: Hillary Clinton, 35 Barack Obama, 26 Al Gore,16 John Edwards, 12 Bill Richardson, 2 Joe Biden, 2 Al Sharpton, 1 Christopher Dodd, 1 Wesley Clark, 1 Dennis Kucinich, <1 Mike Gravel, 0 Other, 1 None, [...]

Is Michael Fox acting?

October 24th, 2006 | 11 Comments

Was reading a trashy New York gossip rag that was talking about Rush attacking Michael J. Fox for over-acting his Parkinson’s symptoms for political gain.  Well, here is the video in question via Claire McCaskill: Here’s Fox circa June 2006: The problem Rush has is just making the allegation is distasteful to just about anyone [...]

Who’s scarier, Bin Laden, Bush, or the Press?

October 24th, 2006 | 3 Comments

Saw this on Michelle Malkin: Now, as usual, AP goes beyond their mission statement and translates biases the news. Why can’t these organizations do what they are supposed to do and just report the news? Any more, I swear the news media is scaring more than the other two. Bush will be out of office [...]