" A man never lies so much as after a hunt, during a war or before anelection. " -Otto Von Bismarck With the election day voting just mere hours from starting, itstarted me thinking about those very words uttered by Chancellor Otto vonBismarck in the late 19th century, and look in retrospect at the actions of both Kerry and Bush in thiscampaign and in their careers and private lives. So let's start with the hunt. Now, it would be easy to talk about George W. B...
I don't care who wins the election on Tuesday... I just hope John McCain runs for the presidency in 2008, because I have a lot of respect for him, and I think he would make an excellent statesman. He also seems to have a lot more integrity than BOTH the current candidates running today, so I think he would be a breath of fresh air. He has done so much in his senatorial career which is worth mentioning, like his crusade against Pork Barrel practices, his desire for stronger laws for corpor...
Call it an October Surprise of another sort, but the folks at Snopes.com, the Urban legend debunkers came across a claim that they couldn't debunk... in fact, they found out it was even more freakish. The claim they originally heard was that for the last 15 elections, the Washington Redskins were the most accurate barometer for the resulting presidential election... and it turns out it wasn't the last 15.... it was the last 17. SInce the 1936 election, the Washington Redskins performance ...
I was at another forum when someone mentioned this flash game called Battle for the Presidency in passing, and boy, is it good bipartisan fun. Basically, you set up your own candidates(in the guise of Kerry or Bush), and then you just watch them debate against other candidates that other people have made, using the abilities you have given them. You don't have direct control over how the debate is going to play out... And they do use all the dirty tricks too... some of them are hilari...
After reading about some of the new Presidential candidates that people wanted to square off against in the Political Machine, it got me to thinking about who I would put on my ideal historical ticket. There were so many men and women of quality when I first started thinking about it that the decision of who exactly I was looking for in a candidate seem was an difficult task indeed. Then I thought about other world leaders who may have been a good part of a ticket. So in that spirit, in ad...
I was just reading daily comics on Yahoo! and I came across a brilliant bit of political commentary on John Kerry from BC of all places. I love seeing both sides get whammied by comedy....
Greywar wrote anarticle about a movie called Brainwashing 101 , about the biasesdeveloping on American college campuses, and after watching the movie, I wasreminded of my own time in college when I was getting my history degree. Eventhen I was seeing a shift... though not so much in campus politics.... but inwhat was "important" in my field. When I started, the first year courses were pretty much all Generalhistory-type courses, and as your progressed, you would get more and more targe...
Depending on your point of view the dynamic duo behind South Park and Team America were either striking yet another blow for voter apathy, or a step in the right direction for producing informed voters in a recent interview when the pair told uninformed and undecided voters to stay home. "Stay home, it doesn't matter who you're gonna vote for. If you really don't know who you're gonna vote for, or are uninformed, or haven't really thought about it? Just stay home." Matt Stone remarked in ...
I was just reading a story on Yahoo! News, as I am apt to do, and I just had to share it with you all. Dick Cheney made a booboo in last night's debate, an error that sent people not towards evidence that he believed refuted Edwards' Halliburton claims, but to an anti-Bush site that featured an article by George Soros instead. Now, that's comical. Not laugh out loud, movie funny, but it did put a smile on this liberal's face. Now, trust me, I've been there. I've typed .com when I knew it ...
The two shorter stories in question followed by my analysis. Comedy Central Unspins O'Reilly Determined not to be caught up in a spin zone created by Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly, Comedy Central on Monday refuted O'Reilly's assertion that the audience for the network's The Daily Show was composed of "stoned slackers." The channel extracted data from Nielsen Media Research to indicate that Daily Show host Jon Stewart's viewers are more likely to have completed college than O'Reilly...
Vanity Fair called Jon Stewart " the Dan Rather of infotainment "..... that is defamation of character that is! The very idea! That comparison debases everything that the Peabody and Emmy-award winning Daily Show stands for... and he shouldn't stand for that kind of slander and character assassination. I smell a lawsuit a-comin'.... Of course, he could always use such a quote to sell his book, America-The Book which could work despite the libelous overtones of that statement. But my ...
After weeks of antagonistic scrutiny, CBS and Dan Rather have both admitted culpability in the falsified National Guard memo scandal, and have revealed that it was in fact Bill Burkett who was the source of these same documents. Burkett has reputedly told CBS that he "deliberately misled" the network... and this interview will appear on tonight's(Monday) CBS Evening News. Furthermore, the president of CBS News remarked on the situation with the following: " Based on what we now know, CBS ...
After watching this Quicktime video does anyone get the feeling Bush doesn't understand what 'sovereignty' in this particular case means? Honestly, I haven't seen that kind of clarity in an answer since Jean Chretien said: "A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven."
Well, in these times of equal time for candidates, it wouldn't be fair to just make jokes at Bush's expense , so here is a short list of Kerry jokes from the Nightly talk shows, culled from the files of about.com "We make jokes about it but the truth is this presidential election really offers us a choice of two well-informed, opposing positions on every issue. OK, they both belong to John Kerry, but they're still there." —Jay Leno "John Kerry announced a fool-proof plan to wipe out...
There have been a lot of really good zingers against Bush in the past 4 years, and I thought it might be a good time to do a little bit of a list with the help of about.com! Here we go... "According to the recent polls, Bush has a slight lead over John Kerry. So today, Bush hung a banner over the White House saying, 'Mission Accomplished.'" —David Letterman "George W. Bush surrounds himself with smart people the way a hole surrounds itself with a donut." —Dennis Miller "Bush is sm...