AltWeeklies Wire
McCain's Mistake: Putting His Party Before the Peoplenew
Wearing the mask of party loyalist while subtly nodding to his reform record, McCain tried to work the crowd when he should have been slamming his fist on the almighty podium, promising to rid Washington of these impostors and carpetbaggers who'd somehow slipped into power.
Boulder Weekly |
Ben Corbett |
11-03-2008 |
Commentary
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Early Votenew
To avoid what might be the longest lines in recorded history, my wife and I trekked to the polls on Tuesday after dropping the kids at school. Yet I remained fearful that some literature-laden politician or worse, a community organizer, might engage in electioneering and violate my ballot security.
Dallas Observer |
Mark Donald |
11-03-2008 |
Commentary
Election '08: Backwards Bizarro Landnew
Welcome to Bizarro World, where the single-mother-raised working-class black guy is decried as an "elitist," while the lock-step well-branded military man is a "maverick."
NOW Magazine |
Robert Priest |
11-03-2008 |
Commentary
Election '08: Not Over Yetnew
Obama has FDR's gifts of oratory and pragmatism, but can he restore the nation? A special pre-election report from Tom Hayden.
Sacramento News & Review |
Tom Hayden |
10-31-2008 |
Commentary
Suppressing Minority Votes -- Legallynew
The main ploys the GOP will use to damp down minority votes on Nov. 4 have drawn virtually no media attention. They include letter-writing challenges, residence and citizenship challenges of non-native born Latino voters, and reliance on a provision in the Help America Vote Act on provisional ballots. Worst of all, these tactics are all perfectly legal.
Jackson Free Press |
Earl Ofari Hutchinson |
10-31-2008 |
Commentary
Who Wants to Be the President of Hell?new
It seems like only two years ago the presidential campaign started -- because that's how long it was: two years ago. Those two years end Tuesday night, but with a bang, or apocalypse?
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Ken Layne |
10-31-2008 |
Commentary
Not Swayed By Fearnew
This election promises to be one of those "bell weather" events that happen once in a generation, shifting the entire political psychology. It will be what Thomas Jefferson prophesied that every twenty years a democracy needs to have a revolution -- preferably without blood shed–ballots not bullets.
Random Lengths News |
James Preston Allen |
10-31-2008 |
Commentary
Mudslinging Socialismnew
Obama has also been slandered with the "socialist" moniker for wanting to reform national health care, fund education and reinvest in our nation's infrastructure -- all very socialist ideas according to McPalin.
Random Lengths News |
James Preston Allen |
10-31-2008 |
Commentary
The New Socialism and the End of a Free Market Mythnew
This is perhaps the final crisis, in a line of crises, of the Bush/Cheney administration, which at best, has been a sour lesson to us all in "failed crisis management." The root of all of this stupidity is their fundamentalist belief that less government is better government.
Random Lengths News |
James Preston Allen |
10-31-2008 |
Commentary
Politics, Economics & The Presidential Electionsnew
McCain says he's for education. But to oppose spending money to replace the Adler projector that was too old to get parts for -- what with holography and laser technology being way out of date -- his complaint proves McCain's real contempt of knowledge and education.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
10-31-2008 |
Commentary
What We Talk About When We Talk About Socialismnew
There's something worth examining in the McCain campaign's desire to boil the archetypal Joe the Plumber and the prosecutorial Joe McCarthy up into a strange brew they hope will get an anxious electorate drunk enough to put the Arizona senator in the White House.
L.A. Weekly |
Joe Donnelly |
10-31-2008 |
Commentary
Happytown's Endorsementsnew
You may not have heard, but there's an election coming up Nov. 4. Suddenly you're asking yourself, "Who and what would my dear friends at Happytown vote for?" Wonder no longer. It's endorsement time.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman, Billy Manes, Deanna Morey and Bob Whitby |
10-30-2008 |
Commentary
Ewwww, Scary!new
Our annual wearable tribute to the truly horrifying, just in time for Halloween. Instructions: Cut along the dotted lines, open eye and mouth holes, immediately suspend all trick-or-treating and return to Washington.
Orlando Weekly |
Jeffrey C. Billman, Billy Manes, Deanna Morey and Bob Whitby |
10-30-2008 |
Commentary
Prime Minister Harper Should Take a Tip from Pearson and Step Asidenew
At a time when the ongoing "war on terror" has been joined by a new "war on recession," our failure to trust any party with a majority says much about the sorry state of politics in Canada.
Fast Forward Weekly |
David Bright |
10-30-2008 |
Commentary
Obama is Winning ... and That's Hard to Get Our Head Aroundnew
I've reached a point where I can't really imagine John McCain giving a concession speech (especially when you factor in his inherent stubbornness, and the groundwork his campaign has been laying to dispute results). I feel like I've seen this movie before, and it doesn't end happily.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Doron Taussig |
10-30-2008 |
Commentary
