The advantages of being a minority

The Seattle Post Intelligencer has an opinion piece on how Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton had no advantage being black and female respectively during the Democratic nomination. The writer describes how she has heard many people express that Barack Obama wouldn’t be where he is if he wasn’t black and how upsetting that is for [...]

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Anti-Obama Thugs Tag Cars

Police on Sunday were investigating vandals’ spray-painting of dozens of city vehicles here, some with disparaging messages about the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.
Authorities think the vandalism to about 60 vehicles, estimated at $10,000 in damage, was done Saturday afternoon, police spokeswoman Sgt. Barbara Jones said.
The vehicles were parked across from City Hall and [...]

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Feminism, Hillary and Me

I’m one of those unappreciative women that grew up with equal rights and didn’t vote for Hillary Clinton. Perhaps because of my age, I found it hard to identify with Hillary. She’s nothing like me.
I am living the life that women of older generations fought for, and yet I am living it more fully than [...]

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Would Appalacians Vote For Obama if Hillary Were VP?

I think it’s a valid question that the pollsters should be asking. Clinton scores well with white working class voters without a college degree, especially in the Appalachian region.
Many voters in Clinton’s base core say they won’t vote for Obama unless Clinton is the V.P. Would the voters in Appalachia do the same? Would they [...]

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The no-win situation that is Guantanamo Bay

Whoever takes the presidency in November will have difficulty finding a solution to the mess of Iraq. Though perhaps one individual may be worse than the others, Obama, McCain and Clinton are doomed to failure because this administration never considered part two of playing war.
In reference to the prisoners being held at Guantanamo Bay here’s [...]

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Another Dumb Headline

When you click on this link you find out that the friend is Warren Buffett. I think Warren Buffet has accomplished enough in his lifetime to be valid on his own.

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Conversations with my Mother

Yesterday in America it was Mother’s Day and so I called my mother to have a conversation about life. You may recall my post about race in America in which my mother expresses disbelief that America is ready to elect a black man as president. We picked up where we left off a few [...]

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Stubborn Old People

My grandmother was a Southern (Louisiana) headstrong woman — very self-sufficient and very stubborn. One time when she visited my family in California we decided to take her dinner to a Mexican restaurant. She refused. She told us she had heard on Paul Harvey that Mexicans ate bugs and she would not go to a [...]

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Oregon is Full of Elitists!

I have to admit I’ve never heard that one before. I’m from California and I live in Washington, so really I’ve been a neighbor of Oregon most of my life. The fact that I now learn they are just a bunch of elitists is a real shocker.
Seattle political consultant Cathy Allen, a Clinton supporter, said [...]

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How Do You Decide Which State Primaries Count?

Keith Olbermann explains it all.

For the record, this logic negates my vote.

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Slick Willy

This weekend within an hour I saw two pop culture references to Bill Clinton’s philandering. Please excuse my paraphrasing.

A commercial for Direct TV in which a man says something about how you can watch two programs at once (or record two programs, I don’t remember). Then a Bill Clinton impersonator walks into the frame and [...]

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Gas Tax Holiday in Practice

A good post on the Washington Post fact checker that demonstrates what happened in Illinois after a six month gas tax break.
When gas prices hit a shocking $2 a gallon in Illinois in the summer of 2000, politicians demanded action. As a Democratic state senator, Obama joined other lawmakers in pushing through a six-month suspension [...]

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How Will Republicans Vote in Indiana Primary?

On Tuesday, voters in Indiana and North Carolina will go to the polls to vote in what could be one of the most significant days of the Democratic presidential race. But in Indiana, the Wall Street Journal suggests, it might not be Democrats who matter most to the final results.
Indiana’s primary is open, which [...]

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Coffee Makers, Hillary and Me

I live in Seattle. I blog. I have a coffee category for my blog. In fact my coffee posts have gotten more hits than anything else. I am definitely a coffee connoisseur.
Even as a fervent Obama supporter, I nonetheless have to say I can’t blame Hillary for not knowing how to use those terrible coffee [...]

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Buying the Presidency

Can there be anything more flagrant than offering to suspend the gas tax for the purpose of getting elected president of the United States?
Sens. Hillary Clinton and John McCain are pushing for a gas-tax holiday, but Sen. Barack Obama says the plan is a quick fix that would do more harm than good.
McCain, the presumptive [...]

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Women and War

An often used argument for electing women leaders around the world is that women by their nature are not warmongers and that the world would be more peaceful if ruled by women. It is said women and mothers in particular better understand the value of life because they have the ability to give life.
Yet in [...]

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The Martha Stewart Defense

I’m too smart to have lied. That was answer Hillary Clinton gave when asked about how she could reconcile her credibility after misrepresenting her visit to Bosnia as First Lady.
Well, Tom, I can tell you that I may be a lot of things. But I’m not dumb. And I wrote about going to Bosnia in [...]

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How is the Vice President Elected?

In last night’s Democratic debate the question was posed:
Governor Cuomo, on elder statesman in your party, has come forward with a suggestion. He has said, “Look, fight it to the end. Let every vote be counted. You can test every delegate. Go at each other right till the end. [...]

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Gordon Brown/Hillary Clinton

Here’s an interesting article about the similarity with the Prime Minister of the U.K. and our own Hillary Clinton:
They are tacticians, not strategists. Neither seems able to focus on the longer-term or the bigger picture. Neither is blessed with an appealing personality, neither seems to appreciate that these days candour wins more points than trying [...]

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An Impassioned Rant on the Media

Then George W. Bush and a half dozen cabinet members in some back room somewhere authorize the torture of prisoners in U.S. custody, but we can’t pay attention to that because we’ve all got to decide whether we want a president with good bowling scores.
Where did we get this notion that the President of the [...]

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Hillary Supporter Lacks Self-Awareness

I was surprised to see a brutal editorial by Carl Bernstein on CNN on Hillary Clinton’s campaign, and even more surprised by a rebuttal editorial from a Hillary supporter Lanny J. Davis who seems to be clueless that any negative campaigning has been going on in the Hillary camp.
As to Carl’s reference to her “repugnant” [...]

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Where are the Crazy Obama Blogs?

Trolling wordpress I have recently seen my share of crazy blogs written by crazy people who support both Hillary Clinton and John McCain. I’m talking about people who are obsessed (an understatement) with their candidate and people who use what I would call very strange, twisted, circular and un-scientific logic to go about their beliefs. [...]

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Spike Lee, Barack Obama and Me

So Spike Lee is an Obama supporter, and I am an Obama supporter. Does that mean I have to like Spike Lee? The blogosphere has focused on only a small part of Spike Lee’s interview with New York Magazine where he says Hillary Clinton would lie on a stack of Bibles. The interview is well [...]

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The Downfall of the Christian Right

Remaining significant is a difficult task for any public leader. The James Dobsons and the Pat Robertsons only have so much power as the number of people they can convince the rest of us they have influence over. It should come as no surprise that some leaders, and even Christian leaders, are charlatans extorting their [...]

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Richardson Backlash Speaks Volumes

As I read the widespread criticism of Bill Richardson for his disloyalty to the Clintons, I can’t help but think that people in the political realm just don’t get it. When I say they don’t get it, I mean they don’t get everyday people who are not involved in politics. They don’t understand our concerns [...]

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