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Elections & Voting
The last ride on the Straight Talk Express
By Mike Whitney
In the end, all the fear-mongering and
mud-slinging amounted to nothing. On Tuesday night, the McCain campaign fizzled
out on the front lawn of the Biltmore Hotel in front of 7,000 downcast
Republican loyalists.
Nov 7, 2008, 00:30
Elections & Voting
A day of rejoicing for the empire
By Gaither Stewart
PARIS, November 5, 2008 -- “Today we’re all
Americans.” As after 9/11 those same incredible words echoed from the pages of
France’s Le Monde this morning.
Nov 6, 2008, 00:23
Elections & Voting
‘Let us shed tears of gratitude for this moment of grace. It will be brief.’
By Mike Ferner
My friend, Luciana Bohne, an English professor
at a state college near Erie, Pennsylvania, wrote to her daughter yesterday
about Barack Obama’s victory. Lucy did a fine job describing how many people
feel the day after the Senator’s historic victory.
Nov 6, 2008, 00:21
Elections & Voting
Will President Obama feel the pressure? (LOL)
By Mickey Z.
Do you ever get the feeling that the voting
booth is a lot like those buttons you find on some big city street corners? You
know, the ones you push so you can obey the law while pretending to make the
light turn green more quickly?
Nov 6, 2008, 00:19
Elections & Voting
An American awakening
By Mary Shaw
History has just been made. The people of the
United States of America have elected our first African-American president.
Nov 6, 2008, 00:17
Elections & Voting
From Bush to Obama: What a difference from 2000
By Jackson Thoreau
What a difference we showed to the world on Nov.
4, 2008, from eight years ago. This is the United States we have been fighting
for since Dec. 2000, one that is much more united now than then.
Nov 6, 2008, 00:15
Elections & Voting
BARACK OBAMA ELECTED PRESIDENT IN HISTORY-MAKING LANDSLIDE
"If there is anyone out there who still
doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders
if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the
power of our democracy, tonight is your answer," Obama declared in his
acceptance speech.
Nov 5, 2008, 02:08
Elections & Voting
Is it over for the neocons or for the American people?
By Larry Chin
I hope that by the time you read this that
Barack Obama is the president of the United States. On the other hand, if
McCain-Palin and the neocons find a way to steal their fourth major US election
in eight years, don’t say you were not warned.
Nov 4, 2008, 00:22
Elections & Voting
Can the grassroots Internet-based election protection movement win the White House?
By Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman
Barack Obama is heading to Election Day with a
razor thin 6-point lead in the popular polls in Ohio, according to the usually
reliable Columbus Dispatch poll. This means that the Buckeye state could again
decide who enters the White House in January, despite the fact that nationwide
Obama’s lead has been registered as high as 11-12 percent.
Nov 4, 2008, 00:20
Elections & Voting
How business can help insure a smooth election
By Michael Kieschnick
With Election Day today, despite this year’s
high profile presidential race, millions of Americans will not vote -- and
hundreds of thousands of votes that are cast will not be counted.
Nov 4, 2008, 00:18
Elections & Voting
Report from the front
By Michael Hasty
The reception to the waving Obama signs at the
stoplight in Romney, West Virginia, Sunday afternoon was better than I
expected.
Nov 4, 2008, 00:16
Elections & Voting
The sounds of voting -- and check writing
By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
Our Manhattan offices are in a building that
also houses the New York City Board of Elections. So this is the season when we
hear above our heads the sounds of heavy objects rolling across the floor into
freight elevators. The moving men have arrived -- and what they’re transporting
are voting machines being carted off to polling places.
Nov 4, 2008, 00:14
Elections & Voting
The racism of McCain . . . and Obama . . . and the media
By Jeremy R. Hammond
Early last week, John McCain once again attacked
his presidential campaign opponent Barack Obama on the basis of his association
with another individual. In this case, the individual was Rashid Khalidi. Mr.
Khalidi’s sin? He’s a Palestinian who has been critical of Israel. Obama’s sin?
Speaking at a dinner five years ago held in honor of Mr. Khalidi.
Nov 3, 2008, 00:22
Elections & Voting
DOJ’s internal watchdogs probing leak of ACORN investigation
By Jason Leopold
The Department of Justice’s internal watchdogs
are investigating who told the Associated Press that the Association of Community
Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), a grassroots group that has registered
hundreds of thousands of new voters, is under federal investigation for alleged
voter registration fraud, according to John Conyers, the Democratic chairman of
the House Judiciary Committee.
Nov 3, 2008, 00:18
Elections & Voting
Beware the twin towers of electronic election theft
By Bob
Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman
Obama supporters are exuding a potentially fatal
air of confidence and expectation. Intoxicated by favorable polls and a gusher
of campaign spending, many are, in John McCain’s phrase, “measuring the drapes
in the White House.”
Oct 31, 2008, 00:23
Elections & Voting
Vote independent or boycott the elections
By Reza Fiyouzat
How long shall we allow the system to kick us in
the head, take our money, insult us after taking our money, and still expect us
to participate in its frauds? With every passing year, the differences between
the two ruling political parties in the U.S. diminish further, and their
outlook, conduct and even advertising campaigns merge so much so that their
members can be mistaken one for the other.
Oct 31, 2008, 00:19
Elections & Voting
How would our silent soldiers cast their final ballot?
By Ben Tanosborn
It’s all in the cause of freedom, Americans keep
parroting; some in fanatical belief, most in embarrassing rationalization that
lives, other people’s lives, don’t mean very much to them after everything is
said and done. Almost 5,000 of “our own” fallen in Iraq and Afghanistan; and
more than a hundred-fold of “theirs” . . . figures that we dare not count!
Oct 31, 2008, 00:17
Elections & Voting
A lesson for McCain
By Andrew E. Mathis
For a very long time, treason was one of the
only crimes for which the federal government reserved the right to execute the
offender. It’s that serious. That’s why it’s so disconcerting, in one of the
most vile political campaigns run in recent history, to hear supports of Sen.
John McCain call Sen. Barack Obama a traitor at rallies.
Oct 30, 2008, 00:22
Elections & Voting
Religion-based discrimination or reality-based equality: How will America vote?
By Mel
Seesholtz, Ph.D.
For
a decade I’ve been studying the exploits of the Christian Right, especially
their pathological need to deny gay and lesbian American equal civil rights. In
their campaigns against gay people these so-called “Christians” have distorted
research, employed bogus stereotypes, used the most heinous scare tactics,
concocted illogical, irrational arguments and, more often than not, simply lied
when all else failed.
Oct 30, 2008, 00:20
Elections & Voting
McGhosts and Ogoblins
By Rosemary and Walter Brasch
There are a lot of scary things in this world,
but one of the scariest is that Halloween and the presidential election
are only five days apart. It’s hard to miss the parallel between tricks-or-treats
and the promises-and-panderings of politicians masquerading as the most caring,
most vital, most sincere candidates. While standing behind their lapel flag
buttons, they are quick to dress their opponents in something less patriotic.
Oct 30, 2008, 00:18
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