During his two terms as a Republican Senator from the state of Nebraska, Chuck Hagel voted for The Patriot Act, supported the invasions of Afghanistan & Iraq, and okayed both sets of Bush Tax Cuts. Hagel endorsed the military’s Don’t… Read More ›
Barack Obama
Go Too Far to the Right and a Home Run Becomes a Foul Ball
There’s a scene about halfway the movie Pleasantville where William H. Macy comes stumbling into the local bowling alley soaking wet, shell-shocked and sporting a thousand mile stare that’s a few shades shy of catatonic. All of the other guys… Read More ›
A Nation Divided Against Itself
November 6th, 2012: It will be a day that marks the 57th time that the American people have come together to elect their President. It’s worth noting that only for the last 12 of these eruptions of democracy have all… Read More ›
The 2012 Presidential Betting Guide for People Who Clearly Don’t Bet on Politics Because It’s Illegal in America
Maybe it’s just because I was born and raised in Cincinnati, but I don’t see a thing wrong with putting a little money down on your own team. Bud Selig and Fay Vincent be damned, I don’t think it makes… Read More ›
What We Know Going Into Election Day
October has come and gone and there has been no surprise. For all of the hemming and hawing over the volatility and uncertainty surrounding the 2012 election, not much has actually changed since the conventions began in late August. Barack… Read More ›
Sometimes Quickly, Sometimes Slowly: The Obama and Bush Approaches to Disaster Management
One of the hallmarks of the George W. Bush administration was that their realities were oftentimes more absurd than the parodies created to mock them. Nothing Jon Stewart and his boys cooked up in a writers meeting could have been… Read More ›
Every Vote Counts, Depending on Who Counts It
“More men have been elected between sundown and sunup than ever were elected between sunup and sundown.” – Will Rogers I cast my ballot for the 2012 presidential election today and I have no idea where it went or if… Read More ›
One Nation, Indispensable, With Bluster and Pandering for All
What we witnessed last night was not a debate on foreign policy. It was not a nuanced discussion of America’s place in the world and the role we play in a post-Soviet international community. There was no real talk of… Read More ›
The POTUS Strikes Back
It’s over. Barring some sort of unforeseen political calamity over the next three weeks, Barack Obama has locked up a second term in The White House. Mitt Romney’s spirited comeback attempt over the past 10 days has turned out to… Read More ›
Uncle Joe’s Finest Hour and a Half
Four years ago, I had no idea what he was thinking. After going through maybe the toughest primary fight in the history of the Democratic Party, then-Senator Barack Obama had in his pool of vanquished opponents an embarrassment of riches… Read More ›
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