Category Archives: Politics

Oh, the line…

Big Surprise…I don’t like Huckabee. OK, he scares me.

My favorite comment on the man comes from Daniel Miessler.

Dan has observed, as many of us have, that the farther along Huckabee gets, the more religious his speech becomes. Yes, I know the man is a minister and has a history with Jeebus, but early on in his efforts he didn’t make much of it. As he continues to pander to the Evangelicals, his speech becomes more and more laden with religious affectation. He knows where his votes are coming from and he’s speaking to those people.

On his victory in Iowa, Huckabee attributes his phenomenal rise in the polls to God’s divine intervention.

Good old Dan has noticed:

He didn’t just cross the line, he used it as a cockring.

Short, elegant and you understand just what he means.

Kudos, Dan.

This probably makes me a bad liberal, but…

Noticing Obama’s speech last night…

I’ve seen a lot of footage of him speaking to black audiences and groups, and a lot of footage of him speaking to mostly white groups. Seeing him last night though, I noticed something: The pattern and style of his speech changes greatly depending on the group he’s talking to.

I’m not saying he’s the only one who’s done it, but for some reason last night it was quite striking.

It sounds (to me) like when he’s with a mostly black/African-American group, he’s got that Preacher patter. Just the way his tone and his pattern, it sounds a lot like Jessie Jackson or even MLK. I’m not trying to say he’s emulating or anything, but last night hearing him talk to his Iowa people, it was really striking.

They’ve been so effective thus far…

Seems that the White House has approached Tony Snow of FOX News if he’d like to take the Press Sec. job.

As Jo pointed out to me, “FOX has done a good job of promoting the Pres. thus far.”

Let me get this straight

The Cheney Administration is pursuing a “diplomatic” solution with Iran…for doing the exact thing we invaded Iraq over?

Honest question

Who else aside from Bush actually wants Rummy to stay?

Why?

The line calling for the man’s papers is getting longer and starting to leak into Congress.

With the ‘06 Elections just around the corner, I can’t imagine why Bush would allow him to stay on.

I’m honestly curious about this. I really don’t have a clue as to the current political strategy of the Bush Admin., it’s been a mystery to me since early ‘05. I’d be interested in hearing opinion on it.