Obama was even-tempered and Presidential.  McCain was disdainful and seemed ready to explode at times.  Between Palin’s winks and McCain’s eye-rolling, I haven’t seen so much optical jitter-bugging since Alan Sues on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In.
For me one of the most important differences is in their approaches to the health care crisis.  Obama wants to protect and encourage […]

I just have to rely on the good judgment of the voters not to buy into these negative attack ads.  Sooner or later, people are going to figure out if all you run is negative attack ads you don’t have much of a vision for the future or you’re not ready to articulate it.”
                           — John […]

Martin Chalfie, a professor of biological sciences at Columbia University, was awarded a share of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry yesterday.
Chalfie immediately joined 61 other Nobel Prize winners who last month (September 25) endorsed Senator Obama in an open letter to the American people. They condemn the Bush administration’s censorship and politicization of the […]

Senator Joe Biden won on substance.
The central question in this election is not who has opposed his own party more often.   It’s which candidate has more vigorously opposed the failed policies of the Bush administration. John McCain has consistently supported Bush on all major issues.   Obama has consistently nailed Bush on one failure after another. Biden […]

From today’s Free Lance-Star…
The GOP campaign has used a toxic brew of political correctness and media bashing to justify its sequestration of Sarah Palin.  Operatives not known for their sensitivity to sexism suddenly are the high apostles of the politics of gender.
“But the continued sheltering of Mrs. Palin itself constitutes a form of sexism.  It’s ironic that […]

The Free Lance-Star flops again with an embarrassingly slanted analysis of the House vote on the financial rescue, blaming Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for the Republican vote and low income home buyers for the sub-prime mortgage crisis.
The Democrats voted 140 to 95 (60%) in favor and the Republicans voted 133 to 65 (68%) against. The […]

The VP debate between Senator Joe Biden and Governor Sarah Palin is (currently) scheduled for Thursday, October 2, at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
Senator Biden has given almost 100 interviews since being selected by Obama for VP.   Palin, on the other hand, has consented to three: Charlie Gibson, Sean Hannity (sic) and Katie […]

One must wonder if John McCain has spent as little time talking to Henry Kissinger as he did to Sarah Palin:
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (UPI) — Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger says the United States should begin direct negotiations with Iran over its nuclear enrichment program.
Kissinger, speaking Monday at George Washington University […]

All of a sudden, now that we’re on the verge of making a deal, John McCain drops himself in to make a deal. I really worry about this politicization of it.
“Frankly, we’re going to have to interrupt a negotiating session tomorrow [Thursday 9/25] between the Democrats and Republicans on a bill, where I think […]

The Obama campaign issued this statement today:
“At 8:30 this morning, Senator Obama called Senator McCain to ask him if he would join in issuing a joint statement outlining their shared principles and conditions for the Treasury proposal and urging Congress and the White House to act in a bipartisan manner to pass such a proposal. […]