Libertarian Party=Liberal Republicans
The Science part of Political Science is crazy number oriented and is one of the most statistics driven fields in academia (socially probably holding the number one spot for that). It's incredibly droll and I always did well doing it in college and was always bored stiff doing it as well.
Personal Records All Over the Place
John Kerry gave the best speech of his life this evening.
Hillary Clinton did the same.
Michelle Obama gave her best last night, and the best one from Ted Kennedy in a long time. I'm sure this trend continues with Montana's governor and maybe Warner (not sure on this one).
Bill Clinton, ah Bill Clinton... GOD DAMNIT! I love Bill Clinton! I had forgotten the passion and fervor I once felt for him. He reignited the spark tonight.
Biden's son probably gave his best and probably the same from Biden.
This has been an unprecedented level of speech giving so far.
Obama the World waits and watches.
One Loser Advises a Campaign of Losers
Michael Moore is great at identifying problems and things that need fixing, he's also great at bringing these problems to people's attention. He is, however, TERRIBLE at prescribing solutions and always goes way too extreme in his presentation and suggestions. Also a film maker writing an article in Rolling Stone IS NOT the same as advising a campaign.
is the u.s still the home of the free?
We still have the best freedom of speech laws in the World. Also our economic freedom should not be so casually thrown to the side, it allows for a lot of expression and freedom to do things. Also we are better about surveillance and intruding into personal lives than some European countries (though not all of them). For example there is nowhere in London you can go without being video taped, wire-tapping illegally is bad but at least it's not 24/7 surveillance. Let us not become engrossed with the shortcomings of America because we will stop trying to make things better and start just complaining about what isn't right. We need to be proud of what is good in this country while addressing what is wrong.
Also JTW if you really believe the Patriot Act has not infringed on our civil liberties you have absolutely no idea what the bill allows for and how far reaching it's provisions are. I try to avoid such bold declarations about people's positions but you're simply wrong if you think that.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/08/debates-mccain.html
Looks neat to me, happy to see Brokaw, Scheiffer, and Lehrer moderating the debates as opposed to some of the monkeys that ran some of the primary debates. I think the debates are going to be even more important than usual this year. If Obama slam dunks these debates I think it'll be over for McCain. People want to see more of Obama and hear more from him about his ideas, debates can help people to learn about such things.
Surprised I haven't heard more about this one
Ok but let's find the cure after we get Obama elected.
How Obama will win by going negative
I agree show McCain's temper, keep it issue based and not personal, make McCain look like he doesn't know what he's talking about (not incredibly difficult to do) and get him PO'ed and raving mad.
Surprised I haven't heard more about this one
A doosey of a McCain gaffe (is this a gaffe or just serious hardcore forgetfulness?):
http://www.teambio.org/2008/08/16/forgetting-things-since-2001/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLEZ5AZL5BE
Georgia was really bad but I can name at least five (probably ten) more serious conflicts since the end of the Cold War that affected people on a global scale.
I don't know why anyone else would have my number, it's a damn good hoax and I'll give whoever masterminded it a tip of the hat. I just know what this text says. I was sitting in an empty office building making phone calls for my candidate and now I'm sitting in an empty office building flipping out about this. I hope this is a joke? I can't really think straight about it right now until I know if this is real or not. I am definately not trying to pull anyone's leg though someone may be trying to pull mine.
Washington trial could hamper Stevens campaign
It could also put a hamper on him not being in jail...