Memnison Journal

Could you imagine, especially after the Couric interview, Palin going around like Biden did doing spin on the networks?  Could you imagine it being coherent?
If you have the mistaken idea that John McCain will get rid of Sarah Palin, even if some of the true believers in National Review Online are going OMGWTFBBQ get-rid-of-her over [...]

Going back to my response posts,  I want to stress that I never assume that anyone voting against Obama is a racist, or that Republicans are racists, or that either on the Republican ticket is a racist.  I know better.
I’ve lived with serious racists, had racism and sexism used against me and mine (you do [...]

Sarah Palin has decided that the bipartisan investigation of her in Alaska is something she will now no longer cooperate with, especially since the GOP and Democrats there jointly voted to subpoena her husband and 12 other members of state government.  Of course, a couple of weeks before the Republican National Convention, she said that [...]

Recently, a good friend of mine who I disagree with politically laid out his concerns and objections around the present electoral cycle. I started to reply as a comment to his posting online, and then I quickly found that what I was saying was waaaaaay too long winded to work as a comment. For [...]

The Anchorage Daily News reports this morning that the State Legislature had to step in and pass a law because of Sarah Palin and her hand-picked Wasilla police chief’s treatment of rape victims, forbidding police departments from charging rape victims for medical exams post-rape. Nowhere else in Alaska was this done but Palin’s Wasilla.  Details [...]

…I write as much as I do on political subjects, the answer is simple - because I care.
My view, for as long as I can remember, and has been ever since, is to see the long run, the big picture.  My focus and education was directed at the synthesis of the world around me - [...]

“I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities,” - Sarah Palin, at the RNC last week
Well, yeah, you do, and you’re supposed to handle them halfway well.

A live mike caught on MSNBC what the Republican talking heads really were thinking. Transcript after the cut, video at the link:

From a meeting between the campaign manager of the McCain campaign and the editorial board of the Washington Post:
“This election is not about issues,” said Davis. “This election is about a composite view of what people take away from these candidates.”

Or - don’t look at the issues, look at the way the spinmasters of [...]

From the Wall Street Journal:
Come November, voters will have a chance to rid themselves of a political order that they have come to hate. Sen. Obama’s task is to help them heave it overboard.
This is as it should be. From the Federal Emergency Management Agency to the Justice Department, our government seems to have been [...]

…and besides, unlike the wife, I’ve never gotten through his works.
Regular readers will note that the tags I put on posts are plentiful and sometimes sound goofy; that may be because it’s conceptual shorthand to me. ‘kubler-ross’, ‘renmin’, or ’sep_reality’, for example. The first has to deal with posts on death and [...]

The latest Des Moines Register likely voters poll is out, and here’s the numbers from my number-crunching.
My reflections after the cut:

The funniest political commercial so far: the Log Cabin Republicans glowingly show off Romney in his days in Massachusetts, declaring his distance from the conservative wing of the party - same one he’s been felching after for the last year or so.  “For years, he’s fought conservatives and religious extremists.”  Bwhahhahaha….
And as for Rudy, here’s [...]

The fact is that people inside the Giuliani campaign are appalled at the number of times their candidate has felt compelled to interrupt public appearances to take calls from his wife. The estimate from those in a position to know is that he has taken such calls more than 40 times in the middle of [...]

Years ago, I discovered that when someone is accusing you of a lot of mopery and dopery that really doesn’t fit you at all, nine times out of ten, it’s because that particular form of nastiness that you’re being painted with is *their* preferred form of behaviour in circumstances, and that - well, that’s the [...]