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Barack Obama’s Aunt Zeituni Onyango Lives in a Boston Slum

Nonpartisan Election News — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:47:35 +0000

Zeituni Onyango, the aunt so affectionately described in Mr Obama’s best-selling memoir Dreams from My Father, lives in a disabled-access flat on a rundown public housing estate in South Boston. A second relative believed to be the long-lost “Uncle Omar” described in the book was beaten by armed robbers with a “sawed-off rifle” while working Continue reading →

Barney Frank Plays the Gay Card

Nonpartisan Election News — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:18:55 +0000

A good part of Senator John McCain’s stump speech is devoted to warning voters about the fiscal dangers that would accompany a Barack Obama administration, but lately McCain has been picking on a lower-profile bogeyman to make his case. “And he can’t do that without raising our taxes or digging us further into debt like Continue reading →

Barack Obama’s Wealth Redistribution Plan in Practice

Nonpartisan Election News — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:15:56 +0000

Here is how Barack Obama’s spread the wealth comment to Joe the Plumber will actually work: Yesterday on my way to lunch at Joe’s, I passed one of the homeless guys in that area, with a sign that read “Vote Obama, I need the money.” Once in Joe’s, my waiter had on a “Obama 08″ tee shirt. When the bill Continue reading →

Markets Falling Because Of Obama Rise While Obama Rises Because the Markets Fall

Nonpartisan Election News — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:36:19 +0000

We are in endless evil circle. The stock markets will keep falling because Barack Obama’s polls are rising and Barack Obama’s polls will keep rising because the stock markets are falling? What do we do about this? From the New York Post And, as it looks increasingly likely that Barack Obama will be the next Continue reading →

VP Debate Moderator Gwen Ifill – A Dent in Her Impartiallity

Nonpartisan Election News — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 05:33:55 +0000

Gwen Ifill -PBS Commentator and moderator of the single Vice Presidential debate of this election has a book coming out on all days – Jan. 20, 2009 — a date that just happens to coincide with the inauguration of the next president of the United States. The title of Gwen Ifill’s book? The Breakthrough: Politics Continue reading →

Barack Obama to be Investigated for Illegal Campaign Donations

Nonpartisan Election News — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 05:15:56 +0000

More than half of the whopping $426.9 million Barack Obama has raised has come from small private donors whose names the Barack Obama campaign will not disclose. Additionally, there have been questions about the millions in foreign donations Barack Obama received from people who have not been confirmed to be be US citizens. While John Continue reading →

New York Times Actually Does a Positive Piece on John McCain

Nonpartisan Election News — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:23:30 +0000

John McCain is on course to lose the presidential election to Barack Obama. Can he turn it around, and surge to victory. He has a chance. But only if he overrules those of his aides who are trapped by conventional wisdom, huddled in a defensive crouch and overcome by ideological timidity. The conventional wisdom is Continue reading →

John McCain’s Moment of Leadership

Nonpartisan Election News — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 05:42:01 +0000

While the democrats are accusing John McCain of pulling a political stunt in suspending his campaign, it seems that John McCain may have answered a 3AM call and stepped up to lead AT THE EXPENSE of his campaign. I am told, Maggie, that the way McCain got involved in this in the first place, the Continue reading →

John McCain Suspends His Campaign For the Sake of the Economy

Nonpartisan Election News — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:30:36 +0000

John McCain has held back on making a decision whether to support the bailout or not. John McCain was criticized for not taking a stand on either stand of the debate, but he has now taken the ultimate stand. John McCain has now made a monumentous to decision to quit campaigning until stop gap measures Continue reading →

George Will Turns On John McCain and Says He is Irrational

Nonpartisan Election News — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 05:10:23 +0000

George Will is Pulitzer Prize winning Conservative Journalist and Commentator and surprisingly he is turning against his party’s candidate in an editorial in the Jewish World Review. I will put the whole thing here since the page the article resides on has not been loading. Under the pressure of the financial crisis, one presidential candidate Continue reading →