Posts Tagged ‘rhetoric’

Remember the back and forth between the McCain and Obama campaigns where both sides blamed the other for playing the race card first?  Could it be that Barack Obama's statement regarding "not looking like all the other presidents" or "being different" had more to do with the nature of the ...

Hillary Clinton has been implying that Obama and his campaign are trying to stop people from voting.  She's been trying to paint Barack Obama as anti-Democratic.  Here's something she told voters in Montana: "My take on it is a lot of Senator Obama's supporters want to end this race because they ...

Republican war-supporters convinced America to support George W. Bush's Iraq invasion.  The only real excuse aside from the overwhelming use of nationalism and patriotism to achieve political agendas was that President Bush and Administration made a "mistake", an error in judgment that should be excused.  A decade after the fact, ...

Rare is the columnist that deigns to comment on the work of another. The rarity of these occasions must stem from some professional courtesy extended to other artisans dedicated to sociopolitical wordcraft, except in such odd circumstances that a columnist has stepped on another's toes (such as when Bob ...

Fear, Propaganda and Scaring Up Votes For Political Power in America I thought we'd have to wait for John McCain's opposition to Democrats before we got another taste of the fear tactics that I used to rail on Rudy Giuliani for. Rudy Giuliani is well-known for exploiting 9/11 and fear to try ...

Here's an article on the Democratic primary, headline reads: FOX News Poll: Obama Has Slim Edge Over McCain, Half Would Never Vote for Clinton If Clinton wins the nomination, 63 percent of Democrats think she should pick Obama as her running mate. If Obama wins, fewer Democrats think he should choose Clinton ...

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything Mike Huckabee, in Plano, Texas last night, told a crowd that his old pastor used to say "If you don't stand for something,  you'll fall for anything."  He talked about the importance of standing up for principle and how we're headed ...

The Politico has reported that Hillary Clinton isn't going down without a fight.  A Clinton aide recently alleged that Barack Obama is plagiarizing speeches.  The aide in question is Howard Wolfson, who happens to be the Clinton campaign's communications director.  He accused Senator Barack Obama of committing plagiarism in a ...

President Bush's State of the Union Address The President sounds more like a man expecting to leave his presidency on top rather than sticking to the lame-duck role that the American people assigned him in 2006. "It's the economy, stupid" -- President Bill Clinton In listening to President Bush's State of the Union ...

In our strongly divided nation, one thing is certain, either you've acquired BDS - Bush Derangement Syndrome(tm) or you have a rare disease that makes you immune to BDS -- Bush Disease. If the latter is the case, then you're likely ready to go down with Bush's ship at ...

U.S. Military Spends Quarter Of A Billion Dollars Per Year On "Concerned Local Citizens" To Stay 'Neutral'. Was MoveOn.org right to publish the controversial "Betray-us" ad in the NY Times? As it turns out, the good General Petraeus has come up with the perfect scheme that allows the illegal Iraq war -- ...

The buzz on social networks is the latest attempt by Hillary Clinton's campaign to get back into the race. The media pundits have made some remarks about Bill Clinton's latest sound bytes regarding Hillary Clinton's candidacy. He's brilliant, the statement is highly calculated and intelligent, but people just aren't ...

a real patriot calls out Mike Huckabee on his rhetoric The GOP needs to get away from this super patriot nonsense.  Americans aren't appreciative of the exploitation of God and our soldiers to push policy.  It worked at first because we were still hurting and vulnerable from 9/11 and Americans weren't ...

2008 U.S. Elections - Manipulation and Coercion Of the Masses There are many ways to rig an election and ensure that one candidate is favored over another. For example, it's possible to manipulate -- illegally -- machines to favor a candidate, use voter caging tactics to deny ordinary citizens their voting ...

In search of a Keith Olbermann video called "Bushed", I saw a comment by someone that said "President Bush, the face of America..." I have to admit, that comment really bothered me. The video by Keith Olbermann was hostile and made in his traditional Bush hating style. President Bush ...

Christmas has arrived and the inevitable seasonal garbage is out.Remember that old issue with Christmas cards that made so much noise in the media a few years ago? The Christmas card debate was about how atheists and non-Christians didn't agree on the corporate and government manipulation and use of words ...

For the nerds out there, the title wouldn't be quite as dramatic if it read, "the penalty for treason is life imprisonment with parole," now would it? The penalty for treason is Death, well at least it was until the 1990s. Now that treason just means life imprisonment, the ...

Ari Fleischer, latest media scandal comes to light after 15 million dollars are funneled into the "Patriotic" support group dubbed "Freedom Watch". The former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer has taken charge of a White House front group raised to defend Bush's escalation. Recently, Fleischer was asked a very ...