The Long GoodbyeSince when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us? - William O. DouglasKeeping Up With Palin and McCain- September 17, 2008 Some quick links. Some new and some in case you missed them. Pretty much indispensable and the count seems to go up everyday, Fact Checking McCain. 55 lies by Johnny and Sarah as of today. Good thing they&8217;re basing their campaign on change otherwise we wouldn&8217;t get our daily dose of irony. Candidate McCain Violates U.S. ...http://thelonggoodbye.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/keeping-up-with-palin-and-mccain/ Brother McCains Travelling Reform Show- September 16, 2008 In the last 24 hours I&8217;ve seen the commercial where McCain claims to be a &8220;maverick&8221; and he and Palin are reformers three times. Despite all the articles and fact checkers McCain continues to claim that Palin was against the bridge to Nowhere. Karl Rove, as it turns out might have been given too much ...http://thelonggoodbye.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/brother-mccains-travelling-reform-show/ Following the McCain Narrative- September 15, 2008 I was wondering why McCain&8217;s blatant lies and the underlying lack of character that propels them was getting enough traction to make the race for president statistically about even as of today. The I came across this link from Seeing the Forest from James Fallows at The Atlantic, The Palin interview Mention a name or theme ...http://thelonggoodbye.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/following-the-mccain-narrative/ Republicans Dont Care If Candidates Are Corrupt Liars- September 14, 2008 Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes Gov. Sarah Palin lives by the maxim that all politics is local, not to mention personal. So when there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, she appointed a high school classmate, Franci Havemeister, to the $95,000-a-year directorship. A former real estate agent, Ms. ...http://thelonggoodbye.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/republicans-dont-care-if-candidates-are-cor... McCain and the Rights Endless Hypocrisy- September 13, 2008 I was reading this post at OpenLeft about Senator Obama attack on McCain for caring more about foreign countries then American jobs, Obama Asks Whether McCain Is Putting &8220;Country First&8221; &8220;Just ask the machinists in Pennsylvania who build Harley-Davidsons,&8221; Obama said of McCain&8217;s record. &8220;Because John McCain didn&8217;t just oppose the requirement that the government ...http://thelonggoodbye.wordpress.com/2008/09/13/mccain-and-the-rights-endless-hypocrisy/ The McCain Apologists and The Sarah Palin Interpreters- September 12, 2008 Even before McCain threw his hail Mary pass and selected a small time pol with nothing resembling foreign policy expertise nor experience the fabrications, blustering and embellishments of the truth were running thick and deep. After the RNC convention, during which they seemed to decide to put the previous tendency to lie on steroids. The ...http://thelonggoodbye.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/the-mccain-apologists-and-the-sarah-palin-i... The Republican Magic Show, Much Smoke and Little Substance- September 11, 2008 On 7th Anniversary Of Attacks, White House Claims Bin Laden Was Not The Mastermind of Sept. 11. An odd claim since as TP notes former Bush press Secretary called Bin Laden the mastermind. We&8217;re glad that Bin Forgtten&8217;s second in command Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is in jail, but Khalid&8217;s plan wasn&8217;t the one that was ...http://thelonggoodbye.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/the-republican-magic-show-much-smoke-and-li... McCains Judgement Questionable, Bush Declares Defeat- September 10, 2008 Being an unknown quantity Palin probably deserves much of the scrutiny she is getting, but if its a choice between her and McCain as to which is the most malicious and dangerous, McCain easily wins that race, McCain Reacts To McClellan: Every Intelligence Agency In The World And Every Assessment Said Iraq Had WMD. Johnny ...http://thelonggoodbye.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/mccains-judgement-questionable-bush-declare... McCain-Palin Pro Environment, Bush Recycled- September 9, 2008 In case anyone hasn&8217;t heard McCain was a POW( standard salute to his honorable service). He has stated with the usual red cheeked faux outrage, &8220;I will not accept from Senator Obama, who did not feel it was his responsibility to serve our country in uniform, any lectures on my regard for those who did.&8221; Respect for ...http://thelonggoodbye.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/mccain-palin-pro-environment-bush-recycled/ Another Election Cycle: Republicans Plan to Bore America to Death- September 7, 2008 I can&8217;t read everything, but the people that seem to be echoing, the so far unsubstantiated story that Governor Palin has had an affair, is the Right. First it was Byron York at The National Review who reprinted the story from that rag The National Enquirer. Now we have the Weekly Standard reprinting the same ...http://thelonggoodbye.wordpress.com/2008/09/07/another-election-cycle-republicans-plan-to-... |