mongreldogs | September 30, 2008
The failure to enact the bailout bill, or indeed, any economic recovery bill, has shaken some people to their core. It’s heightened a sense that our politics is broken and that we as a people no longer have what it takes. Someone wrote something at Political Animal that stirred in me a passionate [...]
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Tags: bailout, crisis, Founders
mongreldogs | September 20, 2008
… even if it’s one we’ll not see on TV. (It’s not from the Obama campign.) It makes the right connection between the mess we’re in and the so-called “maverick” who’s done nothing in 26 years to help fix it.
http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=wJThPjvscFs
It’s on YouTube and I’d embed it if I had time to figure out [...]
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Tags: campaign 2008, McCain
mongreldogs | September 11, 2008
More oddly-prescient musings of Jackson Browne.
“Lives in the Balance”
Jackson Browne
Lives in the Balance
I’ve been waiting for something to happen
For a week or a month or a year
With the blood in the ink of the headlines
And the sound of the crowd in my ear
You might ask what it takes to remember
When you know that you’ve seen [...]
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Tags: 9/11, Jackson Browne
mongreldogs | September 11, 2008
It’s still surprising hard to write about 9/11. It galls me to see, again, our national “leaders” exploit this tragedy for political ends. And it saddens me that we don’t seem to have learned any lessons. So it’s really not in me to pen something deep and insightful. Instead, I’ll fall [...]
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Tags: 9/11, Jackson Browne, memory
mongreldogs | September 7, 2008
After the election in 2004, we were preached at that George W. Bush won election (not re-election) due to the rejection of John Kerry by “values voters” .. as if the millions who voted for Kerry had no decent values. That spurred me to write the following, which I still embrace today. In [...]
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Tags: campaign 2008, values, values voters
mongreldogs | September 4, 2008
In case you — like me — watched Sarah Palin’s speech from the Republican National Convention and keep saying — like me — “I know that’s a lie”, but were unable to point to a source, let me offer this post by Hilzoy over at Political Animal @ the Washington Monthly. It sums up [...]
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Tags: campaign 2008, lies, Palin