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McCain delivers a howler with a straight face. Lately, John McCain has been serving up some real howlers — claims ridiculously out of kilter with his record — all delivered with a straight face. Here is one of the howlers from his acceptance speech at the Republican Convention: “nstead of freeing ourselves from a dangerous […]

Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) gave a rousing speech at the Democratic National Convention Tuesday evening. He voiced a call for America on election day to vote her own best interests. Though solidly on the left, Kucinich stressed a different political axis — the up-down: … Wake up America. This is not a call for you […]

Earlier this year, John McCain tried to defend the fact that his presidential campaign was jam-packed with lobbyists: [T]hey’re honorable people, and I’m proud to have them as part of my team. … The right to represent interests of groups of Americans is a constitutional right. There are people that represent firemen, civil servants, retirees, […]

Barack Obama – (KMGH) Last week Barack Obama gave a speech laying out his plan for getting more citizens active in serving American society.x40 Some points of his plan are: to boost the numbers in the military, Peace Corps and Americorps, to make it easy to volunteer, and to give volunteers help with the cost […]

U.S. Vice President Cheney, a major architect of the Bush regime’s invasion and occupation of Iraq, visited Baghdad Monday, and gave this assessment: So if you reflect back on those five years, I think it’s been a difficult, challenging, but nonetheless successful endeavour and that we’ve come a long way in five years and it’s […]