Archive for April, 2008

“Hussein” there’s something wrong with Barack’s name?

Who is saying there’s something wrong with Barack’s name?  Quite a few people apparently.  Numerous instances are cited in the a December 20, 2006 Media Matters for America article, Schlussel: Should Barack Hussein Obama be president “when we are fighting the war of our lives against Islam”?

During MSNBC’s special election coverage on November 7, co-anchor Chris Matthews […]

Not all delegates are equal according to Hillary Clinton

The Hillary Clinton campaign continues to champion the idea that delegates from states containing higher percentages of African-American Democrats and states where higher numbers of cross over voters reside are somehow less valid than delegates pledged by states consisting of larger numbers of Democrats like New York and California.
“I have won the big states. […]

Politican Bandstand’s Grand Opening

I’m Laramie Sharp, a self-appointed political pundit.  Politics is a subject that everyone either loves, hates, knows nothing about, or any combination of the three.  It is a science of endless fascination because so many end results are realized by methods of government.  Politics can be an avenue for the acheivement of power, a mechanism for social change, an outlet […]